Glossary
- ACID
-
Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
- ACE
-
Access Control Entry
- ACL
-
Access Control List
- ADT
-
Abstract Data Type
- AIX
-
IBM's version of UNIX
- ALU
-
Arithmetic Logic Unit
- AMI
-
Asynchronous Message Invocation
- ANSA
-
Advanced Networked Systems Architecture
- ANSI
-
American National Standards Institute
- APC
-
Asynchronous Procedure Call
- API
-
Application Programming Interface
- ARM
-
Acorn RISC Machine
- ASCII
-
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- ASN.1
-
Abstract Syntax Notation one
- ATM
-
1. Asynchronous Transfer Mode
2. Automatic Teller Machine
- BSD
-
Berkeley Software Distribution (of UNIX, for example BSD 4.3)
- CA
-
Certification Authority
- CAD
-
Computer Aided Design
- capability
-
A name for an object which includes access rights to the object
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