G1 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

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ACC accumulator
ACIA asynchronous communications interface adapter
ACK acknowledgement signal
ACM Association for Computing Machinery
A-to-D analog-to-digital
A/D analog-to-digital
ADC analog-to-digital converter
ADC/MPS analog-to-digital/microprocessor system
ADSL asymmetric digital subscriber line
ADSR attack, decay, sustain, release (sound)
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AFIPS American Federation of Information Processing Societies
AI artificial intelligence
ALGOL ALGOrithmic Language
ALU arithmetic ...

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