ABIOS - Advanced Basic Input/Output System
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BIOS - Basic Input/Output System.
CD-ROM - Compact Disk - Read Only Memory.
CISC - Complex Instruction-Set Computer.
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor.
CRAP - Cannot Really Assess Possibilities
DMA - Direct Memory Access
DASD - Direct Access Storage Device
DIMM - Dual Inline Memory Module
DIP - Dual In-Line Pin (switches & chips)
DIPP - Dual In-Line Pin Package
DMA - Direct Memory Access
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory
EDO - Extended Data Out
EEC - Error Correction Code
EGA - Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EISA - Extended Industry Standard Architecture
ELF - Extremely Low Frequency
EPROM - Erasable Programmable ROM
EEPROM - Electronically Erasable PROM
EIDE - Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics
EMS - Extended Memory Specification
ESDI - Enhanced Small Device Interface
FAT - File Allocation Table
FPU - Floating-Point Unit
HTML - Hypertext Mark-Up Language
IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
MBPS - Megabits per second
MCA - Micro Channel Architecture
MHz - Megahertz
MMX - Multi-Media Extensions
OCR - Optical Character Recognition
OLE - Object Linking and Embedding
PCI - Peripheral Component Interface
PCL - Printer Control Language
PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card Industry Association
PIC - Programmable Interrupt Controller
PIF - Program Information File
PnP - Plug and Play
PROM - Programmable Read Only Memory.
RAID - Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
RAM - Random Access Memory
RISC - Reduced Instruction-Set Computer
SCSI - Small Computer System Interface
SDRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SIMM - Single In-Lime Memory Module
SIPP - Single In-Line Pin Package
SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol
SQL - Structured Query Language
SRAM - Static Random Access Memory
SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TIFF - Tagged Image File Format
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receive/Transmitter
UMB - Upper Memory Block
URL - Uniform Resource Locator
USB - Universal Serial Bus
VESA - Video Electronics Standards Association
VGA - Video Graphics Array
VL BUS - VESA Local Bus
VRAM - Video Random Access Memory
VTAM - Virtual Telecommunications Access Method (IBM)
WAN - Wide Area Network
WORM - Write Once - Read Many
WRAM - Windows Random Access Memory
WWW - World Wide Web
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
XGA - Extended Graphics Adapter
XMS - Extended Memory Specification