Dies ist eine Liste technischer Abkürzungen, die im IT-Bereich verwendet werden. Siehe auch: Abkürzungen, Netzjargon
A
| AA | Anti-Aliasing |
| AAC | Advanced Audio Coding |
| ACE | ASCII Compatible Encoding |
| ACL | Access Control List |
| ACPI | Advanced Configuration and Power Interface |
| AD | Active Directory |
| ADC | Apple Display Connector (Variante von DVI) |
| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, Variante von DSL |
| AGA | Advanced Graphics Architecture (Amiga-Chipsatz) |
| AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port |
| AGU | Address Generation Unit |
| AIT | Advanced Intelligent Tape |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| ALU | Arithmetic Logic Unit (dt. Arithmetisch-logische Einheit, Teil einer CPU) |
| AP | Access Point |
| API | Application Programmers/Programming Interface |
| APIC | Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller |
| APM | Advanced Power Management |
| APOP | Authenticated Post Office Protocol |
| APW | Add Printer Wizard |
| AR | Augmented Reality |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange (dt. Amerikanische Standardkodierung für den Informationsaustausch) |
| ASIC | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit |
| ASP | Active Server Pages |
| ATA | Advanced Technology (AT) Attachment |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode; Asynchronous Time Multiplexing |
| AVI | Audio Video Interleaved |
B
| 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. |
| BCD | Binary Coded Decimal |
| BDC | Backup Domain Controller |
| BGP | Border Gateway Protocol |
| BIOS | Basic Input Output System |
| BNC | Bayonet Neill-Concelman |
| BOOTP | Bootstrap Protocol |
| BSOD | Blue Screen of Death (nur Windows) |
| BTX | Balanced Technology Extended |
C
| CAD | Computer Aided Design (Computergestütztes Design) |
| CAM | Computer Aided Manufacturing |
| CAPI | Common ISDN Application Programming Interface |
| 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 | Conference Europenne des Administrations des Postes et des Telecommunications |
| CGA | Color Graphics Adapter |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CHAP | Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol |
| CICS | Customer Information Control System (IBM Großrechner) |
| CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
| CIFS | Common Internet File System |
| CIM | Computer Integrated Manufacturing |
| CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computing |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CLI | Command Line Interface oder Call Level Interface |
| CLV | Constant Linear Velocity |
| CMM | Capability Maturity Model |
| CMOS | Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (dt. Komplementärer Metall-Oxid-Halbleiter) |
| COBOL | Common Business Oriented Language |
| COM | Component Object Model |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CPU | Central Processing Unit (dt. Computer Zentraleinheit) |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check, Verfahren zur Ermittlung von Übertragungsfehlern |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube |
| 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 | Comma Seperated Values |
| CUPS | Common Unix Printing System |
| CVS | Concurrent Versioning System |
D
| DAT | Digital Audio Tape |
| DAU | Dümmster Anzunehmender User |
| DBMS | Database Management System |
| DCE | Distributed Computing Environment |
| DCOM | Distributed COM |
| DCP | Distributed Computing Platform |
| DCL | Data Control Language |
| DCS | Dynamic Channel Selection |
| 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 |
| DDV | Datendirektverbindung |
| DECT | Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications |
| DFS | Dynamic Frequency Selection |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DHTML | Dynamic HTML, Kombination von HTML und Javascript |
| DIMM | Dual In-Line Memory Modules |
| DLL | Dynamic Link Library |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access (dt. Direkter Speicherzugriff), Methode zur Umgehung der CPU bei Speicherzugriffen von Peripheriegeräten aus |
| DMCA | Digital Millenium Copyright Act |
| DML | Data Manipulation Language |
| DMZ | DeMilitarized Zone |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DOS | Disk Operating System |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| DRAM | Dynamic RAM |
| DRL | Data Retrieval Language |
| DRM | Digital Rights Management |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
| DTD | Document Type Definition |
| DTP | Desktop-Publishing |
| DVB | Digital Video Broadcasting |
| DVD | Digital Versatile Disc |
| DVI | Digital Video Interface |
| DWH | Data Warehouse |
E
| EBCDIC | Extended Binary Coded Decimals Interchange Code |
| ECMA | European Computer Manufacturers Association |
| ECP | Extended Capability Port |
| EDGE | Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
| EDID | Extended Display Identification Data |
| EEPROM | Electrical Eraseable Programmable ROM |
| EGA | Enhanced Graphics Adapter |
| EIB | Europäischer Installationsbus |
| EIGRP | Enhanced IGRP |
| EISA | Extended ISA |
| EJB | Enterprise Java Beans |
| EMS | Expanded Memory Specification |
| EMV | ElektroMagnetische Verträglichkeit |
| EOF | End Of File |
| EOL | End Of Line |
| EPP | Enhanced Parallel Port |
| EPROM | Eraseable Programmable ROM |
