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100B-FX	100BASE-FX
100B-T	100BASE-T
100B-TX	100BASE-TX
100BVG	100BASE-VG
10B-F	10BASE-F
10B-FB	10BASE-FB
10B-FL	10BASE-FL
10B-T	10BASE-T
10B2	10BASE-2
10B5	10BASE-5
1GL	First-Generation Programming Language
1NF	First Normal Form
286	Intel 80286 processor
2B1Q	2 Binary 1 Quaternary
2GL	Second-Generation Programming Language
2NF	Second Normal Form
386	Intel 80386 processor
3GL	Third-Generation Programming Language
3NF	Third Normal Form
486	Intel 80486 processor
4B5BLF	4 Byte 5 Byte Local Fiber
4GL	Fourth-Generation Programming Language
4NF	Fourth Normal Form
5GL	Fifth-Generation Programming Language
5NF	Fifth Normal Form
6NF	Sixth Normal Form
8B10BLF	8 Byte 10 Byte Local Fiber
AA	Anti-Aliasing
AAA	Authentication Authorization, Accounting
AABB	Axis Aligned Bounding Box
AAC	Advanced Audio Coding
AAL	ATM Adaptation Layer
AALC	ATM Adaptation Layer Connection
AARP	AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol
AAT	Average Access Time
ABCL	Actor-Based Concurrent Language
ABM	Asynchronous Balanced Mode
ABR	Area Border Router
ABR	Auto Baud-Rate detection
ABR	Available Bitrate
ABR	Average Bitrate
AC	Acoustic Coupler
AC	Alternating Current
ACD	Automatic Call Distributor
ACE	Advanced Computing Environment
ACID	Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability
ACK	ACKnowledgement
ACK	Amsterdam Compiler Kit
ACL	Active Current Loop
ACM	Association for Computing Machinery
ACME	Automated Classification of Medical Entities
ACP	Airline Control Program
ACR	Allowed Cell Rate
ACR	Attenuation to Crosstalk Ratio
AD	Active Directory
AD	Administrative Domain
ADA	ADA US Government Programming Language
ADB	Apple Desktop Bus
ADC	Analog-to-Digital Converter
ADC	Apple Display Connector
ADCCP	Advanced Data Communications Control Procedures
ADO	ActiveX Data Objects
ADT	Abstract Data Type
AE	Adaptive Equalizer
AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
AF	Anisotropic Filtering
AFP	Apple Filing Protocol
AH	Active Hub
AI	Artificial Intelligence
AIX	Advanced Interactive eXecutive
AL	Active Link
AL	Access List
ALAC	Apple Lossless Audio Codec
ALGOL	Algorithmic Language
ALSA	Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
ALU	Arithmetic and Logical Unit
AM	Active Matrix
AM	Access Method
AM	Active Monitor
AM	Allied Mastercomputer
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices
AMQP	Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
AMR	Audio Modem Riser
ANN	Artificial Neural Network
ANT	Another Neat Tool
AOP	Aspect-Oriented Programming
APCI	Application-Layer Protocol Control Information
APIPA	Automatic Private IP Addressing
APL	A Programming Language
APR	Apache Portable Runtime
ARC	Adaptive Replacement Cache
ARC	Advanced RISC Computing
ARIN	American Registry for Internet Numbers
ARM	Advanced RISC Machines
AROS	AROS Research Operating System
ARPA	Address and Routing Parameter Area
ARPA	Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARPANET	Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
AS	Access Server
ASG	Abstract Semantic Graph
ASIC	Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
ASM	Algorithmic State Machine
ASMP	Asymmetric Multiprocessing
ASN.1	Abstract Syntax Notation 1
ASP	Active Server Pages
ASP	Application Service Provider
ASR	Asynchronous Signal Routine
ASSP	Application-Specific Standard Product
AST	Abstract Syntax Tree
AT	Access Time
AT	Active Terminator
ATAG	Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
AVC	Advanced Video Coding
AVI	Audio Video Interleaved
AWK	Aho Weinberger Kernighan
AWT	Abstract Window Toolkit
AJAX	Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
AOE	ATA over Ethernet
B2B	Business-to-Business
B2C	Business-to-Consumer
BAL	Basic Assembly Language
BASIC	Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BBP	Baseband Processor
BBS	Bulletin Board System
BCD	Binary Coded Decimal
BCNF	Boyce–Codd normal form
BEEP	Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol
BFD	Binary File Descriptor
BFS	Breadth-First Search
BINAC	Binary Automatic Computer
BIND	Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BIOS	Basic Input Output System
BJT	Bipolar Junction Transistor
BMP	Basic Multilingual Plane
BNC	Bayonet Neill-Concelman
