UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UU UU UU BABEL: A GLOSSARY OF UU UU COMPUTER ORIENTED ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS UU UU UU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Version 97A UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Copyright (C) 1989-1997

Irving Kind All Rights Reserved

First compiled when I became frustrated while reading magazine articles, help wanted ads and equipment for sale brochures....all pertaining to computers....where the following Abbreviations and Acronyms were used and their meanings were either not known to me or were not immediately available. I have actually seen (or have been told about) these combinations of letters used at one time or another in magazines, newspapers, handbooks, etc. They apply to personal computers, multimedia, communications, programming, networking, etc......you name it. This glossary can never be considered complete and that is why I now request your help. Look over the definitions and let me have your feedback. If you have ever seen letter combinations that you also did not understand, please drop me a note at the address below. Also, if you find any errors, obsolete information or can suggest any additions or deletions, they will be most welcome. If you can help, you have my thanks in advance. Keep BABEL on your computer or print it out and keep it on your desk. Either way, you will have an outstanding reference. BABEL is revised three times a year, in January, May and September so as to keep you up-to-date. You may download the latest version of BABEL from your favorite BBS or from the Internet. See APPENDIX A for methods that may be used to obtain BABEL via the Internet...NOTE NAME CHANGES TO RECEIVE THE LATEST VERSION! Letter groups followed with " * " were used before 1965. At some of these, I have noted historical information. For a brief interpretation of "smiley faces" and other informal expressions used in electronic mail messages, see APPENDIX B. For a partial list of Country Domain Names, see APPENDIX C. BABEL is not public domain. Permission is hereby granted to any individual or public institution to redistribute BABEL; only in its entirety and provided it is distributed without ANY modification to also include this opening page, copyright and version notices, and format. It may not be incorporated into any other document, or published, or sold (for profit or otherwise), without my express written permission. Any questions concerning these restrictions should only be made in writing. Send p-mail to address shown below. And please remember to ECAL. Irving Kind c/o K & D One Church Lane Baltimore, MD 21208 Jan 1997 Version = 97A May 1997 Version = 97B Sep 1997 Version = 97C Additions, Corrections or Comments: Send e-mail to: [email protected]

Jan 1998 Version = 98A May 1998 Version = 98B Sep 1998 Version = 98C

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UU UU UU BABEL: A GLOSSARY OF UU UU COMPUTER ORIENTED ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS UU UU UU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Version 97A UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Copyright (C) 1989-1997 Irving Kind AA AAB AAL AAP AAS AASP AAT ABC All Rights Reserved

Auto Answer All-to-All Broadcast Asynchronous Transfer Mode Adaption Layer Applications Access Point [DEC] All-to-All Scatter ASCII Asynchronous Support Package Average Access Time * Atanasoff-Berry Computer (First digital calculating machine that used vacuum tubes) ABEND Abnormal End ABI Application Binary Interface ABIOS Advanced BIOS ABIST Automatic Built-In Self-Test [IBM] ABLE Adaptive Battery Life Extender ABR Available Bit Rate ABRS Automated Book Request System [British Library] ABS Address Book Synchronization [IBM] + Absolute ABT Abort ABTS ASCII Block Terminal Services AC Autocheck + Automatic Computer + Alternating Current ACC Accumulator ACD Automated Call Distribution + Automatic Call Distributor ACDI Asynchronous Communications Device Interface ACE Advanced Computing Environment [SCO] + Adverse Channel Enhancements [Microcom] + * Automatic Computing Engine ACF Access Control Field + Advanced Communications Function ACH Automated Clearing House ACIAS Automated Calibration Interval Analysis System ACIS American Committee for Interoperable Systems ACK Acknowledgment ACL Access Control List ACM Association for Computing Machinery + Audio Compression Manager [Microsoft] ACMS Application Control Management System ACP Ancillary Control Program + Auxillary Control Process ACPI Advanced Configuration Power Interface ACROSS Automated Cargo Release and Operations Service System ACS Access + Access Control Set + Access Control System + Asynchronous Communication Server ACTS Automated Computer Time Service ACTT Advanced Communication and Timekeeping Technology [Seiko] ACU Automatic Calling Unit A/D Analog to Digital ADA Automatic Data Acquisitions + (Programming Language named after Augusta Ada Lovelace) ADB Apple Desktop Bus ADC Adaptive Data Compression (protocol) [Hayes] +

ADCCP ADD ADF .ADF ADI ADL ADLAT ADLC ADMACS ADMD .ADN ADP ADPCM ADR ADS ADSC ADSL ADSR ADT ADU AE AEB AF AFA AFC AFD AFDW AFII AFIRM AFIS .AFM AFP AFS AFTP AGC AGP AGRAS AGU AI AIA AIC AIF AIIM AIN AIS AISB AISP AIT AIX ALC ALE ALGOL ALIBI ALINK

Add with Carry + Analog to Digital Converter Advanced Data Communication Control Procedures Automatic Document Detection [WordPerfect] Automatic Document Feeder + Automatically Defined Function Adapter Description File (file name extension) [IBM] AutoCad Device Interface (driver) Address Data Latch Adaptive Lattice Filter Adaptive Lossless Data Compression [IBM] + Asynchronous Data Link Control Apple Document Management And Control System Administrative Management Domain [X.400] Add In Utility (file name extension) [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC] Automatic Data Processing Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation Address Application Development Solutions [AT&T] + Application Development System + Automatic Distribution System Address Status Changed + Adobe Document Structuring Conventions Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release Application Data Types Automatic Dialing Unit Above or Equal Analog Expansion Bus [Dialogic] Auxiliary carry Flag Accelerated File Access Automatic Font Change + Automatic Frequency Control Automatic File Distribution Active Framework for Data Warehousing [Microsoft] Association for Font Information Interchange Automated Fingerprint Image Reporting and Match Automated Fingerprint Identification System Adobe Font Metrics (file name extension) [Adobe Systems] Appletalk Filing Protocol [Macintosh] Andrew File System (protocols) Anonymous File Transfer Protocol Automatic Gain Control Advanced Graphics Port Antiglare-Antireflective-Antistatic Address-Generation Unit Analog Input + Artificial Intelligence Applications Integration Architecture [DEC] AIXwindows Interface Composer [IBM] Audio Interchange Format Association for Information and Image Management Advanced Intelligent Network [Bell Atlantic] Automated Identification System [NCIC] Association of Imaging Service Bureaus Association of Information Systems Professionals Advanced Intelligent Tape [Sony] Advanced Interactive Executive [IBM] Arithmetic and Logic Circuits + Automatic Level Control Address Latch Enable Algorithmic Oriented Language (see IAL) Adaptive Location of Internetworked Bases of Information Active Link [HTML]

ALIWEB ALN ALR ALT ALT. ALU AMANDDA AMD AMI AMMA AMPS ANCOVA ANDF ANI .ANI ANN .ANN ANOVA ANSI AO AOCE AOE AOL AOS AP A/P APA APAR APAREN APCUG API APIC APIS APL APM .APP APPC APPI APPN APPS APRP APS APSE APT A/R ARA ARAG ARAS .ARC ARCA ARCnet .ARJ ARL ARLL ARM

Archie Like Indexing in the Web [Internet] Asynchronous Learning Network Advanced Logic Research, Inc. Alternate (mode) Alternate lifestyle [USENET Newsgroup Category] Arithmetic Logic Unit Automated Messaging and Directory Assistance Active Matrix Display + Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. American Megatrends, Inc. Advanced Memory Management Architecture [Everex Systems] Advanced Mobile Phone Service Analysis of Covariance Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format Automatic Number Identification Animated Cursor (file name extension) [Microsoft] Artificial Neural Network Annotations (file name extension) [IBM] Analysis Of Variance American National Standards Institute Analog Output Apple Open Collaboration Environment Application Operating Environment [AT&T] America Online Add Or Subtract Adjunct Processor + Application Processor Accounts Payable Adaptive Packet Assembly + All Points Addressable + Arithmetic Processing Accelerator Authorized Program Analysis Report [IBM] Address Parity Enable [IBM] Association of PC User Groups Application Program Interface Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (bus) [Intel] Advanced Passenger Information System A Programming Language (Mathematics) Advanced Power Management [IBM] Application (file name extension) [R:Base] Advanced Program-to-Program Communications [IBM] Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking [IBM] Applications Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing Advanced Photo System + Advanced Printing Service [IBM] Asynchronous Protocol Specification ADA Programming Support Environment Address Pass Through + Advanced Parallel Technology + Automatically Programmed Tools Accounts Receivable AppleTalk Remote Access Antireflective-Antiglare Antireflective-Antistatic Archive (file name extension) Advanced RISC Computing Architecture Attached Resource Computer Network Compressed File (file name extension) [Jung] Adjusted Ring Length Advanced Run Length Limited Advanced RISC Machine (processor) +

Annotated Reference Manual + Asynchronous Response Mode ARMA Association of Records Managers and Administrators ARP Address Resolution Protocol [Novell] ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network ARPL Adjust Requested Privilege Level ARTA Apple Real Time Architecture ARTIC A Real-Time Interface Copressor [IBM] ARTS Asynchronous Remote Takeover Server ARTT Asynchronous Remote Takeover Terminal ARQ Automatic Repeat Request ARU Audio Response Unit AS Autonomous System [Internet] ASAP As Soon As Possible + Automatic Switching And Processing AS3AP ANSI SQL Standard Scalable and Portable .ASC ASCII text (file name extension) ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit ASIT Advanced Security and Identification Technology ASL Adaptive Speed Levelling ASLM Apple Shared Library Manager [Macintosh] .ASM Assembler Source Language (file name extension) ASMP Asymmetric Multiprocessing ASN Abstract Syntax Notation + Autonomous System Number ASP Association of Shareware Professionals ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface [Adaptec] ASPS Advanced Signal Processing System ASR Address Space Register + Automa;tic Send-Receive + Automatic Speech Recognition AST AST Research, Inc. (named from first initials of the founders: Albert Wong, Safi Qureshey, Thomas Yuen) AS/U Advanced Server for Unix ASYNC Asynchronous AT Advanced Technology + Attention ATA Advanced Technology Attachment ATDP Attention Dial Pulse ATDT Attention Dial Tone ATE Automated Test Equipment ATG Advanced Technology Group ATH Attention Hang-Up (Modem command) ATM Adobe Typeface Manager + Asynchronous Transfer Mode + Automated Teller Machine ATPS AppleTalk Printing Services [Macintosh] ATR Automatic Terminal Recognition ATS Administrative Terminal System + Apple Terminal Services AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph ATTN Attention ATTRIB Attribute (also ATR) ATZ Attention Restore configuration profile from nonvolatile RAM (Modem command) .AU Audio (file name extension) AUDIT Automated Data Input Terminal AUI Attachment Unit Interface AUP Acceptable Use Policy [Internet] AUTO Automatic AUTOEXEC Automatic Execution AUX Auxiliary + (First Serial Port) AV Audio/Video + Audiovisual + Authenticity Verification

AVA AVC AVD AVG AVI AVR AWG AWK

Audio Visual Authoring [IBM] Audio Visual Connection [IBM] Aternating Voice and Data Average Audio Visual Interleave [Microsoft] Automatic Voice Recognition American Wire Gage (Unix language named after its authors... Al Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan) AWS Advanced Workstations and Systems (group) [IBM] AWT Abstract Window Toolkit [Java] AX Architecture Extended + Automatic Transmission BACP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol BAK Binary Adaptation Kit [Microsoft] .BAK Backup (file name extension) BAL Basic Assembly Language BALUN Balanced Unbalanced (device) BAM Boyan Action Module BARTS Bell Atlantic Regional Timesharing .BAS Basic Language (file name extension) BASH Bourne Again Shell [Unix] BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code BASM Built-In Assembler BAT Block Address Translation .BAT Batch Processing (file name extension) BBS Bulletin Board System BCC Block Check Character BCC: Blind Carbon Copy BCD Binary Coded Decimal B-CHANNEL Bearer Channel BCL Batch Command Language BCN Beacon BCP Best Current Practice + Bulk Copy Program BCPL Basic Computer Programming Language BCR Byte Count Register BCS Bar Code Sorter BDA Bios Data Area BDC Backup Domain Controller BDE Borland Database Engine [Borland] BDOS Basic Disk Operating System BDR Bus Device Request BE Below or Equal BECN Backward Explicit Congestion Notification BEDO Burst Extended Data Out BEL Bell BELLCORE Bell Communications Research BERT Bit Error Rate Test/Tester BF Bad Flag B/F Background/Foreground BFF Binary File Format [IBM] BFT Binary File Transfer BGA Ball Grid Array BGCOLOR Background Color [HTML] BGE Branch if Greater or Equal .BGI Borland Graphic Interface (file name extension) BGP Border Gateway Protocol BGT Branch if Greater Than BHI Branch if Higher BHIS Branch if Higher or Same BI Binary Input

.BIB Bibliography (file name extension) BiDi Bi-Directional BIM Beginning of Information Marker .BIN Binary (file name extension) BINAC * Binary Automatic Computer BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIOS Basic Input/Output System BIS Business Information System BISDN Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network BIST Built-In Self-Test BiSYNC (See BSYNC) BIT Binary Digit BITNET Because It's Time Network BITNIC Bitnet Network Information Center BIU Bus Interface Unit BIX Byte Information Exchange (BBS) BIZ. Business [USENET Newsgroup Category] .BK! Backup (file name extension) [WordPerfect] .B~K Backup (file name extension) BKSP Backspace BL Backlit + Bit Line BLAST Blocked Asynchronous Transmission (protocol) [Communications Research Group] .BLD BASIC Bload Graphics (file name extension) BLE Branch if Less or Equal BLER Block Error BLK Block BLMC Buried Logic Macrocell BLOB Binary Large Object BLOS Branch if Lower Or Same BMI Branch if Minus BMIC BusMaster Interface Controller [Intel] BMP Basic Mapping Support + Batch Message Processing Program .BMP Bitmap Picture (file name extension) BNC Bayonet Neill-Concelman (connector used with coaxial cable invented by Mr. Neill-Concelman) BNE Branch if Not Equal BNF Backus-Naur Form (also Backus-Normal Form) [developed by John Backus and Peter Naur] BNS Backbone Network Service BO Binary Output BoB Break-out Box BOC Basic Operator Console BOF Beginning Of File BOM Beginning Of Message BOND Bandwidth On Demand BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol [Internet] BOPS Billion Operations Per Second BORPQU Borland Pro Quattro BORQU Borland Quattro BOS Basic Operating System BOT Beginning Of Table + Beginning of Tape BP Base Pointer BPB BIOS Parameter Block BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Unit BPI Bits Per Inch BPL Branch if Plus BPS Bits Per Second + Bytes Per Second BR Bad Register BRGC Binary Reflected Gray Code

BRI BS BSAM BSC .BSC BSCS BSD BSF BSI BSP BSR BSS BSV BSY BSYNC BT BTAM BTB BTC BTOA BTP BTR BTS BU BUBL BUF BUS BVH BWM B2X BYTE C .C CA CAD CADD CADE CAE CAEX CAG CAI CAL CAM CAN CAP

.CAP CAPD CAPS CARL CAS CASE

Basic Rate Interface + Brain Response Interface Backspace Basic Sequential Access Method Binary Synchronous Communication Boyan Script (file name extension) [Boyan Communications] Bachelor of Science (Degree) in Computer Science Berkely Software/Standard Distribution Bit Scan Forward British Standards Institute Bulk Synchronous Parallelism Bit Scan Reverse Block Started by Symbol BASIC Bsave Graphics (file name extension) Busy Binary Synchronous Communications (protocol) Bit Test Basic Telecommunications Access Method [IBM] Branch Target Buffer Bit Test and Complement Binary To ASCII Batch Transfer Program Bit Test and Reset Bit Test and Set Branch Unit Bulletin Board for Libraries [Janet] Buffer Broadcast and Unknown Server Base Video Handler Block-Write Mode Binary To Hexadecimal [REXX] Binary Element String C Programming Language C source code (file name extension) [C] Collision Avoidance Computer Aided Design Computer Aided Design and Drafting Client/server Application Development Environment Client Application Enabler + Common Applications Environment + Computer Aided Engineering Computer Aided Exploration Column Address Generator Computer Aided Instruction Calendar + Computer Aided Learning Common Access Method + Computer Aided Manufacturing + Contents Addressable Memory Cancel Carrierless Amplitude and Phase-Modulation + Central Arbitration Point + Communication Application Platform + Computer Aided Publishing Capture (file name extension) Computing To Assist Persons With Disabilities [Johns Hopkins University] Capitals (Upper Case Letters) + Cassette Programming System Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries [Internet] Column Address Select + Communications Application Specification + Computer Aided Styling Computer Aided Software Engineering

CASL CASS CASSIS CAT

Crosstalk Application Scripting Language [DCA] Computer Assisted Search Service Classified and Search Support Information System Computer Aided Testing + Computer Aided Tomography + Computer Aided Transcription + Concatenate .CAT Catalog (file name extension) CATS Computer Assisted Training System CAT SCAN Computerized Axial Tomography Scan CATV Community Antenna Television (this was the original name for what is now known as Cable TV) CAU Controlled Access Unit CAV Constant Angular Velocity CBC Cipher Block Chaining CBCR Channel Byte Count Register CBEMA Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association CBGA Ceramic Ball Grid Array CBI Computer Based Instruction CBL Computer Based Learning .CBL COBOL source code (file name extension) CBMS Computer-Based Mail System CBR Constant Bit Rate CBT Computer Based Training CBW Convert Byte to Word CBX Computer-Controlled Branch Exchange CC Cluster Controller CC: Carbon Copy CCD Charged-Coupled Device CCFT Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube CCI Common Client Interface CCITT Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique/ Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone CCL Connection Control Language CCP Console Command Processor CCS Common Command Set + Common Communications Services + Common Communications Support + Continuous Composite Servo .CCS Color Calibration System (file name extension) CCSD Cellular Circuit-Switched Data CD Carrier Detect + Change Directory + Collision Detection + Color Display + Compact Disk C/D Control Data C2D Character To Decimal [REXX] CDA Compound Document Architecture [DEC] CDC Control Data Corporation CD_CHRDY Card Channel Ready [IBM] CD-DA Compact Disk - Digital Audio CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interface CDE Common Desktop Environment + Complex Data Entry CD-E Compact Disk - Erasable .CDF Comma Delimited Format (file name extension) CDFS Compact Disc File System [Microsoft] CD+G Compact Disk plus Graphics CD-I Compact Disk - Interactive CDIA Certified Document Imaging Architect CDL Computer Design Language CDMA Code Division Multiple Access CDMF Commercial Data Masking Facility [IBM] CD-MO Compact Disk - Magneto Optical CDOS Concurrent Disk Operating System

CDPD CDR CD-R CD-RDx CDRL CD-ROM CD-RTOS CDS CDSA .CDT CD-V CD-WO .CDX CD-XA CE CEG CEI CEMS CEOP CERN CERT CFB .CFG CFM CFR CFS CFV CG CGA CGE CGI .CGM CHAP CHAR CHAT CHCK CHCP CHDIR CHFN CHGRP .CHK CHKDSK CHMOD CHOWN CHP CHR CHRP CHS CI CIA CIAC CICS/VS CID CIDR

Cellular Digital Packet Data Call Detail Record + Call Detail Recording Compact Disk - Recordable Compact Disk - Read Only Memory Data Exchange Standard Contract Data Requirements List Compact Disk - Read Only Memory Compact Disk - Real Time Operating System Current Directory Structure Common Data Security Architecture Corel Draw Template (file name extension) Compact Disk - Video Compact Disk - Write Once Compound Index (file name extension) [Fox Pro] Compact Disk - Extended Architecture Cache Enable + Chip Enable + Collision Elimination + Convert Enable Continuous Edge Graphics Conducted Electromagnetic Interference Constituent Electronic Mail System Conditional End Of Page The European Particle Physics Laboratory (initials originally from Conseil European pour la Recherche Nucleaire) Computer Emergency Response Team Cipher Feedback + Configurable Function Block Configuration (file name extension) Code Fragment Manager [Macintosh] Computerized Facial Recognition Caching/Common File System Call For Votes [Bitnet] Control Gate Color Graphics Adapter Common Graphics Environment Common Gateway Interface + Computer Generated Images + Computer Graphics Interface Computer Graphics Metafile (file name extension) + Graph (file name extension) [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC] Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol Character Conversational Hypertext Access Technology [Internet] Channel Check Change Code Page Change Directory Change Finger [Unix] Change Group CHKDSK (file name extension) Check Disk Change Mode Change Owner Chapter Character Common Hardware Reference Platform Cylinder Head Sector Component Interface Current Instruction Address Computer Incident Advisory Capability Customer Information Control System/ Virtual Storage [IBM] Charge-Injection Device + Configuration/Installation/Distribution Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CIF CIFS CIM CIO CIOCS CIP CIR CIRC CIS

CISC CIT CIX CJLI CKD CLAR CLASS CLC CLD CLI CLIST CLK CLNP CLOS CLP .CLP CLS CLTP CLTS CLUI CLUT CLV CM CMA CMC

.CMD CMF CNIDR CMIP CMIS CML CMM CMMS CMMU

Common Interchange/Intermediate Format + Crystallographic Information File + Customer Information Feed Common Internet File System Common Information Model + CompuServe Information Manager + Computer Integrated Manufacturing Chief Information Offier Communication Input/Output Control System Command Interface Port Committed Information Rate Circular Reference + Cross-Interleaved Reed-Solomon Code Card Information Structure + Client Information System + CompuServe Information Service + Computer Information Systems + Contact Image Sensor + Customer Information System Complex Instruction Set Computing Computer-Integrated Telephony Commercial Internet Exchange + Compulink Information Exchange Command Job Language Interpreter Count Key Data (device) Channel Local Address Register Client Access to Systems and Services + Cooperative Library Agency for Systems and Services + Custom Local-Area Signaling Services Clear Carry Flag Clear Direction Flag Call-Level Interface + Clear Interrupt Flag + Client Library Interface + Command Line Interface Command List Clock Connectionless Network Protocol Common Lisp Object System Cell Loss Priority + Constraint Logic Programming Clipboard (file name extension) [Windows] Clear Screen Connectionless Transport Protocol Clear Task Switch Flag Command Line User Interface Color Look-Up Table Constant Linear Velocity Centimeter + Control Mark + Corrective Maintenance Concert Multi-thread Architecture Common Mail Calls + Common Messaging Calls + Communication Mangement Configuration + Complement Carry Flag + Computer-Mediated Communication [Internet] Command (file name extension) Creative Music Format Clearinghouse for Network Information and Discovery and Retrieval [Internet] Common Management Information Protocol Common Management Information Services/System Conceptual Modelling Language + Computer Managed Learning + Current Mode Logic Capability Maturity Model Computerized Maintenance Management Software Cache/Memory Management Unit [Motorola]

CMOS CMOV CMP CMPS CMS

Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Conditional Move Compare + Computer Compare word String Code Management System + Compiler Monitor System + Conversation Monitor System CMVC Configuration Management Version Control [IBM] CMW Compartmented Mode Workstation CMY Cyan-Magenta-Yellow (color model) CMYK Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black (color model) CNA Certified NetWare Administrator [Novell] CNAPS Co-Processing Node Architecture for Parallel Systems CNC Computerized Numerical Control CNE Certified NetWare Engineer .CNF Configuration (file name extension) CNG Calling (tone) CNI Certified Novell Instructor [Novell] CNIDR Clearinghouse for Networked Information and Retrieval CNN Composite Network Node CNSS Core Nodal Switching Subsystem [Internet] .CNT Contents (file name extension) CNV Conventional (pertaining to Memory) CNVT Convert CNX Certified Network Expert CO Central Office + Command Output + Convert Out COB Chip-On-Board .COB COBOL source code (file name extension) COBOL Common Business-oriented Language (See HLL) .COD Code List (file name extension) CODASYL * Conference on Data System Languages (Group that designed COBOL) CODE Client-Server Open Development Environment CODEC Coder/Decoder + Compression/Decompression COEM Commercial Original Equipment Manufacturer COFF Common Object File Format [Unix] COGO Coordinate Geometry (Programming Language) COL Collision + Computer Oriented Language COLD Computer Output to Laser Disk COLL Collision COM Commercial (organization Domain name) [Internet] + Common Object Model [Microsoft] .COM Command (file name extension) COM1 First serial Port (asynchronous port) COM2 Second serial Port COM3 Third serial Port COM4 Fourth serial Port COMDEX Computer Dealers Exposition COMET Cornell Macintosh Terminal Emulator COMP Compare + Communications COMP. Computers [USENET Newsgroup Category] COMSAT Communications Satellite Corporation CON Console (includes Keyboard and Screen) COND Condition CONFIG Configuration CONS Connection-Oriented Network Service CONTONE Continuous Tone CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture CoREN Corporation for Research and Enterprise Network COS Compatible Operating System COSE Combined Office Standard Environment +

COSMIC COSMOS COSS COTS CP CPA CPC CPCS CPE .CPE CPG CPI .CPI CPI-C CPIO CPL .CPL CP/M CPS CPT CPU CR CRAM CRC .CRD CREN CRF CRI CR/LF CROM CRT CRTC CS C/S CSA CSAR CSCW CSD CSDS CSE CSFI CSG CSI CSID CSL CSLIP CSM CSMA/CA CSMA/CD CSMS CSN

Common Open Software/Systems Environment Computer Software Management and Information Center [NASA] Computer System for Mainframe Operations Common Object Services Specification Commercial Off-The-Shelf Copy Protected Certified Public Accountant Constant Point Calculation Check Processing Control System [IBM] Central Processing Element + Customer Premise Equipment + Customer Provided Equipment Cover Page (file name extension) Clock Pulse Generator Characters Per Inch + Clock Per Instruction + Common Programming Interface [IBM] Code Page Information (file name extension) [MS-DOS] Common Programming Interface for Communications [IBM] Copy In and Out [Unix] Current Privilege Level Control Panel (file name extension) Control Program for Microcomputers [Digital Research] Characters Per Second + Cycles Per Second Command Pass Through Central Processing Unit Carriage Return Cyberspatial Reality Advancement Movement Cyclic Redundancy Check Cardfile (file name extension) Computer Research Education Network + Corporation for Research and Education Networking Cable Retransmission Facility + Cross Reference File Color Reproduction Indices Carriage Return/Line Feed Control Read Only Memory Cathode Ray Tube CRT Controller Chip Select + Clear to Send + Code Segment Client/Server Calendaring and Scheduling API [IBM] Channel System Address Register Computer Supported Cooperative Work Circuit-Switched Data + Computer Services Department + Corrective Service Diskette [IBM] Packet Switched Data Service Certified System Engineer Communication Subsystem For Interconnection Constructive Solid Geometry + Consulting Services Group [Lotus] Command Sequence Introducer + CompuServe Incorporated Call Subscriber ID Computer Sensitive Language Compressed Serial Line Interface Protocol [Internet] Communications Services Manager Carrier Sense Multiple Access/with Collision Avoidance Carrier Sense Multiple Access/with Collision Detection Customer Support Management System Card-Select Number

CSNET CSO CSP CSPDN CSS CSS CSSM CSTA CSU CSV C&T CTB CTC CTCP CTI CTOS CTPA CTRL CTS CTSS CUA CUB CUD CUE CUF CUI CUP CUPID .CUR CUT CUTE CUU CVF CVGA CVIA CVT CVW CWD CWIS C2X CYL CYMK D/A DAA DAC DAD DAI DAL

Computer Science Network Central Services Organization Certified Systems Professional + Commercial Subroutine Package + CompuCom Speed Protocol [CompuCom] Circuit Switched Public Data Network * Continuous System Simulator (Language) Cascading Style Sheets [Microsoft] + Contact Start-Stop Client-Server Systems Management [IBM] Computer-Supported Telephony Applications Channel Service Unit Circuit-Switched Voice + Comma-Separated Value/Variable + Common Services Verbs (interface) [Microsoft] Chips and Technologies Cipher Type Byte Channel To Channel Client-To-Client Protocol Computer-Telephony Integration Computerized Tomography Operating System + Convergent Technologies Operating System Coax-to-Twisted-Pair Adapter Control Clear To Send * Compatible Time Sharing System Common User Access [IBM] Cursor Backward Cursor Down Custom Updates and Extras (card) [Egghead Software] Cursor Forward Character-Oriented User Interface + Common User Interface [IBM] Cursor Position Completely Universal Processor I/O Design [AST] Cursor (file name extension) Control Unit Terminal Clarkston University Terminal Emulator Cursor Up Compressed Volume File Color Video Graphics Array Computer Virus Industry Association Convert CodeView for Windows Convert Word to Double Word + Change Working Directory [Internet] Campus Wide Information Service/System [Internet] + Community Wide Information Service/System [Internet] Character To Hexadecimal [REXX] Cylinder Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-Black (color model) Digital to Analog Data Access Arrangement + Decimal Adjust for Addition Data Acquisition and Control + Digital to Analog Convertor + Dual Attachment Concentrator Desktop Application Director [Borland] Distributed Artificial Intelligence Data Access Language [Apple Computer] +

