ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Management

ADELI Association pour le Développement de la Logique Informatique

ADEPA Agence Nationale pour le Développement de la Production Automatisée

ADI Agence De l' Informatique

ADSI Analog Display Services Interface

AFEL Association Française des Editeurs de Logiciels

AFUU Association Française des Utilisateurs d' Unix et des systèmes ouverts

AGL Atelier de Génie Logiciel

AI Artificial Intelligence (same as IA)

AILF Association des Informaticiens de Langue Française

ANSI American National Standards Institute

ANTIOPE Acquisition Numérique et Télévisualisation d'Images Organisées en Pages d'Ecritures

API Application Programming Interface

APM Advanced Power Management

ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency

ASAP Advanced Scientific Array Processor

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASD Automatic Skip Driver

ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface

AUI Attachment Unit Interface

BASIC Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BCS British Computer Society

BIOS Basic Input / Output System

BLOB Binary Large Object

BSA Business Software Alliance

CAM Carte A Micro-circuit

CAN Convertisseur Analogique-Numérique

CATV Câble TV

CAV Constant Angular Velocity (reading technique)

CCT Circuit

CD-CINC CD-ROM Consistent Interface Committee (USA)

CD Compact Disk

CD-I Compact Disc Interactif

CD-R Compact Disk Recordable

CD-ROM Compact Disk - Read Only Memory

CD-W Compact disk - reWritable

CDT Computer Display Terminal

CEN Comité Européen de Normalisation

CERT Computer Emergency Response Team (USA, university of Carnegie Mellon)

CESTI Centre d'Evaluation de la Sécurité des Technologies de l'Information

CHIC Computer Human Interaction Center

CIGREF Club Informatique des Grandes Entreprises Françaises

CISC Complex Instruction-Set Computer

CISI Comité Interministériel pour la Société de l'Information (FR)

CLI Command Line Interface

CLSID Class Identifier

CLV Constant Linear Velocity (reading technique)

CNA Convertisseur Numérique - Analogique

COS Corporation for Open Systems (USA)

CNL Commission Nationale de la Communication Audio-Visuelle (FR)

Computing Informatique

CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CPS Characters Per Second / Caractères Par Seconde

CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check / Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique

CST Conseil Supérieur de la Télématique (FR, créé par décret en 1993)

DAC Digital to Analog Converter

DARPA Defence Applied Research Projects Agency

DAT Digital Audio Tape

DCE Distributed Computing Environment

DD Dubble Density / Double Densité

DDE Dynamic Data Exchange

DE Data Extraction

DES Data Encryption Standard

DFD Data Flow Diagram

DIF Directory Interchange Format

DIME Direct Memory Execute

DIS Distributed Information System

DLL Dynamic Link Library

DLT Digital Linear Tape

DMA Direct Memory Access

DMI Desktop Management Interface

DMS Digital Management System

DOM Document Object Model

DON Disque Optique Numérique

DOS Disk Operating System

DQA Data Quality Assessment

DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory

DSS Decision Support System

DSS Digital Signature Standard (cryptography)

DTE Data Terminal Equipment

DTW Desktop Workstation

DVD Digital Versatile Disk

DXF Data Exchange File

EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association

ECP Extended Capabilities Port

EDI Environnement de Developpement Intégré

EFS Encrypting File System

EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture

EMM Expanded Memory Manager

EMS Expanded Memory Specification

EOT End Of Text

EPIC Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (jeu d'instructions pour traitement en parallèle)

EPP Enhanced Parallel Port

EPS Encapsulated PostScript

ES Expert System (same as SE)

ESCD Extended System Configuration Data (BIOS)

FAQ Frequently Asked Question(s)

FAT File Allocation Table (système de fichiers DOS)

FCC Federal Communications Commission (USA)

FIHT Forum de l'Informatique et de la Haute Technologie

FLOPS Floating Point Operations per Second

GAP Générateur Automatique de Programme

GDM Générateur de Dessin de Masques

GFS Global File System

GMT Greenwich Mean Time

GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnection Profiles

GPF General Protection Fault

GSE Générateur de Systèmes Experts

GUID Globally Unique Identifier

HC Hard Copy

HCI Human Computer Interaction

HCI Human Computer Interface

HD High Density / Haute Densité

HDT High Density Tape

HDTR High Density Tape Recorder

HDTV High Definition Television

HPFS High Performance File System (système de fichiers MS-Windows NT)

HW Hardware

IA Intelligence Artificielle (- Idem AI)

IBA Independent Broadcasting Authority (GB, same as CNL)

ICT Information and Communication Technologies

IDE Imbedded Drive Electronics / Integrated Drive Electronics

IFS Installable File System

IGIS Integrated Geographical Information System

IHM Interface Homme-Machine

ILMS Integrated Library Management System

IME Input Method Editor

IMS Information Management System

INRIA Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (FR)

