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A
Ampere (the SI base unit for electric current)
A/D
Analogous/Digital
A/V
Audio/Video (the slash is optional)
AAC
Advanced Audio Coding
AAUI
Apple Attachment Unit Interface
ABC
American Broadcasting Corporation, USA
ABS
Antilock Braking System
AC
Alternating Current
AC-3
Audio Coding algorithm, 3. generation (Dolby)
ACD
Automated Call Distributor
ACE
American Cinema Editors
ACE
Americans Communicating Electronically
ACGI
Asynchronous CGI
ACID
Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability (from HLN)
ACL
Access Control List
ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
AD
Anno Domini [Year of the (christian) lord]
ADB
Apple Desktop Bus
ADC
Advanced Data Connector (Microsoft)
ADO
Active Data Objects (Microsoft)
ADPCM
Adaptive Differential PCM
ADSL
Asynchronous DSL
AES
Advanced Encryption Standard
AF
Alternative Frequency
AFAIK
As Far As I Know
AFC
Automatic Frequency Control
AGP
Advanced Graphics Port
AI
Artificial Intelligence
AIFF
Audio Interchange File Format
AKA
Also Known As
ALF
Alien Life Form (also the name of a TV show)
ALF
;-) Alabama Lunatic Fringe (from ALF)
ALF
;-) American Laundry Federation (from ALF)
ALF
;-) Association of Lawn Fertilizer (from ALF)
AM
Amplitude Modulation
AM
Anno Mundi [year of the lord]
AM
Ante Meridiem [before noon]
AMD
Advanced Micro Devices
ANSI
American National Standards Institute (a NGO)
AOL
America OnLine
APB
All Patrols Bulletin
API
Application Programming Interface
APWDBUD
;-) The Association of People Who Drink Beer and Use Dynamite (Dilbert cartoon)
ARM
Advanced RISC Machines (as in StrongARM CPU)
ARPA
Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA)
AS
Advanced Server (IBM)
ASAIGBFL
;-) As Soon As I Get Back From Lunch (Dream On #75)
ASAP
As Soon As Possible
ASC
American Society of Cinematographers
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC
Application Specific IC
ASL
Age/Sex/Location
ASP
Active Server Pages (Microsoft)
ASP
Application Service Provider
ASPCA
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
AT
Advanced Technology (as in IBM PC/AT)
AT&T
American Telephone and Telegraph company
ATA
AT Attachment (same as EIDE (?))
ATM
Adobe Type Manager (Adobe)
ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM
Automatic Teller Machine
ATP
Asynchronous Transfer Protocol
ATP
Association of [male] Tennis Professionals
ATP
Arbejdsmarkedets Tillægs-Pension [Danish Labour Market Supplementary Pension Scheme]
ATSC
Advanced Television Systems Committee
ATV
All-Terrain Vehicle
AVR
Audio Visual Research
AWACS
??? 
AWOL
Away WithOut Leave
AWT
Abstract Windowing Toolkit

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Updated 04-Jan-2002