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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.
01Hardware
| Standard | Version | Released
yyyy-mm-dd |
|---|---|---|
| AC'97 | 2.3 | 2002-04 |
| ACPI | 5.0 | 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 | 1.01 | 1996-01 |
| BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Specification (INT 13H) | 3.0 | 1998-04-20 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 2010-06-30 |
| Boot Integrity Services API | 1.0 | 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 | 1.0 | 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) | 1.01 | 1997-11-21 |
| Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) | 2.1 | 1999-09-20 |
| RAID | 1980's | |
| Small Computer System Interface SCSI | ||
| Serial ATA (SATA) | 3.1 | 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 | 1.2 | 2009-05 |
| Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification | 2.3.1 | 2011-04-08 |
| UEFI Shell Specification | 2.0 | 2008-10-08 |
| Unified Display Interface (UDI) | 1.0 | |
| Universal Serial Bus (USB) | 4.0 | 2019 |
02Software
| Standard | Version | Released |
|---|---|---|
| American Standard Code for Information Interchange | ||
| Atom | 1.0 | |
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) | 2.1 | 2007-07-19 |
| COLLADA | 1.5.0 | 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) | 2.2 | 2009-09-04 |
| Metalink | 4.0 | 2010-06 |
| Multiboot Specification | 0.6.96 | 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) | 1.2 | 2011-09-30 |
| OpenEXR | 1.6.1 | 2007-10-22 |
| OpenGL | 4.0 | 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[link removed] | 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) | 1.2 | 2008-08 |
| Unified Modeling Language (UML) | 2.3 | 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 |
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