BOINC	Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
BOM	Byte Order Mark
BOOTP	Bootstrap Protocol
BPDU	Bridge Protocol Data Unit
BPEL	Business Process Execution Language
BPL	Broadband over Power Lines
BRR	Business Readiness Rating
BSA	Business Software Alliance
BSB	Backside Bus
BSS	Block Started by Symbol
BSOD	Blue Screen of Death
BT	BitTorrent
BT	Bluetooth
BTAM	Basic Telecommunications Access Method
BW	Bandwidth
BASH	Bourne-again shell
BIDI	Bi-Directional
BLOG	Web Log
CA	Certificate Authority
CAE	Computer-Aided Engineering
CAI	Computer-Aided Instruction
CAID	Computer-Aided Industrial Design
CAM	Computer-Aided Manufacturing
CAPTCHA	Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
CAQ	Computer-Aided Quality Assurance
CASE	Computer-Aided Software Engineering
CD-R	CD-Recordable
CD-ROM	CD Read-Only Memory
CD-RW	CD-Rewritable
CDE	Common Desktop Environment
CDMA	Code Division Multiple Access
CDN	Content Delivery Network
CDP	Continuous Data Protection
CDSA	Common Data Security Architecture
CERT	Computer Emergency Response Team
CES	Consumer Electronics Show
CF	Compact Flash
CFD	Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFG	Context-Free Grammar
CFG	Control Flow Graph
CG	Computer Graphics
CGA	Color Graphics Array
CGI	Computer-Generated Imagery
CGT	Computational Graph Theory
CHAP	Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
CHS	Cylinder-Head-Sector
CIFS	Common Internet Filesystem
CIM	Common Information Model
CISC	Complex Instruction Set Computer
CJK	Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
CJKV	Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese
CLR	Common Language Runtime
CM	Configuration Management
CM	Content Management
CMMI	Capability Maturity Model Integration
CMOS	Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
CMS	Content Management System
CN	Canonical Name
CN	Common Name
CNC	Computer Numerical Control
CNR	Communications and Networking Riser
COBOL	Common Business-Oriented Language
COM	Component Object Model
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CP/M	Control Program/Monitor
CPA	Cell Processor Architecture
CPA	Converged Packet Access
CPAN	Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
CPRI	Common Public Radio Interface
CPS	characters per second
CR	Carriage Return
CRAN	Comprehensive R Archive Network
CRC	Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRM	Customer Relationship Management
CRS	Computer Reservations System
CRUD	Create, Read, Update and Delete
CS	Cable Select
CS	Computer Science
CSE	Computer Science and Engineering
CSI	Common System Interface
CSP	Communicating Sequential Processes
CSRF	Cross-Site Request Forgery
CSS	Content-Scrambling System
CSS	Closed Source Software
CSS	Cross-Site Scripting
CSV	Comma-Separated Values
CT	Computerized Tomography
CTAN	Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
CTCP	Client-To-Client Protocol
CTI	Computer Telephony Integration
CTL	Computational Tree Logic
CTM	Close To Metal
CTSS	Compatible Time-Sharing System
CUA	Common User Access
CVS	Concurrent Versioning System
DAC	Digital-To-Analog Converter
DAC	Discretionary Access Control
DAO	Data Access Objects
DAO	Disk-At-Once
DAP	Directory Access Protocol
DARPA	Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DAT	Digital Audio Tape
DB	Database
DBA	Database Administrator
DBCS	Double Byte Character Set
DBMS	Database Management System
DCC	Direct Client-to-Client
DCCA	Debian Common Core Alliance
DCCP	Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
DCL	Data Control Language
DCMI	Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
DCOM	Distributed Component Object Model
DD	Double Density
DDE	Dynamic Data Exchange
DDL	Data Definition Language
DDOS	Distributed Denial of Service
DEC	Digital Equipment Corporation
DES	Data Encryption Standard
DFA	Deterministic Finite Automaton
DFD	Data Flow Diagram
DFS	Depth-First Search
DFS	Distributed File System
DGD	Dworkin's Game Driver
DHTML	Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language
DIF	Data Integrity Field
DIMM	Dual Inline Memory Module
DIN	Deutsches Institut für Normung
DIP	Dual In-line Package
DIVX	Digital Video Express
DKIM	Domain Keys Identified Mail
DL	Download
DLL	Dynamic Link Library
DLNA	Digital Living Network Alliance
