T&L Transform and Lighting. A graphics function of graphic adapters (3D) dealing with lighting and textures.
TAPI Telephony Application Programming Interface (Microsoft).
TB Terabyte. A unit of measure equaling 1,000 gigabytes, or one trillion bytes. Microsoft introduced the first terabyte server on the Internet, named the Terraserver. The spelling of "Terra" is to indicate the nature of the online data - aerial photos of land ("terra" is Latin for "land").
TBAV Thunderbyte Anti-Virus.
TCO Total Cost of Ownership.
TCP Transmission Control Protocol.
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol.
TELCO TELephone Central Office.
TELNET Telephone Network. A means of remotely accessing a network or another computer via a telephone connection.
TFT Thin Film Transistor. A method of manufacturing displays, usually used in laptops.
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol.
THX Tomlinson Holman eXperiment. This technology is used to enhance and model sound in conjunction with the Dolby recording process (primarily used in feature movie production).
TIA Telecommunications Industry Association.
TIFF Image File Type; Tagged Image File Format. The benefit of TIFF files is that you can manipulate the size without degrading the quality. TIFF is used as a storage format for original digital images due to its high quality and versatility.
TOP Technical Office Protocol.
TOS Type (or Terms) of Service.
TR Terminal Ready OR TRavan (Tape Type).
TSDU Transport Service Data Unit.
TSR Terminate and Stay Resident. A program that loads on boot and stays in the RAM so that it is "preloaded" - TSR's can eat up system resources, but some (such as anti-virus) are necessary.
TTF True-Type Font. This file format indicates a bitmapped font.
TTS Text To Speech.
TWAIN Toolkit Without An Important (or Interesting) Name.
TX Transmit.
TXT Text. File format indicating a text file - these can be opened in Notepad, Wordpad or any other text editor (even DOS EDIT command).
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