AFROS Atari FRee operating system
AOP aspect-oriented programming
API Application Programming interface
ATI array Technology Inc.
AVI audio video Interlaced
BeOS operating system
BIOS basic input output system
CORBA Common Object Request broker Architecture
CD Compact disk
CDDB CD DATA cousin
COM Component Object Model
CCU cent ral Processor unit
CSS Cascading Style Sheet
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model
DIVx digitally video express
DII dynamic Invocation interface
DIN ISO German industry standard/internationally standard organization
DLL dynamic left LIBRARY
DSL Domain Specific LANGUAGE
DTD Document type definition
DVB digitally video Broadcasting
DVB-C digitally video Broadcasting Cable
DVB-S digitally video Broadcasting Satellite
DVB-T digitally video Broadcasting Terrestrial
DVD digitally Versatile disk
DVDRAM digitally Versatile disk - random ACCESS MEMORY
DVI digitally Visual interface
DVP digitally video Project
EDU Education
IESE Fraunhofer Institut for experimental software engineering
EJB Enterprise Java Beans
EPG electronics Program Guide
EXE Executable
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
NEARLY Family Oriented Abstraction, Specification, and translation.
Fat32 file Allocation Table 32 bits
FH professional school
FORE Family Oriented requirement engineering
GARV society for the promotion of the broadcast supply
GB gigabyte
GNOMES GNU network Object Model Environment
GNU of gnomes Non Unix
GP Generative programming
GUI Graphical user interface
GUID Globally Unique Identifier
HTML hypertext Mark UP LANGUAGE
HTPC Home Theatre personnel computer
IBM internationally Business Machines
IDL interface definition LANGUAGE
IDTV Integrated digitally Television
IO input output
INI Initialization
IrDA Infrared DATA Association
IRQ interrupt Request
KB kilobyte
KDE Kool Desktop Environment
LAN local AREA network
LCD liquid Crystal display
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
MAC Message Authentification code
MT megabyte
MHz megahertz
MP3s Moving Picture Expert Group 1,0 Layer 3
MPEG Moving Picture Expert Group
MS-DOS Microsoft disk operating system
MTS middleware Transaction server
NTFS new Technology file system
OCX OLE control Extension
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OMG Object management Group
OO object orientation away with
OOP object-oriented programming away dmait
GRANNY Object management Architecture
ORB Object Request broker
OSD on screen display
PC personnel computer
PDA personnel digitally Assistant
PE Preinstallation Environment
PVR personnel video recorder
RAM random ACCESS MEMORY
ReactOS name and/or Reacting operation sytem roughly
RPM talk-has Package manager
SVCD super video Compact disk
DO technical university
TV Television
TVOON name
UML Unified Modeling LANGUAGE
USB universal Serial bus
VCD video Compact disk
VDR video disk recorder
WAV Wave
WLAN Wireless local AREA network
XML Extensible Markup LANGUAGE
XP Experience
YaST Yet of another Setup Tool