Technische Abkürzungen
| AAC | Advanced Audio Coding |
| ACPI | Advanced Configuration and Power Interface |
| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, Variante von DSL |
| AGA | Advanced Graphics Architecture (Amiga Chipsatz) |
| AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port |
| ALU | Arithmetic Logic Unit (dt. Arithmetisch-logische Einheit, Teil einer CPU) |
| API | Application Programmers/Programming Interface |
| APM | Advanced Power Management |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange (dt. Amerikanische Standardkodierung für den Informationsaustausch) |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode; Asynchronous Time Multiplexing |
| AVI | Audio Video Interleaved |
| BASIC | Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (Programmiersprache, die Abkürzung ist eigentlich keine) |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System |
| BIOS | Basic Input Output System |
| CAD | Computer Aided Design (Computergestütztes Design) |
| CAM | Computer Aided Manufacturing |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CLI | Command Line Interface |
| CMOS | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (dt. Komplementärer Metall-Oxid-Halbleiter) |
| COM | Component Object Model |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit (dt. Computer Zentraleinheit) |
| CSMA/CA | Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Avoidance |
| CSMA/CD | Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets |
| DCE | Distributed Computing Environment |
| DCL | Data Control Language |
| DDL | Data Definition Language |
| DML | Data Manipulation Language |
| DDR | Double Data Rate |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DHTML | Dynamic HTML, Kombination von HTML und Javascript |
| DLL | Dynamic Link Library |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access (dt. Direkter Speicherzugriff), Methode zur Umgehung der CPU bei Speicherzugriffen von Peripheriegeräten aus |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DMCA | Digital Millenium Copyright Act |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DOS | Disk Operating System |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| DRM | Digital Rights Management |
| EJB | Enterprise Java Beans |
| ESQL | Embedded SQL |
| FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
| FPU | Floating Point Unit (numerischer Coprozessor) |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GC | Garbage Collection/Collector |
| GCC | GNU Compiler Collection |
| GNU | GNU's Not UNIX! |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| HTPC | Home Theater Personal Computer |
| HTTP | HyperText Transport Protocol |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IDL | Interface Definition Language |
| IIOP | Internet Inter-Orb Protocol |
| IPC | InterProcess Communications |
| IPC | Instructions Per Cycle |
| IPX | Internetwork Packet Exchange |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
| IrDA | Infrared Data Association |
| IRQ | Interrupt Request |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISA | Industry Standard Architecture |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IT | InformationsTechnologie |
| JDBC | Java DataBase Connectivity |
| JDK | Java Development Kit |
| JSF | JavaServer Faces |
| JSP | JavaServer Pages |
| JVM | Java Virtual Machine |
| KI | Künstliche Intelligenz (en. AI) |
| KVM | Keyboard Video Monitor |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LISP | LISt Processor (dt. Listenverarbeiter) Programmiersprache |
| LLC | Logical Link Control |
| LUN | Logical Unit Number |
| MAC | Media Access Control |
| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network |
| MBR | Master Boot Record |
| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MMU | Memory Management Unit |
| MMX | Multimedia Extension |
| NIC | Networked Information Center |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NNTP | Network News Transport Protocol |
| ODBC | Open DataBase Connectivity - Eine universelle Datenbankschnittstelle |
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| OOP | Objektorientierte Programmierung |
| OODBMS | Object-Oriented DataBase Management System (Objektorientiertes Datenbanksystem) |
| OQL | Object Query Language (Abfragefrage für OODBMS) |
| ORDBMS | Object-Relational DataBase Management System (Objektrelationales Datenbanksystem) |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PPP | Point to Point Protocol |
| PPTP | Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RDBMS | Relational DataBase Management System (Relationales Datenbanksystem) |
| RFC | Request for Comments |
| RMI | Remote Method Invocation |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| SAN | Storage Area Network |
| SCSI | Small Computers System Interface |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SIP | Session Initiation Protocol |
| SLIP | Serial Line Internet Protocol |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transport Protocol |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SQL | Structured Query Language, (dt. Strukturierte Abfragesprache) Datenbankabfragesprache |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| TCL | Tool Command Language (dt. Werkzeugsprache) Programmiersprache |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (Übertragungs steuerungs Protokoll/Internet Protokoll) |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WEP | Wired Equivalent Privacy |
| WML | Wireless Markup Language |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get (sprich: wei-szi-wig) (dt. Was du siehst ist was du bekommst), Bezeichnung für graphische Editoren und Textverarbeitungsprogramme, bei denen das gedruckte Ergebnis genau so aussieht wie auf dem Bildschirm |
| WYSISLWYG | What You See Is Sort-of Like What You Get (sprich: wiesel-wig) (dt. Was Du siehst ist irgendwie so ähnlich wie das, was du bekommst), zynische Bezeichnung für WYSIWYG-Programme, die nicht halten, was sie versprechen |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language, dt. erweiterbare "Beschreibungssprache" (wird so nicht verwendet) |
| XML-RPC | eXtensible Markup Language Remote Procedure Call (Protokoll für verteilte Anwendungen) |
| XSL | eXtensible Stylsheet Language |
Siehe auch: Chat, Abkürzungen