176 abbreviations
Abbreviation Meaning
AAC Advanced Audio Coding
ABI Application Binary Interface
AMD Advanced Micro Device
ANSI American National Standards Institute
APDIP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme
API Application Program Interface
ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASF Advanced Systems Format
AVC Advanced Video Coding
AVI Audio Video Interleave
BIS Bureau of Indian Standards
BSA Business Software Alliance
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
BSI British Standards Institute
ccTLD Country Code Top-Level Domain
CD Compact Disc
CDDL Common Development and Distribution License
CE Consumer Electronics
CII Computer-Implemented Invention
COTS Common Off The Shelf
DNS Domain Name Service
DOC Document
DOS Disk Operating System
DTD Document Type Definition
DVD Digital Video Disc
EC European Commission
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association
EEE [Extend and Extinguish] Embrace
e-GIF e-Government Interoperability Framework
EICTA [Communications and Consumer Technology Industry Association] European Information
EIF European Interoperability Framework
ELF Executable and Linking Format
EPC European Patent Convention
EPO European Patent Office
ETRM Enterprise Technology Reference Model
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EU European Union
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FAT File Allocation Table
FHS Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
FLAC Free Lossless Audio Codec
FOSS Free/Open Source Software
FSF Free Software Foundation
FSG Free Standards Group
G2B Government to Business
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
GL Graphics Library
GNOME GNU Network Object Model Environment
GNU Gnu's Not Unix