DLP	Digital Light Processing
DMCA	Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DMI	Direct Media Interface
DML	Data Manipulation Language
DML	Definitive Media Library
DMR	Dennis M. Ritchie
DN	Distinguished Name
DND	Drag-and-Drop
DOCSIS	Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification
DOM	Document Object Model
DOS	Disk Operating System
DP	Dot Pitch
DPC	Deferred Procedure Call
DPI	Deep Packet Inspection
DPMI	DOS Protected Mode Interface
DPMS	Display Power Management Signaling
DR-DOS	Digital Research - Disk Operating System
DRI	Direct Rendering Infrastructure
DRM	Digital Rights Management
DRM	Direct Rendering Manager
DSDL	Document Schema Definition Languages
DSDM	Dynamic Systems Development Method
DSL	Domain-Specific Language
DSLAM	Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DSN	Database Source Name
DSN	Data Set Name
DSP	Digital Signal Processor
DSSSL	Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
DTP	Desktop Publishing
DTR	Data Terminal Ready
DVD	Digital Video Disc
DVD-R	DVD-Recordable
DVD-ROM	DVD-Read Only Memory
DVD-RW	DVD-Rewritable
DVR	Digital Video Recorder
EAI	Enterprise Application Integration
EBCDIC	Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EBML	Extensible Binary Meta Language
ECC	Elliptic Curve Cryptography
ECMA	European Computer Manufacturers Association
ECN	Explicit Congestion Notification
ECOS	Embedded Configurable Operating System
ECRS	Expense and Cost Recovery System
EDA	Electronic Design Automation
EDI	Electronic Data Interchange
EDSAC	Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
EDVAC	Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
EEPROM	Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EFF	Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFM	Eight-to-Fourteen Modulation
EGA	Enhanced Graphics Array
EIDE	Enhanced IDE
EIGRP	Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
ELF	Extremely Low Frequency
ELF	Executable and Linkable Format
ELM	ELectronic Mail
EMACS	Editor MACroS
EMS	Expanded Memory Specification
ENIAC	Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
EOL	End of Line
EOM	End Of Message
EPIC	Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing
EPROM	Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
ESCON	Enterprise Systems Connection
ESD	Electrostatic Discharge
ESR	Eric Steven Raymond
ETL	Extract, Transform, Load
EUC	Extended Unix Code
EULA	End User License Agreement
EXT	EXTended file system
FAP	FORTRAN Assembly Program
FAQ	Frequently Asked Questions
FASM	Flat ASseMbler
FBDIMM	Fully Buffered Dual Inline Memory Module
FC-AL	Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
FCB	File Control Block
FDC	Floppy Disk Controller
FDD	Floppy Disk Drive
FDMA	Frequency-Division Multiple Access
FDS	Fedora Directory Server
FEC	Forward Error Correction
FEMB	Front-End Motherboard
FET	Field Effect Transistor
FHS	Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
FICON	FIber CONnectivity
FIFO	First In First Out
FIPS	Federal Information Processing Standards
FL	Function Level
FLAC	Free Lossless Audio Codec
FLOPS	FLoating-Point Operations Per Second
FLOSS	Free/Libre/Open Source Software
FOLDOC	Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
FOSDEM	Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting
FOSI	Formatted Output Specification Instance
FOSS	Free and Open Source Software
FP	Function Programming
FPGA	Field Programmable Gate Array
FPS	Floating Point Systems
FPU	Floating Point Unit
FRU	Field Replaceable Unit
FS	File System
FSB	Front Side Bus
FSF	Free Software Foundation
FSM	Finite State Machine
FTTC	Fiber To The Curb
FTTH	Fiber To The Home
FTTP	Fiber To The Premises
FUD	Fear Uncertainty Doubt
FWS	Folding White Space
FXP	File eXchange Protocol
G11N	Globalization
GB	Gigabyte
GCC	GNU Compiler Collection
GCJ	GNU Compiler for Java
GCR	Group Code Recording
GDB	GNU Debugger
GDI	Graphics Device Interface
GFDL	GNU Free Documentation License
GIMP	GNU Image Manipulation Program
GIMPS	Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
GIS	Geographic Information System
GLUT	OpenGL Utility Toolkit
GML	Geography Markup Language
GNOME	GNU Network Object Model Environment
GOMS	Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules
GPASM	GNU PIC ASseMbler
GPG	GNU Privacy Guard
GPGPU	General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units
GPIB	General-Purpose Instrumentation Bus
GPL	General Public License
GPL	General-Purpose Language
GPRS	General Packet Radio Service
GPT	GUID Partition Table
GRUB	Grand Unified Boot-Loader
GSM	Global System for Mobile Communications
GTK+	GIMP Toolkit
GUI	Graphical User Interface
GUID	Globally Unique IDentifier
GWT	Google Web Toolkit
GAS	GNU Assembler
GB	Gigabit
HAL	Hardware Abstraction Layer
HBA	Host Bus Adapter
HCI	Human Computer Interaction
HCL	Hardware Compatibility List
HD	High Density
HD DVD	High Definition DVD
HDD	Hard Disk Drive
HDL	Hardware Description Language
HDMI	High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HF	High Frequency
HHD	Hybrid Hard Drive
HID	Human Interface Device
HIG	Human Interface Guidelines
HIRD	Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth
HLASM	High Level ASseMbler
HMA	High Memory Area
HP	Hewlett-Packard
HPC	High-Performance Computing
HPFS	High Performance File System
HSM	Hierarchical Storage Management
HT	Hyper Threading
HTC	High-Throughput Computing
HTM	Hierarchical Temporal Memory
HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPD	Hypertext Transport Protocol Daemon
HTX	HyperTransport eXpansion
HURD	Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons
HVD	Holographic Versatile Disc
HZ	Hertz
I/O	Input/Output
I18N	Internationalization
I2C	Inter-Integrated Circuit
IANA	Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IBM	International Business Machines
ICANN	Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICE	In-Circuit Emulator
ICE	Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics
ICP	Internet Cache Protocol
ICT	Information and Communication Technology
IDE	Integrated Development Environment
IDF	Intermediate Distribution Frame
IDL	Interface Definition Language
IDS	Intrusion Detection System
IE	Internet Explorer
IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IFL	Integrated Facility for Linux
IGMP	Internet Group Management Protocol
IGRP	Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
IHV	Independent Hardware Vendor
IIOP	Internet Inter-Orb Protocol
IIS	Internet Information Services
IL	Intermediate Language
IM	Instant Messaging
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol
IME	Input Method Editor
INFOSEC	Information Systems Security
IP	Intellectual Property
IPC	Inter-Process Communication
IPL	Initial Program Load
IPO	Inter Procedural Optimization
IPP	Internet Printing Protocol
IPS	Intrusion Prevention System
IPTV	Internet Protocol Television
IPX	Internetwork Packet Exchange
IRP	I/O Request Packet
IS	Information Systems
ISA	Instruction Set Architecture
ISAM	Indexed Sequential Access Method
ISC	Internet Storm Center
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
ISPF	Interactive System Productivity Facility
ISR	Interrupt Service Routine
ISV	Independent Software Vendor
IT	Information Technology
ITL	Interval Temporal Logic
ITU	International Telecommunication Union
IRDA	Infrared Data Association
J2EE	Java 2 Enterprise Edition
J2ME	Java 2 Micro Edition
J2SE	Java 2 Standard Edition
JAX-RPC	Java XML for Remote Procedure Calls
JAXB	Java Architecture for XML Binding
JAXP	Java API for XML Processing
JBOD	Just a Bunch of Disks
JCL	Job Control Language
JCP	Java Community Process
JDBC	Java Database Connectivity
JDK	Java Development Kit
JDS	Java Desktop System
JES	Job Entry Subsystem
JFC	Java Foundation Classes
JFET	Junction Field-Effect Transistor
JFS	IBM Journaling File System
JINI	Jini Is Not Initials
JIT	Just-In-Time
JMS	Java Message Service
JMX	Java Management Extensions
JNDI	Java Naming and Directory Interface
JNI	Java Native Interface
JNZ	Jump non-zero
JRE	Java Runtime Environment
JS	JavaScript
JSON	JavaScript Object Notation
JSP	Jackson Structured Programming
JSP	JavaServer Pages
JTAG	Joint Test Action Group
JUG	Java Users Group
JVM	Java Virtual Machine
K&R	Kernighan and Ritchie
KB	Keyboard
KB	Kilobyte
KB	Knowledge Base
KDE	K Desktop Environment
KM	Knowledge Machine
KRL	Knowledge Representation Language
KVM	Keyboard, Video, Mouse
KB	Kilobit
L10N	Localization
L2TP	Layer two Tunneling Protocol
LAMP	Linux Apache MySQL Perl
LAMP	Linux Apache MySQL PHP
