The coding system used by Dolby Digital. The two terms, AC-3 and Dolby Digital, are often used interchangeably.

Access time is the time from the start of one storage device access to the time when the next access can be started.

People use this word several ways. You can ask someone for the address of their server, or for their home page on the Web, …

ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) is a technology for transmitting digital information at a high bandwidth…

A formula or set of steps for solving a particular problem.

ANSI (American National Standards Institute) is the primary organization for fostering the development of technology standards in the United States.

An applet is a little application.

Acronym for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Pronounced ask-ee, ASCII is a code…

An ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) is a microchip designed for a special application, …

ASPI (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface) specifies how an application program can communicate with a SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)…

In general, asynchronous (pronounced ay-SIHN-kro-nuhs, from Greek asyn-, meaning “not with,” and chronos, meaning “time”) is…

The ATA is a formal name used by X3T10 group of the ANSI, and it is also called IDE informally.

Short for AT Attachment Packet Interface, an extension to EIDE (also called ATA-2) that enables the interface to support CD-ROM players and tape drives.

Short for Asynchronous Transfer Mode, a network technology based on transferring data in cells or packets of a fixed size.