AAC

Advanced Audio Coding /Adaptative Audio Coding

ACL

Access Control List

ACPI

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

ADA

Augusta Ada Byron

ADC

Analog to Digital Converter

ADK

Additional Decryption Key

ADN

Advanced Digital Network

ADPCM

Pulse Code Modulation with Adaptive Quantization

ADR

Advanced Digital Recording

ADS

Application Development System

ADSL

Asynchronous Digital Suscriber Line

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

AFC

Application Foundation Classes

AFR

Alternate Frame Rendering

AGP

Accelerated Graphics Port

AI

Artificial Intelligence

AIP

Adaptive Internet Protocol

AIT

Advanced Intelligent Tape

ALCD

Adaptive Lossless Data Compresion

ALGOL

ALgorithmic Language

ALU

Arithmetic & Logic Unit

AME

Advanced Metal Evaporated

AMR

Audio Modem Riser

API

Application Programming Interface

APM

Advanced Power Management

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASE

Active Server Extensions

ASP

Aplication Service Provider

ASP

Active Server Pages

ATA

AT Attached

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

ATM

Adobe Type Manager

ATSC

Advanced Television Standards Committee

AVC

Autentication Center

AWT

Abstract Window Toolkit

B2B

Business-to-business

BACP

Bandwitch Allocation Control Protocol

BASIC

Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BBS

Bulletin Board System

BCCH

Broadcast Common Control Channel

BCD

Binary Coded Decimal

BCDIC

Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

BCP

Bridging Control Protocol

BCPL

Basic Combined Programming Language

BER

Bit Error Ratio

BGI

Borland Graphics Interface

BGW

Billing Gateway

BIOS

Basic Input-Output System

BIT

Binary digIT

BLOB

Binary Large OBject

BMP

BitMaP

BOOTP

Boot Protocol

BPDU

Bridging protocol Data Units

BPS

Bits Per Second

BRA

Basic Rate Interface

BRIEF

Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility

BSC

Binary Synchronous Communications

BSD

Berkeley Software Distribution

BURN-proof

Buffer UnderRunN Proof

C/I

Carrier-to-interference ratio

CAD

Computer Aided Design

CAM

Computer Aided Manufacturing

CASE

Computer Aided Software Engineering

CATV

Cable Access TV

CAV

Constant Angular Velocity

CCD

Charge Coupled Device

CD

Compact Disc

CD-DA

CD- Digital Audio

CDPD

Cellular Digital Packet Data

CD-R

CD Recordable

CD-ROM

CD Read-Only Memory

CD-ROM XA

CD-ROM eXtended Architecture

CD-RW

CD ReWriteable

CEP

Certificate Enrolment Protocol

CF

Compact Flash

CF

Carry Forward

CGA

Color Graphics Adapter

CGA

Color Graphics Array

CGI

Common Gateway Interface

CHAP

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

CIS

Contact Image Sensor

CISC

Complex Instruction Set Code

CLV

Constant Linear Velocity

CML

Chemical Markup Language

CMOS

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CMOS

Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

CMS

Content Management System

CMYK

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK

CNR

Communication and Network Riser

COBOL

COmmon Business Oriented Language

CODEC

Compressor/Decompressor

COM

Component Object Model

COM

COmputer Output

COM

Communications

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CP/M

Control Program for Microcomputers

CPI

Characters Per Inch

CPS

Characters Per Second

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CR

Carriage Return

CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check

CRT

Cathodic Ray Tube

CS

Computer Science

CSMA/CA

Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance

CSMA/CD

Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

CU

Control Unit

CVS

Concurrent Version System

DAA

Direct Access Adapter

DAC

Digital to Analogue Converter

DAO

Disk-at-once

DAO

Data Access Objects

DAT

Digital Audio Tape

DB

DataBase

DBF

DBase Format

DBMS

Database Management System

DCE

Data Communications Equipment

DCL

Digital Command Language

DCS

Digital Cellular System

DD

Disk Drive

DD

Double Density

DDC

Display Data Channel

DDC

Digital Data Converter

DDE

Dynamic Data Exchange

DDL

Data Definition Language

DDR

Double Data Rate

DDS

Digital Data Storage

DES

Data Encryption Standard

DFD

Data Flow Diagram

DHCP

Dynamic Equipment Configuration Protocol

DIAL

Direct Information Access Line

DIF

Document Interchange Format

DIMM

Dual Inline Memory Module

DIP

Dual In-line Package

DLC

Data Link Control.

