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The Hackers Acronym Chart
Created for The Hacking Community
By:
THE INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL GUILD
Compiled by:-=>The IIRG<=- Input by:MERCENARY
Version Six [12/07/1992]
E-mail Mercenary At : mercenar@works.UUCP
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In no way do we feel this chart is totally complete,but we feel its a good
start for the novice or lazy hacker to quickly look up acronyms.
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?]? International Information Retrieval Guild ?[-
Member Sites Support Sites
Dark Shadows [WHQ] [2o3 West] Lightning Systems [414]
Wired World BBS [Italy] Sycamore Elite [815]
Cyberdyne Network [Germany] The Works [617]
Sanitariums [817] Piper's Pit [2o3]
Ware House [2o3 East] Blitzkrieg [5o2]
Rune Stone [Private] Dickinson Nightlight [713]
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A Ampere
AAA Aces of Ansi Art
AARNET Australian Academic Resarch Network
A&SG Accessories and Supplies Group
AB2 Anarchy Burger ][
ABA American Bankers Association
ABBS Apple Bulletin Board System
ABU Application Business Unit
AC Alternating Current
ACB Automatic Call-Back
ACCS Automated Calling Card Service
ACD Automatic Call Distributor
ACE American Council on Education
ACiD ANSI Creators in Demand
ACK Acknowledge
ACMS Application Control Management System
ACN Area Code Number
ACS Application Control Services
ACS Automatic Clearing Houses
ACT Application Center for Technology
ACTS Automated Coin Toll Service
A/D Analog/Digital
AD Authorized Dealers
ADAS Advanced Directory Assistance System
ADD Authorized Digital Dealers
ADG Authorized Distributor Group
ADM Add-Drop MultiPlex
ADTS Automated Digital Terminal System
ADU Application Definition Utility
AE Ascii Express
AEA American Electronics Association
AG/EEE Above Ground Electronic Equipment Enclosures
AI Artificial Intelligence
AIA Application Integration Architecture
AICPA American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
AIDS Apple Infected Disk Syndrome
AIOD Automatic Identification of Outward Dialing
AIS Alarm Indication Signals
AIS Automatic Intercept System
AITRC Applied Information Technologies Research Center
ALRU Automatic Line Record Update
ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
AM Amplitude Modulation
AMA Automatic Message Accounting
AMAT Automatic Message Accounting Transmitter
AMATPS Automatic Message Accounting Transmitter Teleprocessing System
AMC Area Management Center
AMD Advanced Micro Devices
AMI American Microsystems Incorporated
AMIS Atari Message and Information System
AMM Area Manufacturing Manager
AMP Ampere
AMR Automatic Meter Reading
AMWI Active Message Waiting Indicator
AN Aryan Nations
AN Associated Number
ANE Anarchy 'N' Explosives
ANI Automatic Number Identification
ANIF Automatic Number Identification Failure
ANL Argonne Mational Laboratory
ANN Announcement Date
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AOJ Add one and do not Jump
AOM Area Operations Manager
AOS Add One and do not Skip
AOV Average Order Value
APF All PIN's Fail
API American Pirate Industries
APL A Programming Language
APP Application
APPC Advanced Peer to Peer Communication
APPC Advanced Program to Program Communication
APPIX Automated Part and Product Information Exchange
APS Automatic Protection Switching System
APT Advanced Pirate Technology
APT American Phone Terrorists
AQS Automatic Quote System
ARB Application Review Board
ARC Ames research Center
ARM Area Revenue Manager
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARS Automatic Route Selection
ARSB Automated Repair Service Bureau
ARQ Automatic Repeat Request
ASC Average System Cost or Average System Content
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASD Advanced Semiconductor Development
ASMP Asymmetrical Multi-Processing
ASR Access Service Request
ASV Average System Value
AT Advanced Technology
ATB All Trunks Busy
ATD Authorized Terminal Distributor
ATH Abbreviated Trouble History
ATI Activist's Times Incorporated
ATM Automatic Teller Machine
ATP Available to Promise
ATSE Application Timesharing Software Engineering
AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph Company
AVD Alternate Voice Data
AVT Architecture Verification Test
BAD Broken As Designed
BAI Bank Administration Institute
BAGS Bristol's Anti-Gay Society
BASC Bad Austrian Swapping Crew
BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BB Bad Brains
BBA Budget By Account
BBS Bulletin Board System
BBU Battery Back-Up
BCC Boys from Company C
BCG Business Center Group
BDCS Broadband Digital Cross-Connect System
BEF Band Elimination Filter
BG/EEE Below Ground Electronic Equipment Enclosures
BHC Busy Hour Calls
BHS Black Hand Society
BI Backplane Interconnect or Beginning Inventory
BIM Basic Industry Marketing
BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BIOS Basic Input Output System
BIT Binary Digit
BITNET Because Its Time Network
BITNIC BITNET Network Information Center
BJS Bureau of Justice Statistics
B/L Backlog
BLAH Big Long and Hairy
BLV Busy Line Verification
BMC Basic Monthly Charge
BNF Backus-Naur Form
BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory
BNS Billed Number Screening
BOA Bill of Aggregation or Blanket Order Agreement
BOC Bell Operating Company
BOD Board of Directors (Budget)
BOIS Business Office Information Systems
BOM Bill of Materials
BOO Bill of Organization
BOR Basic Output Report
BORSCHT Battery,Overvoltage,Ringing,Supervision,Coding,Hybrid,Test
BOS Business and Office Systems
BOSE Business and Office Systems Engineering
BPI Bits per Inch
BPM Business Planning Manager or Base Product Marketing
BPN Comstar Business Plan
BPS Bits Per Second
BQS Berkeley Quality Software
BRI Basic Rate Interface
BRS Bibliographic Research Service
BRS Big Red Switch
BSA Business Software Association
