A
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AAAAA | Anonym Association Against Acronym Abuse |
| AAC | Advanced Audio Coding |
| AAL | ATM Adaption Layer |
| AAM | Automatic Acoustic Management |
| AARP | Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol |
| AAUI | Apple Attachment Unit Interface |
| ABAP | Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor (SAP, veraltet) |
| ABAP/4 | Advanced Business Application Programming, Version 4 |
| ABCAST | Atomic BroadCAST |
| ABCS | Adcanced Business Communications via Satellite |
| ABEND | ABnormal ENDing |
| ABI | Application Binary Interface |
| ABM | Asynchronous Balanced response Mode |
| ABNF | Augmented Backus-Naur Form |
| ABR | Available Bit Rate |
| AC | Alternating Current (Wechselstrom) |
| ACC | Area Communication Controller |
| ACD | Automatic Call Distribution |
| ACE | ASCII Compatible Encoding |
| ACE | Automatic Computing Engine |
| ACID | Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability |
| ACK | ACKnowledgement |
| ACL | Access Control List |
| ACL | Asynchronous Connection-Less |
| ACM | Address Complete Message |
| ACM | Audio Compression Manager |
| ACPI | Advanced Configuration and Power Interface |
| ACS | Admission Control Service |
| ACSE | Associtation Control Service Element |
| ACTEF | ACcess TEchnologies Forum |
| ACTS | Advanced Communications Technologies and Services |
| ACU | Automatic Call Unit |
| ADC | Analog to Digital Converter |
| ADCCP | Advanced Data Communication Control Protocol |
| Adele | ALgorithm DEscription LanguagE |
| ADF | Automatic Document Feeder |
| ADM | Adaptive Delta Modulation |
| ADO | ActiceX Data Objects |
| ADPCM | Adaptive Data Pulse Code Modulation |
| ADR | Advanced Digital Recording |
| ADR | Astra Digital Radio |
| ADS | Administration and Data Server |
| ADSC | Adobe's Document Structuring Conventions |
| ADSI | Active Directory Service Interface |
| ADSL | Asymmetric bit rate Digital Subscriber Line |
| ADSP | AppleTalk Data Stream Protocol |
| ADSR | Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release |
| ADU | Analog-Digital-Umsetzer |
| AE | Applications Engineer |
| AES | Advanced Encryption Standard |
| AFM | Adobe Font Metrics |
| AFP | Apple File Protocol |
| AFS | Andrew File System |
| AGCH | Access Grant CHannel |
| AGI | Address Generation Interlock |
| AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port |
| AGU | Address Generation Unit |
| AGV | Autonomously Guided Vehicle |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| AIFF | Audio Interchange File Format |
| AIMD | Additive Increase/Multiplicative Decrease |
| AIMM | AGP Inline Memory Module |
| AIP | Association of Internet Professionals |
| AIRA | American Internet Registrants Association |
| AIX | Advanced Interactive eXecutive (IBM-Unix) |
| AL | Artificial Life |
| ALDC | Advanced Lossless Data Compression |
| ALE | Address Latch Enable |
| ALE | Application Link Enabling (SAP) |
| ALG | Application Layer Gateway |
| ALGOL | ALGOrithmic Language |
| ALSA | Advanced Linux Sound Architecture |
| Alt | Alternate/Alternativ |
| Alt Gr | Alternate Graphics/Alternative Grafiken |
| altPSM | ALTernative Phase Shifting Mask |
| ALU | Application Layer User |
| ALU | Arithmetic-Logic Unit |
| ALV | ABAP List Viewer |
| AM | Amplitude Modulation |
| AMD | Administration Management Domain |
| AMD | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. |
| AMEL | Active Matrix Electro-Luminescence |
| AMI | American Megatrends Inc. |
| AMLCD | Active Matrix LCD |
| AMPS | Advanced Mobile Phone System |
| AMR | Anisotropic Mageneto Resistance |
| AMR | Audio/Modem Riser |
| AMS | American Mathematical Society |
| ANPX | Advanced News Picture indeX |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| AO/DI | Always Online/Dynamic ISDN |
| AOL | America OnLine |
| AOP | Aspect-Oriented Programming |
| AOS | Array Of Structures |
| AP | Access Point |
| APDU | Application Protocol Data Unit |
| APF | AppleTalk Filing Protocol |
| API | Alpha Processor Inc. |
| API | Application Programmer Interface |
| APIC | Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller |
| APIPA | Automatic Private IP Addressing |
| APL | A Programming Language |
| APM | Advanced PowerManagement |
| APNIC | Asian Pacific Network Information Center |
| APOP | Authenticated POP |
| APPN | Advanced Peer to Peer Networking |
| APR | Apache Portable Runtime |
| APT | Advanced Photoscale Technology |
| ARAP | Advanced Research Project Agency |
| ARB | Architecture Review Board |
| Ardis | Advanced Radio Data Information Service |
| aRFC | Asynchronous RFC |
| ARIES | Algorithm for Recovery and Isolation Exploiting Semantics |
| ARIN | American Registry for Internet Numbers |
| ARIS | Aggregate Route-bases IP-Switching |
| ARM | Acorn RISC Machine |
| ARM | Asynchronous Response Mode |
| ARMD | ATAPI Removable Media Device |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
| ARPA | Advanced Research Projects Agency (heute DARPA) |
| ARPANET | Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork |
| ARQ | Automatic Repeat Request |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASE | Application Service Elements |
| ash | Almquist SHell |
| ASIC | Application Specific IC |
| ASIO | Audio Stream I/O |
| ASK | Amplitude Shift Keying |
| ASN.1 | Abstract Syntax Notation One |
| ASO | Address Supporting Organization |
| ASP | Active Server Pages |
| ASP | Application Service Provider |
| ASPI | Advanced SCSI Programming Interface |
| ASR | Automatic Speech Recognition |
| AT | Advanced Technology (ab 80286) |
| AT | ATtention (Modembefehle) |
| ATA | AT-bus Attachment |
| ATAPI | AT-bus Attachment Packet Interface |
| ATDM | Asynchronous Time Division Multiplexing |
| ATIP | Absolute Time in Pregroove |
| ATL | Active Template Library |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| ATM | Automated Teller Machine |
| ATMARP | ATM Address Resolution Protocol |
| ATPG | Automatic Test Pattern Generator |
| ATR | Answer To Reset |
| ATRAC | Adaptice Transform Accoustic Coding |
| ATT | ATTenuation |
| ATW | Advanced Windowing Toolkit |
| ATX | AT eXtended |
| AUI | Attachment Unit Interface |
| AVD | Advanced Video Disc |
| AVI | Audio Video Interleaved |
| AVK | Application Verification Kit |
| AVL | Andelson-Velskij/Landis |
| AVSG | Accessible Volume Storage Group |
| AWE | Address Windowing Extensions |
| AWM | Advanced Wave Memory |
| AWS | Apple Workgroup Server |
| AWT | Abstract Window Toolkit |
B
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B2B | Business-To-Business |
| B2C | Business-To-Customers |
| BAP/BACP | Bandwidth Allocation Protocol/Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol |
| BAPI | Business Application Programming Interface |
| BAS | Basic Activity Set |
| bash | Bourne-Again SHell |
| BASIC | Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| BAT | BATch |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System |
| BC | Business Connector (SAP) |
| BCC | Blind Carbon Copy |
| BCC | Block Check Character |
| BCCH | Broadcast Control CHannel |
| BCD | Binary Coded Decimal |
| BCH | Bose-Chauduri-Hoequenhem |
| BCH | Broadcast CHannel |
| BCNF | Boyce-Codd Normal Form |
| BCP | Best Current Practice |
| BCS | Block Combine Set |
| BDC | Backup Domain Controller |
| BDK | Bean Development Kit (Java) |
| BE | Back End |
| BEB | Binary Exponential Backoff |
| BEDO | Burst EDO |
| BER | Basic Encoding Rules |
| BFA | Business Framework Architecture |
| BFS | Breadth First Search |
| BGA | Ball Grid Array |
| BGP | Border Gateway Protocol |
| bgRFC | Background RFC |
| BHCA | Busy Hour Call Attempts |
| BHT | Branch History Table |
| BI | Business Intelligence |
| BiCMOS | Bipolar Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor |
| BIND | Berkeley Internet Name Domain |
| BioIS | Biometrisches IdentifikationsSystem |
| BIOS | Basic Input/Output System |
| B-ISDN | Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network |
| BIST | Built-In Self Test |
| BIT | Basic Indissoluble information uniT |
| BIT | BInary digiT |
| BITS | Background Intelligent Transfer Service |
| biz | Business |
| BLAM | Binary Logarithmic Arbitration Method |
| BLOB | Binary Large OBject |
| BMP | Bean Managed Persistance |
| BMP | BitMaP |
| BNC | Bayonet-Neill-Conselman |
| BNC | British Naval Connector |
| BNF | Backus-Naur Form |
| BNU | Basic Networkting Utilities |
| BOA | Basic Object Adapter |
| BOCC | Backward-Oriented Concurrency Control |
| BOOTP | BOOTstrap Protocol |
| BOR | Business Object Repository |
| BOT | Begin Of Transaction |
| BOT | Broadcast on Television |
| BP | British Petrol |
| BPL | Branch Prediction Logic |
| BPM | Business Process Management |
| bps | Bits Per Second |
| BPS | Bytes Per Second |
| BPSK | Binary Phase Shift Keying |
| BPX | Business Process Expert (SAP) |
| BRAM | Broadcast Recognition Access Method |
| BRAP | Broadcast Recognition with Alternating Priorities |
| BRI | Basic-Rate Interface |
| BS | BetriebsSystem |
| BSA | Business Software Alliance |
| BSC | Base Station Controller |
| BSC | Binary Synchronous Communication |
| BSD | Berkley Software Design |
| BSI | Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik |
| BSIC | Base transceiver Station Identity Code |
| BSIG | Bluetooth Special Interest Group |
| BSMTP | Batched Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| BSP | Business Server Page (SAP) |
| BSRAM | Burst Static RAM |
| BSS | Base Station Subsystem |
| BSS | Basic Services Set |
| BSS | Basic Synchronization Set |
| BTB | Branch Target Buffer |
| BTD | BlueTooth Device |
| BTS | Base Transceiver Station |
| BTX | BildschrimTeXt |
| BUS | Broadcast and Unknown Server |
C
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C64 | Commodore 64 KByte |
| CA | Certification Authority |
| CABEB | Capture Avoidance Binary Exponential Backoff |
| CACM | Communications of the ACM |
| CAD | Computer-Aided Design |
| CAF | Composite Application Framework |
| CAIP | Canadian Association of Internet Providers |
| CAL | Client Abstraction Layer |
| CALL | Computer Assisted Language Learning |
| CAM | Computer Aided Manufacturing |
| CAM | Content Addressable Memory |
| CAMAC | Computer Aided Measurement And Controlling |
| CAN | Cable Area Network |
| CAN | City Area Network |
| CAN | Controller Area Network |
| CAN | Cosmopolitan Area Network |
| CAN | Customer Access Network |
| CAP | Carrierless Amplitude/Phase modulation |
| CAPI | Common Application Programming Interface |
| CAPTCHA | Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart |
| CAS | Column Access Strobe (siehe auch RAS) |
| CASE | Common Application Service Elements |
| CASE | Computer-Aided Software Engineering |
| CAST | Carlisle Adams/Stafford Tavares |
| CAUCE | Coalition Aganinst Unsolicited Commercial E-mail |
| CAV | Constant Angular Velocity (Umdrehung bei Festplatten) |
| CBC | Cipher Block Chaining |
| CBCAST | Causal BroadCAST |
| CBDS | Connectionless Broadband Data Service |
| CBM | Commodore Business Machines |
| CBR | Constant Bit Rate |
| CBS | Cell Broadcast Service |
| CBS | Component Build Service |
| CBT | Code Based Tree |
| CBT | Computer-Based Training |
| CBX | Common Branch eXtender |
| CC | Carbon Copy |
| CC | Connection Confirm |
| CCA | Conceptual Communication AreMa |
| CCC | Chaos Computer-Club |
| CCCH | Common Control CHannel |
| CCD | Charge Coupled Device |
| CCF | Capsulated Colour Filter |
