| Acronym | Meaning |
| IRDA | Infrared Data Association |
| PAD | Portable Application Description |
| MICR | Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (Reader) |
| CPS | Characters Per Second |
| AMANDA | Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver |
| WINS | Windows Internet Name Service |
| UUCP | UNIX-to-UNIX Copy |
| CRT | Cathode-Ray Tube |
| CAE | Computer-Aided Engineering |
| RAID | Redundant Array Of Inexpensive Disks |