Disk Access Lockout Data Acquisition and Monitoring Digital AMPS Data Access Object [Microsoft] Data Access Protocol [DEC] + Developer Assistance Program DAPIE Developers Application Programming Interface Extensions DARI Database Application Remote Interface [IBM] DARMS Digital Alternate Realization of Musical Symbols DART Digital Audio Reconstruction Technology DAS Decimal Adjust for Subtraction + Dual-Attached Station DASD Direct Access Storage Device DAT Digital Audio Tape + Disk Array Technology .DAT Data (file name extension) DATACOM Data Communications DAV Digital Audio-Video DAVIC Digital Audio-Visual Council dB Decibel DB Data Base + Data Buffer dBA Adjusted Decibel DBCS Delivery Bar Code Sorter + Double-Byte Character Set .DBF Database (file name extension) DBIS Dun & Bradstreet Information Services DBM Data Base Manager DBMS Data Base Management System DBS Data Base Server DB2 Database 2 DC Data Collection + Data Communication + Data Control + Device Control + Direct Current D2C Decimal To Character [REXX] DCA Digital Communications Associates + Document Content Architecture [IBM] DCAF Distributed Console Access Facility [IBM] DCAM Direct Chip Attach Module DCB Device Control Block + Disk Coprocessor Board [Novell] DCC Digital Command Control + Digital Compact Cassette + Direct Cable/Client Connection + Display Combination Code DCD Data Carrier Detect DCE Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment + Data Communications Equipment + Distributed Computing Environment [OSF] + Distributed Computing Equipment DCED Distributed Computing Environment Daemon DCF Data Communication Facility [IBM] + Data Compression Facility + Data Count Field [IBM] + Driver Configuration File [Lotus] D-CHANNEL Data Channel DCI Display Control Interface DCL Data Control Language + Declaration + DEC Command Language [DEC] + Device Clear + Digital Control Logic + Digital Command Language [Digital] DCOM Distributed Component Object Model DCP Digital Light Processing [TI] DCS Data Collection System + Data Control System + Desktop Color Separation + Distributed Control System DCT Discrete Cosine Transform .DCT Dictionary (file name extension) DAM DAMPS DAO DAP

DCU DD DDA DDB DDC DDCMP DDCS DDD DDE DDEML DDF DDI DDK DDL DDM DDN DDNS DDP DDS

Data-Cache Unit Day + Digital Display + Double Density Distributed Data Access + Domain-Defined Attribute Device Dependent Bitmap + Device Descriptor Block Digital Data Channel [VESA] + Display Data Channel Digital Data Communications Message Protocol [DEC] Distributed Database Connection Services [IBM] Data Definition Language + Direct Distance Dialing Direct Data Entry + Dynamic Data Exchange [Microsoft] Dynamic Data Exchange Manager Library [Microsoft] Display Data Channel + Dynamic Data Formatting [IBM] Device Driver Interface + Direct Dial In Device Driver Kit [Microsoft Windows] Data Definition Language + Data Description Language Distributed Data Management Defense Data Network Dynamic Domain Naming System Distributed Data Processing Digital Dataphone Service [AT&T] + Design Data Sheet + Digital Data Storage + Distributed Database Services DDX Digital Data Exchange DE Device End DEC Decrement + Device Clear + Digital Equipment Corporation DECNET Digital Equipment Corporation Networking (protocol) DEF Desktop Functional Equivalent [Compaq] .DEF Definitions + Defaults (file name extensions) DEFRAG Defragment DEK Data Encryption Key DEL Delete DELSTR Delete String [REXX] .DEM Demonstration (file name extension) DEN Document Enabled Networking [Novell-Xerox] DES Data Encryption Standard + Data Entry Sheet .DES Description (file name extension) DET Device Execute Trigger DEV Device DF Data Field + Destination Field + Device Flag + Double Flag DFC Data Flow Control DFM Design For Manufacturability [IBM] DFS Distributed File System DFSMS Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem [IBM] DFT Design For Testability + Diagnostic Funtion Test + Discrete Fourier Transform + Distributed Function Terminal DFU Data File Utility DGIS Direct Graphics Interface Standard DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHL Dynamic Head Loading .DHP Dr. Halo PIC (file name extension) DI Data In + Destination Index DIA Document Interchange Architecture [IBM] DIB Device Independent Bitmap + Directory Information Base DIBOL DEC Business Oriented Language .DIC Dictionary (file name extension) DID Direct Inward Dialing DIF Data Interchange Format DIFFSENS Differential Sense DIIP Direct Interrupt Identification Port

DIMM DIN DIO DIP DIR DIS DISA DISP DIT DIV DIVE DIW .DIZ DL DL/1 DLC DLCI DLD DLE DLL DLM DLP DLR DLT DM DMA DMAC DMACS DMD DME DMF DMI DML DMM DMMS DMOS DMP DMPC DMQS DMS DMSD DMT DMTF DMY DN DNC DNIC DNIS DNS DO .DOC DOE DOIP DO-IT DOMF DOS DOSEM

Dual In-Line Memory Module Deutsche Industrie Norm (German equivalent of EIA) Data Input-Output Dialup Internet Protocol [Internet] + Digital Imaging Processing + Dual In-line Package + Dual In-line Pin Directory (file) Dynamic Impedance Stabilization [CompuCom] Data Interchange Standards Association Displacement (offset) Directory Information Tree Divide Direct Interface Video Extension [OS/2 Warp] D-Inside Wire [AT&T] Description In Zip (file name extension) Download (also D/L) Data Manipulation Language 1 [IBM] Data Link Control (protocol) [IBM] Data Link Connection Identifier Display List Driver Data Link Escape Dynamic Link Library Dynamic Link Module Digital Light Processing [TI] DOS LAN Requester Digital Linear Tape Distributed Memory Direct Memory Access/Addressing DMA Controller Distributed Manufacturing Automation & Control Software Digital Micromirror Device [TI] Distributed Management Environment Distribution Media Format [Microsoft] Desktop Mangement Interface Data Manipulation Language Digital Multimeter Dynamic Memory Management System Double-diffused Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Dot Matrix Printer Distributed Memory Parallel Computer Display Mode Query and Set [IBM] Data Management Software + Data Management System Digital Multistandard Decoding Digital Multi-Tone Desktop Management Task Force Day Month Year Down Direct Numerical Control Data Network Identification Code Dialed Number Identification Service Domain Naming System Data Out + Distributed Objects Document + Documentation (file name extensions) Distributed Objects Everywhere Dial Other Internet Providers [IBM] Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology Distributed Object Management Facility Disk Operating System DOS Emulation

DOW DP DPA DPAM DPAREN DPB DPC DPI DPL DPM DPMA DPMI DPMS DPO DPS DPSK DPtoTP DQL DR D/R DRAM DRAW DR.BOND DRDA DR-DOS DRDW DRI DRO DRS .DRS DRV .DRV .DRW DS D/S DSA DSAP DSDD DSE DSEA DSECT DSHD DSIS DSL DSMA DSOM DSP DSQD DSR DSS DSSI DSSS DSTN DSU DSVD DSW

Day Of Week Data Processing Demand Protocol Architecture [3Com] Demand Priority Access Method Data Parity Enable [IBM] Drive Parameter Block Direct Program Control Distributed Protocol Interface + Dots Per Inch Descriptor Privilege Level Digital Panel Meter Data Processing Management Association DOS Protected Mode Interface [Microsoft] Display Power Management Support Data Phase Optimization Document Processing System Differential Phase Shift Keying Display Coordinates to Tablet Coordinates (converting) DataEase Query Language [DataEase International] Data Received Direct or Reverse Dynamic Random Access Memory Direct Read After Write Dial-up Router Bandwith On Demand [NEC] Distributed Relational Database Architecture [IBM] Digital Research-Disk Operating System Direct Read During Write Digital Research Incorporated Data Request Output + Destructive Read-Out Document Registration System Driver Resource (file name extension) [WordPerfect] Drive Device Driver (file name extension) (Also see .DVR) Draw + Drawing (file name extensions) Data Segment + Data Send + Data Server + Double Sided Dhrystone Per Second Directory System Agent Destination Service Access Point Double Sided, Double Density (diskette) Data Storage Equipment Display Station Emulation Adapter Dummy Control Section Double Sided, High Density (diskette) Distributed Support Information Standard Digital Subscriber Line + Dynamic Simulation Language Digital Sense Multiple Access Distributed System Object Model Digital Signal Processing/Processor + Directory Synchronization Protocol [Lotus] Double Sided, Quad Density (diskette) Data Set Ready + Device Status Register + Device Status Report Decision Support System + Digital Signature Standard Digital Standard Systems Interconnect [DEC] Direct-Sequencing Spread Spectrum Double Supertwisted Nematic Data Service Unit + Digital Service Unit Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data Data Status Word + Device Status Word

D2T2 DTA .DTA DTC DTD DTE DTF DTL DTMF DTP DTR DTV DTVC DU DUA DUAT DUN DUNCE .DV DVC DVD DVE DVI .DVI DVMRP .DVR DWG D2X .DXB DXC DXF EA EAR EARN EAROM EARS EATA EBC EBCT EBCDIC EBI EBT EC ECAL ECAT ECB ECC ECD ECHO ECI ECL ECM ECMA ECNE ECP ECTL ECU

Dye Diffusion Thermal Transfer (printing) Disk Transfer Area Data (file name extension) Desktop Conferencing Document Type Definition Data Terminal Equipment + Dumb Terminal Emulator Distributed Test Facility Dialog Tag Language [IBM] + Diode-Transistor Logic Data Tone Multiple Frequency + Dual Tone Multifrequency Desktop Publishing + Distributed Transaction Process Data Terminal Ready + Data Transfer Rate Desktop Video Desktop Video Conferencing Disk Usage Directory User Agent Direct User Access Terminal Dial-Up Networking [Microsoft] Dial Up Network Connection Enhancement DESQview Script (file name extension) Desktop Video Conferencing Digital Video Disk Digital Video Effect Digital Video Interactive Device Independent (file name extension) Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol [Internet] Device Driver (file name extension) (Also see .DRV) Drawing Decimal To Hexadecimal [REXX] Drawing Interchange Binary (file name extension) [AutoCAD] Data Exchange Control Drawing Exchange Format Effective Address + Extended Attribute [OS/2] External Access Register European Academic Research Network Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory Electronic Access to Reference Services Enhanced AT Bus Attachment EISA Bus Controller Electron Beam Computed Tomography Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code [IBM] Equivalent Background Input + Extended Background Investigation Electronic Benefits Transfer Electronic Commerce + Error Control Enjoy Computing And Learn Electronic Card Assembly and Test [IBM] Electronic Codebook + Event Control Block Error Check Code + Error Checking and Correction + Error Correction Code Enhanced Color Display + Enhanced Compact Disk European Commission Host Organization [Internet] External Call Interface Emitter Coupled Logic Electronic Control Module European Computer Manufacturers Association Enterprise Certified NetWare Engineer [Novell] Enhanced/Extended Capabilities Port [Microsoft] Electronic Communal Temporal Lobe EISA Configuration Utility

ED EDA EDC

Erase Display Embedded Document Architecture [Go Corporation] Electronic Digital Computer + Enhanced Data Correction + Error Detection and Correction EDDC Extended Distance Data Cable EDGAR Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval EDI Electronic Data Interchange + Electronic Document Interchange [DEC] EDIFACT EDI for Administration Commerce and Transport EDL Edit Decision List EDLC Ethernet Data Link Control EDLIN Editor (Line Text) EDM Electronic Document Management EDO Extended Data Out EDOS Enhanced DOS for Windows EDP Electronic Data Processing EDPM Electronic Data Processing Machine EDRAM Extended Dynamic Random Access Memory EDS Electronic Data Systems (corporation) EDSAC * Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer EDSI Enhanced Small Device Interface EDU Education (organization Domain name) [Internet] EDVAC * Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (First stored-program digital computer) EE Extended Edition [IBM] EEC Extended Error Correction EEG Electroencephalogram EEL Epsilon Extension Language EEM Extended Memory Management EEMS Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory EES Escrow Encryption Standard 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 EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol EGREP Extended Global Regular Expression Print [Unix] EHLLAPI Emulator High Level Language Application Programming Interface [IBM] EIA Electronic Industries Association EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics EIS Executive Information System EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture EL Electroluminescent (display) + Erase Line ELAN Emulated Local Area Network ELC Embedded Linking and Control ELF Extremely Low Frequency ELS Entry Level System EM Electronic Mail + Emphasized + End of Medium + Expanded Memory EMA Electronic Mail Association + Enterprise Management Architecture EMACS Editing Macros [Unix] E-MAIL Electronic Mail EMB Extended Memory Block [LIM/AST]

EMBARC

Electronic Mail Broadcast to a Roaming Computer [Motorola] EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility + Enhanced Memory Chip + E-Mail Connection + Extended Math Coprocessor EMI Electromagnetic Interference .EML Electronic Mail (file name extension) EMM Expanded Memory Manager EMR Electro-Magnetic Radiation + Enhanced Metafile Record EMS Electronic Mail System + Electronic Message Service + Expanded Memory Specification [LIM] EMWAC European Microsoft Windows NT Academic Centre .ENC Encoded (file name extension) ENDEC Encoder/Decoder ENDS Ends Segment ENIAC * Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer (First fully electronic digital computer) ENQ Enquiry ENSS Exterior Nodal Switching Subsystem [Internet] EOA End Of Address EOB End Of Block EOC End Of Conversion EOF End Of File + Enterprise Objects Framework [Next Computer] EOI End Of Interrupt + End Or Identify EOJ End Of Job EOL End Of Line + End Of List EOM End Of Message EOR Exclusive OR (Also XOR) EOS Earth Observing System [NASA] + End Of String EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data and Information System [NASA] EOT End Of Table + End Of Tape (marker) + End Of Text + End Of Transmission EP Electrophotographic Engine EPL Effective Privilege Level EPLD Electrically Programmable Logic Device EPM Enhanced Editor for Presentation Manager [IBM] + Enterprise Process Management [IBM] EPP Enhanced Parallel Port EPROM Electrically Programmable Read Only Memory + Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory .EPS Encapsulated PostScript (file name extension) EPSF Encapsulated PostScript Files ERA Extended Registry Attributes ERAS Electronic Routing and Approval System [Hughes Aircraft] ERIC Educational Resources Information Center [Internet] ERLL Enhanced Run Length Limited EROM Erasable Read Only Memory EROS Earth Resources Observation System [U.S. Geological Survey] ERR Error ER/RC Extended Result/Response Code ES Extra Segment ESA Enterprise Systems Architecture [IBM] + European Space Agency ESC EISA System Component + Escape ESCM Extended Services Communications Manager [IBM] ESCON Enterprise System Connection (Architecture) [IBM] ESC/P Epson Standard Code for Printers ESD Electronic Software Distribution + Electrostatic Discharge ESDI Enhanced Small/System Device Interface

