IBM

International Business Machines Corporation

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is one of the oldest, American IT companies with headquarters in Armonk near North Castle in New York State USA which is meanwhile one of the globally leading companies for hardware, software and other services in the IT area.

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is a global professional association of engineers from the areas of electrical engineering and information science. It organises specialist conferences, publishes various trade journals and forms committees for standardising technologies, hardware and software. Scientific papers in journals or at conferences of the IEEE are generally held in high professional esteem.

IPX

Internetwork Packet eXchange

IPX, Internetwork Packet eXchange, is a computer network protocol developed by Novell. It originates from the IDP of Xerox Network Services (XNS) and was primarily used for the network operating system (NOS) NetWare.

IrDa

Infrared Data Association

Infrared Data Association is a simple representative of optical data transfer through space, but only over very short distances, however, the specification proscribes 100 cm. This means that there is a certain „eavesdropping“ protection. The low cost construction is advantageous. Transfer over a short distance with only a direct line of sight communication is a disadvantage.

ISA

Industry Standard Architecture

Industry Standard Architecture (almost always referred to as ISA in practice) is a computer bus standard for IBM compatible PCs which extends the XT bus architecture from 8 Bit to 16 Bit.

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