BSC Binary Synchronous Communication
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
BSD Berkely System Distribution
BVAPP Billing Verification and Authorization for Payment Process
BWQ Buzz Word Quotient
C Centigrade or Celsius
CA Cable
CAA Chaotic Ansi Artists
CABS Carrier Access Billing System
CAD Computer Aided Design
CAD Computer Aided Drafting
CAEM Computer Aided Engineering and Manufacturing
CAFD Controllers Automatic Message Accounting Format Description
CAFM Computer Aided Facilities Management
CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAMA Centralized Automatic Message Accounting
CAS Column Address Strobe
CAS Customer Administrative Services
CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering
CAT Computer-aided Test
CBBS Computerized Bulletin Board System
CBC Cipher Block Chaining
CBS Common Bom System
CBI Computer-based Instruction
CBM Commodore Business Machines
CBX Computerized Business Exchange
CC Calling Card
CC Credit Card
CC Cost Center
CC Carbon Copy
CC Courtesy Copy
CCC Chaos Computer Club
CCC Clear Channel Capability
CCD Customer Configuration Document
CCEP Commercial Communications Endorsement Program
CCI Cyber Crime International
CCIS Common Channel Interoffice Signalling
CCITT Committee Consultative International Telegraph and Telephone
CCITT Committee Consultif Internationale Telegraphie
et Telephonie
CCM Customer Control Management
CCOO Comprehensive Cost of Ownership
CCS Calling Card Service
CCS Common Channel Signaling
CCSA Common Central Switching Arrangement
CCSS Common Channel Signalling System
CCT Cumulative Cycle Time
CCUTF Corrupt Computer Underground Taskforce
CD Compact Disk
CDA Coin Detection and Announcement
CDA Compound Document Architecture
CDA Crash Dump Analyzer
CDC Cult of the Dead Cow
CDD Common Data Dictionary
CDO Community Dial Office
CDR Compact Disk Reader
CDS Circuit Design System
CDUGD Computer Down Under Ground Digest
CERT Certified Order
CEV Control Environmental Vault
CF Coin First
CFB Cipher Feedback
CFM Cubic Feet per Minute
CFO Chief Financial Officer
CGA Color Graphics Adapter
CHINA Communist Hackers In North America
CHIPS Clearing House Interbank Payments System
CI Cluster Interconnect or Computer Interconnect
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIC Carrier Identification codes
CIC CSNET Information Center
CIM Computer Integrated Manufacturing
CIMT Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Technology
CIR Computer Intergrated Research
CIS Compuserve Information Service
CIS Commercial Instruction Set
CISC Complex Instruction Set Computing
C&ISM Consultant and Information Systems Marketing Group
CIT Computer Integrated Telephony
CKS Celestial Knights
CLM Career Limiting Move
CLP Country List Price
CMAS Central Massachusetts Administrative Services
CMC Carry-in Monthly Charge
CMC Cellular Mobile Carrier
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor(Silicon)
CMP Cooperative Marketing Program or Partner
CN/A Customer Name & Address
CO Central Office
COAM Customer Owned and Maintained
COBOL Common Business Oriented Language
COC Corporate Operations Committee
COCOT Customer Owned Coin Operated Telephone
COD Career Opportunity Days
COD Cash on Delivery
CODE Crackers of Digital Equipment
COE Central Office Equipment
COEM Commercial Original Equipment Manufacturer
COM Computer Output MicroFilm
COMSEC Communications Security
COMSTAR Common System for Technical Analysis & Reporting
CON Central Office News
COPIS Corporate Planning Information System
COS Class Of Service
CPA Centralized/Bulk Power Architecture
CPE Customer Premises Equipment
CPH Cost Per Hour
CPI Characters Per Inch
CPI Corrupt Programming International
CP/M Control Program Master
CP/M Control Program for Microcomputers
CPO Corporate Product Operations
CPP Corporate Planning Process
CPS Characters Per Second
CPSR Computer Profressionals for Social Responsibility
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRC Customer Return Center
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CREN Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
CRG Central Resource Group
CRIS Customer Record Information System
CRSAB Centralized Repair Service Answering Bureau
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CSC Customer Support Center
CSDC Circuit Switched Digital Capability
CSG Corporate Systems Group
CSO Complimentary Solutions Organization
CSP Coin Sent Paid
CSM Computer Systems Manufacturing
CSM Corrupt Society Magazine
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collission Detection
CSNET Computer and Science Research Network
CSR Customer Service Records
CSS Computer Special Systems
CSSE Computer Services System Engine
CSSG Customer Service Solutions Group
CSU Channel Service Unit
CT Current Transformer
CTO Call Transfer Outside
CTS Clear to Send
CTS Configuration Technical Specialists
CTSS Compatible Time Sharing System
CTY Console TeleType
CU Computer Underground
CU Control Unit
CUD Celerity Utilities Division
CUD Computer Underground Digest
CUNY City University of New York
CW Cyber Warriors
CWC City Wide Centrex
CWD Call Waiting Deluxe
D/A Digital/Analog
DA Directory Assistance
DACC Directort Assistance Call Completion
DACS Digital Access Cross-Connect System
DAG Defense Agencies Group
DAMP Demand Analysis Manufacturing Planning
DAO Directory Assistance Operator
DAP Document Application Profile
DAS Device Access Software
DAS Dual Attachment Station
DASD Direct Access Storage Device
DASP Digital Assisted Services Program
DAT Digital Audio Tape
DB Decibels
DBA Digital Business Architecture
DBC Digital Business Center
DBMS Data Base Management System
DBOD Distribution Board of Directors
DC Direct Current
DCA Defense Communications Agency
DCC Data Collection Computer
DCC Digital Customer Center
DCE Data Circuit Terminal Equipment
DCE Data Communications Equipment
DCL Digital Command Language
