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Interface
How a program is designed to interact with the user, like a text interface which requires the user to type command words.

IBM
International Business Machines (Corporation)

IDE
Imbedded Drive Electronics + Integrated Development Environment [Borland] + Integrated Drive Electronics + Intelligent Drive Electronics + Interactive Design and Engineering + Interface Design Enhancement

I/F
Interface

IN
Input

I/O
Input/Output

ISDN
Integrated Services Digital Network

IT
Information Technology

I-WAY
Information Highway

Internet
A world-wide network of computers, that are linked for the exchange of data.

IRC
Internet Relay Chat. A chat system for chatting with other people on the net.
Interlacing
Technology where images are created in two stages for example lines 1, 3, 5, etc. first. Then lines 2, 4, 6, etc. are created. This allows for faster picture downloads on the Internet.

IrDA
Infrared Data Association.

IPX
Internetwork Packet Exchange.

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JDK
Java Development Kit, for use with Java programming.

JOHNNIAC
John Neumann Integrator and Automatic Computer [Rand Corp.]

JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group, an image format.

JVM
Java Virtual Machine

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Kb
Kilobit

KB
Keyboard + Kilobyte (1,024 bytes)

Kbps
Kilobits Per Second

KBps
Kilobytes Per Second

KHz
Kilohertz

.KIF
Knowledge Interchange Format (file name extension)

KSPH
Keystrokes Per Hour

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