| CCF | Cold Cathode Flourescent |
| CCFL | Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp |
| CCFP | Central Control Fixed Part |
| CCH | Control CHannel |
| CCI | Common Client Interface |
| CCITT | Comitè Consultatif International Télégraphic et Téléfonique |
| CCK | Complementary Code Keying |
| CCL | Communications Command Language |
| CCMS | Computing Center Management System |
| ccNUMA | Cache Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access |
| CCNUMA | Cache Coherent Non-Unified Memory Architecture |
| CCP | Compliance Checking Program |
| CCP | Compression Control Protocol |
| CCR | Commitment, Concurrency and Recovery |
| CCR | Configuration Control Registers |
| CCS | Calculus of Communicating Systems |
| CCS7 | Common Channel Signalling 7 |
| ccTLD | country code Top Level Domain |
| CD | Carrier Detect |
| CD | Compact Disc |
| CDA | Clinical Document Architecture |
| CDATA | Character DATA |
| CD-DA | CD Digital Audio |
| CDDB | Compact Disc Data Base |
| CDDI | Copper Distributed Data Interface |
| CDE | Common Desktop Environment |
| CDFS | CD File System |
| CD-i | CD Interactive |
| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access |
| CDPD | Cellular Digital Packet Data |
| CD-R | CD Recordable |
| CDR | Common Data Representation |
| CDR | Corel DRaw (Bildformat) |
| CDRAM | Cache DRAM |
| CDROM | Compact Disk Read Only Memory |
| CD-RW | CD ReWritable |
| CDS | Class Data Sharing |
| CDS | Current Directory Structure |
| CDSA | Common Data Security Architecture |
| CDV | Cell Delay Variation |
| CDVT | Cell Delay Variation Tolerance |
| CD-WORM | CD Write Once Read Many |
| CD-XA | CD eXtended Architecture |
| CE | Compact Edition |
| CeBIT | Centrum für Büro- und InformationsTechnik |
| CEG | Continuous Edge Graphics |
| CENTR | Council of European National Top level domain Registries |
| CEPT | Conférence Européenne des Administrations des Postes et Télécommunications |
| CERN | Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire |
| CERT | Computer Emergency Response Team |
| CES | Consumer Electronics Show |
| CFB | Cipher FeedBack |
| CFC | Cipher Feedback Chaining |
| CGA | Color Graphics Array |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CGM | Computer Graphics Metafile |
| CHAP | Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol |
| CHILL | CCITT HIgh Level programming Language |
| CHV | Card Holder Value |
| CI | Cell Identity |
| CICS | Customer Information Control System |
| CIDR | Classless InterDomain Routing |
| CIE | Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage |
| CIF | Common Intermediate Format |
| CIFS | Common Internet File System |
| CIM | Common Information Model |
| CIMOM | CIM Object Manager |
| Cindy | von "simdi" = SIMD |
| CIOP | Common Inter-ORB Protocol |
| CIP | Common Indexing Protocol |
| CIRC | Cross-Interleave-Reed-Solomon-Code |
| CIS | COM Internet Services |
| CIS | Contact Image Sensor |
| CIS | Customer Interaction Software |
| CISC | Complex Instrucion Set Computer |
| CIX | Commercial Internet eXchange |
| CL | Cache Latency |
| CLA | Carry Lookahead Adder |
| CLF | Common Log Format |
| CLI | Call Level Interface |
| CLIP | Calling Line Identification Presentation |
| CLIP | CLassical IP (over ATM) |
| CLIR | Calling Line Identification Restriction |
| CLK | CLocK |
| CLNS | ConnectionLess Network Service |
| CLOB | Character Large OBject |
| CLOS | Common LISP Object System |
| CLP | Cell Loss Priority |
| CLR | Cell Loss Ratio |
| CLR | Common Language Runtime (C#) |
| CLR | Compensation Log Record |
| CLS | Common Language Specification (C#) |
| CLUT | Color Look-Up Table |
| CLV | Constant Linear Velocity (Umdrehung bei CD-DA) |
| CMD | CoMmanD |
| CMD | Compatibility Mode Drivers |
| CMI | Common Model Interface |
| CMIP | Common Management Information Protocol |
| CMIS | Common Management Information Service |
| CMISE | Common Management Information Service Entity |
| CMOS | Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor |
| CMOT | Common Management services and protocol Over TCP/IP |
| CMP | Cellular MultiProcessing |
| CMP | Container Managed Persistence (J2EE) |
| CMR | Container Managed Relations |
| CMS | Change Management System |
| CMS | Code Morphing Software |
| CMS | Content Management System |
| CMS | Conversational Monitor System |
| CMYK | Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK |
| CNC | Computerized Numerical Control |
| CNM | Customer Network Management |
| CNN | Controlled Not Not |
| CNOT | Control-NOT |
| CNR | Communication Network Riser |
| COBOL | COmmon Business Oriented Language |
| Cocomo | COnstructive COst Model |
| CODEC | COmpression/DECompression |
| COFDM | Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex |
| COFF | Common Object File Format |
| COLP | Connected Line Identification Presentation |
| com | Commercial |
| COM | COMmand |
| COM | Component Object Model |
| COMAL | COMmon Algorithmic Language |
| COMDEX | COMputer Dealer's EXposition fair |
| CONS | Consolidation Server |
| COOL | C++ Object Orientated Language |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CORE | Council Of Registrars |
| COS | Card Operating System |
| COS | Common Object Services (CORBA) |
| COSE | Common Open System Environment |
| CPAN | Comprehensive Perl Archive Network |
| CPCS | Common Part Convergence Sublayer |
| CPI | Clocks Per Instruction |
| CPL | Common Public License |
| CPLD | Complex Programmable Logic Device |
| CP/M | Control Program/Monitor |
| CP/M | Control Program for Microcomputers |
| CPS | Characters Per Second |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit |
| CR | Carriage Return |
| CRC | Class Responsibility Collaboration |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| CRIMM | Continuity RIMM |
| CRL | Certificate Revocation List |
| CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
| CRQ | Command Response Queue |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube |
| CRx | Control Register x |
| CS | Chip Select |
| CSA | Calendaring and Scheduling API |
| CSA | Common Scrambling Algorithm |
| CSB | Communication Streaming Bus |
| CSCD | Current Sensing Completion Detection |
| CSCW | Computer Supported Cooperative Work |
| CSEL | Cable SELect |
| CSG | Constructive Solid Geometry |
| CSIC | Customer Specific IC |
| CSMA | Carrier Sense Multiple Access |
| CSMA/CA | Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance |
| CSMA/CD | Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection |
| CSN | Card Select Number |
| CSP | Chip Scale Package |
| CSP | ChipSize Package |
| CSP | Cryptographic Service Provider |
| CSR | Certificate Signing Request |
| CSR | Command Status Register |
| CSS | Cascading Style-Sheets |
| CSS | Content Scrambling System |
| CSS1 | Cascading Style-Sheets level 1 |
| CSTA | Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications |
| CSV | Comma Separated Values |
| CT | Chipcard Terminal |
| CT | Cordless Telephone |
| CTAN | Comprehensive TeX Archive Network |
| CTAPI | Card Terminal API |
| CTCP | Client To Client Protocol |
| CTD | Cell Transfer Delay |
| CTI | Computer Telephony Integration |
| Ctrl | Control |
| CTS | Clear To Send |
| CTS | Common Type System |
| CV | Class Viewer |
| CVS | Concurrent Versions System |
| CVV | Coda Version Vector |
D
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DA | Directory Agent |
| DAB | Digital Audio Broadcasting |
| DAC | Digital Audio Copy |
| DAC | Digital to Analog Converter |
| DAC | Discretionary Access Control |
| DAE | Digital Audio Extraction |
| DAI | Distributed Artificial Intelligence |
| DAISY | Dynamically Architected Instruction Set from Yorktown |
| DAO | Data Access Object |
| DAO | Disc At Once |
| DAP | Directory Access Protocol |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DAT | Digital Audio Tape |
| DAU | Digital-Analog-Umsetzer |
| DAV | Distributed Authoring and Versioning |
| DAVID | Digital Audio VIsual Council |
| DB2 | DataBase 2 |
| DBC | Design By Concept |
| DBMS | DataBase Management System |
| DBS | Deutsche Bildungs-Server |
| DBT | Defect Based Test |
| DC | Development Component |
| DC | Direct Current (Gleichstrom) |
| DC | Dublin Core |
| DCC | Digital Content Creation |
| DCC | Direct Client Connection |
| DCCH | Dedicated Control CHannel |
| DCD | Data Carrier Detect |
| DCE | Data Carrier Equipment |
| DCE | Data Circuit-terminating Equipment |
| DCE | Data Communications Equipment |
| DCE | Distributed Computing Environment |
| DCE-CIOP | DCE Common Inter-ORB Protocol |
| DCI | Display Control Interface |
| DCME | Digital Circuit Multiplication Equipment |
| DCMI | Dublin Core Metadata Initiative |
| DCOM | Distributed Component Object Model |
| DCOP | Desktop COmmunication Protocol |
| DCS | Desktop Color Separations |
| DCS | Digital Cellular System |
| DCT | Diskrete Cosinus Transformation |
| DCTL | Direct Coupled Transistor Logic |
| DDA | Digital Differential Analyzer |
| DDC | Display Data Channel |
| DDE | Dynamic Data Exchange |
| DDI | Direct Dialing In |
| DDK | Device Development Kit |
| DDL | Data Definition Language |
| DDoS | Distributed Denial of Service attack |
| DDP | Datagram Delivery Protocol |
| DDPT | Disk Drive Parameter Table |
| DDR-SDRAM | Double Data Rate SDRAM |
| DDX | Dialog Data eXchange |
| DEC | Digital Equipment Corporation |
| DECT | Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication |
| DEE | DatenEndEinrichtung |
| Del | Delete |
| DEL | Decode Encode Language |
| DENIC | DEutsches Network Information Center |
| deque | Double-Ended QUEue |
| DES | Data Encryption Standard |
| DET | Directory Entry Table |
| DEV | Development Server |
| DFKI | Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz |
| DFN | Deutsches ForschungsNetz |
| DFP | Digital Flat Panel |
| DFR | Document Filing and Retrival |
| DFS | Depth First Search |
| DFS | Distributed File System |
| DFT | Diskrete Fourier Transformation |
| DFÜ | DatenFernÜbertragung |
| DGA | Direct Graphics Access |
| DGPS | Differential Global Positioning System |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DHTML | Dynamic HTML |
| DIAG | Dynamic Information and Action Gateway (SAP) |
| DIB | Device Independent Bitmap |
| DIB | Dual Independent Bus |
| DIC | Device-Independent Color |
| DII | Dynamic Invocation Interface |
| DIME | DIrect Memory Execute (AGP) |
| DIMM | Dual In-line Memory Module |
| DIN | Deutschen Institut für Normunsgwesen |
| DIP | Dual-In-line Package |
| DIPL | Drain Induced Barrier Lowering |
| DIR | Dynamic Invokation Routine |
| DIRx | Device Identification Register x (Cyrix CPUs) |
| DIS | Draft International Standard |
| DISC | DISConnect |
| DIT | Directory Information Tree |
| DKE | Deutsche Kommission Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik im DIN und VDE |
| DL/1 | Data Language 1 |
| DLE | Data Link Escape |
| DLL | Data Link Layer |
| DLL | Dynamic Link Library |
| DLP | Digital Light Processor |
| DLPI | Data Link Provider Interface |
| DLR | Digital Linear Tape |
| DLSw | Data Link Switching |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access |
| DMD | Digital Mirror Device |
| DMI | Desktop Management Interface |
| DML | Data Modification Language |
| dmmv | Deutscher MultiMedia Verband |
| DMSP | Distributed Mail System Protocol |
| DMT | Descrete MultiTone modulation |
| DMT | Direct MultiTone |
| DMT | Discrete Monitor Timings |
| DMTF | Desktop Management Task Force |