ESI ESMR ESN ESP ESR ESS ESU ET ETACS ETANN ETB ETC ETOM ETPL ETS ETX EU EUC EUI EVE EVGA EWAN EWS ExCA .EXE EXE2BIN EXM EXP EXT EXTRN E-ZINE FAB FAC FAMOS FANS FAP FAPI FAQ FARNET FASIC FAT FAX .FAX FC/AL FCB FCC FCC: FCCSET FCI FCR FCS FD FDC

Enhanced Serial Interface (specification) [Hayes] Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio Electronic Security Number Emulation Sensing Processor + Enhanced Serial Port [Hayes] + Estimated Selling Price Event Service Routine Electronic Switching System Electro-Static Unit Enhancement Technology Extended Total Access Communication System [IBM] Electrically Trainable Analog Neural Network (chip) [Intel] End of Transmission Block Electronic Toll Collection + Enhanced Throughput Cellular (modem protocol) [AT&T] Electron-Trapping Optical Memory Endorsed Tempest Products List Econometric Time Series End of Text Execution Unit End User Computing + Extended Unix Code [IBM] End-User Interface Extensible VAX Editor Extended Video Graphics Array + Extended Video Graphics Adapter Emulator Without A Good Name [Internet] Employee Written Software [IBM] Exchangeable Card Architecture [Intel] Executable (file name extension) Program used to convert an (.EXE) file to binary format (.COM) file Enterprise Messaging Exchange [Lotus] Exponent External External Reference Electronic Magazine [Internet] Computer-Chip Fabrication Plant File Access Code Floating Gate Avalanche MOS Future Air Navigation System File Access Protocol Family Application Program Interface Frequently Asked Question Federation of American Research Networks [Internet] Function and Algorithm-Specific Integrated Circuit File Allocation Table Facsimile Fax (file name extension) Fiber Channel/Arbitrated Loop File Control Block Federal Communications Commission File Carbon Copy Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology Flux Changes per Inch FIFO Control Register Fiber Channel Standard + Frame Check Sequence Floppy Disk + Floppy Drive + Full Duplex Floppy Disk Controller

FDDI FDISK FDM FDX FECN FED FEFO FEP FEPI FeRAM FESDK FET FF FFDC FFS FFST FFT FG FGREP FHSS FIF FIFO FILO FIP FIPS FIR FIRST FIX FLA FLC FLD FLL FLOPS .FLR FMS FMT FNT FOCUS FOD FOG FOIRL FOLDOC .FON .FOR FORTH FORTRAN FOSE FOSI FOSSIL FPC FPCE FPGA FPLA FPM FPP FPR FPS FPT

Fiber Digital Device Interface + Fiber Distributed Data Interface Fixed Disk Frequency-Division Multiplexing Full Duplex Forward Explicit Congestion Notification Field-Emitter Display First-Ended, First-Out Front End Processor Front End Programming Interface Ferroelectric RAM Far East Software Development Kit [Microsoft] Field Effect Transistor Flip-Flop + Form Feed First Failure Data Capture [IBM] Fast File System First Failure Support Technology [IBM] Fast Fourier Transform + Final Form Text [IBM] Floating Gate Fixed Global Regular Expression Print [Unix] Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum Fractal Image Format First-In, First-Out First-In, Last-Out File Processor Buffering Federal Information Processing Standard Fast Infrared + Finite Impulse Response Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams Federal Internet Exchange Four Letter Acronym Ferro-electric Liquid Crystal Field FoxPro Link Library [Microsoft Fox Pro] Floating Point Operations Per Second Folder (file name extension) Forms Management System Format Font Forum of Control Data Users Fax On Demand First Osborne Group Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link [IEEE] Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing Font + Phone + Phone Directory (all file name extensions) Fortran source code (file name extension) (Programming Language)(See HLL) Formula Translator (Programming Language)(See HLL) Federal Office Systems Exposition Format Option Specification Instance Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer Floating Point Calculation Floating-Point C Extension (specification) Field Programmable Gate-Array Field Programmable Logic-Array Fast Page Mode Fixed Path Protocol + Floating Point Processor Floating-Point Register Favorite Picture Selection + Frames Per Second Forced Perfect Termination

FPU FQDN FRAD FRAG FRAM FRC FRED FRPI .FRS FS FSD FSE FSF FSK FSN FSP FSR FST F/T FTAM FTM FTP FTPD FTTC FTS FTX FUI FUNC FVT FYI GA GAAP GAL GAPI Gb GB GCC GCR GDA GDDM GDG GDI GDLC GDP GDT GECOS GEIS GEM GENIE GEO GEOS GET GGP

Floating Point Unit Fully Qualified Domain Name [Internet] Frame Relay Access Device + Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler Fragment + Fragmentation Ferroelectric Random-Access Memory Funtional Redundancy Checking Frame Editor + Front-End to Dish Flux Reversals Per Inch WordPerfect Graphics Driver (file name extension) File Separator File System Driver [OS/2] Full Screen Editor Free Software Foundation [Internet] Frequency Shift Keying Full Service Network File Service Protocol Free System Resources Flat Square Tube (monitor) Full Time File Transfer, Access and Management + File Transfer and Access Method Flat Tension Mask [Zenith] File Transfer Protocol [Internet] File Transfer Protocol Daemon Fiber To The Curb Federal Telecommunication System Fault Tolerant Unix File Update Information Function Full Video Translation For Your Information General Availability Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Generic Array Logic Gateway Application Programming Interface Gigabit (1,024 megabits) + (One Billion Bits of Information) Gigabyte (1,024 megabytes) + (One Billion Characters of Information) GNU C-Compiler [Unix] Group Code Recording Global Data Area Graphics Data Display Manager Generation Data Group [IBM] Graphical Device Interface Generic Data Link Control [IBM] Graphic Draw Primitive Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing + Global Descriptor Table + Graphics Development Toolkit General Electric Comprehensive Operating System General Electric Information Service (company) Graphics Environment Manager (DRI Program) General Electric Network for Information Exchange Geostationary Earth Orbit Graphic Environment Operating System [Geoworks] Get Execute Trigger Gateway-Gateway Protocol [Internet]

GHZ .GIF GIGO GII GILS GIS

Gigahertz Graphics Interchange Format (file name extension) Garbage In, Garbage Out Global Information Infrastructure Government Information Locator Service Geographic Information System + Global Information Solutions [AT&T] GIX Global Internet Exchange [Internet] GKS Graphical Kernel System GL Graphics Language G/L General Ledger GLIS Global Land Information System [US Geological Survey] GLM General Linear Models GLOBE Global Learning by Observations to Benefit the Environment [Internet] .GLY Glossary (file name extension) [Microsoft Word] GMP Global Mobile Professional GMR Giant Magneto-Resistive GMS Global Management System + Global Messaging Service [Novell] GMT Greenwich Mean Time GND Ground (signal/system) GNN Global Network Navigator GNU Gnu's Not Unix (operating system) GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile GOV Government (organization Domain name) [Internet] GP Gas Plasma + General Purpose GPF General Protection Fault GPI Graphics Programming Interface GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus GPR General Purpose Register [IBM] GPS Global Positioning Satellite/System GPSS * General Purpose Systems Simulator (language) GRADD Graphics Adapter Device Driver [IBM] GRE Graphics Engine GREP Global Regular Expression Print .GRF Graph (file name extension) .GRP Group (file name extension) GS Group Separator GSI General Server Interface GSM Global Shared Memory + Global System for Mobile-Communications (network) GSNW Gateway Service for NetWare [Microsoft] GSTN General Switched Telephone Network GTE General Telephone Electronics (corporation) GTL Gunning Transceiver Logic GTO Guide To Operations [IBM] GSM Global Shared Memory + Global System for Mobiles GUI Graphical User Interface GUID Global Universal ID GVT Global Virtual Time GW-BASIC Gee Whiz BASIC .gz Compressed file (compressed filename extension using GNU gzip compression/decompression program) [Unix] .H Header (file name extension) [C] HACMP High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing [IBM] HAL Hard Array Logic + Hardware Abstraction Layer + House-Programmed Array Logic HAL * Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic (computer) [from 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"]

HASP HBA HCSS HCU HD HDA HDCD HDF HDI HDLC HDR HDSC HDSL HDSS HDT HDTV HDVD HDW HDX HERC HEX HFC HFS HFT HGA HGCP HH HHLAPI HIF HIFD HIL HIMEM HIPPI HLCO HLL HLLAPI .HLP HLQ HLS HLT HMA HMD HMM HMMP HMOS HMP HOTT HP HPCC HPDJ HPFS HPG HPGL HPIB HPLJ HPPA HPPI HPR

Houston Automatic Spooling Priority (System) Host Bus Adapter High Capacity Storage System Home Computer User Hard Disk + High Density Head Disk Assembly High Definition Compatible Digital Hierarchical Data Format [NCSA] Head to Disk Interference High-Level Data Link Control Header High Density Signal Carrier [DEC] High-Data-Rate Digital Subscriber Line Holographic Data Storage System Host Digital Terminal High Definition Television High Definition Volumetric Display Hardware Half Duplex Hercules Hexadecimal Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial Hierarchical File System [Macintosh] High Function Terminal [IBM] Hercules Graphics Adapter Hercules Graphics Card Plus Hour High-Level Language Application Programming Interface Hyper-G Interchange Format High-Density Floppy Disk Human Interface Link [HP] High Memory High Performance Parallel Interface High Low Close Open High Level Language High Level Language Application Programming Interface Help (file name extension) High Level Qualifier Hue, Luminance, Saturation (color model) Halt High Memory Area [Microsoft] + Hub Management Architecture Head Mounted Display Hidden Markov Model Hyper-Media Management Protocol High Density Metal Oxide Semiconductor + High Speed Metal Oxide Semiconductor Host Monitoring Protocol Hot Off The Tree (electronic newsletter) Hewlett-Packard (Company) High Performance Computing and Communications Hewlett-Packard Desk Jet High-Performance File System Hewlett-Packard Graphics Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus Hewlett-Packard Laser Jet Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture High Performance Parallel Interface High Performance Routing [IBM]

HPUX HPW .HQX HRIS HRG HRMS HRTF HS HSB HSC HSI HSM HSP HSSI HST .HST HSV HTML HTTP HTTP-NG HUT H/V HVP H/W HWCP HWD .HYP HYTELNET Hz IAB IAC IAG IAK IAL * IANA IAP IAT IAUP IBC iBCS IBM IBM-GL IC ICA ICAP ICAS ICB ICCP ICE ICI ICL ICLID ICM ICMP .ICO iCOMP ICP ICR ICS

Hewlett-Packard Unix High Performance Workstation [Sun] BinHex (file name extension) [Macintosh] Human Resource Information System High Resolution Graphics Human Resource Management System Head Related Transfer Function High Speed Hue, Saturation, Brightness (color model) High Speed Channel Hue, Saturation, Intensity Hierarchical Storage Management High Speed Printer High Speed Serial Interface High Speed Technology [U.S. Robotics] History + Host (file name extensions) Hue Saturation Value HyperText Markup Language HyperText Transport Protocol HTTP Next Generation Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope Horizontal/Vertical Horizontal & Vertical Position Hardware Hardware Code Page Height-Width-Depth Hyphenation (file name extension) Hypertext-browser for Telnet Accessible Sites Hertz Internet Architecture Board [Internet] Inter-Application Communication [Macintosh] Instruction Address Generation Internet Access Kit [IBM] International Algebraic Language (ALGOL was first called IAL) Internet Assigned Numbers Authority [Internet] Internet Access Provider [Internet] Import Address Table Internet User Account Provider [Internet] Instrument Bus Computer Intel Binary Compatibility Specification International Business Machines (Corporation) IBM Graphics Language Input Circuit + Integrated Circuit + Interrupt Controller Intra-application Communications Area Internet Calendar Access Protocol [Lotus] Intel Communicating Applications Specifications Internet Citizen's Band Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals In-Circuit Emulator [Intel] Image Component Information Interface Clear Incoming-Call Line Identification Image Color Matching [Kodak] Internet Control Message Protocol [Novell] Icon (file name extension) Intel Comparative Microprocessor Performance [Intel] Integrated Channel Processor Intelligent Character Recognition Intuitive Command Structure

ICU ID IDA IDAPI IDC IDDE IDE

IDEA IDF IDIV IDL IDMS IDNX IDP IDR IDT .IDX IE IEC IEEE IEF IEMSI IEN IETF IESG I/F IFD IFF IFG IFP IFS IFSM IGA IGC IGES IGMP IGRP IGS IHD IHV IIF III IIOP IIR IIS IITF iKP ILA ILS IMACS IMAP

ISA Configuration Utility + Instruction-Cache Unit Identification + Identifier Integrated Digital Access + Intelligent Disk Array + Intelligent Drive Array Integrated Database Application Programming Interface Integrated Database Connector + Integrated Desktop Connector + Internet Database Connector [Microsoft] Integrated Development & Debugging Environment [Symantec] Imbedded Drive Electronics + Integrated Development Environment [Borland] + Integrated Drive Electronics + Intelligent Drive Electronics + Interactive Design and Engineering + Interface Design Enhancement International Data Encryption Algorithm Intermediate Distribution Frame Integer Divide Interface Definition Language Integrated Data Base Management System Integrated Digital Network Exchange [IBM] Integrated Data Processing Intelligent Document Recognition Interface Design Tool + Interrupt Descriptor Table Index (file name extension) Internet Explorer [Microsoft] International Electrotechnical Commission Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Information Engineering Facility Interactive Electronic Mail Standard Identification Internet Engineering Notes Internet Engineering Task Force [Internet] Internet Engineering Steering Group [Internet] Interface Image File Directory Interchangeable File Format [Amiga] Incoming Fax Gateway Instruction Fetch Pipeline Installable File System Information Systems Management Integrated Graphics Array Integrated Graphics Controller Initial Graphics Exchange Standard Internet Group Multicast Protocol [Internet] Interior Gateway Routing Protocol [Cisco] Internet Go Server [Internet] Integrated Help Desk [IBM] Independent Hardware Vendor Immediate IF Interstate Identification Index [NCIC] Internet Inter-Operability Protocol Immediate Impulse Response Internet Information Server [Microsoft] Information Infrastructure Task Force Internet Keyed Payments [IBM] Image Light Amplifier International Language Support Image Management and Communication System Internet Message Access Protocol [Internet]