IOS Initializing Operating System

IPP Internet Printing Protocol

IRF Internal Raster File / Internal Raster Format

IRISA Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires (FR)

IRQ Interrupt Request

IS Information System

ISI Institut de la Sécurité Informatique

IS&T Information Systems and Technology

ISO International Standards Organization

IT Information Technology (same as TI)

JDBC Java Data Base Connector

JDK Java Development Kit

JVM Java Virtual Machine

KB Kilobyte (10³ bytes)

KBPS KiloBytes Per Second

LAD Lecture Automatique de Document

LCD Liquid Crystal Displays

LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LECAM Lecteur de Cartes A Mémoires

LF Line Feed

LIB Library

LP Line Printer

LPI Lines Per Inch

LSD Large Screen Display

LSD Least Significant Digit

LSD Loop Signaling Device

MB Megabyte (10⁶ bytes)

MBPS Megabytes per second

MD Master Directory

MDI Multiple Document Interface

MFD Master File Directory

MFS MOSix File System

MIB Management Information Base

MIFD Management Information Format Database (DMI pool data)

MIS Management Information System

MISC Miscellaneous

MMI Man Machine Interface

MOCN Machines Outils à Commande Numérique

MPI Management de Projets Informatiques

MPP Massively Parallel Processor

MSA Multi Source Agreement

MTU Magnetic Tape Unit

MUG Multi-User Game

MVS Multiple Virtual Storage

NAB National Association of Broadcasters (USA)

NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications

NCSA National Computer Security Association

NTFS New Technology File System (MS-Windows NT, 2000, XP)

OCR Optical Character Reader / Optical Character Recognition (same as ROC)

ODBC Open Database Communication

ODBC Operational Database Connectivity

ODE Open Development Environment

ODI Open Data-link Interface (Novell-Apple version of NDIS)

ODP Open Distributed Processing

OEM Original Equipment Manufacturers

OLE Object Linking and Embedding

OO Object Oriented

OODB Object Oriented Data Base

OODBMS Object Oriented Data Base Management System

OOP Object Oriented Programming

OS Operating System (same as SE)

OSA Open Service Architecture

OSF Open Systems Foundation

OSI Open Systems Interconnection

OSR OEM Service Release

OSTC Open Systems Testing Consortium

PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PDF Portable Document Format

PB PetaByte (10¹⁵ bytes)

PC Personal Computer

PCAV Partial Constant Angular Velocity (reading technique)

PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PEP Protocol Extension Protocol

PGP Pretty Good Privacy

PIF Paysage Informatique Français

PIO Parallel Input-Output

PIO Programmed Input-Output

P- Mail Physical Mail

PnP Plug n' Play

POO Programmation Orienté Objet

POP Point Off Presence

POSIX Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments

POSIX Portable Operating System for unIX

POST Power On Self-Test

PPM Pages Par Minute

P3 Palm Pilot People

PS PostScript

PSI Petit Système Individuel

PU Physical Unit

PVFS Parallel Virtual File System

RAD Rapid Development Application

RAID Redundancy Array of Independent Disks (or Devices) / Grappes redondantes de disques indépendants

RCC Residential Computing Consultant

R&D Research and Development

RDF Resource Description Framework

RFC Request For Comments

RFD Request For Discussion

RFQ Request For Quotes

RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer

RLE Run Length Encoded

ROC Reconnaissance Optique de Caractères (- Idem OCR)

ROM Read-Only Memory

ROP Raster Operations Processor

RSA Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (encryption algorythm)

RTP Real Time Protocol

SAA System Application Architecture

SAPI Speech Application Programming Interface

SBK System Builder's Kit

SCSI Small Computer System Interface

SDI Single Document Interface

SDIS Standards Developer's Information Site (ISO)

SDK Software Developper's Kit

SE Système Expert

SE Système d'Exploitation

SES Strategic Engineering Support

SETR Système d'Exploitation Temps Réel

SFT System Fault Tolerance

SIIA Software and Information Industry Association

SIG Special Interest Group

SLIC Subscribe Line Interface Chip

SMBIOS System Management BIOS

STD Software Test Description

TIA Thanks In Advance / Merci par avance

TSA Technical Support Alliance

UAL Unité Arithmétique et Logique

UCSTRI Unified Computer Science Technical Report Index

UDP User Datagram Protocol

UPnP Universal Plug and Play

USB Universal Serial Bus

UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply

UUCP Unix to Unix Copy

VAP Value Added Process

VAR Value Added Resellers

VFAT Virtual File Allocation System

VFS Virtual File System

VM Virtual Machine / Machine virtuelle

VMM Virtual Machine Manager

VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal

VR Virtual Reality

VTR Video Tape Recording

VXD Virtual Extended Driver

WORM Write Once, Read Many

WS Work Station

WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

XDF Exchange Data Format