| D-MTU | Default Maximum Transmission Unit |
| DMX | Distributed Multihead X |
| DMZ | DeMilitarized Zone |
| DNB | Dedicated Network Bus |
| DNS | Domain Name Service |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DNSO | Domain Name Supporting Organization |
| DOA | Distributed Office Applications |
| DOC | DOCumentation |
| DOCSIS | Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification |
| DOD | Department Of Defense |
| DOI | Digital Object Identifier |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DOR | Digital Optical Recording |
| DoS | Denial of Service attack |
| DOS | Disk Operating System |
| DPC | Destination Point Code |
| DPCM | Difference Pulse Code Modulation |
| DPE | Data Parity Error |
| DPI | Distributed Protocol Interface |
| DPI | Dots Per Inch |
| DPMI | DOS Protected Mode Interface |
| DPMS | Display Power Management Signaling |
| DPN | Deutsches Provider Netzwerk |
| DPSK | Differential Phase Shift Keying |
| DRAM | Dynamic RAM |
| DRDRAM | Direct RAMBUS DRAM |
| DRI | Direct Rendering Infrastructure |
| DRL | Data Retrieval Language |
| DRL | Decision Representation Language |
| DRL | Dynamically Reconfigurable Logic |
| DRM | Digital Restrictions Management |
| DRM | Digital Righs Management |
| DRQ | DMA Request |
| DRT-DM | Distrubited Real-Time Defect Management |
| DRx | Debug Register x |
| DS | Distribution System |
| DSA | Digital Signature Algorithm |
| DSAP | Destination Service Access Point |
| DSC | Document Structuring Convention |
| DSD | Direct Stream Digital |
| DSI | Dynamic Skeleton Interface |
| DSL | Digital Subscriber Line |
| DSMA | Digital Sense Multiple Access |
| DSO | Dynamic Shared Object |
| DSOM | Distributed System Object Model |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
| DSR | Data Set Ready |
| DSS | Digital Signature Standard |
| DSS1 | Digital Subscriber System 1 (normiertes ISDN-Protokoll in Europa) |
| DSSS | Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum |
| DSSSL | Document Style and Semantics Specification Language |
| DST | Direct Stream Transfer |
| DST | Distributed SmallTalk |
| DSTN | Double Super Twisted Nematic |
| DSTN | Dual Scan Twisted Nematic |
| DSVD | Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data |
| DTAG | Deutsche Telekom AG |
| DTC | Distributed Transaction Coordinator |
| DTCP | Digital Transmission Content Protocol |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DTE | Data Terminal Equipment |
| DTMF | Dual-Tone MultiFrequency |
| DTO | Data Transfer Object |
| DTP | Data Transfer Process |
| DTP | DeskTop Publishing |
| DTP | Distributed Transaction Processing |
| DTR | Data Terminal Ready |
| DTR | Design Time Repository |
| DTS | Digital Theatre Sound System |
| DÜE | DatenÜbertragungseinrichtung |
| DUN | Dial-Up Networking |
| DV | DatenVerarbeitung |
| DVA | DatenVerarbeitungsAnlage |
| DVB | Digital Video Broadcast |
| DVB-T | Digital Video Broadcast - Terrestrial |
| DVD | Digital Versatile Disc |
| DVD-R | DVD Recordable |
| DVD-RW | DVD ReWritable |
| DVI | DeVice Independent |
| DVI | Digital Visual Interface |
| DVMPR | Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol |
| DWDM | Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
| D-WiN | Deutsches WissenschaftsNetz |
| DWMT | Discrete Wavelet MultiTone |
| DXF | Data eXchange File |
| DXF | Data eXchange Format |
| DXF | Drawing eXchange Format |
| Dynpro | Dynamic Program |
E
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E/A | Ein/Ausgabe |
| EAD | Enhanced Audio Disc |
| EAI | Enterprise Application Integration |
| EAI | External Authoring Interface |
| EAN | European Article Number |
| EAR | Enterprise Application Repository |
| EAX | Environmental Audio eXtension |
| EAX | Extended AX (und EBX, ECX ...) |
| EBCDIC | Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code |
| EBCOT | Embedded Block Coding with Optimized Truncation |
| ebXML | Electronic Business using XML |
| EC | Erase Character |
| EC | Error Checking |
| ECB | Electronic Code Book |
| ECC | Elliptic Curve Cryptography |
| ECC | Error Checking and Correction |
| ECL | Emitter-Coupled Logic |
| ECL | Execution Control List |
| ECM | Enterprise Content Management |
| ECM | Error Correction Mode |
| ECMA | European Computer Manufacturers Association |
| ECO | Electronic Commerce Forum (Verband der deutschen Internet-Wirtschaft) |
| ECP | Encryption Control Protocol |
| ECR | Efficient Customer Response |
| eCRM | Electronic Customer Relationship Management |
| ECS | Erlangen Classification System |
| ECTF | Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum |
| EDA | Event Driven Architecture |
| EDA | Expedited Data Acknowledge |
| EDGE | Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolutions |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
| EDO-RAM | Extended Data Out RAM |
| EDP | Electronic Data Processing |
| edu | Education |
| EDV | Elektronische DatenVerarbeitung |
| EEPROM | Electrically Erasable/Programmable ROM |
| EFF | Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| EFM | Eight to Fourteen Modulation (Aufzeichnungsverfahren bei Audio-CDs) |
| EFS | Encrypting File System |
| EGA | Enhanced Graphics Array |
| EGP | Exterior Gateway Protocol |
| EGPRS | Enhanced General Packet Radio Service |
| EIA | Electronic Industries Association |
| EIDE | Enhanced IDE |
| EIF | European Internet Foundation |
| Einfg | Einfügen |
| EIP | Enterprise Integeration Patterns |
| EIP | Extended Internet Protocol |
| EIR | Equipment Identification Center |
| EIS | Enterprise Information System |
| EISA | Enhanced ISA |
| EJB | Enterprise JavaBean |
| ELAN | Emulated Local Area Network |
| ELC | Embedded Linux Consortium |
| ELD | Electro-Luminescence Display (aktives LCD) |
| ELF | Executable and Linking Format |
| ELF | Extended Log Format |
| ELSTER | ELektronische STeuerERklärung |
| EMA | Enterprise Management Architecture |
| EMACS | Editor MACroS |
| EMACS | Eight Megs of ram And Constantly Swapping |
| EMF | Electro-Magnetic Force |
| EMF | Enhanced Metafile |
| EMI | Electro-Magnetic Interference |
| EMMS | Electronic Media Management System |
| EMP | Excessive Multiple Posting |
| EMS | Expanded Memory Specification |
| EMSD | Efficient Mail Submission and Delivery |
| EMV | ElekroMagnetische Verträglichkeit |
| ENC | Environment Naming Context |
| ENIAC | Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer |
| Entf | Entfernen |
| ENUM | tElephone NUmber Mapping |
| EOCB | Electrical-Optical Circuit Board |
| EOF | End Of File |
| EOI | End Of Interrupt |
| EOL | End Of Line |
| EOR | End Of Record |
| EOT | End Of Transmission |
| EPC | Electronic Product Code |
| EPIC | Electronic Privacy Information Center |
| EPIC | Explicit Parallel Instruction Computing |
| EPK | Ereignisgesteuerte Prozesskette |
| EPP | Enhanced Parallel Port |
| EPROM | Erasable Programmable ROM |
| EPS | Encapsulated PostScript |
| EPSF | Encapsulated PostScript File |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| ESA | Enterprise Services Architecture (SAP) |
| Esc | Escape |
| ESCD | Extended Setup Configuration Data |
| ESD | Electro-Static Discharge |
| ESDI | Enhanced Small Devices Interface |
| ESDRAM | Enhanced SDRAM |
| ESF | Enterprise Services Framework |
| ESIOP | Environment-Specific Inter-ORB Protocol |
| ESMTP | Extended SMTP |
| ESP | Encapsulating Security Payload |
| ESS | Extended Service Set |
| ETB | End of Transmission Block |
| ETP | Extended Thermal Plate |
| ETSC | European Telecommunications Standardization Institute |
| ETSI | European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
| ETX | End of TeXt |
| EVC | Enhanced Video Connector |
| EVD | Enhanced Versatile Disc |
| EXE | EXEcutable |
F
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F1 | Function key 1/Funktionstaste 1 (etc.) |
| FA | From ARPANET |
| FACCH | Fast Associated Control CHannel |
| FADU | File Access Data Unit |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FASL | Fujitsu-AMD Semiconductor Ltd. |
| FAT | File Allocation Table |
| Fax | FACSimile |
| FBAS | Farb-Bild-Austast- und Synchronsignal |
| FBE | FernBedienungsEinheit |
| FCAPS | Faults, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security (Netzwerkmanagement-Gesichtspunkte) |
| FCC | Federal Communications Commission |
| FCCH | Frequency Correction CHannel |
| FCFS | First Come First Served |
| FC-PGA | Flip Chip Pin Grid Array |
| FCRAM | Fast Cycle RAM |
| FCS | Frame Control Sequence |
| FD | Functional Dependency |
| FDD | Floppy Disk Drive |
| FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
| FDF | Forms Data Format |
| FDM | Frequency Division Multiplexing |
| FDMA | Frequency Division Multiple Access |
| FDX | Forms Data eXchange |
| FDX | Full-DupleX transmission |
| FE | Front End |
| FEAL | Fast Data Encipherment Algorithm |
| FEC | Forward Error Correction |
| FED | Field Emission Displays (Konkurrenz zu LCD) |
| FER | Forward Error Correction |
| FET | Field Effect Transistor |
| FF | Form Feed |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transformation |
| FHS | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard |
| FHSS | Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum |
| FIB | Focused Ion Beam |
| FIF | Fractal Image Format |
| FIFO | First-In First-Out |
| FILO | First-In Last-Out |
| FinTS | FINancial Transaction Services |
| FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standards |
| FIR | Fast InfraRed |
| FLAG | Fiberoptic Link Around the Globe |
| FLOPS | FLoating point Operations Per Second |
| FM | Frequency Modulation |
| FMT | Fine grain MultiThreading |
| FOCC | Forward-Oriented Concurrency Control |
| FOLED | Flexible Organic Light Emitting Display |
| FORTRAN | FORmula TRANslator |
| FPD | Full Page Display |
| FPGA | Field Programmable Gate Array |
| FPK | Fast Packet Keying |
| FPLMTS | Future Public Land and Mobile Telecommunications System |
| FPM-RAM | Fast Page Mode RAM |
| FPU | Floating Point Unit |
| FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name |
| FRAM | Ferroelectric RAM |
| FRICC | Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee |
| FRMR | FRaMe Reject |
| FRS | File Record Segment |
| FR TCH | Full Rate Traffic CHannel |
| FSAA | Full Screen AntiAliasing |
| FSB | Front Side Bus |
| FSF | Free Software Foundation |
| FSK | Frequency Shift Keying |
| FTAM | File Transfer, Access and Management |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| FUBAR | Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition |
| FVF | Flexible Vertex Format |
| FWH | FirmWare Hub |
| FYI | For Your Information |
G
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GAC | Global Assembly Cache |
| GAL | Generic Array Logic |
| GAN | Global Area Network |
| GART | Graphics Address Remapping Table |
| GAS | Gallium ArSenide |
| GCP | Gain-Controlled Pre-sensing |
| GCRA | Generic Cell Rate Algorithm |
| GDI | Graphical Device Inferface |
| GEM | Graphics Environment Manager |
| GEO | Geostationary Earth Orbit |
| GEOS | GeoWorks Ensemble Operating System |
| GFC | Generic Flow Control |
| GFDL | GNU Free Documentation License |
| GFLOPS | Giga-FLoating point Operations Per Second |
| GFSK | Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying |
| GGP | Gateway-Gateway Protocol |
| GGSN | Gateway GPRS Support Node |
| GHz | GigaHertz |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format |
| GIFT | GNU Image Finding Tool |
