GLOSSARIO termini usati in informatica ed in Internet
| ACCOUNT = conto, abbonamento | ANSI = American National Standars Institute |
| API = Application Program Interface | ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| BAUD = velocità dei modem x trasferire i dati | BBS = Bulletin Board System |
| BCD = Binary Coded Decimal | BIOS = Basic Input/Output System |
| BIT = Binary digIT | BYTE = 8 bits di informazione |
| BOUNCE = "rimbalzo" dei messaggi che tornano indietro | BPS = Bit al secondo |
| BROWSER = programma per sfogliare pagine WEB | CATV = Community Antenna Television |
| CGA = Color Graphics Adapter | CPU = Central Processing Unit |
| CRT = Cathode Ray Tube | DIMM = Double In-line Memory Module |
| DOWNLOAD = prelevamento di files | EGA = Enhance Graphics Adapter |
| E-MAIL = electronic mail (posta elettronica) | EMS = Expanded Memory Specification |
| EPROM = Erasable Programmable ROM | EEPROM = Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM |
| FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions (domanderi correnti) | FAT = File Allocation Table |
| FREEWARE = software (programma) gratis | FTP = File Transfer Protocol |
| GIF = Graphic Interchange Format (formato grafico) | GUI = Graphical User Interface |
| HTML = Hypertext Transpher Protocol | HTTP = Hypertext Transport Protocol |
| IDE = Integrated Drive Electronics | ISAM = Indexed Sequential Access Method |
| ISDN = Integrated Services Digital Network | JPEG = Joint Photographic Experts Group (formato grafico) |
| LAN = Local Area Network | MODEM = MOdulatore-DEmodulatore |
| MOS = Metal Oxide Semiconductor | MPEG = Moving Pictures Expert Group |
| MTBF = Mean Time Between Failures | NETWORK = sistema di comunicazione |
| NTSC = National Television Standards Committee | OCR = Optical Character Recognition |
| OEM = Original Equipment Manifacturer | PCB = Printed Circuit Board |
| PING = programma per seguire il percorso dei dati | POP = Point Of Presence |
| PPP = Point to Point Protocol | PROM = Programmable ROM |
| RAM = Random Access Memory | ROM = Read Only Memory |
| SCSI = Smale Computer System Interface | SDLP = Standard Device Level Protocol |
| SERVER = PC che distribuisce le informazioni | SGML = Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SHAREWARE = software disponibile ma a pagamento | SIMM = Single In-line Memory Module |
| SLIP = Serial Line Internet Protocol (protocollo) | SYSOP = SYStem OPerator |
| TCP/IP = Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol | TIFF = Tagged Image File Format |
| TSR = Terminate and Stay Resident | TTL = Transistor to Transistor Logic |
| UART = Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter | UPLOAD = copiare file da pc a sistema remoto |
| URL = Uniform Resource Locator (indirizzo sul WEB) | USERNAME = nome utente |
| VESA = Video Electronics Standards Association | VGA = Video Graphics Array |
| VRML = Virtual Reality Modeling Language | WAN = Wide Area Network |
| WWW = World Wide Web | USB = universal serial bus |
