| Acronym | Meaning |
| MDA | Monochrome Display Adapter |
| ACM | Association For Computing Machinery |
| CD | Carrier Detect |
| KB | Kilobyte |
| SGI | Silicon Graphics Incorporated |
| RTF | Rich Text Format |
| MIPS | Millions Of Instructions Per Second |
| PE | Portable Executable |
| LEP | Light Emitting Polymers |
| NSFNET | National Science Foundation Network |