| GIMP | GNU Image Manipulation Program |
| GINA | Graphical Identification aNd Authorization |
| GIOP | General Inter-ORB Protocol |
| GIP | Global Internet Project |
| GiST | GeneralIzed Search Tree |
| GLUT | GLUTtony |
| GMC | Generalized Marching Cubes |
| GMCH | Graphics Memory Controller Hub |
| GMD | Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung |
| GMII | Gigabit Media Independent Interface |
| GMR | Giant Mageneto Resistance |
| GMR | Giant Magneto Resistive |
| GMSC | Gateway Mobile services Switching Center |
| GMSK | Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |
| GNOME | GNU Network Object Model Environment |
| GNU | GNU's Not Unix |
| GOLEM | Genetically Organized Lifelike Electro Mechanics |
| GOP | Group Of Pictures |
| GORM | Grails Object-Relational Mapping |
| gov | Government |
| GPA | Graphics Performance Accelerator |
| GPF | General Protection Fault |
| GPG | GNU Privacy Guard |
| GPL | General Public License |
| GPRS | General Packet Radio Services |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GPT | GUID Partition Table |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| GRE | Generic Routing Encapsulation |
| GREP | Global Regular Expression and Print |
| GRUB | GRand Unified Bootmanager |
| GSM | Global Standard for Mobile communications |
| GSM | Global System for Mobile communications |
| GSM | Groupe Spéciale Mobile (ursprüngliche Bedeutung) |
| GSN | GPRS Support Node |
| GTF | General Timing Formula |
| gTLD | generic Top Level Domain |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| GUID | Global Unique IDentifier (128 Bit Code) |
| GUUG | German Unix User Group |
| GVIF | Gigabit Video InterFace |
| GVIP | Geometric and Video Image Proccessor |
| GVPP | Generic Visual Perception Processor |
I
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I²C | Inter Integrated Circuit bus |
| IA5 | International Alphabet 5 |
| IAB | Internet Activity Board |
| IAB | Internet Architecture Board |
| IAC | Interpret As Command |
| IALA | Intel Application Launch Accelerator |
| IAM | Initial Address Message |
| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| IAS | Information Access Service |
| IBM | International Business Machines Corp. |
| IC | Integrated Circuit |
| ICA | Independent Computing Architecture |
| ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names |
| ICC | Integrated Circuit Card |
| ICC | International Color Consortium |
| ICD | Installable Client Driver |
| ICH | I/O Controller Hub |
| ICI | Interface Control Information |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| ICP | Initial Connection Protocol |
| ICRA | Internet Content Rating Association |
| ICS | Internet Connection Sharing |
| ICSL | Internet Communication Search Language |
| ICU | Instruction Control Unit |
| ID | IDentity |
| IDC | Insulation Displacement Connector |
| IDC | International Data Corporation |
| IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
| IDE | Integrated Device Electronics |
| IDEA | International Data Encryption Algorithm |
| IDF | Intel Developer's Forum |
| IDL | Interface Definition Language |
| IDMC | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| IDoc | Intermediate Document |
| IDOC | Intermediate DOCuments |
| IDP | Internet Datagram Protocol |
| IDP | Iterative Dynamic Programming |
| IDRP | Inter-Domain Routing Protocol |
| IDT | Interrupt Descriptor Table |
| IDU | Interface Data Unit |
| IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
| IEDM | International Electron Device Meeting |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| IESG | Internet Engineering Steering Group |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IEU | Integer Execution Unit |
| IF | InterFace |
| IFF | Interchange File Format |
| IFS | Installable File System |
| IGES | Initial Graphics Exchange Specification |
| IGMP | Internet Group Management Protocol |
| IGP | Interior Gateway Protocol |
| IHL | Internet Header Length |
| IID | Inaural Intensity Difference |
| IIOP | Internet Inter-ORB Protocol |
| IIS | Internet Information Services |
| IKE | Internet Key Exchange |
| IL | Intermediate Language |
| ILP | Instruction Level Parallelism |
| IMAP | Interactive Message Access Protocol |
| IMEI | International Mobile station Equipment Identity |
| IMP | Interface Message Processor |
| IMS | Information Management System (IBM, 1960er Jahre) |
| IMSI | International Mobule Subscriber Identity |
| InATMARP | ATM Address Resolution Protocol |
| Incore | INternet COntent Rating for Europe |
| INN | InterNet News |
| Inode | Index Node |
| Ins | Insert |
| INS | International Network Services |
| intel | INTegrated ELectronics |
| InterNIC | Internet Network Information Center |
| INXS | InterNet eXchange System |
| I/O | Input/Output |
| IOCTL | IO-ConTroL |
| IOQD | In Order Queue Depth |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPC | InterProcess Communication |
| IPCP | Internet Protocol Control Protocol |
| IPE | Integrated Picture Environment |
| IPES | Improved Proposed Encryption Standard |
| IPI | Intelligent Peripheral Interface (für Festplatten mit synchronen Köpfen) |
| IPL | Information Processing Language (Programmiersprache für künstliche Intelligenz) |
| IPP | Internet Peering Point |
| IPP | Internet Printing Protocol |
| IPS | In Plane Switching |
| IPSec | IP Security |
| IPTO | Information Processing Techniques Office |
| IPU | Image Processing Unit |
| IPX | Internetwork Packet eXchange |
| IR | Interface Repository |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
| IrDA | InfraRed Data Association |
| IrLAP | InfraRed Link Access Protocol |
| IrLMP | InfraRed Link Management Protocol |
| IRM | Information Rights Management |
| IrOBEX | InfraRed OBject EXchange protocol |
| IRPA | Internet Policy Registration Authorities |
| IRQ | Interrupt ReQuest |
| IRTF | Internet Research Task Force |
| ISA | Industry Standard Architecture |
| ISAM | Index-Sequential Access Method |
| ISAPI | Internet Server API |
| ISC | Internet Software Consortium |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISLAN | Integrated Services Local Area Network |
| ISN | Initial Sequence Number |
| ISO | International Standards Organization |
| ISR | Interactive Service Report |
| ISRC | International Standard Recording Code |
| ISSCC | International Solid State Circuits Conference |
| ISSE | Internet Streaming SIMD Extension (vormals KNI) |
| IST | Information Society Technologies |
| ISUP | ISDN User Part |
| IT | InformationsTechnik |
| ITD | Inaural Time Difference |
| ITS | Internet Transaction Server (SAP) |
| ITU | International Telecommunications Union |
| ITU-T | International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication |
| IuK | Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik |
| iView | Integrated View |
| IWF | Inter Working Function |
| IWV | ImpulsWahlVerfahren |
| IXA | Internet eXchange Architecture |
| IXFR | Incremental zone TransFeR |
| IXP | Internet eXchange Point |
J
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J2SE | Jave 2 Standard Edition |
| JAAS | Java Authentication and Authorization Service |
| JAD | Joint Application Design |
| JAF | JavaBeans Activation Framework |
| JARS | Java Applet Rating Service |
| JAXM | Java API for XML Messaging |
| JAXP | Java API for XML Parsing |
| JAXR | Java API for XML Registries |
| JBI | Java Business Integration |
| JBIG | Joint Bi-level Image experts Group |
| JBOWS | Just a Bunch Of Web Services |
| jBPM | Java Business Process Management |
| JCA | J2EE Connector Architecture |
| JCA | Java Cryptography Architecture |
| JCE | Java Cryptography Extension |
| JCo | Java Connector (SAP) |
| JCP | Java Community Process |
| JDBC | Java DataBase Connectivity |
| JDI | Java Debug Interface |
| JDI | Java Development Infrastructure |
| JDK | Java Development Kit |
| JDO | Java Data Objects |
| JDWP | Java Debug Wire Protocol |
| JEDEC | Joint Electron Device Engineering Council |
| JEIDA | Japan Electronics Industry Department Association |
| JFC | Java Foundation Classes |
| JFIF | JPEG File Interchange Format |
| JFS | Journaling File System |
| JFT | Job File Table |
| JINI | Java Intelligent Network Infrastructure |
| JIT | Just-In-Time compiler |
| JMS | Java Messaging Service |
| JMX | Java Management eXtensions |
| JNDI | Java Naming and Directory service Interface |
| JNI | Java Native Interface |
| JNLP | Java Network Launching Protocol |
| JNT | Java Network Technology |
| JPDA | Java Platform Debugger Architecture |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| JRA | Java Resource Adapter |
| JRMP | Java Remote Method Protocol |
| JS | JavaScript |
| JSAPI | Java Speech API |
| JSDK | Java Servlet Development Kit |
| JSF | JavaServer Faces |
| JSP | Java Server Pages |
| JSR | Java Specification Request |
| JSTL | JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library |
| JSWDK | JavaServer Web Development Kit |
| JTA | Java Transaction API |
| JTM | Job Transfer and Manipulation |
| JTS | Java Transaction Service |
| JVM | Java Virtual Machine |
| JVMDI | Java Virtual Machine Debugger Interface |
L
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L2CAP | Logical Link Control and Adaption Protocol |
| L2F | Layer 2 Forwarding |
| L2TF | Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol |
| LAI | Location Area Identity |
| LAME | LAME ain't an MP3 Encoder (so ist es!) |
| LAMP | Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LANE | LAN Emulation |
| LAP | Link Access Procedure |
| LAP B | Link Access Protocol, Balanced |
| LAPM | Link Access Procedure for Modems |
| Laser | Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| LAT | Local Area Transport |
| LBA | Logical Block Addressing |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
| LCG | Linear Congruent Generator |
| LCOS | Liquid Crystal On Silicon |
| LCP | Link Control Protocol |
| LCR | Least Cost Router |
| LDA | Local Delivery Agent |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LDD | Lightly Doped Drain |
| LDIF | LDAP Data Interchange Format |
| LDP | Linux Documentation Project |
| LDSL | Low bit rate Digital Subscriber Line |
| LDT | Lightning Data Transfer |
| LEC | LAN Emulation Client |
| LECS | LAN Emulation Configuration Server |
| LED | Light Emitting Diode |
| LEDA | Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms |
| LEO | Low Earth Orbit |
| LEP | Light Emitting Polymer |
| LER | Label Edge Router |
| LES | LAN Emulation Server |
| LF | Line Feed |
| LFN | Long FileName |
| LFS | Large File Support |
| LFSR | Linear Feedback Shift Register |
| LFV | Logical File Viewer |
| LGPL | Library GPL |
| LHAM | Log-structured History data Access Method |
| LIDE | LED Indirect Exposure |
| LIDS | Linux Intrusion Detection System |
| LIFO | Last-In First-Out |
| LILO | Last-In Last-Out |
| LILO | LInux LOader |
| LIM | Lotus-Intel-Microsoft (Expanded-Memory-Spezifikation) |
| Linux | Linus' Unix |
| LIS | Logical IP Subnet |
| LISP | LISt Processing language |
| LISP | LISt Processor |
| LLC | Logical Link Control |
| LMA | Layer Management Entity |
| LMF | Local Media Format |
| LMP | Link Management Protocol |
| LNNI | LAN emulation Network to Network Interface |
| LOB | Large OBject |
| LOD | Level Of Detail |
| LON | Local Operation Network |
| LOTOS | Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification |
| LPC | Local Procedure Call |
| LPC | Low Pin Count |
