Tech Acronyms and Abbreviations

acronym; an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word.

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• P2P - Peer To Peer

• PARC - Palo Alto Research Center

• PB - Petabyte - One quadrillion bytes

• PC - Personal Computer

• PCB - Printed Circuit Board

• PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect - hardware connection for PCs

• PCL - Printer Command Language

• PCM - Pulse-code modulation - a method used to digitally represent analog signals

• PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

• PDF - Portable Document Format - a common file format to present documents

• PERL - Practical Extraction and Reporting Language

• PHP - Hypertext Preprocessor - popular programming language for web development

• PII - Personally Identifiable Information (analytics)

• PIO - Programmed Input/Output

• PNG - Portable Network Graphics

• PoE - Power over Ethernet

• POP - Post Office Protocol - Internet standard protocol used by e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a mail server

• POST - Power-On Self Test

• PM - Private Message

• PPI - Pixels Per Inch

• PPM - Pages Per Minute

• PPP - Point to Point Protocol

• PROM - Programmable Read-Only Memory

• PTZ - Pan Tilt Zoom (cameras)

• PUP - Potentially Unwanted Program - possible malware or just a program your computer doesn't need

• PvE - Player-Versus-Environment (online gaming)

• PvP - Player-Versus-Player (online gaming)

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