DLL

Dynamic Link Library.

DLP

Digital Light Processing

DMA

Direct Memory Access

DMD

Digital Micromirror Device

DML

Data Manipulation Language

DNA

Digital Network Architecture

DNS

Domain Name System

DOM

Document Object Model

DOMAIN

Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network 

DOS

Disk Operating System

DPAM           

Demand Priority Access Method

DPF

Discrete Packet Format

DPI

Dots Per Inch

DPS

Data Protection System

DQL

Database Query Language

DRAM

Dynamic RAM

DRC

Digital Reality Creation

DR-DOS

Digital Research DOS

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line

DSP

Digital Signal Processor

DSP

Digital Signal Processing

DSTN

Dual Super Twisted Nematic

DTE

Data Terminal Equipment

DTH

Direct to Home

DTS

DigiTal Surround

DTV

Digital TV

DTW

Dinamic Time Warping

DV

Digital Video

DVB

Digital Video Broadcasting

DVD

Digital Video Disk

DVD

Digital Versatile Disk

DVI

Digital Video Interactive

DWDM

Dense Wavelenght Division Multiplexing

EBCDIC

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

ECC

Error Correction Code

ECP

Extended Capabilities Port

EDO DRAM

Extended Data Out DRAM

EEPROM

Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EFR

Enhanced Full Rate

EGA

Enhanced Graphics Adapter

EHF

Extremely High Frequencies

EIDE

Extended IDE

EIGRP

Enhanced Interior Gateway Domain Protocol

EISA

Extended ISA

EMACS

Editor MACroS

E-MAIL

Electronic Mail

EMI

Electromagnetic Interference

EMS

Enhanced Messaging Service

EMS

Expanded Memory Specification

ENIAC

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator

EOF

End Of File

EPP

Enhanced Printer Port

EPROM

Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory

ERMES

European Radio Menssaging System

ETHERNET

Ether Network

EXE

EXEcutable

EXIF

Exchangeable Image File

FAMM

Frecuency Agile MultiMode

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

FAT

File Allocation Table

FAX

FAcsimile

FD

Floppy Disk

FDDI

Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FDN

Fixed Diallind Number

FEET

Fine Edge Enhancement Technology

FET

Field Effect Transistor

FFT

Fast Fourier Transform

FIFO

First In, First Out

FLOPS

FLoating-point OPerations per Second

FMD

Fluorescent Multilayer Disk

FOIL

First Order Inductive Learner

FORTRAN

FORmula TRANslator

FPM

Fast Page Mode

FPS

Frames per Second

FPU

Floating Point Unit

FQDN

Fully Qualified Domain Name

FRACTAL

FRACTional dimensionAL

FRS

Freely Redistributable Software

FSF

Free Software Foundation

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

FTTC

Fiber to the curb

FZFOIL

FuZzy First Order Inductive Learner

GAN

Global Area Network

GB

Gigabytes

GC

Garbage Collection

GCC

GNU C Compiler

GDI

Graphics Device Interface

GHz

Giga HertZ

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

GIPS

Giga-Instructions per Second

GL

Generation Language

GMR

Giant MagnetoResistive

GNU

GNU's not Unix

GPL

General Public License

GPRS

General Packet Radio Service

GPS

Global Positioning System

GPU

Graphics Procesing Unit

GSM

Global System for Mobile Communications

GUI

Graphical User Interface

HAD

HoleAccumulation Diode

HAL

Hardware Abastraction Layer.