| LPCM | Linear Pulse Code Modulation |
| LPD | Line Printer Daemon |
| LPPL | LaTeX Project Public License |
| LPR | Line Printer Remote |
| LPS | Labeled Switch Path |
| LPT | Line Printer |
| LRC | Longitudinal Redundancy Check |
| LRU | Last Recently Used (Cache/Paging-Algorithmus) |
| lsb | Least Significant Bit |
| LSB | Least Significant Byte |
| LSB | Linux Standard Base |
| LSF | Load Sharing Facility |
| LSI | Large Scale Integration |
| LSM | Linux Security Module |
| LSM | Linux Software Map |
| LSN | Log Sequence Number |
| LT | Line Termination |
| LTP | Linux Test Project |
| LTPS | Low Temperature Poly Silicium |
| LUI | Location Area Identifier |
| LUN | Logical Unit Number |
| LUNI | LAN emulation User to Network Interface |
| LUW | Logical Unit of Work |
| LVDS | Low Voltage Differential Signaling |
| LVDS | Low Voltage Differential Swing |
| LVM | Logical Volume Manager |
| LVTTL | Low Voltage Transistor Transistor Logic |
| LWDRM | Light Weight Digital Righs Management |
| LWL | LichtWellenLeiter |
| LZW | Lempel/Ziv/Welch |
M
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M4IF | MPEG-4 Industry Forum |
| MAC | Mandatory Access Control |
| MAC | Media Access Control |
| MAC | Message Authentication Code |
| MAC | Multiplication ACcumulation |
| MADCAP | Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol |
| MAF | Mobile Agent Facility |
| MAJC | Micro Architecture for Java Computing (gesprochen magic) |
| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network |
| MAP | Management Access Protocol |
| MAPI | Mail API |
| MARS | Multicast Address Resolution Server |
| MASFET | Metal-Alumina Silicon Field Effect Transistor |
| MathML | MATHematical Markup Language |
| MAU | Medium Attachment Unit |
| MB | Mega Bytes |
| MBCS | MultiByte Character Set |
| MBR | Master Boot Record |
| MBS | Maximum Burst Size |
| MC | Motion Compensation |
| MCA | Micro Channel Architecture (Bus-System) |
| MCD | Mini Client Driver (Grafiktreiber mit begrenztem Funktionsumfang) |
| MCF | Meta Content Format |
| MCGA | Memory Controller Gate Array |
| MCH | Memory Controller Hub |
| MCI | Media Control Interface |
| MCM | Multi-Carrier Module |
| MCM | Multi-Chip Module |
| MCP | Multi-Chip Package |
| MCR | Minimal Cell Rate |
| MCU | MicroController Unit |
| MD5 | Message Digest 5 |
| MDA | Model-Driven Architecture |
| MDA | Monochrome Display Adapter |
| MDAC | Microsoft Data Access Components |
| MDB | Message Driven Bean |
| MDG | Minimum Delay Generator |
| MDI | Medium Dependent Interface |
| MDI | Multiple Document Interface |
| MDM | Master Data Management (SAP) |
| MDR | Mini-Delta Ribbon |
| MDS | Multiple Data Stream |
| MDSD | Model-Driven Software Development |
| MDSL | Medium bit rate Digital Subscriber Line |
| ME | Millennium Edition |
| MEDEA | Micro-Electronics Development for European Applications |
| MEMS | Micro-Electrical-Mechanical Systems |
| MEO | Medium Earth Orbit |
| MEP | Message Exchange Pattern |
| MESI | Modified-Exclusive-Shared-Invalid (Cache-Protokoll für Multiprozessorumgebung, ab 486) |
| METAL | Machine and Translation of Natural Language (Übersetzungsprogramm von Siemens und der Universität von Austin,Texas) |
| MF | MultiFunction (z. B. MF-II Tastaturen, AT-Laufwerke) |
| MFLOPS | Millions of FLOating Point Operations per Second (MegaFlops) |
| MFM | Modified Frequency Modulation (Festplatten-Aufzeichnugsverfahren) |
| MFT | Master File Table |
| MFT | Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks |
| MFTP | Multicast File Transfer Protocol |
| MGCP | Media Gateway Control Protocol |
| MGL | Multi Granularity Locking |
| MHP | Multimedia Home Platform |
| MHS | Message Handling System |
| MHz | MegaHertz |
| MIB | Management Information Base |
| MIB | Men In Black |
| MIC | Message Integrity Check |
| MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
| MIF | Maker Interchange Format |
| MIF | Management Information Format |
| MIFD | Management Information Format Database |
| MII | Media Independent Interface |
| MIMD | Multiple-Instruction Multiple-Data |
| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MIP | Mobile Internet Protocol |
| MIPS | Millions of Instructions per Second |
| MIS | Metal Insulator Semiconductor |
| MISD | Multiple-Instruction Single Data |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| M-JPEG | Motion JPEG |
| MKT | Multifunktionales KartenTerminal |
| MLD | Multicast Listener Discovery |
| MLMA | Multi-Level Multiple Access |
| MLP | Meridian Lossless Packaging |
| MLR | Multichannel Linear Recording |
| MMC | Microsoft Management Console |
| MMC | Mobile Module Connector |
| MMC | MultiMedia Card |
| MMCA | MultiMedia Card Association |
| MMDF | Multi-channel Memo Distributing Facility |
| MMS | Manufacturing Message Specification |
| MMS | Microsoft Media Server |
| MMU | Memory Management Unit |
| MMVF | MultiMedia Video Format |
| MMX | MultiMedia eXtension |
| MNOSFET | Metal-Nitride-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor |
| MNP | Microcom Networking Protocol |
| MOC | Managed Object Class |
| Modacom | MObile DAta COMmunications |
| MODEM | MOdulator/DEModulator |
| MOF | Managed Object Format |
| MOLAP | Multidimensional OLAP |
| MOM | Message-Oriented Middleware |
| MOP | Meta Object Protocol |
| µops | micro operations |
| MOPS | Millions of Operations Per Second |
| MOS | Metal-Oxide Semiconductor |
| MOSFET | Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor |
| MOSPF | Multicast Open Shortest Path First |
| MOTD | Message Of The Day |
| MOTIS | Message Oriented Text Interchange System |
| MoU | Memorandum Of Understanding |
| MP | MultiProcessor |
| MP3 | MPEG audio layer 3 |
| MPC | Multimedia PC |
| MPDU | Message Protocol Data Unit |
| MPEG | Moving Pictures Experts Group |
| µPGA | Micro Pin Grid Array |
| MPL | Mozilla Public License |
| MPLS | Multi-Protocol Label Switching |
| MP/M | Multiprogramming Monitor |
| MPM | Multi-Processing-Module |
| MPOA | Multi-Protocol Over ATM |
| MPP | Massively Parallel Processor |
| MPR | Mät- och ProvningsRådet |
| MPSL | Multi Protocol Label Switching |
| MPT | Memory Protocol Translator |
| MPU | MicroProcessor Unit |
| MRAM | Magnetoresistive RAM |
| MRCI | Microsoft Real-Time Compression Interface (bei Double Space) |
| MRH | Memory Repeater Hub |
| MRJ | Macintosh Runtime for Java |
| MRM | Multi-Resolution-Mesh |
| MR-SDSL | MultiRate SDSL |
| MRSID | Multi Resolution Seamless Image Database |
| MRU | Maximum Receive Unit |
| MRU | Maximum Resource Usage |
| MRU | Most Recently Used |
| MRX | MagnetoResistive eXtended |
| MS | Message Store |
| MS | MicroSoft |
| MSA | Micro Signal Architecture |
| MSAP | Mini Slotted Alternating Priorities |
| msb | Most Significant Bit |
| MSB | Most Significant Byte |
| MSC | Mobile services Switching Center |
| MSD | Message Sequence Chart |
| MS-DOS | MicroSoft Disk Operating System |
| MSDP | Multicast Source Discovery Protocol |
| MSDR | Multiplexed Streaming Data Request |
| MSDSL | Multirate SDSL |
| MSE | Microsoft Scripting Engine |
| MSI | Medium Scale Integration |
| MSI | Message Signaled Interrupt |
| MSIL | MicroSoft Intermediate Language |
| MSK | Minimum Shift Keying |
| MSN | Microsoft Support Network |
| MSN | Multiple Subscriber Numbers |
| MSS | Maximum Segment Size |
| MTA | Message Transfer Agent |
| MTBF | Mean Time Between Failure |
| MTC | MIDI Time Code |
| MTF | Move-To-Front |
| MTH | Memory Translator Hub |
| MTJ | Magnetic Tunnel Junction |
| MTJ-RAM | Magnetic Tunnel Junction RAM |
| MTP | Mail Transfer Protocol |
| MTP | Message Transfer Part |
| MTRR | Memory Type Range Register |
| MTS | Message Transfer Service |
| MTS | Microsoft Transaction Server |
| MTU | Maximum Transmission Unit |
| MULTICS | Multiplexed Information and Computing Service |
| MUMPS | Mass. Utility MultiProgramming System |
| MUSICAM | Masking Pattern Adapted Universal Coding And Multiplexing |
| MVA | Multidomain Vertical Alignment |
| MVC | Model/View/Controller |
| MVD | MultiValued Dependency |
| MVIP | Multi Vendor Integration Protocol |
| MVS | Multiple Virtual Storage |
| MXT | Memory eXpansion Technology |
N
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N/A | Not Assigned |
| NAK | Negative AcKnowledgement |
| NAP | Network Access Points |
| NAS | Network Attached Storage |
| NaT | Not A Thing |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| NBIC | Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno |
| NBS | National Bureau of Standards |
| N/C | No Connect |
| NC | Network Computer |
| NC | Norton Commander |
| nCCNUMA | non-Cache-Coherent Non-Unified Memory Architecture |
| NCP | Netware Core Protocol |
| NCP | Network Control Program |
| NCP | Network Control Protocol |
| NCSA | National Center for Supercomputer Applications |
| NCSC | National Computer Security Center |
| NDIS | Network Device Interface Specification |
| NDPS | Novell Distributed Print Services |
| NDS | NetWare Directory Services |
| NDS | Novell Directory Services |
| NEMA | National Electrical Manufacturers Association |
| NetBEUI | NetBIOS Extended User Interface |
| NetBIOS | Network BIOS |
| NEXT | Near End Cross Talk (X = Cross) |
| NF2DBS | Non First Normal Form DataBase System |
| NFR | Near Field Recording |
| NFS | Network File System |
| NFSS | New Font Selection Scheme |
| NFU | Not Frequently Used |
| NGSCB | Next Generation Security Computing Base |
| NHC | Next Hop Client |
| NHRP | Next Hop Resolution Protocol |
| NHS | Next Hop Server |
| NIAS | Novell Internet Access Server |
| NIC | Network Information Center |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NIDL | Network Interface Description Language |
| NIL | Not In List |
| NIP | Non Impact Printer |
| NIS | Network Information System |
| NISDN | Narrowband ISDN |
| NLB | Network Load Balancing |
| NLS | Native Language Support |
| NMAS | Novell Modular Authentication Service |
| NMC | Network Management Center |
| NMI | Non-Maskable Interrupt |
| NMOS | Negatively doped Metal-Oxide Semiconductor |
| NMR | Normalized Message Router |
| NMT | Nordic Mobile Telephone system |
| NNI | Network to Network Interface |
| NNTP | Network News Transfer Protocol |
| NOP | No OPeration |
| NPAD | Non Program Associated Data |
| NPTL | Native POSIX Threading Library |
| NRM | Normal Response Mode |
| nrt-VBR | Non Real Time Variable Bit Rate |
| NRU | Not Recently Used |
| NRZ | Non Return to Zero |
| NSAPI | Netscape Server API |
| NSC | National Semiconductor Corporation |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NSI | Network Solutions |
| NSS | Netware Storage Services |
| NSS | Network and Switching Subsystem |
| NT | Network Termination |
| NT | New Technology |
| NTFS | NT File System |
| NTLM | NT LanMan |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol |
| NTS | New Typesetting System |
| NTS | Novell Telephone Services |
| NTSC | National Television Systems Committee |
| Num | Numerisch |
| NUMA | Non-Unified Memory Architecture |
| NURBS | Non Uniform Rational B-Splines |
| NVFS | Network Virtual File System |
| NVRAM | Non Volatile RAM |
| NVT | Network Virtual Terminal |
| NWDI | Netweaver Development Infrastructure |
O
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OAM | Operation/Administration/Maintenance |
| OASIS | Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards |
| OBV | Objects by Value |
| OCF | Open Card Framework |
| OCL | Object Constraint Language |
