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A

   
  A-to-A Application to Application  
  AC  Alternating Current  
  ACE Access Control Entry  
  ACK Acknowledge  
  A-to-A Application to Application  
  AC Alternating Current  
  ACE Access Control Entry  
  ACK Acknowledge  
  ACL Access Control List  
  ACPI  Advanced Configuration and Power Interface  
  ADO  ActiveX Data Objects  
  ADSL  Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line  
  AGP  Accelerated Graphics Port  
  AI  Artificial Intelligence  
  ALU  Arithmetic Logic Unit  
  AMD  Active Matrix Display  
  AMD  Advanced Micro Devices ®  
  AMI  American Megatrends Inc. ® - Bios Manufacturer  
  ANSI  American National Standard Institute  
  AOL  America On Line Ò  
  APC  American Power Conversion â  
  API  Application Programming Interface  
  APIPA  Automatic Private IP Addressing  
  APM  Advanced Power Management  
  ARCnet  Attached Resource Computer Network  
  ARP  Address Resolution Protocol  
  ARPANET  Advanced Research Project Agency Network  
  ASIC  Application Specific Integrated Circuits  
  ASK  Amplitude-Shift Keying  
  ASMP  ASymmetric MultiProcessing  
  ASP  Active Server Page - Microsoft ®  
  ASP  Application Service Provider  
  ASPI  Advanced SCSI Programming Interface  
  ATA  Advanced Technology Attachment  
  ATAPI  AT Attachment Packet Interface  
  ATDP  ATtention Dial Tone  
  ATM  Asynchronous Transfer Mode  
  AUI  Attachment Unit Interface  
  A/V  Audio / Video  
  AVI  Audio Video Interleaved – Microsoft Ò  
  AWG  American Wire Gauge  

 

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  BASH  Bourne-Again SHell - Unix
  BASIC  Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
  BAT  Batch file
  BBS  Bulletin Board System
  BCC  Blind Carbon Copy
  BIOS  Basic Input / Output System
  BIT  Binary Digit
  BLOB  Binary Large OBject
  BMP  BitMap - File System
  BNC  Bayonet Neil Concelman Connector
  BOOTP  Bootstrap Protocol
  BPP  Bidirectional Parallel Port
  "BOTS"  Knowledge Robots
  BPP  Bidirectional Parallel Port
  BPS  Bit Per Second
  BRI  Basic Rate Interface
  BSC  Binary Synchronous Communication
  BSD  Berkeley Software Distribution Unix
  B2B  Business-to-Business
  B2C  Business-to-Consumer
  B2E  Business-to-Employee
  BYTE  Binary Term / Binary Digit
 

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  CC  Courtesy, Carbon Copy
  CCITT  Consultative Committee on International Telegraphy and Telephones
  CCNA  Cisco Certified Network Associate - Cisco ®
  CD  Carrier Detect
  CD  Compact Disc
  CDDI  Copper Distributed Data Interface
  CDF  Channel Definition Format
  CDFS  Compact Disc File System
  CD-I  Compact Disc - Interactive
  CD-R  Compact Disc – Recordable
  CD-ROM  Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory
  CD-RW  Compact Disc - Read Write
  CD-WO  Compact Disc - Write Once
  CD-WORM  Compact Disc - Write Once Read Many
  CID  Caller Identification
  CIDR  Classless Inter Domain Routing
  CIFS  Common Internet File System
  CISC  Complex Instruction Set Computing
  CLI  Command Line Interface
  CMIP  Common Management Interface Protocol
  CMIS  Common Management Information Services
  CMNS  Connection-Mode Network Service
  CMOS  Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
  CMOT  CMIP Over TCP-IP
  CMYK  Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK
  COBOL  Common Business Oriented Language
  COM  Component Object Model
  COM  Commercial Business
  CPI  Character Per Inch
  CP/M  Control Program for Microcomputers
  CPS  Characters Per Second
  CPU  Central Processing Unit
  CRC  Cyclic Redundancy Check
  CRT  Cathode Ray Tube
  CS  Carrier Selection
  CSMA-CA  Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
  CSMA-CD  Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
  CSMA-CR  Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Resolution
  CSS  Cascading Style Sheet
  CSU  Channel Service Unit
  CTS  Clear To Send
  CUG  Closed User Group

 

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DAC

 Digital to Analog Converter

 
 

DAEMON

 Disk And Execution MONitor - Unix

 
 

DARPA

 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

 
 

DAT

 Digital Audio Tape

 
 

dB

 Decibel

 
 

DBF

 DBase File

 
 

DBML

 DataBase Markup Language

 
 

DBMS

 Data Base Management System

 
 

DCD

 Data Carrier Detect

 
 

DCE

 Data Communication Equipment

 
 

DCF

 Data Composition Facilities

 
 

DCOM

 Distributed Component Object Model

 
 

DDE

 Dynamic Data Exchange

 
 

DDI

 Direct Dial In

 
 

DDL

 Data Definition Language

 
 

DDR

 Double Data Rate - RAM - AMD ®

 
 

DDR SDRAM

 Double Data Rate SDRAM

 
 

DEC

 Digital Equipment Corporation - Compaq Ò since 1999

 
 

DES

 Data Encryption Standard

 
 

DFC

 Data Flow Control

 
 

DHCP

 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

 
 

DHTML

 Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language

 
 

DIMM

 Dual In-line Memory Module

 
 

DIN

 Deutsche Industrie Norm connector

 
 

DLC

 Data Link Control

 
 

DLL

 Dynamic Link Library

 
 

DMA

 Direct Memory Access

 
 

DMZ

 Demilitarized Zone

 
 

DN

 Distinguished Name - X.500

 
 

DNS

 Domain Name Server

 
 

DOD – ARPA

 Department of Defense's Advanced Research Project Agency

 
 

DOD

 Direct Outward Dial

 
 

DoS

 Denial of Services

 
 

DOS

 Disk Operating System

 
 

DPI

 Dot Per Inch

 
 

DPMI

 DOS Protected Mode Interface

 
 

DRAM

 Dynamic Random Access Memory

 
 

DRDRAM

 Direct Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory

 
 

DSIMM

 Dual Single Inline Memory Module

 
 

DSL

 Digital Subscriber Line

 
 

DSL

 Digital Subscriber Loop - AT&T ®

 
 

DSN

 Data Source Name

 
 

DSP

 Digital Signal Processor

 
 

DSR

 Data Set Ready

 
 

DTD

 Document Type definition

 
 

DTE

 Data Terminal Equipment

 
 

DTMF

 Dual Tone Multi Frequency

 
 

DTR

 Data Terminal Ready

 
 

DVD

 Digital Video Disc

 
 

DVDR

 Digital Video Disc Recordable

 
 

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EBCDIC

 Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

 
 

ECP

 Enhanced Capability Port

 
 

EDI

 Electronic Data Interchange

 
 

EDO

 Extended Data Output

 
 

EEPROM

 Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

 
 

EFT

 Electronic Funds Transfer

 
 

EIA

 Electronic Industries Association

 
 

EISA

 Extended Industry Standard Architecture

 
 

E-MAIL

 Electronic Mail

 
 

EMI

 Electromagnetic Interference

 
 

EMM

 Expanded Memory Manager

 
 

EMS

 Expanded Memory Specification

 
 

ENIAC

 Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator

 
 

EOF

 End Of File

 
 

EOL

 End Of Line

 
 

EOM

 End Of Message - ATM

 
 

EPIC

 Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing – Intel Ò

 
 

EPL

 ElectroPhotographic Laser

 
 

EPP

 Enhanced Parallel Port

 
 

EPROM

 Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

 
 

ERD

 Emergency Repair Disk

 
 

ESC

 Escape

 
 

ESD

 Electrostatic Discharge

 
 

ESDI

 Enhanced Small Device Interface

 
 

ESDRAM

 Enhanced SDRAM

 
 

ESMTP

 Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

 
 

ESP

 Enhanced Serial Port

 
 

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FAQ

 Frequently Asked Questions

 
 

FAT

 File Allocation Table

 
 

FCB

 File Control Block

 
 

FCC

 Federal Communications Commission

 
 

FC-PGA

 Flip Chip - Pin Grid Array – Intel Ò

 
 

FD

 Flat Display

 
 

FDDI

 Fiber Distributed Data Interface

 
 

FF

 Form Feed

 
 

FIFO

 First In First Out

 
 

FIREWIRE

 IEEE 1394

 
 

FLOPS

 Floating-point Operations Per Second

 
 

FM

 Frequency Modulation

 
 

FORTRAN

 FORmula TRANslation

 
 

FPU

 Floating Point Unit

 
 

FRU

 Field Replaceable Unit

 
 

FSAA

 Full-Screen Anti Alisasing

 
 

