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Computer Acronym List v1.0
This is a list of computer acronyms. Use it to figure out what people
are talking about. If you have any questions or additions, please feel free to
contact us. Without further ado, here they are: -sUMsDos
AA Auto Answer
AAL ATM Adaption Layer
AAP Applications Access Point
AARP Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol
AASP ASCII Asynchronous Support Package
AAT Average Access Time
ABC Atanasoff-Berry Computer
ABEND ABnormal END
ABI Application Binary Interface
ABIOS Advanced BIOS
ABM Asynchronous Balanced Mode
ABS Absolute
ABT Abort
AC Automatic Computer
Alternating Current
Access Control
ACC Accumulator
ACCLAIM Action Client Card List And Information Management
ACD Automated Call Distribution
ACE Advanced Computing Environment
ACF Access Control Field
Advanced Communications Function
ACFM Adobe Composite Font Metrics
ACIA Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter
ACIS American Committee for Interoperable Systems
ACK ACKnowledgment
ACL Advanced CMOS Logic
ACM Association for Computing Machinery
ACMS Application Control Management System
ACP Ancillary Control Program
Auxillary Control Process
ACPDP Alternating Current Plasma Display Panel
ACROSS Automated Cargo Release and Operations Service System
ACS Access
Access Control Set
Access Control System
Asynchronous Communication Server
Advanced Communications System
ASCE Association Control Service Element
ACTFEL Alternating Current Thin Film ElectroLuminescent
ACTS Advanced Communications Technology Satellite
ACU Automatic Calling Unit
A/D Analog to Digital
AD Application Development
ADA Automatic Data Acquisitions
ADAPSO Association of Data Processing Service Organizations
ADB Apple Desktop Bus
ADC Add with Carry
Analog to Digital Converter
American Display Consortium
ADCCP Advanced Data Communication Control Procedures
ADD Adapter Device Driver
ADE Application Development Environment
ADF Automatic Document Feed
Application Development Facility
ADI Autodesk Device Interface
ADL Address Data Latch
ADLAT Adaptive Lattice Filter
ADMD ADministration Management Domain
ADP Automatic Data Processing
Advanced Data Processing
Administrative Data Processing
ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
ADR Address
ADRS A Departmental Reporting System
ADS Application Development System
Automatic Distribution System
Autocad Development System
ADSC Address Status Changed
ADSP Appletalk DataStream Protocol
ADSR Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release
ADT Application Data Types
Abstract Data Type
ADU Automatic Dialing Unit
AE Above or Equal
Application Execution
AEA American Electronics Association
AEB Analog Expansion Bus
AED Advanced Error Diffusion
AEGIS Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System
AEP Application Environment Profile
AF Auxilary carry Flag
Audio Frequency
AFC Automatic Font Change
AFCAC Air Force Computer Acquisition Center
AFE Apple File Exchange
AFI Appletalk Filing Interface
AFII Association for Font Information Interchange
AFIPS American Federation of Information Processing Societies
AFM Adobe Font Metrics
AFP Appletalk Filing Protocol
AFS Andrew File System
AG Arcade Game
AGC Automatic Gain Control
AI Analog Input
Artificial Intelligence
Application Interface
AIA Applications Integration Architecture
AIFF Audio Interchange File Format
AIIM Association for Information and Image Management
AIMS Auto Indexing Mass Storage
AISB Association of Imaging Service Bureaus
AISP Association of Information Systems Professionals
AIX Advanced Interactive Executive
ALAP Appletalk LAP
ALC Arithmetic and Logic Circuits
Automatic Level Control
Assembly Language Coding
ALE Address Latch Enable
ALGOL ALGOrithmic Language
ALM Application Loadable Module
ALO At Least Once
ALR Advanced Logic Research
ALS Automatic Line Switching
Alt ALTernate
ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit
AM Amplitude Modulation
AMD Active Matrix Display
Advanced Micro Devices
AMI American Megatrends Incorporated
Alternate Mark Inversion
AMLCD Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
AMMA Advanced Memory Management Architecture
AMT Address Mapping Table
ANCOVA Analysis of Covariance
ANDF Architecture Neutral Distribution Format
ANI Automatic Number Identification
ANOVA Analysis Of Variance
ANSI American National Standard Institute
ANTC Advanced Networked Test Center
AO Analog Output
AOCE Apple Open Collaboration Environment
AOE Application Operating Environment
AOL America OnLine
AOS Add Or Subtract
Acedemic Operating System
AP Adjunct Processor
Application Processor
A/P Accounts Payable
APA Arithmetic Processing Accelerator
All Points Addressable
APAREN Address Parity Enable
APCUG Association of PC User Groups
APDA Apple Programmers And Developers Association
API Application Program Interface
Application Programming Interface
APL A Programming Language
APM Advanced Power Management
APP Applications Portability Profile
APPC Advanced Program-to-Program Communication
APPN Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking
APRIL APplication Rational Interface Logic
APSE ADA Programming Support Environment
APT Address Pass Through
Automatic Programmed Tools
AQ Accumulator-Quotient
A/R Accounts Receivable
AR Address Register
ARC Advanced RISC Computing
ARCA Advanced RISC Computing Architecture
ARCNET Attached Resource Computer NETwork
ARDIS Advanced National Radio Data Service
ARG Argument
ARL Adjusted Ring Length
ARLL Advanced Run Length Limited
ARM Asynchronous Response Mode
Advanced RISC Machine
ARMA Association of Records Managers and Administrators
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork
ARPL Adjust Requested Privilege Level
ARTIC A Real-Time Interface Copressor
ARQ Automatic Repeat reQuest
ARU Audio Response Unit
AS Application System
Advanced Server
ASAP As Soon As Possible
Automatic Switching And Processing
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASDSP Application Specific DSP
ASE Applied Service Elements
ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
ASIT Advanced Security and Identification Technology
ASK Amplitude Shift Keying
ASM ASseMbler
Association for Systems Management
ASN Abstract Syntax Notation
ASP Association of Shareware Professionals
Appletalk Session Protocol
Aggregated Switch Procurement
Advanced Signal Processor
ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
ASPS Advanced Signal Processing System
ASR Automatic Send-Receive
Automatic Speech Recognition
ASSP Application Specific Standard Prot
AST Albert wong, Safi qureshy, Tom vu
ASYNC Asynchronous
AT Advanced Technology
Attention
ATA AT Bus Attachment
ARCNET Trade Association
ATDP Attention Dial Pulse
ATDT Attention Dial Tone
ATE Automated Test Equipment
ATG Advanced Technology Group
ATH Attention Hang-Up
ATLATL AnyThing Lord to AnyThing Lord
ATM Adobe Type Manager
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Automated Teller Machine
ATP Appletalk Transaction Protocol
ATR Automatic Terminal Recognition
Attribute
ATS Administrative Terminal System
Apple Terminal Services
AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph
ATTN Attention
ATTRIB Attribute
AUDIT Automated Data Input Terminal
AUI Attachment Unit Interface
Auxillary Unit Interface
Access Unit Interface
AUP Acceptable Use Policy
AUTO Automatic
AUTODIN AUTOmatic Digital Network
AUTOVON AUTOmatic VOice Network
AUX Auxiliary
AV AntiVirus
AutoVisual
AVA Audio Visual Authoring
AVC Audio Visual Connection
AVG Average
AVI Audio Visual Interleaved
AWG American Wire Guage
AWK alfred Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan
AX Architecture Extended
Automatic Transmission
b Bit
B Byte
BAD Broken As Designed
BAK Binary Adaption Kit
BAL Basic Assembly Language
Branch And Link
BALUN BALanced UNbalanced
BAM Boyan Action Module
BAPCO Business Aplication Performance COrp.
BARTS Bell Atlantic Regional TimeSharing
BASH Bourne Again Shell
BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BBN Bolt, Beranek and Newman
BBS Bulletin Board System
BCD Binary Coded Decimal
BCDIC Binary Coding Decimal Interchange Code
BCL Batch Command Language
BCP Byte Controlled Protocols
BCPL Basic Combined Programming Language
BCR Byte Count Register
BCS Binary Compatility Standard
Boston Computer Society
British Computer Society
B&D Bondage and Discipline
BDF Binary Distribution Format
BDOS Basic Disk Operating System
BE Below or Equal
BEL Bell
BELLCOREBell Communications Research
BER Basic Encoding Rules
Bit Error Rate
BEST Borland Enhanced Support and Training
BF Bad Flag
B/F Background/Foreground
BFI Brute Force and Ignorance
BFMI Brute Force and Massive Ignorance
BFT Binary File Transmission
BGE Branch if Greater or Equal
BGT Branch if Greater Than
Borland Graphic Interface
BHI Branch if Higher
BHIS Branch if Higher or Same
BI Binary Input
BIF Binary Initialization File
BIFF Binary Interchange File Format
BILOS Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap
BIM Beginning of Information Marker
BINAC Binary Automatic Computer
BIOC Break Into Other Computers
BIOS Basic Input/Output System
BIPS Billion Instructions Per Second
BITS Base Information Transfer System
BIS Business Information System
BISDN Broadband ISDN
BIST Built In Self Test
BiSYNC Binary Synchronous Communications
BIT Binary digit
BITNET Because It's Time Network
BIU Bus Interface Unit
BIX Byte Information eXchange
BKSP Backspace
BL Backlit
BLAST Blocked Asynchronous Transmission
BLE Branch if Less or Equal
BLF Busy Line Feed
BLIT Bell Labs Intelligent Terminal
BLK Block
BLMC Buried Logic Macrocell
BLOB Binary Large OBject
BLOS Branch if Lower Or Same
BLT BLock Transfer
BMI Branch if Minus
BMIC BusMaster Interface Controller
BMP Batch Message Processing Program
BitMaP
BNC Bayonet N Connector
BNE Branch if Not Equal
BNF Big Name Fan
Bachus-Naur Form
BNM Blue Noise Mask
BO Binary Output
BOC Bell Operating Company
BOF Beginning Of File
BOM Beginning Of Message
BOMP Bill Of Materials Processor
BOP Bit Oriented Protocol
BORPQU Borland Pro Quattro
BORQU Borland Quattro
BOS Basic Operating System
BOSIX Biin Open System Interface eXtension
BOT Beginning Of Table
Beginning of Tape
BP Base Pointer
BPB BIOS Parameter Block
BPI Bits Per Inch
BPL Branch if Plus
BPS Bits Per Second
Bytes Per Second
BQS Berkeley Quality Software
BR Bad Register
BRB Be Right Back
BRI Basic Rate Interface
Brain Response Interface
BRIEF Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility
BRS Bibliographic Retrieval Service
Big Red Switch
BS BackSpace
BSA Business Software Alliance
BSAM Basic Sequential Access Method
BSC Binary Synchronous Communication
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
BSF Bit Scan Forward
BSI British Standards Institute
BSR Bit Scan Reverse
BSS Block Started by Symbol
BSY Busy
BSYNC Binary Synchronous Communications
BT Bit Test
BTAM Basic Telecommunications Access Method
BTC Bit Test and Complement
BTL Bell Telephone Laboratories
BTLZ British Telecom Lempel Ziv
BTOA Binary TO Ascii
BTP Batch Transfer Program
BTR Bit Test and Reset
BTS Bit Test and Set
BUF Buffer
BUNCH Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell
BWM Block-Write Mode
BWOD BandWidth On Demand
BYTE Binary Element
BTZ Bundesant fur Zulassungen in der Telekommunikation
B&W Black and White
Bells and Whistles
BWQ Buzz Word Quotient
BX Base eXchange
CA Collision Avoidance
Computer Associates
CACM Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery
CAD Computer Aided Design
CADD Computer Aided Design and Drafting
CAE Common Applications Environment
Computer Aided Engineering
CAF Compters & Acedemic Freedom
CAG Column Address Generator
CAI Computer Aided Instruction
Computer Associates International
CAIS Common ASPE Interface Specification
CAL Calendar
Computer Assisted Learning
Conversational Algebraic Language
CALS Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support
CAM Common Access Method
Computer Aided Manufacturing
Content Addressable Memory
Computer Aided Management
CAMP Coporate Association for Microcomputer Professionals
CAN Cancel
CAP Central Arbitration Point
Computer Aided Publishing
Columbia Appletalk Package
CAPD Computing To Assist Persons With Disabilities
CAPS Capitals (Upper Case Letters)
Cassette Programming System
CAPSL CAnon Printing System Language
CAR Computer Aided Retrieval
Contents of the Address Register
CARDS Central Archive for Reusable Defense Software
CARL Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
CAS Column Address Select
Communicating Applications Specification
Computer Aided Styling
CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering
Computer Aided Systems Engineering
CASL Crosstalk Application Scripting Language
CASS Computer Assisted Search Service
CASSIS Classified and Search Support Information System
CAT Computer Aided Testing
Computer Aided Tomography
Computer Aided Transcription
Concatenate
CATIS Common Applications and Tools Integration Services
CATV Community Antenna Television
CAU Contolled Access Unit
CAV Constant Angular Velocity
CB Citizen's Band
CBCR Channel Byte Count Register
CBEMA Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association
CBL Computer Based Learning
CBR Computer Based Reference
CBT Computer Based Training
CBW Convert Byte to Word
CBX Computerized Branch Exchange
CC Cluster Controller
Carbon Copy
CCA Common Cryptographic Architecture
Communications Control Architecture
Compatible Communications Architecture
Computer Corporation of America
CCD Charged-Coupled Device
CCFL Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp
CCFT Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube
CCI Computer Carrier Interrupt
Computer Consoles, Inc.
CCIA Computer and Communications Industry Association
CCIP Continuously Computed Impact Point
CCIS Common Channel Interoffice Signaling
CCITT Comite' Consultatif Internationale Telegraphique et Telephonique
Consultative Committee on International Telegraphy and Telephony
CCP Console Command Processor
CCRP Continuously Computed Release Point
CCS Common Communications Support
CCSA Common Control Switching Arrangement
CCTA Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency
CCTV Closed Circuit TeleVision
CD Carrier Detect
Change Directory
Collision Detection
Color Display
Compact Disk
C/D Control Data
CDA Compound Document Architecture
Call Data Accumulator
CDC Control Data Corporation
CD_CHRDYCarD CHannel ReaDY
CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interface
CDE Complex Data Entry
Cooperative Development Environment
Common Desktop Environment
CDEV Control panel DEVice
CD-I Compact Disk - Interactive
CDIF Case Data Interchange Format
CDL Computer Design Language
CDOS Concurrent Disk Operating System
CDPD Celluar Digital Packet Data
CDPT Celluar Digital Packet Technology
CDR Call Detail Record
Call Detail Recording
Contents of the Decrement Register
CD-R CD-ROM Recorder
CD-RDx Compact Disk - Read Only Memory Data Exchange Standard
CDRL Contract Data Requirements List
CD-ROM Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
CDROMXA CDROM eXtended Architecture
CD-RTOS Compact Disk - Real Time Operating System
CDS Current Directory Structure
CDU Control Display Unit
CD-V Compact Disk - Video
CD-WO Compact Disk - Write Once
CE Cache Enable
Chip Enable
Collision Elimination
Convert Enable
CEG Continuous Edge Graphics
CEI Conducted Electromagnetic Interference
CEO Comperhensive Electronic Office
CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
CERT/CC Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center
CES Consumer Electronics Show
CEVI Computer Equipment Voltage Indicator
CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics
CGA Color Graphics Adapter
CGI Computer Generated Images
Computer Graphics Interface
Color Graphics Interface
CGM Computer Graphics Metafile
CHAP CHAnnel Processor
CHAR CHARacter
CHAT Conversational Hypertext Access Technology
CHCK CHannel ChecK
CHGRP CHange GRouP
CHKDSK CHecK DiSK
CHMOD CHange MODe
CHOWN CHange OWNer
CHP ChaPter
CHR CHaRacter
CICS/VS Customer Information Control System/Virtual Storage
CID Computer Integrated Design
CIDIN Common Icao Data Interchange Network
CIE Commission Internationale d'Eclairage
CIM CompuServe Information Manager
Computer Integrated Manufacturing
CIOCS Communication Input/Output Control System
CIP Command Interface Port
CIRC Circular Reference
CIS CompuServe Information Service
Computer Information Systems
Card Information Structure
CISC Complex Instruction Set Chip
Complex Instruction Set Computer
CIX Commercial Internet eXchange
CKD Count Key Data
CL Connectivity Language
CLAR Channel Local Address Register
CLASS Custom Local Area Signaling System
CLC CLear Carry
Canon Laser Copier
CLD CLear Direction
CLI CLear Interrupt
Command Line Interface
Call Level Interdace
CLIST Command LIST
CLK CLocK
CLM Career Limiting Move
CLNP ConnectionLess Network Protocol
CLRC Circuit Layout Record Card
CLS CLear Screen
CLTS CLear Task Switch
CLUT Color Look Up Table
CLV Constant Linear Velocity
CM Control Mark
Corrective Maintenance
CMA Concert Multi-thread Architecture
CMC Communication Mangement Configuration
Complement Carry Flag
Common Mail Calls
CMD Centralized Message Distribution
CMI Computer Managed Instruction
CMIP Common Management Information Protocol
CMIS Common Management Information System
CML Current Model Logic
CMMU Cache/Memory Management Unit
CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
CMOT CMi Over Tcp/ip
CMP Compare
Computer
CoMmunications Plenum
CMPS CoMPare String
CMR CoMmunications Riser
CMS Creative Music Systems
Code Management System
Compiler Monitor System
Conversation Monitor System
Conversational Monitor System
Color Management System
Call Management System
CMU Carnegie Mellon University
CMY Cyan-Magenta-Yellow
CMYK Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black
CNA Certified Netware Administrator
CNC Computerized Numerical Control
CNE Certified Netware Engineer
CNG CalliNG
CNI Certified Netware Instructor
CNR Carrier Noise Ratio
CNVT Convert
CO Central Office
Command Output
Convert Out
COBOL COmmon Business-Oriented Language
COBRA Common OBject Request Association
CODASYL Conference on Data System Languages
CODEC COder-DECoder
COEM Commercial Original Equipment Manufacturer
COGO COordinate GeOmetry
COIN Columbia Online Information Network
COLD Computer Output to Laser Disc
COM Computer Output Microfilm
Common Object Model
CON Console
CONFIG Configuration
CONS Connection Oriented Network Services
COOL COBOL Object Oriented Language
COP Character Oriented Protocol
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CORE COntrolled Requirement Expression
CORN COmputer Resource Nucleus
COS Compatible Operating System
Corporation for Open Systems
COSE Common Open System Environment
COSMIC Common System Main InterConnection
COmputer Software Management and Information Center
COSMOS Computer System for Mainframe Operations
COSS Common Object Services Specification
CP Copy Protected
Command Processor
CPE Central Processing Element
Customer Premise Equipment
Customer Provided Equipment
CPF Control Program Facility
CPG Clock Pulse Generator
CPI Characters Per Inch
Clock Per Instruction
Common Programming Interface
CPL Current Privilege Level
Characters Per Line
Combined Programming Language
CP/M Control Program for Microcomputers
CPM Critical Path Method
CPN Compuserve Packet Net
CPS Characters Per Second
CPSR Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
CPU Central Processing Unit
CR Carriage Return
CRAM Card RAM
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CREN Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
CRF Cross Reference File
CR/LF Carriage Return/Line Feed
CROM Control Read Only Memory
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CRTC CRT Controller
CRUD Create Retrieve Update and Delete
CS Chip Select
Clear to Send
Code Segment
Computer Science
CSAB Computer Science Accreditation Board
CSAR Channel System Address Register
CSC Computer Science Corp.
CSDC Circuit Switched Digital Capability
CSG Constructive Solid Geometry
Consulting Services Group
CSI Commercial System Integration
Computer Security Institute
CSIC Costumer Specific IC
CSL Computer Sensitive Language
CSMA Carrier Sense Multiple Access
CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
CSMA/CD Carrier-Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detect
CSO Computing Services Office
CSP Commercial Subroutine Package
CompuCom Speed Protocol
Cross System Product
CSPP Computer Systems Policy Project
CSR Control and Status Register
CSRG Computer Systems Research Group
CSS Continuous System Simulation
CSTA Computer-Supported Telephony Applications
CSTO Computer Systems and Technology Office
CSV Comma Separated Value
C&T Chips and Technologies
CTM Current Transformation Matrix
CTOS Computerized Tomography Operating System
Convergent Technologies Operating System
CTPA Coax-to-Twisted-Pair Adapter
CTRL Control
CTS Clear To Send
CTSS Compatible Time Sharing System
CTY Console TeletYpe
CUA Common User Access
CUB Cursor Backward
CUD Cursor Down
CUF Cursor Forward
CUI Common User Interface
Character based User Interface
CUP Cursor Position
CUPID Completely Universal Processor I/O Design
CUSP Commonly Used System Program
CUU Cursor Up
CVF Compressed Volume File
CVGA Color Video Gaphics Array
CVIA Computer Virus Industry Association
CWD Convert Word to Double Word
CYL Cylinder
CYMK Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-Black
D/A Digital to Analog
DA Desk Accessory
DAA Data Access Arrangement
Decimal Adjust for Addition
DAC Digital to Analog Converter
Drive Array Controller
DAD Digital Audio Disc
Database Action Diagram
DAEMON Disk And Execution MONitor
DAL Data Access Language
Disk Access Lockout
DAM Data Acquisition and Monitoring
DAP Data Access Protocol
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
DAS Decimal Adjust for Subtraction
Disk Array Subsystem
Dual Attached Studio
DASD Direct Access Storage Device
DASH Dell Advanced SCSI Host
DAT Digital Audio Tape
DATACOM Data Communications
DB Data Base
Data Buffer
DeciBels
DBA Adjusted Decibels
DBC Double Byte Code
DBF DBase Format
DBM Data Base Manager
DBME DataBase Management Environment
DBMS Data Base Management System
DBS Data Base Server
DB2 Database 2
DC Data Collection
Data Communication
Data Control
Device Control
Direct Current
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
Data Directory
DDA Digital Differential Analyzer
DDBMS Distributed DBMS
DDCMP Digital Data Communications Message Protocol
DDCP Direct Digital Color Proofing
DDD Direct Distance Dialing
DDE Direct Data Entry
Dynamic Data Exchange
DDEML Dynamic Data Exchange Management Library
DDK Driver Development Kit
DDL Data Definition Language
Data Description Language
Document Description Language
DDM Distributed Data Management
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
Direct Entry Table
DEV Device
DF Data Field
Destination Field
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
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
FISH First In, Still Here
FLACC Full Level ALGOL Checkout Compiler
FLD Field
FLOP FLoating point OPeration
FLOPS Floating Point Operations Per Second
FM Frequency Modulation
FMS Forms Management System
FMT Format
FNT Font
FOCUS Forum of Control Data Users
Federation On Computing in the U.S.
FOD Finger Of Death
FOG First Osborne Group
FOIRL Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link
FORTRAN Formula Translator
FOSE Federal Office Systems Exposition
FOSSIL Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer
FPA Floating Point Accelerator
FPD Flat Panel Display
FPE Floating Point Engine
FPGA Field Programmable Gate-Array
FPLA Field Programmable Logic-Array
FPP Fixed Path Protocol
Floating Point Processor
FPS Frames Per Second
FPU Floating Point Unit
FQDN Fully-Qualified Domain Name
FRACTAL FRACTional dimensionAL
FRAG Fragment
Fragmentation
FRAM Ferroelectric Random-Access Memory
Ferromagnetic RAM
FRED FRame EDitor
FRont End to the Directory
Flipping Rediculous Electronic Device
FREQ File REQuest
FRMR FRaMe Reject
FRPI Flux Reversals Per Inch
FS File Separator
Frame Status
FSD File System Driver
FSF Free Software Foundation
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
FSR Free System Resources
F/T Full Time
FTAM File Transfer, Access and Management
FTC Federal Trade Commission
FTM Flat Tension Mask
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FTS Federal Telecommunication System
FUBAR Failed UniBus Address Register
FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
FUNC Function
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYA For Your Amusement
FYI For Your Information
G Giga
GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
GAL Generic Array Logic
GAN Global Area Network
GB Gigabyte
GC Garbage Collection
Garbage Collector
Garbage Collect
GCL Graphics Command Language
GCOS General Comprehensive Operating System
GCR Group Code Recording
Gray Component Replacement
GDA Global Data Area
GDDM Graphics Data Display Manager
GDI Graphics Device Interface
GDS General Data Stream
GDT Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
Global Descriptor Table
GE General Electric
Greater than or Equal to
GECOS General Electric Comprehensive Operating System
GEL Gain Extention Language
GEM Graphics Environment Manager
GENIE General Electric Network for Information Exchange
GENSYM Generated Symbol
GEOS Graphic Environment Operating System
GET Get Execute Trigger
GFR Grim File Reaper
GHz Gigahertz
GIF Graphic Interchange Format
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIN Graphics INput
GIPS Giga-Instructions Per Second
GIS Geographical Information System
GKS Graphical Kernal System
G/L General Ledger
GL Graphics Language
GLM General Linear Models
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GND System Ground
GNU GNU's Not Unix
GNUMACS GNU EMACS
GORP Good Old Raisins and Peanuts
GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile
GOSMACS Gosling EMACS
GP Gas Plasma
General Purpose
GPF General Protection Fault
GPI Graphics Programming Interface
GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus
GPL General Public License
GPS Global Positioning System
GPSS General Purpose Systems Simulation
GPV General Public Virus
GRE Graphics Engine
GREP Global Regular Expression Print
GS Group Separator
GSA General Services Administration
GT Greater Than
GTE General Telephone and Electric
GUI Graphical User Interface
GUS Gravis UltraSound
GVPN Global Virtual Private Network
GW-BASICGee Whiz BASIC
HA Host Adapter
HAKMEM HAcKs MEMory
HAL Hard Array Logic
House Programmed Array Logic
Hardware Abstraction Layer
Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer
HAM Hold And Modify
HASP Houston Automatic Spooling Priority
HBD Honeywell Brain Damage
HCF Halt and Catch Fire
HD Hard Disk
High Density
HDA Head Disk Assembly
Hard Disk Assembly
HDBV Host DataBase View
HDD Hard Disk Drive
HDI Head to Disk Interference
Help Desk Institute
HDLC High-Level Data Link Control
HDPT Hard Disk Parameter Table
HDR Header
HDSC High Density Signal Carrier
HDTV High Definition TeleVision
HDW Hardware
HEA Hyundai Electronics America
HEC Human Engineering Computers
HERC Hercules
HEX Hexadecimal
HF High Frequency
HFS Hierarchial File System
HGA Hercules Graphics Adapter
HGCP Hercules Graphics Card Plus
HH Hour
Half Height
HIL Human Interface Link
HIPPI High Performance Parallel Interface
HLCO High Low Close Open
HLDLC High Level Data Link Control
HLL High Level Language
HLLAPI High Level Language Application Programming Interface
HLQ High Level Qualifier
HLS Hue Lightness Saturation
HLT Halt
HMA High Memory Area
Hub Management Architecture
HMI Hub Management Interface
HMOS High Density Metal Oxide Semiconductor
High Speed Metal Oxide Semiconductor
High performance Metal Oxide Semiconductor
HOBBIT High Order BIT
HP Hewlett-Packard
HPC High-Performance Computing
HPCC High-Performance Computing and Communications
HPFS High Performance File System
HPG Hewlett-Packard Graphics
HPGL Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
HPI Hahn Popularity Index
HPIB Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus
HPPA Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture
HPPI High Performance Parallel Interface
HRIS Human Resource Information System
HRG High Resolution Graphics
HRMS Human Resource Management System
HS High Speed
HSB Hue Saturation Brightness
HSC High Speed Channel
HSL Hue Saturation Lightness
HSLC Health Sciences Libraries Consortium
HSP High Speed Printer
HST High Speed Technology
HSV Hue Saturation Value
HT Horizontal Tab
HUT Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
H/V Horizontal/Vertical
HVP Horizontal & Vertical Position
H/W Hardware
HWCP Hardware Code Page
HWD Height-Width-Depth
HYDRA HYbrid Document Reproduction Apparatus
HZ Hertz
IAB Internet Activities Board
IAC InterApplication Communication
IAL International Algebraic Language
IAS Information Access Services
IAYF Information At Your Fingertips
IBC Instrument Bus Computer
IBECC International BBSing and Electronic Communications Conference
IBM International Business Machines
IBM-GL IBM Graphics Language
IC Input Circuit
Integrated Circuit
Interrupt Controller
ICA Intra-application Communications Area
ICAS Intel Communicating Applications Specifications
ICCP Institute for the Certification of Computer Professionals
ICE In-Circuit Emulator
ICFA International Computer Facsimile Association
ICL Interface Clear
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICOMP Intel COmparative Microprocessor Performance
ICP Integrated Channel Processor
ICR Intelligent Character Recognition
ID Identification
Identifier
IDA Integrated Digital Access
Intelligent Disk Array
Intelligent Drive Array
IDAPI Integrated Database API
IDC International Data Corp.
IDE Imbedded Drive Electronics
Integrated Development Environment
Integrated Drive Electronics
Intelligent Drive Electronics
Interactive Design and Engineering
Interface Design Enhancement
IDF Intermediate Distributing Force
IDG InterDialog Gap
IDIV Integer Divide
IDMS Integrated Data Base Management System
IDP Integrated Data Processing
Internetwork Datagram Protocol
IDT Interrupt Descriptor Table
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEF Information Engineering Facility
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IEW Information Engineering Workbench
I/F Interface
IF Intermediate Frequency
IFD Image File Directory
IFF Interchange File Format
IFG InterFrame Gap
IFIG International Federation of Information Processing
IFS Installable File System
IGA Integrated Graphics Array
IGC Integrated Graphics Controller
IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Specification
IHL Internet Header Length
IIA Industry Information Association
Information Industry Association
Information Interchange Architecture
IIF Immediate IF
IIL Integrated Injection Logic
IIR Immediate Impulse Response
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
INC Increment
INIT Initialize
INN ImagiNation Network
INS Input String
INT Integer
Internal
Interrupt
INTA Interrupt Acknowledge
INTAP INteroperability Technology Association for information Processing
INTELSATINternational TELecommunications SATellite
INTERCALCompiler Language With No Pronouncable Acronym
INTO Interrupt if Overflow occurs
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
MFC Microsoft Foundation Class
MFLOPS Million Floating Point Operations Per Second
MFM Modified Frequency Modulation
MFP Multifunction Peripheral
MFS Magnetic Tape Field Search
Macintosh File System
MFT Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks
MFTL My Favorite Toy Language
MGA Monochrome Graphics Adapter
Multimedia Graphics Architecture
MGI Management Graphics Inc.
MGR Manager
MH Message Handler
MHS Message Handling Service
Message Handling System
MHz Megahertz
MIB Management Information Base
MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MICS Macro Interpretive Commands
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIF Management Information Format
MII Microsoft/IBM/Intel
MIL Machine Interface Layer
MIMD Multiple Instruction Multiple Data
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIN Minimum
MIPS Million Instructions Per Second
MIS Management Information System
Manager of Information Systems
MISC Miscellaneous
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIX Member Information Exchange
MKDIR Make Directory
ML Machine Language
MLID Multiple Link Interface Driver
MLL Medium Level Language
MM Minutes
Month
Multiple Master
MMA Microcomputer Managers Association
MMC Matched Memory Cycle
Microcomputer Marketing Council
MMCD Multimedia Compact Disk
MMCF MultiMedia Communications Forum
MME MultiMedia Extentions
MMI Man Machine Interface
MMU Memory Management Unit
MNOS Metal Nitride Oxide Semiconductor
MNP Microcom Networking Protocol
MO Magneto-Optical
MOD MODulo
MODEM Modulator Demodulator
MOHLL Machine Oriented High Level Language
MOP Maintenance Operation Protocol
MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MOTIS Message Oriented Text Interchange System
MOV Metal Oxide Varistor
Move
MOVS Move String
MOD Modem
Modulus
MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MOV Move
MOVS Move String
MPC Multimedia Personal Computer
MPCS Mission Planning and Control Station
MPE MultiProgramming Executive
MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group
MPP Massively Parallel Processing
Message Processing Program
MPR Multipart Repeater
MPS Megabytes Per Second
MPT Mean Repair Time
MPU Microprocessor Unit
MPW Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
MR Modem Ready
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MRO Multi-Region Operation
MRP Materials Requirement Planning
MRPL Main Ring Path Length
MRS Media Recognition System
MS Memory System
Microsecond
MicroSoft
Millisecond
MSAU Multi Station Access Unit
MSB Most Significant Bit
Most Significant Byte
MSC MicroSoft C
MSCDEX MicroSoft CD-ROM eXtensions
MSD Mass Storage Device
Most Significant Digit
Microsoft System Diagnostics
MS-DOS Microsoft-Disk Operating System
MSDR Multiplexed Streaming Data Request
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
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
RDCLK Received Timing Clock
RDS Random Dot Stereogram
RDSR Receiver Data Service Request
RE Regular Expression
REG Register
REGAL Rigid Epoxy Glass Acrylic Laminate
REGEP Regular Expression
REGEX Regular Expression
REM Remark
Remote
Ring Error Monitor
RET Resolution Enhancement Technology
RFC Request For Comment
RS Record Separator
REN Rename
Ringer Equivalence Number
REP Repeat
REPE Repeat while Equal
REPNE Repeat while Not Equal
REPNZ Repeat while Not Zero
REPZ Repeat while Zero
REQ Request
RES Reset
Resolution
RET Resolution Enhancement Technology
Return
RETCON RETroactive CONtinuity
REX Relocatable Executable
REXX Restructured EXtended eXecutor
RELSECT Relative Sector
RF Radio Frequency
RFC Request For Comment
RFE Request For Enhancement
Radio Free Ethernet
RFI Radio Frequency Interference
Request For Information
RFP Request for Proposal
RFS Remote File System
RFT Revisable Form Text
RFU Reserved For Future Use
RG Renegade
RGB Red-Green-Blue
RI Referential Integrity
RIB Renderman Interface Bytestream
RIFF Resource Interschange File Format
RIME RelayNet International Message Exchange
RIP Raster Image Processor
Routing Information Protocol
Remote Imaging Protocol
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing
RJE Remote Job Entry
RLE Run Length Encoded
RLG Research Libraries Group
RLL Run Length Limited
RMON Remote MONitor
ROM Read Only Memory
ROSE Remote Operation Service Element
RPC Remote Procedure Calling
RPG Report Program Generator
RePort Generator
Role Playing Game
RPL Remote Procedure Load
RPM Revolutions Per Minute
RPN Reverse Polish Notation
RQBE Relational QBE
RR Receiver Ready
RSA ron Rivest, adi Shamir, len Adleman
RSCS Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem
RSH Remote SHell
RSI Repetitive Strain Injury
RST ReSeT
RTC Real-Time Clock
Return To Control
RTF Rich Text Format
RTI Return From Interrupt
RTMP Routing Table Maintenance Protocol
RTS Request To Send
Ready To Send
RTSE Reliable Transfer Serivce Element
RTTY Radio Teletypewriter
RTV Real Time Video
R/W Read/Write
RWM Read-Write Memory
RX Receiver
RXD Received Data
RZ Return To Zero
SAA Systems Application Architecture
SAIL Stanford AI Lab
SAINT Symbolic Automatic Integrator
SAL Shift Arithmetic Left
SAM Serial Access Memory
Sequential Access Method
Symantic Antivirus for Macintosh
SANE Standard Apple Numeric Environment
SAP Secondary Audio Program
Service Access Point
Symbolic Assembly Program
Service Advertising Protocol
SAR Shift Arithmetic Right
Successive Approximation Register
SAS Sales Accounting System
Single Audio System
Statistical Analysis System
Statistically Assigned Sockets
Single Attached Station
SASI Shugart Associates System Interface
SB SoundBlaster
SBB Subtract With Borrow
SBC Single-Board Computer
SBIS Sustaining Base Infotmation System
SCAS Scan String
SCB Subsystem Control Block
SCC Serial Communications Controllers
Synchronous Channel Check
SCCS Source Code Control System
SCD Standard Color Display
SCF System Control Facility
SCM Software Configuration Management
SCO Santa Cruz Operation
SCODL Scan Conversion Object Description Language
SCP Save Cursor Position
Subsystem Control Port
System Control Program
SCR Silicon Controlled Rectifier
SCRN Screen
SCS SNA Character String
SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface
SD Send Data
Start Delimiter
SDA Software Disk Array
Source Data Automation
System Display Architecture