| OCML | Operational Conceptual Modelling Language |
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition |
| OCSP | Online Certificate Status Protocol |
| OCVR | On Cartridge Voltage Regulator |
| ODBC | Open DataBase Connectivity |
| ODD | Object Design Document |
| ODETTE | Organization for Data Exchange by Tele Transmission in Europe |
| ODI | Open Data Link Interface |
| ODMG | Object Database Management Group |
| ODP | Open Directory Project |
| ODP | Open Distributed Processing |
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| OEP | Operand Execution Pipeline |
| OEW | Object Engineering Workbench |
| OFB | Output FeedBack |
| OFDMA | Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access |
| OGNL | Object-Graph Navigation Language |
| OHCI | Open Host Controller Interface |
| OID | Object IDentifier |
| OLAP | OnLine Analytical Processing |
| OLE | Object Linking and Embedding |
| OLED | Organic Light Emitting Device |
| OLGA | OnLine Guitar Archive |
| OLT | Optical Line Termination |
| OLTP | OnLine Transaction Processing |
| OMG | Object Management Group |
| OMS | Operation and Maintenance System |
| OMT | Object Modeling Technique |
| ONE | Open Network Environment |
| ONU | Optical Network Unit |
| OOA&D | Object-Oriented Analysis and Design |
| OOK | On-Off Keying |
| OOP | Object-Oriented Programming |
| OOSE | Object-Oriented Software Engineering |
| OPC | Optical Proximity Correction |
| OPC | Originating Point Code |
| opcode | Operation Code |
| OpenAL | Open Audio Library |
| OPI | Open Press Interface |
| OPL | Open Publication License |
| OPTIS | Overlapped PAM Transmission with Interlocking Spectra |
| OQL | Object Query Language |
| ORB | Object Request Broker |
| org | Organization |
| OS | Operating System |
| OSD | On-Screen Display |
| OSD | Open Software Description standard |
| OSDL | Open Source Development Lab |
| OSF | Open Software Foundation |
| OSGi | OSGi Alliance (früher Open Services Gateway initiative) |
| OSI | Open Source Initiative |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection |
| OSM | On-Screen Menu |
| OSPF | Open Shortest Path First |
| OSR | OEM Service Release |
| OSS | Open Sound System |
| OSTA | Optical Storage Technology Association |
| OTA | Over The Air |
| OTDR | Optical Time Domain Refectometry |
| OTPROM | On Time Programmable Read Only Memory |
| OTS | Object Transaction Service |
| OW | OverWrite |
| OWL | Ontology Web Language |
P
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P&D | Plug & Display |
| P2P | Peer-To-Peer |
| P3P | Platform for Privacy Preferences |
| PACCH | Packet Associated Control CHannel |
| PAD | Packet Assembler/Disassembler |
| PAD | Program Associated Data |
| PAGCH | Package Access Grant CHannel |
| PAI | Process After Input |
| PAL | Phase Alternating Line |
| PAL | Programmable Array Logic |
| PALCD | Plasma Addressed LCD |
| PAM | Pluggable Authentication Module |
| PAM | Pulsed Amplitude Modulation |
| PAN | Personal Area Network |
| PAP | Password Authentication Protocol |
| PAP | Push Access Protocol |
| PAT | Performance Acceleration Technique |
| PAUL | Pdf Advanced Universal Library |
| PB | Push Button |
| PBE | Password Based Encryption |
| PBO | Process Before Output |
| PBX | Private Branch eXchange |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| PC | Program Counter |
| PC/SC | Personal Computer/Smart Card |
| PCA | Policy Certification Authorities |
| PCB | Printed Circuit Board |
| PCBC | Plaintext Cipher Block Chaining |
| PCDATA | Parsable Character DATA |
| PCH | Paging CHannel |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect bus |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interface |
| PCI | Programmable Communication Interface |
| PCI-SIG | PCI Special Interest Group |
| PCIX | Peripheral Component Interface eXtension |
| PCL | Printer Control Language |
| PCM | Pulse Code Modulation |
| PCMCIA | People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms |
| PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
| PCR | Peak Cell Rate |
| PCRE | Perl Compatible Regular Expressions |
| PCS | Personal Communication Service |
| PCS | Physical Coding Sublayer |
| PC/SC | Pesonal Computer/Smart Card |
| PCT | Private Communications Technology |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
| PDBMS | Parallel DataBase Management System |
| PDC | Personal Digital Communications |
| PDC | Primary Domain Controller |
| PDD | Professional Disc for Data |
| PDE | Page Directory Entry |
| PDF | Portable Document Format |
| PDH | Plesiochrone Digitale Hierarchie |
| PDL | Page Description Language |
| PDS | Persistent Data Service |
| PDS | Processor Direct Slot |
| PDU | Protocol Data Unit |
| PDV | Path Delay Values |
| P/E | Poll/End |
| PE | Performance Enhanced |
| PE | Portable Executable |
| PE | Processor Element |
| PEAR | PHP Extension and Application Repository |
| PEM | Privacy Enhanced Mail |
| Perl | Practical Extraction and Report Language |
| PERM | Parallele Elektronische Rechenmaschine München |
| PERT | Program Evaluation and Review Technique |
| PES | Packetized Elementary Stream |
| PES | Proposed Encryption Standard |
| PET | Personal Electronic Transactor |
| PET | Privacy Enhancement Technology |
| PFC | Power Factor Correction |
| PFF | Page Fault Frequency |
| PFM | Pulsed Frequency Modulation |
| PGA | Pin Grid Array |
| PGA | Professional Graphics Adapter (IBM-Standard mit max. 640x480) |
| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy |
| PHM | Padded Hashed Message |
| PHP | Personal Home Page tools |
| PHP | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor |
| PI | Process Integration (SAP) |
| PI | Protocol Interpreter |
| PIC | Personal Intelligent Communicator |
| PIC | Programmable Interrupt Controller |
| PICS | Platform for Internet Content Selection |
| PID | Persistence Identifier |
| PID | Process IDentifier |
| PIDL | Pseudo-IDL |
| PIF | Parity Inner Failure |
| PIF | Program Information File |
| PIIX | PCI ISA IDE accelerator |
| PIM | Personal Information Manager |
| PIM | Print Image Matching |
| PIM | Protocol Independent Multicast |
| PIM-DM | Protocol Independent Multicast/Dense Mode |
| PIM-SM | Protocol Independent Multicast/Sparse Mode |
| PIN | Personal Identification Number |
| PING | Packet InterNet Grouper |
| PIO | Programmed I/O |
| PIR | Public Internet Registry |
| PIROM | Processor Information ROM |
| pixel | picture cell |
| pixel | picture element |
| PJL | Printer Job Language |
| PKCS | Public Key Cryptography Standards |
| PKI | Public Key Infrastructure |
| PKZIP | Phil Katz ZIP |
| PL1 | Programming Language 1 |
| PLA | Programmable Logic Array |
| PLC | PowerLine Communication |
| PLCC | Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier |
| PLD | Programmable Logic Device |
| PLL | Phase Locked Loop |
| PLL | Programming Language for Linguistics |
| PLMN | Public Land Mobile Network |
| PLP | Packet Level Protocol |
| PLS | Physical Layer Signaling |
| P/M | Physical/Multicast |
| PM | Phase Modulation |
| PMA | Physical Medium Attachment |
| PMD | Physical Medium Dependent |
| PMD | Private Management Domain |
| PMOS | Positively doped Metal-Oxide Semiconductor |
| PMP | Point to MultiPoint |
| PMR | Private Mobile Radio |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| PnP | Plug'n'Play |
| POA | Portable Object Adapter |
| POF | Parity Outer Failure |
| POJO | Plain Old Java Object |
| POM | Persistent Object Manager |
| POP | Post Office Protocol |
| POS | Persistent Object Service |
| POS | Point Of Sale |
| POSIX | Portable Operating System and Interactive eXecutive for open systems |
| POSIX | Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX |
| POST | Power On Self Test |
| POTS | Plain Old Telephone System |
| POTS | Point Of Termination Station |
| PPC | Power PC |
| PPCH | Packet Paging CHannel |
| PPD | PostScript Printer Description |
| PPG | Push Proxy Gateway |
| PPGA | Plastic Pin Grid Array |
| PPM | Prediction by Partial Match |
| PPM | Pulsed Phase Modulation |
| PPP | Point to Point Protocol |
| PPPoE | PPP Over Ethernet |
| PPTP | Point to Point Tunneling Protocol |
| PR | Performance Rating |
| PRA | Purported Responsible Address |
| PRACH | Packet Random Access CHannel |
| PRCS | Project Revision Control System |
| PRECOMP | write PRECOMPensation |
| PRI | Primary-Rate Interface |
| PROD | Productive Server |
| PROLOG | PROgramming in LOGic |
| PROM | Programmable Read Only Memory |
| PS | Post Script |
| PS/2 | Personal System/2 |
| PSE | Personal Security Environment |
| PSK | Phase Shift Keying |
| PSO | Protocol Supporting Organization |
| PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network |
| PTCH | Packet Traffic CHannel |
| PTE | Page Table Entry |
| PTI | Payload Type Identifier |
| PTR | Paper-Type-Reader |
| PUK | Personal Unblocking Key |
| PUP | PARC Universal packet Protocol |
| PURL | Persistent Uniform Resource Locator |
| PVC | Permanent Virtual Circuit |
| PVC | Permanent Virtual Connection |
| PVM | Parallel Virtual Machine |
| PWM | Pulse Width Modulation |
| PWM | Pulse-Width Modulation |
| PXE | Process eXecution Engine |
R
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RACH | Random Access CHannel |
| RAD | Rapid Application Development |
| RADIUS | Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RAMDAC | Random Access Memory Digital to Analog Converter |
| RAPID | Reusable Application Specific Intellectul Property Developers |
| RAR | Resource Adapter aRchive |
| RARP | Reverse Address Resolution Protocol |
| RAS | Reliability, Accessibility, Serviceability |
| RAS | Remote Access Service |
| RAS | Row Access Strobe (siehe auch CAS) |
| RAT | Register Alias Table |
| RAVE | Renderer Acceleration Virtual Engine |
| RBB | Rapid Boot BIOS |
| RC | Reconfigurable Computing |
| RC | Release Candidate |
| RC | Resource Control |
| RC4 | Ron's Cipher 4 |
| RCA | Radio Corporation of America |
| RCC | Routing Control Center |
| RCP | Rich Client Platform |
| RCS | Revision Control System |
| RDBMS | Relational DataBase Management System |
| RDF | Resource Description Format |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework |
| RD-LAP | Radio Data Link Access Protocol |
| RDN | Relative Distinguished Name |
| RDO | Remote Data Object |
| RDP | Reliable Datagram Protocol |
| RDP | Remote Desktop Protocol |
| RDRAM | RAMBUS DRAM |
| RDS | Radio Data System |
| RDS-EON | Radio Data System - Enhanced Other Networks |
| RED | Random Early Detection |
| RegTP | Regulierungsbehoerde fuer Telekommunikation und Post |
| REM | REMarks |
| RES | Robots Exclusion Standard (robots.txt) |
| REST | REpresentational State Transfer |
| REXX | REstructured eXtended eXecutor |
| RFB | Remote Frame Buffer |
| RFC | Remote Function Call |
| RFC | Request For Comments |
| RFI | Radio Frequency Interference |
| RFID | Radio Frequency IDentification |
| RFM | RFC-enabled Function Module |
| RFV | Real File Viewer |
| RGB | Red, Green, Blue |
| RI | Ring Indicator (signalisiert Anläuten des Modems) |
| RIAA | Recording Industry Association of America |
| RID | Row IDentifier |
| RIE | Reactive Ion Etching |
| RIFF | Resource Interchange File Format |
| RIMM | RAMBUS In-line Memory Module |
| RIP | Raster Image Processor |
| RIP | Routing Information Protocol |
| RIPE | Réseaux IP Européens |
| RIPE NCC | Reseaux Internet Protocol Européenne Network Coordination Center |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