FSB

 Front Side Bus – Intel Ò

 
 

FSI

  System Interface

 
 

FSK

 Frequency Shift Keying

 
 

FTP

 File Transfer Protocol

 
 

FD

 FULL DUPLEX

 
 

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Gb

 Gigabit

 
 

GB

 Giga Bytes

 
 

GDI

 Graphical Device Interface

 
 

GHz

 Gigahertz

 
 

GIF

 Graphics Interchange Format

 
 

GMT

 Greenwich Mean Time

 
 

.GOV

 Government

 
 

GUI

 Graphical User Interface

 
 

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HD

 HALF DUPLEX

 
 

HBA

 Host Bus Adapter

 
 

HCL

 Hardware Compatibility List – Microsoft Ò

 
 

HD

 Hard Disk

 
 

HERTZ / HZ

 Heinrich R. Hertz

 
 

HP

 Hewlett-Packard Ò

 
 

HTML

 Hypertext Markup Language

 
 

HTTP

 Hypertext Transfer Protocol

 
 

HTTPS

 Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

 
 

Human Ear

 40 Hz to 18000 Hz

 
 

Human Voice

 50 Hz to 400 Hz

 
 

Hz

 Hertz

 
 

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IANA

 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

 

 

IBM

 International Business Machines Corporation Ò

 

 

ICANN

 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

 

 

ICQ

 " I Seek You "

 

 

ID

 Identification

 

 

IDE

 Integrated Device Electronics / Integrated Drive Electronics

 

 

IE

 Internet Explorer – Microsoft ®

 

 

IEEE

 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

 

 

IETF

 Internet Engineering Task Force

 

 

IFS

 Internet File System

 

 

IIS

 Internet Information Server

 

 

INTERNET

 InterNetworking

 

 

INTRANET

 

 

 

I / O

 Input / Output

 

 

IP

 Internet Protocol

 

 

IPSec

  Internet Protocol Security

 

 

IPX

 Internet Packet Exchange – Novell Ò

 

 

IR

 Infra Red

 

 

IRC

 Internet Relay Chat - Unix

 

 

IRDA

 Infrared Data Association

 

 

IRQ

 Interrupt Service Request

 

 

ISA

 Industry Standard Architecture

 

 

ISAM

 Indexed Sequential Access Method

 

 

ISAPI

 Internet Server Application Program Interface

 

 

ISDN

 Integrated Services Digital Network

 

 

ISP

 Internet Service Provider

 

 

ISV

 Independent Software Vendor

 

 

IT

 Information Technology

 

 

ITU

 International Telecommunications Union

 

 

JAVA

 Sun Microsystems Ò

 

 

JPEG

 Joint Photographic Experts Group

 
 

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KBPS

 Kilobits per second

 
 

KERBEROS

 

 
 

KERMIT

 From Kermit after the Muppet show

 
 

KHz

 Kilo Hertz

 
 

LAN

 Local Area Network

 
 

LCD

 Liquid Crystal Display

 
 

LED

 Light Emitting Diode

 
 

LINUX

 Linus Torvalds

 
 

LPD

 Line Printer Daemon

 
 

LPT1

 Line Printer Terminal 1

 
 

LSB

 Least Significant Bit

 
 

LU

 Logical Unit – IBM Ò

 
 

LUN

 Logical Unit Number – SCSI

 
 

LZW

 Lempel-Ziv-Welch - File Compression

 
 

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MAC

 Media Access Control

 
 

MAN

 Metropolitan Area Network

 
 

MAU

 Media Attachment Unit or Multiple Access Unit

 
 

MB

 Mega Bytes

 
 

Mb

 Mega Bit

 
 

Mbps

 Mega Bits Per Second

 
 

MCA

 Micro Channel Architecture

 
 

MCH

 Memory Controller Hub – Intel Ò

 
 

MD5

 Message Digest 5

 
 

MDA

 Message Digest Algorithm

 
 

MEGA BITS

 M/Bits

 
 

MEGA BYTES

 

 
 

MEGA HERTZ

 

 
 

MIB

 Management Information Base

 
 

MIDI

 Musical Instrument Digital Interface

 
 

MIME

 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension

 
 

MIPS

 Millions of Instructions Per Second

 
 

MNP

 Microcom Networking Protocol

 
 

MODEM

 Modulator / Demodulator

 
 

MOV

 QuickTime Movie

 
 

MPEG

 Motion Picture Expert Group

 
 

MS-DOS

 Microsoft Disk Operating System

 
 

NAT

 Network Address Translation

 
 

NDIS

 Network Driver Interface Specification

 
 

NDS

 Novell Directory Services

 
 

NETBEUI

 Netbios Enhanced User Interface

 
 

NETBIOS

 Network Adapter Basic Input Output System

 
 

NIC

 Network Interface Card

 
 

NiMH

 Nickel Metal Hydride

 
 

NMI

 Nonmaskable Interrupt

 
 

NT

 New Technology - Microsoft ®

 
 

NTFS

 NT File System

 
 

NTLM

 NT LAN Manager authentication.

