Liste von Abkürzungen (Computer)

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Dies ist eine Liste technischer Abkürzungen, die im IT-Bereich verwendet werden.

Siehe auch: Abkürzungen, Liste der Abkürzungen (Netzjargon), Netzjargon, Liste der Dateiendungen

A

AA Anti-Aliasing
AAC Advanced Audio Coding
AACS Advanced Access Content System
AAL ATM Adaption Layer
ACE ASCII Compatible Encoding
ACK Acknowledge, Zeichen, das in einem Protokoll zur Bestätigung dient (siehe ACK (Signal)) oder auch ein Zeichen der Zustimmung ("Ja!") eines Experten oder Geeks in (elektronischer) Kommunikation (siehe Netzjargon).
ACL Access Control List
ACP Admin Control Panel
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
ACR Advanced Communication(s) Riser
ACR Automatic Carriage Return
ACR Attenuation to Crosstalk Ratio
AD Active Directory
ADB Apple Desktop Bus
ADC Apple Display Connector (Variante von DVI)
ADO ActiveX Data Objects
ADS Active Directory Service / Automated Deployment Service
ADS Alternate Data Streams
ADSP AppleTalk Data Stream Protocol
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, Variante von DSL
AEP AppleTalk Echo Protocol
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AFP Apple Filing Protocol
AGA Advanced Graphics Architecture (Amiga-Chipsatz)
AGP Accelerated Graphics Port
AGU Address Generation Unit
AI Artificial Intelligence (Künstliche Intelligenz, deutsche Abkürzung: KI)
AIFF Audio Interchange File Format
AIT Advanced Intelligent Tape
AJAX Asynchronous Javascript and XML
AKA also known as (bekannt auch unter dem Namen ...)
ALM Application Lifecycle Management (u. a. von Borland)
ALSA Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ALU Arithmetic Logical Unit (arithmetisch-logische Einheit, Teil einer CPU)
AP Access Point
API Application Programmers/Programming Interface
API Adaptive Planungsintelligenz
APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
APL A Programming Language, siehe APL (Programmiersprache)
APM Advanced Power Management
APOP Authenticated Post Office Protocol
AR Augmented reality, siehe Erweiterte Realität
ARM Advanced RISC Machines Ltd.
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange (amerikanische Standardkodierung für den Informationsaustausch)
ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (Anwendungsspezifische Integrierte Schaltung)
ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One
ASP Active Server Pages oder Application Service Providing oder AppleTalk Session Protocol
ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
ATA Advanced Technology (AT) Attachment, siehe ATA (Schnittstelle)
ATAPI AT-Attachment Packet Interface
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode oder Asynchronous Time Multiplexing oder Adobe Type Manager
ATPG Automatic Test Pattern Generation
AVI Audio Video Interleaved

B

B2A Business-to-Administration
B2B Business-to-Business
B2C Business-to-Consumer
BAPI Business Application Programming Interface
BASIC Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (Programmiersprache, die Abkürzung ist eigentlich keine)
BBS Bulletin Board System
BCC Blind Carbon Copy (dt. Blindkopie), Feld im Kopf einer E-Mail, das zusätzliche Adressaten enthält, die aber (anders als der/die Empfänger im To- und im CC-Feld) nicht den anderen Adressaten mitgeteilt werden.
BCC Block Check Character (deutsch Blockprüfzeichen)
BCD Binary Coded Decimal, siehe BCD-Code
BDC Backup Domain Controller
BER Basic Encoding Rules
BER Bit Error Rate (Bitfehlerhäufigkeit)
BERT Bit Error Rate Test (Bitfehlerratentest)
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
BiDi Bidirectional Text Layout, siehe Bidirektionaler Text
BIOS Basic Input Output System
BLOB Binary Large Object
BNC Bayonet Neill Concelman, siehe BNC-Steckverbinder
BOM Byte Order Mark
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol
BOS Base Operating System (dt. Betriebssystem)
BSC Binary Synchronous Communications
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
BSOD Blue Screen of Death (bei Microsoft Windows)
BTX Balanced Technology Extended, siehe BTX-Format
BTX Bildschirmtext

