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BBS - Bulletin Board System
BIOS - Basic Input/Output System
BIT - Binary digIT
BIX - Byte Information Exchange
BMP - MS Window Bitmap
CD-ROM - Compact Disc - Read Only Memory
CDPD - Cellular Digital Packet Data
CERN - Centre European Researche Nucleare
CGA - Color Graphics Adapter
CGI - Common Gateway Interface
CISC - Complex Instruction Set Computing
CP/M - Control Program for Microcomputers
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CRT - Cathoid Ray Tube
CSMA/CD - Carrier-Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EC - Error Control
EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation
ETLA - Extended Three Letter Acronym
EETLA - Expanded Extended Three Letter Acronym
EGA - Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EISA - Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture
EIA - Electronics Industries Association
EPS - Encapsulated Postscript
ESDI - Ehanced System Device Interface
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
FAT - File Allocation Table
FDDI - Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FIFO - First In First Out
FLI - Flick
FQDN - Fully Qualified Domain Name
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
FUD - Fear, Uncertainity and Doubt
GAL - Global Address List
GB - GigaByte (One Billion Bytes)
GIF - Graphic Interchange Format
GUI - Graphical User Interface
HPFS - High Performance File System
HS - High Speed
HTML - HyperText Markup Language
HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol
JCL - Job Control Language
JES - Job Entry System
JPG or JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
JUGHEAD - Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display
KB - KiloByte (One Thousand Bytes)
KBPS - KiloBytes Per Second
LAN - Local Area Network
LAT - Local Area Transport
LED - Light Emitting Diode
LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LIFO - Last In First Out
LPR - Line PrinteR
LU - Logical Unit
MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
MAC - Media Access Control
MB - MegaByte (One Million Bytes)
MCA - MicroChannel Architecture
MIB - Management Information Base
MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIPS - Millions of Instructions Per Second
MPG or MPEG - Moving Picture Experts Group
MPPP - Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol
MR - Modem Ready
MUD - Multi User Dungeons
MUD - Multi-User Dungeon or Dimension
MUSHES - Multi-User Shared Hallusaniations
MOO - MUD Object-Oriented
MOV - Quicketime Movie
MVS - Multiple Virtual Storage
NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NDIS - Network Driver Interface Specification
NETBIOS - Network Basic Input/Output System
NETBEUI - NetBIOS Extended User Interface
NFS - Network File Service
NIC - Network Interface Card
NIH - National Information Highway
NII - National Information Infrastructure
NLM - National Library of Medicine
NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol
NOS - Network Operating System
NPTN - National Public Telecompting Network
NREN - National Research and Education Network
NSF - National Science Foundation
NSP - Native Signal Processing
NTFS - New Technology File System
OCR - Optical Character Recognition
ODN - Open Data Network
ODSI - Open Directory Services Interface
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
OH - Off Hook
OLE - Object Linking and Embedding
OLAP - Online Analytical Processing
OLE - Object Linking and Embedding
OOP - Object Oriented Programming
OSF/DCD - Open Software Foundation / Distributed Computing Environment
OSI - Open System Interconnection
PCD - Kodak Photo CD
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card Industry Association
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
PDF - Portable Document Format
PIF - Program Information File
PING - Packet Internet Gopher
POP Mail - Post Office Protocol Mail
POTS - Plain Old Telephone System
PPP - Point to Point Protocol
PS - Postscript
RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM - Random Access Memory
RAS - Remote Access Service
RISC - Reduced Instruction Set Computing
RLE - Run Length Encoding
ROM - Read Only Memory
RTFM - Read The Fantastic Manual
RTS/CTS- Request to Send / Clear to Send
RXD - Receive Data
SBI - Sound Blaster Instrument
SCSI - Small Computer Systems Interface
SD - Send Data
SFT - System Fault Tolerance
SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language
SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNA - Systems Network Architecture
SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
SPOOL - Simultaneous Peripheral Output On-Line
SPX - Sequential Packet Exchange
SQ - Signal Quality
SQL - Structured Query Language
STP - Shielded Twisted Pair
SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array
TB - TeraByte (One Trillion Bytes)
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TIF or TIFF - Tagged Image File Format
TLA - Three Letter Acronym
TR - Terminal Ready
TSR - Terminate and Stay Ready
TXD - Transmit Data
UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply
URI - Uniform Resource Identifier
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
URN - Uniform Resource Name
UTP - Unshielded Twisted Pair
UUCP - Unix to Unix Copy Protocol
UUNET - Unix to Unix Network
VDT - Video Display Terminal
VESA - Video Electronics Standards Association
VERONICA - Very Easy Rodent Oriented Network Index to Computerized
Archives
VGA - Video Graphics Array
VMS - Virtual Memory System
VWI - Vertical Waffer Integration
WAIS - Wide Area Information Service
WAN - Wide Area Network
WAV - Microsoft Waveform
WELL - Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
WORM - Write Once, Read Many
WOSA - Windows Open Systems Architecture
WPG - WordPerfect Graphic
WWW - World Wide Web
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
XAD - Transmit Address
XBM - X-Window Bitmap
YP - Yellow Pages
ZIF - Zero Insertion Force
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