| RJE | Remote Job Entry |
| RL | Real Life |
| RL | Reconfigurable Logic |
| RLDRAM | Reduced Latency DRAM |
| RLE | Run Length Encoding |
| RLL | Run Length Limited (Festplatten-Aufzeichnugsverfahren) |
| RLP | Radio Link Protocol |
| RMF | Rich Music Format |
| RMI | Remote Method Invocation (wie RPC für Java) |
| RMI-IIOP | Remote Method Invocation Internet Inter-ORB Protocol |
| RMM | Read Mostly Memory (wie EPROM) |
| RMON | Remote MONitoring |
| RMS | Root Mean Squared |
| RMW | Read Modify Write |
| RNG | Random Number Generator |
| ROI | Region Of Interest |
| ROLAP | Relational OLAP |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| ROOM | Realtime Object Orientated Modeling |
| rop | RISC OPeration |
| ROS | Record On Silicon |
| ROSE | Remote Operations Service Element |
| ROT | Running Object Table |
| RP | Rendezvous Point |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| RPG | Role Playing Game |
| RPM | Rotations Per Minute |
| RPS | Right Protection System (Zensur-System) |
| RPSL | Routing Policy Specification Language |
| RR | Resource Record |
| RRAS | Routing and Remote Access Service |
| RRO | Radial Run Out |
| RS | Reed-Solomon |
| RSA | Rives/Shamir/Adleman |
| RSAC | Recreational Software Advisory Council |
| RSBAC | Rule Set Based Access Control |
| RSDL | Reverse Spiral Dual Layer |
| RSL | Registry Size Limit |
| RSM | Randomized Shared Memory |
| RSS | Really Simple Syndication |
| RSVP | resource ReSerVation Protocol |
| RTA | Rapid Thermal Annealing |
| RTA | Response Time Accelerator |
| RTC | Real Time Clock |
| RTD | Round Trip Delay |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
| RTFM | Read The Flaming Manual |
| RTL | Register Transfer Level |
| RTO | Retransmission TimeOut |
| RTP | Realtime Transport Protocol |
| RTS | Ready To Send |
| RTS | Request To Send |
| RTSE | Reliable Transfer Service Element |
| rtsp | Real-Time Streaming Protocol |
| RTTI | Run-Time-Type-Information |
| rt-VBR | Real Time Variable Bit Rate |
| RUP | Rational Unified Process |
| RVD | Remote Virtual Disk |
| RW | Read/Write |
| RWIN | Receive WINdow |
| RZ | Return to Zero |
S
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SA | Security Association |
| SA | Service Agent |
| SAA | Systems Application Architecture |
| SAAJ | SOAP with Attachments API for Java |
| SAAL | Signaling ATM Adaption Layer |
| S-Abf | System-Abfrage |
| SABM | Set Asynchronous Balance Mode |
| SABME | Set Asynchronous Balance Mode Extended |
| SAC | Simple API for CSS |
| SACCH | Slow Associated Control CHannel |
| SACD | Super Audio CD |
| SACK | Selective ACKnowledgement |
| SAL | Server Abstraction Layer |
| SAM | Scalable ADSL Modem |
| SAM | Security Accounts Manager |
| SAM | Sequential Access Memory |
| SAML | Security Assertion Markup Language |
| SAN | Storage Area Network |
| SANE | Scanner Access Now Easy |
| SAP | Service Access Point |
| SAP | Service Advertising Protocol |
| SAR | Segmentation And Reassembly |
| SAR | Service ARchive |
| SASE | Specific Application Service Elements |
| SASI | Shugart Associates Standard Interface (Shugart=Seagate) |
| SATA | Serial ATA |
| SAX | Simple API for XML |
| SBA | Side Band Addressing |
| SBR | Spectral Band Replication |
| SCA | Software Component Archive |
| SCAM | SCSI Configured AutoMagically |
| SCART | Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils Radio recepteurs et Téléviseurs |
| SCCP | Signalling Connection Control Part |
| SCEP | Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol |
| SCH | Synchronization CHannel |
| SCHWAFEL | Self Constructing Hyper Wavelet Algorithms For Extrapolating Linguistics |
| SCI | Scalable Coherent Interface |
| SCM | Service Control Manager |
| SCM | Software Configuration Management |
| SCM | Supply Chain Management |
| SCMP | Software Configuration Management Plan |
| SCO | Synchronous Connection-Oriented |
| SCP | SmartCard Platform |
| SCR | Sustainable Cell Rate |
| SCSA | Signal Computing System Architecture |
| SCSI | Small Computer Systems Interface (gesprochen scuzzy) |
| SD | Synchronized Data |
| SDDS | Sony Dynamic Digital Sound |
| SDF | Shortest Delay First |
| SDH | Synchrone Digitale Hierarchie |
| SDH | Synchronous Digital Hierarchy |
| SDI | Serial Digital Interface |
| SDI | Single Document Interface |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| SDL | System Description Language |
| SDLC | Synchronous Data Link Control |
| SDM | Software Deployment Manager |
| SDM | Synchronous Digital Hierarchy |
| SDMA | Space Division Multiple Access |
| SDMI | Secure Digital Music Initiative |
| SDP | Service Discovery Protocol |
| SDRAM | Synchronous DRAM |
| SDRD | System Design Rationale Document |
| SDSL | Single line Digital Subscriber Line |
| SDSL | Single pair Digital Subscriber Line |
| SDSL | Symmetrical bit rate Digital Subscriber Line |
| SDSL | Symmetrical single pair Digital Subscriber Line |
| SDU | Service Data Unit |
| SEAL | Simple and Efficient Adaptation Layer |
| SEAL | Software-optimized Encryption ALgorithm |
| SECC | Single Edge Contact Cartridge |
| sed | Stream EDitor |
| SEH | Structured Exception Handling |
| SELinux | Security Enhanced Linux |
| SEPP | Single Edge Processor Package |
| SEQUEL | Structured English QUEry Language (heute SQL) |
| SET | Secure Electronic Transaction |
| SFD | Start Frame Delimiter |
| SFP | System File Protection |
| SFT | System File Table |
| SGI | Silicon Graphics, Inc. |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SGMP | Simple Gateway Monitoring Port |
| SGRAM | Static Graphics RAM |
| SGRAM | Synchronous Graphic RAM |
| SGSN | Serving GPRS Support Node |
| SHA | Secure Hash Algorithm |
| SHTML | SSI HTML (Kennzeichnung für HTML-Dateien mit SSI) |
| S-HTTP | Secure HTTP |
| SIA | Semiconductor Industry Association |
| SIB | Security Information Base |
| SID | Security ID |
| SID | Society for Information Displays |
| SIF | Source Input Format |
| SIG | Special Interest Group |
| SIIA | Software and Information Industry Association |
| SIM | Subscriber Identity Module |
| SIMD | Single-Instruction Multiple-Data |
| SIMD-FP | Single Instruction, Multiple Data-Floating Point |
| SIMM | Single In-line Memory Module |
| SIO | Signalling Information Octet |
| SIP | Serial Interface Protocol |
| SIP | Single In-line Package |
| SIPP | Single In-Line Pin Package |
| SIR | Serial InfraRed |
| SIR | Standard InfraRed |
| SiS | Silicon Integrated Systems |
| SISD | Single-Instruction Single-Data |
| SLC | Simple Line Code |
| SLD | Second Level Domain |
| SLD | System Landscape Directory |
| SLDRAM | SyncLink DRAM |
| SLI | Scalable Link Interface |
| SLI | Scan Line Interleaving |
| SLIP | Serial Line Internet Protocol |
| SLP | Service Locator Protocol |
| SLS | Signalling Link Selection |
| SMA | Shared Memory Architecture |
| SMA | System Management Application |
| SMAE | System Management Application Entity |
| SMAP | System Management Application Process |
| SMART | Self Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology |
| SMB | Server Message Block |
| SMB | System Management Bus |
| SMD | Surface Mount Device |
| SMI | Structure of Management Information |
| SMIL | Synchronized Media Integration Language |
| S/MIME | Secure MIME |
| SMNP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SMO | Structure-Modifying Operation |
| SMP | Simple Management Protocol |
| SMP | Symmetric MultiProcessing |
| SMPTE | Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers |
| SMS | Selective Multicast Server |
| SMS | Short Message Service |
| SMS | System Management Server |
| SMSC | Short Message Service Center |
| SMSC | Short Message Service Centre |
| SMT | Simultanous MultiThreading |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNA | Systems Network Architecture |
| SNAP | SubNetwork Attachment Point |
| SNC | Secure Network Communications |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SNR | Signal to Noise Ratio |
| SNRM | Set Normal Response Mode |
| SNRME | Set Normal Response Mode Extended |
| SO | Small Outline |
| SOA | Semiconductor Optical Amplifier |
| SOA | Services Oriented Architecture |
| SOA | Start Of Authority |
| SOA | Structure Of Arrays |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SODIMM | Small Outline DIMM |
| SOH | Start Of Heading |
| SOHO | Small Office/Home Office |
| SOI | Silicon-On-Isolator |
| SOIC | Small Outline Integrated Circuit |
| SoL | System on a Chip |
| SOL | Small OutLine |
| SOM | System Object Model |
| SONET | Synchronous Optical NETwork |
| SP | Service Pack |
| SPAM | Spiced Pork and hAM |
| SPARC | Scalable Performance ARChitecture |
| SPDCH | Slave Packet Data CHannel |
| SPD-EEPROM | Serial Presence Detect EEPROM |
| S/P-DIF | Sony/Philips Digital InterFace |
| SPEC | Standard/System Performance Evaluation Corporation |
| SPF | Sender Permitted From |
| SPF | Sender Policy Framework |
| SPI | Security Parameter Index |
| SPI | Service Provider Interface |
| SPID | Service Profile IDentifier |
| SPKAC | Signed Public Key And Challenge |
| SPMD | Single Program Multiple Data |
| SPOOL | Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On Line |
| SPP | Standard Parallel Port |
| SPT | Sectors Per Track |
| SPT | Shortest Process Time |
| SPTI | SCSI Pass-Through Interface |
| SPX | Sequenced Packet eXchange |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| SQL/J | Precompiler für in Java-Code eingebettete SQL-Befehle |
| SRAM | Static RAM |
| sRFC | Synchronous RFC |
| SRI | Stanford Research Institute |
| SRPT | Shortest Remaining Process Time |
| SSA | Single Static Assignment |
| SSAP | Source Service Access Point |
| SSCS | Service Specific Convergence Sublayer |
| SSF | Secure Store and Forward |
| SSI | Server Side Includes |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| SST | Silicon Storage Technology |
| SSTL_2 | Stab Series Terminated Logic for 2,5 V |
| S/STP | Screened Shielded Twisted Pair |
| STD | STandarD voltage |
| stdin | STandarD INput |
| STDM | Synchronous Time Division Multiplexing |
| stdout | STandarD OUTput |
| STL | Standard Template Library |
| STM | Synchronous Transfer Mode |
| STN | Super Twisted Nematic |
| STP | Shielded Twisted Pair |
| STR | Suspend-To-RAM |
| Strg | Steuerung |
| STU | Streaming Tape Unit |
| STX | Start of TeXt |
| su | Switch User |
| SUB | SUBstitute |
| SUMG | Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group |
| SUNET | Swedish University NETwork |
| SunOS | SUN Operating System |
| SUS | Single Unix Specification |
| S/UTP | Screened Unshielded Twisted Pair |
| SVC | Switched Virtual Circuit |
| SVC | Switched Virtual Connection |
| SVD | Simultaneous Voice over Data |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
| SVGA | Super Video Graphics Array |
| SWAP | Shared Wireless Access Protocol |
| SWOP | Specifications for Web Offset Publications |
| SX | Simplex |
| SysReq | System Request |
T
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TA | Terminal Adapter |
| TACS | Total Access Communication System |
| TAL | TeilnehmerAnschlussLeitung |
| TAM | Timer, Active Monitor |
| Tamino | Transactional Architecture for Management of Internet Objects |
| TAN | TransAction Number |
| TAO | The ACE ORB |
| TAO | Track At Once |
| TAP | Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol |
| TAPI | Telephony API |
| TAT | Trans ATlantik |
| TBW | Thermo Balanced Writing |