HCI

Human computer Interaction

HD

High Density

HD

Hard Disk

HDD

High Density Disk

HDLC

High-level Data Link Control

HF

High Frequencies

HFC

Hybrid Fiber Coaxial

HFC

Hybrid Fiber Coax

HIMEM

HIgh MEMory

HLL

High-Level Language

HMM

Hidden Markov Modelling

HMOS

High performance Metal Oxide Semiconductor

HPA

High Performance Addressing

HPFS

High Performance File System

HSCD

High Speed Circuit Switched Data

HTML

Hyper-Text Markup Language

HTTP

Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol

HW

Hardware

IACK

Interrupt Acknoledge

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

ICSP

Internet Control System Protocol

ID

IDentification

IDE

Integrated Drive Electronics

IDE

Integrated Development Environment

IDL

Interface Definition language

IDS

Intrusion Detection System

ILP

Inductive Logic Programming

INTERNET

International Network

INTRANET

Interconnected Network

IO

Input/Output

IP

Instruction Pointer

IP

Internet Protocol

IPP

Internet Printing Protocol

IPX/SPX

Internetwork Packet Exchange / Sequenced Packet Exchange.

IRC

Internet Relay Chat

IRQ

Interrupt Request

ISA

Industry Standard Architecture

ISAM

Indexal Sequential Access Method

ISAPI

Internet Server Application Programming Interface

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network

ISP

Internet Service Provider

ISRC

International Standard Recording Number

IT

Information Technology

JBOD

Just a Bunch of Disks

JDBC

Java Database Connectivity

JIT

Just In Time

JNI

Java Native Interface

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

KB

Kilobytes

KHz

Kilo Hertz

KIPS

Thousands (not 1024s) of Instructions Per Second

LAN

Local Area Network

LASER

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

LBA

Logical Block Addressing

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LDT

Lightining Data Transport

LEAP

Low-power Enhanced At Portable

LF

Line Feed

LF

Very Low Frequencies

LFU

Least Frequently Used

LIFO

Last In, First Out

LISP

LISt Processing Language

LMDS

Local Multipoint Distribution Service

LPC

Linear Predictive Coding

LPF

League for Programming Freedom

LPT

Line PrinTer

LRU

Least Recently Used

LSB

Least Significant Bit

LSI

Large Scale Integration

MAC

Media Access Control

MAN

Metropolitan Area Network

MAPI

Messaging Application Programming Interface

MASSC

Multi-application Secure Smart Card

MB

Megabytes

MBR

Master Boot Record

MCA

Microchannel Architecture

MCAE

Mechanical Computer Aided Engineering

MCGA

Multicolor Graphics Array

MDA

Monochrome Display Adapter

MDF

Main Distribution Facility

MDS

Microwave Distribution System

METS

Multiple Exposure Tone System

MF

Middle Frequencies

MFC

Microsoft Fundation Classes

MFCC

Mel Frecuency Cepstral Coefficients

MFLOPS

Millions of Floating Operations Per Second

MID

Mobile Information Device

MIDI

Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MIPS

Millions of Instructions Per Second

M-JPEG

Motion-JPEG

MMC

MultiMedia Card

MMX

Multimedia Extension

MNG

Multipleimage Network Graphics

MODEM

Modulator Demodulator 

MORE

Mobile Rescue

MOS

Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

MP3

MPEG-1 Layer 3

MPEG

Motion Picture Experts Group

MPI

Message Passing Interface

MSB

Most Significant Bit

MS-DOS

Microsoft - Disk Operating System

MSI

Medium Scale Integration

MTBF

Medium Time Between Failures

MTU

Maximum Transmission Unit

MUD

Multi-User Dimension

MULTICS

MULTiplex Information Computer Services

MUX

MultipleXer

MVC

Model/View/Controller

NA

Not Applicable

NAK

Negative AcKnowledge

NAS

Network Attached Storage

NAT

Network Address Translation

NCA

Network Computing Architecture

NET

NETwork

NetBEUI

NetBIOS Extended User Interface

NetBIOS

Network Basic Input/Output System.