LAMP	Linux Apache MySQL Python
LCOS	Liquid Crystal On Silicon
LE	Logical Extents
LED	Light-Emitting Diode
LF	Line Feed
LF	Low Frequency
LFS	Linux From Scratch
LGPL	Lesser General Public License
LIB	LIBrary
LIF	Low Insertion Force
LIFO	Last In First Out
LILO	Linux Loader
LISP	LISt Processing
LKML	Linux Kernel Mailing List
LM	Lan Manager
LOC	Lines of Code
LPC	Lars Pensjö C
LPI	Linux Professional Institute
LSB	Least Significant Bit
LSB	Linux Standard Base
LSI	Large-Scale Integration
LTL	Linear Temporal Logic
LTR	Left-to-Right
LUG	Linux User Group
LV	Logical Volume
LVD	Low Voltage Differential
LVM	Logical Volume Management
LZW	Lempel-Ziv-Welch
MAC	Mandatory Access Control
MAC	Media Access Control
MAN	Metropolitan Area Network
MANET	Mobile Ad-Hoc Network
MAPI	Messaging Application Programming Interface
MB	Megabyte
MBCS	Multi Byte Character Set
MCA	Micro Channel Architecture
MCA	Microsoft Certified Architect
MCAD	Microsoft Certified Application Developer
MCAS	Microsoft Certified Application Specialist
MCDBA	Microsoft Certified DataBase Administrator
MCDST	Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician
MCITP	Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional
MCM	Microsoft Certified Master
MCP	Microsoft Certified Professional
MCPD	Microsoft Certified Professional Developer
MCSA	Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
MCSD	Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
MCSE	Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
MCT	Microsoft Certified Trainer
MCTS	Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
MDA	Mail Delivery Agent
MDA	Model-Driven Architecture
MDA	Monochrome Display Adapter
MDF	Main Distribution Frame
MDI	Multiple Document Interface
ME	[Windows] Millennium Edition
MF	Medium Frequency
MFC	Microsoft Foundation Classes
MGCP	Media Gateway Control Protocol
MHZ	Megahertz
MIB	Management Information Base
MICR	Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MIMD	Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data
MIMO	Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
MINIX	MIni-uNIX
MIPS	Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
MIS	Management Information Systems
MISD	Multiple Instruction, Single Data
MIT	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MMDS	Mortality Medical Data System
MMI	Man Machine Interface.
MMIO	Memory-Mapped I/O
MMORPG	Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
MMX	Multi-Media Extensions
MNG	Multiple-image Network Graphics
MOM	Message-Oriented Middleware
MOO	MUD Object Oriented
MOS	Microsoft Office Specialist
MOSFET	Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MOUS	Microsoft Office User Specialist
MPAA	Motion Picture Association of America
MPEG	Motion Pictures Experts Group
MPL	Mozilla Public License
MPU	Microprocessor Unit
MS	Memory Stick
MS	Microsoft
MS-DOS	Microsoft DOS
MSA	Mail Submission Agent
MSB	Most Significant Bit
MSDN	Microsoft Developer Network
MSI	Medium-Scale Integration
MSI	Message Signaled Interrupt
MSI	Microsoft Installer
MT	Machine Translation
MTA	Microsoft Technology Associate
MTBF	Mean Time Between Failures
MUD	Multi-User Dungeon
MVC	Model-View-Controller
MVP	Most Valuable Professional
MVS	Multiple Virtual Storage
MX	Mail exchange
MXF	Material Exchange Format
MB	Megabit
MOBO	Motherboard
NACK	Negative ACKnowledgement
NAK	Negative AcKnowledge Character
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NASM	Netwide ASseMbler
NCP	NetWare Core Protocol
NCSA	National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NDPS	Novell Distributed Print Services
NDS	Novell Directory Services
NEP	Network Equipment Provider
NEXT	Near-End CrossTalk
NFA	Nondeterministic Finite Automaton
NGL	aNGeL
NGSCB	Next-Generation Secure Computing Base
NI	National Instruments
NIC	Network Interface Controller
NIM	No Internal Message
NIO	New I/O
NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLP	Natural Language Processing
NLS	Native Language Support
NMI	Non-Maskable Interrupt
NNTP	Network News Transfer Protocol
NOC	Network Operations Center
NOP	No OPeration
NOS	Network Operating System
NP	Nondeterministic Polynomial time
NPL	Netscape Public License
NPTL	Native POSIX Thread Library
NPU	Network Processing Unit
NS	Netscape
NSA	National Security Agency
NSPR	Netscape Portable Runtime
NSS	Novell Storage Service
NSS	Network Security Services
NSS	Name Service Switch
NT	New Technology
NTFS	NT Filesystem
NTLM	NT Lan Manager
NTP	Network Time Protocol
NUMA	Non-Uniform Memory Access
NURBS	Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline
NVR	Network Video Recorder
NVRAM	Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
NAN	Not a Number
NETBIOS	Network Basic Input/Output System
OASIS	Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OAT	Operational Acceptance Testing
OBSAI	Open Base Station Architecture Initiative
ODBC	Open DataBase Connectivity
OES	Open Enterprise Server
OFTC	Open and Free Technology Community
OLAP	Online Analytical Processing
OLE	Object Linking and Embedding
OLED	Organic Light Emitting Diode
OLPC	One Laptop per Child
OLTP	Online Transaction Processing
OMF	Object Module Format
OMG	Object Management Group
OO	Object-Oriented
OO	OpenOffice
OOE	Out-of-Order Execution
OOM	Out Of Memory
OOP	Object-Oriented Programming
OOTB	Out of the box
OOO	OpenOffice.org
OPML	Outline Processor Markup Language
ORB	Object Request Broker
ORM	Oject-Relational Mapping
OS	Open Source
OS	Operating System
OSCON	O'Reilly Open Source CONvention
OSDN	Open Source Developer Network
OSI	Open Source Initiative
OSS	Open Sound System
OSS	Open-Source Software
OSS	Operations Support System
OSTG	Open Source Technology Group
OUI	Organizationally Unique Identifier
OOOE	Out-of-Order Execution
P2P	Peer-To-Peer
PAC	Programmable Automation Controller
PAN	Personal Area Network
PAP	Password Authentication Protocol
PARC	Palo Alto Research Center
PATA	Parallel ATA
PC DOS	Personal Computer Disk Operating System
PCB	Printed Circuit Board
PCB	Process Control Block
PCIE	PCI Express
PCL	Printer Command Language
PCM	Pulse-Code Modulation
PCRE	Perl Compatible Regular Expressions
PD	Public Domain
PDA	Personal Digital Assistant
PDF	Portable Document Format
PDP	Programmed Data Processor
PE	Physical Extents
PERL	Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
PGA	Pin Grid Array
PGO	Profile-Guided Optimization
PHP	PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PIC	Peripheral Interface Controller
PID	Proportional-Integral-Derivative
PIM	Personal Information Manager
PINE	Program for Internet News and Email
PKCS	Public Key Cryptography Standards
PKI	Public Key Infrastructure
PL/I	Programming Language One
PL/M	Programming Language for Microcomputers
PL/P	Programming Language for Prime
PLC	Power Line Communication
PLC	Programmable Logic Controller
PLD	Programmable Logic Device
PLT	Power Line Telecoms
PMM	POST Memory Manager
POID	Persistent Object Identifier
POP	Point of Presence
POP3	Post Office Protocol v3
POSIX	Portable Operating System Interface
POST	Power-On Self Test
PPC	PowerPC
PPI	Pixels Per Inch
PPPOA	PPP over ATM
PPPOE	PPP over Ethernet
PPTP	Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
PS	PostScript
PS/2	Personal System/2
PSA	Professional Services Automation
PSU	Power Supply Unit
PSVI	Post-Schema-Validation Infoset
PTS-DOS	PhysTechSoft - Disk Operating System
PV	Physical Volume
PVG	Physical Volume Group
PVR	Personal Video Recorder
PXE	Preboot Execution Environment
PXI	PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation
PNP	Plug-and-Play
POE	Power over Ethernet
QA	Quality Assurance
QDR	Quad Data Rate
QFP	Quad Flat Package
QOTD	Quote of the Day
QTAM	Queued Teleprocessing Access Method
QT	Quasar Toolkit
RACF	Resource Access Control Facility
RAD	Rapid Application Development
RADIUS	Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RAIT	Redundant Array of Inexpensive Tapes
RARP	Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RAS	Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
RAS	Remote Access Service
RC	Region Code
RC	Release Candidate
RC	Run Commands
RDBMS	Relational DataBase Management System
RDF	Resource Description Framework
RDM	Relational Data Model
RDOS	Real-time Disk Operating System
RDS	Remote Data Services
REFAL	REcursive Functions Algorithmic Language
REST	Representational State Transfer
RF	Radio Frequency
RFI	Radio Frequency Interference
RFID	Radio Frequency Identification
RGB	Red, Green, Blue
RHEL	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
RHL	Red Hat Linux
RIA	Rich Internet Application
RIAA	Recording Industry Association of America
RIP	Raster Image Processor
RISC	Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RISC OS	Reduced Instruction Set Computer Operating System
RJE	Remote Job Entry
RLE	Run-Length Encoding
RLL	Run-Length Limited
RMI	Remote Method Invocation
RMS	Richard Matthew Stallman
ROM-DOS	Read Only Memory - Disk Operating System
ROMB	Read-Out Motherboard
RPC	Remote Procedure Call
RPG	Report Program Generator
RPM	RPM Package Manager
RSA	Rivest Shamir Adleman
RSI	Repetitive Strain Injury
RSS	Radio Service Software
RSS	Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication
RTAI	Real-Time Application Interface
RTC	Real-Time Clock
RTE	Real-Time Enterprise
RTEMS	Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems
RTL	Right-to-Left
RTOS	Real-Time Operating System
RTP	Real-time Transport Protocol
RTS	Ready To Send
RTSP	Real Time Streaming Protocol
S/MIME	Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
SAN	Storage Area Network
SATA	Serial ATA
SAX	Simple API for XML
SBOD	Spinning Beachball of Death
SBP-2	Serial Bus Protocol 2
SBU	Standard Build Unit
SCADA	Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
SCID	Source Code in Database
SCP	Secure Copy
SCPI	Standard Commands for Programmable Instrumentation
SCTP	Stream Control Transmission Protocol
SD	Secure Digital
SDDL	Security Descriptor Definition Language
SDI	Single Document Interface
SDIO	Secure Digital Input Output
SDK	Software Development Kit
SDL	Simple DirectMedia Layer
SDN	Service Delivery Network
SDP	Session Description Protocol
SDR	Software-Defined Radio
SDSL	Symmetric DSL
SE	Single Ended
SEI	Software Engineering Institute
SEO	Search Engine Optimization
SFTP	Secure FTP
SFTP	Simple File Transfer Protocol
SFTP	SSH File Transfer Protocol
SGI	Silicon Graphics, Incorporated
SGML	Standard Generalized Markup Language
SHA	Secure Hash Algorithm
SHDSL	Single-pair High-speed Digital Subscriber Line
SIGCAT	Special Interest Group on CD-ROM Applications and Technology
SIGGRAPH	Special Interest Group on Graphics
SIMD	Single Instruction, Multiple Data
SIMM	Single Inline Memory Module
SIP	Supplementary Ideographic Plane
SISD	Single Instruction, Single Data
SLED	SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
SLES	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SLI	Scalable Link Interface
SLIP	Serial Line Internet Protocol
SLM	Service Level Management
SLOC	Source Lines of Code
SMA	SubMiniature version A
SMB	Server Message Block
SMBIOS	System Management BIOS
SMIL	Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMP	Supplementary Multilingual Plane
SMP	Symmetric Multi-Processing
SMS	Short Message Service
SMS	System Management Server
SMT	Simultaneous Multithreading
SNA	Systems Network Architecture
SNTP	Simple Network Time Protocol
SO-DIMM	Small Outline DIMM
SOA	Service-Oriented Architecture
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
SOE	Standard Operating Environment
SOHO	Small Office/Home Office
SOI	Silicon On Insulator
SP	Service Pack
SPARC	Scalable Processor Architecture
SPF	Sender Policy Framework
SPI	Serial Peripheral Interface
SPI	Stateful Packet Inspection
SPMD	Single Program, Multiple Data
SQL	Structured Query Language
SSD	Software Specification Document
SSD	Solid-State Drive
SSE	Streaming SIMD Extensions
SSI	Server Side Includes
SSI	Single-System Image
SSI	Small-Scale Integration
SSID	Service Set Identifier
SSL	Secure Socket Layer
SSP	Supplementary Special-purpose Plane
SSSE	Supplementary Streaming SIMD Extensions
SUS	Single UNIX Specification
SUSE	Software und System-Entwicklung
SVC	Scalable Video Coding
SVD	Structured VLSI Design
SVG	Scalable Vector Graphics
SVGA	Super Video Graphics Array
SWF	Shock Wave Flash
SWT	Standard Widget Toolkit
SAAS	Software as a Service
SOC	System-on-a-Chip
SYSOP	System operator
TAO	Track-At-Once
TASM	Turbo ASseMbler
TB	TeraByte
TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TCU	Telecommunication Control Unit
TDMA	Time Division Multiple Access
TI	Texas Instruments
TLA	Three-Letter Acronym
TLD	Top-Level Domain
TLS	Thread-Local Storage
TNC	Terminal Node Controller
TNC	Threaded Neill-Concelman connector
TPF	Transaction Processing Facility
