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A
AACS – Advanced Access Content System
ADSL – Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AJAX – Asynchronous JAvascript and XML
ALU – Arithmetic Logic Unit
AMD – Advanced Micro Devices
ASF – Automatic Sheet Feeder
ASIC – Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASP – Active Server Pages
ASP – Application Service Provider
ATA – Advanced Technology Attachment
ATAPI – ATA Packed Interface
AVI – Audio Video Interface

B
BASIC – Beginner’s All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BBS – Bullettin Board System
BIOS – Basic Input/Output System

C
CAS – Column Address Select
CAV – Constant Angular Velocity
CES – Consumer Electronics Show
CEO – Chief Executive Officer
CF – Compact Flash
CGA – Color Graphics Adapter
CIO – Chief Information Office
CLV – Constant Linear Velocity
cps – characters per second
CDR – CD Readable
CDRW – CD ReWritable
CGI – Common Gataway Interface
CISC – Complex Instruction Set Computer
CMOS – Complementary MOS
CMYK – Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK
CPU – Central Processing Unit
CR – Carriage Return
CRT – Cathode Ray Tube
CSV – Comma Separated Value

D
DAB – Digital Audio Broadcasting
DAE – Digital Audio Extraction
DAFI – Digital Adaptive Fine Image
DAO – Disk At Once
DAVE – Digital Audio Video Experience
DDR – Double Data Rate
DIMM – Dual In-line Memory Module
DL – Dual Layer/Double Layer (DVD)
DLL – Dynamic Link Library
DMA – Direct Access Memory
DNS – Domain Name System
DOS – Disk Operating System
DoS – Denial of Service
dpi – dot per inch
DRAM – Dynamic RAM
DRM – Digital Rights Menagement
DVB – Digital Video Broadcasting
DVD – Digital Versatile Disk/Digital Video Disk
DVI – Digital Video Interface

E
EGA – Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EFI – Extensible Firmware Interface
EIDE – Enhanced IDE
EISA – Extended ISA
EPROM – Erasable Programmable ROM
EEPROM – Eletrically Erasable Programmable ROM
EULA – End User License Agreement
EUP – Energy Using Products

F
FAT – File Allocation Table
FCPGA – Flip Chip PGA
FDD – Floppy Disk Drive
FLOPS – FLoating point Operations Per Second
FPGA – Field Programmable Gate Array
FPNI – Field Programmable Nanowire Interconnect
FPU – Floating point Processing Unit
FSB – Front Side Bus
FSF – Free Software Foundation
FST – Flat Screen Tube
FTP – File Transfer Protocol

G
GFDL – GNU Free Document License
GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
GNU – GNU is Not Unix
GPU – Graphic Processing Unit
GPL – General Public License

H
HDD – Hard Disk Drive
HDMI – High Definition Multimedia Interface
HID – Human Interface Device
HT – Hyper Threading
HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language
HTTP – Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

I
ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
IDE – Integrated Drive Electronics
IDF – Intel Developer Forum
IEEE – Institute of Electrical end Electronics Engineers
IHV – Independent Harware Vendor
IMAP4 – Internet Message Access Protocol
IP – Internet Protocol
IrDA – Infrared Data Association
ISA – Industry Standard Architecture
ISDN – Integrated Services Digital Network
ISP – Internet Service Provider
IT – Information Technology

J
J2ME – Java 2 Micro Edition
JPEG – Joint Picture Expert Group

K

L
LASER – Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LCD – Liquid Crystal Display
LBA – Logical Block Addressing
LE – Light Edition
LF – Line Feed
LTPS-TFT – Low Temperature PolySilicon TFT