IMAX IMDS IME IMG IML IMP IMPA IMR IMS

Maximum Image Image Data Stream (format) [IBM] Input Method Editor Image Initial Microcode Load [IBM] Information/Interface Message Processor Intelligent Multi-Port Adapter [DCA] Internet Monthly Report [Internet] Information Management System + Intermediate Maintenance Standards IMTC International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium IMTV Interactive Multimedia Television IMUL Integer Multiply IN Input INC Increment .IND Index (file name extension) .INF Information (file name extension) .INI Initialize (file name extension) INIT Initialization + Initialize INM Integrated Network Management INS Input String + Integrated Network Server INT Integer + Internal + Interrupt + International (organization Domain name) [Internet] INTA Interrupt Acknowledge InterNIC Internet Network Information Center [Internet] INTO Interrupt if Overflow occurs I/O Input/Output IOCC Input/Output Channel Converter + Input/Output Controller Chip IOCS Input/Output Control System IOCTL Input/Output Control IODE Integrated Development and Debugging Environment [Symantec] IOPL Input/Output Priviledge Level IOSGA Input/Output Support Gate Array IP Instruction Pointer + Internet Protocol IPC Instructions Per Clock + Interprocess Communication IPCP Internet Protocol Control Protocol IPDS IBM Personal Dictation System [IBM] + Intelligent Printer Data Stream [IBM] IPFC Information Presentation Facility Compiler [IBM] IPI Intelligent Peripheral Interface IPL Initial Program Load/Loader + Ion Projection Lithography IPL * Information Programming Language IPM Interpersonal Message IPng Internet Protocol, next generation IPSE Integrated Project Support Environment IPTC International Press Telecommunications Council IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange [Novell] IQL Interactive Query Language IR Infrared IRC Internet Relay Chat [Internet] IRD Integrated Receiver/Descrambler IRDA Infrared Data Association IRDS Information Resource Dictionary System IRET Interrupt Return IRF Intermediate Routing Function + Inheritance Rights Filter [Novell] IRL Interactive Reader Language + Inter-Repeater Link IRLAP Infrared Link Access Protocol

IRLED IRM IRQ IRTF IRX IS ISA ISAM ISAPI ISBN ISC ISD ISDN ISH ISI ISIS ISKM ISL ISM ISMF ISOC ISO/OSI ISP ISPF ISR ISSN ISV IT ITB ITC ITF ITN ITR ITU ITUG ITU-TSS ITV ITX IU IUAP IUS/ITB IVIS IVL IVR IVS IVT IV&V I-WAY IXC JA JAD JAE JANET

Infrared Light Emitting Diode Information Resource Management + Inherent Rights Mask Interrupt Request Internet Research Task Force [Internet] Information Retrieval Experiment Information System + Interrupt Status Industry Standard Architecture + Instruction-Set Architecture Indexed Sequential-Access Management/Method Internet Server API [Microsoft] International Standard Book Number Instruction Set Computer+ Inter-Systems Communication [IBM] Image Section Descriptor + Instructional Systems Design Integrated Services Digital Network Information Super Highway Internally Specified Index Integrated Systems and Information Services Internet Starter Kit for the Macintosh Interactive System Language Internet Service Manager [Microsoft] Interactive Storage Management Facility Internet Society International Standards Organization/Open Systems Interconnection (model) Internet Service Provider [Internet] + Interrupt Stack Pointer + Interrupt Status Port Interactive System Programming Facility Information Storage and Retrieval + Interrupt Service Routine + Interrupt Status Register International Standard Serial Number Independent Software Vendor Information Technology Information Technology Branch + Intermediate Text Block International Typeface Corporation Interactive Test Facility Identification Tasking and Networking Internet Talk Radio International Telecommunication Union International Telecommunications User Group ITU-Telecommunication Standards Section Interactive Television Intermediate Text Block Integer Unit Internet User Account Provider [Internet] Interchange Unit Separator/Intermediate Transmission Block Interactive Video Information System Independent Vendor League + Intel Verification Lab Interactive Voice Response Interactive Videodisk System Interrupt Vector Table Independent Verification & Validation Information Highway Interchange Carrier Jump Address + Jump if Above Joint Application Design Jump if Above or Equal Joint Academic Network

JBE JC JCL JDBC JDK JE JEDEC JEIDA JES JFET JFIF JFS JG JGE JIPS JIT JL JLE JMAPI JMP JNA JNAE JNB JNBE JNG JNGE .JNK JNLE JNO JNP JNS JOE JPE JPEG JPL JPO JS JZ JNZ JUGHEAD JVM K-12 KAM Kb KB KBD KBD$ Kbps KBps KDT KEFIR KEYBBE KEYBBR KEYBCF KEYBCZ (Czech) KEYBDK KEYBFR KEYBGR

Jump if Below or Equal Jump if Carry set Job Control Language Java Database Connectivity Java Development Kit Jump if Equal Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council Japanese Electronics Industry Development Association Job Entry System Junction Field Effect Transistor JPEG File Interchange Format Journaled File System [IBM] Jump if Greater Jump if Greater or Equal JANET Internet Protocol Service Just-In-Time (compiler) Jump if Less Jump if Less than or Equal to Java Management Application Program Interface Jump Jump if Not Above Jump if Not Above or Equal Jump if Not Below Jump if Not Below or Equal Jump if Not Greater Jump if Not Greater or Equal Junk (file name extension) Jump if Not Less or Equal Jump if No Overflow Jump if No Parity Jump if No Sign Java Objects Everywhere Jump if Parity Even Joint Photographic Experts Group Jet Propulsion Laboratory Jump if Parity Odd Jump if Sign Jump if Zero Jump if Not Zero Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation and Display [Internet] Java Virtual Machine Kindergarten through 12th Grade [US Education System] Keep Alive Memory Kilobit Keyboard + Kilobyte (1,024 bytes) Keyboard (also KEYB) Keyboard [OS/2] Kilobits Per Second Kilobytes Per Second Key Definition Table Key Findings Reporter [GTE] Foreign language KEYBoard program - Belgium Foreign language KEYBoard program - Brazil Foreign language KEYBoard program - Canadian-French Foreign language KEYBoard program - Czechoslovakia Foreign language KEYBoard program - Denmark Foreign language KEYBoard program - France Foreign language KEYBoard program - Germany

KEYBHU KEYBIT KEYBLA KEYBNL KEYBNO KEYBPL KEYBPO KEYBSF KEYBSG KEYBSL (Slovak) KEYBSP KEYBSU KEYBSV KEYBUK KEYBUS KEYBYU KHz KIF KIS KPI KQML KSH KSPH KSR KRS LADDR LALL LAN LANACS LANDP LANE LAPB LAPD LAPM LAR LASER LASTport LAT LAVC LAWN LB LBA LBL LBR .LBR LBT LBX LCA LCC LCD LCF LCK LCP LCR LCU LDA LDAP LDC

Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign Foreign

language language language language language language language language language language

KEYBoard KEYBoard KEYBoard KEYBoard KEYBoard KEYBoard KEYBoard KEYBoard KEYBoard KEYBoard

program program program program program program program program program program

Hungary Italy Latin America Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Swiss-French Swiss-German Czechoslovakia

Foreign language KEYBoard program - Spain Foreign language KEYBoard program - Finland Foreign language KEYBoard program - Sweden Foreign language KEYBoard program - United Kingdom Foreign language KEYBoard program - United States Foreign language KEYBoard program - Yugoslavia Kilohertz Knowledge Interchange Format Knowbot Information Service [Internet] Kernel Programming Interface Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language Korn Shell (program) [Unix] Keystrokes Per Hour Keyboard Send Receive Knowledge Retrieval System Layered Device Driver Architecture [Microsoft] Longest Allowed Lobe Length Local Area Network Local Area Network Asynchronous Connection Server LAN Distributed Platform Local Area Network Emulation Link Access Procedure Balanced (protocol) Link Access Procedure Direct (protocol) Link Access Procedure for Modems Load Access Rights Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation Local Area Storage Transport (protocol) [DEC] Local Access Terminal + Local Area Transport [DEC] Local Area VAX Cluster Local Area Wireless Network Left Button (of 2 or 3 button Mouse) Logical Block Addressing Label Librarian Library (file name extension) Listen Before Talk Local Bus Accelerator Lotus Communications Architecture [Lotus] Leadless Chip Carrier Liquid Crystal Display + Lowest Common Denominator Low Cost Fiber Library Construction Kit [Mircrosoft FoxPro] Link Control Protocol Line Control Register Last Cluster Used Logical Device Address Lightweight Directory Access Protocol [IBM] Lotus Development Corporation

LDM LDT LE LEA LEAF LEC

Long Distance Modem Local Descriptor Table Less or Equal Load Effective Address Law Enforcement Access Field Local Area Network Emulation Client + Local Exchange Carrier LED Light Emitting Diode LEL Link, Embed and Launch-to-edit [Lotus] LEM Language Extension Module LEN Low Entry Networking LES Local Area Network Emulation Server .LET Letter (file name extension) LEX Lexicon LF Line Feed LFI Last File Indicator LFN Long File Name LFT Low Function Terminal [IBM] LFU Least Frequently Used LGDT Load Global Descriptor Table LIAS Library Information Access System .LIB Library (file name extension) LIC Line Interface Coupler [IBM] LICS Lotus International Character Set [LDC] LIDT Load Interrupt Descriptor Table LIEP Large Internet Exchange Packet [Novell] LIF Low Insertion Force LIFO Last In, First Out LILO Last In, Last Out LIM Lotus/Intel/Microsoft LIMA Lotus/Intel/Microsoft/AST LIMDO Light Intensity Modulation Direct Overwrite LIMM Light Intensity Modulation Method LIMS Library Information Management System LINUX (Operating system named after Linus Torvalds) LIP Large Internet Packet LIPS Logical Inferences Per Second LISP List Processing (Language)(See HLL) LISTSERV List Server [Internet] LLC Logical Link Control LLDT Load Local Descriptor Table LLF Low Level Format LMB Left Mouse Button LMBCS Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set [Lotus] LMDS Local Multipoint Distribution Service LMI Local Management Interface LMS Lotus Messaging Switch [Lotus] LMSW Load Machine Status Word LMU LAN Management Utilities [IBM] + LAN Manager for Unix LN Logarithm (Natural) LN:DI Lotus Notes:Document Imaging LNK Link LOAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LOC Loop On-Line Control LOCIS Library of Congress Information System LOD Level Of Detail LODSB Load String Byte LOG Logarithm (Base 10) LOGO (Programming Language)(See HLL)

LOOPE LOOPNE LOOPNZ LOOPZ LORE LPC LPD LPI LPL LPM LPN LPR LPS LPT LPT1 LPT2 LPT3 LQ LQM LR LRC LRL LRM .LRS LRU LSA LSAPI LSB LSC LSD LSI LSL LST .LST LTR LU LUA LUI LUIS LUN LUT LV LVM LW LZW mA Mac MAC .MAC MACH MADE MADYMO MAh MAI .MAI MAN MANPAGE

Loop while Equal Loop while Not Equal Loop while Not Zero Loop while Zero Line Oriented Editor Local Procedure Call Line Printer Daemon (protocol) [Berkley] Lines Per Inch Lotus Programming Language [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC] Lines Per Minute Logical Page Number Line Printer Remote Low-Power Schottky Line Printer First Parallel Printer Port Second Parallel Printer Port Third Parallel Printer Port Letter Quality Link Quality Monitoring (protocol) Link Register Local Register Cache + Longitudinal Redundancy Check Least Recently Loaded Language Reference Manual + Least Recently-Used Master Language Resource (file name extension) [WordPerfect] Least Recently Used LAN and SCSI Adapter [IBM] + Line Sharing Adapter + Local Security Authority [Microsoft] License Services Application Program Interface Least Significant Bit Least Significant Character Least Significant Digit Large Scale Integration Link Support Layer + Load Segment Limit List List (file name extension) Left-To-Right + Letter + Load Task Register Logical Unit (Also LUN) Logical Unit Application (interface) Local User Input Library User Information Service Logical Unit Number Lookup Table Logical Volume [IBM] Logical Volume Management [IBM] Lazy Write Lempel-Ziv-Welch (algorithm) Milliampere Macintosh (Apple Macintosh Computer) Media/Medium Access Control MacPaint (file name extension) + Macro (file name extension) Multilayer Actuator Head [Epson] Manufacturing and Automated Design Engineering Mathematical Dynamic Modeling [TNO] Milliampere-Hour Multiple Applications Interface Mail (file name extension) Manual [Unix] + Metropolitan Area Network Manual Page [Unix]

MAP .MAP MAPI MAPICS MARVEL MASM MASS MAT MAU MAVDM MAX MB MBASIC MBCS MBONE MBPS MBR MBX MCA MCAD MCB MCGA MCI MCL MCM MCNE MC-PGA MCPS MC-QFP MCR MCU MD MDA MDDBMS .MDF MDI MDIC MDK MDLP MDR MDY .ME MEB MEG MEM .MEN MES MESI MET .MET

Maintenance Analysis Procedures + Manufacturing Automation Protocol + Memory Allocation Map Linker Map (file name extension) Mail/Messaging Applications Programming Interface [Microsoft] Manufacturing, Accounting and Production Information Control System [IBM] Machine-Assisted Realization of the Virtual Electronic Library [Library of Congress] Macro Assembler [Microsoft] Maximum Availability and Support Subsystem [Parallan] Maintenance Access Terminal Media Access Unit + Multistation Access Unit Multiple Application VDM Maximum Megabyte (1,024 kilobytes) + Middle Button (of 3 button Mouse) Microsoft BASIC [Microsoft] Multi-Byte Character Set [IBM] Multicast Backbone [Internet] Megabytes Per Second Master Boot Record Mailbox Micro Channel Adapter/Architecture [IBM] Mechanical Computer Aided Design Memory Control Block Multicolor Graphics Array MCI Communications Corp. (name from initials of original company - Microwave Communications, Inc.) + Media Control Interface [Microsoft] Microsoft Compatibility Labs [Microsoft] Multi-Chip Module Master Certified Novell Engineer [Novell] Metallized Ceramic - Pin Grid Array Microsoft Certified Product Specialist [Microsoft] Metallized Ceramic - Quad Flat Pack Modem Control Register Multi-Chip Unit [DEC] Make Directory + Mini Disk [Sony] + Monochrome Display Monochrome Display Adapter + Multidimensional Analysis Multidimensional Data Base Management System Menu Definition File (file name extension) Multiple Document Interface Manchester Decoder and Interface Chip [AT&T] Multimedia Developers Kit [Microsoft] Modile Data Link Protocol Minimum Design Requirement Month Day Year Opening Information (file name extension) (As in READ.ME) Memory Expansion Board Megabyte Memory Menu (file name extension) Manufacturing Execution System Modified, Exclusive, Shared and Invalid (protocol) Memory Enhancement Technology [Hewlitt-Packard] Metafile (file name extension)

MFC MFFS MFLOPS MFM MFP MFPI MFS MFT MGA MGE MGET MGR MHS MHz MI MIB MICRO MICS MIDI MIF .MIF MIG MII MIL MIM MIMD MIME MI/MIC MIN MINUET MIPS MIS MISC MIX MKDIR ML MLAPI MLC MLE MLID MLM MM MMA MMC MMCD MMCX MMI MMIS MMPM MMU MMX MNOS

