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EDVAC

A

Electronic Discrete Variable Computer

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ENIAC

A

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator

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IC

A

Integrated Circuit

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SSI

A

Small-Scale Integrated Circuits

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MSI

A

Medium-Scale Integration

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LSI

A

Large Scale Integration

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VLSI

A

Very Large Scale Integration

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MOS

A

Metal Oxide Semi-conductor

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DEC

A

Digital Equipment Corporation

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PDA

A

Personal Digital Assistant

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ROM

A

Read Only Memory

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RAM

A

Random Access Memory

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CPU

A

Central Processing Unit

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ALU

A

Arithmetic Logic Unit

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VDU

A

Visual Display Unit

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MICR

A

Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

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OMR

A

Optical Mark Recognition

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OCR

A

Optical Character Recognition

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COM

A

Computer Output in Microfilm

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CAD

A

Computer Aided Design

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21
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CD-ROM

A

Compact Disc Read Only Memory

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WORM

A

Write Once/Read Many

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OS

A

Operating Systems

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DTP

A

Desktop Publishing

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BASIC

A

Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

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COBOL

A

Common Business Oriented Language

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FORTRAN

A

Formula Translation

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PL/1

A

Programming Language One

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RPG

A

Report Program Generator

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OOP

A

Object Oriented Programming

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LAN

A

Local Area Network

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WAN

A

Wide Area Network

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VAP

A

Value Added Process

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MODEM

A

Modulator Demodulator

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NOS

A

Network Operating System

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NETBIOS

A

Network-Basic Input and Output System

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ASCII

A

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

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EBCDIC

A

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

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BCD

A

Binary Coded Decimal

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ARPA

A

Advanced Research Projects Agency

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NSF

A

National Science Foundation

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TCP/IP

A

Transmissions Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

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E-mail

A

Electronic Mail

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FTP

A

File Transfer Protocol

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ISP

A

Internet Service Provider

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WAIS

A

Wide Area Information Services

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HTTP

A

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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WWW

A

World Wide Web

49
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IS

A

Information System

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IBM

A

International Big Machine

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CLI

A

Command Line Interface

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GUI

A

Graphical User Interface

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SDLC

A

Software Development Life Cycle

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IDE

A

Integrated Development Environ

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LSB

A

Less Significant Bits

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HTML

A

Hypertext Markup Language

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URL

A

Uniform Resource Locator

58
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ISOC

A

Internet Society

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SMTP

A

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol