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Computer Acronym List v2.00
This is a list of computer acronyms. Use it to figure out what people
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AA Auto Answer
Application Association
Abort Acknowledge
AAL ATM Adaption Layer
AAP Applications Access Point
Association of American Publishers
AAR Automatic Alternative Routing
AARE A-Associate REsponse
AARP Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol
AARQ A-Associate ReQuest
AASP ASCII Asynchronous Support Package
AAT Average Access Time
AB Abort
ABC Atanasoff-Berry Computer
ABEND ABnormal END
ABI Application Binary Interface
ABIOS Advanced BIOS
ABM Asynchronous Balanced Mode
ABME ABM Extended
ABRT A-ABoRT
ABS Absolute
ABT Abort
AC Automatic Computer
Alternating Current
Access Control
Application Context
Association Control
ACcept
ACP Alter Content Presentation
ACAP Alter Content Acknowledge Presentation
ACB Automatic Call-Back
ACC Accumulator
ACCLAIM Action Client Card List And Information Management
ACD Automated Call Distributor
ACDF Access Control Decision Function
ACE Advanced Computing Environment
ACEF Access Control Enforcement Function
ACF Access Control Field
Advanced Communications Function
ACFM Adobe Composite Font Metrics
ACI Access Control Information
ACIA Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter
ACID Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability
ACIS American Committee for Interoperable Systems
ACK ACKnowledgment
ACL Advanced CMOS Logic
Access Control List
ACM Association for Computing Machinery
ACMS Application Control Management System
ACP Ancillary Control Program
Auxillary Control Process
Allied Communications Publication
ACPDP Alternating Current Plasma Display Panel
ACPM Association Control Protocol Machine
ACROSS Automated Cargo Release and Operations Service System
ACS Access
Access Control Set
Access Control System
Asynchronous Communication Server
Advanced Communications System
Access Control Store
ASCE Association Control Service Elements
ACTFEL Alternating Current Thin Film ElectroLuminescent
ACTS Advanced Communications Technology Satellite
ACU Automatic Calling Unit
A/D Analog to Digital
AD Application Development
Administrative Domain
ADdendum
Activity Discard
ADA Automatic Data Acquisitions
Activity Discard Acknowledgment
ADAPSO Association of Data Processing Service Organizations
ADAS Advanced Directory Assistance System
ADB Apple Desktop Bus
ADC Add with Carry
Analog to Digital Converter
American Display Consortium
ADCCP Advanced Data Communication Control Procedure
ADD Adapter Device Driver
ADDMD ADministratve Directory Management Domain
ADE Application Development Environment
ADF Automatic Document Feed
Application Development Facility
Access Decision Function
ADI Autodesk Device Interface
Application DIrectory
Access Decision Information
ADL Address Data Latch
ADLAT Adaptive Lattice Filter
ADM Adaptive Delta Modulation
Add-Drop MultiPlex
ADMD ADministration Management Domain
ADP Automatic Data Processing
Advanced Data Processing
Administrative Data Processing
ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
ADR Address
ADRS A Departmental Reporting System
ADS Application Development System
Automatic Distribution System
Autocad Development System
ADSC Address Status Changed
ADSP Appletalk DataStream Protocol
ADSR Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release
ADT Application Data Types
Abstract Data Type
ADTS Automated Digital Terminal System
ADU Automatic Dialing Unit
AE Above or Equal
Application Execution
Application Entity
Activity End
AEA American Electronics Association
Activity End Acknowledgment
AEB Analog Expansion Bus
AED Advanced Error Diffusion
AEF Address Extention Facility
Access Enforcement Function
AEGIS Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System
AEP Application Environment Profile
AET Application Entity Title
AF Auxilary carry Flag
Audio Frequency
Address Field
AFC Automatic Font Change
AFCAC Air Force Computer Acquisition Center
AFE Apple File Exchange
AFI Appletalk Filing Interface
Authority and Format Identifier
AFII Association for Font Information Interchange
AFIPS American Federation of Information Processing Societies
AFM Adobe Font Metrics
AFNOR Association Francaise de NORmalisation
AFP Appletalk Filing Protocol
AFS Andrew File System
AFSK Audio Frequency Shift Keying
AFT Application File Transfer
AG Arcade Game
AGC Automatic Gain Control
AGEEE Above Ground Electronic Equipment Enclosures
AI Analog Input
Artificial Intelligence
Application Interface
Authentication Identification
AIA Applications Integration Architecture
AIAG Automotive Industry Action Group
AIFF Audio Interchange File Format
AIIM Association for Information and Image Management
AIMS Auto Indexing Mass Storage
AIOD Automatic Identification of Outward Dialing
AIS Alarm Indication Signal
AISB Association of Imaging Service Bureaus
AISP Association of Information Systems Professionals
AIX Advanced Interactive Executive
AK data AcKnowledge
AL Application Layer
ALAP Appletalk LAP
ALC Arithmetic and Logic Circuits
Automatic Level Control
Assembly Language Coding
ALE Address Latch Enable
ALGOL ALGOrithmic Language
ALM Application Loadable Module
ALO At Least Once
ALP Abstract Local Primitive
ALR Advanced Logic Research
ALS Automatic Line Switching
Application Layer Structure
Alt ALTernate
ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
Application Layer User
AM Amplitude Modulation
Accounting Management
AMA Automatic Message Accounting
AMAT Automatic Message Accounting Transmitter
AMATPS Automatic Message Accounting Transmitter Teleprocessing System
AMD Active Matrix Display
Advanced Micro Devices
AMF Account Metering Function
AMH Application Message Handling
AMI American Megatrends Incorporated
Alternate Mark Inversion
AMLCD Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
AMMA Advanced Memory Management Architecture
AMP Active Monitor Present
AMR Automatic Meter Reading
AMT Address Mapping Table
AMVFT Amplitude Modulated Voice Frequency Telegraph
AMWI Active Message Waiting Indicator
ANCOVA Analysis of Covariance
ANDF Architecture Neutral Distribution Format
ANI Automatic Number Identification
ANOVA Analysis Of Variance
ANS American National Standard
ANSC American National Standards Committee
ANSI American National Standard Institute
ANTC Advanced Networked Test Center
AO Analog Output
AOCE Apple Open Collaboration Environment
AOE Application Operating Environment
AOL America OnLine
AOM Application OSI Management
AOS Add Or Subtract
Acedemic Operating System
Alternate Option Selection
Alternate Operator Service
AP Adjunct Processor
Application Processor
A/P Accounts Payable
APA Arithmetic Processing Accelerator
All Points Addressable
APACS Association for Payment And Clearing Services
APAREN Address Parity Enable
APC Adaptive Predictive Coding
APCI Application Protocol Control Information
APCUG Association of PC User Groups
APDA Apple Programmers And Developers Association
APDU Application Protocol Data Unit
API Application Program Interface
Application Programming Interface
APIA Application Program Interface Association
APL A Programming Language
APM Advanced Power Management
APP Application Portability Profile
APPC Advanced Program-to-Program Communication
APPN Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking
APRIL APplication Rational Interface Logic
APS Automatic Protection Switching System
APSE ADA Programming Support Environment
APT Address Pass Through
Automatic Programmed Tools
AQ Accumulator-Quotient
A/R Accounts Receivable
AR Address Register
Activity Resume
ARA Attribute Registration Authority
ARC Advanced RISC Computing
ARCA Advanced RISC Computing Architecture
ARCNET Attached Resource Computer NETwork
ARD Application Remote Database
ARDIS Advanced National Radio Data Service
ARF Alarm Reporting Function
ARG Argument
ARL Adjusted Ring Length
ARLL Advanced Run Length Limited
ARM Asynchronous Response Mode
Advanced RISC Machine
ARMA Association of Records Managers and Administrators
ARMS Amusement Records Management System
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
Abnormal Release Presentation
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork
ARPL Adjust Requested Privilege Level
ARR Attributes for Requesting Relationships
ARS Automatic Route Selection
Alternate Route Selection
ARTIC A Real-Time Interface Coprocessor
ARQ Automatic Repeat reQuest
ARU Audio Response Unit
ARUP Abnormal Release User Presentation
AS Application System
Advanced Server
Activity Start
ASAP As Soon As Possible
Automatic Switching And Processing
ASC Accredited Standards Committee
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASDC Abstract Service Definition Convention
ASDSP Application Specific DSP
ASE Applied Service Elements
Application Service Element
ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
ASIT Advanced Security and Identification Technology
ASK Amplitude Shift Keying
ASM ASseMbler
Association for Systems Management
ASN Abstract Syntax Notation
ASP Association of Shareware Professionals
Appletalk Session Protocol
Aggregated Switch Procurement
Advanced Signal Processor
Abstract Service Primitive
Advanced Signal Processing
ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
ASPS Advanced Signal Processing System
ASR Automatic Send-Receive
Automatic Speech Recognition
Abstract Selection Rules
Access Service Request
ASSP Application Specific Standard Prot
AST Albert wong, Safi qureshy, Tom vu
ASYNC Asynchronous
AT Advanced Technology
Attention
ATA AT Bus Attachment
ARCNET Trade Association
ATB All Trunks Busy
ATDM Asynchronous Time Division Multiplexing
ATDP Attention Dial Pulse
ATDT Attention Dial Tone
ATE Automated Test Equipment
ATG Advanced Technology Group
ATH Attention Hang-Up
ATLATL AnyThing Lord to AnyThing Lord
ATM Adobe Type Manager
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Automated Teller Machine
Abstract Test Method
Advanced Test Methods
ATME Automatic Transmission Measuring Equipment
ATP Appletalk Transaction Protocol
Application Transmission Processing
ATR Automatic Terminal Recognition
Attribute
ATS Administrative Terminal System
Apple Terminal Services
Abstract Test Suite
AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph
ATTN Attention
ATTRIB Attribute
AU Access Unit
Adaptive Unit
AUDIT Automated Data Input Terminal
AUC AUthentication Certificate
AUI Attachment Unit Interface
Auxillary Unit Interface
Access Unit Interface
AUP Acceptable Use Policy
AUTO Automatic
AUTODIN AUTOmatic Digital Network
AUTOVON AUTOmatic VOice Network
AUX Auxiliary
AV AntiVirus
AutoVisual
AVA Audio Visual Authoring
Attribute Value Assertion
AVC Audio Visual Connection
AVD Alternate Voice Data
AVG Average
AVI Audio Visual Interleaved
AVT Application Virtual Terminal
AWG American Wire Guage
AWK alfred Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan
AX Architecture Extended
Automatic Transmission
b Bit
B Byte
BAC Basic Access Control
BAD Broken As Designed
BAK Binary Adaption Kit
BAL Basic Assembly Language
Branch And Link
BALUN BALanced UNbalanced
BAM Boyan Action Module
BAPCO Business Aplication Performance COrp.
BARTS Bell Atlantic Regional TimeSharing
BAS Basic Activity Subset
BASH Bourne Again Shell
BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BAUD Bits At Unit Density
BBN Bolt, Beranek and Newman
BBS Bulletin Board System
BC Blind Copy
BCC Blind Courtesy Copy
Block Check Character
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
BCDIC Binary Coding Decimal Interchange Code
BCL Batch Command Language
BCP Byte Controlled Protocols
Business Communications Project
BCPL Basic Combined Programming Language
BCR Byte Count Register
BCS Binary Compatility Standard
Boston Computer Society
British Computer Society
Basic Combined Subset
BCUG Bilateral Closed User Group
B&D Bondage and Discipline
BDCS Broadband Digital Cross-Connect System
BDF Binary Distribution Format
BDOS Basic Disk Operating System
BDS Building Distribution System
BE Below or Equal
BECN Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
BEL Bell
BELLCOREBell Communications Research
BER Basic Encoding Rules
Bit Error Rate
BERT Bit Error-Rate Testing
BEST Borland Enhanced Support and Training
BF Bad Flag
Bridge Function
B/F Background/Foreground
BFI Brute Force and Ignorance
BFMI Brute Force and Massive Ignorance
BFT Binary File Transmission
BGE Branch if Greater or Equal
BGEEE Below Ground Electronic Equipment Enclosures
BGT Branch if Greater Than
Borland Graphic Interface
BHI Branch if Higher
BHIS Branch if Higher or Same
BI Binary Input
BIF Binary Initialization File
BIFF Binary Interchange File Format
BILOS Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap
BIM Beginning of Information Marker
BINAC Binary Automatic Computer
BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BIOC Break Into Other Computers
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BIPS Billion Instructions Per Second
BIS Business Information System
BISDN Broadband ISDN
BIST Built In Self Test
BiSYNC Binary Synchronous Communications
BIT Binary digit
Basic Interconnection Test
BITNET Because It's Time Network
BITS Base Information Transfer System
BSI Information Technology Services
BIU Bus Interface Unit
BIX Byte Information eXchange
BKSP Backspace
BL Backlit
BLAST Blocked Asynchronous Transmission
BLDSC British Library Document Supply Centre
BLE Branch if Less or Equal
BLF Busy Line Feed
BLIT Bell Labs Intelligent Terminal
BLK Block
BLMC Buried Logic Macrocell
BLOB Binary Large OBject
BLOS Branch if Lower Or Same
BLT BLock Transfer
BMI Branch if Minus
BMIC BusMaster Interface Controller
BMP Batch Message Processing Program
BitMaP
BMU Basic Measurement Unit
BNC Bayonet N Connector
BNE Branch if Not Equal
BNF Big Name Fan
Bachus-Naur Form
Backus Normal Form
BNM Blue Noise Mask
BNT Broadband Network Termination
BO Binary Output
BOC Bell Operating Company
BOF Beginning Of File
BOM Beginning Of Message
BOMP Bill Of Materials Processor
BOP Bit Oriented Protocol
BORPQU Borland Pro Quattro
BORQU Borland Quattro
BOS Basic Operating System
BOSIX Biin Open System Interface eXtension
BOT Beginning Of Table
Beginning of Tape
BP Base Pointer
BPB BIOS Parameter Block
BPI Bits Per Inch
BPL Branch if Plus
BPS Bits Per Second
Bytes Per Second
BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying
BQS Berkeley Quality Software
BR Bad Register
BRA Basic Rate Access
BRI Basic Rate Interface
Brain Response Interface
BRIEF Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility
BRS Bibliographic Retrieval Service
Big Red Switch
BS BackSpace
BSA Business Software Alliance
BSAM Basic Sequential Access Method
BSC Binary Synchronous Communication
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
BSF Bit Scan Forward
BSI British Standards Institute
BSMTP Batch Simple Message Transport Protocol
BSN Broadband Service Node
BSOC Bell Systems Operating Company
BSR Bit Scan Reverse
BSS Block Started by Symbol
Basic Synchronized Subset
BSY Busy
BSYNC Binary Synchronous Communications
BT Bit Test
British Telecom
BTAM Basic Telecommunications Access Method
BTC Bit Test and Complement
BTE Broadband Terminal Equipment
BTL Bell Telephone Laboratories
BTLZ British Telecom Lempel Ziv
BTOA Binary TO Ascii
BTP Batch Transfer Program
BTR Bit Test and Reset
BTS Bit Test and Set
BUF Buffer
BUNCH Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell
BVAPP Billing Verification and Authorization for Payment Process
BWM Block-Write Mode
BWOD BandWidth On Demand
BYTE Binary Element
BTZ Bundesant fur Zulassungen in der Telekommunikation
B&W Black and White
Bells and Whistles
BWQ Buzz Word Quotient
BX Base eXchange
CA Collision Avoidance
Computer Associates
CABS Carrier Access Billing System
CAC Canadian Advisory Committee
CACM Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery
CAD Computer Aided Design
CADD Computer Aided Design and Drafting
CAE Common Application Environment
Computer Aided Engineering
CAF Compters & Acedemic Freedom
CAFD Controllers Automatic Message Accounting Format Description
CAG Column Address Generator
CAI Computer Aided Instruction
Computer Associates International
Common Air Interface
CAIS Common ASPE Interface Specification
CAL Calendar
Computer Assisted Learning
Conversational Algebraic Language
CALS Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support
CAM Common Access Method
Computer Aided Manufacturing
Content Addressable Memory
Computer Aided Management
CAMP Coporate Association for Microcomputer Professionals
CAN Cancel
Campus Area Network
CANMARC CANadian MARC
CAP Central Arbitration Point
Computer Aided Publishing
Columbia Appletalk Package
CAPD Computing To Assist Persons With Disabilities
CAPS Capitals (Upper Case Letters)
Cassette Programming System
CAPSL CAnon Printing System Language
CAR Computer Aided Retrieval
Contents of the Address Register
CARDS Central Archive for Reusable Defense Software
CARL Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
CAS Column Address Select
Communicating Applications Specification
Computer Aided Styling
CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering
Computer Aided Systems Engineering
Common Application Service Element
CASL Crosstalk Application Scripting Language
CASS Computer Assisted Search Service
CASSIS Classified and Search Support Information System
CAT Computer Aided Testing
Computer Aided Tomography
Computer Aided Transcription
Concatenate
Computer-Aided Telephony
CATIS Common Applications and Tools Integration Services
CATV Community Antenna Television
CAble TeleVision
CAU Contolled Access Unit
CAV Constant Angular Velocity
CB Citizen's Band
CBCR Channel Byte Count Register
CBEMA Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association
CBL Computer Based Learning
CBMS Computer Based Messaging Systems
CBO Continous Bitstream Oriented
CBR Computer Based Reference
CBT Computer Based Training
CBW Convert Byte to Word
CBX Computerized Branch Exchange
CC Cluster Controller
Carbon Copy
Courtesy Copy
Connection Confirm
Country Code
CCA Common Cryptographic Architecture
Communications Control Architecture
Compatible Communications Architecture
Computer Corporation of America
Conceptual Communications Area
CCC Clear Channel Capability
CCD Charged-Coupled Device
Cash Concentration and Disbursement
CCFL Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp
CCFT Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube
CCI Computer Carrier Interrupt
Computer Consoles, Inc.
CCIA Computer and Communications Industry Association
CCIP Continuously Computed Impact Point
CCIR Consultative Committee on International Radio
CCIS Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
CCITT Comite Consultatif Internationale Telegraphique et Telephonique
Consultative Committee on International Telegraphy and Telephony
CCM Customer Control Management
CCP Console Command Processor
CCRP Continuously Computed Release Point
CCR Commitment, Concurreny, and Recovery
Customer Controlled Reconfiguration
CCS Common Communications Support
Common Channel Signaling
CCSA Common Control Switching Arrangement
Common Control Switching Agreement
CCT CNMA Conference Testing
CCTA Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
CCTV Closed Circuit TeleVision
CD Carrier Detect
Change Directory
Collision Detection
Color Display
Compact Disk
Capability Data
Current Data
Committee Draft
C/D Control Data
CDA Compound Document Architecture
Call Data Accumulator
Capability Data Acknowledgement
CDC Control Data Corporation
CD_CHRDYCarD CHannel ReaDY
CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interface
CDE Complex Data Entry
Cooperative Development Environment
Common Desktop Environment
CDEV Control panel DEVice
CD-I Compact Disk - Interactive
CDIF Case Data Interchange Format
CDL Computer Design Language
CDOS Concurrent Disk Operating System
CDMA Code-Division Multiple Access
CDPD Celluar Digital Packet Data
CDPT Celluar Digital Packet Technology
CDR Call Detail Record
Call Detail Recording
Contents of the Decrement Register
CD-R CD-ROM Recorder
CD-RDx Compact Disk - Read Only Memory Data Exchange Standard
CDRL Contract Data Requirements List
CD-ROM Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
CDROMXA CDROM eXtended Architecture
CD-RTOS Compact Disk - Real Time Operating System
CDS Current Directory Structure
Conceptual Data Store
Circuit Design System
CDU Control Display Unit
CD-V Compact Disk - Video
CD-WO Compact Disk - Write Once
CE Cache Enable
Chip Enable
Collision Elimination
Convert Enable
Communications Entity
CEC Commission of European Communities
CEG Continuous Edge Graphics
CEI Conducted Electromagnetic Interference
Connection End-Point Identifier
CEN Comite Europeen de Normalisation
CENELEC CEN Electrotechnique
CENTREX CENTRalized EXchange
CEO Comperhensive Electronic Office
CEP Communications End Point
CEPI Conference of European Postal and Telecommunications
CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
CERT/CC Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center
CES Consumer Electronics Show
CET Computer-Enhanced Telephony
CEV Control Environmental Vault
CEVI Computer Equipment Voltage Indicator
CF Conversion Facility
CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics
CGA Color Graphics Adapter
CGI Computer Generated Images
Computer Graphics Interface
Color Graphics Interface
CGM Computer Graphics Metafile
CHAP CHAnnel Processor
CHAR CHARacter
CHAT Conversational Hypertext Access Technology
CHCK CHannel ChecK
CHGRP CHange GRouP
CHILL CCITT HIgh-Level Language
CHKDSK CHecK DiSK
CHMOD CHange MODe
CHOWN CHange OWNer
CHP ChaPter
CHR CHaRacter
CI Connect Indication
CIC Carrier Identification Codes
CICS/VS Customer Information Control System/Virtual Storage
CID Computer Integrated Design
CIDIN Common Icao Data Interchange Network
CIE Commission Internationale d'Eclairage
Consumer Initiated Entry
CIGOS Canadian Interest Group on Open Systems
CIM CompuServe Information Manager
Computer Integrated Manufacturing
CIMITI Centre for Information Management and Information Technology Innovation
CIOCS Communication Input/Output Control System
CIP Command Interface Port
CIR Committed Information Rate
CIRC Circular Reference
CIS CompuServe Information Service
Computer Information Systems
Card Information Structure
CISC Complex Instruction Set Chip
Complex Instruction Set Computer
CIX Commercial Internet eXchange
CKD Count Key Data
CL Connectivity Language
ConnectionLess
CLAR Channel Local Address Register
CLASS Custom Local Area Signaling System
CLC CLear Carry
Canon Laser Copier
CLD CLear Direction
CLI CLear Interrupt
Command Line Interface
Call Level Interdace
CLID Calling Line Identification
CLIP Calling Line Identification Presentation
CLIR Calling Line Identification Restriction
CLIST Command LIST
CLK CLocK
CLLM Consolidated Link-Layer Management
CLM Career Limiting Move
CLNP ConnectionLess Network Protocol
CLNS ConnectionLess Network Service
CLRC Circuit Layout Record Card
CLS CLear Screen
CL-TK CLaim ToKen
CLTS CLear Task Switch
ConnectionLess Transport Service
CLUT Color Look Up Table
CLV Constant Linear Velocity
CM Control Mark
Corrective Maintenance
Configuration Management
CMA Concert Multi-thread Architecture
Communications Managers Assocation
CMC Communication Mangement Configuration
Complement Carry Flag
Common Mail Calls
Cellular Mobile Carrier
CMD Centralized Message Distribution
CMI Computer Managed Instruction
CMIP Common Management Information Protocol
CMIS Common Management Information Service
CMISE Common Management Information Service Element
CML Current Model Logic
CMMU Cache/Memory Management Unit
CMOL CMIP Over LLC
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
CMOT CMIP Over TCP/IP
CMP Compare
Computer
CoMmunications Plenum
CMPS CoMPare String
CMR CoMmunications Riser
CMS Creative Music Systems
Code Management System
Compiler Monitor System
Conversation Monitor System
Conversational Monitor System
Color Management System
Call Management System
CMU Carnegie Mellon University
CMY Cyan-Magenta-Yellow
CMYK Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black
CN CoNect
Country Name
CNA Certified Netware Administrator
CNC Computerized Numerical Control
CoNCentrator
CNCP Canadian National Canadian Pacific
CNE Certified Netware Engineer
CNG CalliNG
CNI Certified Netware Instructor
CNMA Communications Network for Manufacturing Applications
CNR Carrier Noise Ratio
CNRS Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique
CNVT Convert
CO Central Office
Command Output
Convert Out
Central Office
Customer Owned
Connection-Oriented
COAM Customer Owned And Maintained
COBOL COmmon Business-Oriented Language
COBRA Common OBject Request Association
COC Central Office Connection
CODASYL Conference on Data System Languages
CODEC COder-DECoder
CODLS COnnection-mode Data Link Service
COEM Commercial Original Equipment Manufacturer
COGO COordinate GeOmetry
COIN Columbia Online Information Network
COLD Computer Output to Laser Disc
COM Computer Output Microfilm
Common Object Model
COMBS Customer-Oriented Message Buffer System
COMPUSECCOMPUter SECurity
COMSEC COMmunication SECurity
CON Console
CONFIG Configuration
CONP Connection-Oriented Network Service
CONS Connection Oriented Network Services
COOL COBOL Object Oriented Language
COP Character Oriented Protocol
COPP Connection-Oriented Presentation Protocol
COPS Connection-Oriented Presentation Service
COR Confirmation Of Receipt
CORA Canadian OSI Registration Authority
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CORE COntrolled Requirement Expression
CORN COmputer Resource Nucleus
COS Compatible Operating System
Corporation for Open Systems
Class Of Service
COSAC Canadian Open Systems Applications Criteria
COSE Common Open System Environment
COSINE Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection Networking in Europe
COSMIC Common System Main InterConnection
COmputer Software Management and Information Center
COSMOS Computer System for Mainframe Operations
COSS Common Object Services Specification
COSSS Committee on Open Systems Support Services
COTP Connection-Oriented Transport Protocol
COTS Connection-Oriented Transport Service
Commercial Off The Shelf
CP Copy Protected
Consumer Premises
Command Processor
Connect Presentation
CPA Centralized/Bulk Power Architecture
CPP Connect Presentation Accept
CPE Central Processing Element
Customer Premises Equipment
Customer Provided Equipment
CPF Control Program Facility
CPFM Continous Phase Frequency Modulation
CPG Clock Pulse Generator
CPH Cost Per Hour
CPI Characters Per Inch
Clock Per Instruction
Common Programming Interface
Computer to PBX Interface
CPIW Costumer Provided Inside Wiring
CPL Current Privilege Level
Characters Per Line
Combined Programming Language
CP/M Control Program for Microcomputers
CPM Critical Path Method
CPN Compuserve Packet Net
CPQ Compaq
CPR Connect Presentation Reject
CPS Characters Per Second
COS/POSI/SPAG
CPSR Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
CPU Central Processing Unit
CR Carriage Return
Connect Request
CRAM Card RAM
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CREN Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
CRF Cross Reference File
Communication Related Function
CRIS Customer Record Information Service
CRL Center for Research Libraries
CROM Control Read Only Memory
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CRTC CRT Controller
CRUD Create Retrieve Update and Delete
CS Coordinated Single-layer
Chip Select
Clear to Send
Code Segment
Computer Science
CSA Canadian Standards Association
CSAB Computer Science Accreditation Board
CSAR Channel System Address Register
CSC Computer Science Corp.
CSDC Circuit Switched Digital Capability
CSDM Circuit-Switched Data Network
CSE Coordinated Single-layer Embedded
CSG Constructive Solid Geometry
Consulting Services Group
CSI Commercial System Integration
Computer Security Institute
CSIC Costumer Specific IC
CSL Computer Sensitive Language
Computer Systems Laboratory
CSMA Carrier Sense Multiple Access
CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
CSMA/CD Carrier-Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detect
CSMA/CP Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Prevention
CSMC Communications Services Management Council
CSN Circuit-Switched Network
CSNET Computer Science NET
CSO Computing Services Office
CSP Commercial Subroutine Package
CompuCom Speed Protocol
Cross System Product
Coin Sent Paid
CSPDN Circuit-Switched Public Data Network
CSPP Computer Systems Policy Project
CSR Control and Status Register
Customer Service Records
CSRG Computer Systems Research Group
CSS Continuous System Simulation
Conceptual Signaling and Status
Controlled Slip Second
CSSFE Controlled Slip Second Far End
CSTA Computer-Supported Telephony Applications
CSTO Computer Systems and Technology Office
CSU Channel Service Unit
CSV Comma Separated Value
C&T Chips and Technologies
CT Circuit Time
Conference Testing
CTD Cumulative Transit Delay
CTM Current Transformation Matrix
CTOS Computerized Tomography Operating System
Convergent Technologies Operating System
CTPA Coax-to-Twisted-Pair Adapter
CTRL Control
CTS Clear To Send
Conformance Testing Services
CTS-LAN CTS Local Area Network
CTS-WAN CTS Wide Area Network
CTSS Compatible Time Sharing System
CTY Console TeletYpe
CU Control Unit
CUA Common User Access
CUB Cursor Backward
CUD Cursor Down
CUF Cursor Forward
CUG Closed User Group
CUI Common User Interface
Character based User Interface
CUP Cursor Position
CUPID Completely Universal Processor I/O Design
CUSP Commonly Used System Program
CUT Coordinated Univeral Time
CUU Cursor Up
CV Code Violation
CVCP Code Violation, CP-bit Parity
CVCRC Code Violation, Cyclic Redundancy Check
CVF Compressed Volume File
CVFE Code Violation, Far End
CVGA Color Video Gaphics Array
CVIA Computer Virus Industry Association
CVP Code Violation, P-bit
CWARC Canadian Workplace Automation Research Centre
CWD Convert Word to Double Word
Call Waiting Deluxe
CYL Cylinder
CYMK Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-Black
D/A Digital to Analog
DA Desk Accessory
Destination Address
DAA Data Access Arrangement
Decimal Adjust for Addition
DAC Digital to Analog Converter
Drive Array Controller
Dual Attachment Concentrator
DACD Directory Access Control Domain
DACS Digital Access Control Domain
DAD Digital Audio Disc
Database Action Diagram
Draft ADdendum
DAEMON Disk And Execution MONitor
DAF Distributed Application Framework
Directory Authentication Framework
DAL Data Access Language
Disk Access Lockout
DAM Data Acquisition and Monitoring
DAN Departmental Area Network
DAP Data Access Protocol
Directory Access Protocol
Document Authentication Framework
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
DAS Decimal Adjust for Subtraction
Disk Array Subsystem
Dual Attached Studio
DASD Direct Access Storage Device
DASH Dell Advanced SCSI Host
DAT Digital Audio Tape
Duplicate Address Test
DATACOM Data Communications
DB Data Base
Data Buffer
DeciBels
DBA Adjusted Decibels
DBC Double Byte Code
DBF DBase Format
DBM Data Base Manager
DBME DataBase Management Environment
DBMS Data Base Management System
DBP Deutsche BundesPost
DBS Data Base Server
DB2 Database 2
DC Data Collection
Data Communication
Data Control
Device Control
Direct Current
Disconnect Confirmation
DCA Digital Communications Associates
Document Content Architecture
Distributed Communications Architecture
Defense Communications Agency
DCAF Distributed Console Access Facility
DCB Disk Coprocessor Board
DCC Display Combination Code
Data Country Code
Data Communications Channel
Data Collection Computer
DCD Data Carrier Detect
DCE Data Communications Equipment
Distributed Computing Environment
Distributed Computing Equipment
Data Circuit terminating Equipment
DCF Data Communication Facility
Data Count Field
Data Communications Function
DCL Declaration
DEC Command Language
Device Clear
Digital Control Logic
Digital Command Language
DCN Data Communication Network
DCP Data Collection Processor
DCS Data Collection System
Data Control System
Defined Context Set
Distributed Computer System
Digital Cross-connect System
DCT Discrete Cosine Transfer
DCTS Dimension Custom Telephone Service
DD Day
Digital Display
Double Density
Disk Drive
Data Directory
DDA Digital Differential Analyzer
Domain Defined Attribute
DDBMS Distributed DBMS
DDCMP Digital Data Communications Message Protocol
DDCP Direct Digital Color Proofing
DDD Direct Distance Dialing
DDE Direct Data Entry
Dynamic Data Exchange
DDEML Dynamic Data Exchange Management Library
DDF Data Description File
DDFII Data Description File for Information Interchange
DDK Driver Development Kit
DDL Data Definition Language
Data Description Language
Document Description Language
DDM Distributed Data Management
DDN Defense Data Network
DDOV Digital Data Over Voice
DDP Datagram Delivery Protocol
Distributed Data Processing
DDR Data Descriptive Record
DDS Design Data Sheet
Digital Data Storage
Digital Data Service
Dataphone Digital Service
Digital Data System
DDT DEC Debugging Tape
Dynamic Debugging Technique
DEC Decrement
Device Clear
Digital Equipment Corporation
DEL DELete
DEM Digital Elevation Model
DEMA Data Entry Management Association
DER Distinguished Encoding Rules
DES Data Encryption Standard
Data Entry Sheet
Distributed End System
DET Device Execute Trigger
Direct Entry Table
DEV Device
DF Data Field
Destination Field
Device Flag
Double Flag
Don't Fragment
Distributing Frame
DFC Data Flow Control
DFDSM Data Facility Distributed Storage Manager
DFR Document Filing and Retrieval
DFS Distributed File System
DFT Diagnostic Funtion Test
Discrete Fourier Transform
Distributed Function Terminal
DFU Data File Utility
DG Data General
DGIS Direct Graphics Interface Standard
DHA Destination Hardware Address
DI Data In
Destination Index
DIA Document Interchange Architecture
DIB Device Independant Bitmap
Directory Information Base
Dictionary Information Base
DIBOL DEC Business Oriented Language
DIgital coBOL
DID Direct Inward Dialing
Destination IDentification
DIF Data Interchange Format
Document Interchange Format
Display Information Facility
Dual Inline Flatpack
Documentation Interchange Format
DIFFSENSDifferential Sense
DIIP Direct Interrupt Identification Port
DIMS Document Imaging Management System
DIN Deutsche Industrie Normenausschuss
Deutsches Institut fur Normung
DIO Data Input-Output
DIP Dual In-line Package
DIPE Distributed Interactive Processing Environment
DIR Directory
DIS Dynamic Impedance Stabilization
Draft International Standard
DISA Data Interchange Standards Association
DISOSS DIStributed Office Support System
DISP Displacement
Directory Information Shadow Protocol
Draft International Standardized Profile
DIT Directory Information Tree
DIV Divide
DIW D-Inside Wire
DIX Digital Intel Xerox
DL Download
Data Link layer
Distibution List
DL/1 Data Manipulation Language 1
DLC Data Link Control
Digital Loop Carrier
DLCI Data Link Connection Identifier
DLE Data Link Escape
DLL Dynamic Link Library
Dynamic Link Layer
DLO Dead Letter Office
DLR DOS LAN Requester
DLS Data Link Service
DLSAP Data Link Service Access Point
DLSDU Data Link Service Data Unit
DM Delta Modulation
Disconnected Mode
DMA Direct Memory Access
DMAC DMA Controller
DMD Directory Management Domain
DME Distributed Management Environment
DMI Desktop Management Interface
Definition of Management Information
DML Data Manipulation Language
Database Management Language
DMM Digital Multimeter
DMMS Dynamic Memory Management System
DMO Domain Management Organization
DMOS Double-diffused Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
Diffustion Metal Occide Semiconductor
DMP Dot Matrix Printer
DMPL Digital Microproccessor Plotter Language
DMRD Defense Management Report Decision
DMS Data Management Software
Data Management System
Defense Messaging System
DMTF Desktop Management Task Force
DMY Day Month Year
DN Down
Distinguished Name
Directory Numbers
DNA Digital Network Architecture
DNC Direct Numerical Control
DNHR Dynamic NonHierachal Routing
DNIC Data Network Identification Code
DNIS Dialed Number Identification Service
Directory Number Information Service
DNS Domain Naming System
Domain Name System
DO Data Out
DOAM Distributed Office Applications Model
DOC Department of Communications
DOD Department Of Defense
DOI Document Oriented Interface
DOMAIN Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network
DONACS Department Of Navy office Automation on Communication System
DOP Directory Operational Protocol
DOS Disk Operating System
DOS/VSE Disk Operating System/Virtual Storage Extended
DOW Day Of Week
DOV Data Over Voice
DP Data Processing
Draft Proposal
Display Postscript
Dissociated Press
Draft Proposal
DPA Demand Protocol Architecture
Document Printing Application
Distributed Power Architecture
DPANS Draft Proposed American National Standard
DPAREN Data Parity Enable
DPB Drive Parameter Block
DPC Direct Program Control
DPCM Differential PCM
DPI Dots Per Inch
DPL Descriptor Privilege Level
DPM Digital Panel Meter
DPMA Data Processing Management Association
DPMI DOS Protected Mode Interface
DPPX Distributed Processing Programming eXecutive
DPS Display PostScript
DPSK Differential Phase Shift Keying
DQDB Distributed Queued Dual Bus
DQL Database Query Language
DR Digital Research
Data Received
Delivery Report
Disconnect Request
D/R Direct or Reverse
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRAW Direct Read After Write
DRD Data Reading Device
DRDA Distributed Relational Data Architecture
DRDBMS Distributed Relational DBMS
DRDW Direct Read During Write
DRI Digital Research Incorporated
DRO Data Request Output
Destructive Read-Out
DRP Directory Replication Protocol
DRPF Decimal Reference Publication Format
DRV Drive
DS Data Segment
Data Send
Data Server
Double Sided
Directory Service
Distributed Single-layer
Document Storage
Draft Standard
Dansk Standardiseringsrad
DSA Distributed Systems Architecture
Directory Systems Agent
Digital Storage Architecture
Digital Signal Analyzer
Destination Software Address
Directory System Alert
Directory Service Agent
Digital Service Area
DSAP Destination Service Access Point
DSB Double SideBand
DSBSC Double SideBand Supressed Cattier
DSC Document Structuring Conventions
DSD Data Structure Definition
DSDD Double Sided, Double Density
DSE Data Storage Equipment
Data Structure Editor
DSA Specific Entry
Distributed Single-layer Embedded
Data Switching Equipment
DSEA Display Station Emulation Adapter
DSECT Dummy Control Section
DSEE Domain Software Engineering Environment
DSHD Double Sided, High Density
DSL Dynamic Simulation Language
Digital Suscriber Line
DSOM Distributed SOM
DSP Digital Signal Processing
Digital Signal Processor
Directory System Protocol
Domain Specific Part
Digital Signal Processor
Defense Standardized Protocol
DSQD Double Sided, Quad Density
DSR Data Set Ready
Device Status Register
Device Status Report
DSRI Digital Standard Relational Interface
DSS Decision Support System
Digital Signature Standard
Digital Signal Standard
DSTN Double Supertwisted Nematic
DSU Data Service Unit
DSU/CSU Data Service Unit/Channel Service Unit
DSW Data Status Word
Device Status Word
DSX Digital Signal Cross-Connect
DS0 Digital Signal ZER0
DT DaTa
Data Transfer
DTA Disk Transfer Area
DTAM Document Transfer, Access, and Manipulation
DTC Digital Typeface Corp.
DTD Document Type Definition
DTE Data Terminal Equipment
Dumb Terminal Emulator
DTI Department of Trade and Industry
DTL Diode-Transistor Logic
DTMF Dual Tone MultiFrequency
DTP Desktop Publishing
Distributed Transaction Processing
DTR Data Terminal Ready
Data Transfer Rate
D2T2 Dye Diffusion Thermal Transfer
DTV Desk Top Video
DU Disk Usage
Data Unit
DVI Digital Video Interactive
DUA Directory User Agent
DUOW Distributed Unit Of Work
DUV Data Under Voice
DVM Digital Volt Meter
DWG Drawing
DXC Data Exchange Control
DXF Drawing Interchange Format
EA Extended Attribute
Expedited Data Acknowlegment
EAAT Equal Access Alternative Technologies
EADAS Engineering and Administrative Acquisition System
EARN European Acedemic Research Network
EAROM Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory
EARS Electronic Access to Reference Services
EATA Enhanced AT Bus Attachment
EBB Economic Bulletin Board
EBBS Electronic BBS
EBC EISA Bus Controller
EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EBDA Extended BIOS Data Area
EBI Equivalent Background Input
Extended Background Investigation
EBT Electronic Benefits Transfer
EC European Community
Exchange Carriers
ECAL Enjoy Computing And Learn
ECC Error Check Code
Error Checking and Correction
Error Correction Code
Error Correction Codes
ECD Enhanced Color Display
ECF Enhanced Connectivity Facilities
ECHO European Commision Host Organization
ECITC European Committee for Information technology Technology
ECL Emitter Coupled Logic
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association
ECN Exchange Carriers Standards Association
ECP Extended Capabilities Port
ECSA Exchange Carriers Standards Association
ED Erase Display
End Delimiter
EWOS Document
Expedited Data
Exception Data
EDA Embedded Document Architecture
Enterprise Data Access
EDC Error Detection and Correction
EDD Enterprise Data Distribution
EDDC Extended Distance Data Cable
EDGAR Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
Electronic Document Interchange
EDIA Electronic Data Interchange Association
EDIF Electronic Design Interchange Format
EDIFACT EDI for Administration Commerce and Transport
EDIM EDI Message
EDI Messaging Environment
EDIMS EDI Message Store
EDIN EDI Notification
EDIUA EDI User Agent
EDL Edit Decision List
EDLC Ethernet Data Link Control
EDLIN Editor Line
EDN Expedited Data Negociation
EDP Electronic Data Processing
EDPM Electronic Data Processing Machine
EDS Electronic Data Systems
EDSAC Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer
EDSI Enhanced Small Device Interface
EDVAC Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
EEC Extended Error Correction
European Economic Commission
Electronic Equipment Cabinet
EEE Electronic Equipment Enclosures
EEHLLAPIEntry Emulator High Level Language API
EEI External Environment Interface
EEL Epsilon Extension Language
EEM Extended Memory Management
EEMA European Electronic Mail Association
EEMS Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EETDN End-to-End Transit Delat Negotiation
EFA Extended File Attribute
EFD Event Forwarding Discriminator
EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFI Electromechanical Frequency Interference
Electronics For Imaging
EFL Emitter Follower Logic
EFS Extended Facility Set
External File System
EFT Electronic Funds Transfer
EFTA European Free Trade Association
EFTS Electronic Funds Transfer System
EG Expert Group
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol
EHA European Harmonization Activity
EHF Extremely High Frequency
EIA Electronic Industries Association
EINE EINE Is Not EMACS
EIS Executive Information System
Electronic Information Security
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EIT Encoded Information Type
EIU Extended Interface Unit
EIUF European ISDN Users Format
EKTS Electonic Key Telephone Service
EL Electroluminescent
Erase Line
ELAN ESPIRIT Local Area Network
ELAP Ethernet LAP
ELDS Exchange Line Data Service
ELF Extremely Low Frequency
ELS Entry Level System
EM Electronic Mail
Expanded Memory
End Medium
EMA Enterprise Management Architecture
Electronic Mail Association
EMACS Editor MACroS
Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
Escape Meta Alt Control Shift
E-MAIL Electronic Mail
EMB Extended Memory Blocks
Enhanced Master Burst
EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility
Extended Math Coprocessor
EMF ElectroMotive Force
EMI Electromagnetic Interference
ElectroMagnetic Induction
EMM Expanded Memory Manager
Enterprise Mail Management
EMMS Electronic Mail and Micro Systems
EMOS East Mediterranean Optical System
EMP ElectroMagnetic Pulse
EMPM Electronic Manuscript Preparation and Markup
EMR Electro-Magnetic Radiation
EMS Electronic Mail System
Electronic Message Service
Expanded Memory Specification
Enterprise Messaging Server
EMU ElectroMagnetic Unit
EMUG European MAP/TOP User Group
EN Electronic News
European Norm
ENDS End Segment
ENE Enterprise Networking Event
ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
ENQ Enquiry
ENS Enterprise Network Services
ENSDU Expedited Network Service Data Unit
EO Erasable Optical
End Office
EOA End of Address
EOB End of Block
EOC End of Conversion
Embedded Operations Channel
EOD End Of Data
EOF End of File
EOFC End Of Facsimile Control
EOI End or Identify
EOJ End of Job
EOL End of Line
End of List
EOM End of Message
EOR Exclusive OR
EOS End of String
Element Of Service
EOT End Of Table
End of Tape
End of Text
End of Transmission
EOTC European Organization for Testing and Certification
EOU End Of User
EPHOS European Procurement Handbook for Open Systems
EPL Effective Privilege Level
EPLD Electrically Programmable Logic Device
EPOS Electronic Point Of Sale
EPP Enhanced Parallel Port
EPROM Electrically Programmable Read Only Memory
Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EPS Encapsulated PostScript
EPSF Encapsulated PostScript Files
EPSI Encapsulated PostScript Interchange
EQ EQual to
EQR Electronics Quality Registry
ER Error
ERA Electrically Reconfigurable Array
Entity Relationship Attribute
ERD Event Report Descriminator
ERF Event Report Function
Emergency Restoration Facility
ERLL Enhanced Run Length Limited
ERMF Event Report Management Function
EROM Erasable Read Only Memory
ERR Error
ERLL Extended Run Length Limited
ES Extra Segment
Expert System
End System
Errored Second
ESA European Space Agency
Errored Second, type A
ESAFE Errored Second, type A, Far End
ESB Errored Second, type B
Emergency Service Bureau
ESC Escape
ESCP Errored Second, CP-bit Parity
ESCRC Errored Second, Cyclic Redundancy Check
ESD Electrostatic Discharge
Electronic Software Distribution
Electrostatic Sensitive Device
ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface
ESF Exteneded Superframe Format
ESFE Errored Second Far End
ESH End System Hello
ESI Enhanced Serial Interface
ES-IS End System to Intermediate System
ESOBB European Southern Observatory Bulletin Board
ESP Enhanced Serial Port
Enhanced Service Provider
Errored Second, P-bit
ESPIRIT European Strategic Program for Research into Information Technology
ESPS Entropic Signal Processing System
ESS Electronic Switching System
Electronic SpreadSheet
ESSEX Experimental Solid State EXchange
ESTELLE Extended State Transition Language
ESU Electro-Static Unit
ET Exchange Termination
ETB End of Transmission Block
ETG EWOS Technical Guide
ETIS Electronic Telephone Inquiry System
ETLA Extended Three Letter Acronym
ETPL Endorsed Tempest Products List
ETRI-PECElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute - Protocol Engineering Center
ETS Econometric Time Series
European Telecommunications Standards
Executable Test Suite
ETSDU Expedited Transport Service Data Unit
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
ETX End of Text
EU End User
EUNET European Unix NETwork
EUPOT End User-Point of Termination
EUROSINET EURopean Open Systems Interconnect NETwork
EUUG European UNIX Users Group
EVE European Videoconferencing Experiment
EVS European Videoconferencing Service
EVGA Extended Video Graphics Array
Extended Video Graphics Adapter
EWOS European Workshop for Open Systems
EX EXpedited data
EXCA EXchangable Card Architecture
EXP Exponent
EXT External
EXTRN External Reference
EZW Embedded Zerofree Waves
FACS Facility Assignment and Control System
FADU File Access Data Unit
FAMOS Floating Gate Avalanche MOS
FAN Facility Area Network
FAO For Adults Only
FAP File Access Protocol
FAPL Format And Protocol Language
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FARNET Federation of American Research NETworks
FASST Flexible Architecture Standard System Technology
FAST Federation Against Software Theft
FAT File Allocation Table
FATT File ATTach
FAX Facsimile
FBE Free Buffer Enquiry
FBR For Best Results
FC Fiber Channel
Frame Control
FCB File Control Block
FCC Federal Communications Commission
Federal Computer Conference
FCCSET Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology
FCG Format Computer Graphics
FCI Flux Changes per Inch
FCP Foundation for Cooperative Processing
FCS Frame Check Sequence
FD Floppy Disk
Full Duplex
FDC Floppy Disk Controller
FDD Floppy Disk Drive
FDDI Fiber Digital Device Interface
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
Fiber Distributed Digital Interface
FDI Format DIrectory
Feeder/Distribution Interfaces
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access
FDT Format Description Technique
FDX Full DupleX
FEA Finite Element Analysis
FEC Forward Error Correction
FECN Forward Explicit Congestion Notification
FED Field Emission Display
FEDIX FEDeral Information eXchange
FEFO First-Ended, First-Out
FEP Front End Processor
FERPM FTAM Error Recovery Protocol Machine
FET Field Effect Transistor
FF Flip-Flop
Form Feed
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
FG Functional Group
Frame Ground
4GL Fourth Generation Language
FH Full Height
FI File Interchange
FIE Federal Information Exchange
FIF Fractal Image Format
FIFO First-In, First-Out
FILO First-In, Last-Out
FIMS Forms Interface Management System
FIN FINish flag
FIP File Processor Buffering
FIPS Federal Information Proccessing Standard
FIR Finite Impulse Response
FIRST Forum of Incident Response and Service Teams
FISH First In, Still Here
FLACC Full Level ALGOL Checkout Compiler
FLD Field
FLOP FLoating point OPeration
FLOPS Floating Point Operations Per Second
FM Frequency Modulation
Fault Management
FMS Forms Management System
FMT Format
FMVFT Frequency-Modulated Voice Frequenct Telegraph
FN FiNish
Forward Notification
FNC Federal Networking Council
FNT Font
FO Fiber Optics
FOA First Office Application
FOCUS Forum of Control Data Users
Federation On Computing in the U.S.
FOD Finger Of Death
Format Office Document
FOG First Osborne Group
FOIRL Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link
FORTRAN Formula Translator
FOSE Federal Office Systems Exposition
FOSSIL Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer
FOX Field Operational X.500
FP Facility Parameter Field
FPA Floating Point Accelerator
FPD Flat Panel Display
FPE Floating Point Engine
FPGA Field Programmable Gate-Array
FPLA Field Programmable Logic-Array
FPP Fixed Path Protocol
Floating Point Processor
FPS Frames Per Second
FPU Floating Point Unit
FQDN Fully-Qualified Domain Name
FR Frame Relat
FRACTAL FRACTional dimensionAL
FRAG Fragment
Fragmentation
FRAM Ferroelectric Random-Access Memory
Ferromagnetic RAM
FRED FRame EDitor
FRont End to the Directory
Flipping Rediculous Electronic Device
FREQ File REQuest
FRICC Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee
FRMR FRaMe Reject
FRPI Flux Reversals Per Inch
FRPS Field Reliability Performance Studies
FS File Separator
Frame Status
Functional Standard
FSD File System Driver
FSF Free Software Foundation
FSG Format SGML
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
FSM Finite-State Machine
FSR Free System Resources
F/T Full Time
FT File Transfer
FTAM File Transfer Access and Management
FTC Federal Trade Commission
FTF Face To Face
FTM Flat Tension Mask
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FTS Federal Telecommunication System
File Transfer Service
FTSC Federal Telecommunications Standards Committee
FU Functional Unit
FUBAR Failed UniBus Address Register
FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
FUNC Function
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYA For Your Amusement
FYI For Your Information
G Giga
GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
GAL Generic Array Logic
GAN Global Area Network
GB Gigabyte
GC Garbage Collection
Garbage Collector
Garbage Collect
GCL Graphics Command Language
GCOS General Comprehensive Operating System
GCR Group Code Recording
Gray Component Replacement
GDA Global Data Area
GDDM Graphics Data Display Manager
GDI Graphics Device Interface
GDMO Guidelines for the Definition of Managed Objects
GDS General Data Stream
Graphics Data Syntax
GDT Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
Global Descriptor Table
GE General Electric
Greater than or Equal to
GECOS General Electric Comprehensive Operating System
GEL Gain Extention Language
GEM Graphics Environment Manager
GEMDES Government Electronic Messaging and Document Exchange Service
GENIE General Electric Network for Information Exchange
GENSYM Generated Symbol
GEOS Graphic Environment Operating System
GET Get Execute Trigger
GFI General Format Identifier
GFID General Format IDentifier
GFR Grim File Reaper
GGP Gateway-to-Gateway Protocol
GHz Gigahertz
GIF Graphic Interchange Format
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
(Garbage In, Gospel Out)
GIN Graphics INput
GIPS Giga-Instructions Per Second
GIS Geographical Information System
GKS Graphical Kernel System
GKS-3D Graphical Kernel System in Three Dimensions
G/L General Ledger
GL Graphics Language
GLM General Linear Models
G-LOTOS Graphical Language for Temporal Ordering Specification
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GN Given Name
GND System Ground
GNM Generic Network Model
GNMP Government Network Management Profile
GNU GNU's Not Unix
GNUMACS GNU EMACS
GORP Good Old Raisins and Peanuts
GOS Grade Of Service
GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile
GOSMACS Gosling EMACS
GP Gas Plasma
General Purpose
GPF General Protection Fault
GPI Graphics Programming Interface
GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus
GPL General Public License
GPN Government Packet Network
GPS Global Positioning System
GPSS General Purpose Systems Simulation
GPV General Public Virus
GQ Generation Qualifier
GR Graphical Representation
GRDF GOSIP Register Data Base
GRE Graphics Engine
GREP Global Regular Expression Print
GS Group Separator
GSA General Services Administration
GSM Group Special Module
GSN Government Satellite Network
GSS Generation Support Statements
GT Greater Than
Give Token
GTA Give Token Acknowledgement
Government Telecommunications Agency
GTC Give Token Confirm
GTE General Telephone and Electric
GTN Government Telecommunications Network
GTS Gamma Transfer Service
GUI Graphical User Interface
GUS Gravis UltraSound
Guide to the Use of Standards
GVPN Global Virtual Private Network
GW-BASICGee Whiz BASIC
HA Host Adapter
HAKMEM HAcKs MEMory
HAL Hard Array Logic
House Programmed Array Logic
Hardware Abstraction Layer
Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer
HAM Hold And Modify
HASP Houston Automatic Spooling Priority
HAW HAWaii
HBD Honeywell Brain Damage
HCDS High Capacity Digital Service
HCF Halt and Catch Fire
HD Hard Disk
High Density
HDA Head Disk Assembly
Hard Disk Assembly
HDBV Host DataBase View
HDD Hard Disk Drive
HDI Head to Disk Interference
Help Desk Institute
HDLC High-level Data Link Control
HDPT Hard Disk Parameter Table
HDR Header
HDSC High Density Signal Carrier
HDTV High Definition TeleVision
HDW Hardware
HD-WDM High Density-Wave Division Multiplexing
HDX Half DupleX
HEA Hyundai Electronics America
HEC Human Engineering Computers
HERC Hercules
HEX Hexadecimal
HF High Frequency
HFS Hierarchial File System
HGA Hercules Graphics Adapter
HGCP Hercules Graphics Card Plus
HH Hour
Half Height
HIL Human Interface Link
HIPPI High Performance Parallel Interface
HJK Honk knog-Japan-Korea
HLCO High Low Close Open
HLDLC High Level Data Link Control
HLL High Level Language
HLLAPI High Level Language Application Programming Interface
HLQ High Level Qualifier
HLS Hue Lightness Saturation
HLT Halt
HMA High Memory Area
Hub Management Architecture
HMI Hub Management Interface
Human-Machine Interface
HML Human-Machine Language
HMOS High Density Metal Oxide Semiconductor
High Speed Metal Oxide Semiconductor
High performance Metal Oxide Semiconductor
HOB Hierarchical Operational Binding
HOBBIT High Order BIT
HP Hewlett-Packard
HPAD Host-Packet Assembler/Disassembler
HPC High-Performance Computing
HPCC High-Performance Computing and Communications
HPFS High Performance File System
HPG Hewlett-Packard Graphics
HPGL Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
HPI Hahn Popularity Index
HPIB Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus
HPPA Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture
HPPI High Performance Parallel Interface
HRIS Human Resource Information System
HRG High Resolution Graphics
HRMS Human Resource Management System
HRPF Hexadecimal Reference Publication Format
HS High Speed
HSB Hue Saturation Brightness
HSC High Speed Channel
HSL Hue Saturation Lightness
HSLC Health Sciences Libraries Consortium
HSP High Speed Printer
HST High Speed Technology
HSV Hue Saturation Value
HT Horizontal Tab
HUT Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
H/V Horizontal/Vertical
HVP Horizontal & Vertical Position
H/W Hardware
HWCP Hardware Code Page
HWD Height-Width-Depth
HYDRA HYbrid Document Reproduction Apparatus
HZ Hertz
IA Implementation Agreements
Implementators Agreements
International Activities
IAB Internet Activities Board
IAC InterApplication Communication
IAL International Algebraic Language
IAS Information Access Services
IAYF Information At Your Fingertips
IBC Instrument Bus Computer
IBECC International BBSing and Electronic Communications Conference
IBM International Business Machines
(Inferior But Marketable)
(It's Better Manually)
(Insidious Black Magic)
(It's Been Malfunctioning)
IBM-GL IBM Graphics Language
IC Input Circuit
Integrated Circuit
Interrupt Controller
IC InterExchange Carriers
ICA Intra-application Communications Area
International Communications Association
ICAS Intel Communicating Applications Specifications
ICCP Institute for the Certification of Computer Professionals
ICD International Code Designator
ICE In-Circuit Emulator
ICFA International Computer Facsimile Association
ICI Interface Control Information
ICL Interface Clear
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICN Interconnecting Network
ICOMP Intel COmparative Microprocessor Performance
ICOT ISDN COnference Testing
ICP Integrated Channel Processor
ICPOT InterExchange Carrier-Point of Termination
ICR Intelligent Character Recognition
ICST Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology
ICSU Intelligent Channel Service Unit
ICUG International Closed User Groups
ID Identification
Identifier
IDA Integrated Digital Access
Intelligent Disk Array
Intelligent Drive Array
IDAPI Integrated Database API
IDC International Data Corp.
IDC Information Distribution Companies
IDCI Interim Defined Central Office Interface
IDE Imbedded Drive Electronics
Integrated Development Environment
Integrated Drive Electronics
Intelligent Drive Electronics
Interactive Design and Engineering
Interface Design Enhancement
IDF Intermediate Distribution Frame
IDG InterDialog Gap
IDI Initial Domain Identifier
IDIV Integer Divide
IDLC Integrated Digital Loop Carrier
IDMS Integrated Data Base Management System
IDP Integrated Data Processing
Internetwork Datagram Protocol
Initial Domain Part
IDT Interrupt Descriptor Table
IDU Interface Data Unit
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
InterExchange Carrier
IEE Institute of Electrical Engineers
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEF Information Engineering Facility
IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IEW Information Engineering Workbench
I/F Interface
IF Intermediate Frequency
IFD Image File Directory
IFF Interchange File Format
IFG InterFrame Gap
IFIP International Federation for Information Processing
IFLA International Federation of Library Associations
IFS Installable File System
Internal File System
IFU Interworking Funtional Unit
IGA Integrated Graphics Array
IGC Integrated Graphics Controller
IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Specification
IGOSS Industry-Government Open Systems Specification
IGP Internet Gateway Protocol
IGRP Internet Gateway Routing Protocol
IHL Internet Header Length
IIA Industry Information Association
Information Industry Association
Information Interchange Architecture
IIF Immediate IF
IIL Integrated Injection Logic
IIR Immediate Impulse Response
IIW ISDN Implementors Workshop
ILAC International Laboratory Accreditation Conference
ILD Injection Laser Diode
ILL InterLibrary Loan
ILLS InterLibrary Loan System
ILM Industrial Light and Magic
IM Information Management
IMA Interactive Multimedia Association
IMDS Image Data Stream
IMG Image
IMIL International Management Information Library
IMP Interface Message Processor
Infomation Management Plan
IMPACT Information Market Policy ACTions
IMS Information Management System
Intermediate Maintenance Standards
IMSL International Mathematical Subroutine Library
IMT Intermachine Trunk
IMUAPDU Interpersonal Message User Agent Protocol Data Unit
IMUL Integer Multiply
IN Input
INAP Intelligent Network Access Point
INC Increment
INIT Initialize
INITials
INN ImagiNation Network
IN/1 Intelligent Network/1
INS Input String
INT Integer
Internal
Interrupt
INTA Interrupt Acknowledge
INTAP INteroperability Technology Association for information Processing
INTELSATINternational TELecommunications SATellite
INTERCALCompiler Language With No Pronouncable Acronym
INTO Interrupt if Overflow occurs
INWATS INward Wide Area Telephone System
I/O Input/Output
IOCS Input/Output Control System
IOCTL Input/Output Control
IONL Internal Organization of the Network Layer
IOS Intermediate Open System
IOSGA Input/Output Support Gate Array
IP Instruction Pointer
Internet Protocol
IPC Instructions Per Clock
InterProcess Communication
IPE Integrated Programming Environment
In-band Parameter Exchange
IPF Information Presentation Facility
IPI Intelligent Peripheral Interface
IPL Initial Program Load
Initial Program Loader
Information Programming Language
IPLS InterLATA Private Line services
IPM Impossible to Program Machines
Impulses Per Minute
InterPersonal Message
InterPersonal MHS
IPMS InterPersonal Messaging System
IPMUA InterPersonal Messaging User Agent
IPRL ISPICS Requirements List
IPS Inches Per Second
Information Processing System
IPSC Intel Personal SuperComputer
IPSE Integrated Project Support Environment
IPSIT International Public Sector IT
IPU Intelligent Processing Unit
IPX Internetwork Packet eXchange
IQL Interactive Query Language
IR Internet Router
IRC Internet Relay Chat
International Record Carrier
IRD Information Resource Directory
IRDS Information Resource Directory System
IRET Interrupt Return
IRG InterRecord Gap
IRL Interactive Reader Language
Inter-Repeater Link
IRLED Infrared Light Emitting Diode
IRM Information Resource Management
IRQ Interrupt Request
IRTF Internet Research Task Force
IRV International Reference Version
IRX Information Retrieval Experiment
IS Interrupt Status
Information Systems
International Standard
Intermediate System
IS-IS Intermediate System to Intermediate System protocol
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
ISAM Indexed Sequential-Access Method
ISC Instruction Set Computer
ISD Image Section Descriptor
Instructional Systems Design
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISDNAP Integrated Services Digital Network Application Packet
ISH Intermediate System Hello
ISI Internally Specified Index
IS-IS Intermediate System to Intermediate System
ISL Interactive System Language
ISN Initial Sequence Number
ISO International Standards Organization
ISOCS ISO Central Secretariat
ISODE ISO Development Environment
ISORM ISO Reference Model
ISP Interrupt Status Port
Internet Service Provider
International Standardized Profile
ISPATS International Standardized Profile Abstract Test Suite
ISPETS International Standardized Profile Executable Test Suite
ISPF Interactive System Programming Facility
ISPICS ISP Protocol Implementation Conference Statement
ISPIXIT ISP Protocol Inplementation eXtra Information for Testing
ISPX ISDN PBX
ISR Information Storage and Retrieval
Interrupt Service Routines
ISSB Information Systems Standards Board
ISSN Integrated Special Services Network
ISUP ISDN User Part
ISV Independent Software Vendor
IT Information Technology
ITA International Telegraph Alphabet
ITAA Information Technology Association of America
ITAEGC IT Advisory Experts Group on Certification
ITAEGS IT Advisory Experts Group on Standardization
ITAEGT IT Advisory Experts Group on private Telecom networks
ITB Information Technology Branch
Intermediate Text Block
ITC International Typeface Corporation
ITCA International TeleConferencing Association
ITE International Technology Equipment
ITI Industrial Technology Institute
Interactive Technology Equipment
ITRC Information Technology Requirements Council
ITS Incompatible Time-sharing System
ITRC Information Technology Requirements Council
ITSB Image Technology Standards Board
ITSP Information Technology and System Plan
Information Technology and System Planning
ITSTC Information Technology STeering Committee
IT&T International Telephone and Telegraph
ITT Invitation To Transmit
ITU International Telecommunications Union
ITX Intermediate Text Block
IUT Implementation Under Test
IUW ISDN Users' Workshop
IV Interactive Video
Interrupt Vector
IVD Interactive Video Disc
Integrated Voice and Data
IVDMS Integrated Voice and Data MultiplexerS
IVDT Integrated Voice/Data Terminal
IVDTE Integrated Voice/Data Terminal Equipment
IVIS Interactive Video Information System
IVMO Initial Value Managed Object
IVR Interactive Voice Response
IVS Interactive Videodisk System
IVT Interrupt Vector Table
IV&V Independent Verification & Validation
IWF InterWorking Function
IWU Intermediate Working Unit
InterWorking Unit
IXC IntereXchange Carrier
JA Jump Address
Jump if Above
JAD Joint Application Development
JAE Jump if Above or Equal
JANET Joint Acedemic NETwork
JBE Jump if Below or Equal
JBIG Joint Bi-level Image Group
JC Jump if Carry set
JCL Job Control Language
JE Jump if Equal
JEDEC Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council
JEDI Joint EDI task force
JEIDA Japanese Electronics Industry Development Association
JES Job Entry System
Job Entry Subsystem
JFIF JPEG File Interchange Format
JG Jump if Greater
JGE Jump if Greater or Equal
JIS Japanese Industrial Standard
Jurisdictional Interstate Services
JISC Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
JITEC Joint Information Technology Experts Committee
JL Jump if Less
JLE Jump if Less than or Equal to
JMP Jump
JMUG Japanese MAP/TOP User Group
JNA Jump if Not Above
JNAE Jump if Not Above or Equal
JNB Jump if Not Below
JNBE Jump if Not Below or Equal
JNG Jump if Not Greater
JNGE Jump if Not Greater or Equal
JNLE Jump if Not Less or Equal
JNO Jump if No Overflow
JNP Jump if No Parity
JNS Jump if No Sign
JNT Joint Network Team
JNZ Jump if Not Zero
JPE Jump if Parity Even
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JPO Jump if Parity Odd
JS Jump if Sign
JSA Japan Standards Association
JTC Joiny Technical Committee
JTM Job Transfer and Manipulation
JUGHEAD Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display
JUNET Japan Unix NETwork
JZ Jump if Zero
K Kilobyte
KB Keyboard
Kilobyte
KBD Keyboard
KBPS KiloBits Per Second
KiloBytes Per Second
Kbyte Kilobyte
KDC Key Distribution Center
KDD Kokusai Denshin Denwa
KDT Key Definition Table
KERMIT Kl-10 Error-free Reciprocal Micro Interconnect over Tty lines
KEYB Keyboard
KEYBBE Foreign language KEYBoard program - Belgium
KEYBCF Foreign language KEYBoard program - Canadian-French
KEYBDF Foreign language KEYBoard program - Denmark
KEYBFR Foreign language KEYBoard program - France
KEYBGR Foreign language KEYBoard program - Germany
KEYBLA Foreign language KEYBoard program - Latin America
KEYBNL Foreign language KEYBoard program - Netherlands
KEYBNO Foreign language KEYBoard program - Norway
KEYBPO Foreign language KEYBoard program - Portugal
KEYBSF Foreign language KEYBoard program - Swiss-French
KEYBSG Foreign language KEYBoard program - Swiss-German
KEYBSP Foreign language KEYBoard program - Spain
KEYBSU Foreign language KEYBoard program - Finland
KEYBSV Foreign language KEYBoard program - Sweden
KEYBUK Foreign language KEYBoard program - United Kingdom
KHz Kilo Hertz
KIPS Thousands of Instructions Per Second
KMP Key Management Protocol
K&R brian Kernighan and dennis Ritchie
KRS Knowledge Retrieval System
KSDS Keyed Sequence DataSet
KSR Keyboard Send Receive
LADDR LAyered Device Driver aRchitecture
LADS Local Area Data Service
LALL Longest Allowed Lobe Length
LAN Local Area Network
LAP Link Access Protocol
LAPB Link Access Procedure Balanced
Link Access Procedure Binary
LAPD Link Access Procedure Direct
LAP Digital
LAPM Link Access Procedure for Modems
LAPS LAN Adapter and Protocol Support
LAPX Link Access Procedure half dupleX
LAR Load Access Rights
LASER Light Amplified and Stimulated by Emission of Radiation
LAT Local Area Transport
LATA Local Access and Transport Area
LAWN Local Area Wireless Network
LBL Label
LBR Librarian
LBRV Low Bit Rate Voice
LBT Listen Before Talk
LC Low cost Color
Link Control
Logical Channel
LCC Leadless Chip Carrier
Leaded Chip Carrier
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LCF Log Control Function
LCGN Logical Channel Group Number
LCI Logical Channel Identifier
LCM Line Concentrating Module
LCN Logical Channel Number
LCS Liquid Crystal Shutter
LCU Last Cluster Used
LDA Logical Device Address
LDC Lotus Development Corporation
LDDI Local Distributed Data Interface
LDM Limited-Distance Modem
LDT Local Descriptor Table
LE Less or Equal
Local Exchange
LEA Load Effective Address
LEC Local Exchange Carrier
LED Light Emitting Diode
LEM Language Extension Module
LEN Low Entry Networking
LER Light Emitting Resistor
LERP Linear Interpolatior
LDS Local Digital Switch
LEX Lexicon
LF Line Feed
Low Frequency
LFI Last File Indicator
LFU Least Frequently Used
LGC Line Group Control
LGDT Load Global Descriptor Table
LGN Logical Group Number
LI Length Indicator
LIAR LIAR Imitates Apply Recursively
LIB Library
LICS Lotus International Character Set
LIDB Line Information Database
LIDT Load Interrupt Descriptor Table
LIF Low Insertion Force
LIFO Last In First Out
LIM Lotus/Intel/Microsoft
LIMS Library Information Management System
LIPS Logical Interferences Per Second
LIPX Large IPX
LISP List Processing
(Lots of Insipid Stupid Parenthesis)
(Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses)
LISTSERVList Server
LL Lower Layers
LLAP Localtalk LAP
LLC Logical Link Control
LLCC LeadLess Chip Carier
LLCS Logical Link Control Security
LLDT Load Local Descriptor Table
LLP Lower-Layer Protocol
LLPDU Logical Link Protocol Data Unit
LM Layer Management
LME Layer Management Entity
LMI Local Management Interface
LMOS Loop Maintenance Operating System
LMSW Load Machine Status Word
LM/X LAN Manager for Unix
LN Logarithm Natural
Load Number
LOC Loop On-Line Control
LODSB Load String Byte
LOG Logarithm
LOOPE Loop while Equal
LOOPNE Loop while Not Equal
LOOPNZ Loop while Not Zero
LOOPZ Loop while Zero
LORE Line Oriented Editor
LOS Line Of Sight
LOSS LOSs of Signal
LOTOS Language for Temporal Ordering Specification
LOTUS (Let Only The Users Suffer)
LPC Linear Predictive Coding
LPD Line Printer Daemon
LPI Lines Per Inch
LPL Lotus Programming Language
LPM Lines Per Minute
LPN Logical Page Number
Local Packet Network
LPT Line PrinTer
LQ Letter Quality
LRC Local Register Cache
Longitudinal Redundancy Check
LRL Least Recently Loaded
LRU Least Recently Used
LS Local Single-layer
LSA Line Sharing Adapter
LSAP Layer Service Access Point
LSAPI License Services API
LSB Least Significant Bit
Least Significant Byte
Lower SideBand
LSC Least Significant Character
LSD Least Significant Digit
LSDU Link Service Data Unit
LSE Local System Environment
Local Single-layer Embedded
LSEL Link SELector
LSH Left SHift
LSI Large Scale Integration
LSL Load Segment Limit
Link Support Layer
LSP Light Speed Pascal
LST List
LT Less Than
Lower Tester
Line Termination
Loop Termination
LTE Line Termination Equipment
LTR Letter
Load Task Register
LU Logical Unit
LUN Logical Unit Number
LUT Lookup Table
LVM Line Verification Module
LZ abraham Lempel, jacob Ziv
Landing Zone
LZH Lempel Ziv Haruyasu
LZW Lempel-Ziv-Walsh
abraham Lempel, jacob Ziv, Welch
M Mega
MAA MAjor sync point Acknowledgment
MAC Medium Access Control
MACF Multiple Access Control Function
MACINTOSH (Machine Always Crashes; If Not, The Operating System Hangs)
MAD Mirage Application Development
MAN Manual
Metropolitan Area Network
MAP Maintenance Analysis Procedures
Manufacturing Automation Protocol
Memory Allocation Map
Manufacturing Automation Profile
MAjor sync Point
MAPDU Management Application Protocol Data Unit
MAPI Mail API
MAPICS Manufacturing, Accounting and Production Information Control System
MAPPER MAintaining, Preparing, and Processing Executive Reports
MARC MAchine-Readable Cataloguing
MASE Message Administration Service Element
MASM Macro Assembler
MATD Maximum Allowable Transit Delay
MAU Media Access Unit
Multistation Access Unit
Media Attachment Unit
Medium Attachment Unit
MAX Maximum
MB Megabyte
MBASIC Microsoft BASIC
M-BIT More data BIT
MBPS Megabytes Per Second
MegaBits Per Second
MBR Master Boot Record
MCA Micro Channel Architecture
MCB Memory Control Block
MCGA Multicolor Graphics Array
MCI Media Control Interface
MCP Master Control Program
MCU Multi-Chip Unit
MD Make Directory
Monochrome Display
Management Domain
Mediation Device
MDA Monochrome Display Adapter
MDB Master DataBase
MDBS Mobile DataBase Station
MDF Main Distribution Frame
MDFAT Microsoft Doublespace File Allocation Table
MDI Multiple Document Interface
MDIC Manchester Decoder and Interface Chip
MDR Minimum Design Requirement
Message Detail Record
Message Detail Recording
MDS Message Design Systems
MDSE Message Delivery Service Element
MDY Month Day Year
MEB Memory Expansion Board
MEG Megabyte
MESI Modified Exclusive Shared Invalid
MET Memory Enhancement Technology
MF Medium Frequency
Multi-Frequency
More Fragments
Mediation Function
MFC Microsoft Foundation Class
MFLOPS Million Floating Point Operations Per Second
MFM Modified Frequency Modulation
MFP Multifunction Peripheral
MFS Magnetic Tape Field Search
Macintosh File System
MFT Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks
MFTL My Favorite Toy Language
MGA Monochrome Graphics Adapter
Multimedia Graphics Architecture
MGI Management Graphics Inc.
MGR Manager
MH Message Handler
Message Handling
MHS Message Handling Service
Message Handling System
Message Handling Systems
MHz Megahertz
MI Machine Interface
MIA MInor sync Acknowledgment
MIB Management Information Base
MIC Medium Interface Cable
MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MICS Macro Interpretive Commands
Management Information Conference Statement
MIDA Message Interchange for Distributed Application
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIF Management Information Format
MII Microsoft/IBM/Intel
MIL Machine Interface Layer
Management Information Library
MILSTD MILitary STandarD
MILNET MILitary NETwork
MIM Management Information Model
MIMD Multiple Instruction Multiple Data
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIN Minimum
MIP MInor sync Point
MIPS Million Instructions Per Second
(Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed)
MIS Management Information System
Manager of Information Systems
Management Information Services
MISC Miscellaneous
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Management Information Tree
MITI Ministry of International Trade and Industry
MIX Member Information Exchange
MJU MultiPoint Junction Unit
MKDIR Make Directory
ML Machine Language
MLHG Multiline Hunt Group
MLID Multiple Link Interface Driver
MLL Medium Level Language
MLP MultiLink Procedure
MLPP MultiLevel Precedence and Preemption
MLS MultiLevel Security
MM Minutes
Month
Multiple Master
MMA Microcomputer Managers Association
MMC Matched Memory Cycle
Microcomputer Marketing Council
MMCD Multimedia Compact Disk
MMCF MultiMedia Communications Forum
MMD MultiMedia Document
MME MultiMedia Extentions
MMFS Manufacturing Message Format Standard
MMHS Military MHS
MMI Man-Machine Interface
MMJ Modified Modular Jack
MML Man-Machine Language
MMS Manufacturing Message Specification
Manufacturing Messaging Specification
Manufacturing Message Service
Manufacturing Message Standard
MMU Memory Management Unit
MNOS Metal Nitride Oxide Semiconductor
MNP Microcom Networking Protocol
MO Magneto-Optical
Managed Object
MOAC Managed Object Authentication Check
MOCS Managed Object Conformance Statement
MOD MODulo
MODEM Modulator Demodulator
MOHLL Machine Oriented High Level Language
MOP Maintenance Operation Protocol
MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MOT Means Of Testing
Managed Object to Test
MOTIS Message Oriented Text Interchange System
MOV Metal Oxide Varistor
Move
MOVS Move String
MOD Modem
Modulus
MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MOV Move
MOVS Move String
MP Managing Process
Machine Processable
MPC Multimedia Personal Computer
MPCS Mission Planning and Control Station
MPDT MultiPeer Data Transmission
MPDU Message Protocol Data Unit
MPE MultiProgramming Executive
MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
MPP Massively Parallel Processing
Message Processing Program
MPR Multipart Repeater
MPS Megabytes Per Second
MPT Mean Repair Time
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
MPTM MultiParty Test Method
MPU Microprocessor Unit
MPW Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
MPX MultiPleXer
MR Modem Ready
Message Retrieval
MRAA Meter Reading Access Arrangement
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MRO Multi-Region Operation
MRP Materials Requirement Planning
MRPL Main Ring Path Length
MRS Media Recognition System
MRSE Message Retrieval Service Element
M/S More Segments
MS Memory System
Microsecond
MicroSoft
Millisecond
Message Store
MSAP MAC Sublayer Service Access SAP
MSAT Mobile service SATellite
MSAU Multi Station Access Unit
MSB Most Significant Bit
Most Significant Byte
MSC MicroSoft C
MSCDEX MicroSoft CD-ROM eXtensions
MSD Mass Storage Device
Most Significant Digit
Microsoft System Diagnostics
MS-DOS Microsoft-Disk Operating System
MSDR Multiplexed Streaming Data Request
MSF Measurement Summarization Function
MSG Message
MSI Medium Scale Integration
MSL Map Specification Library
Mirrored Server Link
MS-NET MicroSoft Network
MSP Message Security Protocol
MSRCI MicroSoft Real-time Compression Interface
MSS Mobile Satellite Service
MSSE Message Submission Service Element
MSSSE Message Submission and Storage Service Element
MSW Machine Status Word
MT Message Transfer
MTA Message Transfer Agent
Multiple Terminal Access
Mail Transfer Agent
MTAE Message Transfer Agent Entity
MTB Magnetic Tape Billing
MTBB Mean Time Between Breakdowns
MTBF Mean Time Before Failure
Mean Time Between Failures
MTBJ Mean Time Between Jams
MTC MIDI Time Code
MTCN Minimum Throughput Class Negotiation
MTL Message Transfer Layer
MTP Message Transfer Part
MTS Message Transfer Service
Multichannel Television Sound
Modular Television System
MECC Timeshare System
Message Transfer System
MTSE Message Transfer Service Element
MTSL Message Transfer SubLayer
MTTA MultiTenant Telecommunications Association
MTTF Mean Time To Failure
MTTR Mean Time To Repair
MTU Maintenence Termination Unit
Maximum Transmission Unit
MUD Multiple User Domain
Multiple User Dungeon
Multiple User Dimension
MUL Multiply
MULTICS MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service
MUMPS Massachusetts Utility Multi-Programming System
MUNG Mash Until No Good
MUSH Mail User's SHell
MUX MUltipleXer
MVDM Multiple Virtual DOS Machine
MVGA Monochrome Video Graphics Array
MVS Multiple Virtual Storage
MVT Multiprogramming with a Variable number of Tasks
MWI Message Waiting Indicator
NACCB National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses
NACD National Association of Computer Dealers
NACS National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors
Novell Asynchronous Communications Server
NADF North American Directory Forum
NAE Not Above or Equal
NAEB North American EDIFACT Board
NAK Negative Acknowledgment
NAMAS NAtional Measurement Accreduation Service
NAN National Area Network
NANP North American Numbering Plan
NAPLPS North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax
North American Presentation Layer Protocol Syntax
NAS Network Application Support
Network Access Support
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASI NetWare Asynchronous Services Interface
NATA North American Telecommunications Association
National Association of Testing Authorities
NAU Network Access Unit
Network Addressable Unit
NAUN Nearest Active Upstream Neighbor
NAV Norton AntiVirus
NAVNEWS Navy News Service
NBE Not Below or Equal
NBI Nothing But Initials
NBP Name Binding Protocol
NBS National Bureau of Standards
NC No Carry
Numerical Control
Network Channel
Network Connection
NCA Network Communications Adapter
National Computer Associates
NCB Network Control Block
NCC Network Control Center
National Computing Centre
NCGA National Computer Graphics Association
NCI Network Channel Interface
NCIC National Crime Information Center
NCLIS National Commission on Libraries and Information Services
NCM Network Connection Management
NCMS Network Control and Management Systems
NCMT Numerical Control for Machine Tools
NCP Network Control Processor
Network Control Program
Not Copy Protected
Network Core Protocols
Network Control Program
NCR National Cash Register
NCS Network Computing System
NCSA National Computer Security Association
NCSC National Computer Security Center
NCSI Network Communications Services Interface
NCSL National Computer Systems Laboratory
NCTE Network Channel Terminating Equipment
ND Network Digit
NDA Network Delivery Access
Non Disclosure Agreement
NDC Network Data Collection
NDEF Not to be Defined
NDIS Network Driver Interface Specification
NDL Network Database Language
NDMS Netware Distributed Management System
NDN NonDelivery Notification
NDP Numeric Data Processor
Netware Directory Service
NDRO Non-Destructive Read Out
NDS Network Data System
NDW Norton Desktop for Windows
NE Not Equal
Network Element
NEAT New Enhanced AT
NEBS Network Equipment Building System
NEC Nippon Electric Company
NEF Network Element Function
NEG Negative
Negate
NESC National Electric Safety Code
NESP National Education Supercomputing Program
NET Network Entity Title
Norme Europeene de Telecommunications
NetBEUI NetBIOS Extended User Interface
NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System
NEWS Netware Early Warning System
Network Extensible Window System
NEtwork Window System
NF Not Finished
NFF No Fault Found
NFS Network File System
(Nightmare File System)
NG No Good
NGE Not Greater or Equal
NGM Netware Global Messaging
NHC National Hurricane Center
NHOB Nonspecific Hierarchial Operational Binding
NI Non Interlaced
Network Interface
NIC Network Interface Card
Numeric Intensive Computing
Network Information Center
NiCad Nickel-Cadmium
NICOLAS Network Information Center On-Line Aid System
NID New Interactive Display
Next ID
NII National Informational Infrastructure
NIM Network Information Center
NiMH Nickel Metal-Hydride
NIPS Network I/Os Per Second
NIS Network Information System
NISC Network Information Systems Center
N-ISDN Narrowband ISDN
NISO National Information Standards Organization
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NISTAPP National Institute of Standards and Technology Application Portability Profile
NIU Network Interface Unit
NIUF North american ISDN Users' Forum
NJE Network Job Entry
NL New Line
Network Layer
NLE Not Less or Equal
NLM Netware Loadable Module
NLQ Near Letter Quality
NM Network Management
NMF Network Management Forum
NMI Non-Maskable Interrupt
NMOS Negative Channel Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
NMP Network Management Protocol
NMS Network Management System
Network Management Station
NMSIG Network Management Special Interest Group
NN Negative Notification
NNI Network to Network Interface
Netherlands Normalisatie-Instituut
NNS Netware Name Service
NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol
NOC Network Operations Center
NOF Network Operations Forum
NOP No Operation
NOR Not Or
NOS Network Operating System
NP Network Provider
New Project
NPA Numeral Prefix Allocation
Numbering Plan Area
NPAI Network Protocol Address Information
NPAP Network Printing Alliance Protocol
NPC North Pacific Cable
NPDU Network Protocol Data Unit
NPI Network Printer Interface
NPL National Physical Laboratiry
NRAM Non-voatile Read Only Memory
NREN National Research and Education Network
NRM Normal Response Mode
NROFF Non typesetting RunOFF
NRS Name Registration Service
Network Registration Service
NRZ NonReturn to Zero
NRZI NonReturn to Zero Inverted
NRZL NRZ Level
NS Nanosecond
Network Supervisor
Non Stop
Network Service
NSA National Security Agency
NSAI National Standards Authority of Ireland
NSAP Network Service Access Point
NSDU Network Service Data Unit
NSEL Network SELector
NSF National Science Foundation
NSP Network Service Part
NATO Standardized Profile
NSR Non-Sequential Recording
NSSDU Normal Data Session Service Data Unit
NSSR NonSpecific Subordinate Reference
NSTL National Software Testing Laboratory
NT New Technology
Network Terminus
Network Termination
NTE Network Terminal Equipment
NTF No Trouble Found
NTFS NT File System
NTIA Network Telecommunications and Information Administration
NTIS National Technical Information System
NTM Network Traffic Management
NTN Network Terminal Number
NTP Network Time Protocol
NTSA Networking Technical Support Alliance
NTSC National Television Standards Committee
(Never The Same Color)
NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
NUA Network User Address
NUI Network User Identification
Network User Interface
Notebook User Interface
Netware Users International
Network User Identifier
Network User ID
NUL Null
NURBS Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines
NV No Overflow
NVE Network Visible Entry
NVLAP National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program
NVM Non-Volatile Memory
NVN National Videotext Network
NVRAM Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
NVTS Network Virtual Terminal Serivce
NYACC New York Amateur Computer Club
NZ Non Zero
OA Office Automation
OAAC Objects and Attributes for Access Control
OADG Open Architecture Development Group
OAG Official Airline Guide
OAI Open Applications Interface
OAM&P Operations, Administration, Maintenance, & Provisioning
OBJ Object
OBV/2 Oblivion/2
OC Optical Carrier
OCE Open Collaboration Environment
OCL Operation Control Language
Operator Control Language
OCR Optical Character Recognition
Optical Character Reader
ODA Office Document Architecture
Open Document Architecture
ODA/ODIFOpen Document Architecture/Open Document Interchange Format
ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity
ODBMS Object-Oriented Database Management System
ODI Open Datalink Interface
Optical Data Image
ODIF Open Document Interchange Format
ODP Open Document Processing
ODT Open DeskTop
OEDIPE OSI EDI for Energy Providers
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OF Overflow Flag
OFMT Output Format for Numbers
OFS Output Field Separator
OH Off Hook
OHCS Operated Handled Conference Service
OID Object IDentifier
OIS Office Information Systems
OIW OSI Implementors Workshop
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OLMC Output Logic Macrocell
OLTP On-Line Transaction Processing
OMAP Operations, Management, and Administration Part
OMF Object Module Format
Object Management Function
OMG Object Management Group
OMNIPOINT Open MaNagement Interoperability POINT
OMNS Open Network Management System
OMR Optical Mark Recognition
ONA Open Network Architecture
ONC Open Network Computing
ONITA Of No Interest To Anybody
ONP Open Network Provision
OO Object Orientation
OOD Object-Oriented Design
OODBMS Object Oriented DBMS
OOL Object-Oriented Language
OOP Object Oriented Programming
OOPL Object-Oriented Programming Language
OOPS Object Oriented Programming System
OOPSLA OOPS Languages and Applications
OOS Object-Oriented Systems
Off-line Operating Simulator
Out Of Service
OP Operation
Optical
Output
OPC Optical Photoconductor
OP CODE Operational Code
OPD Operand
OPDU Operation Protocol Data Unit
OPI Open Prepress Interface
OPM Operations Per Minute
Outage Performance Monitoring
OPS Operations
ORB Object Request Broker
OPUS Octal Program Updating System
O/P Originator/Recipient
ORACLE On-Line Inquiry and Report Generator
ORAP O/R Address Prefix
ORG ORGinization
OROM Optical ROM
ORS Output Record Separator
OS Operating System
Output Spy
OSA Open System Architecture
OSE Operating Systems Environment
OSF Open Software Foundation
OSI Open Systems Interconnection
Open Systems Interconnect
OSIRM OSI Reference Model
OSP Optical Storage Processor
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
OSS Operator Services System
Operations Support System
OSSWG Office System Standards Work Group
OSTC Open Systems Testing Consortium
OTDR Optical Time Domain Reflectometers
OTF Open Token Foundation
OTIS Operative Work Is Stimulate
OTL OSI Testing Liason
OTP One-Time Programmable
OTR Operational Trouble Report
OTROM One Time PROM
OU Organizational Unit
OURS Open Users Recommend Solutions
OUTS Output String
OV Overflow
OWF One-Way Function
OWL Object Windows Library
PAA Peer Access Approval
PABX Private Automated Branch Exchange
PACCEPT Presentation ACCEPT
PAD Packet Assembler/Disassembler
Public Access Device
PADS Pen Application Development System
PADSX Partially Automated Digital Signal Cross-Connect
PAE Peer Access Enforcement
PAGODA Profile Alignement Group for Office Docunent Architecture
PAL Paradox Applications Language
Phase Alternating Line
Programmed Array Logic
Programming Assembly Language
Programmable Array Logic
PALS Principles of the Alphabet Literacy System
PAM Pulse Amplification Modulation
PAN Peripheral Area Network
PAP Printer Access Protocol
PAR Parallel
PARA Paragraph
PARADISEPiloting A Researchers DIrectory Service in Europe
PARC Palo Alto Research Center
PATS Parameterized Abstract Test Suite
PAX Parallel Architecture eXtended
Private Automatic eXchange
PBD Programmer Brain Damage
PBE Prompt By Example
PBS Public Brand Software
Philippines-Brunei-Singapore
PBX Private Branch Exchange
Personal Branch Exchange
PC Personal Computer
Printed Circuit
Program Counter
PCB Printed Circuit Board
Program Control Block
PCBoard
PC-DOS Personal Computer - Disk Operating System
PCD Photo CD
PCE Presentation Connection End
PCEI Presentation Connection End Identifier
PCEP Presentation Connection End Point
PCF Physical Control Fields
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
Protocol Control Information
Presentation Context Identifier
PC-I/O Program Controlled I/O
PCL Printer Command Language
Process Control Language
Printer Control Language
PCM Pulse Code Modulation
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
(People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms)
PCMS Precision Color Management System
PCN Personal Communications Networks
PCO Point of Control and Observation
PCONNECTPresentation CONNECT
PCR Post Call Ratio
PCS Patchable Control Store
Planning Control Sheet
Print Contrast Signal
Process Control Systems
Program Counter Store
Project Control System
Personal Communications Services
PCSA Personal Computer System Architecture
PCSN Private Circuit-Switching Network
PCTE Portable Common Tool Environment
PCTR Protocol Conformance Test Report
PD Public Domain
Physical Delivery
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDAD Proposed Draft ADdendum
PDAU Physical Delivery Access Unit
PDES Personal Data Exchange Specification
Product Data Exchange Standard
PDF Program Development Facility
Portable Document Format
PDIP Plastic DIP
pDISP Proposed Draft ISP
PDL Page Description Language
Program Description Language
Program Design Language
Push Down List
PDM Pulse Duration Modulation
PDN Public Data Network
Packet Data Network
Packet-switched Data Network
PDO Portable Distributed Objects
PDP Progammable Data Processor
Programmed Data Processor
PDS Partitioned Data Set
Processor Direct Solt
Physical Delivery Service
PDSS Post Development and Software Support
PDTR Proposed Draft Technical Report
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PE Parity Even
Protect Enable
Phase Encoding
Processing Element
PEA Pocket Ethernet Adapter
PEDI Protocol for Electronic Data Interchange
PEL Picture Element
PEM Privacy-Enhanced Mail
PEP Packetized Ensemble Protocol
Platform Environment Profile
Packet Exchange Protocol
PEPY Presentation Element Parser (YACC-based)
PER Packet Encoding Rules
PERL Practical Extraction and Report Language
(Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister)
PERT Program Evaluation and Review Technique
PES Positioning Error Signal
PET Personal Electronic Transfer
PETS Parameterized Executable Test Suite
PETSCII PET aSCII
P/F Poll/Final bit
PFM Pulse Frequency Modulation
PFR Power-Fail Restart
PGA Pin Grid Array
Professional Graphics Adapter
Programmable Gate Array
PGDN Page Down
PGI Parameter Group Identifier
PGM Program
PGP Pritty Good Privacy
PGUP Page Up
PH Packet Header
PHIGS Programmers' Hierarchial Interactive Graphics Standards
Programmer Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System
PHY PHYsical
PI Program Interruption
Parameter Identifier
PIA Peripheral Interface Adapter
PIC Priority Interrupt Controller
Program Interrupt Controller
Polyolefin Insulated Cables
Personal Identification Code
PICS Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement
PID Process Identification Number
Protocol IDentifier
PIF Program Information File
PIFT Protocol Interbank File Transfer
PILOT Programmed Inquiry Learning Or Teaching
PIM Personal Information Manager
PIN Personal Identification Number
PING Packet INternet Groper
PIO Parallel Input/Output
Processor Input/Output
Programmed Input/Output
PIP Picture In Picture
Programmable Interconnect Point
Peripheral Interchange Program
PIPO Parallel In, Parallel Out
PIT Programmable Interval Timer
PITR Product Interoperation Test Report
PIXEL Picture Element
PIXIT Protocol Implementation eXtra Information for Testing
PJL Printer Job Language
PK Phil Katz
PKCS Public Key Crypto System
PKE Public Key Encryption
PL Plus
Presentation Layer
Private Line
PLA Programmable Logic-Array
PLATO Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations
PLC Programmable Logic Controller
PLCC Plastic Leadless Chip Carrier
PLCP Physical Layer Convergence Protocol
PLD Programmable Logic Device
PLL Phase Locked Loop
PL/M Programming Language for Micros
PLOTKA Press Lots Of Keys To Abort
PLP Presentation Level Protocol
Packet Layer Protocol
PLS PhysicaL Signaling
PLSAP Physical Layer Service Access Point
PLU Primary Logical Unit
PLV Production Level Video
PL/1 Programming Language One
PM Presentation Manager
Preventative Maintenance
Program Manager
Project Manager
Protocol Machine
Performance Management
Phase Modulation
PMA Physical Medium Attachement
PMD Physical Memory Dependent
Physical Media Dependent
PMMU Paged Memory Management Unit
PMN Performance Monitoring
PMOS Positive Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor
PMS Pantone Matching System
PMT Packet Mode Terminal
PMX Private Message eXchange
PN Positive Notification
Personal NAme
PNA Private Network Adapter
PNC Personal Number Calling
PNIC Private Network Identification Code
PNP Plug aNd Play
PO Parity Odd
POAC Probe Origin Authentication Check
POD Piece Of Data
Prince Of Darkness
POL Problem Oriented Language
POM Phase Of Moon
POP Pop from Stack
Point Of Presence
Post Office Protocol
POPA Pop All Registers
POPF Pop Flags
POS Point Of Sale
Positive
Programmable Object Select
POSES Portable Oprating System Environment Standard
POSI Promoting OSI
POSIX Portable Operating System Interface eXtensions
POST Power-On Self Test
POSTNET Postal Numeric Encoding Technique
POT Point of Termination
POTS Plain Old Telephone System
PP PingPong
PPCI Presentation Protocol Control Information
PPD Postscript Printer Description
PPDS Personal Printer Data Stream
PPDU Presentation Protocol Data Unit
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
PPE PCBoard Programming Extensions
PPH Pages Per Hour
PPL PCBoard Programming Language
PPM Pages Per Minute
Presentation Protocol Machine
PPN Project-Programmer Number
Private Packet Network
PPP Point to Point Protocol
PPS Packets Per Second
Public Packet Switching
PPSN Public Packet Switched Network
PPTM Protocol Profile Testing Methodology
PQFP Plastic Quad Flat Pack
PR PRepare
Phase Representation
PRA PRimary Rate Access
PRDMD PRivate Directory Management Domain
PRAM Programmable RAM
Parameter RAM
PREFUSE Presentation REFUSE
PRG PuRGe
PRI Primary Rate Interface
PRID PRotocol IDentifier
PRMD PRivate Management Domain
PROC Procedure
PROFS PRofessional OFfice Systems
PROG Program
Programmer
PROLOG Programming In Logic
PROM Programmable Read Only Memory
PRN Printer
PRTSC Print Screen
PS PostScript
Personal Services
PicoSecond
Personal System
Presentation Service
Programming System
PSAP Public Safety Answering Point
Presentation Service Access Point
PSC Product Service Center
Protection Switching Circuit
Public Service Commission
Protocols Standards and Communications
PSDN Packet Switched Data Network
PSDS Public Switched Digital Service
PSDU Presentation Service Data Unit
PSE Packet Switching Exchange
PSEL Presentation SELector
PSH PuSH
PSI Performance Summary Interval
Process to Support Interoperability
PSK Phase Shift Keying
PSL Public Software Library
PSN Packet Switching Network
Private Switching Network
Packet-Switched Network
Packet-Switching Node
PSP Program Segment Prefix
PSPDN Packet-Switching Public Data Network
PSRAM Pseudo-Static Random Access Memory
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
PSW Program Status Word
PT Page Table
PoinT
Please Token
Pass Through
P/T Part Time
PTAN Performance Testing Alliance for Networks
PTC Public Telephone Companies
PTD Parallel Transfer Disk Drive
PYP Point-To-Point
PTT Postal, Telephone, and Telegraph
PTTXAU Public TeleTeX Access Unit
PTXAU Public Telex Access Unit
PTY Pseudo-TTY
PU Physical Unit
PUB Publication
Publish
PUC Public Utilities Company
Public Utilities Commission
PUMA Programmable Universal Micro Accelerator
PUSHA Push All Registers
PUSHF Push Flags
PV Parameter Value
PVC PolyVinyl Chloride
Permanent Virtual Circuit
PVM Pass-through Virtual Machine
PVN Private Virtual Network
PVT Permanant Virtual Terminal
PWB Printed Wire Board
PWI Public Windows Interface
PWM Pulse Width Modulation
PWR Power
QA Quality Assurance
QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QBE Query By Example
QBF Query by Form
QC Quality Control
QDOS Quick and Dirty Operating System
QEMM Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager
QFA Quick File Access
QFP Quad Flat Pack
QIC Quality Information Using Cycle Time
Quarter-Inch Cartridge
QLLC Qualified Logical Link Control
QMS Quality Micro Systems
QOS Quality Of Service
QPA Quality Program Analysis
QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
QPSX Queued Synchronous Packet eXchange
QUERRI Questions on University Extension Regional Resource Information
RA Return Authorization
Registration Authority
Recognition Arrangement
Rate Adapter
RACE R&D in Advanced Communication in Europe
RACF Resource Access Control Facility
RAG Row Address Generator
Registration and Advisory Group
RAID Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
RALU Register Arithmetic Logic Unit
RAM Random Access Memory
RAMDAC Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter
RAND Random
RARE Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeene
RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RAS Random Access Storage
Reliability, Availability and Serviceability
Row Address Select
Remote Access Services
RBBS Remote Bulletin Board System
RBHC Regional Bell Holding Company
RBOC Regional Bell Operating Company
RC Run Command
RCA Radio Corporation of America
RCL Rotate Carry Left
RCP Restore Cursor Position
RCR Rotate Carry Right
RCS Records Communications Switching System
RCU Rack Controller Unit
RD Receive Data
Received Data
Remove Directory
R&D Research and Development
RDA Remote Database Access
RDB Receive Data Buffer
RDB Relational Data Base
RDBMS Relational DataBase Management System
RDCLK Received Timing Clock
RDL Relational Database Language
RDN Relative Distinguished Name
RDP Reliable Data Protocol
RDS Random Dot Stereogram
RDSN Region Digital Switched Network
RDSR Receiver Data Service Request
RDT Remote Digital Terminal
Referenced Data Transfer
RE Regular Expression
Routing Element
Reference Equivalent
REG Register
REGAL Rigid Epoxy Glass Acrylic Laminate
REGEP Regular Expression
REGEX Regular Expression
REJ REJect
REM Remark
Remote
Ring Error Monitor
REN Rename
Ringer Equivalence Number
REP Repeat
REPE Repeat while Equal
REPNE Repeat while Not Equal
REPNZ Repeat while Not Zero
REPZ Repeat while Zero
REQ Request
RES Reset
Resolution
RET Resolution Enhancement Technology
Return
RETCON RETroactive CONtinuity
REX Relocatable Executable
REXX Restructured EXtended eXecutor
RELSECT Relative Sector
RF Radio Frequency
RFC Request For Comment
RFE Request For Enhancement
Radio Free Ethernet
RFI Radio Frequency Interference
Request For Information
RFP Request for Proposal
RFS Remote File System
Remote File Server
RFT Revisable Form Text
RFU Reserved For Future Use
RG Renegade
Rapporteur Group
Radio Governent
RGB Red-Green-Blue
RHOB Relevant Hierarchical Operational Binding
RI Referential Integrity
Reference Implementation
Routing Indicator
Ring Indication
RIB Renderman Interface Bytestream
Routing Information Base
RIFF Resource Interschange File Format
RIME RelayNet International Message Exchange
RIP Raster Image Processor
Routing Information Protocol
Remote Imaging Protocol
RIPE Reseaux IP Europeene
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing
RJ ReJect
Registered Jack
RJE Remote Job Entry
RLCM Remote Line Concentrating Module
RLE Run Length Encoded
RLG Research Libraries Group
RLL Run Length Limited
RLRE ReLease-REsponce
RLRQ ReLease-ReQuest
RM Reference Model
RMDM Reference Model of Data Management
RMON Remote MONitor
RN Receipt Notification
RNE Reseau National d'Essai
RNR Receiver Not Ready
RO Receive Only
Remote Operations
ROAC Report Origin Authentication Check
ROIV Remote Operations InVoke
ROM Read Only Memory
ROPM Remote Operations Protocol Machine
RORE Remote Operations Return Error
RORJ Remote Operations ReJect
RORS Remote Operations ReSponse
ROS Remote Operations Service
ROSE Remote Operations Service Element
ROTL Remote Office Test Lines
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RPG Report Program Generator
RePort Generator
Role Playing Game
RPL Remote Procedure Load
RPM Revolutions Per Minute
RPN Reverse Polish Notation
RPOA Recognized Private Operating Agency
RQBE Relational QBE
RR Receiver Ready
RS Record Separator
Resume Session
Recommended Standard
Remote Single-layer
RSA ron Rivest, adi Shamir, len Adleman
ReSume Acknowledgment
ReSynchronize Acknowledgment
RSAT Reliability and System Architecture Testing
RSC Remote Switching Center
RSCS Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem
RSE Remote Single-layer Embedded
RSH Remote SHell
RSI Repetitive Strain Injury
RSS Reception Support Statement
RST ReSeT
RSU Remote Switching Unit
RT Routing Table
ReporT
Reliable Transfer
RTAB Reliable Transfer ABort
RTC Real-Time Clock
Return To Control
RTF Rich Text Format
RTI Return From Interrupt
RTMP Routing Table Maintenance Protocol
RTOAC Reliable Transfer Open ACcept
RTORJ Reliable Transfer Open ReJect
RTORQ Reliable Transfer Open ReQuest
RTPM Reliable Transfer Protocol Machine
RTS Request To Send
Ready To Send
Reliable Transfer Service
RTSE Reliable Transfer Serivce Element
RTTP Reliable Transfer Token Please
RTTR Reliable Transfer Token Response
RTTY Radio Teletypewriter
RTV Real Time Video
RUA Remote User Agent
R/W Read/Write
RWM Read-Write Memory
RWSCC Regional WorkShops Coordinating Committee
RX Receiver
RXD Received Data
RZ Return To Zero
SA Source Address
SAA Systems Application Architecture
Standards Association of Austrailia
SABM Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode
SABME Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode Extended
SAC Single Association Concentrator
Simplified Access Control
SACF Single Association Control Function
SAF Subnetwork Access Facility
SAIL Stanford AI Lab
SAINT Symbolic Automatic Integrator
SAK Selective AcKnowledgement
SAL Shift Arithmetic Left
SAM Serial Access Memory
Sequential Access Method
Symantic Antivirus for Macintosh
SANE Standard Apple Numeric Environment
SAO Single Association Object
SAP Secondary Audio Program
Service Access Point
Symbolic Assembly Program
Service Advertising Protocol
SAPI Service Access Point Identifier
SAR Shift Arithmetic Right
Successive Approximation Register
SARF Security Alarm Reporting Function
SARM Set Asynchronous Response Mode
SARTS Switched Access Remote Test System
SAS Switched Access Services
Sales Accounting System
Single Audio System
Statistical Analysis System
Statistically Assigned Sockets
Single Attached Station
Severe Alarm Signal
SASE Specific Application Service Elements
SASFE Severe Alarm Signal - Far End
SASI Shugart Associates System Interface
SASO Saudi Arabian Standards Organization
SATF Security Audit Trail Function
SATS Selected Abstract Test Suite
SB SoundBlaster
SBB Subtract With Borrow
SBC Single-Board Computer
SBIS Sustaining Base Infotmation System
SCAI Switch to Computer Application Interface
SCAS Scan String
SCB Subsystem Control Block
SCC Serial Communications Controllers
Synchronous Channel Check
Switching Control Center
Standards Council of Canada
SCCP Signaling Connection Control Part
SCCS Source Code Control System
Switching Control Center System
SCD Standard Color Display
SCF Selective Call Forwarding
System Control Facility
SCL Switch to Computer Link
SCM Software Configuration Management
SCO Santa Cruz Operation
SCODL Scan Conversion Object Description Language
SCP Save Cursor Position
Subsystem Control Port
System Control Program
Service Control Point
SCR Selective Call Rejection
Silicon Controlled Rectifier
Secure ConveRsion
SCRN Screen
SCS SNA Character String
System Conformance Statement
SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface
SCTR System Conformance Test Report
SCUSA Standards Council of the USA
SD Send Data
Starting Delimiter
SDA Software Disk Array
Source Data Automation
System Display Architecture
Security Domain Authority
SDAP Standard Document Application Profile
SDE Submission and Delivery Entity
SDI Switched Digital International
Supplier Declaration of Interoperation
SDIF SGML Document Interchange Format
SDK Software Developer's Kit
Software Development Kit
SDL Specification and Desciption Language
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control
Systems Development Life Cycle
SDL/GR SDL/Graphical Representation
SDL/PR SDL/Phrase Representation
SDLP Standard Device Level Protocol
SDN Software Defined Network
SDNS Secure Data Network Service
Secure Data Network System
SDP Streaming Data Procedure
SDR Streaming Data Request
SDS Sysops Distribution System
SDSE Shadowed DSA Specific Entry
SD_STB Streaming Data Strobe
SDU Service Data Unit
SE Session Entity
SEA Standard Extended Attribute
System Enhancement Associates
SEAC Standard Eastern Automating Computing
SEC Single Error Correction
SECAM Sequential Color And Memory
SEquential Couleur A Memoire
SED Stream Editor
Smoke Emitting Diode
SEE Systems Equipment Engineering
SEF Source Explicit Forwarding
SEG Segment
SEK Swedish Electrical Commission
SEL Select
SEM Scanning Electron Microscope
Standard Electronic Module
SER Serial
SES Severely Errored Second
SESFE Severely Errored Second Far End
SESP Severely Errored Second Path
SETS Selected Executable Test Suite
SEU Smallest Executable Unit
SEX Software EXchange
Sign EXtend
SF Sign Flag
Summarization Function
Single Frequency
SFD Start of Frame Delimiter
Simple Formattable Document
SFI Single Frequency Interface
SFLA Stupid Four Little Acronyms
SFQL Structured Full-text Query Language
SFS Suomen Standardisoimislitto
SFT System Fault Tolerance
System File Table
SFU Store and Forward Unit
SFX Sound Effects
Special Effects
SGEN Signal Generator
System Generator
SGDT Store Global Descriptor Table
SGFS Special Group on Functional Standardization
SGI Silicon Graphics, Inc.
SGISP Special Group on International Standardized Profiles
SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language
SGML-B SGML-Binary
SGMP Simple Gateway Management Protocol
SGR Set Graphics Rendition
S/H Sample and Hold
SHL Shift Logical Left
SHR Shift Logical Right
SI Source Index
System Information
Shift-In
System International
Singapore-Indonesia
Session Identifier
SIA Stable Implementation Agreements
SICS Service Implementation Conformance Statement
SID Station Identification
Source IDentifier
SIDT Store Interrupt Descriptor Table
SIG Special Interest Group
SIGCAT Special Interest Group on CD-ROM Applications and Technology
SIGMA Software Industrialized Generator and Maintenance Aids
SIM Simulator
Society for Information Management
Set Initialization Mode
SIMD Single Instruction Multiple Data
SIMM Single In-line Memory Module
System Integrated Memory Module
SIMULA Simulation
SIO Security Information Object
SIP Single In-line Package
Service Identification Packet
SIPO Serial In, Parallel Out
SIPP Single In-line Pin Package
SIRDS Single Image RDS
SIS Structured Information Store
Standardiseringskommissionen i Sverige
SISD Single Instruction Single Data
SISO Serial In, Serial Out
SIT Special Information Tones
SL Session Layer
SLDT Store Local Descriptor Table
SLE Screen List Editing
SLED Single Large Expensive Disk
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol
Serial Line Interface Protocol
SLMR Silly Little Mail Reader
SLOSH Sea, Lake and Overland Surge from Hurricane
SLSI Super Large-Scale Integration
SLU Secondary Logical Unit
SM Set Mode
SMA Software Maintenance Association
SMAE System Management Application Element
SMAP System Management Application Process
SMART Simply Making All Resources Tiny
SMASE System Management Application Service Entity
SMB Server Message Block
SMC Standard MicroSystems Corp.
SMD Surface Mounted Device
Storage Module Device
SMDL Standard Music Description Language
SMDR Station Message Detail Recording
SMDS Switched Multimegabit Data Service
SME Society of Manufacturing Engineers
SMF Super MetaFile
Standard Message Format
System Management Function
SMFA Specific Function Management Function
SMI System Management Interrupts
Simple Mail Interface
Structure of Management Information
SMIB System Management Information Block
SMIF Standard Mechanical Interface
SMK Software Migration Kit
Shared Management Knowledge
SMM System Management Mode
System Management Module
SMO System Management Overvire
SMOP Simple Matter Of Progamming
Small Matter Of Progamming
SMP Symbolic Manipulation Program
Symmetric MultiProcessing
Simple Management Protocol
Standby Monitor Present
SMPDU System Management PDU
Service Message PDU
SMPS Switching Mode Power Supply
SMPT Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
SMS Storage Management Services
Station Management System
Service Management System
SMSW Store Machine Status Word
SMT Surface-Mount Technology
Station ManagemenT
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SMU System Management Utility
SN Serial Number
SubNetwork
S/N Signal-to-Noise
SNA Systems Network Architecture
SNACP SubNetwork ACcess Protocol
SNADS SNA Distributed Services
SNAP SubNetwork Access Protocol
SNARE SubNetwork Address Resolution Entity
SND Sound
SNDCF SubNetwork Dependent Covergent Facility
SNDCP SubNetwork Dependent Convergence Protocol
SNF Server Natural Format
SNICF SubNetwork Independent Convergent Facility
SNICP SubNetwork Independent Convergence Protocol
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SNOBOL String Oriented Symbolic Language
SNP Serial Number/Password
SNPA SubNetwork Point of Attachment
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SNRM Set Normal Response Mode
SNV Swiss Association for Standardization
SO Shift-Out
SOAP Symbolic Optimizing Assembler Program
SOCC Standard Optical Cable Code
SOE Standard Operating Environment
SOGITS Seinor Officials Group for Information Technology Standards
SOGT Seinor Officials Group for Telecommunications
SOH Start of Heading
Start of Header
SOHO Small Office Home Office
SOL Simulation Oriented Language
SOM Start of Message
System Object Model
SONDS Small Office Network Data System
SONET Synchronous Optical NETwork
SOP Standard Operating Procedures
SOS Silicon On Sapphire
Standards and Open Systems
Son Of Stopgap
Support On Site
Sophisticated Operating System
SOTA State Of The Art
SOTS Slap On The Side
SP Stack Pointer
System Product
Security Protocol
SPA Software Publishers Association
SPAG Standard Promotion and Applications Group
SPARC Scalable Processor Architecture
SPC Small Peripheral Controller
Statistical Process Control
Software Publishing Corp.
Software Productivity Consortium
Stored Program Control
SPCL Spectrum Cellular Corporation
SPCSS Stored Program Control Switching System
SPDA Supplier Data Program
SPDU Session PDU
SPEC Standards Performance Evaluation Corp.
