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An Acronym with several meanings.

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Integrated Development Environment

An IDE gathers all of a programmer's tools together for convenience. An IDE can can edit, compile, debug and run programs. Popular IDEs are Emacs, KDevelop, Eclipse and VisualStudio. (CategorySoftwareEngineeringTools)


Integrated Drive Electronics
Nowadays, the term for a protocol for attaching devices to computer motherboards (another one is SCSI). It is the most commonly used in x86 desktop machines running Linux or Windows, and in cheap servers (ie not BigIron). The most typical devices include HardDisks and CDROMS. Modern IDE HardDisks usually support SMART. (CategoryStorage)