Microsoft Foundation Class [Microsoft] Microsoft Flash File System [Microsoft] Million Floating Point Operations Per Second Modified Frequency Modulation Multi-Function Peripheral/Product Multifunction Peripheral Interface Macintosh File System [Macintosh] + Magnetic Tape Field Search + Memory File System Modified Filing System [Revelation Technologies] Master File Table + Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks Monochrome Graphics Adapter Modular GIS Environment Multiple Get [Unix] Manager Message Handling Service + Message Handling System Megahertz Management Interface Management Information Base One-millionth Macro Interpretive Commands Musical Instrument Digital Interface Management Information Format Management Information Files (file name extension) Metal In Gap Microsoft/IBM/Intel Machine Interface Layer [Go Corporation] + Military (organization Domain name) [Internet] Metal-Insulator-Metal (screen) Multiple Instruction Multiple Data Stream (processor) Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension [Internet] Mode Indicate/Mode Indicate Common Minimum + Mobile Identification Number Minnesota Internet Users Essential Tools [Internet] Million Instructions Per Second Management Information System + Multimedia Information Sources [Internet] Miscellaneous Member Information Exchange Make Directory Machine Language + Meta Language Multilingual Application Programming Interface Multilayer Ceramic + Multilevel Cell (program) [Internet] Multi-Line Editor Multi-Link Interface Driver Mailing List Manager [Internet] Minutes + Month Microcomputer Managers Association Matched Memory Cycle + Microcomputer Marketing Council MultiMedia Compact Disk Multimedia Communication Exchange [Lucent Technologies] Man-Machine Interface Materials Manager Information System Multi Media Presentation Manager Memory Management Unit Matrix Manipulation Extensions [Intel] + Multimedia Extensions Metal Nitride Oxide Semiconductor

MNP .MNU MO MOB MOBO MOD MODEM MOHLL MOLAP MOM MOO MOP MOS MOSFET MOTD MOV MOVS MP MPC MPCS MPE MPEG MPI MPM MPMD MPOA MPP MPQP MPR MPS MPTN MPTS MPU MQI MR MRCF MRCI MRI MRM MRO MRP MRPL MRS MRT MRU MS MSACM MSAU MSAV MSB MSBF MSCDEX MSD MS-DOS MSDR MSDS MSFR

Microcom Networking Protocol [Microcom] Menu (fine name extension) Magneto-Optical (disk drive) Memory-Order Buffer Mother Board Module + Modulus Modulator Demodulator Machine Oriented High Level Language Multidimensional On-Line Analytical Processing Microsoft Office Manager [Microsoft] MUD, Object Oriented [Internet] Maintenance Operations Protocol Metal Oxide Semiconductor + Magneto-Optic Storage Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor Message Of The Day Metal Oxide Varistor + Move Move String Massively Parallel (processing) + Multiple Processors Multimedia Personal Computer + Multipath Channel Mission Planning and Control Station (Software) Multiple Programming Executive [HP] Moving Picture Experts Group Message Passing Interface + Multiprecision Integer Message Passing Library [IBM] Multiple Processor/Multiple Data Multi-Protocol over Asynchronous-Transfer-Mode Massively Parallel Processing + Message Processing Program Multi-Protocol Quad Port [IBM] Multipart Repeater + Multi Protocol Router [Novell] Multiprocessor Specification Multi-Protocol Transport Network Multi-Protocol Transport Services Microprocessor Unit Message Queue Interface Magnetoresistive + Modem Ready Microsoft Realtime Compression Format Microsoft Realtime Compression Interface Magnetic Resonance Imaging Most Recently-Used Master Multi-Region Operation Materials Requirement Planning Main Ring Path Length Media Recognition System Mean Repair Time Maximum Receive Unit Memory System + Message Store + Microsecond + Microsoft Corporation + Millisecond Microsoft Audio Compression Manager [Microsoft] Multi-Station Access Unit Microsoft Anti Virus [Microsoft] Most Significant Bit Mean Swaps Between Failures Microsoft Compact Disc Extensions [Microsoft] Mass Storage Device + Most Significant Digit + Microsoft System Diagnostics [Microsoft] Microsoft - Disk Operating System [Microsoft] Multiplexed Streaming Data Request Microsoft Developer Support [Microsoft] Minimum Security Function Requirements [IBM]

MSG .MSG MSI MSL MSN MSO .MSP MSRP MSS MSW MTA MTBB MTBF MTBJ MTF MTS MTT MTTD MTTF MTTR MTU MUD MUL MUMPS MUSE MUT MUX MV MVB MVC MVDM MVGA MVIP MVP MVS MVT MX MXS MZR NAC NACD NACS NAE NAK NAM NAMPS NANO NAP NAPLPS NAS NASA NASDAQ NASI NASIRC

Message Program Message (file name extension) Medium Scale Integration Map Specification Library + Mirrored Server Link Microsoft Network [Microsoft] Multiple-Systems Operator Microsoft Paint (file name extension) [Microsoft] Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price Mass Storage System + Multiprotocol Switched Services [IBM] Machine Status Word Message Transfer Agent + Multiple Terminal Access Mean Time Between Breakdowns Mean Time Between Failures Mean Time Between Jams Microsoft Tape Format [Microsoft] + Modulation Transfer Function Message Transfer Service/System + Multichannel Television Sound Multi-Transaction Timer Mean Time To Diagnose Mean Time To Failure Mean Time To Repair Maximum Transmission Unit Multi-User Dialogue/Dimension/Domain/Dungeon [Internet] Multiply Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System (Programming Language) Multi-User Shared Environment Monitor Under Test Multiplexer Millivolt Multimedia Viewer Book Multimedia Viewer Compiler Multiple Virtual DOS Machines Monochrome Video Graphics Array Multi-Vendor Integration Protocol Multimedia Video Processor Multiple Virtual Storage Multiprogramming with a Variable number of Tasks Mail Exchanger [Internet] Microsoft Exchange Server [Microsoft] Multiple Zone Recording Network Adapter Card National Association of Computer Dealers National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors Not Above or Equal Negative Acknowledgment Number Assignment Module Narrow-Band Analog Mobile Phone Service [Motorola] One thousand-millionth Network Access Point North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax (graphics) Network Application Support [DEC] National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation NetWare Asynchronous Services Interface [Novell] NASA Automated Systems Internet Response Capability

NASKER NASA Ames Kernel (benchmark) NAU Network Addressable Unit NAWS Negotiate About Window Size NBE Not Below or Equal NBI Nothing But Initials NBS National Bureau of Standards + Numeric Backspace NC Network Computer + No Carry + Numerical Control NCA Network Communications Adapter NCC Network Control Center .NCF Netware Command File [Novell] NCGA National Computer Graphics Association NCIC National Crime Information Center NCMT * Numerical Control for Machine Tools NCOS Network Computer Operating System NCP NetWare Core Protocol + Not Copy Protected + Network Control Processor/Program/Protocol NCR National Cash Register (Company) NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSC National Computer Security Center NCSI Network Communications Services Interface [Network Products Corp.] NDB Non-Directional Beacon NDDK Network Device Development Kid [Microsoft] NDEF Not to be Defined NDIS Network Device/Driver Interface Specification NDN Non-Delivery Notice NDP Numeric Data Processor NDR Network Data Representation NDRO Non-Destructive Read Out NDS NetWare Directory Service [Novell] .NDX Index (file name extension) NEC Nippon Electric Company NED NASA Extragalactic Database [NASA] NEG Negative + Negate NEP Network Entry Point NES National Education Supercomputer NEST Novell Embedded Systems Technology [Novell] NET Network (organization Domain name) [Internet] NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System [IBM] NetBEUI NetBIOS Extended User Interface [IBM] NETMON Network Monitor .NEW New Information (file name extension) NEWS NetWare Early Warning System [Frye Computer] + Network Extensible Window System NEWS. Current events [USENET Newsgroup Category] NEXT Near-End Crosstalk NFF No Fault Found NFS Network File System [Sun] NG No Good NGE Not Greater or Equal NHC National Hurricane Center NHR National Handwriting Recognition N/I Non-Interlaced NIA Next Instruction Address NIC Network Information Center [Internet] + Network Interface Card + Numeric Intensive Computing NICAD Nickel-Cadmium NICOLAS Network Information Center OnLine Aid System [NASA] NID New Interactive Display [NEC] + Next ID

NII NIM NIMH NIO NIPS NIR NIS N-ISDN NISO NISP NIST NITC NIU NJE NL NLE NLM NLP NLQ NLSFUNC NLV NMI NMM NMOS NMP NMS NN NNI NNTP NOC NOP NOPAC NOR NOS NPA NPI NPL NPS NPTN NPU NPX NQS NRC NREN NRZ NRZI NS

National Information Infrastructure Network Installation Management [IBM] Nickel-Metal Hydride Native Input/Output Network I/Os Per Second Network Information Retrieval Network Information Service [Unix] Narrowband ISDN + National ISDN National Information Standards Organization Networked Information Services Project National Institute for Standards and Technology National Information Technology Center Network Interface Unit Network Job Entry (protocol) [IBM] New Line Not Less or Equal NetWare Loadable Module [Netware] Natural-Language Processing Near Letter Quality National Language Support Function National Language Version [IBM] Non-Maskable Interrupt NetWare Management Map [NetWare] Negative Channel Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Network Management Protocol [AT&T] Network Management System [Novell] Network Node + No News [Internet] Network-Network Interface Network News Transfer Protocol [Internet] Network Operations Center No Operation Network OPAC Not Or Network Operating System Network Printer Alliance Network Printer Interface Nonprocedural Language Novell Productivity Specialist [Novell] National Public Telecomputing Network Natural Processing Unit Numeric Processor Extension Network Queing System [Cray] National Research Council (Canada) National Research and Education Network Not Return to Zero Non Return to Zero Inverted Nanosecond + National Semiconductor (as in Ns16550 UART) + Network Supervisor + Non Stop NSAP Network Service Access Point NSAPI Netscape Server API [Netscape] NSA POLY National Security Agency Polygraph NSERC National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada) NSF National Science Foundation NSFNET National Science Foundation Network NSI NASA Science Internet NSLOOKUP Name Server Lookup [Unix] NSM Netscape Server Manager [Netscape] NSP Native Signal Processing [Intel] + Network Service Provider NSSC NASA Standard Spacecraft Computer NSTC National Science and Technology Council

NSTL NT NTAS NTF NTFS NTIA NTIS NTRAS NTSA NTSC NUI NUL NUMA NV NVM NVOD NVP NVRAM NVT NWS NYM OAB OAD OAG OAI OAS OBD OBEX OBJ OC OCE OCF OCL OCR OCS OCX ODA ODAPI ODBC ODBMS ODI ODM ODMA ODP ODS ODSI ODT OEM OEP OF OFB OFMT OFS

National Software Testing Labs New Technology [Microsoft] NT Advamced Server [Microsoft] No Trouble Found New Technology File System [Microsoft] National Telecommunications and Information Administration National Technical Information Service NT Remote Access Services [Microsoft] NetWare Telephony Services Architecture [Novell] National Television Standards Committee Network User Identification + Network User Interface + Notebook User Interface [Go Corporation] Null + (dummy device) + (no device) Non-Uniform Memory Access No Overflow Non-Volatile Memory Near-Video On Demand Nominal Velocity of Propagation Non-Volatile Random Access Memory Network Virtual Terminal + Novell Virtual Terminal [Novell] NetWare Web Server [Netware] Anonymous One-to-All Broadcast Open Architecture Driver [Bernoulli] Official Airline Guide + Online Air Guide Open Applications Interface One-to-All Scatter On Board Diagnostics Object Exchange [Borland] Object Optical Carrier Open Collaborative Environment [Apple] Object Components Framework [Borland] Operation Control Language + Operator Control Language Optical Character Recognition On-Card Sequencer OLE Custom Control Office Document Architecture Open Database Application Programming Interface [Borland] Open Data Base Connectivity [Microsoft] Object-Oriented Database Management System (also see OODMS) Open Datalink Interface [Novell] + Open Device Interconnect [NetWare] Object Data Manager [IBM] Open Document Management API Open Distributed Processing Open Data Services [Microsoft] Open Directory Service Interface [Microsoft] Open Desktop Original Equipment Manufacturer Operand Execution Pipeline Overflow Flag Output Feedback (mode) Output Format for Numbers Object File System [Microsoft] + Output Field Separator

OH OIDL OIS OLAP .OLD OLE OLI OLMC OLSP OLTP OM OMA OME OMF OMG OMI OMNS OMR ONC ONDS ONU OODB OODMS OOL OOOS OOPL OOPS OOS OOT OOUI OP OPAC OPC OPCODE OPD OPI OPM OPS OPT .OPT OPUS ORACLE ORB ORG ORI .ORI ORS OS OS/2 OSA OS/E OSF OSI OSM OSP OSPF OSQL

Off Hook Object Interface Definition Language Office Information Systems On-Line Analytical Processing Old version (file name extension) Object Linking and Embedding [Microsoft] Optical Line Interface [AT&T] Output Logic Macrocell On-Line Service Provider On-Line Transaction Processing Object Manager Object Management Architecture [Microsoft] Open Messaging Environment (protocol) Object Module Format [Microsoft] + Open Media Framework + Open Message Format Object Management Group Open Messaging Interface [Lotus] Open Network Management System Optical Mark Recognition Open Network Computing [Sun] Open Network Distribution Services [IBM] Optical Network Unit Object-Oriented Database Object-Oriented Database Management System (also see ODBMS) Object-Oriented Language Object-Oriented Operating System Object-Oriented Programming Language Object Oriented Programming and Systems Object-Oriented Systems + Off-line Operating Simulator Object-Oriented Technology Object Oriented User Interface Operation + Optical + Output Online Public Access Catalog [Internet] Optical Photoconductor Operational Code Operand Open Prepress Interface Operations Per Minute Operations Open Protocol Technology Options (file name extension) Octal Program Updating System On-Line Inquiry and Report Generator (UNIX DB program) Object Request Broker [Microsoft] Organization (organization Domain name) [Internet] Online Retrieval Interface Original (file name extension) Output Record Separator Operating System Operating System/2 [IBM] Open Scripting/System Architecture Operating System/Environment Open Software Foundation Open Systems Interconnection Off-Screen Model On-Screen Programming + Optical Storage Processor Open Shortest Path First Object Structured Query Language

OT OTA OTDR OTF OTP OURS .OUT OUTS OV .OVL .OVR OWL PAB PABX PACE PACS PACS-L PAD PADS PAIH PAIS .PAK PAL .PAL PALC PALS PAM PAP PAR PARA PARC .PAS PASCAL .PAT PAX PBE PBGA PBX PC PCACIAS PCB PCBC PCD PC-DOS PCEB PCI PC-I/O PCL PCM PCMC PCMCIA PCMIM PCN PCNFS

Object Technology Operation-Triggered Architecture Optical Time Domain Reflectometer Open Token Foundation One-Time Programmable Open Users Recommended Solutions Outlines (file name extension) Output String Overflow Program Overlay (file name extension) Program Overlay (file name extension) Object/Open Windows Library [Borland] Personal Address Book Private Automatic Branch Exchange Priority Access Control Enabled [3Com] Picture Archiving and Communication System Public Access Computer Systems List [Internet] Packet Assembler/Disassembler Pen Application Development System [Slate Corporation] Public-Access Internet Host [Internet] Public-Access Internet Site [Internet] Packed (compressed file name extension) [NoGate Consulting] Paradox Applications Language [Borland] + Phase Alternating Line + Programmed Array Logic + Programming Assembly Language Palette (file name extension) Plasma-Addressed Liquid Crystal (display) Principles of the Alphabet Literacy System Pulse Amplitude Modulation Packet-level Procedure + Password Authentication Protocol + Printer Access Protocol Personal Animation Recorder + Parallel Paragraph Palo Alto Research Center [XEROX] PASCAL source code (file name extension) (Programming Language named for Blaise Pascal) Patch + Pattern (file name extensions) Portable Archive Exchange [Unix] Prompt By Example Plastic Ball Grid Array Private Branch Exchange Personal Computer + Printed Circuit + Program Counter Personal Computer Automated Calibration Interval Analysis System Printed Circuit Board + Program Control Block Plain Cipher Block Chaining Photo Compact Disk Personal Computer - Disk Operating System [IBM] PCI to EISA Bridge [Intel] Peripheral Component Interconnect/Interface Program Controlled I/O Printer Command Language [HP] + Process Control Language Personal Computer Manufacturer + Pulse Code Modulation PCI, Cache, Memory Controller [Intel] Personal Computer Memory Card International Association Personal Computer Media Interface Module Personal Computer Network Personal Computer Network File System

PCO PCS

PCT .PCT .PCX PD PDA PDC PDD PDF .PDF PDIAL PDL PDM PDN PDO PDP PDS PDSS PDT PDU .PDX PE PEA PEL PEM PEN SDK PEP PERL PERT PES PET .PFB PFE .PFM PFR PGA PGC PGDN .PGL PGM PGP .PGP PGUP PHIGS

Point of Control and Observation Patchable Control Store + Personal Communication Services/System + Personal Conferencing Specification + Planning Control Sheet + Print Contrast Signal + Process Control Systems + Program Counter Store + Programmable Drive Table + Project Control System Private Communications Technology Picture (file name extension) Picture Image (file name extension) Phase-Change Dual + Public Domain Personal Digital Assistant Primary Domain Controller Physical Device Driver Package Definition File + Portable Document Format + Portable Document File + Processor Defined Function + Program Development Facility Printer Description (file name extension)[Borland,Lotus] Public Dialup Internet Access List [Internet] Page Description Language + Program Description Language + Program Design Language Product Data Management Public Data Network Portable Distributed Objects [Next] Plasma Display Panel + Programmable Data Processor + (DEC Computer System Designation, i.e. PDP-8, PDP-11) Packet Driver Specification + Partitioned Data Set + Planetary Data System + Portable Document Software + Processor Direct Slot [Macintosh] Post Development and Software Support Performance Diagnostic Tool [IBM] + Programmable Drive Table Plug Distribution Unit Paradox files (file name extension) [Borland] + Printer Description Extension (file name extension) Parity Even + Processing Element + Protect Enable Pocket Ethernet Adapter Picture Element [IBM] Privacy-Enhanced Mail [Internet] Pen Computing Software Development Kit Packetized Ensemble Protocol [Telebit] Practical Extraction and Report Language [Unix] Program Evaluation and Review Technique Positioning Error Signal + Processor Enhancement Socket Processor Upgrade Socket Print Enhancement Technology [Compaq] Printer Font Binary (file name extension) Programmer's File Editor Printer Font Metrics (file name extension) [Windows] Power-Fail Restart Pin Grid Array + Professional Graphics Adapter [IBM] Program Group Control [Microsoft] Page Down Graphics (file name extension) [Hewlett-Packard] Program Pretty Good Privacy (name of encryption program) ProGram Parameter (file name extension) [AutoCAD] Page Up Programmers' Hierarchial Interactive Graphics Standards

.PHO PHS PI PIA PIC

Phone List (file name extension) Personal Handyphone System Program Interruption Peripheral Interface Adapter Personal Intelligent Communicator + Priority Interrupt Controller + Program Interrupt Controller PICS Platform for Internet Content Selection PICT Picture PID Process Identification Number + Proportional, Integral, Derivative PIER Procedures for Internet/Enterprise Renumbering PIF Picture Interchange Format File + Program Information File PII Program Integrated Information PILOT Programmed Inquiry Learning Or Teaching PilotACE* Pilot Automatic Computing Engine PIM Personal Information Manager PIN Personal Identification Number + Process Identification Number [Unix] PINE Pine Is Not Elm [Unix] PING Packet Internet Groper PIO Parallel Input/Output + Processor Input/Output + Programmed Input/Output PIP Picture In Picture + Problem Isolation Procedure + Programmable Interconnect Point PIPO Parallel In, Parallel Out PIT Programmable Interval Timer PIXEL Picture Element 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 PLDS Pilot Land Data System [NASA] PLL Phase Locked Loop .PLL Prelinked Library (file name extension) [Clipper] PL/M Programming Language for Micros PLS Primary Link Station PLV Production Level Video PL/1 * Programming Language One PM Presentation Manager [IBM] + Preventative Maintenance + Process Manager P-MAIL Paper Mail PMMU Paged Memory Management Unit PMOS Positive Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor PMR Problem Management Report [IBM] PMS Policy Management System PN Processing Node PNA Programmable Network Access PNG Portable Network Graphics PNP Plug And Play PO Parity Odd POC Point Of Contact POE Power Open Environment POH Power-On Hours POL Problem Oriented Language POP Point Of Presence [MCI] + Pop from Stack + Post Office Protocol

POPA POPF POR POS POSIX POST POSTNET POTS POWER PowerPC PP .PPD PPDS PPGA PPM PPP PPS PPTP PQFP PRACSA PRAM .PRD PRE PReP PRF .PRF .PRG PRINTF PRISM .PRJ PRMD PRML PRN .PRO PROC PROFS PROG PROLOG PROM .PRS PRTSC PS .PS PS/2 PSC PSDN PSDS PSERVER PSF PSID PSM PSN PSP PSPDN P-SRAM PSRT

Pop All Registers Pop Flags Power-On-Reset Point Of Sale + Positive + Programmable Object Select Portable Operating System Interface for Unix Power-On Self Test Postal Numeric Encoding Technique Plain Old Telephone Service Performance Optimization with Enhanced RISC [IBM] Performance Optimization with Enhanced RISC-Performance Computing Parallel Port PostScript Printer Description (file name extension) Personal Printer Data Stream [IBM] Plastic Pin Grid Array Pages Per Minute Point-to-Point Protocol [Internet] Packets Per Second + Power Personal Systems [IBM] Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol [Microsoft] Plastic Quad Flat Pack Public Remote Access Computer Standards Association Parallel Random-Access Machine + Parameter/Programmable Random Access Memory Printer Driver (file name extension) [Word] Preformatted [HTML] Power PC Reference Platform [IBM/Motorola] Pulse Repetition Frequency Preferences (file name extension) [Grammatik IV] Program (file name extension) Print with Formatting [C Programming Language] Photo-Refractive Information Storage Material Project (file name extension) [Borland] Private Mangement Domain [X.400] Partial-Response Maximum-Likelihood Printer Profile (file name extension) Procedure Professional Office System [IBM] Program + Programmer Programming In Logic (Programming Language)(See HLL) Programmable Read Only Memory Printer (file name extension) [WordPerfect] Print Screen Proportional Spacing PostScript (file name extension) Programming System 2 [IBM] Personal Super Computer + Print Server Command + Product Service Center Packet-Switched Data Network Packet-Switched Data Service Print Server [NetWare] Permanent Swap File PostScript Image Data Printing Systems Manager Packet Switching Network Personal Software Products (group) [IBM] + Program Segment Prefix Packet-Switched Public Data Network Pseudo-Static Random Access Memory PostScript Round Table [GEnie]

PSTN PSU PSW .ps.Z PT P/T PTD PTF PUB .PUB PUN PUP PUS PUSHA PUSHF PVC PVM PVP PVS PW PWB PWD PWR PWSCS .PX QA QAM QBE QBF QBIC QC QDOS .QDI .QDT QEMM QFA QFP QIC .QIF .QMT .QNX QPG QPSK QTC RA .RA RACF RAD RADAR RADB RADSL RAG RAID RAIS

Public Switched Telephone Network Power Supply Unit Program Status Word Compressed PostScript (file name extension) [Unix] Page Table Part Time Parallel Transfer Disk Drive Problem Temporary/Trouble Fix [IBM] Public (directory) [Internet] + Publish Publication (file name extension) [Ventura] Physical Unit Number PARC Universal Packet (protocol) Processor Upgrade Socket Push All Registers Push Flags Permanent Virtual Circuit + Polyvinyl Chloride Parallel Virtual Machine + Pass-through Virtual Machine (protocol) [IBM] Parallel Vector Processing Parallel Visualization Server Password Printed Wire Board + Programmer's Workbench [Microsoft] Print Working Directory [Unix] Power Programmable Workstation Communication Services [IBM] Primary Index (file name extension) [Paradox] Quality Assurance Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Query By Example Query by Form Query By Image Content [IBM] Quality Control Quick and Dirty Operating System Dictionary (file name extension) [Quicken] Data (file name extension) [Quicken] Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager [Quarterdeck Corp.] Quick File Access Quad Flat Pack Quality Information Using Cycle Time [Hewlett-Packard] + Quarter-Inch Cartridge Quicken Import File/Interchange Format (file name extension) Memorized List (file name extension) [Quicken] Indexes to Data (file name extension) [Quicken] Quantum Phase Gate Quadrature Phase Shift Keying Quicktime Conferencing [Macintosh] Return Authorization Real Audio (file name extension) Resource Access Control Facility Rapid Application Development Rights, Availabilities, Distribution Analysis and Reporting [Disney] Routing Arbiter Data Base Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line Row Address Generator Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks + Redundant Arrays of Independent Drives + Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Systems

RALU RAM RAMDAC RAMP RAND RAP RARP RAS

RASAPI RAVE RB RBBS RBCS RBOC RCL RCP RCR RCS RD R&D RDA RDB RDBMS RDCLK RDO RDP RDRAM RDSR RDTO .REC REC. .REF REG REGAL RELSECT REM REN REP REPE REPNE REPNZ REPZ REQ REREG RES .RES RET REX REXEC REXX RF RFC

Register Arithmetic Logic Unit Random Access Memory Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter [Sierra] Remote Access Maintenance Protocol [Internet] Random Rapid Application Prototyping Reverse Address Resolution Protocol Random Access Storage + Reader Admission System [British Library] + Reliability, Availability and Serviceability + Remote Access Service + Row Address Select Remote Access Service Application Programming Interface [Microsoft] Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine [Apple Computer] Right Button (of 2 or 3 button Mouse) Remote Bulletin Board System Remote Bar Code System Regional Bell Operating Company Rotate Carry Left Remote Control Panel + Remote Copy [Internet] + Restore Cursor Position Rotate Carry Right Records Communications Switching System + Revision Control System [Unix] Receive Data + Remove Directory Research and Development Remote Database Access Receive Data Buffer + Relational Database Relational Database Mangement System Received Timing Clock Remote Data Object Reliable Datagram Protocol Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory Receiver Data Service Request Receive Data Transfer Offset [IBM] Recorder (file name extension) Recreation [USENET Newsgroup Category] Reference (file name extension) Register Rigid Epoxy Glass Acrylic Laminate Relative Sector Remark + Remote + Ring Error Monitor Rename Repeat Repeat while Equal Repeat while Not Equal Repeat while Not Zero Repeat while Zero Request Re-Register Remote Execution Service + Reset + Resolution Resource (file name extension) Resolution Enhancement Technology [HP] + Return Relocatable Executable Remote Execution Restructured Extended Executor (language) [IBM] Radio Frequency Request For Comments [Internet]

RFD RFI RFP RFQ RFS RFT RFU RGB RI RIFF RIM RIME RIP

Request for Discussion [Internet] Radio Frequency Interference Request for Proposal Request for Quotation Remote File Sharing + Remote File System Revisable Form Text + Rich Text Format Reserved For Future Use Red-Green-Blue (color model) Referential Integrity + Ring Indicate Resource Interschange File Format [Microsoft] Remote Installation and Maintenance [Microsoft] RelayNet International Message Exchange Remote Imaging Protocol + Routing Information Protocol [Novell] RIPEM Riordan's Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail RIPS Raster Image Processing System RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer RIT Raw Input Thread [Microsoft] RJE Remote Job Entry RLD Received Line Detect RLE Run Length Encoded RLL Run Length Limited RLN Remote LAN Node [DCA] RLOGIN Remote Login RLSD Received Line Signal Detected RLSI * Ridiculously Large-Scale Integration RM Reset Mode RMA Return Material Authorization + Return to Manufacturer Authorization RMB Right Mouse Button RMDIR Remove Directory RMON Remote Monitor/Monitoring RMP Remote Maintenance Processor [IBM] RMS Record Management Services + Root Mean Square RMW Read-Modify-Write RN Read News [Internet] RND Random RNG Random Number Generator RNP Regional Network Provider R-O Read Only ROB Reorder Buffer [Intel] ROL Rotate Left ROLAP Relational On-Line Analytical Processing ROM Read Only Memory ROOM Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling ROP Raster Operation + RISC Operation ROR Rotate Right ROS Read-Only Storage [IBM] ROT Running Object Table RPC Remote Procedure Call RPG Report Program Generator (Programming Language) RPL Resident Programming Language + Requested Privilege Level RPN Real Page Number RPRINTER Remote Printer [NetWare] RPPROM Reprogrammable PROM RPT Repeat RPQ Request for Price Quotation RQBE Relational Query By Example [Fox Pro] RR Real Reality

