acronyms: A-E

AAA

Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting

AC

Alternating Current

ADC

Analog-to-Digital Converter

AES

Advanced Encryption Standard

AGP

Accelerated Graphics Port

AI

Artificial Intelligence

ALSA

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

AP

Access Point

APC

American Power Conversion

API

Application Program Interface

APM

Advanced Power Management

APNIC

Asia Pacific Network Information Centre

ARIN

American Registry for Internet Numbers/dd>

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

ARPA

Advanced Research Project Agency

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASP

Active Server Page

ASPI

Advanced SCSI Programming Interface

AT

Advanced Technology

ATA (1)

Advanced Technology Attachment

ATA (2)

Analog Telephone Adapter

ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AUI

Attachment Unit Interface

AVI

Audio Video Interleave

AWG

American Wire Gauge

BASIC

Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BBS

Bulletin Board System

BGP

Border Gateway Protocol

BIND

Berkeley Internet Name Domain

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System

bit

Binary Digit

bps

Bits Per Second

BSD

Berkeley Software Distribution

BTX

Balanced Technology Extended

C#

C Sharp

CAN

Campus-Area Network

CATV

Cable Television

CCTV

Closed Circuit Television

CD

Compact Disc

CDE

Common Desktop Environment

CDP

Cisco Discovery Protocol

CGA

Color/Graphics Adapter

CGI

Common Gateway Interface

CIFS

Common Internet File System

CISC

Complex Instruction Set Computer

CLI

Command Line Interface

CMOS

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CMYK

Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CNR

Communication and Networking Riser

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check

CRT

Cathode-Ray Tube

CSMA/CD

Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection

CSV

Comma Separated Values

CUPS

Common Unix Printing System

CVS

Concurrent Versions System

DAC

Digital-to-Analog Converter

DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Project Agency

DAT

Digital Audio Tape

DBMS

Database Management System

DC

Direct Current

DDoS

Distributed Denial of Service

DDR

Double Data Rate

DEC

Digital Equipment Corporation

DES

Data Encryption Standard

DHCP

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DIMM

Dual In-line Memory Module

DIX

Digital, Intel, Xerox

DLL

Dynamic Link Library

DMA

Direct Memory Access

DMZ

Demilitarized Zone

DNS

Domain Name System

DoS

Denial of Service

DOS

Disk Operating System

DPI

Dots Per Inch

DRAM

Dynamic RAM

DRM

Digital Rights Management

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line

DSSS

Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum

DTMF

Dual Tone Multi-Frequency

DVD(1)

Digital Versatile Disc

DVD(2)

Digital Video Disc

DVR

Digital Video Recorder

DWANGO

Dialup Wide Area Network Game Operation

EAL

Evaluation Assurance Level

EBCDIC

Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code

ECP

Extended Capabilities Port

EDO

Extended Data Out

EEPROM

Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EGA

Enhanced Graphics Adapter

EIA

Electronic Industries Alliance

EJB

Enterprise JavaBeans

ELF

Executable and Linking Format

EMI

Electro-Magnetic Interference

ENIAC

Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer

EPP

Enhanced Parallel Port

EPROM

Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

ESD

Electrostatic Discharge

EULA

End-User License Agreement