| Abbreviation |
Definition |
| AS |
Anti-Static |
| A3 |
A3 (11.7"x16.5") Paper |
| A4 |
A4 (8.3"x11.7") Paper |
| A5 |
A5 (5.8"x8.3") Paper |
| AA |
Active Area (e.g. digitizers, scanners, etc.) |
| AAUI |
Apple Attachment Unit Interface |
| AC |
Alternating Current |
| ACCDEV |
Access Device |
| ACCEL |
Accelerator |
| ACCSVR |
Access Server |
| ACCY |
Accessory |
| ACD |
Automatic Call Distribution |
| ACPL |
Advanced Config. And Power Line |
| ACS |
Asynchronous Communication Server; also Access Control Store |
| ACT |
Active-Matrix Color |
| ADB |
Apple Desktop Bus |
| ADD |
Additional |
| ADF |
Automatic Document Feeder |
| ADJ |
Adjustable |
| ADK |
Application Development Kit |
| ADMIN |
Administration / Administrator |
| ADO |
ActiveX Data Objects |
| ADPT |
Adapter |
| ADSL |
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| ADV |
Advanced |
| AE |
Academic Edition |
| AE |
Education Edition |
| AE |
Scholar Edition |
| AF |
African |
| AG |
Aperture Grille |
| AGP |
Accelerated Graphics Port |
| AGP2X |
Accelerated Graphics Port 2X |
| AGP4X |
Accelerated Graphics Port 4X |
| AI |
Adaptive Interface; also, Artificial Intelligence |
| AIX |
IBM AIX |
| ALM |
Application Loadable Module |
| ALOG |
Analog |
| ALPHA |
Alpha Class Processor |
| AMP |
Ampere |
| AMPL |
Amplified |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| API |
Application Program Interface; also
Application Programming Interface |
| APM |
Advanced Power Management; also Additional Packet Mode |
| app |
Application |
| APPSVR |
Application Server |
| APT |
Application Programmer's Toolkit |
| APTALK |
AppleTalk |
| AR |
Arabic |
| ARAS |
Apple Remote Access Service |
| ARC |
ARCnet |
| AS/400 |
Application System 400 |
| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information
Interchange |
| ASIC |
Application Specific Integrated Chip |
| ASUBSYS |
Array Subsystem |
| async |
Asynchronous |
| AT |
Advanced Technology; Hayes Command Set |
| AT |
Full Size Motherboard |
| ATA |
AT Attachment |
| ATAPI |
AT Attachment Packet Interface |
| ATA-2 |
Same as EIDE, Fast ATA, 13.3MBps |
| ATA-3 |
Minor Revision To ATA-2 |
| ATA-4 |
Also: ATA-33, DMA-33, Ultra ATA, Ultra DMA, UDMA |
| ATA/66 |
16.6MBps Throughput |
| ATM |
Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| ATX |
ATX Size Motherboard |
| AUD/IN |
Audio-In |
| AUI |
Attachment Unit Interface |
| auto |
Automatic |
| AUTONEG |
Auto-Negotiation |
| autoCH |
Autochanger |
| autolD |
Auto Load |
| autolDR |
Autoloader |
| AUTOSEN |
Auto-Sensing |
| AUX |
In DOS, an Auxiliary Port |
| AV |
Anti-Virus |