DCO-CS Digital Central Office-Carrier Switch
DCP Demand for Critical Parts
DCS Digital Cross-Connect System
DCSS Digital Customized Support Services
DCT Digital Carrier Trunk
DCTN Defense Commercial Telecommunications Network
DCTS Dimension Custom Telephone Service
DCU Digital Credit Union
DDA Disk Drive Adaptor
DDD Direct Distance Dialing
DDH Digital Distributed Hardware
DDIF Digital Document Interchange Format
DDN Defense Data Network
DDOV Digital Data Over Voice
DDS Dataphone Digital Service
DDS Digital Data Service
DDS Digital Data System
DDS Digital Distributed Software
DDT DEC Debugging Tape
DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
DECdtm Digital Distributed Transaction Manager
DECnms Digital Network Measurement System
DECtp Digital Transaction Processing
DECUS Digital Equipment Corporation User's Society
DEN Digital Echo News
DEPBA Digital Exchange Pirate Board Alliance
DES Data Encryption Standard
DF Distributing Frame
DFA Design for Assembly
DFP Digital Free Press
DFP District Focus Person
DFM Design for Manufacturing
DFT Design for Test
DIAL Digital Idle Asset Listing
DIBOL Digital Business Oriented Language
DID Direct Inward Dialing
DIM Demand Integration Meeting
DIMA Data Information Management Architecture
DIN Deutsche Ingineering Normilization
DINS Digital Information Network Service
DIS Digital Information Systems or Defense Investigative
service
DISER Digital Information Systems External Resources
DL Direct Labor
DLC Digital Loop Carrier
DLN Digital Library Network
DLOC Dark Lords Of Chaos
DLS Dial Line Service
DM Dead Memory
DM Delta Modulation
DMA Direct Memory Access
DMCL Digital Modem Command Language
DME Digital Management Education
DMM Digital Multimeter
DMM District Manufacturing Manager
DMS Data Management Services
DMS Diskless Management Service
DMSS Distribution, Marketing, Sales and Service
DMT Design Maturity Test
DN Directory Numbers
DNA Defense Nuclear Agency
DNA Digital Named Accounts
DNA Digital Network Architecture
DNA Digital Noise Alliance
DNR Dialed Number Recorder
DNS Domain Name System
DOA Distributors of Anarchy
DOD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DOM District Operations Manager
DOS Disk Operating System
DOV Data Over Voice
DP Data Processing
DPA Distributed Power Architecture
DPI Dots Per Inch
DPP District Partner Program
DQT Design Quality Test
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRC Data Resource Center
DRP Distribution Resource Planning
DSA Digital Storage Architecture or Decimal Shift and Add Algorithm
DSI Data Subscriber Interface
DSIN Digital Software Information
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DSLA Digital Software Licensing Architecture
DSM Distributed Systems Manufacturing
DSMC Digital Service Monthly Charge
DSN Digital Services Network
DSTAR Digital System Technical Architecture Research
DS0 Digital Signal ZER0
DSO Days Sales Outstanding
DSO Digital Storage Oscilloscope
DSM Distributed Systems Manufacturing or District
Sales Manager or Digital Standard MUMPS
DSR Data Send Ready
DSR Data Set Ready
DSRI Digital Standard Relational Interface
DSSI Digital Small Storage Interconnect
DSU Data Service Unit
DSU Digital Service Unit
DSUWG Data Systems Users Working Group
DSX Digital Signal Cross-Connect
DT Dial Tone
DTE Data Terminal Equipment
DTF Dial Tone First
DTG Direct Trunk Group
DTI Dark Towers International
DTI Digital Trunk Interface
DTIF Digital Tabular Interchange Format
DTMF Dual Tone Multi-Frequency
DTN Digital Telephone Network
DTP Desktop Publishing
DTR Data Terminal Ready
DTS Digital Termination System
DTST Dial Tone Speed Test
DVM Data Voice Multiplexor
DVN Digital Video Network
DVT Design Verification Test
DWCI DecWindows Compiler Interface
DWI Doc Writers Incorporated
DWIM Do What I Mean
EA Electronic Arts
EAAT Equal Access Alternative Technologies
EADAS Engineering and Administrative Acquisition System
EAP Employee Assistance Program
EAR Export Administration Regulations
EARN European Academic Research Network
EAROM Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory
EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
EBDI Electronic Business Data Interchange
EC Exchange Carriers
ECAD Engineering Computer Aided Design
ECC East Coast Crackers
ECC Enter Cable Change
ECC Error Correction Code
ECL Error Code Logging
ECO Engineering Change Order
EDC Error Detection Code or Error Detection and
Correction or Engineering Data Center
EDI Electronic Document Interchange or Electronic Data Interchange
EDP Electronic Data Processing
EDRS Engineering Data Resources Services
EDU Education Computer Systems
EDWG ESnet DECnet Working Group
EEC Electronic Equipment
EEE Electronic Equipment Enclosures
EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFT Electronic Fund Transfer
EFTS Electronic Funds Transfer System
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EI Ending Inventory
EIA Electronic Industries Association
EIES Electronic Information Exchange System
EIS Enterprise Integration Services
EISA Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture
EIU Extended Interface Unit
EKTS Electonic Key Telephone Service
ELD Electroluminescent Displays
ELDS Exchange Line Data Service
ELF Employee Locator Facility
EMA Electronic Mail Association
EMA Enterprise Management Architecture
EMACS Ediding Macros
EMC ElectroMagnetic Capability
EMI Electromagnetic Interference
EMS Expanded Memory Specification
ENET Ethernet
ENG Engineering
ENQ Enquire
EO End Office
EOF End Of File
EOL End Of Life
EOTT End of Toll Trunking
EPA Elite Programming Association
EPG External Products Group
EPLS Engineering Price List System
EPP Executive Partner Program
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
ERF Emergency Restoration Facility
ES ElektroShok
ESA European Space Agency
ESB Emergency Service Bureau (911)
ESB Entry Systems Business
ESD Electronic Systems Development
ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface
ESDP Educational Services Development and Publshing
ESF Extended SuperFrame Format
ESG Engineering Systems Group
ESO Engineering Support Operations
ESOC European Space Operations Center
ESP Enhanced Service Providers
ESRIN European Space Research Institute
ESS Electronic Switching System
ESVN Executive Secure Voice Network
ET&Q Engineering, Technology and Quality
ETS Electronic Translation System
EU End User
EUPOT End User-Point of Termination
EUSR End User
EVGA Expanded Video Graphics Array
EXCOM Executive Committee
F Fahrenheit
F & A Finance and Accounting or Finance and Administration
FA&T Final Assembly and Test
FABS Financial and Administration Business Systems
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigations
FBOD Finance Board of Directors
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FCO Field Change Order
FCS First Customer Ship
FCST Forecast
FDI Feeder/Distribution Interfaces
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
FDX Full Duplex
F/G Finished Goods
4GL Fourth Generation Language
FIFO First In First Out
FIMG Finance Industry Marketing Group
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard
FiRM Five-O is Rigor Mortis
FIRM First In Releasing Most (Incorrect Acro)
FISG Financial Industries Systems Group
Five-O Cracking group, formerly the Imperial Warlords
FLT Fairlight
FM Frequency Modulation
FMAP Field Manufacturing Automated Process
FMC Financial Management Center
FMIC Field Manufacturing Information Center
FMMC Field Manufacturing Management Committee
FMP Field Manufacturing Plan
FNAL Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
FOA Fiber Optic Adapter
FOA First Office Application
FOAF Friend Of A Friend
FOD Finger of Death
FOE Fucking Operator Error
FOMC Field Operations Management Committee
FPA Floating Point Adapter
FPM Feet Per Minute
FPP Floating Point Processor
FRPS Field Reliability Performance Studies
FRS First Revenue Ship
FRU Field Replaceable Unit
FS Field Service
FS Full Scale
FSG Financial Systems Group
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
FSL Field Service Logistics
FT Field Test
FTG Final Trunk Group
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FTS Federal Telecommunications service
FUBAR Failed UniBus Address Register
FUD Fear,Uncertainty,and Doubt
FVC First Volume Commit
FY Fiscal Year
GAO Government Accounting Office
GB Gigabyte
GCOS Gods Chosen Operating System
GECOS General Electric Comprehensive Operating System
GFCI Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter
GFR Grim File Reaper
GIA General International Area
GIGO Garbage In,Garbage Out
GIPS Giga Instructions Per Second
GKS Graphics Kernal System
GOVT Government
GMG Government Manufacturing Group
GNU GNU's Not Unix
GOD Givers of Destruction
GPD Gas Plasma Display
GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus
GPL General Public License
GPV General Public Virus
GPX Graphics Processor Accelerator
GS Games Society
GSA General Services Administration
GSB General Systems Business
GSG Government Systems Group
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
GSIM General Services Industry Marketing Group
GTS Gamma Transfer Service
H/M Hotel/Motel
HALE Hacker's Against Law Enforcement
HBO Home Box Office
HCDS High Capacity Digital Service
HCF Halt and Catch Fire
HCIG Health Care Industry Group
HDA Head Disk Assembly
HDSC High-density Signal Carrier
HDTV High Definition Television
HEPNET High Energy Physics Network
HIT Hackers In Touch
HLL High Level Language
HP Hewlett Packard
HPS Hardware Product Services
HPS High Performance Systems
HQ Headquarters
HRU Hackers 'R' Us
HSC Hierarchical Storage Controller
HST High Speed Technology
HUTG High Usage Trunk Group
HVM High Volume Manufacturing
HW Hardware
HZ Hertz
I/O Input output
IBM Inferior But Marketable
IBM Insidious Black Magic
IBM International Business Machines
IBM Its Been Malfunctioning
IBM Its Better Manually
IC Inner Circle
IC InterExchange Carriers
IC Integrated Circuit
ICE Inner Circle Elite
ICE Insane Creator Enterprises
ICE Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics
ICH International Call Handling
ICM Integrated Call Management
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICN Interconnecting Network
ICPOT InterExchange Carrier-Point of Termination
ICR Inductance,Capacitance,Resistance
ICS Italian Cracking Service
ICST Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology
ICUG International Closed User Groups
ICVT InComing Verification Trunk
IDA Integrated Digital Access
IDC Information Distribution Companies
IDI Intergalactic Dismantiling Incorporated
IDCI Interim Defined Central Office Interface
IDDD International Direct Distance Dialing
IDECUS Internal Digital Equipment Corporation User's Society
IDLC Integrated Digital Loop Carrier
IDN Integrated Digital Networks
IEC International ElectroTechnical Commission
IED International Engineering Development
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IEG Internal Equipment Group
IHA International Hackers Association
IIRG International Information Retrieval Guild
IL Indirect Labor
IMM Idle Material Management
IMS Integrated Management Systems
IMTS Improved Mobile Telephone Service
IM&T Information and Technology Management
IN Inch
IN/1 Intelligent Network/1
INAP Intelligent Network Access Point
INC International Network of Crackers
INS Information Network System
INTT Incoming No Test Trunks
INV Inventory
INWATS Inward Wide Area Telecommunications Service
I/O Input/Output
IO Independent Option or Input/Output
IOCC International Overseas Completion Center
IOP Input Output Processor
IP Intermediate Point
IP Internet Protocol
IPDP Industrial Peripheral Data Processing
IPDS Intelligent Printer Data Stream
IPG Image Processing Group
IPLS InterLATA Private Line Services
IPM Interruptions Per Minute
IPMO Industry Program Management Office
