Abbreviations ALE Address Latch Enables ANSI American National Standards Institute ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency ASCII American Standard Code for Info. Interchange CCITT Consultative Committee CD Compact Disk DBMS Database Management System DVD Digital Veratile Disk EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM EIA Electronic Industries Association EPZ Export Processing Zone EPROM Erasable Programmable read Only Memory ENIAC Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator FCC Federal Communications Commission FET Field Effect Transistor FAT File Allocation Table HTML Hypertext Markup Language HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol HMA High Memory Area HGC Hercules Graphics Card IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange IAB Internet Architecture Board IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IC Integrated Circuit ICMP Internet Control Protocol IP Internet Protocol IPS Interrupted Power Supply ISDN Integrated Service Digital Network ISO International Standard Organization ISP Internet Service Provider ITU International Telecommunication Union LED Light Emitting Diode MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor NTFS New Technology File System NAPs Network access Points NTSC National Television System Committee NIC Network Interface Card OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer OMR Optical Mark Reader OSI Open System Interconnection PIC Programmable Interrupt Controller PIT Programmable Interval Timer POST Power Oneself Test PPI Programmable Peripheral Interface PROM Programmable Road Only Memory PSW Processor Status Word RARP Reverse Address Resolution RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer STP Shielded Twisted Pair SPX Sequenced Packet Exchange TCP Transmission Control Protocol UPS Uninterrupted Power Supply UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair UNIVAC Universal Automatic Computer UDP User Datagram Protocol URL Universal Resource Locator