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List of computer standards

Computer hardware and software standards are technical standards instituted for compatibility and interoperability between software, systems, platforms and devices.

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Computer hardware and software standards are technical standards instituted for compatibility and interoperability between software, systems, platforms and devices.

Hardware

Standard Version Released

yyyy-mm-dd

AC'97 2.3 2002-04
ACPI 5.01 2011-11-23
AGP 3.0 1999
AHCI 1.3 2008-06-26
Advanced Power Management (APM) 1.2 1996-02
AT Attachment ATA/ATAPI-7 2005
ATX 2.3 2007-03
BIOS Boot Specification 1.012 1996-01
BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Specification (INT 13H) 3.03 1998-04-20
Bluetooth 5.0 2010-06-30
Boot Integrity Services API 1.04 1998-12-28
BTX Chassis Design Guidelines 1.1 2007-02
BTX Interface Specification 1.0b 2005-07
BTX System Design Guide 1.1 2007-02-20
Chassis Air Guide (CAG) 1.1 2003-09
CompactFlash (CF) 5.0 2010
Common Building Block (for notebooks) 2005
Desktop and mobile Architecture for System Hardware (DASH) 1.1 2007-12
Desktop Management Interface (DMI) 2.0.1s 2003-01-10
DDC/CI 1.1 2004-10
DisplayPort 1.2 2009-12-22
DVI 1.0 1999-04-02
Enhanced Display Data Channel (E-DDC) 1.2 2007-12-26
Double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR SDRAM) JESD79-3
Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS) 1.0 1993
El Torito 1.0 1995-01-25
Energy Star 5.0 2008-11-14
Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA)
Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) 1.0 2007
Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) 1.10 2002-12-01
Embedded Technology eXtended (ETX) 3.02 2007-01-22
EDID 2.0
FireWire (IEEE 1394) 1394-2008 2007-12
Floating point (IEEE 754) 754-2008 1985
HDMI 1.4 2009-05-28
HyperTransport (HT) 3.1 2008-07-23
I²C 03 2007-06-19
I2O 1996
Industry Standard Architecture (ISA)
Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE, ATA/ATAPI, PATA)
Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 2.0 2004-02-14
Micro Channel Architecture (MCA)
MultiProcessor Specification (MPS) 1.4 1995-07-01
NVM Express 1.05 2011-03-01
ONFI 2.2 2009-10
PCI 3.0 2002-08-12
PC Card 8.0 2001-04
PCI-X 2.0 2003
PCI Express (PCIe) 4.0 2010-11-18
PMBus 1.1
POST Memory Manager (PMM) 1.016 1997-11-21
Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) 2.17 1999-09-20
RAID 1980's
Small Computer System Interface SCSI
Serial ATA (SATA) 3.18 2011-07-18
Shuttle PCB Assembly (SPA) for notebook motherboards 2010
Simple Boot Flag Specification 2.1 2005-01-28
Simple Firmware Interface (SFI) 0.7 2009-07-31
System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) 2.7.1 2011-02-01
System Management Bus (SMBus) 2.0 2000-08-03
Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 2015
TWAIN 2.1 2009-08-08
VESA BIOS Extensions (VBE) 3.0 1998-09-16
UEFI Platform Initialization (PI) specification 1.29 2009-05
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification 2.3.110 2011-04-08
UEFI Shell Specification 2.0 2008-10-08
Unified Display Interface (UDI) 1.0
Universal Serial Bus (USB) 4.0 2019

Software

Standard Version Released
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Atom 1.0
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1 2007-07-19
COLLADA 1.5.011 2008-08
Common Information Model (CIM) 2.22 2009-06-25
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) 1.1
DocBook 5.0
ECMAScript 5.1 2011-06
Executable and Linking Format (ELF) 1.2
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) 2.3 2004-01-29
HTML 5.2 2017-12-14
ISO/IEC 15445:2000, ISO HTML, based on 4.01 Strict 2000-05
HTTP 1.1 1999-06
ICC profile 4.2 2004-10
JSON ECMA-404 2013
Linux Standard Base (LSB) 4.0 2008-11-11
MathML 2.0 2003-10
Message Passing Interface (MPI) 2.212 2009-09-04
Metalink 4.0 2010-06
Multiboot Specification 0.6.9613 2009
OAuth 1.0 2007-10-03
OEmbed 1.0 2008-03-21
Office Open XML 1.0 2006-12
OpenAL 1.1 2007-07-12
OpenCL 1.1 2010-06-11
OpenDocument (ODF) 1.214 2011-09-30
OpenEXR 1.6.1 2007-10-22
OpenGL 4.015 2010-03-11
OpenGL ES 2.0 2007-03
OpenML 1.0
OpenSL ES 1.0.1 2009-09-24
OpenVG 1.1 2008-12-09
OpenWF 1.0 2009-11-09
Open XML Paper Specification First Edition 2009-06-16
Portable Document Format (PDF) 2.0 1993-06-15
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) 1.2 1999-08-11
POSIX IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 1988
PostScript 3 1997
RenderMan (RISpec) 3.2.1 2005-11
Rich Text Format (RTF) 1.9.1 2008-03
RSS 2.0 2002-09
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 2005-03
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2T 2006-08-10
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) 3 2004
Single UNIX Specification (SUS) 3 2002-01-30
SOAP 1.2 2003-06-24
Standard Configuration File Format 1991
Storage Management Initiative - Specification (SMI-S) 1.1.0 2005
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 2.1 2005-12-13
SyncML 1.1 2002-04-02
SQL SQL:2016 2016
Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.216 2008-08
Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.317 2010-05
Unicode 16.0 1991-10
Universal 3D (U3D) ECMA-363 4th edition 2007-06
Universal Disk Format (UDF) 2.60 2005-03-01
WebGL 1.0 2011-03-03
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) 2.0 2002-11-06
Wireless Markup Language (WML) 2.0 2001
XHTML 1.1 2001-05-31
XML 1.1 2004-02-04
Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) 1.7 2019
See also

See also

References

References

  1. "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification 5.0" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 14, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  2. "BIOS Boot Specification version 1.01" (PDF). January 11, 1996. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 15, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
  3. "BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Specification Version 3.0" (PDF). April 20, 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 24, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  4. "Boot Integrity Services - Application Programming Interface Version 1.0" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-11-17.
  5. "NVM Express - Revision 1.0b". July 12, 2011. Archived from the original on March 30, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
  6. POST Memory Manager
  7. "Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) Specification - Version 2.1" (PDF). September 20, 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 2, 2013. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
  8. "SATA-IO Releases Revision 3.1 Specification" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 25, 2011. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
  9. "UEFI - Platform Initialization Specification". Archived from the original on October 6, 2011. Retrieved September 21, 2011.
  10. "Specifications | Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Forum".
  11. "COLLADA - 3D Asset Exchange Schema". The Khronos Group. July 19, 2011.
  12. "MPI Documents".
  13. "Multiboot Specification version 0.6.96".
  14. Open Document V1.2 approved as OASIS Standard
  15. "Khronos OpenGL® Registry - the Khronos Group Inc". Archived from the original on May 22, 2008. Retrieved June 22, 2010.
  16. RFC 5246
  17. "About the Unified Modeling Language Specification Version 2.5.1".