A-C

 AA – anti-aliasing

 AABB – Axis aligned bounding box

 AAC – Advanced Audio Coding

 

ACID – Atomiticy Consistency Isolation Durability

 ACPI -Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

 APCI – Application-Layer Protocol Control Information

 ADC – Apple Display Connector ADO – ActiveX Data Object

 ADSL – Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, variant of DSL

 AI – artificial intelligence AIM – AOL Instant Messenger

 AMD – Advanced Micro Devices

 AMI – American Megatrends … (BIOS manufacturer)

 AMR – Audio Modem Riser

 ANSI – American National Standards Institute

 AOL – America Online

 API – Application Programming Interface

 ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange

 ASP – Application Service Provider

 AVI – Audio Video Interleaved

 BBS – Bulletin Board System

 BIND – Berkeley Internet Name Daemon

 BIOS – Basic Input Output System

BJT – Bipolar Junction Transistor

 CAD – Computer Aided Design

 CD-R – CD-Recordable

 CD-RW – CD-Rewritable

 CF – Compact Flash

 CFG – Context-free grammar – control flow graph

 CG – Computer Graphics?

 CGA – Color Graphics Array

 CGI – Common Gateway Interface

 CLI – Command Line Interface

 CM – Configuration Management

 COM – Component Object Model

 CPU – Central Processing Unit

 CRC – Cyclic Redundancy Check

 CRT – Cathode Ray Tube

 CS – Computer Science

 CSE – Computer Science Engineering

 CSS – Cascading Style Sheets

 CT – Computerized Tomography

 CVS – Concurrent Versioning System

D-F

 DB – database

 DBA – database administrator

 DBMS – Database Management System

 DHTML – Dynamic HTML

 DLL – Dynamic Load Library

 DMA – Direct Memory Addressing

 DN – Distinguished Name

 DND – drag and drop

 DNS – Domain Name Server

 DOM – Document Object Model

 DOS – Disk Operating System

 DRAM –Dyanamic RAM

 EEPROM –Electrically Erasable PROM

 EOF – End of File

 EOL – End of Life

 EPROM –

 ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning

 FAT – File Allocation Table

 FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions

 FET – Field Effects Transistor

 FIFO – First In First Out

 FPGA – Field Programmable Gate Array

 FS – file system

 FTP – File Transfer Protocol

G-I

 GB – Gigabyte

 GIF – Graphics Interchange Format

 GPL – GNU Public License

 GRUB – GRand Unified Boot-loader

 GUI – Graphical User Interface

 HAL – Hardware Abstraction Layer

 HCI – Human Computer Interaction

HDD – Hard Disk Drive

 HF – High Frequency

 HTML – Hypertext Markup Language

 HTTP – Hypertext Transport Protocol

 Hz – Hertz

 IBM – International Business Machines

 IC – Integrated Circuit

 IDL – Interface Definition Layer

 IM – Instant Messaging

 IP – Internet Protocol

 IRC – Internet Relay Chat

 IRQ – Interrupt Request

 IS – Information Systems

 ISA – Industry Standard Architechture

 ISO – International Organization for Standardization

 ISP – Internet Service Provider

 IT – Information Technology

J-M

 JDK – Java Developer’s Kit

 JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group

 JS – Javascript

 JSP – Java Server Page

 KB – Kilobyte

 KDE – K Desktop Environment

 kHz – Kilohertz

 LAN – Local Area Network

 LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

 LED – Light Emitting Diode

 LF – Low Frequency

 LIFO – Last In First Out

 LOC – Lines of Code

 LUG – Linux User’s Group

 MAN – Metropolitan Area Network

 MB – Megabyte

 MCSE – Microsoft Certified System Engineer

 MHz – Megahertz

 MMU > – Memory Management Unit

 MOSFET – Metal-oxide semiconductor FET

 MPEG – Motion Pictures (Coding) Experts Group

 MPL – Mozilla Public License

 MS – Microsoft

 MS-DOS – Microsoft DOS

 MSDN – Microsoft Developer’s Network

 MUD – Multi-user dungeon

N-R

 NDS – Novell Directory Services

 NFS – Network file system

 NP – Non-polynomial

 NPL – Netscape Public License

 NPU – Numeric processing unit

NMI – Non-Maskable Interrupt

 NNTP – Network News Transfer Protocol

 NTFS – NT file system

 OLED – Organic Light Emitting Diode

 OO – Object Oriented

 OO – Open Office

 OOP – Object Oriented Programming

 OS – Operating System

 OSI – Open Source Initiative

 OSI – Open Systems Interconnect

 OSS – Open Source Software

 OSDN – Open Source Developer’s Network

 PAN – Personal Area Network

 PCB – Printed Circuit Board

 PCMCIA – Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

 PCM – Pulse Coded Modulation

 PDA – Personal digital assistant

 PERL – Practical Extraction and Reporting Language

 PGA – Programmable Gate Arrays

 PGP – Pretty Good Privacy

 PINE – PINE Is Not Elm

 PNG – Portable Network Graphics

 POP – Point of Presence

 POP3 – Post Office Protocol v3

 PVR – Personal Video Recorder

 PXE – Pre Excecution Environment

 QoS – Quality of Service?

 RAID – Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

 RAM – Random Access Memory

 RC – Release Candidate

 RDBMS – Relational Database Management System

 RDF – Resource Description Framework

 RF – Radio Frequency

 RFI – Radio Frequency Interference

 RFID – Radio Frequency Identification

 RGB – Red, Green, Blue

 RIP – Routing Information Protocol

 RLE – run-length encoding

 ROM – Read Only Memory

 RSA – Rivest Shamir Adelman

S-V

 SCP – Secure Copy

 SAN – Storage Area Network

 SDK – Software Developer’s Kit

 SEAL – Semantics-directed Environment Adaptation Language

 SEI – Software Engineering Institute

 SIMM – Single Inline Memory Module

 SMP – Symmetric Multi-Processing

 SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

 SP – Service Pack

 SQL – Structured Query Language

 SSH – Secure Shell

 SSI – Server Side Include

 SSL – Secure Socket Layer

 SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics

 TB – Terabyte

 TCP – Transmission Control Protocol

 TCP/IP – Transmission Cntrol Protocol/Internet Protocol

 TSP – Traveling Salesman Problem

 TTL – transistor to transistor logic

 TTL – time to live

 UHF – Ultra High Frequency

 UML – Unified Markup Language

 UPS – Uninterruptible Power Supply

 URI – Uniform Resource Identifier?

 URL – Uniform Resource Locator?

 USB – Universal Serial Bus

 VRML – Virtual Reality Markup Language

 VB – Visual Basic

 VBA – Visual Basic for Applications

 VBS – Visual Basic Script

 VGA – Variable Graphics Array

W-Z

 WAN – Wide Area Network

 WAP – wireless application protocol

 WEP – Wired equivalent protocol?

 WPA (wireless protocol)

 WWW – World Wide Web

 XHTML – eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language