Acronyms and abbreviations /
· ADSL= Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
· ACK= positive ACKnowledgement
· ADB= Apple Desktop Bus
· ADC= Analogue to Digital Converter
· AI= Artificial Intelligence
· AIFF= Audio Image File Format
· ALGOL= ALGOrithmatic Language,
· “a problem – oriented , high-level programming language for mathematical and scientific use ”
· ALU = Arithmetic Logic Unit
· AMD = Advanced Micro Devices , manufacturer of microprocessors
· API = Application Program Interface
· ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange
· ASF = Advanced Streaming Format , introduced by Microsoft for the transmission of real-time video and audio over the net
· AT = Advanced Technology , “the at was born in 1984 with the introduction of the IBM PC-AT, most Ats have 286 processors”
· AT&T= American Telephone & Telegraph company
· ATM = 1: Adobe Type Manager
2: Automated Telling Machine
· AVI = Audio Video Interface “a video format ”