C

CAAD Computer Aided Architectural Design (Computergestütztes architektonisches Planen und Entwerfen)
CAD Computer Aided Design (Computerunterstütztes Design)
CAE Computer Aided Engineering
CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAN Controller Area Network
CAN Content Addressable Network
CAPI Common ISDN Application Programming Interface
CARP Common Address Redundancy Protocol
CAT Catalog Service
CAV Constant Angular Velocity
CC Carbon Copy (dt. Kohlepapierdurchschlag), Feld im Kopf einer E-Mail, das zusätzliche Adressaten enthält
CC/PP Composite Capability/Preference Profiles
CCD Charge-coupled Device
CD Compact Disc
CD-R Compact Disc Recordable
CD-ROM Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
CD-RW Compact Disc ReWriteable
CDATA Character Data
CDE Common Desktop Environment
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CEPT Conférence Européenne des Administrations des Postes et des Télécommunications
CGA Color Graphics Adapter
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CICS Customer Information Control System
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CIF Common Intermediate Format
CIFS Common Internet File System, siehe Server Message Block
CIM Computer Integrated Manufacturing
CIM Common Information Model
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computing
CLI Command Line Interpreter oder Call Level Interface
CLI Common Language Infrastructure, siehe .NET
CLOB Character Large Object
CLR Common Language Runtime, siehe .NET
CLTS Connectionless Transport Service, ein verbindungsloser Service, beispielsweise UDP.
CLV Constant Linear Velocity, siehe Umdrehungsgeschwindigkeiten von Laufwerken
CMM Capability Maturity Model
CM Configuration Management (Konfigurationsmanagement)
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (dt. Komplementärer Metall-Oxid-Halbleiter)
CMS Content Management System
CMYK Cyan Magenta Yellow Key, siehe CMYK-Farbmodell
COBOL Common Business Oriented Language
CODASYL Conference on Data Systems Languages
COM Component Object Model
COM Computer on Module, Kernhardware eines Computers implementiert auf enem steckbaren Modul
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
COTS Connection Oriented Transport Service, ein verbindungsorientierter Service, wie beispielsweise TCP.
COW Copy-On-Write, Verfahren zur Vermeidung von überflüssigen Kopien von Daten
CPPM Content Protection for Pre-Recorded Media, Kopierschutzverfahren der DVD-Audio
CPRM Content Protection for Recordable Media
CPU Central Processing Unit (Hauptprozessor)
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check, Verfahren zur Ermittlung von Übertragungsfehlern
CRL Zertifikatsperrliste (englisch certificate revocation list)
CRM Customer Relationship Management
CRT Cathode Ray Tube (Kathodenstrahlröhre)
CSA Common-Scrambling-Algorithmus
CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Avoidance
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection
CSS Cascading Style Sheets
CSS Content Scrambling System
CSV Character Separated Values, Comma Separated Values
CTL Complex Text Layout
CUPS Common Unix Printing System
CUoD Capacity Upgrade on Demand
CVS Concurrent Versions System
CWM Common Warehouse Metamodel