NFS

Network File System

NIC

Network Interface Card

NLQ

Near Letter Quality

NMI

Non-Maskable Interrupt

NN

Neutral Network

NNTP

Networking News Transfer Protocol

NOC

Network Operation Center

NP

Nondeterministic-Polynomial

NSP

Network Service Provider

NTFS

New Technology File System

NUMA

NonUniform Memory Access

NVRAM

Nonvolatile RAM

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

ODBC

Open Database Connection

ODPM

OS Directed Power Management

OEM

Original Equipement Manufacturer

OFX

Open Financial Exchange

OLE

Object Linking and Embendding

OMR

Optical Mark Recognition

OOP

Object Oriented Programming

ORCA

Optimized Reordering Command Algorithm

OS

Operating System

OSD

On Screen Display

OSI

Open System Interconnection

OSPF

Open Shortest Path First

OSS

Open Source Software

OWL

Object Windows Library

P.O.D.

Piece Of Data

PAC

Perceptive Audio Coding

PAP

Password Authentication Protocol

PBX

Private Branch Extension

PC

Personal Computer

PC

Program Counter

PC/AT

Personal Computer/Advanced Technology

PCA

Program Calibration Area

PCB

Printed Circuit Board

PC-DOS

Personal Computer DOS

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCI

Peripherical Component Interconnect

PCM

Pulse Code Modulation

PCMCIA

Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PD

public domain

PDA

Personal Data Assistant

PDF

Portable Document Format

PDL

Program Design Language

PDP

Plasma Display Panel

PDP

Programmed Data Processor

PERL

Practical Extraction and Report Language

PGP

Pretty Good Privacy 

PHS

Personal Handy System

PICS

Platform for Internet Content Selection

PIN

Personal Identification Number

PIO

Programmed Input/Output

PIXEL

PICture ELement

PL

Programming Language

PLC

Planar Lightwave Circuit

PLC

Programmable Logic Controller

PLCC

Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier

PMA

Program Memory Area

PMPO

Power Music Peak Output

PNG

Portable Network Graphics

PnP

Plug and Play

PNP

Positive-Negative-Positive

POP

Post Office Protocol

POP3

Post Office Protocol. version 3

POSIX

Portable Operating System for unIX

POST

Power on Self Test

PPP

Point-to-Point Protocol

PPTP

Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

PPV

Pay Per View

PRML

Partial Response Maximum Likelihood

PRN

PRiNter

PROM

Programmable Read-Only Memory

PS

PostScript

PSK

Phase Shift Keying

PVM

Parellel Virtual Machine

RAD

Rapid Application Development

RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial In User Service

RAID

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

RAID

Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAM

Random Access Memory

RAS

Remote Access Server

RAW

Read After Write

RDB

Relational DataBase

RDBMS

Relational DataBase Management System

REXX

Restructured EXtended eXecutor

RFC

Request for Comments

RGB

Red Green Blue

RIFF

Resource Interchange File Format

RIMM

Rambus Inline Memory Module

RISC

Reduced Instruction Set Code

R-LAN

Radio LAN

RLE

Run Length Encoding

RMS

Real Music Sound

RNG

Random Number Generator

ROM

Read-Only Memory

ROYGBIV

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

RPC

Remote Procedure Call

RPG

Report Program Generator

RPM

Revolutions Per Minute

RS-232

Recommended Standard 232

RTC

Real Time Clock

RTF

Rich Text Format

RWW

Read While Write

SACD

Super Audio CD

SAN

Storage Area Network

SAO

Session-at-once

SAPI

Speech API

SAS

Server Attached Storage

SAT

SATellite Access Network

SCA

Single Connector Attachment

SCSI

Small Computer System Interface

SD

Secure Digital

SDK

Software Development Unit

SDLC

Synchronous Data Link Control

SDRAM

Synchronous DRAM

SDX

Storage Data Acceleration

SET

Secure Electronic Transaction

SFTS

Stiction-free Trini-slider

SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language

SHF

Supra High Frequencies

SIM

Suscriber Identy Modules

SIMD

Single Instruction, Multiple Data

SIMM

Single In-line Memory Module

SJB

Shorted Job First

SLI

Sccan Line Interleave

SLIP

Serial Line Internet Protocol

SMART

Self-monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology

SMS

Short Message Service

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNA

Systems Network Architecture

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

SNR

signal-to-noise ratio

SOHO

Small Office Home Office

SP

Stack Pointer

SPARC

Scalable Processor ARChitecture

SPB

Stored Procedure Builder

SPDIF

Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format

SPS

Shock Protection System

SQL

Structured Query Language

SRAM

Static RAM

SRAPI

Speech Recognition API

SSI

Small Scale Integration

SSL

Secure Socket Layer

STARS

Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems

STB

Set-top Box

STP

Shielded Twisted Pair

SUN

Stanford University Network

SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics

SVGA

Super VGA 

SW

Software

T&L

Transforming & Lighting

TAO

Track-at-once

TAPI

Telephony Application Programming Interface

TCL & TK

Tool Command Language and Toolkit

Transmission Control Protocol

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TCP/IP

Transmission Communication Protocol / Internet Protocol.

TETRA

Terrestrial Trunked Radio

TEXEL

Texture Element

TFMR

Thin Film Magneto-resistive

TFT

Thin Film Transistor

TFTP

Tiny File Transfer Protocol

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

TMDS

Transmitter Minimized Differential Signaling

TPI

Tracks Per Inch

TROFF

Text RunOFF, text formatter

TT

True-Type Font

TTL

Transistor-Transistor Logic

TTY

TeleTYpe

TV

TeleVision

TWAIN

Technology Without Any Interesting Name

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmiter

UDF

Universal Disk Format

UDMA

Ultra DMA

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

UFI

User Friendly Interface

UHF

Ultra High Frequency

UIN

Universal Internet Number

UMTS

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

UNL

United Network Language

UPS

Uninterrupted Power System

Uniform Resource Locator

USART

Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmiter

USB

Universal Serial Bus

USENET

Users' Network

UTP

Unshielded Twisted Pair

Unix to Unix Encoding

VAX

Virtual Adress Extension

VBR

Variable BitRate

VCD

Video CD

VCM

Virtual Channel Memory

VCR

VideoCassette Recorder

VDFM

Virtual Disk File Manager

VDU

Visual Display Unit

VFD

Vacuum Fluorescent Display

VGA

Video Graphics Adapter

VGA

Video Graphics Array

VHF

Very High Frequencies

VHLL

Very-High-Level Language

VHS

Video Home System

VIA

Versatil Interface Adapter

VIA

Virtual Interface Architecture

VLF

Very Low Frequencies

VLSB

Very Large Database

VLSI

Very Large Scale Integration

VM

Virtual Machine

VoD

Video on Demand

VOD

Video on Demand

VOL

Video On-Line

VPN

Virtual Private Network

VRAM

Video RAM

VRC

Vertical Redundancy Character

VRML

Virtual Reality Modeling Language

VROOMM

Virtual Runtime Object-Oriented Memory Manager

WAIS

Wide Area Information System

WAN

Wide Area Network

WAP

Wireless Application Protocol

WINS

Windows Internet Name Service

Winsocks

Windows Sockets

WLL

Wireless Local Loop

WMA

Windows Media Audio

WML

Wireless Macro Language

WOL

Wake on LAN

WOM

Write Only Memory

WORM

Write Once, Read Many times

WOSA

Windows Open System Architecture

WTA

Wireless Telephony Application

WTLS

Wireless Transport Layer Security

WWW

World Wide Web

What You See Is What You Get

XGA

Extended Graphics Array

XML

Extensible Markup Language

XMP

Extensible Metadata Platform

XMS

eXtended Memory Specification

XOR

eXclusive OR

ZIF

Zero Insertion Force

ZV

Zoomed Video