| Acronym | Meaning |
| EMS | Expanded Memory Specification |
| DPMI | DOS Protected Mode Interface |
| IDE | Intelligent (Integrated) Drive Electronics |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| MUD | Multiple User (or Multi-User) Dungeon (Dimension) |
| WINTEL | Windows/Intel |
| AUI | Attachment Unit Interface |
| MDA | Monochrome Display Adapter |
| MFLOPS | Millions Of Floating Point Operations Per Second |
| CODEC | Compression/Decompression |