D

D2D2T Disk to disk to tape (backup)
DAE Digital Audio Extraction
DAO Data Access Objects
DAT Digital Audio Tape
DAU Dümmster anzunehmender User
DAV Distributed Authoring and Versioning; siehe WebDAV
DBMS Database Management System
DBP Database Publishing
DC Domain Controller
DCE Distributed Computing Environment
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model
DCP Disk Control Program
DCL Data Control Language
DCS Dynamic Channel Selection
DCT Diskrete Cosinus Transformation
DENIC DE Network Information Center
DDC Display Data Channel
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange
DDL Data Definition Language
DDoS Distributed Denial of Service
DDR Double Data Rate
DDS Digital Data Storage oder Direct Digital Synthesis
DFÜ Datenfernübertragung (engl.: DUN)
DDV Datendirektverbindung
DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications
DES Data Encryption Standard
DFS Distributed File System, Dynamic Frequency Selection oder Depth First Search
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DHTML Dynamic HTML, Kombination von HTML und JavaScript
DIME Direct Internet Message Encapsulation
DIMM Dual In-Line Memory Module
DIS Distributed Interactive Simulation
DLL Dynamic Link Library
DLM Document Lifecycle Management
DLP Digital Light Processing
DMA Direct Memory Access (dt. Direkter Speicherzugriff), Methode zur Umgehung der CPU bei Speicherzugriffen von Peripheriegeräten aus
DMCA Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DMD Digital Micromirror Device
DMI Desktop Management Interface oder Direct Media Interface
DML Data Manipulation Language
DMS Document Management System
DMTF Distributed Management Task Force
DMZ Demilitarized Zone (Demilitarisierte Zone)
DNS Domain Name System
DNSBL DNS-based Blackhole List
DOM Document Object Model
DOS Disk Operating System
DoS Denial of Service
dpi Dots per inch
DPS Desktop Purchasing System
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRL Data Retrieval Language
DRM Digital Rights Management
DRT Document Related Technologies
DSA Distributed Systems Architecture
DSP Digital Signal Processor
DSL Digital Subscriber Line oder Domain Specific Language
DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
DSSSL Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
DTD Document Type Definition
DTO Data Transfer Object, ein Entwurfsmuster für J2EE-Projekte
DTP Desktop Publishing
DUN Dial-Up Networking
DVB Digital Video Broadcasting
DVB-T Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial
DVB-S Digital Video Broadcast - Satellite
DVB-C Digital Video Broadcasting - Cable
DVB-H Digital Video Broadcasting - Handhelds
DVD Digital Versatile Disc
DVI Digital Visual Interface
DWH Data Warehouse
DWT Diskrete Wavelet-Transformation
DXF Drawing Interchange Format (auch Drawing Exchange Format))

E

EAI Enterprise Application Integration
EBCDIC Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code
ECM Enterprise Content Management
ECC Error Correcting Code
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association
ECP Extended Capability Port oder Encryption Control Protocol
EDDL Electronic Device Description Language
EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
EDID Extended Display Identification Data
EDM Electronic Document Management
EDP Electronic Data Processing
EDV Elektronische Datenverarbeitung, engl.: EDP
EEPROM Electrically Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory
EFS Encrypting File System
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EHCI Enhanced Host Controller Interface
EIB Europäischer Installationsbus
EIGRP Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EJB Enterprise Java Beans
EM64T Extended Memory-64 Technology
EMS Expanded Memory Specification
EMV Elektromagnetische Verträglichkeit
EOD End Of Discussion (Slang)
EOF End of File oder Enterprise Objects Framework
EPLD Erasable Programmable Logic Device
EPP Enhanced Parallel Port oder Encrypting PIN Pad
EPROM Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory
ESSID Extended Service Set Identifier
ESB Enterprise Service Bus
EPS Encapsulated Postscript
ESQL Embedded SQL
ETL Extract, Transform, Load
EVA Eingabe – Verarbeitung – Ausgabe, das EVA-Prinzip
EVA Enterprise Virtual Array, Disk Array von Hewlett Packard für mehrere Terabyte Daten
EWF Enhanced Write Filter, wird bei Windows XP embedded verwendet
EXIF Exchangeable Image File Format for Digital Still Cameras
Ext2 Second extended Filesytem

F

FAI Fully Automatic Installation
FAT File Allocation Table
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FC Fibre Channel
FET Field Effect Transistor
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
FGA Floating Gate Array
FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
FIFO First In – First Out
FLOP Floating Point Operation
FLOPS Floating Point Operations per Second
FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array
FPU Floating Point Unit (numerischer Coprozessor)
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
FSAA Full Scene Antialiasing
FSB Front Side Bus
FTBFS Fails to build from source (Debian-Slang)
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FW Forwarding (bei E-Mails oft benutzt)

G

GAL Generic Array Logic, siehe Programmable Array Logic
GAN Global Area Network
GBIC Gigabit Interface Converter
GC Garbage-Collection/Garbage-Collector, siehe Automatische Speicherbereinigung
GCC GNU Compiler Collection
GCR Group Coded Recording
GFS Global File System
GID Group Identification, siehe Benutzer- und Rechteverwaltung unter Unix
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
GINA Graphical Identification and Authentication (DLL)
GIS Geoinformationssystem
GLU OpenGL Utility Library
GLUT OpenGL Utility Toolkit
GML Geography Markup Language
GNU GNU's Not UNIX (ein rekursives Akronym), siehe GNU-Projekt
GNOME GNU Network Object Model Environment
GOOSE General Object Oriented System Environment
GPG Gnu Privacy Guard
GPL GNU General Public License
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
GPX GPS Exchange Format
GRE Gecko Runtime Environment
GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation Protocol
GRUB Grand Unified Bootloader
GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
GTK GIMP Toolkit
GUI Graphical User Interface
GUID Globally Unique Identifier