 
 

NVRAM

 Non Volatile Random Access Memory

 
 

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OCR

 Optical Character Recognition

 
 

ODBC

 Open Database Connectivity

 
 

OEM

 Original Equipment Manufacturers

 
 

OLE

 Object Linked Embedded

 
 

OLEBD

 Object Linked Embedded Database

 
 

OLTP

 Online Transaction Processing

 
 

OS

 Operating System

 
 

OSI

 Open Systems Interconnection

 
 

OSI-RM

 OSI Reference Model

 
 

OSPF

 Open Shortest Path First

 
 

OU

 Organization Unit

 
 

 

 

 
 

PCI

 Peripheral Component Interconnect or Interface

 
 

PCL

 Printer Control Language - Hewlett Packard

 
 

PCMCIA

 Personal Computer Memory Card Internation Association

 
 

PDA

 Personal Digital Assistant

 
 

PDF

 Portable Document Format file / Package Definition Files

 
 

PERL

 Practical Extraction and Report Language

 
 

PFM

 Pulse Frequency Modulation

 
 

PGP

 Pretty Good Privacy

 
 

PHP

 Hypertext Preprocessor

 
 

PHY FDDI

 physical sub layer - designation for FDDI fiber-optic cables.

 
 

PIN

 Personal Identification Number

 
 

PING

 Packet Internet Groper

 
 

PKCS

 Public Key Cryptography Standards

 
 

PKI

 Public Key Information

 
 

PNP

 Plug And Play

 
 

POP3

 Post Office Protocol Version 3

 
 

POTS

 Plain Old Telephone Service

 
 

PPGA

 Plastic Grid Pin Array – Intel Ò

 
 

PPP

 Point to Point Protocol

 
 

PPTP

 Point to Point Tunneling Protocol

 
 

PRI

 Primary Rate Interface

 
 

PROFS

 Professional Office System

 
 

PS/2

 Personal System / 2

 
 

PSDN

 Packet-Switched Data Network

 
 

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QBE

Query By Example - Database

 
 

 RAID

 Redundant Array of Independent Disks

 
 

RAM

 Random Access Memory

 
 

RARP

 Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

 
 

RAS

 Remote Access Server

 
 

RCP

 Real-Time Control Program

 
 

RD

 Receive Data

 
 

RDBMS

 Remote Data Base Management System

 
 

RDRAM

 Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory

 
 

RF

 Radio Frequency

 
 

REXX

 Restructured Extended Executor

 
 

RFC

 Request For Comments

 
 

RGB

 Red Green Blue

 
 

RI

 Ring Indicator

 
 

RIMM

 Rambus In-line Memory Modules

 
 

RIP

 Routing Information Protocol

 
 

RISC

 Reduced Instruction Set Computer

 
 

RJ-11 /12 / 45

 Registered Jacks

 
 

RLL

 Run Length Limited

 
 

RLOGIN

 Remote Login - Unix

 
 

ROM

 Read Only Memory

 
 

Router

 Layer 3 Device

 
 

RPC

 Remote Procedure Call

 
 

RSA

 Rivest Shamir Adleman

 
 

RTC

 Real Time Clock

 
 

RTF

 Rich Text Format

 
 

RTS

 Request To Send

 
 

RX

 Receive

 
 

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SACL

 System Access Control List

 
 

SAM

 Security Access Manager – Windows Ô

 
 

SAM

 Sequential Access Method

 
 

SAN

 Storage Area Network

 
 

SAP

 Service Access Point – IBM Ò

 
 

SCSI

 Small Computer Standard Interface

 
 

SDLC

 Synchronous Data Link Control

 
 

SG

 Signal Ground - Modem

 
 

SGML

 Standard Generalized Markup Language

 
 

SID

 Security Identifier – Microsoft Ò

 
 