| ESQL | Embedded SQL |
| EXIF | Exchangeable image file format for Digital Still Cameras |
F
| FAT | File Allocation Table |
| FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
| FDMA | Frequency Division Multiple Access |
| FLOP | Floating Point Operation |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operation per Second |
| FPGA | Field-Programmable Gate Array |
| FPU | Floating Point Unit (numerischer Coprozessor) |
| FPU | Fuzzy Processing Unit (Fuzzy-Logik) |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
G
| GBIC | GigaBit Interface Converter |
| GC | Garbage Collection/Collector |
| GCC | GNU Compiler Collection |
| GIS | Geoinformationssystem |
| GML | Geography Markup Language |
| GNU | GNU's Not UNIX! |
| GNOME | GNU Network Object Model Environment |
| GPL | GNU General Public License |
| GPRS | General Packet Radio Service |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| GRUB | GRand Unified Boot-loader |
| GSM | Global System for Mobile Communications |
| GTK | GIMP Toolkit |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| GUID | Globally Unique Identifier |
H
| HBCI | HomeBanking Computer Interface |
| HDCP | High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection |
| HDL | Hardware Description Language |
| HDLC | High level Data Link Control |
| HDMI | High Definition Multimedia Interface |
| HGC | Hercules Graphics Card |
| HMA | High Memory Area |
| HMD | Head Mounted Display |
| HPFS | High Performance File System |
| HSCSD | High Speed Circuit Switched Data |
| HSRP | Hot Standby Router Protocol |
| HT | HyperThreading |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
| HTPC | Home Theater Personal Computer |
| HTTP | HyperText Transport Protocol |
| HTTPS | HyperText Transport Protocol + SSL |
I
| ICC | International Color Consortium |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IDL | Interface Definition Language |
| IDE | Integrated Disk Electronic |
| IDF | Intel Developer Forum |
| IDMS | Integrated Database Management System |
| IDN | Internationalized Domain Name |
| IDNA | Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IGRP | Interior Gateway Routing Protocol |
| IIOP | Internet Inter-Orb Protocol |
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol |
| IMS | Information Management System (IBM Großrechner) |
| IP | Internet Protokoll |
| IPC | InterProcess Communications |
| IPC | Instructions Per Cycle |
| IPP | Internet Printing Protocol |
| IPX | Internetwork Packet Exchange |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
| IrDA | Infrared Data Association |
| IRQ | Interrupt Request |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISA | Industry Standard Architecture |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IT | InformationsTechnologie |
J
| JDBC | Java DataBase Connectivity |
| JDK | Java Development Kit |
| JFS | Journaling File System |
| JMS | Java Message Service |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| JSF | Java Server Faces |
| JSP | JavaServer Pages |
| JVM | Java Virtual Machine |
K
| KDE | K Desktop Environment |
| KI | Künstliche Intelligenz (en. AI) |
| KVM | Keyboard Video Monitor |
L
| L2TP | Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol |
| LAMP | Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP-Perl |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LCD | Liquid Crystal Display |
| LCOS | Liquid Crystal On Silicon |
| LDAP | Leightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LED | Light Emitting Diode |
| LILO | LInux LOader |
| LISP | LISt Processor (dt. Listenverarbeiter) Programmiersprache |
| LLC | Logical Link Control |
| LUN | Logical Unit Number |
M
| MAC | Media Access Control |
| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network |
| MBR | Master Boot Record |
| MCA | Micro Channel Architecture |
| MHP | Multimedia Home Platform |
| MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
| MIDS | Multi Functional Information Distribution System |
| MIME | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MMS | Multimedia Messaging Service |
| MMU | Memory Management Unit |
| MMX | Multimedia Extension |
| MPEG | Moving Picture Experts Group |
| MPLS | Multiprotocol Label Switching |
| MRAM | Magnetic RAM |
| MSN | Microsoft Network |
| MSN | Multiple Subscriber Number |
| MTA | Mail Transfer Agent |
| MTU | Maximum Transfer Unit |
| MUA | Mail User Agent |
N
| NAS | Network Attached Storage |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| NDS | Novell Directory Services |
| NGSC | Next Generation Secure Computing Base |
| NIC | Networked Information Center |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| NFS | Network File System |
| NNTP | Network News Transport Protocol |
| NTBA | Network Termination for ISDN Basic Access |
| NTFS | New Technology File System |
| NUMA | Non-Uniform Memory Access |
| NVRAM | Non Volatile RAM |
O
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition |
| ODBC | Open DataBase Connectivity - Eine universelle Datenbankschnittstelle |
| ODMG | Object Database Management Group |
| OEM | Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| OFDM | Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing |
| OGC | OpenGIS Consortium |
| OLAP | Online Analytical Processing |
| OLTP | OnLine Transaction Processing |
| OLE | Object Linking and Embedding |
