| CAAD
| Computer Aided Architectural Design (Computergestütztes architektonisches Planen und Entwerfen)
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| CAD
| Computer Aided Design (Computerunterstütztes Design)
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| CAE
| Computer Aided Engineering
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| CAF
| Composite Application Framework
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| CAM
| Computer Aided Manufacturing
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| CAN
| Controller Area Network oder Content Addressable Network
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| CAPI
| Common ISDN Application Programming Interface
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| CARP
| Common Address Redundancy Protocol
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| CAS
| Column Address Strobe: Dynamic Random Access Memory#CAS
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| CAS
| Computeralgebrasystem
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| CAT
| Catalog Service
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| CAV
| Constant Angular Velocity
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| CAVE
| Cave Automatic Virtual Environment
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| CBO
| Cost Based Optimizer, kostenbasierten Optimizer für Zugriffe auf Datenbanksätze
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| CC
| Carbon Copy oder Creative Commons
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| CCD
| Charge-coupled Device
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| CC/PP
| Composite Capability/Preference Profiles
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| CCU
| Camera Control Unit
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| CD
| Compact Disc
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| CDATA
| Character Data
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| CDC
| Connected Device Configuration
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| CDE
| Common Desktop Environment
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| CDMA
| Code Division Multiple Access
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| CD-R
| Compact Disc Recordable
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| CD-ROM
| Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
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| CD-RW
| Compact Disc ReWriteable
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| CEPT
| Conférence Européenne des Administrations des Postes et des Télécommunications
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| CFML
| ColdFusion Markup Language
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| CFSM
| Communicating Finite State Machines
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| CGA
| Color Graphics Adapter
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| CGI
| Common Gateway Interface
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| CHAP
| Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
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| CICS
| Customer Information Control System
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| CIDR
| Classless Inter-Domain Routing
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| CIF
| Common Intermediate Format
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| CIFS
| Common Internet File System
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| CIM
| Computer Integrated Manufacturing oder Common Information Model
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| CISC
| Complex Instruction Set Computing
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| CLDC
| Connected Limited Device Configuration
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| CLI
| Call Level Interface oder Command Line Interpreter oder Common Language Infrastructure
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| CLOB
| Character Large Object
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| CLR
| Common Language Runtime
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| CLTS
| Connectionless Transport Service, ein verbindungsloser Service, beispielsweise UDP
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| CLV
| Constant Linear Velocity
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| CM
| Configuration Management oder Content-Management
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| CMM
| Capability Maturity Model oder Color Management Module
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| CMOS
| Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (dt. Komplementärer Metall-Oxid-Halbleiter)
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| CMS
| Content-Management-System
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| CMYK
| Cyan Magenta Yellow Key, siehe CMYK-Farbmodell
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| CO
| Callable Object
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| COBOL
| Common Business Oriented Language
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| CODASYL
| Conference on Data Systems Languages
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| COM
| Component Object Model oder Computer on Module (Kernhardware eines Computers implementiert auf einem steckbaren Modul)
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| COMA
| Cache-only-Memory-Access
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| CORBA
| Common Object Request Broker Architecture
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| COTS
| Connection Oriented Transport Service, ein verbindungsorientierter Service, wie beispielsweise TCP
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| COW
| Copy-On-Write, Verfahren zur Vermeidung von überflüssigen Kopien von Daten
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| CPL
| Call Processing Language oder Combined Programming Language oder Common Public License
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| CP/M
| Control Program/Monitor, später: Control Program for Microcomputers
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| CPPM
| Content Protection for Pre-Recorded Media, Kopierschutzverfahren der DVD-Audio
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| CPRI
| Common Public Radio Interface
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| CPRM
| Content Protection for Recordable Media
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| CPSL
| Common Pattern Specification Language
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| CPU
| Central Processing Unit
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| CPUID
| Central Processing Unit IDentifikation
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| CRC
| Cyclic Redundancy Check, Verfahren zur Ermittlung von Übertragungsfehlern
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| CRE
| Content Relationship Engine
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| CRL
| Certificate Revocation List
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| CRM
| Customer Relationship Management
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| CRT
| Cathode Ray Tube
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| CSA
| Common-Scrambling-Algorithmus oder Connector, Switch, Attenuator theory
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| CSI
| Common System Interface
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| CSMA/CA
| Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance
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| CSMA/CD
| Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection
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| CSP
| Communicating Sequential Processes
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| CSS
| Cascading Style Sheets oder Content Scrambling System
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| CSV
| Character Separated Values, Comma Separated Values
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| CTL
| Complex Text Layout
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| CUDA
| Compute Unified Device Architecture
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| CUI
| Character User Interface, Text-orientierte Benutzeroberfläche
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| CUoD
| Capacity Upgrade on Demand
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| CUPS
| Common Unix Printing System
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| CVS
| Concurrent Versions System
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| CWM
| Common Warehouse Metamodel
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