TROFF	Trace Off
TRON	Trace On
TRON	The Real-time Operating system Nucleus
TRS-DOS	Tandy Radio Shack - Disk Operating System
TSO	Time Sharing Option
TSP	Traveling Salesman Problem
TSR	Terminate and Stay Resident
TTA	True Tap Audio
TTF	TrueType Font
TTL	Transistor-Transistor Logic
TTS	Text-to-Speech
TUCOWS	The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software
TWAIN	Technology Without An Interesting Name
UAAG	User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
UAC	User Account Control
UAT	User Acceptance Testing
UCS	Universal Character Set
UDDI	Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
UDMA	Ultra DMA
UEFI	Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
UHF	Ultra High Frequency
UI	User Interface
UL	Upload
ULA	Uncommitted Logic Array
UMA	Upper Memory Area
UMB	Upper Memory Block
UML	User-Mode Linux
UMPC	Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer
UNC	Universal Naming Convention
URN	Uniform Resource Name
USR	U.S. Robotics
UTC	Coordinated Universal Time
UTF	Unicode Transformation Format
UUCP	Unix to Unix Copy
UUID	Universally Unique Identifier
UUN	Universal User Name
UVC	Universal Virtual Computer
UX	User Experience
VB	Visual Basic
VBA	Visual Basic for Applications
VBS	Visual Basic Script
VCPI	Virtual Control Program Interface
VDSL	Very High Bitrate Digital Subscriber Line
VFAT	Virtual FAT
VFS	Virtual File System
VG	Volume Group
VGA	Video Graphics Array
VHF	Very High Frequency
VLB	Vesa Local Bus
VLF	Very Low Frequency
VLIW	Very Long Instruction Word
VLSI	Very-Large-Scale Integration
VM	Virtual Machine
VM	Virtual Memory
VNC	Virtual Network Computing
VOD	Video On Demand
VPU	Visual Processing Unit
VR	Virtual Reality
VRML	Virtual Reality Modeling Language
VSAM	Virtual Storage Access Method
VSAT	Very Small Aperture Terminal
VT	Video Terminal?
VTAM	Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
VOIP	Voice over Internet Protocol
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
WAFS	Wide Area File Services
WAI	Web Accessibility Initiative
WAIS	Wide Area Information Server
WAP	Wireless Access Point
WASM	Watcom ASseMbler
WBEM	Web-Based Enterprise Management
WCAG	Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WCF	Windows Communication Foundation
WDM	Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
WFI	Wait For Interrupt
WINS	Windows Internet Name Service
WMA	Windows Media Audio
WMV	Windows Media Video
WOL	Wake-on-LAN
WOM	Wake-on-Modem
WOR	Wake-on-Ring
WPAN	Wireless Personal Area Network
WPF	Windows Presentation Foundation
WSDL	Web Services Description Language
WSFL	Web Services Flow Language
WUSB	Wireless Universal Serial Bus
WWAN	Wireless Wide Area Network
WWID	World Wide Identifier
WWN	World Wide Name
WZC	Wireless Zero Configuration
WEBDAV	WWW Distributed Authoring and Versioning
WI-FI	Wireless Fidelity
WIMAX	Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
WINFS	Windows Future Storage
XAG	XML Accessibility Guidelines
XAML	eXtensible Application Markup Language
XCBL	XML Common Business Library
XDM	X Window Display Manager
XDMCP	X Display Manager Control Protocol
XHTML	eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language
XILP	X Interactive ListProc
XMMS	X Multimedia System
XMPP	eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
XMS	Extended Memory Specification
XNS	Xerox Network Systems
XP	Cross-Platform
XP	Extreme Programming
XPCOM	Cross Platform Component Object Model
XPI	XPInstall
XPIDL	Cross-Platform IDL
XSD	XML Schema Definition
XSL-FO	eXtensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects
XSLT	eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
XSS	Cross-Site Scripting
XTF	eXtensible Tag Framework
XTF	eXtended Triton Format
XUL	XML User Interface Language
Y2K	Year Two Thousand
YAAF	Yet Another Application Framework
YACC	Yet Another Compiler Compiler
YAML	YAML Ain't Markup Language
YAST	Yet another Setup Tool
BIN	binary
BIT	binary digit
CC	C Compiler
DEV	development
EID	electronic ID card
IBCS	Intel Binary Compatibility Standard
ISCSI	Internet Small Computer System Interface
ISNS	Internet Storage Name Service
JWZ	Jamie Zawinski
KHZ	Kilohertz
REGEX	Regular Expression
REGEXP	Regular Expression
SBIN	superuser binary
SU	superuser
TMP	temporary
USR	user
VAR	variable