| IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| IGES |
Initial Graphics Exchange Specification |
| IMG |
IMaGe |
| IMHO |
In My Humble Opinion |
| I/O |
Input/output |
| IRC |
Internet Relay Chat |
| IRQ |
Interrupt Request |
| ISA |
Industry Standard Architecture |
| ISDN |
Integrated service digital network |
| ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
| ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
| ISV |
Independent Software Vendor |
| JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| K or KB |
Kilobyte, (K or k by itself can mean 1024 or 1000 units) |
| KBPS |
KiloBits Per Second |
| LAN |
Local Area Network |
| LASER |
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
| LCD |
Liquid Crystal Display |
| LED |
Light-Emitting Diode |
| LUT |
Look Up Table |
| LVT |
Light Valve Technology |
| LW |
Line Work |
| MB |
Megabyte |
| MBPS |
Megabits per second |
| MCA |
Micro Channel Architecture (internal bus for IBM PS/2 |
| MDA |
Monochrome Display Adapter (video display standard) |
| MFLOPS |
Million FLoating-point Operations Per Second |
| MFM |
Modified Frequency Modulation (disk format standard) |
| MGA |
Monochrome Graphic Adapter (video display standard) |
| MHz |
MegaHertZ-frequency unit equal to one cycle per second, see also kHz, KHz |
| MICR |
Magnetic-Ink Character Recognition |
| MIPS |
Millions of Instructions Per Second |
| MIS |
Management information system (or service) |
| MODEM |
MOdulator/DEModulator |
| MS-DOS |
Microsoft Disk Operating System |
| MTBF |
Mean Time Between Failures |
| NFS |
Network File System (distributed file system from Sun) |
| NTSC |
National Television System Committee (U.S. color TV standard) |
| NuBus |
(32-bit bus architecture for Macintosh II computers) |
| OCR |
Optical Character Recognition |
| OEM |
Original Equipment Manufacturer |
| OS |
Operating system |
| OSF |
Open Software Foundation |
| OSI |
Open Systems Interconnection (ISO standard communications protocol) |
| PAL |
Phase Alternating Line system (European color TV standard) |
| PAL |
Programmable Array Logi |
| PC |
Personal Computer |
| PCB |
Printed Circuit Board |
| PCMCIA |
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association |
| PCX |
raster graphics format for PC Paintbrush |
| PDL |
Page-Description Language |
| PDS |
Processor Direct Slot |
| PDX |
Printer Description Extension |
| PE |
Printer's Error |
| PGA |
Professional Graphics Adapter (video display standard) |
| PHIGS |
Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics Standard (language for creating 2-D and 3-D graphic images) |
| PIC |
Lotus file format |
| PICT |
Macintosh PICT file format for graphics |
| PMMU |
Paged Memory Management Unit |
| PMS |
Pantone Matching System |
| PMT |
Photomechanical Transfer (photostat) |
| PMT |
Photomultiplier Tube |
| PPD |
PostScript Printer Description (includes APDs and PDXs) |
| PPI |
Pixels Per Inch |
| PROM |
Programmable Read-Only Memory |
| PWS |
Personal Web Server |
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