SDI Switched Digital International
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control
SDK Software Developer's Kit
Software Development Kit
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control
SDLP Standard Device Level Protocol
SDN Software Defined Network
SDNS Secure Data Network Service
SDP Streaming Data Procedure
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
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
VCR Video Cassette Recorder
VDE Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker
Visual Development Environment
VDFM Virtual Disk File Manager
VDI Virtual Device Interface
Video Device Interface
VDIFF Visual DIFFerence
VDISK Virtual Disk
VDL Vienna Definition Language
VDM Virtual DOS Machine
Virtual Device Metafile
Video Display Metafile
VDS Virtual DMA Services
VDT Video Display Terminal
VDU Video Display Unit
Visual Display Unit
VEGA Video-7 Enhanced Graphics Adapter
VER Verify
Version
VERONICAVery Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Guide to Computerized Archives
VERR Verify Read Access
VERW Verify Write Access
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
VF Video Floppy
Video Frequency
VFD Vacuum Fluorescent Display
VFO Variable Frequency Oscillator
VFW Video For Windows
VGA Video Graphics Array
VGC Video Graphics Controller
VHD Very High Density
VHF Very High Frequency
VHLL Very High Level Language
VHS Very High Speed
Virtual Host Storage
Video Home System
VHSIC Very High Speed Integrated Circuit
VI Visual Interface
VIM Vendor Independent Messaging
VIO Video Input/Output
Virtual Input/Output
VINES Virtual Network System
VIP Variable Information Processing
VIPER Verifiable Integrated Processor for Enhanced Reliability
VIRUS Vital Information Resources Under Siege
VIS Voice Information System
VISCA VIdeo System Control Architecture
VLB VESA Local Bus
VLF Very Low Frequency
VLIW Very Long Instruction Word
VLM Virtual Loadable Modules
VLMF Very Low Magnetic Field
VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
VLSIPS Very Large Scale Immobilized Polymer Synthesis
VLT Variable List Table
VM Virtual Machine
Virtual Memory
VMB Voice Mail Box
VM/CMS Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System
VMM Virtual Memory Manager
VMOS Vertical MOS
VMR Vertical Market Reseller
VMS Virtual Memory System
Voice Message System
VMT Virtual Memory Technique
VMTP Virtual Message Transaction Protocol
VNA Virtual Network Architecture
VOIS Voice Operated Information System
VOL Volume
VOM Volt Ohm Meter
VOS Verbal Operating System
VOX Voice Operated device
VPC Virtual Processor Complex
VPI Virtual Path Identifier
VR Virtual Reality
Voltage Regulator
VRAM Video Random Access Memory
VRC Virtual Redundancy Check
VRM Virtual Resource Manager
VROOMM Virtual Real-time Object Oriented Memory Manager
VRU Voice Response Unit
VS Virtual Storage
VSAM Virtual Storage Access Method
VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal
VSE Virtual Storage Extended
VSF Vertical Scanning Frequency
VSLI Very Large Scale Integration
VSM Virtual Storage Management
VSOS Virtual Storage Operating System
VSX Verification Suite for X/open
VSYNC Vertical Sync
VT Vertical Tab
Video Terminal
Virtual Terminal
V/2 ViSiON/2
VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method
Virtual Terminal Access Method
VUE Visual User Environment
VUI Video User Interface
VUP VAX Unit of Performance
V/X ViSiON/X
W3 World Wide Web
W4 What Works With What
WABI Windows Application Binary Interface
WAIS Wide Area Information Server
WAITS Wide-Area Informtion Transfer System
West coast Alternative to ITS
WAN Wide Area Network
WATS Wide Area Telecommunications Service
WAV Windows Audio Video
WC Word Count
WildCat
WD Western Digital
Working Document
WELL Whole Earth Lectronic Link
WFW Windows For Workgroups
WGS Work Group System
WIMP Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers
WINGS Wide-bandwidth Information Network Gigabit Services
WISC Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer
WMF Windows MetaFile
WNIC Wide-Area Network Interface Co-Processor
WNIM Wide-Area Network Interface Module
W/O Without
WOMBAT Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time
WORM Write Once, Read Many
WOSA Windows Open Services Architecture
WP WordPerfect
Word Processing
Write Protected
Word Processor
WPD Windows Printer Description
WPG WordPerfect Graphic
WPHD Write-Protect Hard Disk
WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute
WPM Words Per Minute
WPS WorkPlace Shell
Windows Printing System
WS WordStar
Workstation
WSI Wafer Scale Integration
WT Write Through
WUGNET Windows Users Group NETwork
WWW World Wide Web
WYSBYGI What You See Before You Get It
WYSIWIS What You See Is What I See
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
XA Extended Architecture
Extended Attribute
XAPIA X.400 Application Program Interface Association
XCF eXperimental Computing Facility
XCHG Exchange
XCMD External Command
XDR External Data Representation
XFCN External Function
XGA Extended Graphics Array
XGP Xerox Graphics Printer
XID Exchange Identifier
XIOS Extended Input/Output System
XIP eXecute In Place
XLAT Translate
XMIT Transmit
XMM Extended Memory Manager
XMS Extended Memory Specification
XNS Xerox Network System
XNS/ITP Xerox Network System/Internet TransPort
XO eXactly Once
XOR Exclusive OR
XSMD Extended Storage Module Drive
XTAL Crystal
XTCLK External Transmit Clock
XUI X-windows User Interface
XVT eXtensible Virtual Toolkit
YA Yet Another
YABA Yet Another Bloody Acronym
YAUN Yet Another UNIX Nerd
YACC Yet Another Compiler Compiler
YAM Yet Another Modem
ZBR Zone Bit Recording
Z-CAV Zoned Constant Angular Velocity
ZDS Zenith Data Systems
ZGM ZenoGraphics Metafile
ZIF Zero Insertion Force
ZIP Zone Improvement Plan
Zone Information Protocol
Zig-zag Inline Package
ZIT Zone Information Table
ZNT ZiffNet
ZSL Zero Slot LAN
ZWEI ZWEI Was EINE Initially