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cronyms and abbreviations are part of the computer business. Below,
you will find a list of acronyms and abbreviations that are used in the com-
puter industry and can be found throughout this book. On the right-hand
side of this list, you will find the common expansion of each.
ACL Access Control List
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
ASCII American Standard Code for Information
Interchange
ASP Active Server Pages
AVI Audio Visual Interleaved

bash Bourne Again Shell
BDC backup domain controller
BNC Bayonet Neill Concelman, Bayonet Nut Connector,
or British Naval Connector
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
CA certification authority
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CIR Committed Information Rate
COM Component Object Model
CPAN Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
CPU central processing unit
CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance
CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DBMS Database Management Systems
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DCOM Distributed Component Object Model
DDS Dataphone Digital Service (also used for Digital Data
Storage and Digital Data Service)
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DLL Dynamic Link Library
DLT digital linear tape
DMZ demilitarized zone

DNS Domain Name Services
DOD Department of Defense
DOS denial of service
dpi dots per inch
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DTD document type definition
DUN Dial-Up Networking
DVD digital video disc or digital versatile disk
EMI electromagnetic interference
EPS Encapsulated PostScript
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
FDM frequency division multiplexing
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FTPd File Transfer Protocol Daemon
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
GSNW Gateway Services for NetWare
GUI graphical user interface
HDSL High Data Rate Digital Subscriber Line
HP Hewlett-Packard
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HTML Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPd Hypertext Transfer Protocol Daemon
IAB Internet Architecture Board
IBM International Business Machines
IE Internet Explorer
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IHL Internet Header Length
IIS Internet Information Server
INND Internet News Daemon
IPX Internetwork Packet eXchange
IPX/SPX Internetwork Packet eXchange/Sequenced Packet
eXchange
IRQ interrupt request lines
IRTF Internet Research Task Force
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISP Internet Service Provider
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JVM Java Virtual Machine
LAN local area network
LCP Link Control Protocol
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
MAC media access control
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
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MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group
MSAU multistation access unit
MX mail exchange
NADN nearest active downstream neighbor
NAUN nearest active upstream neighbor
NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NDS Novell Directory Services
NetBEUI NetBIOS Enhanced User Interface
NetBIOS Network Basic Input Output System
NIC network interface card
NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol
NOS network operating system
OEM original equipment manufacturer
OS operating system
OSI Open Systems Interconnection
OUI Organizationally Unique Identifier
PDC primary domain controller
PGP Pretty Good Privacy
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
PNG Portable Network Graphics
POP3 Post Office Protocol version 3
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
ppi pixels per inch
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
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PVC permanent virtual circuit
QoS Quality of Service
RAM random access memory
RFC Request for Comments
RFI radio frequency interference
RIP Routing Information Protocol
RISC reduced instruction set computing
RJ Registered Jack
SAM Security Accounts Manager
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SDSL Single Line Digital Subscriber Line
SET Secure Electronic Transactions
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SOP standard operating procedures
SPARC Scalable Processor ARChitecture
SPX Sequenced Packet eXchange
SQL Structured Query Language
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
STP shielded twisted-pair
Tcl Tool Command Language
TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TDM time division multiplexing
Telnet Terminal Emulation for Networks
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
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TM Trademark
TOS Type of Service
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UID user ID
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USPTO United States Patent and Trademark Office
UTP unshielded twisted-pair
VDSL Very High Data Rate Digital Subscriber Line
VPN virtual private network
VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language
WINS Windows Internet Name Service
WSH Windows Script Host
WWW World Wide Web
XML eXtensible Markup Language
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