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