ADSL - Asymmetric digital subscriber line

AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port

AI - Artificial Intelligence

AOL - America Online

API - Application Program Interface

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATAPI - Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface

ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode

AVI - Audio Video Interleave

B2B - Business to Business

B2C - Business to Commerce

BASIC - Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BIOS - Basic Input Output System

BMP - Bitmap

CAD - Computer Aided Design

CAT 5 - Category 5 Ethernet cable (RJ45 connectors)

CD - Compact Disc

CD - RW - Compact Disc Re-Writable

CGI - Common Gateway Interface

CLR - Common Language Runtime

CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CMYK - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (black)

CPU - Central Processing Unit

CRC - Cyclic Redundancy Check

CRT - Cathode Ray Tube

CUI - Character User Interface

DAC - Digital to Analog Converter

DAO - Data Access Objects

DAT - Digital Audio Tape

DBA - Data Base Administrator

DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DHTML - Dynamics Hyper Text Markup Language

DLC - Data Link Control

dll - dynamic link library

DMA - Direct Memory Access

DNS - Domain Name System

DOS - Disk Operating System, Denial Of Service

dpi - dots per inch

DSL - Digital Subscriber Line

DSN - Digital Subscriber Network

DVD - Digital Versatile Disc

EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

FAT - File Allocation Table

FDD- Floppy Disk Drive

FDDI - Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FIFO - First In First Out

FLOPS - Floating Point Operations Per Second

FO - Fiber Optics

fps - frames per second

FRAM - Ferro-electric Random Access Memory

FTP - File Transfer Protocol

GB - Giga Bytes

GIF - Graphic Interchange Format

GIGO - Garbage In Garbage Out

GUI - Graphical User Interface

HDD - Hard Disk Drive

HFS - Hierarchical File System

HP - Hewlett Packard

HPFS - High Performance File System

HSR - Horizontal Scan Rate

HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language

HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

IBM - International Business Machines

IDE - Integrated Development Environment

IGMP - Internet Group Management Protocol

IMHO - In My Humble Opinion

I/O - Input Output

IP - Internet Protocol

IRQ - Interrupt Request

ISAPI - Internet Server Application Program Interface

ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network

ISP - Internet Service Provider

IT - Information Technology

JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group

JSP - Java Server Pages

kb - kilobytes

kbps - Kilo bytes per second

LAN - Local Area Network

LCD - Liquid Crystal Display

MB - Mega Bytes

MBPS - Mega Bytes Per Second

MBR - Master Boot Record

MDI - Multiple Document Interface

MFT - Master File Table

MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MODEM - MOdulator and DEModulator

MP3 - Motion Pictures Experts Group Layer - 3

MPEG - Motion Pictures Experts Group

MS - MicroSoft

MSDN - MicroSoft Developer Network

MSIIS - MicroSoft Internet Information Server

MSN - MicroSoft Network

MSRAP - MicroSoft Remote Administration Protocol

MSRPC - Microsoft Remote Procedure Call

MTS - Microsoft Transaction Server

MTU - Maximum Transmission Unit

NDIS - Network Driver Interface Specification

NetBEUI - NetBIOS Enhanced User Interface

NIC - Network Interface Card

NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol

NOW - Network Of Workstations

NT (Windows) - New Technology

NTP - Network Time Protocol

NTFS - New Technology File System

OCP - Oracle Certified Professional

ODBC - Open Data Base Connectivity

OLE - Object Linking and Embedding

OMR - Optical Mark Reader

ONE - Open Network Architecture

Open GL - Open Graphics Library

OS - Operating System

PC - Personal Computer

PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PDA - Personal Digital Assistant

PDF - Portable Document Format

PDL - Page Description Language

PHP - PHP Hypertext Processor - allows web developers to create dynamic content that interacts with databases. PHP applications are normally found on Linux servers and in conjunction with MySQL databases. It provides those servers with functionality similar to that provided to the Windows platform by Active Server Pages technology.
Also Known As: Perl Hypertext Preprocessor

PLC - Programmable Logic Controller

PNG - Portable Network Graphics

PnP - Plug and Play

POP - Post Office Protocol

POST - Power On Self Test

POT - PowerPoint

PPP - Point to Point Protocol

PPPoE - Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet

PPS - PowerPoint

PPT - PowerPoint

PPTP - Point to Point Tunneling Protocol

PROM - Programmable Read Only Memory

PS - Post Script

QoS - Quality of Service

RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAM - Random Access Memory

RAMDAC - Random Access Memory Digital to Analog Converter

RDBMS - Relational Data Base Management System

RDO - Remote Data Objects

RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol

RD RAM - Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory

RFC - Request For Comments

RGB - Red Green Blue

RIP - Raster Image Processor

RISC - Reduced Instruction Set Computer

ROM - Read Only Memory

RPC - Remote Procedure Call

RTC - Real Time Clock

RTF - Rich Text Format

RTOS - Real Time Operating System

SAM - Security Access Manager

SAP - Service Access Point, Systems Applications Products

SCSI - Small Computers Systems Interface

SRAM - Static Random Access Memory

SD RAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

S - DAT - Stationary Digital Audio Tape

SDK - Software Development Kit

SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language

SG RAM - Synchronous Graphics Random Access Memory

SIM - Subscriber Identification Module

SIMD - Single Instruction Multiple Data

SISD - Single Instruction Single Data

SMS - Short Message Service

SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNAP - Sub Network Access Protocol

SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol

SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol

SPX - Sequenced Packet Exchange

SQL - Structured Query Language

SSL- Secure Sockets Layer

sw - software

TB - Tera Bytes

TAPI - Telephony Application Program Interface

TCP - Transmission Control Protocol

TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.  A set of protocols that are used to connect hosts on the internet, and transmit data over networks.

TDI - Transport Data Interface

TPM - Transactions Processing Monitor

TSR - Terminate and Stay Residents

UDP - User Datagram Protocol

UNC - Universal Naming Convention

UNIX - Uniplexed Information and Computer Systems

URL - Uniform Resource Locator

USB - Universal Serial Bus

VAN - Virtual Area Network

VB - Visual Basic

VC++ - Visual C++

VCD - Video Compact Disc

VGA - Video Graphics Array

VHS - Video Home System

VPN - Virtual Private Network

VRAM - Video Random Access Memory

VXD - Virtual Device Driver

W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

WAN - Wide Area Network

WAP - Wireless Application Protocol

Windows ME - Windows Millennium Edition

Windows NT - Windows New Technology

Windows XP - Windows eXPerienced

WINS - Windows Internet Name Services

WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

WWW - World Wide Web

XHTML - eXtensible Hyper Text Markup Language

XML - eXtensible Markup Language

XSL - eXtensible Style Sheet langauge

Y2K - Year 2000

ZIF - Zero Insertion Force