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Computer Acronym List v1.0
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This is a list of computer acronyms. Use it to figure out what people
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are talking about. If you have any questions or additions, please feel free to
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contact us. Without further ado, here they are: -sUMsDos
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AA Auto Answer
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AAL ATM Adaption Layer
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AAP Applications Access Point
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AARP Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol
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AASP ASCII Asynchronous Support Package
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AAT Average Access Time
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ABC Atanasoff-Berry Computer
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ABEND ABnormal END
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ABI Application Binary Interface
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ABIOS Advanced BIOS
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ABM Asynchronous Balanced Mode
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ABS Absolute
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ABT Abort
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AC Automatic Computer
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Alternating Current
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Access Control
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ACC Accumulator
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ACCLAIM Action Client Card List And Information Management
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ACD Automated Call Distribution
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ACE Advanced Computing Environment
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ACF Access Control Field
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Advanced Communications Function
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ACFM Adobe Composite Font Metrics
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ACIA Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter
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ACIS American Committee for Interoperable Systems
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ACK ACKnowledgment
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ACL Advanced CMOS Logic
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ACM Association for Computing Machinery
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ACMS Application Control Management System
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ACP Ancillary Control Program
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Auxillary Control Process
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ACPDP Alternating Current Plasma Display Panel
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ACROSS Automated Cargo Release and Operations Service System
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ACS Access
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Access Control Set
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Access Control System
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Asynchronous Communication Server
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Advanced Communications System
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ASCE Association Control Service Element
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ACTFEL Alternating Current Thin Film ElectroLuminescent
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ACTS Advanced Communications Technology Satellite
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ACU Automatic Calling Unit
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A/D Analog to Digital
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AD Application Development
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ADA Automatic Data Acquisitions
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ADAPSO Association of Data Processing Service Organizations
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ADB Apple Desktop Bus
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ADC Add with Carry
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Analog to Digital Converter
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American Display Consortium
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ADCCP Advanced Data Communication Control Procedures
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ADD Adapter Device Driver
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ADE Application Development Environment
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ADF Automatic Document Feed
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Application Development Facility
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ADI Autodesk Device Interface
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ADL Address Data Latch
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ADLAT Adaptive Lattice Filter
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ADMD ADministration Management Domain
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ADP Automatic Data Processing
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Advanced Data Processing
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Administrative Data Processing
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ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
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ADR Address
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ADRS A Departmental Reporting System
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ADS Application Development System
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Automatic Distribution System
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Autocad Development System
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ADSC Address Status Changed
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ADSP Appletalk DataStream Protocol
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ADSR Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release
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ADT Application Data Types
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Abstract Data Type
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ADU Automatic Dialing Unit
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AE Above or Equal
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Application Execution
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AEA American Electronics Association
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AEB Analog Expansion Bus
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AED Advanced Error Diffusion
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AEGIS Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System
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AEP Application Environment Profile
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AF Auxilary carry Flag
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Audio Frequency
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AFC Automatic Font Change
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AFCAC Air Force Computer Acquisition Center
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AFE Apple File Exchange
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AFI Appletalk Filing Interface
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AFII Association for Font Information Interchange
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AFIPS American Federation of Information Processing Societies
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AFM Adobe Font Metrics
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AFP Appletalk Filing Protocol
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AFS Andrew File System
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AG Arcade Game
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AGC Automatic Gain Control
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AI Analog Input
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Artificial Intelligence
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Application Interface
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AIA Applications Integration Architecture
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AIFF Audio Interchange File Format
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AIIM Association for Information and Image Management
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AIMS Auto Indexing Mass Storage
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AISB Association of Imaging Service Bureaus
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AISP Association of Information Systems Professionals
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AIX Advanced Interactive Executive
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ALAP Appletalk LAP
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ALC Arithmetic and Logic Circuits
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Automatic Level Control
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Assembly Language Coding
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ALE Address Latch Enable
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ALGOL ALGOrithmic Language
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ALM Application Loadable Module
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ALO At Least Once
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ALR Advanced Logic Research
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ALS Automatic Line Switching
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Alt ALTernate
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ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
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AM Amplitude Modulation
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AMD Active Matrix Display
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Advanced Micro Devices
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AMI American Megatrends Incorporated
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Alternate Mark Inversion
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AMLCD Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
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AMMA Advanced Memory Management Architecture
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AMT Address Mapping Table
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ANCOVA Analysis of Covariance
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ANDF Architecture Neutral Distribution Format
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ANI Automatic Number Identification
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ANOVA Analysis Of Variance
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ANSI American National Standard Institute
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ANTC Advanced Networked Test Center
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AO Analog Output
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AOCE Apple Open Collaboration Environment
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AOE Application Operating Environment
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AOL America OnLine
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AOS Add Or Subtract
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Acedemic Operating System
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AP Adjunct Processor
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Application Processor
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A/P Accounts Payable
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APA Arithmetic Processing Accelerator
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All Points Addressable
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APAREN Address Parity Enable
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APCUG Association of PC User Groups
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APDA Apple Programmers And Developers Association
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API Application Program Interface
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Application Programming Interface
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APL A Programming Language
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APM Advanced Power Management
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APP Applications Portability Profile
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APPC Advanced Program-to-Program Communication
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APPN Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking
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APRIL APplication Rational Interface Logic
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APSE ADA Programming Support Environment
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APT Address Pass Through
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Automatic Programmed Tools
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AQ Accumulator-Quotient
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A/R Accounts Receivable
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AR Address Register
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ARC Advanced RISC Computing
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ARCA Advanced RISC Computing Architecture
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ARCNET Attached Resource Computer NETwork
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ARDIS Advanced National Radio Data Service
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ARG Argument
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ARL Adjusted Ring Length
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ARLL Advanced Run Length Limited
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ARM Asynchronous Response Mode
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Advanced RISC Machine
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ARMA Association of Records Managers and Administrators
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ARP Address Resolution Protocol
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ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
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ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork
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ARPL Adjust Requested Privilege Level
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ARTIC A Real-Time Interface Copressor
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ARQ Automatic Repeat reQuest
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ARU Audio Response Unit
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AS Application System
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Advanced Server
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ASAP As Soon As Possible
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Automatic Switching And Processing
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ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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ASDSP Application Specific DSP
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ASE Applied Service Elements
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ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
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ASIT Advanced Security and Identification Technology
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ASK Amplitude Shift Keying
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ASM ASseMbler
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Association for Systems Management
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ASN Abstract Syntax Notation
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ASP Association of Shareware Professionals
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Appletalk Session Protocol
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Aggregated Switch Procurement
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Advanced Signal Processor
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ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
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ASPS Advanced Signal Processing System
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ASR Automatic Send-Receive
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Automatic Speech Recognition
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ASSP Application Specific Standard Prot
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AST Albert wong, Safi qureshy, Tom vu
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ASYNC Asynchronous
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AT Advanced Technology
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Attention
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ATA AT Bus Attachment
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ARCNET Trade Association
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ATDP Attention Dial Pulse
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ATDT Attention Dial Tone
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ATE Automated Test Equipment
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ATG Advanced Technology Group
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ATH Attention Hang-Up
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ATLATL AnyThing Lord to AnyThing Lord
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ATM Adobe Type Manager
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Asynchronous Transfer Mode
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Automated Teller Machine
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ATP Appletalk Transaction Protocol
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ATR Automatic Terminal Recognition
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Attribute
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ATS Administrative Terminal System
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Apple Terminal Services
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AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph
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ATTN Attention
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ATTRIB Attribute
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AUDIT Automated Data Input Terminal
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AUI Attachment Unit Interface
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Auxillary Unit Interface
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Access Unit Interface
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AUP Acceptable Use Policy
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AUTO Automatic
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AUTODIN AUTOmatic Digital Network
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AUTOVON AUTOmatic VOice Network
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AUX Auxiliary
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AV AntiVirus
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AutoVisual
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AVA Audio Visual Authoring
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AVC Audio Visual Connection
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AVG Average
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AVI Audio Visual Interleaved
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AWG American Wire Guage
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AWK alfred Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan
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AX Architecture Extended
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Automatic Transmission
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b Bit
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B Byte
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BAD Broken As Designed
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BAK Binary Adaption Kit
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BAL Basic Assembly Language
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Branch And Link
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BALUN BALanced UNbalanced
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BAM Boyan Action Module
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BAPCO Business Aplication Performance COrp.
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BARTS Bell Atlantic Regional TimeSharing
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BASH Bourne Again Shell
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BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
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BBN Bolt, Beranek and Newman
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BBS Bulletin Board System
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BCD Binary Coded Decimal
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BCDIC Binary Coding Decimal Interchange Code
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BCL Batch Command Language
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BCP Byte Controlled Protocols
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BCPL Basic Combined Programming Language
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BCR Byte Count Register
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BCS Binary Compatility Standard
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Boston Computer Society
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British Computer Society
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B&D Bondage and Discipline
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BDF Binary Distribution Format
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BDOS Basic Disk Operating System
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BE Below or Equal
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BEL Bell
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BELLCOREBell Communications Research
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BER Basic Encoding Rules
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Bit Error Rate
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BEST Borland Enhanced Support and Training
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BF Bad Flag
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B/F Background/Foreground
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BFI Brute Force and Ignorance
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BFMI Brute Force and Massive Ignorance
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BFT Binary File Transmission
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BGE Branch if Greater or Equal
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BGT Branch if Greater Than
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Borland Graphic Interface
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BHI Branch if Higher
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BHIS Branch if Higher or Same
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BI Binary Input
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BIF Binary Initialization File
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BIFF Binary Interchange File Format
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BILOS Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap
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BIM Beginning of Information Marker
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BINAC Binary Automatic Computer
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BIOC Break Into Other Computers
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BIOS Basic Input/Output System
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BIPS Billion Instructions Per Second
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BITS Base Information Transfer System
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BIS Business Information System
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BISDN Broadband ISDN
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BIST Built In Self Test
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BiSYNC Binary Synchronous Communications
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BIT Binary digit
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BITNET Because It's Time Network
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BIU Bus Interface Unit
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BIX Byte Information eXchange
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BKSP Backspace
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BL Backlit
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BLAST Blocked Asynchronous Transmission
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BLE Branch if Less or Equal
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BLF Busy Line Feed
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BLIT Bell Labs Intelligent Terminal
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BLK Block
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BLMC Buried Logic Macrocell
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BLOB Binary Large OBject
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BLOS Branch if Lower Or Same
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BLT BLock Transfer
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BMI Branch if Minus
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BMIC BusMaster Interface Controller
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BMP Batch Message Processing Program
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BitMaP
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BNC Bayonet N Connector
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BNE Branch if Not Equal
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BNF Big Name Fan
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Bachus-Naur Form
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BNM Blue Noise Mask
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BO Binary Output
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BOC Bell Operating Company
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BOF Beginning Of File
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BOM Beginning Of Message
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BOMP Bill Of Materials Processor
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BOP Bit Oriented Protocol
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BORPQU Borland Pro Quattro
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BORQU Borland Quattro
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BOS Basic Operating System
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BOSIX Biin Open System Interface eXtension
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BOT Beginning Of Table
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Beginning of Tape
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BP Base Pointer
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BPB BIOS Parameter Block
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BPI Bits Per Inch
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BPL Branch if Plus
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BPS Bits Per Second
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Bytes Per Second
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BQS Berkeley Quality Software
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BR Bad Register
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BRB Be Right Back
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BRI Basic Rate Interface
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Brain Response Interface
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BRIEF Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility
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BRS Bibliographic Retrieval Service
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Big Red Switch
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BS BackSpace
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BSA Business Software Alliance
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BSAM Basic Sequential Access Method
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BSC Binary Synchronous Communication
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BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
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BSF Bit Scan Forward
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BSI British Standards Institute
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BSR Bit Scan Reverse
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BSS Block Started by Symbol
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BSY Busy
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BSYNC Binary Synchronous Communications
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BT Bit Test
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BTAM Basic Telecommunications Access Method
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BTC Bit Test and Complement
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BTL Bell Telephone Laboratories
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BTLZ British Telecom Lempel Ziv
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BTOA Binary TO Ascii
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BTP Batch Transfer Program
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BTR Bit Test and Reset
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BTS Bit Test and Set
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BUF Buffer
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BUNCH Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell
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BWM Block-Write Mode
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BWOD BandWidth On Demand
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BYTE Binary Element
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BTZ Bundesant fur Zulassungen in der Telekommunikation
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B&W Black and White
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Bells and Whistles
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BWQ Buzz Word Quotient
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BX Base eXchange
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CA Collision Avoidance
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Computer Associates
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CACM Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery
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CAD Computer Aided Design
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CADD Computer Aided Design and Drafting
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CAE Common Applications Environment
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Computer Aided Engineering
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CAF Compters & Acedemic Freedom
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CAG Column Address Generator
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CAI Computer Aided Instruction
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Computer Associates International
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CAIS Common ASPE Interface Specification
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CAL Calendar
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Computer Assisted Learning
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Conversational Algebraic Language
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CALS Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support
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CAM Common Access Method
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Computer Aided Manufacturing
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Content Addressable Memory
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Computer Aided Management
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CAMP Coporate Association for Microcomputer Professionals
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CAN Cancel
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CAP Central Arbitration Point
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Computer Aided Publishing
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Columbia Appletalk Package
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CAPD Computing To Assist Persons With Disabilities
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CAPS Capitals (Upper Case Letters)
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Cassette Programming System
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CAPSL CAnon Printing System Language
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CAR Computer Aided Retrieval
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Contents of the Address Register
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CARDS Central Archive for Reusable Defense Software
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CARL Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
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CAS Column Address Select
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Communicating Applications Specification
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Computer Aided Styling
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CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering
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Computer Aided Systems Engineering
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CASL Crosstalk Application Scripting Language
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CASS Computer Assisted Search Service
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CASSIS Classified and Search Support Information System
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CAT Computer Aided Testing
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Computer Aided Tomography
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Computer Aided Transcription
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Concatenate
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CATIS Common Applications and Tools Integration Services
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CATV Community Antenna Television
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CAU Contolled Access Unit
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CAV Constant Angular Velocity
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CB Citizen's Band
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CBCR Channel Byte Count Register
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CBEMA Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association
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CBL Computer Based Learning
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CBR Computer Based Reference
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CBT Computer Based Training
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CBW Convert Byte to Word
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CBX Computerized Branch Exchange
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CC Cluster Controller
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Carbon Copy
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CCA Common Cryptographic Architecture
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Communications Control Architecture
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Compatible Communications Architecture
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Computer Corporation of America
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CCD Charged-Coupled Device
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CCFL Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp
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CCFT Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube
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CCI Computer Carrier Interrupt
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Computer Consoles, Inc.
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CCIA Computer and Communications Industry Association
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CCIP Continuously Computed Impact Point
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CCIS Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
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CCITT Comite' Consultatif Internationale Telegraphique et Telephonique
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Consultative Committee on International Telegraphy and Telephony
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CCP Console Command Processor
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CCRP Continuously Computed Release Point
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CCS Common Communications Support
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CCSA Common Control Switching Arrangement
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CCTA Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
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CCTV Closed Circuit TeleVision
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CD Carrier Detect
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Change Directory
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Collision Detection
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Color Display
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Compact Disk
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C/D Control Data
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CDA Compound Document Architecture
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Call Data Accumulator
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CDC Control Data Corporation
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CD_CHRDYCarD CHannel ReaDY
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CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interface
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CDE Complex Data Entry
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Cooperative Development Environment
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Common Desktop Environment
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CDEV Control panel DEVice
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CD-I Compact Disk - Interactive
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CDIF Case Data Interchange Format
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CDL Computer Design Language
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CDOS Concurrent Disk Operating System
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CDPD Celluar Digital Packet Data
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CDPT Celluar Digital Packet Technology
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CDR Call Detail Record
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Call Detail Recording
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Contents of the Decrement Register
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CD-R CD-ROM Recorder
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CD-RDx Compact Disk - Read Only Memory Data Exchange Standard
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CDRL Contract Data Requirements List
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CD-ROM Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
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CDROMXA CDROM eXtended Architecture
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CD-RTOS Compact Disk - Real Time Operating System
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CDS Current Directory Structure
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CDU Control Display Unit
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CD-V Compact Disk - Video
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CD-WO Compact Disk - Write Once
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CE Cache Enable
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Chip Enable
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Collision Elimination
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Convert Enable
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CEG Continuous Edge Graphics
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CEI Conducted Electromagnetic Interference
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CEO Comperhensive Electronic Office
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CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
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CERT/CC Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center
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CES Consumer Electronics Show
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CEVI Computer Equipment Voltage Indicator
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CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics
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CGA Color Graphics Adapter
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CGI Computer Generated Images
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Computer Graphics Interface
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Color Graphics Interface
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CGM Computer Graphics Metafile
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CHAP CHAnnel Processor
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CHAR CHARacter
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CHAT Conversational Hypertext Access Technology
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CHCK CHannel ChecK
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CHGRP CHange GRouP
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CHKDSK CHecK DiSK
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CHMOD CHange MODe
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CHOWN CHange OWNer
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CHP ChaPter
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CHR CHaRacter
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CICS/VS Customer Information Control System/Virtual Storage
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CID Computer Integrated Design
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CIDIN Common Icao Data Interchange Network
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CIE Commission Internationale d'Eclairage
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CIM CompuServe Information Manager
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Computer Integrated Manufacturing
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CIOCS Communication Input/Output Control System
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CIP Command Interface Port
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CIRC Circular Reference
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CIS CompuServe Information Service
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Computer Information Systems
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Card Information Structure
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CISC Complex Instruction Set Chip
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Complex Instruction Set Computer
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CIX Commercial Internet eXchange
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CKD Count Key Data
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CL Connectivity Language
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CLAR Channel Local Address Register
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CLASS Custom Local Area Signaling System
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CLC CLear Carry
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Canon Laser Copier
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CLD CLear Direction
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CLI CLear Interrupt
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Command Line Interface
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Call Level Interdace
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CLIST Command LIST
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CLK CLocK
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CLM Career Limiting Move
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CLNP ConnectionLess Network Protocol
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CLRC Circuit Layout Record Card
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CLS CLear Screen
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CLTS CLear Task Switch
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CLUT Color Look Up Table
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CLV Constant Linear Velocity
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CM Control Mark
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Corrective Maintenance
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CMA Concert Multi-thread Architecture
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CMC Communication Mangement Configuration
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Complement Carry Flag
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Common Mail Calls
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CMD Centralized Message Distribution
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CMI Computer Managed Instruction
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CMIP Common Management Information Protocol
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CMIS Common Management Information System
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CML Current Model Logic
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CMMU Cache/Memory Management Unit
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CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
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CMOT CMi Over Tcp/ip
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CMP Compare
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Computer
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CoMmunications Plenum
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CMPS CoMPare String
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CMR CoMmunications Riser
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CMS Creative Music Systems
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Code Management System
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Compiler Monitor System
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Conversation Monitor System
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Conversational Monitor System
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Color Management System
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Call Management System
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CMU Carnegie Mellon University
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CMY Cyan-Magenta-Yellow
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CMYK Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black
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CNA Certified Netware Administrator
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CNC Computerized Numerical Control
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CNE Certified Netware Engineer
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CNG CalliNG
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CNI Certified Netware Instructor
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CNR Carrier Noise Ratio
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CNVT Convert
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CO Central Office
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Command Output
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Convert Out
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COBOL COmmon Business-Oriented Language
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COBRA Common OBject Request Association
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CODASYL Conference on Data System Languages
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CODEC COder-DECoder
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COEM Commercial Original Equipment Manufacturer
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COGO COordinate GeOmetry
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COIN Columbia Online Information Network
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COLD Computer Output to Laser Disc
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COM Computer Output Microfilm
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Common Object Model
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CON Console
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CONFIG Configuration
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CONS Connection Oriented Network Services
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COOL COBOL Object Oriented Language
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COP Character Oriented Protocol
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CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
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CORE COntrolled Requirement Expression
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CORN COmputer Resource Nucleus
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COS Compatible Operating System
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Corporation for Open Systems
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COSE Common Open System Environment
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COSMIC Common System Main InterConnection
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COmputer Software Management and Information Center
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COSMOS Computer System for Mainframe Operations
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COSS Common Object Services Specification
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CP Copy Protected
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Command Processor
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CPE Central Processing Element
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Customer Premise Equipment
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Customer Provided Equipment
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CPF Control Program Facility
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CPG Clock Pulse Generator
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CPI Characters Per Inch
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Clock Per Instruction
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Common Programming Interface
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CPL Current Privilege Level
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Characters Per Line
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Combined Programming Language
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CP/M Control Program for Microcomputers
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CPM Critical Path Method
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CPN Compuserve Packet Net
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CPS Characters Per Second
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CPSR Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
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CPU Central Processing Unit
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CR Carriage Return
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CRAM Card RAM
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CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
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CREN Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
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CRF Cross Reference File
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CR/LF Carriage Return/Line Feed
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CROM Control Read Only Memory
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CRT Cathode Ray Tube
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CRTC CRT Controller
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CRUD Create Retrieve Update and Delete
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CS Chip Select
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Clear to Send
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Code Segment
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Computer Science
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CSAB Computer Science Accreditation Board
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CSAR Channel System Address Register
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CSC Computer Science Corp.
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CSDC Circuit Switched Digital Capability
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CSG Constructive Solid Geometry
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Consulting Services Group
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CSI Commercial System Integration
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Computer Security Institute
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CSIC Costumer Specific IC
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CSL Computer Sensitive Language
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CSMA Carrier Sense Multiple Access
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CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
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CSMA/CD Carrier-Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detect
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CSO Computing Services Office
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CSP Commercial Subroutine Package
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CompuCom Speed Protocol
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Cross System Product
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CSPP Computer Systems Policy Project
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CSR Control and Status Register
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CSRG Computer Systems Research Group
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CSS Continuous System Simulation
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CSTA Computer-Supported Telephony Applications
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CSTO Computer Systems and Technology Office
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CSV Comma Separated Value
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C&T Chips and Technologies
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CTM Current Transformation Matrix
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CTOS Computerized Tomography Operating System
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Convergent Technologies Operating System
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CTPA Coax-to-Twisted-Pair Adapter
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CTRL Control
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CTS Clear To Send
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CTSS Compatible Time Sharing System
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CTY Console TeletYpe
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CUA Common User Access
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CUB Cursor Backward
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CUD Cursor Down
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CUF Cursor Forward
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CUI Common User Interface
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Character based User Interface
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CUP Cursor Position
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CUPID Completely Universal Processor I/O Design
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CUSP Commonly Used System Program
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CUU Cursor Up
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CVF Compressed Volume File
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CVGA Color Video Gaphics Array
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CVIA Computer Virus Industry Association
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CWD Convert Word to Double Word
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CYL Cylinder
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CYMK Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-Black
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D/A Digital to Analog
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DA Desk Accessory
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DAA Data Access Arrangement
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Decimal Adjust for Addition
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DAC Digital to Analog Converter
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Drive Array Controller
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DAD Digital Audio Disc
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Database Action Diagram
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DAEMON Disk And Execution MONitor
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DAL Data Access Language
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Disk Access Lockout
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DAM Data Acquisition and Monitoring
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DAP Data Access Protocol
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DARPA Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
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DAS Decimal Adjust for Subtraction
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Disk Array Subsystem
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Dual Attached Studio
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DASD Direct Access Storage Device
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DASH Dell Advanced SCSI Host
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DAT Digital Audio Tape
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DATACOM Data Communications
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DB Data Base
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|
Data Buffer
|
|
DeciBels
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DBA Adjusted Decibels
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DBC Double Byte Code
|
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DBF DBase Format
|
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DBM Data Base Manager
|
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DBME DataBase Management Environment
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DBMS Data Base Management System
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DBS Data Base Server
|
|
DB2 Database 2
|
|
DC Data Collection
|
|
Data Communication
|
|
Data Control
|
|
Device Control
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|
Direct Current
|
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DCA Digital Communications Associates
|
|
Document Content Architecture
|
|
Distributed Communications Architecture
|
|
DCAF Distributed Console Access Facility
|
|
DCB Disk Coprocessor Board
|
|
DCC Display Combination Code
|
|
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
|
|
DCL Declaration
|
|
DEC Command Language
|
|
Device Clear
|
|
Digital Control Logic
|
|
Digital Command Language
|
|
DCS Data Collection System
|
|
Data Control System
|
|
DCT Discrete Cosine Transfer
|
|
DD Day
|
|
Digital Display
|
|
Double Density
|
|
Disk Drive
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|
Data Directory
|
|
DDA Digital Differential Analyzer
|
|
DDBMS Distributed DBMS
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|
DDCMP Digital Data Communications Message Protocol
|
|
DDCP Direct Digital Color Proofing
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|
DDD Direct Distance Dialing
|
|
DDE Direct Data Entry
|
|
Dynamic Data Exchange
|
|
DDEML Dynamic Data Exchange Management Library
|
|
DDK Driver Development Kit
|
|
DDL Data Definition Language
|
|
Data Description Language
|
|
Document Description Language
|
|
DDM Distributed Data Management
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|
DDN Defense Data Network
|
|
DDP Datagram Delivery Protocol
|
|
Distributed Data Processing
|
|
DDS Design Data Sheet
|
|
Digital Data Storage
|
|
Digital Data Service
|
|
Dataphone Digital Service
|
|
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
|
|
DES Data Encryption Standard
|
|
Data Entry Sheet
|
|
DET Device Execute Trigger
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|
Direct Entry Table
|
|
DEV Device
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|
DF Data Field
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|
Destination Field
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|
Device Flag
|
|
Double Flag
|
|
Don't Fragment
|
|
DFC Data Flow Control
|
|
DFDSM Data Facility Distributed Storage Manager
|
|
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
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|
Destination Index
|
|
DIA Document Interchange Architecture
|
|
DIB Device Independant Bitmap
|
|
Directory 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
|
|
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
|
|
DIR Directory
|
|
DIS Dynamic Impedance Stabilization
|
|
Draft International Standard
|
|
DISOSS DIStributed Office Support System
|
|
DISP Displacement
|
|
DIV Divide
|
|
DIW D-Inside Wire
|
|
DL Download
|
|
DL/1 Data Manipulation Language 1
|
|
DLC Data Link Control
|
|
DLE Data Link Escape
|
|
DLL Dynamic Link Library
|
|
DLO Dead Letter Office
|
|
DLR DOS LAN Requester
|
|
DMA Direct Memory Access
|
|
DMAC DMA Controller
|
|
DME Distributed Management Environment
|
|
DMI Desktop Management Interface
|
|
DML Data Manipulation Language
|
|
Database Management Language
|
|
DMM Digital Multimeter
|
|
DMMS Dynamic Memory Management System
|
|
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
|
|
DMTF Desktop Management Task Force
|
|
DMY Day Month Year
|
|
DN Down
|
|
DNA Digital Network Architecture
|
|
DNC Direct Numerical Control
|
|
DNHR Dynamic NonHierachal Routing
|
|
DNIC Data Network Identification Code
|
|
DNIS Dialed Number Identification Service
|
|
DNS Domain Naming System
|
|
DO Data Out
|
|
DOC Department of Communications
|
|
DOD Department Of Defense
|
|
DOI Document Oriented Interface
|
|
DOMAIN Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network
|
|
DOS Disk Operating System
|
|
DOS/VSE Disk Operating System/Virtual Storage Extended
|
|
DOW Day Of Week
|
|
DP Data Processing
|
|
Draft Proposal
|
|
Display Postscript
|
|
Dissociated Press
|
|
DPA Demand Protocol 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 Queue Dual Bus
|
|
DQL Database Query Language
|
|
DR Digital Research
|
|
Data Received
|
|
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
|
|
DRV Drive
|
|
DS Data Segment
|
|
Data Send
|
|
Data Server
|
|
Double Sided
|
|
Directory Services
|
|
DSA Distributed Systems Architecture
|
|
Directory Systems Agent
|
|
Digital Storage Architecture
|
|
Digital Signal Analyzer
|
|
Destination Software Address
|
|
Directory System Alert
|
|
DSAP Destination Service Access Point
|
|
DSC Document Structuring Conventions
|
|
DSDD Double Sided, Double Density
|
|
DSE Data Storage Equipment
|
|
Data Structure Editor
|
|
DSEA Display Station Emulation Adapter
|
|
DSECT Dummy Control Section
|
|
DSEE Domain Software Engineering Environment
|
|
DSHD Double Sided, High Density
|
|
DSL Dynamic Simulation Language
|
|
DSOM Distributed SOM
|
|
DSP Digital Signal Processing
|
|
Digital Signal Processor
|
|
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
|
|
DSTN Double Supertwisted Nematic
|
|
DSU/CSU Data Service Unit/Channel Service Unit
|
|
DSW Data Status Word
|
|
Device Status Word
|
|
D2T2 Dye Diffusion Thermal Transfer
|
|
DTA Disk Transfer Area
|
|
DTC Digital Typeface Corp.
|
|
DTE Data Terminal Equipment
|
|
Dumb Terminal Emulator
|
|
DTL Diode-Transistor Logic
|
|
DTMF Dual Tone MultiFrequency
|
|
DTP Desktop Publishing
|
|
DTR Data Terminal Ready
|
|
Data Transfer Rate
|
|
DTV Desk Top Video
|
|
DU Disk Usage
|
|
DVI Digital Video Interactive
|
|
DUA Directoy User Agent
|
|
DUOW Distributed Unit Of Work
|
|
DVM Digital Volt Meter
|
|
DWG Drawing
|
|
DXC Data Exchange Control
|
|
DXF Drawing Interchange Format
|
|
|
|
EA Extended Attribute
|
|
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
|
|
ECAL Enjoy Computing And Learn
|
|
ECC Error Check Code
|
|
Error Checking and Correction
|
|
Error Correction Code
|
|
ECD Enhanced Color Display
|
|
ECF Enhanced Connectivity Facilities
|
|
ECHO European Commision Host Organization
|
|
ECL Emitter Coupled Logic
|
|
ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association
|
|
ECP Extended Capabilities Port
|
|
ED Erase Display
|
|
End Delimiter
|
|
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
|
|
EDL Edit Decision List
|
|
EDLC Ethernet Data Link Control
|
|
EDLIN Editor Line
|
|
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
|
|
EEHLLAPIEntry Emulator High Level Language API
|
|
EEL Epsilon Extension Language
|
|
EEM Extended Memory Management
|
|
EEMS Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification
|
|
EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
|
|
EFA Extended File Attribute
|
|
EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation
|
|
EFI Electromechanical Frequency Interference
|
|
Electronics For Imaging
|
|
EFL Emitter Follower Logic
|
|
EFTS Electronic Funds Transfer System
|
|
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter
|
|
EHF Extremely High Frequency
|
|
EIA Electronic Industries Association
|
|
EINE EINE Is Not EMACS
|
|
EIS Executive Information System
|
|
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
|
|
EL Electroluminescent
|
|
Erase Line
|
|
ELAP Ethernet LAP
|
|
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
|
|
EMI Electromagnetic Interference
|
|
EMM Expanded Memory Manager
|
|
Enterprise Mail Management
|
|
EMMS Electronic Mail and Micro Systems
|
|
EMR Electro-Magnetic Radiation
|
|
EMS Electronic Mail System
|
|
Electronic Message Service
|
|
Expanded Memory Specification
|
|
Enterprise Messaging Server
|
|
EMU ElectroMagnetic Unit
|
|
EN Electronic News
|
|
ENDS End Segment
|
|
ENIAC Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
|
|
ENQ Enquiry
|
|
ENS Enterprise Network Services
|
|
EO Erasable Optical
|
|
EOA End of Address
|
|
EOB End of Block
|
|
EOC End of Conversion
|
|
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
|
|
EOT End Of Table
|
|
End of Tape
|
|
End of Text
|
|
End of Transmission
|
|
EOU End Of User
|
|
EPL Effective Privilege Level
|
|
EPLD Electrically Programmable Logic Device
|
|
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
|
|
ERA Electrically Reconfigurable Array
|
|
ERLL Enhanced Run Length Limited
|
|
EROM Erasable Read Only Memory
|
|
ERR Error
|
|
ERLL Extended Run Length Limited
|
|
ES Extra Segment
|
|
Expert System
|
|
End System
|
|
ESA European Space Agency
|
|
ESC Escape
|
|
ESD Electrostatic Discharge
|
|
Electronic Software Distribution
|
|
Electrostatic Sensitive Device
|
|
ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface
|
|
ESI Enhanced Serial Interface
|
|
ESOBB European Southern Observatory Bulletin Board
|
|
ESP Enhanced Serial Port
|
|
Enhanced Service Provider
|
|
ESPS Entropic Signal Processing System
|
|
ESS Electronic Switching System
|
|
Electronic SpreadSheet
|
|
ESSEX Experimental Solid State EXchange
|
|
ESU Electro-Static Unit
|
|
ETB End of Transmission Block
|
|
ETLA Extended Three Letter Acronym
|
|
ETPL Endorsed Tempest Products List
|
|
ETS Econometric Time Series
|
|
ETX End of Text
|
|
EVGA Extended Video Graphics Array
|
|
Extended Video Graphics Adapter
|
|
EXCA EXchangable Card Architecture
|
|
EXP Exponent
|
|
EXT External
|
|
EXTRN External Reference
|
|
EZW Embedded Zerofree Waves
|
|
|
|
FAB Computer-Chip Fabrication Plant
|
|
FACS Facility Assignment and Control System
|
|
FAMOS Floating Gate Avalanche MOS
|
|
FAO For Adults Only
|
|
FAP File Access Protocol
|
|
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
FDISK Fixed Disk
|
|
FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing
|
|
FEA Finite Element Analysis
|
|
FEC Forward Error Correction
|
|
FED Field Emission Display
|
|
FEDIX FEDeral Information eXchange
|
|
FEFO First-Ended, First-Out
|
|
FEP Front End Processor
|
|
FET Field Effect Transistor
|
|
FF Flip-Flop
|
|
Form Feed
|
|
FFT Fast Fourier Transform
|
|
4GL Fourth Generation Language
|
|
FH Full Height
|
|
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
|
|
FIR Finite Impulse Response
|
|
FIRST Forum of Incident Response and Service Teams
|
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FISH First In, Still Here
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FLACC Full Level ALGOL Checkout Compiler
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FLD Field
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FLOP FLoating point OPeration
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FLOPS Floating Point Operations Per Second
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FM Frequency Modulation
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FMS Forms Management System
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FMT Format
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FNT Font
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FOCUS Forum of Control Data Users
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Federation On Computing in the U.S.
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FOD Finger Of Death
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FOG First Osborne Group
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FOIRL Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link
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FORTRAN Formula Translator
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FOSE Federal Office Systems Exposition
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FOSSIL Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer
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FPA Floating Point Accelerator
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FPD Flat Panel Display
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FPE Floating Point Engine
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FPGA Field Programmable Gate-Array
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FPLA Field Programmable Logic-Array
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FPP Fixed Path Protocol
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Floating Point Processor
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FPS Frames Per Second
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FPU Floating Point Unit
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FQDN Fully-Qualified Domain Name
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FRACTAL FRACTional dimensionAL
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FRAG Fragment
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Fragmentation
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FRAM Ferroelectric Random-Access Memory
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Ferromagnetic RAM
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FRED FRame EDitor
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FRont End to the Directory
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Flipping Rediculous Electronic Device
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FREQ File REQuest
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FRMR FRaMe Reject
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FRPI Flux Reversals Per Inch
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FS File Separator
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Frame Status
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FSD File System Driver
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FSF Free Software Foundation
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FSK Frequency Shift Keying
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FSR Free System Resources
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F/T Full Time
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FTAM File Transfer, Access and Management
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FTC Federal Trade Commission
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FTM Flat Tension Mask
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FTP File Transfer Protocol
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FTS Federal Telecommunication System
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FUBAR Failed UniBus Address Register
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FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
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FUNC Function
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FWIW For What It's Worth
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FYA For Your Amusement
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FYI For Your Information
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G Giga
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GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
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GAL Generic Array Logic
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GAN Global Area Network
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GB Gigabyte
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GC Garbage Collection
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Garbage Collector
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Garbage Collect
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GCL Graphics Command Language
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GCOS General Comprehensive Operating System
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GCR Group Code Recording
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Gray Component Replacement
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GDA Global Data Area
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GDDM Graphics Data Display Manager
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GDI Graphics Device Interface
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GDS General Data Stream
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GDT Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
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Global Descriptor Table
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GE General Electric
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Greater than or Equal to
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GECOS General Electric Comprehensive Operating System
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GEL Gain Extention Language
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GEM Graphics Environment Manager
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GENIE General Electric Network for Information Exchange
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GENSYM Generated Symbol
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GEOS Graphic Environment Operating System
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GET Get Execute Trigger
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GFR Grim File Reaper
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GHz Gigahertz
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GIF Graphic Interchange Format
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GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
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GIN Graphics INput
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GIPS Giga-Instructions Per Second
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GIS Geographical Information System
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GKS Graphical Kernal System
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G/L General Ledger
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GL Graphics Language
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GLM General Linear Models
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GMT Greenwich Mean Time
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GND System Ground
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GNU GNU's Not Unix
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GNUMACS GNU EMACS
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GORP Good Old Raisins and Peanuts
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GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile
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GOSMACS Gosling EMACS
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GP Gas Plasma
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General Purpose
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GPF General Protection Fault
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GPI Graphics Programming Interface
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GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus
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GPL General Public License
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GPS Global Positioning System
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GPSS General Purpose Systems Simulation
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GPV General Public Virus
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GRE Graphics Engine
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GREP Global Regular Expression Print
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GS Group Separator
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GSA General Services Administration
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GT Greater Than
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GTE General Telephone and Electric
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GUI Graphical User Interface
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GUS Gravis UltraSound
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GVPN Global Virtual Private Network
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GW-BASICGee Whiz BASIC
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HA Host Adapter
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HAKMEM HAcKs MEMory
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HAL Hard Array Logic
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House Programmed Array Logic
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Hardware Abstraction Layer
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Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer
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HAM Hold And Modify
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HASP Houston Automatic Spooling Priority
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HBD Honeywell Brain Damage
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HCF Halt and Catch Fire
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HD Hard Disk
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High Density
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HDA Head Disk Assembly
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Hard Disk Assembly
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HDBV Host DataBase View
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HDD Hard Disk Drive
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HDI Head to Disk Interference
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Help Desk Institute
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HDLC High-Level Data Link Control
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HDPT Hard Disk Parameter Table
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HDR Header
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HDSC High Density Signal Carrier
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HDTV High Definition TeleVision
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HDW Hardware
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HEA Hyundai Electronics America
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HEC Human Engineering Computers
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HERC Hercules
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HEX Hexadecimal
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HF High Frequency
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HFS Hierarchial File System
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HGA Hercules Graphics Adapter
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HGCP Hercules Graphics Card Plus
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HH Hour
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Half Height
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HIL Human Interface Link
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HIPPI High Performance Parallel Interface
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HLCO High Low Close Open
|
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HLDLC High Level Data Link Control
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HLL High Level Language
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HLLAPI High Level Language Application Programming Interface
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HLQ High Level Qualifier
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HLS Hue Lightness Saturation
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HLT Halt
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HMA High Memory Area
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Hub Management Architecture
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HMI Hub Management Interface
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HMOS High Density Metal Oxide Semiconductor
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High Speed Metal Oxide Semiconductor
|
|
High performance Metal Oxide Semiconductor
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HOBBIT High Order BIT
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|
HP Hewlett-Packard
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HPC High-Performance Computing
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HPCC High-Performance Computing and Communications
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HPFS High Performance File System
|
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HPG Hewlett-Packard Graphics
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HPGL Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
|
|
HPI Hahn Popularity Index
|
|
HPIB Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus
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|
HPPA Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture
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|
HPPI High Performance Parallel Interface
|
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HRIS Human Resource Information System
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HRG High Resolution Graphics
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HRMS Human Resource Management System
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HS High Speed
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HSB Hue Saturation Brightness
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HSC High Speed Channel
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HSL Hue Saturation Lightness
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HSLC Health Sciences Libraries Consortium
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HSP High Speed Printer
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HST High Speed Technology
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HSV Hue Saturation Value
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HT Horizontal Tab
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HUT Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
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H/V Horizontal/Vertical
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HVP Horizontal & Vertical Position
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H/W Hardware
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HWCP Hardware Code Page
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|
HWD Height-Width-Depth
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HYDRA HYbrid Document Reproduction Apparatus
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HZ Hertz
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IAB Internet Activities Board
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IAC InterApplication Communication
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IAL International Algebraic Language
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IAS Information Access Services
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IAYF Information At Your Fingertips
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|
IBC Instrument Bus Computer
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IBECC International BBSing and Electronic Communications Conference
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|
IBM International Business Machines
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IBM-GL IBM Graphics Language
|
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IC Input Circuit
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|
Integrated Circuit
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Interrupt Controller
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ICA Intra-application Communications Area
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|
ICAS Intel Communicating Applications Specifications
|
|
ICCP Institute for the Certification of Computer Professionals
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ICE In-Circuit Emulator
|
|
ICFA International Computer Facsimile Association
|
|
ICL Interface Clear
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ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
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|
ICOMP Intel COmparative Microprocessor Performance
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ICP Integrated Channel Processor
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ICR Intelligent Character Recognition
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ID Identification
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Identifier
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IDA Integrated Digital Access
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Intelligent Disk Array
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Intelligent Drive Array
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IDAPI Integrated Database API
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|
IDC International Data Corp.
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IDE Imbedded Drive Electronics
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|
Integrated Development Environment
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|
Integrated Drive Electronics
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|
Intelligent Drive Electronics
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|
Interactive Design and Engineering
|
|
Interface Design Enhancement
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|
IDF Intermediate Distributing Force
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IDG InterDialog Gap
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IDIV Integer Divide
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IDMS Integrated Data Base Management System
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|
IDP Integrated Data Processing
|
|
Internetwork Datagram Protocol
|
|
IDT Interrupt Descriptor Table
|
|
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
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|
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
|
|
IEF Information Engineering Facility
|
|
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
|
|
IEW Information Engineering Workbench
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|
I/F Interface
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|
IF Intermediate Frequency
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|
IFD Image File Directory
|
|
IFF Interchange File Format
|
|
IFG InterFrame Gap
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|
IFIG International Federation of Information Processing
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|
IFS Installable File System
|
|
IGA Integrated Graphics Array
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|
IGC Integrated Graphics Controller
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|
IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Specification
|
|
IHL Internet Header Length
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|
IIA Industry Information Association
|
|
Information Industry Association
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|
Information Interchange Architecture
|
|
IIF Immediate IF
|
|
IIL Integrated Injection Logic
|
|
IIR Immediate Impulse Response
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ILD Injection Laser Diode
|
|
ILM Industrial Light and Magic
|
|
IM Information Management
|
|
IMA Interactive Multimedia Association
|
|
IMDS Image Data Stream
|
|
IMG Image
|
|
IMP Interface Message Processor
|
|
IMS Information Management System
|
|
Intermediate Maintenance Standards
|
|
IMSL International Mathematical Subroutine Library
|
|
IMUL Integer Multiply
|
|
IN Input
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|
INC Increment
|
|
INIT Initialize
|
|
INN ImagiNation Network
|
|
INS Input String
|
|
INT Integer
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|
Internal
|
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Interrupt
|
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INTA Interrupt Acknowledge
|
|
INTAP INteroperability Technology Association for information Processing
|
|
INTELSATINternational TELecommunications SATellite
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|
INTERCALCompiler Language With No Pronouncable Acronym
|
|
INTO Interrupt if Overflow occurs
|
|
I/O Input/Output
|
|
IOCS Input/Output Control System
|
|
IOCTL Input/Output Control
|
|
IOSGA Input/Output Support Gate Array
|
|
IP Instruction Pointer
|
|
Internet Protocol
|
|
IPC Instructions Per Clock
|
|
Interprocess Communication
|
|
IPE Integrated Programming Environment
|
|
IPF Information Presentation Facility
|
|
IPI Intelligent Peripheral Interface
|
|
IPL Initial Program Load
|
|
Initial Program Loader
|
|
Information Programming Language
|
|
IPM Impossible to Program Machines
|
|
IPS Inches Per Second
|
|
IPSE Intel Personal SuperComputer
|
|
IPSE Integrated Project Support Environment
|
|
IPU Intelligent Processing Unit
|
|
IPX Internetwork Packet eXchange
|
|
IQL Interactive Query Language
|
|
IR Internet Router
|
|
IRC Internet Relay Chat
|
|
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
|
|
IRX Information Retrieval Experiment
|
|
IS Interrupt Status
|
|
Information Systems
|
|
International Standard
|
|
Intermediate System
|
|
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
|
|
ISI Internally Specified Index
|
|
IS-IS Intermediate System to Intermediate System
|
|
ISL Interactive System Language
|
|
ISN Initial Sequence Number
|
|
ISO International Standards Organization
|
|
ISODE ISO Development Environment
|
|
ISP Interrupt Status Port
|
|
Internet Service Provider
|
|
ISPF Interactive System Programming Facility
|
|
ISR Information Storage and Retrieval
|
|
Interrupt Service Routines
|
|
ISV Independent Software Vendor
|
|
IT Information Technology
|
|
ITAA Information Technology Association of America
|
|
ITB Information Technology Branch
|
|
Intermediate Text Block
|
|
ITC International Typeface Corporation
|
|
ITI Industrial Technology Institute
|
|
ITS Incompatible Time-sharing System
|
|
IT&T International Telephone and Telegraph
|
|
ITT Invitation To Transmit
|
|
ITU International Telecommunication Union
|
|
ITX Intermediate Text Block
|
|
IV Interactive Video
|
|
Interrupt Vector
|
|
IVD Interactive Video Disc
|
|
IVIS Interactive Video Information System
|
|
IVR Interactive Voice Response
|
|
IVS Interactive Videodisk System
|
|
IVT Interrupt Vector Table
|
|
IV&V Independent Verification & Validation
|
|
IWU Intermediate Working 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
|
|
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
|
|
JL Jump if Less
|
|
JLE Jump if Less than or Equal to
|
|
JMP Jump
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
JUGHEAD Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display
|
|
JZ Jump if Zero
|
|
|
|
K Kilobyte
|
|
KB Keyboard
|
|
Kilobyte
|
|
KBD Keyboard
|
|
KBPS KiloBits Per Second
|
|
KiloBytes Per Second
|
|
Kbyte Kilobyte
|
|
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
|
|
K&R brian Kernighan and dennis Ritchie
|
|
KRS Knowledge Retrieval System
|
|
KSDS Keyed Sequence DataSet
|
|
KSR Keyboard Send Receive
|
|
|
|
LADDR LAyered Device Driver aRchitecture
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
LCC Leadless Chip Carrier
|
|
Leaded Chip Carrier
|
|
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
|
|
LCS Liquid Crystal Shutter
|
|
LCU Last Cluster Used
|
|
LDA Logical Device Address
|
|
LDC Lotus Development Corporation
|
|
LDT Local Descriptor Table
|
|
LE Less or Equal
|
|
LEA Load Effective Address
|
|
LED Light Emitting Diode
|
|
LEM Language Extension Module
|
|
LEN Low Entry Networking
|
|
LER Light Emitting Resistor
|
|
LERP Linear Interpolatior
|
|
LEX Lexicon
|
|
LF Line Feed
|
|
Low Frequency
|
|
LFI Last File Indicator
|
|
LFU Least Frequently Used
|
|
LGDT Load Global Descriptor Table
|
|
LIAR LIAR Imitates Apply Recursively
|
|
LICS Lotus International Character Set
|
|
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
|
|
LISTSERVList Server
|
|
LLAP Localtalk LAP
|
|
LLC Logical Link Control
|
|
LLCC LeadLess Chip Carier
|
|
LLDT Load Local Descriptor Table
|
|
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
|
|
LPD Line Printer Daemon
|
|
LPI Lines Per Inch
|
|
LPL Lotus Programming Language
|
|
LPM Lines Per Minute
|
|
LPN Logical Page Number
|
|
LPT Line PrinTer
|
|
LQ Letter Quality
|
|
LRC Local Register Cache
|
|
Longitudinal Redundancy Check
|
|
LRL Least Recently Loaded
|
|
LRU Least Recently Used
|
|
LSA Line Sharing Adapter
|
|
LSAPI License Services API
|
|
LSB Least Significant Bit
|
|
Least Significant Byte
|
|
LSC Least Significant Character
|
|
LSD Least Significant Digit
|
|
LSH Left SHift
|
|
LSI Large Scale Integration
|
|
LSL Load Segment Limit
|
|
Link Support Layer
|
|
LSP Light Speed Pascal
|
|
LST List
|
|
LT Less Than
|
|
LTR Letter
|
|
Load Task Register
|
|
LU Logical Unit
|
|
LUN Logical Unit Number
|
|
LUT Lookup Table
|
|
LZ abraham Lempel, jacob Ziv
|
|
Landing Zone
|
|
LZH Lempel Ziv Haruyasu
|
|
LZW Lempel-Ziv-Walsh
|
|
abraham Lempel, jacob Ziv, Welch
|
|
|
|
M Mega
|
|
MAC Medium Access Control
|
|
MAD Mirage Application Development
|
|
MAN Manual
|
|
Metropolitan Area Network
|
|
MAP Maintenance Analysis Procedures
|
|
Manufacturing Automation Protocol
|
|
Memory Allocation Map
|
|
MAPI Mail API
|
|
MAPICS Manufacturing, Accounting and Production Information Control System
|
|
MAPPER MAintaining, Preparing, and Processing Executive Reports
|
|
MASM Macro Assembler
|
|
MAU Media Access Unit
|
|
Multistation Access Unit
|
|
Media Attachment Unit
|
|
MAX Maximum
|
|
MB Megabyte
|
|
MBASIC Microsoft BASIC
|
|
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
|
|
MDA Monochrome Display Adapter
|
|
MDB Master DataBase
|
|
MDBS Mobile DataBase Station
|
|
MDFAT Microsoft Doublespace File Allocation Table
|
|
MDI Multiple Document Interface
|
|
MDIC Manchester Decoder and Interface Chip
|
|
MDR Minimum Design Requirement
|
|
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
|
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MFC Microsoft Foundation Class
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MFLOPS Million Floating Point Operations Per Second
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MFM Modified Frequency Modulation
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MFP Multifunction Peripheral
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MFS Magnetic Tape Field Search
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Macintosh File System
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MFT Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks
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MFTL My Favorite Toy Language
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MGA Monochrome Graphics Adapter
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Multimedia Graphics Architecture
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MGI Management Graphics Inc.
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MGR Manager
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MH Message Handler
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MHS Message Handling Service
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Message Handling System
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MHz Megahertz
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MIB Management Information Base
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MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
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MICS Macro Interpretive Commands
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MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
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MIF Management Information Format
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MII Microsoft/IBM/Intel
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MIL Machine Interface Layer
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MIMD Multiple Instruction Multiple Data
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MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
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MIN Minimum
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MIPS Million Instructions Per Second
|
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MIS Management Information System
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Manager of Information Systems
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MISC Miscellaneous
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MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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MIX Member Information Exchange
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MKDIR Make Directory
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ML Machine Language
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MLID Multiple Link Interface Driver
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MLL Medium Level Language
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MM Minutes
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Month
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Multiple Master
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MMA Microcomputer Managers Association
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MMC Matched Memory Cycle
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Microcomputer Marketing Council
|
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MMCD Multimedia Compact Disk
|
|
MMCF MultiMedia Communications Forum
|
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MME MultiMedia Extentions
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MMI Man Machine Interface
|
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MMU Memory Management Unit
|
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MNOS Metal Nitride Oxide Semiconductor
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MNP Microcom Networking Protocol
|
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MO Magneto-Optical
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MOD MODulo
|
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MODEM Modulator Demodulator
|
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MOHLL Machine Oriented High Level Language
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MOP Maintenance Operation Protocol
|
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MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor
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MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
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MOTIS Message Oriented Text Interchange System
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MOV Metal Oxide Varistor
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Move
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MOVS Move String
|
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MOD Modem
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Modulus
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MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor
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MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
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MOV Move
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MOVS Move String
|
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MPC Multimedia Personal Computer
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MPCS Mission Planning and Control Station
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MPE MultiProgramming Executive
|
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MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
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MPP Massively Parallel Processing
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|
Message Processing Program
|
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MPR Multipart Repeater
|
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MPS Megabytes Per Second
|
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MPT Mean Repair Time
|
|
MPU Microprocessor Unit
|
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MPW Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
|
|
MR Modem Ready
|
|
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
|
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MRO Multi-Region Operation
|
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MRP Materials Requirement Planning
|
|
MRPL Main Ring Path Length
|
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MRS Media Recognition System
|
|
MS Memory System
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|
Microsecond
|
|
MicroSoft
|
|
Millisecond
|
|
MSAU Multi Station Access Unit
|
|
MSB Most Significant Bit
|
|
Most Significant Byte
|
|
MSC MicroSoft C
|
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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
|
|
MSG Message
|
|
MSI Medium Scale Integration
|
|
MSL Map Specification Library
|
|
Mirrored Server Link
|
|
MS-NET MicroSoft Network
|
|
MSRCI MicroSoft Real-time Compression Interface
|
|
MSW Machine Status Word
|
|
MTA Message Transfer Agent
|
|
Multiple Terminal Access
|
|
Mail Transfer Agent
|
|
MTBB Mean Time Between Breakdowns
|
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MTBF Mean Time Before Failure
|
|
Mean Time Between Failures
|
|
MTBJ Mean Time Between Jams
|
|
MTC MIDI Time Code
|
|
MTS Message Transfer Service
|
|
Multichannel Television Sound
|
|
Modular Television System
|
|
MECC Timeshare System
|
|
MTTF Mean Time To Failure
|
|
MTTR Mean Time To Repair
|
|
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
|
|
|
|
NACCB National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses
|
|
NACD National Association of Computer Dealers
|
|
NACS National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors
|
|
Novell Asynchronous Communications Server
|
|
NAE Not Above or Equal
|
|
NAK Negative Acknowledgment
|
|
NAPLPS North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax
|
|
NAS Network Application Support
|
|
Network Access Support
|
|
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
|
|
NASI NetWare Asynchronous Services Interface
|
|
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
|
|
NCA Network Communications Adapter
|
|
National Computer Associates
|
|
NCB Network Control Block
|
|
NCC Network Control Center
|
|
NCGA National Computer Graphics Association
|
|
NCIC National Crime Information Center
|
|
NCLIS National Commission on Libraries and Information Services
|
|
NCMT Numerical Control for Machine Tools
|
|
NCP Network Control Processor
|
|
Network Control Program
|
|
Not Copy Protected
|
|
Network Core Protocols
|
|
NCR National Cash Register
|
|
NCS Network Computing System
|
|
NCSA National Computer Security Association
|
|
NCSC National Computer Security Center
|
|
NCSI Network Communications Services Interface
|
|
NDA Non Disclosure Agreement
|
|
NDEF Not to be Defined
|
|
NDIS Network Driver Interface Specification
|
|
NDMS Netware Distributed Management System
|
|
NDP Numeric Data Processor
|
|
Netware Directory Service
|
|
NDRO Non-Destructive Read Out
|
|
NDW Norton Desktop for Windows
|
|
NE Not Equal
|
|
NEAT New Enhanced AT
|
|
NEC Nippon Electric Company
|
|
NEG Negative
|
|
Negate
|
|
NESP National Education Supercomputing Program
|
|
NetBEUI NetBIOS Extended User Interface
|
|
NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System
|
|
NEWS NetWare Early Warning System
|
|
Network Extensible Window System
|
|
NEtwork Window System
|
|
NFF No Fault Found
|
|
NFS Network File System
|
|
NG No Good
|
|
NGE Not Greater or Equal
|
|
NGM Netware Global Messaging
|
|
NHC National Hurricane Center
|
|
NI Non Interlaced
|
|
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
|
|
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 for Standards and Technology
|
|
NJE Network Job Entry
|
|
NL New Line
|
|
NLE Not Less or Equal
|
|
NLM Netware Loadable Module
|
|
NLQ Near Letter Quality
|
|
NMI Non-Maskable Interrupt
|
|
NMOS Negative Channel Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
|
|
NMS Network Management System
|
|
NNI Network to Network Interface
|
|
NNS Netware Name Service
|
|
NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol
|
|
NOP No Operation
|
|
NOR Not Or
|
|
NOS Network Operating System
|
|
NPA Numeral Prefix Allocation
|
|
NPAP Network Printing Alliance Protocol
|
|
NPI Network Printer Interface
|
|
NRAM Non-voatile Read Only Memory
|
|
NREN National Research and Education Network
|
|
NRM Normal Response Mode
|
|
NROFF Non typesetting RunOFF
|
|
NRZ Not Return to Zero
|
|
NRZI Non Return to Zero Inverted
|
|
NRZL NRZ Level
|
|
NS Nanosecond
|
|
Network Supervisor
|
|
Non Stop
|
|
NSA National Security Agency
|
|
NSA POLYNational Security Agency Polygraph
|
|
NSF National Science Foundation
|
|
NSR Non-Sequential Recording
|
|
NSTL National Software Testing Laboratory
|
|
NT New Technology
|
|
Network Terminus
|
|
NTF No Trouble Found
|
|
NTFS NT File System
|
|
NTIS National Technical Information System
|
|
NTP Network Time Protocol
|
|
NTSA Networking Technical Support Alliance
|
|
NTSC National Television Standards Committee
|
|
NTT Nippon Telephone and Telegraph
|
|
NUA Network User Address
|
|
NUI Network User Identification
|
|
Network User Interface
|
|
Notebook User Interface
|
|
Netware Users International
|
|
Network User Identifier
|
|
NUL Null
|
|
NURBS Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines
|
|
NV No Overflow
|
|
NVE Network Visible Entry
|
|
NVM Non-Volatile Memory
|
|
NVRAM Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
|
|
NVTS Network Virtual Terminal Serivce
|
|
NYACC New York Amateur Computer Club
|
|
NZ Non Zero
|
|
|
|
OA Office Automation
|
|
OADG Open Architecture Development Group
|
|
OAG Official Airline Guide
|
|
OAI Open Applications Interface
|
|
OBJ Object
|
|
OBV/2 Oblivion/2
|
|
OCE Open Collaboration Environment
|
|
OCL Operation Control Language
|
|
Operator Control Language
|
|
OCR Optical Character Recognition
|
|
ODA Office Document Architecture
|
|
ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity
|
|
ODBMS Object-Oriented Database Management System
|
|
ODI Open Datalink Interface
|
|
Optical Data Image
|
|
ODT Open DeskTop
|
|
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
|
|
OF Overflow Flag
|
|
OFMT Output Format for Numbers
|
|
OFS Output Field Separator
|
|
OH Off Hook
|
|
OHCS Operated Handled Conference Service
|
|
OIS Office Information Systems
|
|
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
|
|
OLMC Output Logic Macrocell
|
|
OLTP On-Line Transaction Processing
|
|
OMF Object Module Format
|
|
OMG Object Management Group
|
|
OMNS Open Network Management System
|
|
OMR Optical Mark Recognition
|
|
ONA Open Network Architecture
|
|
ONC Open Network Computing
|
|
ONP Open Network Provision
|
|
OO Object Orientation
|
|
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
|
|
OP Operation
|
|
Optical
|
|
Output
|
|
OPC Optical Photoconductor
|
|
OP CODE Operational Code
|
|
OPD Operand
|
|
OPI Open Prepress Interface
|
|
OPM Operations Per Minute
|
|
OPS Operations
|
|
ORB Object Request Broker
|
|
OPUS Octal Program Updating System
|
|
ORACLE On-Line Inquiry and Report Generator
|
|
OROM Optical ROM
|
|
ORS Output Record Separator
|
|
OS Operating System
|
|
Output Spy
|
|
OSA Open System Architecture
|
|
OS/E Operating System/Environment
|
|
OSF Open Software Foundation
|
|
OSI Open Systems Interconnection
|
|
OSP Optical Storage Processor
|
|
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
|
|
OTF Open Token Foundation
|
|
OTIS Operative Work Is Stimulate
|
|
OTP One-Time Programmable
|
|
OTROM One Time PROM
|
|
OURS Open Users Recommend Solutions
|
|
OUTS Output String
|
|
OV Overflow
|
|
OWL Object Windows Library
|
|
|
|
PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange
|
|
PAD Packet Assembler/Disassembler
|
|
Public Access Device
|
|
PADS Pen Application Development System
|
|
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
|
|
PAP Printer Access Protocol
|
|
PAR Parallel
|
|
PARA Paragraph
|
|
PARC Palo Alto Research Center
|
|
PAX Parallel Architecture eXtended
|
|
Private Automatic eXchange
|
|
PBD Programmer Brain Damage
|
|
PBE Prompt By Example
|
|
PBS Public Brand Software
|
|
PBX Private 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
|
|
PCF Physical Control Fields
|
|
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
|
|
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
|
|
PCMS Precision Color Management System
|
|
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 Service
|
|
PCSA Personal Computer System Architecture
|
|
PCTE Portable Common Tool Environment
|
|
PD Public Domain
|
|
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
|
|
PDES Personal Data Exchange Specification
|
|
PDF Program Development Facility
|
|
Portable Document Format
|
|
PDIP Plastic DIP
|
|
PDL Page Description Language
|
|
Program Description Language
|
|
Program Design Language
|
|
Push Down List
|
|
PDN Public Data Network
|
|
PDO Portable Distributed Objects
|
|
PDP Progammable Data Processor
|
|
Programmed Data Processor
|
|
PDS Partitioned Data Set
|
|
Processor Direct Solt
|
|
PDSS Post Development and Software Support
|
|
PDU Protocol Data Unit
|
|
PE Parity Even
|
|
Protect Enable
|
|
Phase Encoding
|
|
Processing Element
|
|
PEA Pocket Ethernet Adapter
|
|
PEL Picture Element
|
|
PEP Packetized Ensemble Protocol
|
|
PERL Practical Extraction and Report Language
|
|
PEP Packet Exchange Protocol
|
|
PERT Program Evaluation and Review Technique
|
|
PES Positioning Error Signal
|
|
PET Personal Electronic Transfer
|
|
PETSCII PET aSCII
|
|
P/F Poll/Final bit
|
|
PFR Power-Fail Restart
|
|
PGA Pin Grid Array
|
|
Professional Graphics Adapter
|
|
Programmable Gate Array
|
|
PGDN Page Down
|
|
PGM Program
|
|
PGP Pritty Good Privacy
|
|
PGUP Page Up
|
|
PHIGS Programmers' Hierarchial Interactive Graphics Standards
|
|
PI Program Interruption
|
|
PIA Peripheral Interface Adapter
|
|
PIC Priority Interrupt Controller
|
|
Program Interrupt Controller
|
|
PID Process Identification Number
|
|
PIF Program Information File
|
|
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
|
|
PIXEL Picture Element
|
|
PJL Printer Job Language
|
|
PK Phil Katz
|
|
PL Plus
|
|
PLA Programmable Logic-Array
|
|
PLATO Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations
|
|
PLC Programmable Logic Controller
|
|
PLCC Plastic Leadless Chip Carrier
|
|
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
|
|
PLU Primary Logical Unit
|
|
PLV Production Level Video
|
|
PL/1 Programming Language One
|
|
PM Presentation Manager
|
|
Preventative Maintenance
|
|
Program Manager
|
|
Project Manager
|
|
PMD Physical Merory Dependent
|
|
PMMU Paged Memory Management Unit
|
|
PMOS Positive Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor
|
|
PMS Pantone Matching System
|
|
PNP Plug aNd Play
|
|
PO Parity Odd
|
|
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
|
|
POSIX Portable Oprating System Environment Standard
|
|
Portable Operating System Interface eXtensions
|
|
POST Power-On Self Test
|
|
POSTNET Postal Numeric Encoding Technique
|
|
POTS Plain Old Telephone System
|
|
PPD Postscript Printer Description
|
|
PPDS Personal Printer Data Stream
|
|
PPH Pages Per Hour
|
|
PPM Pages Per Minute
|
|
PPN Project-Programmer Number
|
|
PPP Point to Point Protocol
|
|
PPS Packets Per Second
|
|
PQFP Plastic Quad Flat Pack
|
|
PRAM Programmable RAM
|
|
Parameter RAM
|
|
PRI Primary Rate Interface
|
|
PRMD PRivate Management Domains
|
|
PROC Procedure
|
|
PROFS PRofessional OFfice Systems
|
|
PROG Program
|
|
Programmer
|
|
PROLOG Programming In Logic
|
|
PROM Programmable Read Only Memory
|
|
PRN Printer
|
|
PPE PCboard Programming Extension
|
|
PPL PCboard Programming Language
|
|
PPP Point-to-Point Protocol
|
|
PRTSC Print Screen
|
|
PS PostScript
|
|
Personal Services
|
|
PicoSecond
|
|
Personal System
|
|
Programming System
|
|
PSC Product Service Center
|
|
PSDN Packet Switched Data Network
|
|
PSDS Public Switched Digital Service
|
|
PSH PuSH
|
|
PSK Phase Shift Keying
|
|
PSL Public Software Library
|
|
PSN Packet Switching Network
|
|
PSP Program Segment Prefix
|
|
PSRAM Pseudo-Static Random Access Memory
|
|
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
|
|
PSW Program Status Word
|
|
PT Page Table
|
|
PoinT
|
|
P/T Part Time
|
|
PTD Parallel Transfer Disk Drive
|
|
PTT Postal Telephone and Telegraph
|
|
PTY Pseudo-TTY
|
|
PU Physical Unit
|
|
PUB Publication
|
|
Publish
|
|
PUC Public Utilities Company
|
|
PUMA Programmable Universal Micro Accelerator
|
|
PUSHA Push All Registers
|
|
PUSHF Push Flags
|
|
PVC PolyVinyl Chloride
|
|
Permanent Virtual Circuit
|
|
PVM Pass-through Virtual Machine
|
|
PWB Printed Wire Board
|
|
PWI Public Windows Interface
|
|
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
|
|
QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
|
|
QUERRI Questions on University Extension Regional Resource Information
|
|
|
|
RA Return Authorization
|
|
RACF Resource Access Control Facility
|
|
RAG Row Address Generator
|
|
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
|
|
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
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RDCLK Received Timing Clock
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RDS Random Dot Stereogram
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RDSR Receiver Data Service Request
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RE Regular Expression
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REG Register
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REGAL Rigid Epoxy Glass Acrylic Laminate
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REGEP Regular Expression
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REGEX Regular Expression
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REM Remark
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Remote
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Ring Error Monitor
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RET Resolution Enhancement Technology
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RFC Request For Comment
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RS Record Separator
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REN Rename
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Ringer Equivalence Number
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REP Repeat
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REPE Repeat while Equal
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REPNE Repeat while Not Equal
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REPNZ Repeat while Not Zero
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REPZ Repeat while Zero
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REQ Request
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RES Reset
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Resolution
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RET Resolution Enhancement Technology
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Return
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RETCON RETroactive CONtinuity
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REX Relocatable Executable
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REXX Restructured EXtended eXecutor
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RELSECT Relative Sector
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RF Radio Frequency
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RFC Request For Comment
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RFE Request For Enhancement
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Radio Free Ethernet
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RFI Radio Frequency Interference
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Request For Information
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RFP Request for Proposal
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RFS Remote File System
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RFT Revisable Form Text
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RFU Reserved For Future Use
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RG Renegade
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RGB Red-Green-Blue
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RI Referential Integrity
|
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RIB Renderman Interface Bytestream
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RIFF Resource Interschange File Format
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RIME RelayNet International Message Exchange
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RIP Raster Image Processor
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Routing Information Protocol
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Remote Imaging Protocol
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RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing
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RJE Remote Job Entry
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RLE Run Length Encoded
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RLG Research Libraries Group
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RLL Run Length Limited
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RMON Remote MONitor
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ROM Read Only Memory
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ROSE Remote Operation Service Element
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RPC Remote Procedure Calling
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RPG Report Program Generator
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RePort Generator
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Role Playing Game
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RPL Remote Procedure Load
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RPM Revolutions Per Minute
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RPN Reverse Polish Notation
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RQBE Relational QBE
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RR Receiver Ready
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RSA ron Rivest, adi Shamir, len Adleman
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RSCS Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem
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RSH Remote SHell
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RSI Repetitive Strain Injury
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RST ReSeT
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RTC Real-Time Clock
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Return To Control
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RTF Rich Text Format
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RTI Return From Interrupt
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RTMP Routing Table Maintenance Protocol
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RTS Request To Send
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Ready To Send
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RTSE Reliable Transfer Serivce Element
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RTTY Radio Teletypewriter
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RTV Real Time Video
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R/W Read/Write
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RWM Read-Write Memory
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RX Receiver
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RXD Received Data
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RZ Return To Zero
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SAA Systems Application Architecture
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SAIL Stanford AI Lab
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SAINT Symbolic Automatic Integrator
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SAL Shift Arithmetic Left
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SAM Serial Access Memory
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Sequential Access Method
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Symantic Antivirus for Macintosh
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SANE Standard Apple Numeric Environment
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SAP Secondary Audio Program
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Service Access Point
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Symbolic Assembly Program
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Service Advertising Protocol
|
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SAR Shift Arithmetic Right
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Successive Approximation Register
|
|
SAS Sales Accounting System
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Single Audio System
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Statistical Analysis System
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Statistically Assigned Sockets
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Single Attached Station
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SASI Shugart Associates System Interface
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SB SoundBlaster
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SBB Subtract With Borrow
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SBC Single-Board Computer
|
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SBIS Sustaining Base Infotmation System
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SCAS Scan String
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SCB Subsystem Control Block
|
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SCC Serial Communications Controllers
|
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Synchronous Channel Check
|
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SCCS Source Code Control System
|
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SCD Standard Color Display
|
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SCF System Control Facility
|
|
SCM Software Configuration Management
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SCO Santa Cruz Operation
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SCODL Scan Conversion Object Description Language
|
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SCP Save Cursor Position
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Subsystem Control Port
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System Control Program
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SCR Silicon Controlled Rectifier
|
|
SCRN Screen
|
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SCS SNA Character String
|
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SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface
|
|
SD Send Data
|
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Start Delimiter
|
|
SDA Software Disk Array
|
|
Source Data Automation
|
|
System Display Architecture
|
|
SDI Switched Digital International
|
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SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control
|
|
SDK Software Developer's Kit
|
|
Software Development Kit
|
|
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control
|
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SDLP Standard Device Level Protocol
|
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SDN Software Defined Network
|
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SDNS Secure Data Network Service
|
|
SDP Streaming Data Procedure
|
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SDR Streaming Data Request
|
|
SDS Sysops Distribution System
|
|
SD_STB Streaming Data Strobe
|
|
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
|
|
SEF Source Explicit Forwarding
|
|
SEG Segment
|
|
SEL Select
|
|
SEM Scanning Electron Microscope
|
|
Standard Electronic Module
|
|
SER Serial
|
|
SEU Smallest Executable Unit
|
|
SEX Software EXchange
|
|
Sign EXtend
|
|
SF Sign Flag
|
|
SFD Start of Frame Delimiter
|
|
SFLA Stupid Four Little Acronyms
|
|
SFQL Structured Full-text Query Language
|
|
SFT System Fault Tolerance
|
|
System File Table
|
|
SFX Sound Effect
|
|
SGEN Signal Generator
|
|
System Generator
|
|
SGDT Store Global Descriptor Table
|
|
SGI Silicon Graphics, Inc.
|
|
SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language
|
|
SGR Set Graphics Rendition
|
|
S/H Sample and Hold
|
|
SHL Shift Logical Left
|
|
SHR Shift Logical Right
|
|
SI Source Index
|
|
System Information
|
|
Shift-In
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|
System International
|
|
SID Station Identification
|
|
Source IDentifier
|
|
SIDT Store Interrupt Descriptor Table
|
|
SIG Special Interest Group
|
|
SIGCAT Special Interest Group on CD-ROM Applications and Technology
|
|
SIM Simulator
|
|
Society for Information Management
|
|
SIMD Single Instruction Multiple Data
|
|
SIMM Single In-line Memory Module
|
|
System Integrated Memory Module
|
|
SIMULA Simulation
|
|
SIP Single In-line Package
|
|
Service Identification Packet
|
|
SIPO Serial In, Parallel Out
|
|
SIPP Single In-line Pin Package
|
|
SIRDS Single Image RDS
|
|
SISD Single Instruction Single Data
|
|
SISO Serial In, Serial Out
|
|
SIT Special Information Tones
|
|
SLDT Store Local Descriptor Table
|
|
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
|
|
SMART Simply Making All Resources Tiny
|
|
SMB Server Message Block
|
|
SMC Standard MicroSystems Corp.
|
|
SMD Surface Mounted Device
|
|
Storage Module Device
|
|
SMDS Switched Multimegabit Data Service
|
|
SMF Super MetaFile
|
|
Standard Message Format
|
|
SMI System Management Interrupts
|
|
Simple Mail Interface
|
|
SMIF Standard Mechanical Interface
|
|
SMK Software Migration Kit
|
|
SMM System Management Mode
|
|
System Management Module
|
|
SMOP Simple Matter Of Progamming
|
|
Small Matter Of Progamming
|
|
SMP Symbolic Manipulation Program
|
|
Symmetric MultiProcessing
|
|
Simple Management Protocol
|
|
SMPS Switching Mode Power Supply
|
|
SMPT Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
|
|
SMS Storage Management Services
|
|
SMSW Store Machine Status Word
|
|
SMT Surface-Mount Technology
|
|
Station ManagemenT
|
|
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
|
|
SMU System Management Utility
|
|
SN Serial Number
|
|
S/N Signal-to-Noise
|
|
SNA Systems Network Architecture
|
|
SNADS SNA Distributed Services
|
|
SNAP Sub Network Access Protocol
|
|
SND Sound
|
|
SNF Server Natural Format
|
|
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
|
|
SNOBOL String Oriented Symbolic Language
|
|
SNP Serial Number/Password
|
|
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
|
|
SO Shift-Out
|
|
SOAP Symbolic Optimizing Assembler Program
|
|
SOE Standard Operating Environment
|
|
SOH Start of Heading
|
|
Start of Header
|
|
SOHO Small Office Home Office
|
|
SOL Simulation Oriented Language
|
|
SOM Start of Message
|
|
System Object Model
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
SPCL Spectrum Cellular Corporation
|
|
SPEC Standards Performance Evaluation Corp.
|
|
SPF System Programming Facility
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
SQL Structured Query Language
|
|
SQRT Square Root
|
|
SQUID Superconducting QUantum Interface Device
|
|
SR Shift Register
|
|
SRAM Shadow Random Access Memory
|
|
Static Random Access Memory
|
|
SRI Standard Research Institute
|
|
SRO Sharable and Read Only
|
|
SRQ Service Request
|
|
SRR Serially Reusable Resource
|
|
SRT Source Routing Transparent
|
|
SS Stack Segment
|
|
Single Sided
|
|
Seconds
|
|
Special Sequence
|
|
SSAP System Services Access Point
|
|
SSCP System Services Control Point
|
|
SSD Solid State Disk
|
|
SSEC Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator
|
|
SSGA System Suppport Gate Array
|
|
SSI Small Scale Integration
|
|
SSP System Support Program
|
|
SST Spread-Spectrum Technology
|
|
STA Spanning Tree Algorithm
|
|
STAIRS Storage And Information Retrieval System
|
|
STARS Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems
|
|
STB Strobe
|
|
STC Set Carry Flag
|
|
STD Set Direction Flag
|
|
Standard
|
|
State Transition Diagram
|
|
STDA StreetTalk Directory Assistance
|
|
STDAUX Standard Auxillary
|
|
STDERR Standard Error
|
|
STDIN Standard Input
|
|
STDOUT Standard Output
|
|
STDPRN Standard Printer
|
|
STI Set Interrupt Flag
|
|
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
|
|
STScI Space Telescope Science Institute
|
|
STX Start of Text
|
|
STY Sub-TTY
|
|
SUB Subroutine
|
|
Substitute
|
|
Subtract
|
|
S-VHS Super VHS
|
|
SUM Symantec Utilities
|
|
SUN Stanford University Network
|
|
SVC Switched Virtual Circuit
|
|
SVGA Super VGA
|
|
SVID System V Interface Definition
|
|
SVV Software Verification and Validation
|
|
S/W Software
|
|
ShareWare
|
|
SWB SWap Byte
|
|
SYLK Symbolic Link
|
|
SYNC Synchronous
|
|
SYN SYNchronous
|
|
SYNchronize
|
|
SYS System
|
|
SYSGEN System Generator
|
|
SYSLOG System Log
|
|
SYSMOD System Modification
|
|
SYSOP System Operator
|
|
|
|
T Tera
|
|
TAC Terminal Access Controller
|
|
TAD Telephone Answering Device
|
|
TAE Transportable Applications Environment
|
|
TAPI Telephony API
|
|
TAPCIS The Access Program for the CompuServe Information Service
|
|
TAR Tape ARchiver
|
|
TASM Turbo Assembler
|
|
TAXI Transparent Asynchronous Tranceiver Interface
|
|
TB Terabyte
|
|
T/B Top and Bottom
|
|
TBBS The Bread Board System
|
|
TBPS TeraBytes Per Second
|
|
TC Transmission Convergence
|
|
Technical Committee
|
|
TCAM Telecommunications Access Method
|
|
TCB Trouble Came Back
|
|
Trusted Computer Base
|
|
TCM Trellis-Coded Modulation
|
|
Thermal Conduction Module
|
|
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
|
|
TCSEC Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria
|
|
TCU Transmission Control Unit
|
|
TD Transmit Data
|
|
3D Three Dimensional
|
|
2D Two Dimensional
|
|
TDE Terminal Display Editor
|
|
TDI Trusted Database Interpretation
|
|
TDM Time Division Multiplexing
|
|
TDMS Terminal Display Management System
|
|
TDMTLA Too Damned Many TLAs
|
|
TDSR Transmitter Data Service Request
|
|
TDR Time Domain Reflectometry
|
|
TEC Tokyo Electronics Corporation
|
|
TECHNET Technical Support for Educaion and Research
|
|
TECO Text Editor and COrrector
|
|
Tape Editor and COrrector
|
|
TED Tiny Editor
|
|
TELPAC Tube Engineering Panel Advisory Council
|
|
TEML Turbo Editor Macro Language
|
|
TENEX TEN EXecutive
|
|
TERMPWR Terminator Power
|
|
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
|
|
THZ TeraHertZ
|
|
TI Texas Instruments
|
|
TIA Telecommunications Industry Association
|
|
TIC TermInfo Compiler
|
|
TID Target ID
|
|
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
|
|
TIX Teachers Information eXchange
|
|
TLA Three Letter Acronym
|
|
TLAP Token ring Link Access Protocol
|
|
TLB Translation Lookaside Buffer
|
|
TLI Transport Level Interface
|
|
TLU Table Lookup
|
|
TM Trademark
|
|
3M Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
|
|
TMA Tycho Magnetic Anomaly
|
|
TMP Temporary
|
|
TMRC Tech Model Railroad Club
|
|
TN Twisted Nematic
|
|
TelNet
|
|
TOF Top Of Form
|
|
Top Of File
|
|
TOI Transfer Of Information
|
|
TOP Technical Office Protocol
|
|
TOPS Transparent OPerating System
|
|
TORES Text ORiented Editing System
|
|
TOS Type Of Service
|
|
TP Twisted Pair
|
|
Transaction Processing
|
|
TPA Transient Program Area
|
|
TPC Transaction Processing Performance Council
|
|
TPD Third Party Developers
|
|
TPDU Transfer Protocol Data Unit
|
|
TPI Tracks Per Inch
|
|
TPL Table Producing Language
|
|
TPORT Twisted Pair Port Transceiver
|
|
TPS Transaction Processing System
|
|
Transactions Per Second
|
|
TR Terminal Ready
|
|
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
|
|
TSB Termination Status Block
|
|
TSCB Time-Sharing Cookie Bear
|
|
TSD Total System Design
|
|
TSN The Sierra Network
|
|
TSO Time Sharing Option
|
|
TSOP Thin Small Outline Package
|
|
TSP Time Synchronization Protocol
|
|
Teleprocessing Services Program
|
|
Traveling Salesman Problem
|
|
TSR Terminate and Stay Resident
|
|
TSS Task State Segment
|
|
Time Sharing System
|
|
Telecommunications Standardization Sector
|
|
TS/SI Top Secret/Sensitive Information
|
|
TSTN Triple Supertwisted Nematic
|
|
TT True Type
|
|
TTF True Type Font
|
|
TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic
|
|
Time To Live
|
|
TTS Transaction Tracking System
|
|
TTY Teletype
|
|
TeleTYpewriter
|
|
TTYL Talk To You Later
|
|
TUI Text-Based User Interface
|
|
TV TeleVision
|
|
TVI Television Interference
|
|
TWA Trans World Airlines
|
|
TWAIN Toolkit Without An Important Name
|
|
TWIP TwentIeth of a Point
|
|
TWT Traveling Wave Tube
|
|
TWX Teletypewriter Exchange Service
|
|
TXD Transmitted Data
|
|
TXT Text
|
|
|
|
UA User Agent
|
|
User Area
|
|
User Account
|
|
UAE Unrecoverable Application Error
|
|
UAR USer Action Routine
|
|
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
|
|
U-B Ungermann-Bass
|
|
UBA UniBus Adaptor
|
|
UBD User Brain Damage
|
|
UCL Universal Communications Language
|
|
UCR Under Cover Removal
|
|
UDF User Defined Function
|
|
UDP User Datagram Protocol
|
|
UEC User Environment Componant
|
|
UG User Group
|
|
UHF UltraHigh Frequency
|
|
UI Unnumbered Information
|
|
User Interface
|
|
Unix International
|
|
UIMS User Interface Management System
|
|
UL Upload
|
|
Universal Labs
|
|
Underwriters Laboraties
|
|
ULA Uncommitted Logic Array
|
|
ULANA Unified LAN Architecture
|
|
ULP Upper Layer Protocol
|
|
ULSI Ultra Large Scale Integration
|
|
UMA Upper Memory Area
|
|
UMB Upper Memory Block
|
|
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
|
|
UNIVAC Universal Automatic Computer
|
|
UNMA Unified Network Management Architecture
|
|
UPC Universal Product Code
|
|
UPL User Program Language
|
|
UPM User Profile Management
