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