Computer Abbreviations—B

Computer Abbreviations—B

B

B2B: Business-to-Business

B2C: Business-to-Consumer

BAL: Basic Assembly Language

BAM: Block Availability Map

Bash: Bourne-again shell

BASIC: Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BBP: Baseband Processor

BBS: Bulletin Board System

BCD: Binary Coded Decimal

BCD: Boot Configuration Data

BCNF: Boyce–Codd normal form

BEEP: Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol

BER: Bit Error Rate

BFD: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

BFD: Binary File Descriptor

BFS: Breadth-First Search

BFT: Byzantine Fault Tolerant

BGP: Border Gateway Protocol

BI: Business Intelligence

BiDi: Bi-Directional

bin: binary

BINAC: Binary Automatic Computer

BIND: Berkeley Internet Name Domain

BIOS: Basic Input Output System

BJT: Bipolar Junction Transistor

bit: binary digit

Blob: Binary large object

Blog: Web Log

BMP: Basic Multilingual Plane

BNC: Bayonet Neill-Concelman

BOINC: Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

BOM: Byte Order Mark

BOOTP: Bootstrap Protocol

BPDU: Bridge Protocol Data Unit

BPEL: Business Process Execution Language

BPL: Broadband over Power Lines

BPM: Business Process Management

BPM: Business Process Modeling

bps: bits per second

BRM: Business Reference Model

BRMS: Business Rule Management System

BRR: Business Readiness Rating

BRS: Broadband Radio Service

BSA: Business Software Alliance

BSB: Backside Bus

BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution

BSoD: Blue Screen of Death

BSS: Block Started by Symbol

BT: BitTorrent

BT: Bluetooth

B TAM: Basic Telecommunications Access Method

BW: Bandwidth
BYOD: Bring Your Own Device