|
|
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
|
|
Uninterruptible Power System
|
|
URG URGent
|
|
US Unit Separator
|
|
USART Universal Synchronous-Asynchronous Reciever/Transmitter
|
|
USENET Users Network
|
|
USERID User Identification
|
|
USG Unix Support Group
|
|
USL Unix Systems Laboratories
|
|
USO Unix Software Operation
|
|
USOC Universal Service Ordering Code
|
|
USQ Unsqueezed
|
|
USR US Robotics
|
|
USRT Universal Synchronous Receiver/Transmitter
|
|
USSA User Supported Software Association
|
|
UT User Terminal
|
|
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
|
|
UV Ultraviolet
|
|
UVEPROM UltraViolet EPROM
|
|
|
|
VA Virtual Address
|
|
VAB Voice Answer Block
|
|
VAC Volts AC
|
|
VAD Value Added Dealer
|
|
VADD Value Added Disk Driver
|
|
VAGI VESA Advanced Graphics Interface
|
|
VAL Value
|
|
Voice Application Language
|
|
VAM Virtual Access Method
|
|
VAN Value Added Network
|
|
VAP Value Added Processes
|
|
VAR Value Added Reseller
|
|
Value Added Retailer
|
|
Variable
|
|
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
|
|
VCI Virtual Channel Identifier
|
|
VCM Voice Coil Motor
|
|
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator
|
|
VCPI Virtual Control Program Interface
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VCR Video Cassette Recorder
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VDE Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker
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Visual Development Environment
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VDFM Virtual Disk File Manager
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VDI Virtual Device Interface
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Video Device Interface
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VDIFF Visual DIFFerence
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VDISK Virtual Disk
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VDL Vienna Definition Language
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VDM Virtual DOS Machine
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Virtual Device Metafile
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Video Display Metafile
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VDS Virtual DMA Services
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VDT Video Display Terminal
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VDU Video Display Unit
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Visual Display Unit
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VEGA Video-7 Enhanced Graphics Adapter
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VER Verify
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Version
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VERONICAVery Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Guide to Computerized Archives
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VERR Verify Read Access
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VERW Verify Write Access
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VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
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VF Video Floppy
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Video Frequency
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VFD Vacuum Fluorescent Display
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VFO Variable Frequency Oscillator
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VFW Video For Windows
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VGA Video Graphics Array
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VGC Video Graphics Controller
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VHD Very High Density
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VHF Very High Frequency
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VHLL Very High Level Language
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VHS Very High Speed
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Virtual Host Storage
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Video Home System
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VHSIC Very High Speed Integrated Circuit
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VI Visual Interface
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VIM Vendor Independent Messaging
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VIO Video Input/Output
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Virtual Input/Output
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VINES Virtual Network System
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VIP Variable Information Processing
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VIPER Verifiable Integrated Processor for Enhanced Reliability
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VIRUS Vital Information Resources Under Siege
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VIS Voice Information System
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VISCA VIdeo System Control Architecture
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VLB VESA Local Bus
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VLF Very Low Frequency
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VLIW Very Long Instruction Word
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VLM Virtual Loadable Modules
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VLMF Very Low Magnetic Field
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VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
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VLSIPS Very Large Scale Immobilized Polymer Synthesis
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VLT Variable List Table
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VM Virtual Machine
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Virtual Memory
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VMB Voice Mail Box
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VM/CMS Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System
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VMM Virtual Memory Manager
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VMOS Vertical MOS
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VMR Vertical Market Reseller
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VMS Virtual Memory System
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Voice Message System
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VMT Virtual Memory Technique
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VMTP Virtual Message Transaction Protocol
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VNA Virtual Network Architecture
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VOIS Voice Operated Information System
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VOL Volume
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VOM Volt Ohm Meter
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VOS Verbal Operating System
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VOX Voice Operated device
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VPC Virtual Processor Complex
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VPI Virtual Path Identifier
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VR Virtual Reality
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Voltage Regulator
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VRAM Video Random Access Memory
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VRC Virtual Redundancy Check
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VRM Virtual Resource Manager
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VROOMM Virtual Real-time Object Oriented Memory Manager
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VRU Voice Response Unit
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VS Virtual Storage
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VSAM Virtual Storage Access Method
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VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal
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VSE Virtual Storage Extended
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VSF Vertical Scanning Frequency
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VSLI Very Large Scale Integration
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VSM Virtual Storage Management
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VSOS Virtual Storage Operating System
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VSX Verification Suite for X/open
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VSYNC Vertical Sync
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VT Vertical Tab
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Video Terminal
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Virtual Terminal
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V/2 ViSiON/2
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VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
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Virtual Terminal Access Method
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VUE Visual User Environment
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VUI Video User Interface
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VUP VAX Unit of Performance
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V/X ViSiON/X
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W3 World Wide Web
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W4 What Works With What
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WABI Windows Application Binary Interface
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WAIS Wide Area Information Server
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WAITS Wide-Area Informtion Transfer System
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West coast Alternative to ITS
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WAN Wide Area Network
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WATS Wide Area Telecommunications Service
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WAV Windows Audio Video
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WC Word Count
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WildCat
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WD Western Digital
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Working Document
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WELL Whole Earth Lectronic Link
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WFW Windows For Workgroups
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WGS Work Group System
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WIMP Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers
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WINGS Wide-bandwidth Information Network Gigabit Services
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WISC Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer
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WMF Windows MetaFile
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WNIC Wide-Area Network Interface Co-Processor
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WNIM Wide-Area Network Interface Module
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W/O Without
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WOMBAT Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time
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WORM Write Once, Read Many
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WOSA Windows Open Services Architecture
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WP WordPerfect
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Word Processing
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Write Protected
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Word Processor
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WPD Windows Printer Description
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WPG WordPerfect Graphic
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WPHD Write-Protect Hard Disk
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WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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WPM Words Per Minute
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WPS WorkPlace Shell
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Windows Printing System
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WS WordStar
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Workstation
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WSI Wafer Scale Integration
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WT Write Through
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WUGNET Windows Users Group NETwork
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WWW World Wide Web
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WYSBYGI What You See Before You Get It
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WYSIWIS What You See Is What I See
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WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
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XA Extended Architecture
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Extended Attribute
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XAPIA X.400 Application Program Interface Association
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XCF eXperimental Computing Facility
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XCHG Exchange
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XCMD External Command
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XDR External Data Representation
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XFCN External Function
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XGA Extended Graphics Array
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XGP Xerox Graphics Printer
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XID Exchange Identifier
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XIOS Extended Input/Output System
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XIP eXecute In Place
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XLAT Translate
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XMIT Transmit
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XMM Extended Memory Manager
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XMS Extended Memory Specification
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XNS Xerox Network System
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XNS/ITP Xerox Network System/Internet TransPort
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XO eXactly Once
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XOR Exclusive OR
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XSMD Extended Storage Module Drive
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XTAL Crystal
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XTCLK External Transmit Clock
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XUI X-windows User Interface
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XVT eXtensible Virtual Toolkit
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YA Yet Another
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YABA Yet Another Bloody Acronym
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YAUN Yet Another UNIX Nerd
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YACC Yet Another Compiler Compiler
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YAM Yet Another Modem
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ZBR Zone Bit Recording
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Z-CAV Zoned Constant Angular Velocity
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ZDS Zenith Data Systems
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ZGM ZenoGraphics Metafile
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ZIF Zero Insertion Force
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ZIP Zone Improvement Plan
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|
Zone Information Protocol
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|
Zig-zag Inline Package
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|
ZIT Zone Information Table
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|
ZNT ZiffNet
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|
ZSL Zero Slot LAN
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|
ZWEI ZWEI Was EINE Initially
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