| TCH | Traffic CHannel |
| TCL | Tool Command Language (gesprochen tickle) |
| TCM | Trellis Code Modulation |
| TCO | Tjaenstemaennens Central Organization |
| TCP | Tape Carrier Package |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| TCPA | Trusted Computing Platform Alliance |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TDD | Time Division Duplex |
| TDDSG | TeleDienstDatenSchutzGesetz |
| TDF | Tab Delimited Files |
| TDM | Time Division Multiplexing |
| TDMA | Time Division Multiple Access |
| TDP | Thermal Design Power |
| TDS | TeX Directory Structure |
| TE | Terminal Equipment |
| TEI | Terminal Endpoint Identifier |
| TEI | Text Encoding Initiative |
| TELAS | TELephone Application System |
| TEST | Test Server |
| TETRA | Trans European Trunked RAdio |
| TETRA | Trunked European Telecommunication Radio Airinterface |
| TFT | Thin Film Transistor |
| TFTP | Trivial File Transfer Protocol |
| TGA | TarGA |
| TGS | Ticket-Granting Service |
| THT | Timer, Holding Token |
| THT | Token Holding Timer |
| THX | Tomlinson Holman eXperiment |
| TI | Texas Instruments |
| TIA | Telecommunications Industry Association |
| TID | Table IDentifier |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
| TIGA | Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture |
| TIO | Time Interval Objects |
| TKG | TeleKommunikationsGesetz |
| TKIP | Temporal Key Integrity Protocol |
| T&L | Transforming & Lighting |
| TLA | Three Letter Acronym |
| TLB | Translation-Lookaside Buffer |
| TLD | Top Level Domain |
| TLP | Thread Level Parallelism |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| TLV | Tag/Length/Value |
| TMA | Thin film Micromirror Array |
| TMDS | Transition Minimized Differential Signaling |
| TMN | Telecommunications Management Network |
| tModel | Technical Model |
| TMR | Tunnel Mageneto Resistance |
| TMSI | Temporary Mobule Subscriber Identity |
| TN | Twisted Nematic |
| TNA | Taskbar Notification Area |
| TNEF | Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format |
| TOB | Twisted Open Bitline |
| TOC | Table Of Contents (im Lead-In einer CD) |
| ToS | Type Of Service |
| TOS | Tramiel Operating System |
| TP | Test Plan |
| TP | Transaction Processing |
| TPCI | Transport Protocol Control Information |
| TPDU | Transport Protocol Data Unit |
| TPI | Tracks Per Inch |
| TPL | Turbo Pascal Library |
| TPM | Trusted Platform Alliance |
| TPS | Transactions Per Second |
| TPS | Triangles Per Second |
| TPTP | Test & Performance Tools Platform |
| TPU | Time Processing Unit |
| TPU | Turbo Pascal Unit |
| TrAX | Transformation API for XML |
| tRFC | Transactional RFC |
| TRR | Token Ring Repeater |
| TRT | Token Rotation Timer |
| TRx | Test Register x |
| TSAPI | Telephon Services API |
| TSC | Time Stamp Counter |
| TSCII | Tamil Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| TSDU | Transport Service Data Unit |
| TSL | Test and Set Lock |
| TSL | Transport Security Layer |
| TSM | Timer, Standby Monitor |
| TSMC | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufactoring Company |
| TSOP | Thin Small Outline Package |
| TSP | Trusted Service Provider |
| TSR | Terminate and Stay Resident |
| TTF | TrueType Font |
| TTL | Transistor-Transistor Logic |
| TTML | Tagged Text Markup Language |
| TTRT | Target Token Rotation Time |
| TTS | Transaction Tracking System |
| TTY | TeleTYpe |
| TUG | TeX Users Group |
| Tux | Torvald's UniX |
| TWAIN | Technology Without An Interesting Name (Scannerschnittstelle) |
| TWAIN | Toolkit Without An Important Name |
| TwinVQ | Transform-domain Weighted INterleave Vector Quantization (Soundkompression) |
| TWIP | TWentIeth of a Point |
U
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UA | Unnumbered Acknoweledgement |
| UA | User Agent |
| UART | Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter |
| UAWG | Universal ADSL Working Group |
| UBL | Universal Business Language |
| UBR | UDDI Business Registry |
| UBR | Unspecified Bit Rate |
| UCI | User Class Identifier |
| UCITA | Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act |
| UCP | Universal Computer Protocol |
| UCS | Universal Character Set |
| UDA | Unified Driver Architecture |
| UDDI | Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration |
| UDF | Universal Disk Format |
| UDMA | Ultra-DMA |
| UDO | Ultra Density Optical disc |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| UI | Unnumbered Information |
| UID | User IDentifier |
| UIP | Update In Progress |
| UMA | Unified Memory Architecture |
| UMA | Universal Mainboard Architecture |
| UMB | Upper Memory Block |
| UMC | Unitet Microelectronics Corporation |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| UML-RT | UML RealTime |
| UMLS | Unified Medical Language System |
| UMO | Universal Messaging Object |
| UMS | Unified Messaging Services |
| UMTS | Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems |
| UNC | Universal Naming Convention |
| UNI | User to Network Interface |
| UNICS | UNiplexed Information and Computing Service |
| UNIX | aus UNICS hervorgegangen |
| UNMA | Unified Network Management Architecture |
| UNO | Universal Network Objects |
| Untbr | Unterbrechen |
| UPC | Universal Product Code |
| UPnP | Universal Plug and Play |
| UPS | Uninterruptible Power Supply |
| URI | Universal Resource Identifier |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| URM | Universal Retention Module |
| URN | Uniform Resource Name |
| URT | Utah Raster Toolkit |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| USDC | US Display Consortium |
| USENET | USEr NETwork |
| USII | Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure |
| USL | Unix System Labs |
| USM | User-based Security Model |
| USV | Unterberchungsfreie StromVersorgung |
| UTC | Universal Time Coordinates |
| UTF | Universal Transformation Format |
| UTO | Universal Time Objects |
| UTP | Unshielded Twisted Pair |
| UtRAM | Unitransistor RAM |
| UUCP | Unit to Unix Copy Protocol |
| UUID | Universally Unique IDentifier |
| UUNET | Unix to Unix NETwork |
| UUX | Unix to Unix eXecute |
V
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V4L | Video For Linux |
| VACM | View-based Access Control Model |
| VAD | Voice Activity Detection |
| VAR | Value Added Reseller |
| VAT | Virtual Allocation Table |
| VATM | Verband der Anbieter von Telekommunikations- und Mehrwertdiensten |
| VAX | Virtual Address eXtension |
| VBA | Visual Basic for Applications |
| VB CCE | Visual Basic Control Creation Edition |
| VBE | VESA BIOS Extension |
| VBR | Variable Bit Rate |
| VBR-RT | Variable Bit Rate Real Time |
| VBS | Visual Basic Script |
| VCard | Visiting Card |
| VCC | Virtual Channel Connection |
| VCI | Virtual Channel Identifier |
| VCL | Visual Component Library |
| VCM | Virtual Channel Memory |
| VCPI | Virtual Control Programming Interface |
| VCR | Video Cassette Recorder |
| VC-SDRAM | Virtual Channel SDRAM |
| VDL | Vienna Development Language |
| VDM | Vienna Development Method |
| VDSL | Very high bit rate Digital Subscriber Line |
| VESA | Video Electronics Standards Association |
| VFAT | Virtual File Allocation Table |
| VGA | Video Graphics Array |
| VHDL | Virtual Hardware Description Language |
| ViBE | VIrtual Bass Enhancement technology |
| VINES | VIrtual NEtworking System |
| ViVo | Video In/Video Out |
| VKI | Verteilte Künstliche Intelligenz |
| VL | VESA Local Bus |
| VLAN | Virtual Local Area Network |
| VLB | VESA Local Bus |
| VLIW | Very Long Instruction Word |
| VLM | Very Large Memory |
| VLR | Visitor Location Register |
| VLSI | Very Large Scale Integration |
| VM | Virtual Machine |
| VM | Virtual Memory |
| VME | VersaModule Eurocard |
| VML | Vector Markup Language |
| VMM | Virtual Memory Manager |
| VMOS | Vertical Metal-Oxide Semiconductor |
| VMS | Virtual Memory System |
| VMS | Voice Mail Server |
| VMSC | Voice Mail Service Center |
| VNC | Virtual Network Computer |
| VO | Value Object |
| VOB | Video OBject |
| VOFDM | Vector Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing |
| VoIP | Voice over IP |
| VPE | Virtual Private Network |
| VPI | Virtual Path Identifier |
| VPS | Video Programming System |
| VR | Virtual Reality |
| VR | Voltage Regulated |
| VRAM | Video RAM |
| VRC | Vertical Redundancy Check |
| VRE | Voltage Regulated Extended (CPU) |
| VRML | Virtual Reality Modeling Language |
| VRT | Voltage Reduction Technology (CPU) |
| VSA | Voodoo Scalable Architecture |
| VSAT | Very Small Aperture Terminals |
| VSB | Vestigial Side Band |
| VSB | VME Subsystem Bus |
| VSG | Volume Storage Group |
| VSIA | Virtual Socket Interface Alliance |
| VT | Virtual Terminal |
| VTAM | Virtual Telecommunications Access Method |
| VTC | Volume Texture Compression |
| VTOC | Volume TOC |
| VTR | Video Tape Recorder |
W
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W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAIS | Wide Area Information Server |
| WAL | Write-Ahead Logging |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol |
| WAR | Web Application Repository |
| WAS | Web Application Server (SAP) |
| WASP | Worldwide Application for Services Projects |
| WATS | Wide Area Telephone Service |
| WB | Write Back |
| WBEM | Web-Based Enterprise Management |
| WBMP | Wireless BitMaP |
| WBXML | Wireless Binary XML |
| W-CDMA | Wideband Code Division Multiple Access |
| WCMS | Web Content Management System |
| WD | Western Digital |
| WDF | Web Dynpro Framework |
| WDM | Wavelength Division Multiplexing |
| WDM | Windows Driver Model |
| WDP | Wireless Datagram Protocol |
| Web AS | Web Application Server (SAP) |
| WebDAV | Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning |
| WECA | Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance |
| WEFT | Web Embedding Fonts Tool |
| WEP | Wired Equivalent Privacy |
| WFP | Windows File Protection |
| WHQL | Windows Hardware Quality Lab |
| WIA | Windows Image Acquisition |
| WIM | WAP Identity Module |
| WIMAN | WIreless Metropolitan Area Network |
| WIMP | Windows, Icons, Mice, Pointers |
| Windows CE | Windows Compact Edition |
| WinNT | Windows New Technology |
| WINS | Windows Internet Name Service |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network |
| WLBS | Windows Load Balancing Service |
| WLL | Wireless Local Loop |
| WLLPMP | Wireless Local Loop Point to MultiPoint |
| WMF | Windows Metafile Format |
| WML | Wireless Markup Language |
| WORA | Write Once, Run Anywhere |
| WORM | Write Once Read Many |
| WOSA | Windows Open System Architecture |
| WPA | Wireless Protected Access |
| WPF | WordPerFect (Bildformat) |
| WPS | Windows Printing System |
| WRAM | Window RAM (für Grafikkarten) |
| WRP | Winsock Redirection Protocol |
| WS | Wait State |
| WSDD | Web Service Deployment Descriptor |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language |
| WSDP | Web Services Developer Pack |
| WS-I | Web Services Interoparability (Organization) |
| WSN | Web Services Notification |
| WSP | Wireless Session Protocol |
| WSS | Wide Screen Signalling |
| WT | Write Through |
| WTA | Wireless Telephony Application |
| WTAI | Wireless Telephony Application Interface |
| WTLS | Wireless Transport Layer Security |
| WTP | Web Tools Platform |
| WTP | Wireless Transaction Protocol |
| WUGNET | Windows Users Group NETwork |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| W^X | Writable xor eXecutable |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |