Acronyms & Abbreviations
- ACM
- Association for Computing Machinery
- ADSL
- Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
- AE
- Apple Event
- AIFF
- Audio Interchange File Format
- AIMED
- Association of Independent Macintosh Engineers and Developers
- AIMS
- Apple Internet Mail Server
- API
- Application Programmatic Interface
- ARPA
- Advanced Research Projects Agency
- ARPANET
- ARPA computer network
- ATM
- Asynchronous Transmission Mode
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- AU
- Standard file extension for Sun audio files.
- BIAP
- Brain in a pan
- BONDING
- Bandwidth ON Demand INteroperability Group
- bps
- bits per second
- CATV
- Cable Television
- CERN
- Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire.
This acronym represents their previous name.
They are known as the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Also referred to as the European Laboratory for Particle Physics,
and European Nuclear Research Center.
European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva, Switzerland
- CDF
- Channel Definition Format
- CFP
- Call for papers.
- CFM
- Code Fragment Manager
- CGI
- Common Gateway Interface
computer generated imagery
- chi
- computer-human interaction
- codec
- compressor-decompressor
- CR
- carriage return
- cscw
- computer supported cooperative work
- CSS1
- Cascading Style Sheets, Level 1
- DAIC
- distributed array of inexpensive computers
- DBS
- Direct Broadcast Satellite
- DHCP
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- DIMM
- Dynamic Inline Memory Module
- DNS
- Domain Name System
- DSSSL
- Document Semantic & Style Specification Language
- DTD
- Document Type Descriptor
- DTS
- Developer Technical Services (Apple)
- EIMS
- Eudora Internet Mail Server
- ESC
- escape
- FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions
- FDDI
- Fiber Distributed Data Interface
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol
- GIF
- Graphics Interchange Format
- grep
- global regular expression and print
- hci
- human-computer interaction
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language
- HTTP
- HyperText Transfer Protocol
- I18N
- internationalization
- IEEE
- ?
- IETF
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- IMSP
- Internet Message Support Protocol
- ISDN
- Integrated Services Digital Network
- ISP
- internet service provider
- JPEG
-
Joint Photographers Engineering Group
- kbps
- kilobits per second
- KISS
- keep it simple stupid
- LAN
- local area network
- LAP
- link access protocol
- LEC
- local exchange carrier
- LF
- line feed
- MacsBug
- Motorola advanced computer systems debugger
- MCF
- Meta Content Format (XSpace)
- MIDAS
- Macintosh Internet Developers Association
- modem
- MOdulator-DEModulator
- MOSAPI
- My Open Server Application Programming Interface (MOS plug-in API)
- MPEG
- Motion Photographers Engineering Group
- MPP
- massively parallel processing (machines)
- MTA
- mail transport agent (email server)
- MUA
- mail user agent (email client)
- NCA
- Network Computer Architecture
- NCSA
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- NIST
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
- NOC
- Network Operating Center
- NTP
- Network Time Protocol
- OSD
- Open Software Description format
- OSI
- open systems interconnection
- PBX
- private branch exchange
- PDF
- Portable Document Format (from Adobe)
- PERL
- Practical Extraction and Report Language
- pfr
- Portable Font Resource
- PGP
- Pretty Good Privacy
- PIXO
- Plug-In Cross-Over
- POP
- Post Office Protocol
- POPs
- Point-of-Presence computers
- POS
- Point of Sale
- POTS
- plain old telephone service
- PRAM
- Parameter RAM
- QC
- Quality Control (QC is a debugging tool)
- RAIC
- Redundant Array of Inexpensive Computers
- RAIS
- Redundant Array of Inexpensive Servers
- RIP
- Routing Information Protocol
- RDF
- Resource Description Framework
- RTF
- Rich Text Format
- SCSI
- Small Computers Standard Interface
- SDK
- Software Development Kit
- SGML
- Standard Generalized Markup Language
- SMTP
- simple mail transfer protocol
- SNMP
- Simple Network Management Protocol
- TCP/IP
-
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
- telco
- telephone company
- TFTP
- trivial file transfer protocol
- TIFF (TIF)
-
Tagged Image File Format
- TLA
-
Three Letter Acronym
- TWAIN
- Technology Without An Interesting (Important?) Name
- UDP
- User Datagram Protocol
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator.
- VM
- virtual memory
virtual machine
- VOD
- video on demand
- VRAM
- Video RAM
- VRML
- Virtual Reality Modeling Language
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium
- WAN
- wide area network
- WS
- WebSTAR
- WSAPI
- WebSTAR API - programmers use this to make WebSTAR plug-ins
- WWW
- World Wide Web
- WYSIWYG
- What You See Is What You Get (used to describe the process of accurately representing
output content while working on it)
- XBM
- X/Windows BitMap files
- YKYBW2MB5W
- you know you've been watching too much
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