| Lyhenne | Sanat mistä tulee |
| TLA | Three Letter Acronym |
| ETLA | Extended Three Letter Acronym |
| FP | Floating Point |
| FP | Frame Pointer |
| SP | Stack Pointer |
| ALU | Arithmetic-Logic Unit |
| FPU | Floating Point Unit |
| HDD | Hard Disk Drive |
| FDD | Floppy Disk Drive |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| DRAM | Dynamic RAM |
| SDRAM | Synchronous DRAM |
| SRAM | Static RAM |
| SIMM | Single Inline? Memory Module |
| DIMM | Dual Inline? Memory Module |
| CAS | Column Address Select |
| RAS | Row Address Select |
| WB | Write-Back |
| WT | Write-Thru |
| IF | Instruction Fetch |
| ID | Instruction Decode |
| IO | Input-Output |
| ISA | Instruction Set Architechture |
| CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computer |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
| VLIW | Very Long Instruction Word |
| VM | Virtual Memory |
| VM | Virtual Machine |
| TLB | Transition Lookahead (Lookaside) Buffer |
| SIMD | Single Instruction Multiple Data |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations Per Second |
| MIPS | Millions of instructions Per Second |
| MIPS | Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed |
| Nimi | Mistä tulee |
| AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port |
| ARM | Advanced RISC Machines |
| IDE | Integrated Drive Electronics |
| ISA | Industry Standard Architechture |
| MCA | Micro Channel Architechture |
| MIPS | Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages |
| PA-RISC | Precision Architecture RISC |
| PCI | Peripheral Controls? Interface
(Peripheral Component Interconnect) |
| SCSI | Small Computer Systems Interface |
| SPEC | Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| SPARC | Scalable Processor ARChitechture
(Scalable Processor Architecture RISC Computer) |
| SSE | Streaming SIMD Extensions |
| MMX | MultiMedia eXtensions(?) |