| 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) |
| OS | Operating System (Betriebssystem) |
| OSPF | Open Shortest Path First |
| OSS | Open Source Software (Software, deren Quelltext öffentlich zugänglich ist) |
| OWS | OpenGIS Consortium Web Services |
P
| P2P | Peer to Peer |
| PAL | Programmable Array Logic |
| PAP | Password Authentication Protocol |
| PBCC | Packet Binary Convolution Coding |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant |
| PDC | Primary Domain Controller |
| PERL | Practical Extraction and Report Language |
| PHP | PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor |
| PIC | Programmable Interrupt Controller |
| PLA | Programmable Logic Array |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
| PnP | Plug and Play |
| 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 |
| PPP | Point to Point Protocol |
| PPPoE | PPP over Ethernet |
| PPTP | Point to Point Tunneling Protocol |
| PS | PostScript |
| PSTN | Public Switched Telephone Network |
Q
| QoS | Qualtity of Service |
R
| RAD | Rapid Application Development |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Inexpensive / Independent Disks |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| RARP | Reverse ARP |
| RAS | Remote Access Service |
| RDBMS | Relational DataBase Management System (Relationales Datenbanksystem) |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework |
| REU | RAM Expansion Unit |
| RFC | Request for Comments |
| RFID | Radio Frequency Identification |
| RGB | Red Green Blue (Rot Grün Blau) |
| RIMM | Rambus In-Line Memory Modul |
| RIP | Raster Image Process |
| RIP | Routing Information Protocol |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computing |
| RMI | Remote Method Invocation |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
S
| SACD | Super-Audio-CD |
| SAN | Storage Area Network |
| SANE | Scanner Access Now Easy Standard Apple Numeric Environment |
| SATA | Serial ATA |
| SAX | Simple API for XML |
| SCAM | SCSI Configuration AutoMatically |
| SCSI | Small Computers System Interface |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| SDL | Service Description Language |
| SDL | Simple DirectMedia Layer |
| SDSL | Symmetric/Single line Digital Subscriber Line / Variante von DSL |
| SGML | Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SIMD | Single-Instruction Multiple-Data |
| SIMM | Single In-line Memory Module |
| SIP | Session Initiation Protocol |
| SIP | Sideway Information Passing |
| SLD | Styled Layer Descriptor |
| SLIP | Serial Line Internet Protocol |
| SLP | Service Location Protocol |
| SLR | Scalable Linear Recording |
| SMB | Server Message Block |
| SMIL | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
| SML | Standard Meta Language |
| SMP | Symmetric Multi-Processing |
| SMS | Short Message Service |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transport Protocol |
| SNA | Systems Network Architecture (IBM Großrechner) |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SQL | Structured Query Language, (dt. Strukturierte Abfragesprache) Datenbankabfragesprache |
| SRAM | Static RAM |
| SSH | Secure SHell |
| SSI | Server Side Includes |
| SSID | Service Set IDentifier |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| STFU | Shut the fuck up |
| STFW | Search the fucking web |
| SVCD | Super Video Compact Disc |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics |
| SVGA | Super Video Graphics Array |
T
| TCL | Tool Command Language (dt. Werkzeugsprache) Programmiersprache |
| 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 |
| TFT | Thin Film Transistor |
| TFTP | Trivial FTP |
| TPC | Transmit Power Control |
| TPM | Trusted Platform Module |
| TTL | Time to live (Computernetzwerke) oder Transistor-Transistor-Logik |
| TWAIN | Toolkit Without An Interesting Name (Standard zum Austausch von Daten zwischen Bildeingabegeräten) |
U
| UART | Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| UDF | Universal Disc Format |
| UFS | UNIX File System |
| 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 |
| UXGA | Ultra Extended Graphics Array |
V
| VB | Visual Basic |
| VBA | Visual Basic for Applications |
| VBS | Visual Basic Script |
| VESA | Video Electronics Standards Association |
| VDR | Video Disk Recording |
| VDSL | Very High Data Rate DSL / Variante von DSL |
| 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 |
| VoIP | Voice over IP |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VRAM | Video RAM |
| VRRP | Virtual Router Reduncy Protocol |
| VST | Virtual Studio Technology |
W
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAIS | Wide Area Information Servers |
| WAMP | Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP-Perl |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol |
| 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 |
| WLAN | Wireless Local Area Network (Kabelloses Lokales Netzwerk) |
| 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 Service Description Language |
| WSH | Windows Scripting Host |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| 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 |
X
| 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) |
| XMS | Extended Memory Specification |
| XrML | eXtensible rights Markup Language |
| XSD | XML-Schema Definition |
| XSL | eXtensible Stylesheet Language |
| XSLT | XSL Transformations |