H

HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer
HBCI HomeBanking Computer Interface
HCI Human Computer Interaction
HCR Handprint Character Recognition
HDCP High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection
HDL Hardware Description Language
HDLC High level Data Link Control
HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface
HDTV High Definition Television
HGC Hercules Graphics Card
HMA High Memory Area
HMD Head Mounted Display
HPC High Performance Computing (Hochleistungsrechnen)
HPFS High Performance File System
HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access
HSCSD High Speed Circuit Switched Data
HSRP Hot Standby Router Protocol
HT HyperTransport
HTC High Throughput Computing
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HTPC Home Theater Personal Computer
HTT Hyper-Threading-Technologie (oft auch als HT-Technologie bezeichnet)
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
HTTPS HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure

I

I18N Internationalization
I²C Inter-Integrated Circuit
IA5 Internationales Alphabet Nr. 5
IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
ICC International Color Consortium
ICH I/O Controller Hub
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICS Internet Connection Sharing
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics
IDE Integrated Development Environment
IDEF Integrated Definition Methods
IDF Intel Developer Forum
IDL Interface Definition Language
IDMS Integrated Database Management System
IDN Internationalized Domain Name
IDNA Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IGP Integrated Graphics Processor (dt. = integrierter Grafikkern)
IGRP Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
IIOP Internet Inter-Orb Protocol
IIS Microsoft Internet Information Server
IKE Internet Key Exchange
ILM Information Lifecycle Management
ILDA International Laser Display Association
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
IMQ Intermediate Queuing Device
IMS Information Management System (Datenbanksystem für IBM-Großrechner)
INET Internet
IP Internet Protocol
IPC Inter Process Communications
IPC Instructions Per Cycle
IPP Internet Printing Protocol
IPPP ISDN PPP
IPSec Internet Protocol Security
IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IrDA Infrared Data Association
IRQ Interrupt Request
IRTF Internet Research Task Force
iSCSI Internet SCSI
IRV Internationale Referenzversion (des IA5)
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISP Internet Service Provider
IT Informationstechnologie / Information Technology
IxD Interaction Design

J

JACK JACK Audio Connection Kit
JCL Job Control Language
JDBC Java Database Connectivity
JDK Java Development Kit
JES Job Entry Subsystem
JFS Journaled File System
JMS Java Message Service
JOLAP Java Based OLAP interface
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JRE Java Runtime Environment
JSF JavaServer Faces
JSP JavaServer Pages
JVM Java Virtual Machine

K

KDE K Desktop Environment
KM Konfigurationsmanagement
KI Künstliche Intelligenz (engl.: AI)
KVM Keyboard, Video, Mouse; siehe KVM-Switch

L

L10N Localization
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
LAMP(P) Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP (-Perl)
LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LAN Local Area Network
LAT Local Area Transport
LBA Logical Block Addressing
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LCOS Liquid Crystal On Silicon
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LED Light Emitting Diode
LFS Large File Support
LFS Linux From Scratch
LGA Land Grid Array
LIFO Last In - First Out
LILO LInux LOader
LISP LISt Processor (dt. Listenverarbeiter) Programmiersprache
LLC Logical Link Control
LPP Licensed Product Package
LPT Line Printer
LRU Least Recently Used
LSB Least Significant Bit
LUG Linux User Group
LUN Logical Unit Number
LVDS Low Voltage Differential Signaling
LVM Logical Volume Manager

