ABBREVIATIONS

Abend : Abnormal end
ACL : Access Control List
ADC : Analog-to-Digital Converter
ADF : Automatic Document Feeder
ADSL : Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP : Accelerated Graphics Port
AIFF : Audio Interchange file format
AIX : Advanced Interactive Executive
ANSI : American National Standards Institute
API : Application Program Interface
ARP : Address Resolution Protocol
ASCII : American Standard Code for Information interchange
ASP : Active Server Pages
ATA : Advanced Technology Attachment
ATM : Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BASIC : Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BCC : Blind Carbon Copy
BIOS : Basic Input / Output System
BPS : Bits Per Second
CAD : Computer-Aided Design
CCD : Charged Coupled Device
CD-R : Compact Disc Recordable
CDMA : Code Division Multiple Access
CGI : Common Geteway Interface
CISC : Complex Instruction Set Computing
CMOS : Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CMYK : Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
CRC : cyclic redundancy check
CSS : Cascading Style Sheet
DBMS : Database Mana{lement Svstem
DDL : Data Definition Language
DDR : Double Data Rate
DDR2 : Double Data Rate 2
DHCP : Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIMM : Dual In-Line Memory Module
DIL : Dynamic Link Library
DMA : Direct Memory Access
DAC : Digital-to-Analog Converter
DNS : Domain Name System
DPI : Dots Per Inch
DRAM : Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRM : Digital Rights Management
DSL : Digital Subscriber Line
DSLAM : Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DTD : Document Type Definition
DVI : Digital Video Interface
ECC : Error Correction code
EDI : Electronic Data Interchange
EPS : Encapsulated Post Script
EUP : Enterprise Unified Process
FAT : file Allocation Table
FIFO : first In, First Out
FiOS : Fiber Optic Service
FLOPS : Floating Point Operations Per Second
FPU : Floating Point Unit
FSB : frontside bus
FTP : File Transfer Protocol
GIF : Graphics Interchange Format
GIGO : Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIS : Geographic Information Systems
GPU : Graphics processing Unit
GPS : Global Positioning System
GUI : Graphical User Interface
GUID : Globally Unique Identifier
HDMI : High-Definition Multimedia Interface
HFS : Hierarchical File System
HSF : Heat Sink and Fan
HTML : Hyper-Text Markup Language
HTTP : Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
HTTPS : Hyper Text Transport Protocol Secure
IACNN : Internet corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers
ICF : Internet Connection Firewall
ICMP : Internet Control Message Protocol
ICS : Internet Connectionn Sharing
IDE : Intergrated Device Electronics
IEEE : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IGP : Integrated graphics Processor
IMAP : Internet Message Access Protocol
IPX : Internetwork Packet Exchange
IRC : Internet Relay Chat
IRQ : Interrupt Request
ISA : Industry standard architecture
iSCSI : Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
ISDN : Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO : International Organization for Standardization
IVR : Interactive Voice Response
JPEG : Joint Photographic Experts Group
JRE : Java Runtime Environment
JSP : Java Server Page
LUN : Logical Unit Number
LAN : Local Area Network
LCD : Liquid Crystal Display
LDAP : Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LIFO : Last In, first Out
LPI : Lines Per Inch
MANET : Mobile ad Hoc Network
MIDI : Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIPS : Million Instructions Per Second
MODEM : Modulator / Demodulator
MOODLE : Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment
MP3 : MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3
MPEG : Moving Picture Experts Group
MTU : Maximum Transmission Unit
MY SQL : My Sequel (SQL : structure query language)
NAS : Network Attached Storage
NAT : Network Address Translation
NetBIOS : Network Basic Input / Output System
NIC : Network Interface Card
NNTP : Network News Transfer Protocol
NOC : Network Operations Center
NTFS : New Technology File System
OASIS : Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OCR : Optical Character Recognition
ODBC : Open Database Connectivity
OEM : Original Equipment Manufacturer
OLAP : Online Analytical processing
OOP : Object-Oriented Programming
OpenGL : Open Graphics Library
P2P : Peer to Peer
PCB : Printed Circuit Board
PCI-X : Peripheral Component Interconnect Extended
PCMCIA : Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PDF : Portable Document Format
PDL : Page Description Language
PHP : Hypertext Preprocessor
PMU : Power Management Unit
PPGA : Plastic Pin Grid Array
PPI : Pixels Per Inch
PPL : Point to Point Protocol.
PPTP : Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
PRAM : Parameter Random Access Memory
QBE : Query By Example
Raid : Redundant Array of Independent Disks
RDF : Resource Description Framework
RDRAM : Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
RGB : Red Green Blue
RISC : Reduced Instruction Set Computing
RPC : Remote Procedure Call
RSS : RDF Site Summary, Really Simple Syndication."
RTE : Runtime environment
RTF : Rich Text Fomat
RUP : Rational Unified Process
SAN : Storage Area Network
SATA : Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SCSI : Small Computer System Interface
SD : Secure Digital
SDRAM : Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDSL : Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SEO : Search Engine Optimization
SERP : Search Engine Results Page
SKU : Stock Keeping Unit
SLI : Scalable Link Interface
Smart : Self-Monitoring Analysis And reorting Technology
SNMP : Simple network Management Protocol
SO-DIMM : Small Outline Dual In-Line Memory Module
SOA : Service Oriented architecture
SOAP : Simple Object Access Protocol
SRAM : Static Random Access Memory
sRGB : Standard RGB (Red Green BluE.)
SSH : Secure Shell
SSID : Service Set Identifier
SSL : Secure Sockets Layer
PNG : Portable Network Graphic
TFT : Thin Film transistor
TIFF : Tagged Image File Format
TTL : Time To Live
UDDI : Universal Description Discovery and Integration
UDP : User Datagram Protocol
UML : Unified Modeling Language
UNC : Universal Naming Convention
UPnP : Universal Plug and Play
UPS : Uninterruptible Power Supply
URI : Uniform Resource Identifier
URL : Uniform Resource Locator
USB : Universal Serial Bus
VCI : Virtual channel Identifier
VFAT : Virtual File Allocation Table
VGA : Video Graphics Array
VESA : Video Electronics Standards Association
VLB : Virtual Learning Environment
VoIP : Voice Over Internet Protocol
VPI : Virtual Path Identifies."
VPN : Virtual Private Network
VRAM : Video Random Access Memory
VRML : Virtual Reality Modeling Language
WAIS : Wide Area Information Server."
WAN : Wide Area Network
WEP : Wired Equivalent Privacy
WiFi : Wireless Fidelity
WPA : Wi-Fi Protected Access
WYSIWYG : What You See Is What You Get
XHTML : Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
XML : Extensible Markup Language
XSLT : Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformation
Y2K : Year 2000
ZIF : Zero Insertion Force
TCP / IP : Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol