AA glossary of mis terms
ACM  =
CAD: Computer Aided Design
CAM: Computer Aided Manufacturing
CASE: Computer Aided Software Engineering 
CISC: Complex Instruction Set Chip
CPU: Central Processing Unit
EDI  = Electronic Data Interchange
EDP  = Electronic Data Processing
EDS  = Electronic Data Systems (a firm)
IBM  = International Business Machines
MIPS: Millions of Instructions Per Second
RAM: Randon Access Memory
RISC: Reduced Instruction Set Chips
ansi =
ascii=
cgi  = Common Gateway Interface
ergonomics: study of the physical interface between humans and their tools
html = HyperText Markup Language
http = HyperText Transfer Protocol
perl = Practical Extraction & Report Language
url  = Universal Resource Locator
www: world wide web