M

M2M Machine-to-Machine
M4A MPEG 4
MAC Media Access Control
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
MAU Multistation Access Unit
MBR Master Boot Record
MCA Micro Channel Architecture
MCH Memory Controller Hub
MCP Media and Communication Processor (NVIDIAs Gegenstück zu Intels ICH)
MCX Media Center Extender
mCRM mobile Customer Relationship Management
MFM Modified Frequency Modulation
MHP Multimedia Home Platform
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIDS Multi Functional Information Distribution System
MII Media Independent Interface
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MMORPG Massive(ly) Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
MMS Multimedia Messaging Service
MMU Memory Management Unit
MMX Multimedia Extension
MOO Mud object oriented
MOST Media Oriented System Transport
MP3 MPEG 1 Audio Layer 3
MP4 MPEG 4
MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching
MRAM Magnetic RAM
MRU Maximum Receive Unit
MRU Most Recently Used
MSB Most Significant Bit
MSN Microsoft Network
MSN Multiple Subscriber Number
MTA Mail Transfer Agent
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
MUA Mail User Agent
MUD Multi User Dungeons
MVC Model View Controller

N

NAS Network Attached Storage
NAT Network Address Translation
NBD Network Block Device
NCQ Native Command Queuing
NDS Novell Directory Services
NGSCB Next Generation Secure Computing Base
NIC Network Information Center
NIC Network Interface Card
NFS Network File System
NNTP Network News Transport Protocol
NOC Network Operation Center
NRU Not Recently Used
NSS Name Service Switch
NTBA Network Termination for ISDN Basic Access
NTFS New Technology File System
NTP Network Time Protocol
NTSC National Television Standards Committee
NUMA Non-Uniform Memory Access
NVRAM Non Volatile RAM
NVE Networked Virtual Environment

O

OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OCR Optical Character Recognition
OCI Open Catalog Interface
OCSP Online Certificate Status Protocol - Statusprüfung für digitale Zertifikate
ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity - Eine universelle Datenbankschnittstelle
ODMG Object Database Management Group
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OGC OpenGIS Consortium
OHCI Open Host Controller Interface
OLAP Online Analytical Processing
OLED Organic Light Emitting Diode
OLSR Optimized Link State Routing (Protokoll)
OLTP OnLine Transaction Processing
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OOo OpenOffice.org
OOP Objektorientierte Programmierung
OODBMS Object-Oriented DataBase Management System (Objektorientiertes Datenbanksystem)
OPC Operation Planning and Control (IBM Mainframe)
OQL Object Query Language (Abfragesprache für OODBMS)
ORDBMS Object-Relational DataBase Management System (Objektrelationales Datenbanksystem)
OS Operating System (Betriebssystem)
OSGi Open Services Gateway Initiative
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
OSS Open Source Software (Software, deren Quelltext öffentlich zugänglich ist) / Open Sound System - Audiosystem von Linux
OWS OpenGIS Consortium Web Services

P

P2P Peer to Peer
PAL Programmable Array Logic
PAL Phase Alternating Line
PAM Pluggable Authentication Module
PAN Personal Area Network
PAP Password Authentication Protocol
PBCC Packet Binary Convolution Coding
PC Personal Computer
PC Program Counter
PCA Programmable Counter Array
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCI-X Peripheral Component Interface Extension
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PADI PPPoE Active Discovery Initiation
PDC Primary Domain Controller
PDF Portable Document Format
PDM Product Datat Management
PDU Protocol Data Unit; Power Distribution Unit
PERL Practical Extraction and Report Language
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
PGA Pin Grid Array
PIC Programmable Interrupt Controller
PID Personally-Identifiable Data
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
PLA Programmable Logic Array
PLM Product Lifecycle Management
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PnP Plug and Play
POJO Plain Old Java Object
PoE Power over Ethernet
POP3 Post Office Protocol Version 3
POSIX Portable Operating System Interface for UniX
POTS Plain Old Telephone System
PPD Postscript Printer Description
PPI Pixel per Inch
PPP Point to Point Protocol
PPPoE PPP over Ethernet
PPTP Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
PS PostScript
PSD Dateiformat von Adobe Photoshop
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
PWM Pulse Width Modulation

Q

QDR Quad Data Rate
QoS Quality of Service
QVGA Quarter Video Graphics Array
QUXGA Quad Ultra eXtended Graphics Array
QWUXGA Quad Wide Ultra eXtended Graphics Array
QXGA Quad eXtended Graphics Array

