Computer Abbreviations

Computer Abbreviations

• 586 The average IQ needed to understand a PC.

• ARG Agree to run garbage

• BBT Branch on binary tree
• BBW Branch both ways
• BEW Branch either way
• BHBranch and hang
• Bit A word used to describe computers, as in "Our son's computer cost quite a bit."
  
• BMR Branch multiple registers
• BOB Branch on bug
• BOD Beat on drum
• BOI Byte operator immediately
• Boot What your friends give you because you spend too much time bragging about your computer skills.
  
• BPDI Be polite, don't interrupt
• BPO Branch on power off
• BST Backspace and stretch tape
• Bug What your eyes do after you stare at the tiny green computer screen for more than 15 minutes. Also: what computer magazine companies do to you after they get your name on their mailing list.

• CEMU Close eyes and monkey with user space
• Chips The fattening, non-nutritional food computer users eat to avoid having to leave their keyboards for meals.
• CLBR Clobber register
• CLBRI Clobber register immediately
• CM Circulate memory
• Copy What you have to do during school tests because you spend too much time at the computer and not enough time studying.
• CPAR Crumple paper and rip
• CRB Crash and burn
• CRR Convert to Roman Numerals
• CU Convert to unary
• Cursor What you turn into when you can't get your computer to perform, as in "You $#% computer!"
• CZZC Convert zone to ZIP code

• DC Divide and conquer
• Disk What goes out in your back after bending over a computer keyboard for seven hours at a clip.
• Disk Crash A typical computer response to any critical deadline.
• DMPK Destroy memory protect key
• DNPG Do not pass go
• DO Divide and overflow
• Dump The place all your former hobbies wind up soon after you install your computer.
• DWIMNWIS Do what I mean, not what I say

• EIOC Execute invalid opcode
• EMPCEmulate pocket calculator
• EPI Execute programmer immediately
• EROS Erase read-only storage
• Error What you made the first time you walked into a computer showroom to "just look."
• EXOP Execute operator
• EXPP Execute political prisoner
• Expansion Unit The new room you have to build on to your home to house your computer and all its peripherals.

• FSRA Forms skip and run away

• GFD Go forth and divide
• GFM Go forth and multiply

• HCF Halt and catch fire

• IBP Insert bug and proceed
• IIB Ignore inquiry and branch

• LCC Load and clear core

• MBF Multiply and be fruitful
• MLR Move and lose record

• NFS Nightmare File System

• PBC Print and break chain
• PD Play dead
• PDSK Punch disk
• PI Punch invalid
• POPI Punch operator immediately
• PS* Punch obscenity
• PSD Pause and smoke dope
• PVLC Punch variable length card

• RAT Random Access Tape
• RD Reverse directions
• RDS Read sideways
• RIRG Read inter-record gap
• RPM Read programmer's mind
• RSC Read and shred card
• RSD On read error self destruct
• RSTOM Read from store-only memory
• RWCR Rewind card reader

• SDJ Send data to Japan
• SHAB Shift a bit
• SHLBM Shift a little bit more
• SMR Skip on meaningless result
• SOT Sit on a tack
• SQSW Scramble program status word
• SQPC Sit quietly and play with your crayons
• SRSD Seek record and scar disk
• SRZ Subtract and reset to zero
• SSJ Select stacker and jam
• STROM Store in read-only memory

• TDB Transfer and drop bits

• UER Update and erase record

• VI Virtually Incomprehensible

• WBT Water binary tree
• WEMG Write eighteen-minute gap
• WPM Write programmer's mind

• XSP Execute systems programmer

• ZAM Zero all memory