Abbreviations

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A

• ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
• AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
• API - Application Programming Interface
• ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Module
• ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
• ANSI -American National Standards Institute

B

• BASH - Bourne Again SHell
• BCD - Boot Configuration Data (Vista)
• BSD - Berkeley Software Distribution
• BIOS - Basic Input/Output System

C

• CISC - Complex Instruction Set Computer
• CPU - Central Processing Unit
• CRC - Cyclic Redundancy Check
• CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
• CSS - Closed source software
• CSS - Content Scramble System
• CSS - Cross-site Scripting
• CUDA-Compute Unified Device Architecture

D

• DVD - Digital Versatile Disc

E

• EXT2 - Second Extended File System
• EXT3 - Third Extended File System
• EXT4 - Fourth Extended File System

F

• FAT - File Allocation Table
• FLOPS - Floating Point Operations Per Second
• FTP - File Transfer Protocol

G

• GNU - GNU's Not Unix
• GPL - General Public License
• GPU - Graphics Processing Unit
• GRUB - GRand Unified Bootloader
• GUI - Graphical User Interface

H

• HFS - Hierarchical File System
• HFS Plus - HFS Plus File System
• HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language
• HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
• HTTPS - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure
• HDD- Hard Disk Drive

I

• IFS - Installable File System
• IDE - Integrated Development Environment
• IO - Input/Output
• ISO 9660 - ISO 9660 File System

J

K

L

• LCD - Liquid Crystal Display

M

• MFS - Macintosh File System
• MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second

N

• NTFS - New Technology File System
• NSS - Novell Storage System

O

• OOP - Object Oriented Programming

P

• PHP - PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
• POSIX - Portable Operating System Interface
• PPC - Power Personal Computer
• PPP - Point to Point Protocol
• PPPoA - Point to Point Protocol over ATM
• PPPoE - Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet
• PSU - Power Supply Unit

Q

R

• RAM - Random Access Memory
• RISC - Reduced Instruction Set Computing
• ROM - Read Only Memory

S

• SPARC - Scalable Processor ARChitecture
• SQL - Structured Query Language
• SSH - Secure SHell

T

• TCP/IP-Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

• TFT -Thin Film Transistor

U

• URI - Uniform Resource Identifier
• URL - Uniform Resource Locator
• USB - Universal Serial Bus

V

• VB - Visual Basic

W

• WM - Window Manager
• WWW - World Wide Web

X

• XML - eXtensible Markup Language

Y

Z

• ZAK- Zero Administration Kit
• ZAW - Zero Administration for Windows