SPF System Programming Facility
Shortest Path First
SPI Software Patent Institute
Service Provider Interface
SPICE Simulator Program for Integrated Circuit Emulation
SPIKE Science Planning Intelligent Knowledge-Based Environment
SPL Spooler
Systems Programing Language
Set Priority Level
SPM Session Protocol Machine
SPN Signal Processor Networking
SPOOL Simultaneous Peripheral Operations OffLine
SPP Sequenced Packet Protocol
SPS Standby Power System
SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
SPT Sectors Per Track
SPX Sequenced Packet eXchange
SQ Squeezed
SQE Signal Quality Error
Signal Quality
SQL Structured Query Language
SQRT Square Root
SQUID Superconducting QUantum Interface Device
SR Shift Register
SRAM Shadow Random Access Memory
Static Random Access Memory
SREJ Selective REJect
SRI Standard Research Institute
SRO Sharable and Read Only
SRQ Service Request
SRR Serially Reusable Resource
SRT Source Routing Transparent
SRUAPDU Service Report User Agent PDU
SS Stack Segment
Single Sided
Seconds
Special Sequence
Signaling System
Signal Splitter
Session Service
SSAP System Services Access Point
Session Service Access Point
SSB Single SideBand
SSBSC Single SideBand Suppressed Carrier
SSCP System Services Control Point
SSD Solid State Disk
SSDU Session Service Data Unit
SSEC Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator
SSEL Session SELector
SSGA System Suppport Gate Array
SSI Small Scale Integration
SSP System Support Program
Switching Service Points
Service Switching Point
SS7 Signaling System number 7
SST Spread-Spectrum Technology
Self-Service Terminal
STA Spanning Tree Algorithm
STAIRS Storage And Information Retrieval System
STANAG STANdard AGreement
STARS Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems
STB Strobe
Start of Text Block
STC Set Carry Flag
Switching and Testing Center
STD Set Direction Flag
Standard
State Transition Diagram
Synchronous Time Division
Subscriber Trunk Dialing
STDA StreetTalk Directory Assistance
STDAUX Standard Auxillary
STDERR Standard Error
STDIN Standard Input
STDM Statistical Time Division Multiplexing
STDOUT Standard Output
STDPRN Standard Printer
STE Signaling Terminal Equipment
STEP Standard for The Exchange of Product model data
Software Test and Evaluation Panel
STI Set Interrupt Flag
STM Synchronous Transfer Mode
STMF STate Management Function
STN Supertwist Nematic
STOS Store String
STP Signal Transfer Point
Shielded Twisted Pair
Software Through Pictures
STR Store Task Register
Synchronous Transmitter Receiver
STRESS Structural Engineering System Solver
STRUDL Structural Design Language
STS Synchronous Transport Signal
Shared Tenant Service
STScI Space Telescope Science Institute
STX Start of Text
STY Sub-TTY
SU Service User
SUABORT Service User ABORT
SUB Subroutine
Substitute
Subtract
S-VHS Super VHS
SUM Symantec Utilities
SUN Stanford University Network
SUT System Under Test
SVC Switched Virtual Circuit
Switched Voice Circuit
SVGA Super VGA
SVID System V Interface Definition
SVV Software Verification and Validation
S/W Software
ShareWare
SWAN Satellite Wide Area Network
SWB SWap Byte
SWG Sub Working Group
SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Transactions
SWO Standards Writing Organization
SYLK Symbolic Link
SYNC Synchronous
SYN SYNchronous
SYNchronize
SYS System
SYSGEN System Generator
SYSLOG System Log
SYSMOD System Modification
SYSOP System Operator
T Tera
TA Terminal Adapter
Transferred Account
TAC Terminal Access Controller
TAD Telephone Answering Device
TAE Transportable Applications Environment
TAG Technical Advisory Group
TAPI Telephony API
TAPCIS The Access Program for the CompuServe Information Service
TAR Tape ARchiver
TARR Test Action Request Receiver
TASM Turbo Assembler
TAT Trans-Atlantic Telecom
TAU Telematic Access Unit
TAXI Transparent Asynchronous Tranceiver Interface
TB Terabyte
Treasury Board
T/B Top and Bottom
TBBS The Bread Board System
TBC Token Bus Controller
TBITS Treasury Board Information Technology Standard
TBPS TeraBytes Per Second
TBS Treasury Board Secretariat
TC Transmission Convergence
Technical Committee
Test Conductor
Transport Connection
TCAM Telecommunications Access Method
TCAP Transaction Capabilities Application Part
Telecommunications Alarm Surveillance
TCB Trouble Came Back
Trusted Computer Base
TCCC Technical Committee for Computer Communications
TCIF Telecommunications Industry Forum
TCM Trellis-Coded Modulation
Thermal Conduction Module
Time Compression Multiplexing
TCN Throughput Class Negotiation
TeleCommunications Networks
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
Test Coordination Procedure
TCS Trans-Carribean System
TCSEC Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria
TCU Transmission Control Unit
Trunk Coupling Unit
2D Two Dimensional
3D Three Dimensional
TD Transmit Data
Typed Data
TDAS Traffic Data Administration System
TDE Terminal Display Editor
TDI Trusted Database Interpretation
Transit Delay Indication
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TDMS Terminal Display Management System
TDMTLA Too Damned Many TLAs
TDS Transit Delay Selection
TDSAI Transit Delay Selection And Indication
TDSR Transmitter Data Service Request
TDR Time Domain Reflectometry
TE Terminal Equipment
TEC Tokyo Electronics Corporation
TECO Text Editor and COrrector
Tape Editor and COrrector
TED Tiny Editor
TEDIS Trade Electronic Data Interchange System
TEHO Tail End Hop Off
TEI Terminal End-point Identifier
TELCO Telephone Company
TELNET TELecommunications NETwork
TELPAC Tube Engineering Panel Advisory Council
TEML Turbo Editor Macro Language
TENEX TEN EXecutive
TERMPWR Terminator Power
TFA Transparent File Exit
TFEL Thin-Film Electroluminescent
TFP Tops Filing Protocol
TFS Translucent File System
TFT Thin-Film Transistor
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TG Telegrad
THOR Tandy High-Performance Optical Recording
Tandy High-Intensity Optical Recorder
THORN THe Obviously Required Name service
THZ TeraHertZ
TI Texas Instruments
TIA Telecommunications Industry Association
Telematic Interworking Application
TIAS Telematic Interworking Abstract Service
TIC TermInfo Compiler
TID Target ID
TIDE Traffic Information Distributor & Editor
TIE Terminal Interface Equipment
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
TIGA Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture
TIGER Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing
TIP Terminal Interface Processor
TIRIS Texas Instruments Registration and Identification System
TIU Telematic Interworking Unit
TIX Teachers Information eXchange
TL Transport Layer
TLA Three-Letter Acronym
TLAP Token ring Link Access Protocol
TLB Translation Lookaside Buffer
TLFF Technical Level Feeders Forum
TLI Transport Level Interface
Transport Library Interface
TLM TeLeMatic
TLMA TeLeMatic Agent
TLMAU TeLeMatic Access Unit
TLU Table Lookup
TLV Type, Length, Value
TLX TeLeX
TLXAU TeLeX Access Unit
3M Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
TM Trademark
Terminal Management
Test Management
TMA Tycho Magnetic Anomaly
TMF Test Management Function
TMN Telecommunications Management Network
TMP Temporary
Test Management Protocol
TMPDU Test Management Protocol Data Unit
TMRC Tech Model Railroad Club
TMRS Traffic Measurement and Recording Systems
TN Twisted Nematic
TelNet
TNC Terminal Node Controller
The Networking Centre
TNDS Total Network Data System
TO Test Object
TOF Top Of Form
Top Of File
TOI Transfer Of Information
TOP Technical Office Protocol
Technical Office Protocols
TOPS Transparent OPerating System
TORES Text ORiented Editing System
TOS Type Of Service
Technical and Office Systems
TP Twisted Pair
Transaction Processing
Transport Protocol
TransPort
TPA Transient Program Area
TPAD Terminal PAD
TPC Transaction Processing Performance Council
Trans-Pacific Cable
TPD Third Party Developers
TPDU Transfer Protocol Data Unit
TPE Twisted-Pair Ethernet
TPI Tracks Per Inch
TPL Table Producing Language
TPORT Twisted Pair Port Transceiver
TPS Transaction Processing System
Transactions Per Second
TPT Third-Party Transfer
TPTAE Third-Party Transfer Application Entity
TR Terminal Ready
Technical Report
Test Responder
TRAC Technical Recommendations Application Committee
TRADIC Transistorized Airborne Digital Computer
TRANSPUTOR TRANSistor comPUTER
TRIC The Rice Institute Computer
TROFF Typesetting RunOFF
TRON The Real-Time Operating System Nucleus
TRS Tandy Radio Shack
TRUC The Rice University Computer
TRUSIX TRUSted unIX
TRW Thompson, Ramo, and Woolridge
TS Top Secret
Transport Service
TSAP Transport Service Access Point
TSB Termination Status Block
TSCB Time-Sharing Cookie Bear
TSD Total System Design
TSDU Transport Service Data Unit
TSEL Transport Selector
TSG Timing Signal Generator
TSN The Sierra Network
TSO Time Sharing Option
TSOP Thin Small Outline Package
TSP Time Synchronization Protocol
Teleprocessing Services Program
Traveling Salesman Problem
TSPS Traffic Service Position Service
Traffic Service Position Systems
TSR Terminate and Stay Resident
TSS Task State Segment
Time Sharing System
Telecommunications Standardization Sector
TS/SI Top Secret/Sensitive Information
TSS&TP Test Suite Structure and Test Purposes
TSSDU Typed Data Session Service Data Unit
TSTN Triple Supertwisted Nematic
TT True Type
Trunk Type
TTA Telecommunication Technology Association
TTC Telecommunication Technology Council
TTCN Tree and Tabular Combined Notation
TTCN.GR TTCN Graphical Representation
TTCN.MP TTCN Machine Processable
TTD Target Transmit Delay
TTF True Type Font
TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic
Time To Live
TTS Transaction Tracking System
TTTN Tandem Tie Trunk Network
TTX TeleTeX
TTXAU TeleTeX Access Unit
TTY TeleTYpe
TeleTYpewriter
TTYL Talk To You Later
TUI Text-Based User Interface
TUP Telephone User Part
TUR Trunk Utilization Report
TV TeleVision
TVI Television Interference
TWA Trans World Airlines
Two-Way Alternate
TWAIN Toolkit Without An Important Name
TWIP TwentIeth of a Point
TWS Two-Way Simultaneous
TWT Traveling Wave Tube
TWX TeletypeWriter eXchange
TXD Transmitted Data
TXT Text
UA User Agent
User Area
User Account
Unnumbered Acknowledgement
UAE Unrecoverable Application Error
UAL User Agent Layer
UAOS User Alliance for Open Systems
UAR USer Action Routine
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transceiver
UAS UnAvailable Second
UASFE UnAvailable Second Far End
UASL User Agent SubLayer
U-B Ungermann-Bass
UBA UniBus Adaptor
UBCIM Universal Bibliographic Control/International MARC
UBD User Brain Damage
UCD Uniform Call Distributor
UCL Universal Communications Language
UCR Under Cover Removal
UD Unit Data
UDC Universal Digital Channel
UDF User Defined Function
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UDVM Universal Data Voice Multiplexer
UE User Element
UEC User Environment Component
UG User Group
UHF UltraHigh Frequency
UI Unnumbered Information
User Interface
Unix International
Unit Interval
Unnumbered Interrupt
UIMS User Interface Management System
UL Upload
Universal Labs
Underwriters Laboraties
ULA Uncommitted Logic Array
Upper-Layer Architecture
ULANA Unified LAN Architecture
ULCT Upper-Layer Conformance Testing
ULP Upper Layer Protocol
ULSI Ultra Large Scale Integration
UMA Upper Memory Area
UMB Upper Memory Block
UMPDU User Message PDU
UNC Universal Naming Convention
UNCOL Universal Computed Oriented Language
UNI User Network Interface
UNICOM Universal Integrated Communication
UNICOS Universal Compiler FORTRAN compatible
UNICS UNiplex Information Computer Services
UNIMARC Universal MARC
UNIVAC Universal Automatic Computer
UNJEDI United Nations Joint EDI
UNMA Unified Network Management Architecture
UNTDI United Nations/Trade Data Interchange
UPC Universal Product Code
UPL User Program Language
UPM User Profile Management
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
Uninterruptible Power System
Uninterruptable Power Systems
UPU Universal Postal Union
URG URGent
URSI Union RadioScientifique Internationale
US Unit Separator
USART Universal Synchronous-Asynchronous Reciever/Transmitter
USB Upper SideBand
USENET Users Network
USERID User Identification
USG Unix Support Group
USL Unix Systems Laboratories
USO Unix Software Operation
USOC Universal Service Order Code
USQ Unsqueezed
USR US Robotics
USRT Universal Synchronous Receiver/Transmitter
Universal Synchronous Receiver Transceiver
USSA User Supported Software Association
UT User Terminal
Upper Tester
UTC Coordinated Universal Time
UTI Universal Text Interchange
UTP Unshielded Twisted-Pair
UTS Universal Timesharing System
UUCP Unix-to-Unix CoPy
UUI User-To-User Information
UUO Un-Used Operation
Unimplemented User Operation
UUT User to User Signaling
UV Ultraviolet
UVC Universal Voice Channel
UVEPROM UltraViolet EPROM
VA Virtual Address
VAB Voice Answer Block
VAC Volts AC
VAD Value Added Dealer
VADD Value Added Disk Driver
VADS Value Added Data Service
VAGI VESA Advanced Graphics Interface
VAL Value
Voice Application Language
VAM Virtual Access Method
VAN Value Added Network
VANS Value-Added Network Service
VAP Value Added Processes
VAR Value Added Reseller
Value Added Retailer
Variable
VAS Value-Added Service
VAX Virtual Address Extension
Virtual Architecture eXtensions
VAXBI VAX Bus Interconnect
VB Variable Block
Visual BASIC
VBA Visual BASIC for Applications
VBE VGA BIOS Extensions
VC Virtual Circuit
Virtual Call
VCI Virtual Channel Identifier
VCM Voice Coil Motor
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator
VCPI Virtual Control Program Interface
VCR Video Cassette Recorder
VDE Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker
Visual Development Environment
VDFM Virtual Disk File Manager
VDI Virtual Device Interface
Video Device Interface
VDIFF Visual DIFFerence
VDISK Virtual Disk
VDL Vienna Definition Language
VDM Virtual DOS Machine
Virtual Device Metafile
Video Display Metafile
VDS Virtual DMA Services
VDT Video Display Terminal
VDU Video Display Unit
Visual Display Unit
VEGA Video-7 Enhanced Graphics Adapter
VER Verify
Version
VERONICAVery Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Guide to Computerized Archives
VERR Verify Read Access
VERW Verify Write Access
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
VEX Voice Extensions to X-Windows
VF Video Floppy
Video Frequency
Voice Frequency
VFD Vacuum Fluorescent Display
VFO Variable Frequency Oscillator
VFS Virtual File Store
VFT Voice Frequency Telegraph
VFW Video For Windows
VG Voice Grade
VGA Video Graphics Array
VGB Voice Grade Budget
VGC Video Graphics Controller
VGF Voice Grade Facility
VHD Very High Density
VHF Very High Frequency
VHLL Very High Level Language
VHS Very High Speed
Virtual Host Storage
Video Home System
VHSIC Very High Speed Integrated Circuit
VI Visual Interface
VIM Vendor Independent Messaging
VIO Video Input/Output
Virtual Input/Output
VINES Virtual Network System
VIP Variable Information Processing
VIPER Verifiable Integrated Processor for Enhanced Reliability
VIRUS Vital Information Resources Under Siege
VIS Voice Information System
VISCA VIdeo System Control Architecture
VL Virtual Link
VLB VESA Local Bus
VLF Very Low Frequency
VLIW Very Long Instruction Word
VLM Virtual Loadable Modules
VLMF Very Low Magnetic Field
VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
VLSIPS Very Large Scale Immobilized Polymer Synthesis
VLT Variable List Table
VM Virtual Machine
Virtual Memory
VMB Voice Mail Box
VM/CMS Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System
VMD Virtual Manufacturing Device
VMM Virtual Memory Manager
VMOS Vertical MOS
VMR Vertical Market Reseller
VMS Virtual Memory System
Voice Message System
Voice Messaging Device
VMT Virtual Memory Technique
VMTP Virtual Message Transaction Protocol
VNA Virtual Network Architecture
VNET Virtual NETwork
VNL Via Net Loss
VOIS Voice Operated Information System
VOL Volume
VOM Volt Ohm Meter
VOS Verbal Operating System
VOX Voice Operated device
VPC Virtual Processor Complex
VPI Virtual Path Identifier
VPN Virtual Private Network
VR Virtual Reality
Voltage Regulator
VRAM Video Random Access Memory
VRC Virtual Redundancy Check
VRM Virtual Resource Manager
VROOMM Virtual Real-time Object Oriented Memory Manager
VRU Voice Response Unit
VS Virtual Storage
VSAM Virtual Storage Access Method
VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal
VSE Virtual Storage Extended
VSF Vertical Scanning Frequency
VSLI Very Large Scale Integration
VSM Virtual Storage Management
VSOS Virtual Storage Operating System
VSX Verification Suite for X/open
VSYNC Vertical Sync
VT Vertical Tab
Video Terminal
Virtual Terminal
V/2 ViSiON/2
VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
Virtual Terminal Access Method
VTP Virtual Terminal Protocol
VTS Virtual Terminal Service
VUE Visual User Environment
VUI Video User Interface
VUP VAX Unit of Performance
V/X ViSiON/X
W3 World Wide Web
W4 What Works With What
WABI Windows Application Binary Interface
WAIS Wide Area Information Server
WAITS Wide-Area Informtion Transfer System
West coast Alternative to ITS
WAN Wide Area Network
WATS Wide Area Telecommunications Service
Wide Area Telephone Service
WAV Windows Audio Video
WC Word Count
WildCat
WD Western Digital
Working Document
WDCS Wideband Digital Cross-Connect System
WDM Wavelength Division Multiplexing
WELAC Western Europe Laboratory Accreditation Corporation
WELL Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
WFMTUG World Federation of MAP/TOP User Groups
WFW Windows For Workgroups
WG Working Group
WGS Work Group System
WIMP Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers
WINGS Wide-bandwidth Information Network Gigabit Services
WIP Workcenter Information Package
WISC Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer
WMF Windows MetaFile
Workload Monitoring Function
WNIC Wide-Area Network Interface Co-Processor
WNIM Wide-Area Network Interface Module
W/O Without
WOMBAT Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time
WORM Write Once, Read Many
WOSA Windows Open Services Architecture
WP WordPerfect
Word Processing
Write Protected
Word Processor
WPD Windows Printer Description
WPG WordPerfect Graphic
WPHD Write-Protect Hard Disk
WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute
WPM Words Per Minute
WPS WorkPlace Shell
Windows Printing System
WS WordStar
Workstation
WSF WorkStation Function
WSI Wafer Scale Integration
WT Write Through
WUGNET Windows Users Group NETwork
WWW World Wide Web
WYSBYGI What You See Before You Get It
WYSIWIS What You See Is What I See
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
XA Extended Architecture
Extended Attribute
XAPIA X.400 Application Program Interface Association
XCF eXperimental Computing Facility
XCHG Exchange
XCMD External Command
XDR External Data Representation
XFCN External Function
XGA Extended Graphics Array
XGP Xerox Graphics Printer
XID Exchange Identifier
eXchange IDentification
XIOS Extended Input/Output System
XIP eXecute In Place
XLAT Translate
XMIT Transmit
XMM Extended Memory Manager
XMS Extended Memory Specification
XNA Xerox Network Architecture
XNS Xerox Network System
Xerox Networking Systems
XNS/ITP Xerox Network System/Internet TransPort
XO eXactly Once
XOR Exclusive OR
XPG X/Open Portability Guide
XPSDU eXpediated Presentation Service Data Unit
XSMD Extended Storage Module Drive
XSSDU eXpediated Session Service Device
XTAL Crystal
XTC Extended Test Controller
XTCLK External Transmit Clock
XUI X-windows User Interface
XVT eXtensible Virtual Toolkit
YA Yet Another
YABA Yet Another Bloody Acronym
YAUN Yet Another UNIX Nerd
YACC Yet Another Compiler Compiler
YAM Yet Another Modem
YMU Y-NET Management Unit
ZBR Zone Bit Recording
Z-CAV Zoned Constant Angular Velocity
ZDS Zenith Data Systems
ZGM ZenoGraphics Metafile
ZIF Zero Insertion Force
ZIP Zone Improvement Plan
Zone Information Protocol
Zig-zag Inline Package
ZIT Zone Information Table
ZNT ZiffNet
ZSL Zero Slot LAN
ZWEI ZWEI Was EINE Initially