R

RAD Rapid Application Development
RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive / Independent Disks
RAM Random Access Memory
RARP Reverse ARP
RAS Remote Access Service
RBL Realtime Blackhole List
RCP Remote Copy Protocol
RDBMS Relational DataBase Management System (Relationales Datenbanksystem)
RDF Resource Description Framework
RED Random Early Detection
REU RAM Expansion Unit
Regon Regon Protokoll
REXX Restructured Extended Executor Language
RFC Request for Comments
RFID Radio Frequency Identification
RGB Red Green Blue (Rot Grün Blau)
RIA Rich Internet Application
RIMM Rambus In-Line Memory Modul
RIP Raster Image Process
RIP Routing Information Protocol
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing
RLE Run-length encoding
RMI Remote Method Invocation
ROI Return on Investment
ROM Read Only Memory
RPG Report Program Generator (auch Role Playing Game, Rollenspiel)
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RPM RedHat Package Manager
RSA RSA-Kryptosystem
RSH Remote Shell
RSS Really Simple Syndication
RTF Rich Text Format
RTFM Read The Fucking Manual
RTL Register Transfer Level (Ebene in Hardware / Hardware-Modellierung)
RTP Realtime Transport Protocol

S

SAA Systems Application Architecture
SACD Super-Audio-CD
SAFT Simple Asynchronous File Transfer
SAN Storage Area Network
System Area Network
SANE Scanner Access Now Easy
Standard Apple Numeric Environment
SATA Serial ATA
SAX Simple API for XML
SCAM SCSI Configuration AutoMatically
SCP Secure Copy Protocol
SCSI Small Computers System Interface
SCUMM Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion
SDH Synchrone Digitale Hierarchie, Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDK Software Development Kit
SDL Service Description Language
SDL Simple DirectMedia Layer
SDL Specification and Description Language
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control / IBM-Variante von HDLC
SDLC Software Development Life Cycle
SDSL Symmetric/Single line Digital Subscriber Line / Variante von DSL
SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language
SHFS SHell FileSystem
SIMD Single-Instruction Multiple-Data
SIMM Single In-line Memory Module
SIP Session Initiation Protocol
SIP Sideway Information Passing
SLAM Simultaneous Localization And Mapping
SLD Styled Layer Descriptor, Second Level Domain
SLI Scalable Link Interface
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol
SLL Static Link Library
SLP Service Location Protocol
SLR Scalable Linear Recording
SMAP Simple Mail Access Protocol
SMART Self Monitoring And Reporting Technology (Festplattenüberwachungstechnologie)
SMASH Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware
SMB Server Message Block
SMBIOS Systems Management BIOS
SMD Surface Mounted Device
SMIL Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMI-S Storage Management Initiative - Specification
SML Standard Meta Language
SMP Symmetric Multi-Processing
SMS Short Message Service
SMT Simultaneous Multithreading
SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol
SNA Systems Network Architecture (IBM Großrechner)
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SOA Service Oriented Architecture
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SOX Sarbanes-Oxley Act
SPEWS Spam Prevention Early Warning System
SPF Sender Policy Framework
SPoF Single Point of Failure
SPI Serial Peripheral Interface
SPP System Platform Processor (NVIDIAS Gegenstück zu Intels MCH)
SQL Structured Query Language, (dt. Strukturierte Abfragesprache) Datenbankabfragesprache
SRAM Static RAM
SRM Service Resolution Management
SRP Secure Remote Password, Sicherheitsstandard für Authentifizierungsverfahren
SSH Secure SHell
SSI Server Side Includes
SSID Service Set IDentifier
SSL Secure Sockets Layer oder Syntax/Semantic Language
SSO Single Sign On
STFU Shut the fuck up
STFW Search the fucking web
STUN Simple traversal of UDP over NATs
SUXGA Super Ultra eXtended Graphics Array
SVCD Super Video Compact Disc
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics
SVGA Super Video Graphics Array
SVN SubVersioN
SXGA Super eXtended Graphics Array

