List of Computing and IT Abbreviations - F

F

• FAP—FORTRAN Assembly Program
• FASM—Flat ASseMbler
• FAT—File Allocation Table
• FAQ—Frequently Asked Questions
• FBDIMM—Fully Buffered Dual Inline Memory Module
• FC-AL—Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
• FCB—File Control Block
• FCS—Frame Check Sequence
• FDC—Floppy Disk Controller
• FDS—Fedora Directory Server
• FDD—Floppy Disk Drive
• FDDI—Fiber Distributed Data Interface
• FDMA—Frequency-Division Multiple Access
• FEC—Forward Error Correction
• FEMB—Front-End Motherboard
• FET—Field Effect Transistor
• FHS—Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
• FICON—FIber CONnectivity
• FIFO—First In First Out
• FIPS—Federal Information Processing Standards
• FL—Function Level
• FLAC—Free Lossless Audio Codec
• FLOPS—FLoating-Point Operations Per Second
• FLOSS—Free/Libre/Open Source Software
• FMC— Fixed Mobile Convergence "Mobile UC or Unified Communications over Wireless"
• FOLDOC—Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• FOSDEM—Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting
• FOSI—Formatted Output Specification Instance
• FOSS—Free and Open Source Software
• FP—Function Programming
• FPGA—Field Programmable Gate Array
• FPS—Floating Point Systems
• FPU—Floating Point Unit
• FRU—Field Replaceable Unit
• FS—File System
• FSB—Front Side Bus
• fsck—File System Check
• FSF—Free Software Foundation
• FSM—Finite State Machine
• FTTC—Fiber To The Curb
• FTTH—Fiber To The Home
• FTTP—Fiber To The Premises
• FTP—File Transfer Protocol
• FQDN—Fully Qualified Domain Name
• FUD—Fear Uncertainty Doubt
• FWS—Folding White Space
• FXP—File eXchange Protocol