Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
Advanced Graphics Port
AOL Instant Messenger
Algorithmic Language
American National Standards Institute
America Online
Application Program Interface
Address Resolution Protocol
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
Automatic Repeat Request
Autonomous System
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Association of Shareware Professionals
Active Server Pages
Advanced SCSI Programming Interface [Adaptec]
Advanced Technology Attachment (original hard drive interface)
Attention Dial Tone (modem command)
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Attention Restore configuration profile from nonvolatile RAM (modem command)
Blind Carbon Copy
BCR
Broadband DSL
Burst Extended Data Out (RAM)
Border Gateway Protocol
Basic input Output System
Billion Instruction Per Second
Bits Per Second + Bytes Per Second
Blu-Ray Disc
Blue (or black) Screen of Death: Windows just died (again)
Computer Aided Design
Computer Aided Design and Drafting
Campus Area Network
Campus Area Network
Consultative Committee for International Telephony and Telegraphy
Compact Disk – Recordable
Compact Disk – Read Only Memory
Compact Disk – Write Once
Compact Disk – Extended Architecture
Computer Emergency Response Team
Common Gateway Interface – Binary (programming for Web forms)
Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (type of nonvolatile memory chip) + PC Configuration stored on CMOS
Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black (color model)
Circulatory Network Mode
Coaxial Cable (for Ethernet and similar networks)
First serial Port (asynchronous port)
Central Processing Unit
Cathode Ray Tube: standard type computer monitor display
Call Subscriber ID (for FAX and phone caller ID)
Compressed Serial Line Interface Protocol [Internet]
Comma-Separated Value/Variable (file type)
Control (computer keyboard key)
Data Acquisition and Control + Digital to Analog Converter
Data Base Management System
Data Carrier Detect
Data Communications Equipment + Distributed Computing Environment
Data Communication Facility
Direct Data Entry + Dynamic Data Exchange [Microsoft]
Double Data Rate (double=speed of RAM)
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHTML
Dual Inline Memory Module
Deutsche Industrie Norm (German equivalent of EIA)
Dual In-line Package (e.g., DIP switches)
Directory (file)
Dynamic Link Library
Direct Memory Access/Addressing
Digital Subscriber Line: fast Internet connection over existing phone lines
Disk Operating System
Dots Per Inch
Double Supertwisted Nematic (LCD screen type)
Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (phone tones)
Dial-Up Networking (Microsoft)
Digital Video/Versatile Disc
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code [IBM] (is to ASCII as Sanskrit is to English)
Error Check Code + Error Checking and Correction + Error Correction Code
Enhanced Capabilities Port [Microsoft]
Electronic Data Interchange
Extended Data Out (RAM)
Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (hard drive interface)
Extended Industry Standard Architecture (PC bus design)
Editing Macros [Unix editor]
Enhanced Parallel Port
Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
Electrically Programmable Read Only Memory + Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
Programmable ROM
Enhanced Small Device Interface
Emulator Without A Good Name [Internet]
Frequently Asked Question
File Allocation Table
Floppy Disk Controller
Floppy Disc Drive
Fixed Disk (DOS utility)
First-In, First-Out
Fast Page Mode (RAM)
File Transfer Protocol
For Your Information
Graphics Interchange Format
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Global Positioning Satellite/System
Global System for Mobile Communication
Graphical User Interface
Hard Disc Drive
High-Data-Rate Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) + High-Speed Digital Subscriber Loop
High Definition Television
High-Performance File System (Windows NT)
Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus
Hue Saturation Value (color model)
HyperText Markup Language
HyperText Transport Protocol
HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
Holographic Versatile Disc
American Standard Code for Information Interchange Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineer
Internet Message Access Protocol [Internet; a step up from POP]
Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4
(in my humble opinion; email)
Internet Protocol Version 4
Internet Protocol Version 6
Infrared Data Association (Ir port standard)
Interrupt Request (PC hardware signal)
ISA
Integrated Services Digital Network (digital phone line)
International Standard Organization/ International Org for Standardization
Internet Service Provider
Information Technology
Interactive Voice Response
Joint Photographic Experts Group
Local Area Network
Liquid Crystal Display
Light Emitting Diode
Line Feed
Low Insertion Force
(Free-Source version of UNIX Operating system named after Linus Torvalds)
Lines Per Inch
Line Printer
First Parallel Printer Port
Second Parallel Printer Port
Letter Quality
Large Scale Integration
Lempel-Ziv-Walsh (algorithm)
Media Access Control
Mobile Ad-Hoc Network
Microsoft BASIC [Microsoft]
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Megabits Per Second
Megabytes Per Second
Macintosh File System [Macintosh]
Megahertz (million cycles per second)
Magnetic Ink Character Reader / Recognition
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
Million Instructions Per Second
Multimedia Personal Computer (Microsoft)
Moving Picture Experts Group
Microsoft – Disk Operating System
Mean Time Between Failures
Network Address Translation
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Network News Transfer Protocol [Internet]
National Science Foundation Network
Optical Character Reader / Recognition
Object Linking and Embedding [Microsoft]
Optical Mark Reader / Recognition
Peripheral Component Interconnect/Interface (PC Bus)
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
Personal Digital Assistant
Pretty Good Privacy (name of encryption program)
Personal Information Manager
Post Office Protocol (protocol for distributing email)
Post Office Protocol Version3
V
Microsoft Internet Explorer [Microsoft]
Mean Time Between Failures
Network Address Translation
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Network News Transfer Protocol [Internet]
Optical Character Reader / Recognition
Object Linking and Embedding [Microsoft]
Peripheral Component Interconnect/Interface (PC Bus)
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
Personal Digital Assistant
Optical Mark Reader / Recognition
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