T

Tcl Tool Command Language Skriptsprache
TCO Total Cost of Ownership
TCPA Trusted Computer Platform Architecture
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (Übertragungs steuerungs Protokoll/Internet Protokoll)
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TDP Thermal Design Power
TFT Thin Film Transistor
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TLD Top Level Domain
TLM Transaction Level Modelling
TM Transactional Memory
TPC Transmit Power Control
TPM Trusted Platform Module
TSO Terminal Subsystem Option (IBM-Großrechner)
TTL Time to live (Computernetzwerke) oder Transistor-Transistor-Logik
TWAIN Toolkit Without An Interesting Name (Standard zum Austausch von Daten zwischen Bildeingabegeräten)
TWI Two-wire Interface

U

UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
UBE Unsolicited Bulk E-Mail
UCE Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail
UCP Universal Computer Protocol
UDP Usenet Death Penalty
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UDDI Universal Description, Discovery, Integration
UDF Universal Disc Format
UDMA Ultra Direct Memory Access
UFS UNIX File System
UHCI Universal Host Controller Interface
UI User Interface (Benutzerschnittstelle)
UI2 User Interaction
UID User Identification
UMB Upper Memory Block
UML Unified Modeling Language
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UPnP Universal Plug and Play
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USB Universal Serial Bus
USV Unterbrechungsfreie Stromversorgung
UTF UCS Transformation Format
UUG Unix User Group
UWB Ultra Wideband
UXD User Experience Design
UXGA Ultra Extended Graphics Array

V

VB Visual Basic
VBA Visual Basic for Applications
VBS Visual Basic Script
VCD Video-CD
VDR Video Disk Recording
VDSL Very High Data Rate DSL / Variante von DSL
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
VFAT Virtuelle FAT
VFS Virtual Filesystem Switch
VGA Video Graphics Array
VHDL Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language
VLAN virtual LAN
VLB Vesa Local Bus
VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
VM Virtuelle Maschine
VO Virtual Organisation
VoIP Voice over IP
VPN Virtual Private Network
VRAM Video RAM
VRRP Virtual Router Reduncy Protocol
VSAM Virtual Storage Access Method (IBM Großrechner)
VST Virtual Studio Technology
VTAM Virtual Terminal Access Method (IBM Großrechner)

W

W3C World Wide Web Consortium
WAIS Wide Area Information Servers
WAMP(P) Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP (-Perl)
WAN Wide Area Network
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
WBEM Web-Based Enterprise Management
WCS Web Coverage Service
WDDX Web Distributed Data Exchange
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy
WFS Web Feature Service
WIDL Web Interface Definition Language
WINE WINE Is Not an Emulator
WINS Windows Internet Name Service
WISP Wireless Internet Service Provider
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network (Kabelloses Lokales Netzwerk)
WLL Wireless Local Loop
WML Wireless Markup Language
WMS Web Map Service
WOL Wake on LAN
WORM Write Once Read Multiple
WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
WRS Web Registry Service
WSDL Web Services Description Language
WSH Windows Scripting Host
WSUXGA Wide Super Ultra eXtended Graphics Adapter <-- Array ist falsch. Adapter ist richtig. -->
WSVGA Wide Super Graphics Adapter
WSXGA Wide Super eXtended Graphics Adapter
WUXGA Wide Ultra eXtended Graphics Adapter
WVGA Wide Video Graphics Adapter
WWW World Wide Web
WXGA Wide eXtended Graphics Adapter
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get (sprich: wei-szi-wig) (deutsch: "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) (deutsch: "Was Du siehst ist in etwa wie das, was du bekommst"), zynische Bezeichnung für WYSIWYG-Programme, die nicht halten, was sie versprechen

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XAMPP eXtended Apache/MySQL/PHP/Perl (Webserverkomplettpaket)
XGA eXtended Graphics Array
XHTML eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (HTML-Nachfolger)
XML eXtensible Markup Language, dt. erweiterbare "Beschreibungssprache" (wird so nicht verwendet)
XML-RPC eXtensible Markup Language Remote Procedure Call (Protokoll für verteilte Anwendungen)
XMPP eXtendable Messaging and Presence Protocol
XMS Extended Memory Specification
XMSF eXtensible Modeling and Simulation Framework
XrML eXtensible rights Markup Language
XSD XML Schema Definition
XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language
XSL-FO Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects
XSLT XSL Transformation

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YAGNI You Ain’t Gonna Need It
YaST Yet another Setup Tool

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ZFS Zettabyte File System, siehe ZFS (Dateisystem)