SIMM

 Single In-line Memory Module

 
 

SLIP

 Serial Line Internet Protocol

 
 

SMB

 Server Message Block

 
 

SMP

 Symmetric Multiprocessing - Microsoft ®

 
 

SMTP

 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

 
 

SNMP

 Simple Network Management Protocol

 
 

SOHO

 Small Office-Home Office

 
 

S/PDIF

 Sony ® Philips ® Digital Interface

 
 

SPP

 Standard Parallel Port

 
 

SPX

 Sequenced Packet Exchange

 
 

SRAM

 Static Random Access Memory or static RAM

 
 

SRTS

 Secondary Request To Send

 
 

SSL

 Secure Socket Layer

 
 

STP

 Shielded Twisted Pair - cable

 
 

SVGA

 Super Video Graphics Array

 
 

SYNCHRONOUS

 

 
 

SYSOP

 System Operator

 
 

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TAPI

 Telephony Application Program Interface

 
 

TB

 Terra Bytes

 
 

TCO

 Total Cost of Ownership

 
 

TCP

 Transmission Control Protocol

 
 

TCP/IP

 Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

 
 

TD

 Transmitted Data

 
 

TELNET

 Telecommunications Network Protocol

 
 

TEFLOPS

 Tera Floating-point Operations Per Second

 
 

TFT

 Thin Film Transistor

 
 

TFTP

 Trivial File Transfer Protocol

 
 

TGP

 Thumbnail Gallery Post

 
 

TI

 Texas Instruments ®

 
 

TIFF

 Tagged Image File Format – Aldus Ò

 
 

TLD

 Top Level Domain

 
 

TLS

 Transport Level Security

 
 

TOS

 Type Of  Service

 
 

TR

 Token-Ring

 
 

TRANSCEIVER

 Transmitter-receiver

 
 

TSR

 Terminate and Stay Resident

 
 

.TTF

 True Type Font

 
 

TTL

 Time To Live

 
 

TTL

 Transistor -Transistor Logic

 
 

TTY

 Teletype

 
 

TUI

 Text or Telephony User Interface

 
 

TWAIN

 Technology Without An Interesting Format

 
 

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UART

 Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter

 
 

UDDI

 Universal Description Discovery and Integration

 
 

UDF

 Universal Disk/Data Format

 
 

UDDI

 Universal Description Discovery and Integration

 
 

UDP

 User Datagram Protocol

 
 

UHF

 Ultra-High Frequency

 
 

UI

 User Interface

 
 

UID

 User Identification

 
 

UNC

 Universal Naming Convention

 
 

UPS

 Uninterrupted Power Supply

 
 

URI

 Uniform Resource Identifier - RFC 1630

 
 

URL

 Uniform Resource Locators

 
 

URN

 Uniform Resource Name - RFC 1737

 
 

USB

 Universal Serial Bus

 
 

UTP

 Unshielded Twisted Pair - cable

 
 

UUCP

 UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program

 
 

V.24

 24 Pins serial connector

 
 

VAR

 Value Added Reseller

 
 

VB

 Visual Basic

 
 

VESA

 Video Electronics Standards Association

 
 

VGA

 Video Graphics Array – IBM Ò

 
 

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WAN

 Wide Area Network

 
 

WAP

 Wireless Application Protocol

 
 

WATS

 Wide Area Telephone Service

 
 

WAV

 Waveform sound - Microsoft

 
 

WebDAV

 Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning

 
 

WINS

 Windows Internet Name Service

 
 

Windows Ò ME

 Windows Millenium Edition ®

 
 

WINS

 Windows Internet Name Service

 
 

WML

 Wireless Markup Language

 
 

WORM

 Write Once Read Many

 
 

WSH

 Windows Scripting Host

 
 

WWW

 World Wide Web

 
 

W3C

 World Wide Web Consortium

 
 

WYSIWYG

 What You See Is What You Get

 
 

XHTML

 eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language

 
 

XML

 Extensible Markup Language

 
 

XMS

 Extended Memory Specification

 
 

XNS

 Xerox Ò Network Services

 
 

Y-Modem

 Error-free file transfer protocol that can be used on error-corrected links and to transfer multiple files with a single command

 
 

YP

 Yellow Pages

 
 

ZBTSI

 Zero Byte Time Slot Interchange

 
 

ZIP

 Zone Information Protocol

 
 

Z-Modem

 Error free file transfer protocol that supports multiple file transfers plus many other advanced features.