IPS Inches Per Second
IPSG Internal Product Strategies Group
IPT Inventory Program Team
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IRG International Rogues Guild
IRR Internal Rate of Return
IRQ Interrupt Request
IS Information Systems
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
ISBS Information Systems Business Segment
ISC Inter-Nation Switching Center
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISM Installed Systems Marketing
ISO International Standards Organization
ISPN INFO Security Product News
ISPS Information System Production Systems
ISS Initial System Sale or Internal Special Systems
ISSA Information Systems Security Association
ISSM Information Systems Security Monitor
ISSN Integrated Special Services Network
ISU Integrated Service Unit
ISWS Internal Software Services
ITAP Information and Technology Architecture Plan
ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulation
ITS Incompatible Time-Sharing System
IUD INC Utilities Division
IVIS Interactive Video Interface System
IW Imperial Warlords
JANET Joint Academic Network
JCL Job Control Language
JEC Job Evaluation Classification
JIS Jurisdictional Interstate Services
JIT Just In Time
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JSC Johnson Space Center
K Kilo or Kilobyte
KB Kilobyte
KBPS Kilobits per second
KOS Knights of Shadow
KP Key Pulse
KPL Kit Parts List
KSR Keyboard Send Receive
LADS Local Area Data Service
LADT Local Area Data Transport
LAN Local Area Network
LANL Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratories
LAP Link Access Protocol
LAPB Link Access Protocol Balanced
LASS Local Area Switching Service
LAST Local Area System Transport
LAT Local Area Transport
LATA Local Access Transport Area
LAVC Local Area Vax Cluster
LAW Lyrical Association of Writers
LB Pounds
LBL Lawrence Berkely Laboratory
LBRV Low Bit Rate Voice
LCC Leadless Chip Carrier
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LCDN Last Call Directory Number
LD Long Distance
LDM Limited Distance Modem
LDP Laboratory Data Products
LDS Local Digital Switch
LEBC Low End Business Center
LEC Local Exchange Carrier
LEGSS Low End Graphics Sub-System
LED Light Emitting Diode
LEDS Low End Disk Systems
LEN Low End Networks
LEST Low End Systems and Technologies
LIDB Line Information Database
LIFO Last In First Out
LLC Logical Link Control
LLI Lunatic Labs Incorporated
LMF License Management Facility or Low Magnetic Field
LMF Low Magnetic Field
LMI Local Memory Interconnect
LMOS Loop Maintenance and Operations System
LMOS Loop Maintenence Operating System
LOD Legion of Doom
LOD/H Legion of Doom/Hackers
LOL Legion of Lucifer
LOTSAB Legion Opposed to Stupid Asshole Bottanists
LPM Lines Per Minute
LRP Long Range Plan
LSD Least Significant Digit
LSE Language Sensitive Editor
LSI Large Scale Integration
LVM Line Verification Module
MA Ma Bell
MAC Macintosh Computer
MAC Media Access Control
MAC Message Authentication
MAC Multi Access Computers
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
MARCOM Marketing Communications
MAP Manufacturing Automation Protocol
MASS Mid-Atlantic and Southern States
MATAC Material Acquisition
MAU Multistation Access Unit
MB Megabyte
MBOD Manufacturing Board of Directors
MBPS Mega-Bits Per Second
MBU Manufacturing Business Unit
MCA Micro Channel Architecture
MCAM Manufacturing Corporate Account Manager
MCESS Mechanical Component Engineering Support Service
MCGA Multi-Color Graphics Array or (Adaptor)
MCP Master Control Program
MCS Multinational Character Set
MCT Manufacturing Cycle Time
MCU Multi Chip Unit
MDA Monochrome Display Adapter
MDDS Media and Documentation Update Service
MDR Message Detail Record
MDS Message Design Systems
ME Mechanical Engineering
MEM Manufacturing Engineering and Marketing
MF MultiFrequency
MFG Manufacturing
MFLOPS Millions of Floating Point Operations Per Second
MFM Modified Frequency Modulation
MHZ Mega-Hertz
MI Machine Interface
MIC Management Information Center
MIDAS Master Integrated Distribution Subcontracting Agreement
MIF Master Item File
MIMG Media Industry Marketing Group
MINX Multimedia Information Network Exchange
MIPS Millions of Instructions Per Second
MIR Material Increase Request
MIS Management Information Systems
MISG Market Information Services Group
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy
MJU MultiPoint Junction Unit
MLDS Medium Large Disk Systems
MLHG Multiline Hunt Group
MLP Maynard List Price
MLPC Model Level planning Committee
MLT Mechanized Loop Testing
MMC Micky Mouse Club
MNP Microcom Networking Protocol
MOB Men of Business
MoD Master's of Destruction
MoD Master's of Disaster
MOF Master Order Form
MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor or Material Order System
MP Multi-Processor
MPME Manufacturing Process and Material Engineering
MPS Master Production Schedule
MPSC Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems
MRC Manufacturing Resource Center or Management Response Center or
Market Research Center
MSD Most Significant Digit
MSFC Marshall Space Flight Center
MT Mitel
MTB Magnetic Tape Billing
MTBSI Mean Time Between System Interruptions
MTS Message Transport Service
MTS Mobile Telephone Service
MRAA Meter Reading Access Arrangement
MRP Manufacturing Resource Planning
MS Milli-Seconds
MSCP Mass Storage Control Protocol
MSB Mid-Range Systems Business
MSD Micro Systems Development
MSPM Manufacturing System Program Manager
MSSC Marketing Sales Strategy Committee
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
MTS Message Telephone Service
MTTR Mean Time to Repair
MTU Maintenence Termination Unit
MUX Multiplexer
MVB MicroVax Business
MWI Message Waiting Indicator
NAC Networks and Communications
NAC New Age Crackers
NACM Networks and Communications Marketing
NaPE National Pirate Exchange
NAPPA Northern American Phreakers/Piraters Association
NARC Nuclear Phreakers/Hackers/Carders
NAS Network Application Support
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASM Named Account Sales Manager
NAS Network Application Support
NBS National Bureau of Standards
NC Network Channel
NCC Norweigan Cracking Company
NCI Network Channel Interface
NCS Network Computing System
NCP Network Control Program
NCSC National Computer Security Center
NCTE Network Channel Terminating Equipment
NDA Network Delivery Access
NDC Network Data Collection
NDIS Network Device Interface Specification
NDN National Distribution Network
NDS Network Data System
NDU Network Device Utility
NE Network Element
NEAS Northeast Atlantic States
NEBS Network Equipment Building System
NEC Nippon Electronic Company
NES Net Equipment Sales
NESC National Electric Safety Code
NEUA National Elite Underground Alliance
NFS Network File System
NFSP National Federation of Software Pirates
NFT Network File Transfer
NH Nazi Hackers
NHAS New Hampshire Administrative Services
NI Network Interconnect
NI Network Interface
NIA Network Information Access
NIC Network Information Center
NIDL Network Interface Definition Language
NIH National Institutes of Health
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NJE Network Job Entry
NMI Nautilus Memory Interconnect
NMR Normal Mode Rejection
NOAA National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
NOF Network Operations Forum
NOR Net Operating Revenue
NOT! Nation Of Thieves
NPA National Phreaker's Alliance
NPA Northern Phreaker's Alliance
NPA Number Planning Area
NPC Northern Phun Company
NPIP New Product Integration Process
NPO New Product Operations
NPSU New Product Start Up
NPSS NASA Packet Switching System
NRCS National Replacement Character Set
NRZ Non Return to Zero
NS Nano-Seconds
NSA National Security Agency
NSA National Security Anarchists
NSC National Security Council
NSDD National Security Decision Directive
NSF National Science Foundation
NTA Nokturnal Trading Alliance
NTE Network Terminal Equipment
NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration
NTISSC National Telecommunications and Information Systems
Steering Committee
NUA Network User Address
NUI Network User ID
NWSS Networks & Site Services
NYC New York Crackers
NYSHII New York Safehouse II
OA Order Administration or Office Automation
OAGEE Official Airlines Guide Electronic Edition
OBU Option Business Unit
OCRC Option Change Review Committee
ODA Office Document Architecture
ODI Open Data Interface
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OFG Originally Funny Guys
OGVT OutGoing Verification Trunk
OIP Opportunity Investment Planning
OIS Office and Information Systems
OLTP On-Line Transaction Processing
OMC Office of Munitions Control
ONI Operator Number Identification
OOD Office of Development (Central Engineering)
OOFNet Our Own Fucking Net
OP Option
OPAL On-line Presentation Access Library
OPCR Operator Actions Program
OPEN Open Protocol Enhanced Networks
OPM Outage Performance Monitoring
OPOM Organizational Program Office Manager
OPS Operations
O/S Operating System
OSF Open Software Foundation
OSI Open System Interconnection
OSP Office of Sales Programs
OSS Operator Services System
OST Originating Station Treatment
OTA Office of Technology Assessment
OTC Operating Telephone Company
OTD Off the Dock
OTDR Optical Time Domain Reflectometers
OTP Order Transaction Processing
OTR Operational Trouble Report
OTS Off The Shelf
OUTWATS Outward Wide Area Telecommunications Service
PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange
PAC Pricing and Announcement Committee
PAD Packet Assembler/Dissasembler
PADSX Partially Automated Digital Signal Cross-Connect
PAG Phreak's Against Geeks
PAL Programmable Array Logic
PAM Pulse Amplitude Modulation
PAPAG Phreak's Against Phreak's Against Geeks
PASI Production, Availability, Shipments, Inventory
PAW Pirates Analyze Warez
PAX Private Automatic Exchange
PB Pacific Brigade
PBM Product Business Manager
PBT Profit Before Tax
PBU Product Business Unit
PBX Personal Branch Exchange
PBX Private Branch Exchange
PBX Product Branch Exchange
PC Personal Computer
PC Primary Center
PC Production Control
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PCM Plug Compatible Manufacturer
PCM Profit Contribution Margin
PCM Product Capacity Manager
PCM Pulse Code Modulation
PCP PC Pursuit
PCP Pyscho Corporate Productions
PCR Personal Computer Rats
PCR Post Call Ratio
PCSA Personal Computing System Architecture
PCSG Personal Computing Systems Group
PD Public Domain
PDP Peripheral Data Processing
PE Public Enemy
PEP Performance Enhancement Package or Personal Enrichment
Program
PFM Pulse Frequency Modulation
PGA Pin Grid Array
P/H/A Phreaker's/Hacker's/Anarchist's
PHACT Phreakers/Hackers/Anarchists/Cyberpunks/Technologists
PHANTSY Phantasy Magazine
PhD Phreak/Hacker Destroyers
PHUCK Phone Hackers Untided Crash Kill
PHUN Phreaker Hackers Underground Network
PI Physical Inventory
PI Pirate Incorporated
PIC Polyolefin Insulated Cables
PID Proprietary Information Disclosure
PIN Personal Identification Number
PITS Pie In The Sky
P&L Profit and Loss
PLA Programmed Logic Array
PLCC Plastic Leadless Chip Carrier
PLD Programmable Logic Device
PLS Programmable Logic Sequencer
PMG Product Marketing Group
PMI Private Memory Interconnect
PMR Poor Mans Routing
PMS Peoples Message Service
PMT Planning Methodology Team
PO Purchase Order
POC Point of Contact
POD Piece of Data
POM Point of Manufacturing
POP Point of Presence
POOR Protector's Of Our Rights
POT Point of Termination
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
PP Post-Pay
PP&E Production, Planning, and Execution
PPD Product Phase Down
PPL Periodic Payment License
PPM Pages Per Minute
PPM Parts Per Million
PPN Project Program Number
PPS Public Packet Switching
PPS Pulses Per Second
PPSN Public Packet Switched Network
PPSU Personal Printer Spooling Utility
PRE Prefix
PROM Programmable Read Only Memory
PS Personal System
PSAP Public Safety Answering Point (911)
PSDS Public Switched Digital Service
PSG Peripheral and Supplies Group or Product Shipping Guide
PSS Professional Software Services
PSU Portable Storage Unit
PTC Part Time Crackers
PTE Packet Transport Equipment
PTG Physical Technology Group
PTL Pirates That Live
PTL Praise the Lord
PTS Position and Trunk Scanner
PTT Postal Telephone Telegraph
PVN Private Virtual Network
QBOD Quality Board of Directors
QC Quality Control
QDSS Q-Bus Dragon Sub-System
QPA Quality Program Analysis
QSS Quality Solution Systems
QVSS Q-Bus Viper Sub-System
RABID Rebellion Against Big Irrepressible Dweebs
RAM Random Access Memory
RAMP Reliability, Availability, Maintainability Program
RAO Revenue Accounting Office
RBG Realtime Business Group
RBOC Regional Bell Operating Company
RC Reduced Cost
RC Regional Center
RCC Radio Comnmon Carrier
RDB Relational Database
RDSN Region Digital Switched Network
RDT Restricted Data Transmissions
RDT Remote Digital Terminal
REV Revenue or Revision
RF Radio Frequency
RFC Request For Comments
RFI Radio Frequency Interference or Request for Information
RFP Request for Proposal
RGB Red Green Blue
RH Relative Humidity
RIP Routing Information Protocol
RIS Remote Installation Service
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RISD Reference Information Systems Development
RJE Remote Job Entry
RLL Run Lenght Limited
RMS Root Mean Squared
RO Read Only
ROA Return On Assets
ROI Return On Investment
ROM Read Only Memory
ROTL Remote Office Test Lines
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RPE Remote Peripheral Equipment
RPM Reduced Parts menu
RPM Relentless Pursuit of Magnificience
RPM Revolution Per Minute or Rotations Per Minute
RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicle
RQS The Rate Quote System
RQT Reliability Quality Test
RSA Reference System Architecture
RSAT Reliability and System Architecture Testing
RSE Removable Storage Elements
RSL Remote Ship List
RSS Remote Switching System
RSTS/E Resource System Time Sharing/Environment
RSTS/E Resource Sharing Time Sharing/Extended
RSU Remote Switching Unit
RSVP Rdb Solutions Vendor Program
RT Real Time
RTA Real-Time Accelerator
RTA Remote Trunk Arrangement
RTBG Real Time Business Group
RTD Resistance Temperature Detector
RTE Remote Terminal Emulation
RTS Request to Send
RX Recieve Data
SxS Step-by-Step
SxS Strowger Switch
S-Box Skunk Box
SA Storage Array
SABB Storage Array Building Block
SAC Special Area Code
SAIL Stanfords Artificial Intelligence Lab
SAM Secure Access Multiport
SARTS Switched Access Remote Test System
SAS Switched Access Services
SAS Single Attachment System
SASE Self Addressed Stamped Envelope
SASE System and Support Engineering
SBA Shipping and Billing Authorization
SBB System Building Block
SBC Single Board Computer
SBDN Southern Bell Data Network
SBI Storage Bus Interconnect
SBR Storage Business Review
SBT Software Business Technologies
SC Sectional Center
SCA Strategic Capital Acquisitions
SCA Swiss Cracking Association
SCC Specialized Common Carriers
SCC Switching Control Center
SCCP Signaling Connection Control Part
SCCS Switching Control Center System
SCD Software Chronical Digest
SCF Selective Call Forwarding
SCIT Semi-Conductor and Interconnect Technologies
SCMP System Cooperative Marketing Program
SCO Semiconductor Operations
SCP Service Control Point
SCR Selective Call Rejection
SCSI Small Computer Storage Interface
SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface
SDA Silicon Dream Artists
SDA Software Design Automation
SDC Software Distribution Center
SDI Standard Disk Interconnect or Standard Drive Interface
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control
SDNS Secure Data System Network
SDS Sales and Distribution Systems
SE Society Elite
SEA System Enhancement Associates
SEE Systems Equipment Engineering
SEG Semiconductor Engineering Organization
SF Single Frequency
SF Supervision Control Frequency
SFI Society for the Freedom of Information
SGA Sysops Guild Association
SHA Swedish Hackers Association
SHIBNI Shipped But Not Invoiced
SIA Semiconductor Industry Association
SID Satanic Incarnate of Doom
SIG Special Interest Group
SIM Service Industry Marketing
SIMM Single Inline Memory Module
SIT Special Information Tones
SKISM Smart Kids Into Sick Methods
SLA Service Level Agreement
SLAC Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory
SLC Service Level Contract or Software License Configurator
SLE Screen List Editing
SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Card
SLS Storage Library System
SLU Serial Line Unit
SMDI Storage Module Disk Interconnect
SMDS Switched Multi-Megabit Data Service
SME Society of Manufacturing Engineering
SMP Symmetrical Multi-Processing
SMS Self-maintenance Services
SMS Station Management System
SMU Strategic Marketing Unit
SNA System Network Architecture
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SNPC Software New Products Committee
SO System Option
SOC Systems and Option Catalog
SOCC Standard Optical Cable Code
SOE Standards of Excellence
SOE Standrard Operating Environment
SONDS Small Office Network Data System
SONET Synchronous Optical Network
SOP Standard Operating Procedure
SOP Sum of the Pieces
SOST Special Operator Service Treatment
SoT The Sea of Tranquility
SPA Software Publishers Association
SPAN Space Physics Analysis Network
SPC Stored Program Control
SPCSS Stored Program Control Switching System
SPD Software Product Description
SPDA Supplier Data Program
SPG Software Product Group
SPI Self-Paced Instruction
SPM Software Performance Montior
SPP Ship Plan
SPS Self Preservation Society
SPS Software Product Services
SQL Structural Query Language
SQM Software Quality Mangement
SRC System Resource Center
SRG Strategic Relations Group
SRTC Service Right-to-Copy
SS Secret Service
SS Signaling System
SS Special Service
SS Standard System
SSAN Social Security Account Number
SSAS Station Signaling and Announcement System
SSB Software Supply Business
SSD Solid State Disk
SSG Software Systems Group
SSG Strategic Studies Group
SSG Suburban Survival Guide
SSN Social Security Number
SSODB Secret Society of Dark Birds
SSP Switching Service Points
SSS Software Support Services
SSS Strowger Switching System
STAR Systems and Technology Applications Requirements
STD Subscriber Trunk Dialing
STG Strategic Technologies Group
STP Signal Transfer Point
STS Synchronous Transport Signal
SUFF Suffix
SUNet Stanford University Network
SVGA Super Video Graphics Array
SWG Sub Working Group
SWIFT Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications
SWM Semiconductor Worldwide Management
SWS Software Services
SYS System
TAC Terminal Access Circuit
TAMU Texas A&M University
TAN Telecomm and Networks
TANJ There Ain't No Justice
TAP Technological Assistance Party
TAP Trans-Atlantic Project
TAS Telephone Answering Service
TAS The Apostle Syndicate
TASI Time Assignment Speech Interpolation
TBG Telecomm Business Group
TBU Terminals Business Unit
TC Toll Center
TC Transfer Cost
T's & C's Terms and Conditions
T&C Time and Charge
TCAP Transaction Capabilities ApplicationPart
TCAP Telecommunications Alarm Surveillance
TCC Technical Consulting Center
TCIF Telecommunications Industry Forum
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TCS The Criminal Syndicate (The Crime Syndicate)
TDAS Traffic Data Administration System
TDCC Transport Data Coordinating Committee
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
TDMS Terminal Data Management System
TDT The Dream Team
TFT Thin Film Transistor
TGITM The Ghost In The Machine
TGL Third Generation Language (3GL)
TH Trouble History
THC The Hellfire Club
THENET Texas Higher Education Network
THG The Humble Guys
THP The Hill People
TIDE Traffic Information Distributor & Editor
TIS Technical Information Systems
TLB TransLAN Bridge
TMC Telemarketing Communications
TMC The Movie Channel
TMSCP Tape Mass Storage Control Protocol
TNDS Total Network Data System
TOAO The One and Only
TOEM Technical Original Equipment Manufacturer
TOP Technical Office Protocol or Technology and Organizational
Performance
TOPS Tapes and Optical Products
TP Toll Point
TP Transaction Processing
TPC Transaction Processiong Performance Council
TPC The Phoney Coders
TPC Two Phase Commit
TPI Tracks Per Inch
TPL Traditional Product Line
TPS Transactions Per Second
TQC Total Quality Control
TREAT Trouble Report Evaluation and Analysis Tool
TRI The Remote Informer
TRS The RapeWare Syndicate
TRSI The Red Sector Inc
TRWS The Rape Ware Syndicate
TS Toxic Shock
TSAN The Sysops Association Network
TSAN The Sysop's Area Network
TSAN Tri-State Area Sysop's Network
TSG Telecommunications Systems Group
TSG Timing Signal Generator
TSN Terminal Switching Network
TSO Technical Services Organization
TSP Technology Strategy and Planning
TSPS Traffic Service Position System
TSR The Syndicate Report
TTL Transistor-to-Transistor Logic
TTM Time to Market
TUGOS The United Guild Of Sysops
TUIMG Telecom/Utilities Industry Marketing Group
TV-H TV Line
TV-V TV Frame
TWA The Warez Alliance
TWCB The Whacko Cracko Brothers
TWX Telex II
TX Transmit Data
UAE Unrecoverable Application Error
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
UCF Underground Computing Foundation
UCF Untouchable Cracking Force
UCS Uniform Communication Standard
UDC Universal Digital Channel
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UDVM Universal Data Voice Multiplexer
UFD User Friendly Diagnostics
ULTRA Underground Legion of Terroristic Research Activists
UOF Unusual Order Form
UPC Utility Port Conditioner
UPI United Phreaker's Incorporated
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
UPS Uninterruptible Power System
UPS United Pirate Syndicate
URN Underground Rip-Off Network
USA United Software Association
USA/FLT United Software Association/Fairlight
USA United States Alliance (Amiga Group)
USC User Steering Committee
USCIC U.S. Country Information Center
USDN United States Digital Network
USFDC U.S. Financial Data Center
USIBC U.S. Integrated Business Center
USMP U.S. Manufacturing Planning
USPL U.S. Price List
USR USRobotics
UUCP Unix to Unix Copy Program
UUT User to User Signaling
UVC Universal Voice Channel
UXU Underground Experts United
VAN Value Added Network
VAR Value Added Reseller
VAX Virtual Address Extension
VAXft VAX Fault Tolerant
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
VFP Vertical Forms Printing
VFU Vertical Forms Unit
VG Voice Grade
VGA Video Graphics Array
VGB Voice Grade Budget
VIA Vax Information Architecture
VIPS Video Image Printer Systems
VIS Video Information System
VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
VMB Voice Mail Box
VMS Voice Message System
VMS Virtual Memory System
VOLM Volume
VOM Volt Ohm Meter
VPA VAX Performance Advisor
VR Virtual Reality
VRAM Video Random Access Memory
VT Video Terminal
VTX Videotex
VUIT Visual User Interface Tool
VUP Vax Unit of Processsing
WACS Western and Central States
WAN Wide Area Network
WATS Wide Area Telecommunications Service
WATS Wide Area Telephone Service
WCU Water Cooling Unit
WDCS Wideband Digital Cross-Connect System
WDM Wavelength Division MultiPlexing
WES Western Electronics Switching
WINS Warehouse Information Network Standards
WIP Work In Process
WIP Workcenter Information Package
WORM Write Once Read Many
WPE World Pirate Echo
WPS Word Processing Software
WVIEW World View Magazine
WW Worldwide
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
XBAR CrossBar
XBT Crossbar Tandem
XCOST Transfer Cost
XFMC Cross Functional Management Committee
XGA Extended Graphics Array
XNS Xerox Network Systems
XSV Transfer Cost System Value
XTC Extended Test Controller
YAM Youngster's Against McAfee
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