RS

Radio Shack + Recommended Standard (as in RS-232) [EIA] + Record Separator + Request to Send RSA129 (129 digit cryptographic security number named after its inventors: Drs. Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard M. Adelman) RSAC Recreational Software Advisory Council RSCS Remote Spooling Communications System RSD Route Server Daemon RSH Remote Shell RSL Request-and-Status Link RSP Required Space Character RST Reset + Restart RSTS Resource Sharing Time Sharing [Digital] RSX Real Time Resource Sharing Executive RT Real Time + RISC Technology + Run Time R/T Receive/Transmit RTAM Remote Terminal Access Method RTC Real-Time Clock RTDM Real-Time Data Migration RTEL Reverse Telnet [Internet] RTF Rich Text Format RTL Register Transfer Language/Level + Resistor Transistor Logic + Right-To-Left + Run Time Library RTM Response Time Monitor + Runtime Manager [Borland] RTMP Routing Table Maintenance Protocol RTOS Real-Time Operating System RTP Rapid Transport Protocol + Real-Time Protocol RTS Remote Takeover System + Request To Send RTSP Real-Time Streaming Protocol RTTI Runtime Type Information RTTY Radio Teletypewriter (Communications) RTV Real Time Video RVA Relative Virtual Address RVI Reverse Interrupt R/W Read/Write RWM Read-Write Memory RX Receiver RXD Receive Data SA Selective Availability SAA Systems Application Architecture [IBM] SAC Single Attachment Concentrator SADL Synchronous Data Link Control [Racal-Vadic] SAINT * Symbolic Automatic Integrator SAL Shift Arithmetic Left SAM Serial Access Memory + Sequential Access Method + Security Accounts Manager [Microsoft] + Single Application Mode [Mircrosoft] SAN System Area Network SANE Standard Apple Numeric Environment SAP Second Audio Program + Service Access Point [DEC] + Service Advertising Protocol SAP * Symbolic Assembly Program SAPI Speech Application Program Interface [Microsoft] SAR Segmentation and Reassembly + Shift Arithmetic Right + Successive Approximation Register + Synthetic Aperture Radar SAS Sales Accounting System + Single Attached Station +

SASI SATAN .SAV SAVDM SB SBA SBB SBC SBCS SBI .SBR .SC SCADA SCAM SCAS SCB SCC SCCS SCD S-CDMA SCF SCI. SCLM SCM SCO SCOPE SCP SCR .SCR SCRN SCRS SCSA SCSI SD SDA SDB SDD SDF .SDF SDI SDK SDLC SDM SDMS SDN SDNS SDR SDRAM SD-ROM SDS

Single Audio System + Statistical Analysis System Shugert Associates System Interface (SCSI originated from SASI) Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks Saved (file name extension) Single Application VDM Sound Blaster [Creative Labs] + Sound Board Scene Balance Algorithms [Kodak] Subtract With Borrow Single-Board Computer Single-Byte Character Set Sound Blaster Instrument Source Browser (file name extension) [Borland] Script (file name extension) Supervisory Control and Data Aquisition SCSI Configuration Automatically Scan String Subsystem Control Block [IBM] Serial Communications Controllers + Serial Controller Chip + Synchronous Channel Check [IBM] Source Code Control System Standard Color Display Synchronous Code-Division Multiple Access System Control Facility Science [USENET Newsgroup Category] Software Configuration and Library Management [IBM] ScreenCam Format [Lotus] + Software Configuration Management + Station Class Mark Santa Cruz Operation (Software Company) Simple Communications Programming Enironment [Hayes] Save Cursor Position + Subsystem Control Port + System Control Program Silicon Controlled Rectifier Script (file name extension) Screen (video display) Scalable Cluster of RISC Systems Signal Computing System Architecture [Dialogic] Small Computer Systems Interface Send Data + Super Density Software Disk Array + Source Data Automation + System Display Architecture [Digital] Symbolic Debugger [Unix] Software Description Database [Internet] Space Delimited File + Space Delimited Format Standard Data Format (file name extension) Selective Dissemination of Information + Single Document Interface + Software Development Interface [Mosaic] Software Developer's Kit [Microsoft] Synchronous Data Link Control (protocol) System Development Multitasking SCSI Device Management System [NCR] Software Defined Network [AT&T] Secure Data Network Service Streaming Data Request Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory Super Density ROM Sysops Distribution System

SDSL SD_STB SDV SEA .SEA SEAC * SEAL SEC SECAM SED SEG SEH SEL SEM SEPP SER SET .SET SETEXT SEU SF SFQL SFS SFT SFX SGEN SGDT SGI SGM SGML SGR SGRAM S/H SHA SHAR SHG SHL SHR S-HTTP .SHW SI SIC SID SIDF SIDH SIDT SIFT SIG SIGCAT SIM

Single-Line Digital Subscriber Line Streaming Data Strobe [IBM] Switched Digital Video [AT&T] Standard Extended Attribute [OS/2] Self Extracting Archive (file name extension) [Macintosh] Name of first computer to use transistors, built by (National Bureau of) Standards Eastern Automatic Calculator (Also see SWAC) Segmentation and Reassembly Layer (protocol) + Screening External Access Link [Digital-DEC] Single Error Correction Sequentiel Couleur Avec Memoire (Sequential Color With Memory) Stream Editor + Stream-Oriented Editor Segment Structured Exception Handling Select Scanning Electron Microscope + Standard Electronic Module Secure Encryption Payment Protocol Serial Secure Electronic Transaction + Software Engineering Technology Driver Set (file name extension) [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC] + Image Settings (file name extension) [Paradox] Structure Enhanced Text [Internet] Smallest Executable Unit Sign Flag Structured Full-text Query Language System File Server System Fault Tolerance Sound Effect(s) Signal Generator + System Generator Store Global Descriptor Table Silicon Graphics, Inc. Shaded Graphics Modeling Standard Generalized Markup Language Set Graphics Rendition Synchronous Graphics RAM Sample and Hold Secure Hash Algorithm [NSA] Shell Archive Segmented Hypergraphics Shift Logical Left Shift Logical Right Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol Show (file name extension) Shift-In + Source Index + System Information Standard Industrial Code Security Identifier + Serial Input Data + Station Identification [AT&T] + Symbolic Interactive Debugger System Independent Data Format System Identification for Home Systems Store Interrupt Descriptor Table Stanford Information Filtering Tool Special Interest Group Special Interest Group on CD-ROM Applications and Technology Simulator

SIMD SIMM SIMTEL SIMULA SIO SIP SIPC SIPO SIPP SIR SIRDS SI/SO SIT .SIT SIU SKU# SLDT SLED SLIC SLIP SLM SLMR SLOSH SLSI SLSS SLU SM SMART SMB SMD SMDS SMF SMI SMIF S-MIME SMIT SMK SML SMM SMOBC SMP .SMP SMPC SMPS SMRAM SMS

SMSW SMT SMTP SMU SN S/N SNA SND SNEWS

Single Instruction Multiple Data-stream (processor) Single In-line Memory Module Simulation and Teleprocessing Simulation (language) Serial Input/Output (communications driver) Single In-line Package Simply Interactive Personal Computer [Microsoft] Serial In, Parallel Out Single In-line Pin Package Serial Infrared [Hewlett-Packard] Single-Image Random Dot Stereogram Serial In/Serial Out + Shift In/Shift Out Special Information Tones Stuff-It (compressed file name extension) [Macintosh] System Interface Unit Stock Keeping Unit Number Store Local Descriptor Table Single Large Expensive Disk System Level Integration Circuit Serial Line Interface Protocol Spatial Light Modulator Silly Little Modem Reader Sea, Lake and Overland Surge from Hurricane (program) Super Large-Scale Integration Systems Library Subscription Service [IBM] Spoken Language Understanding Set Mode + Shared Memory Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology Server Message Block (protocol) [MII] Surface Mounted Device Switched Multimedia/Multi-Megabit Data Service Single Mode Fiber + System Manager Facility [Compaq] System Management Interrupt [Intel] Standard Mechanical Interface Secure MIME System Management Interface Tool [IBM] Software Migration Kit [Microsoft] Standard Meta Language System Mangement Mode [Intel] Solder Mask Over Bare Copper Simple Management Protocol + Symbolic Manipulation Program + Symmetrical Multi-Processing + Symmetric Multiprocessor Sample (file name extension) Shared Memory Parallel Computer Switching Mode Power Supply System Management Random Access Memory Small Messaging System + Storage Management Services [NetWare] + Storage Management Subsystem/System + Systems Management Server [Microsoft] Store Machine Status Word Station Management (protocol) + Surface-Mount Technology Simple Mail Transfer Protocol System Management Utility Serial Number Signal-to-Noise (Ratio) Systems Network Architecture [IBM] Sound Secure News Server [Internet]

SNMP SNOBOL SNP SNR SOA SOC SOC. SOCKS SO-DIMM SOE SOH SOHO SOL SOM SONET SOP SOS

Simple Network Management Protocol String Oriented Symbolic Language (Progamming Language) Serial Number/Password [Omen Technology] Signal-to-Noise Ratio Start of Authority System On a Chip Social Issues [USENET Newsgroup Category] Socket Secure (server) [Internet] Small Outline DIMM Standard Operating Environment Start of Header Small Office/Home Office Simulation Oriented Language Start of Message + System Object Model [IBM] Synchronous Optical Network Standard Operating Procedures Silicon On Sapphire + Sophisticated Operating System + Standards and Open Systems SOTA State Of The Art SOX Sound Exchange SP Service Pack [IBM] + Stack Pointer + System Product SPA Software Publishers Association SPAN Space Physics Analysis Network SPARC Scalable Processor Architecture SPC Small Peripheral Controller + Statistical Process Control SPCL Spectrum Cellular Corporation SPEC Systems Performance Evaluation Cooperative SPF Shortest Path First + System Programming Facility SPI Service Provider Interface + SCSI Parallel Interface SPID Service Profile/Provider Identifier SPIKE Science Planning Intelligent Knowledge-Based Environment [STScI] SPIRES Stanford Public Information Retrieval System [Stanford University] SPL Spooler + System Programming Language [HP] .SPL Spell Checker (file name extension) SPM System Performance Monitor [IBM] SPOOL Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line SPOT Shared Product Object Tree [IBM] SPP Sequenced Packet Protocol SPPS Scalable Power Parallel System [IBM] SPR Special Purpose Register + Statistical Pattern Recognition SPREAD * Systems Programming, Research, Engineering and Development [IBM] SPS Standby Power System SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences SPT Sectors Per Track SPX Sequenced Packet Exchange [Novell] SQ Squeezed (files) SQE Signal Quality Error (test) SQL/DS Structured Query Language/Data System [IBM] SQRT Square Root SR Shift Register SRAM Shadow Random Access Memory + Static Random Access Memory SRAPI Speech Recognition API SRB Source-Route Bridge .SRC Source (file name extension) SRD Screen Reader System SRDRAM Self-Refreshed DRAM

SRM SRO SRP .SRP SRPI SRQ SRR SRS SS SSA SSAP SSCP SSD SSEC SSGA SSI

Security Reference Monitor Sharable and Read Only Suggested Retail Price Script (file name extension) Server-Requester Programming Interface Service Request Serially Reusable Resource Sound Retrieval System Stack Segment + Single Sided + Seconds Serial Storage Architecture Source Service Access Point Systems Service Control Point [IBM] Solid State Disk * Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator [IBM] System Suppport Gate Array Server Side Includes + Single System Image + Small Scale Integration SSL Secure Sockets Layer SST Spread-Spectrum Technology + Systems Services and Technology STA Spanning Tree Algorithm STAR Self Defining Text Archival STB Strobe STC Set Carry Flag STD Set Direction Flag + Standard STDA StreetTalk Directory Assistance [Banyan] STDAUX Standard Auxillary STDERR Standard Error STDIN Standard Input STDIO.H Standard Input/Output Header [C Programming Language] STDM Statistical Time Division Multiplexer STDOUT Standard Output STDPRN Standard Printer .STF Structured File (file name extension) [Lotus Agenda] STI Set Interrupt Flag S/TK Sectors Per Track STL Standard Template Library STN Super-Twist Nematic STOS Store String STP Secure Transfer Protocol + Shielded Twisted Pair (cable) + Signal Transfer Point + Synchronized Transaction Processing STR Store Task Register + Synchronous Transmitter Receiver STRESS Structural Engineering System Solver (Programming Language) STRUDL Structural Design Language (Programming Language) STScI Space Telescope Science Institute STT Secure Transaction Technology [Microsoft] STX Start of Text .STY Style (file name extension) [Ventura, Word, WordPerfect] SUB Subroutine + Substitute + Subtract SUN Sun Microsystems, Inc. .SUP Supplemental Dictionary (file name extension) [WordPerfect] SVC Switched Virtual Circuit SVF Simple Vector Format SVGA Super Video Graphics Array S-VHS Super VHS SVM System Virtual Machine [Microsoft] SVN Switched Virtual Network [IBM] SVR Server

SVR# S/W SWAC

System V Release Number [AT&T] Software * Mobile version of SEAC, built for deployment to White Sands, and named Standards Western Automatic Calculator SWAIS Simple Wide Area Information Server [Internet] SWISH Simple Web Indexing System for Humans .SWP Swap (file name extension) .SYL Syllabus (file name extension) SYLK Symbolic Link .SYM Symbols (file name extension) .SYN Synonym (file name extension) SYNC Synchronous SYS System .SYS System Configuration (file name extension) + System Device Driver (file name extension) SYSADMIN System Administrator SYSGEN System Generator SYSLOG System Log SYSMOD System Modification SYSOP System Operator SYSREQ System Request SZ Send ZModem [Unix] TACS Total Access Communication System TAD Telephone Answering Device TAP Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol TAPCIS The Access Program for the CompuServe Information Service TAPI Telephony Applications Programming Interface .tar Tape Archive (archived file name extension) [Unix] .tar.Z Compressed Archived files (file name extension) [Unix] TAS Telephone Access Server TASM Turbo Assembler [Borland] TAXI Transparent Asynchronous Tranceiver/Receiver Interface TB Terabyte (1,024 gigabytes) T/B Top and Bottom TBBS The Bread Board System (BBS) TBGA Tape Ball Grid Array .TBK Toolbook (file name extension) TBU Tape Backup Unit TC Test Control + Transmission Control TCL Tool Command Language TCM Trellis-Coded Modulation TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol TD Transmit Data TDD Telecommunications Device for the Deaf TDtoDP Tablet Coordinates to Display Coordinates (converting) TDE Terminal Display Editor .TDF Trace Definition File (file name extension) [OS/2] + Typeface Definition File (file name extension) TDI Transport Device Interface TDM Technical Document Management + Time Division Multiplexing TDMA Time Division Multiple Access TDMS Terminal Display Management System TDP Telelocator Data Protocol TDSR Transmitter Data Service Request TDR Time Domain Reflectometry TE/2 Terminal Emulator/2 [Oberon] TEB Thread Environment Block

TEC TED TEI TEML TEMP TER TERMPWR TFDD TFEL .TFM TFT TFTP THD .THD THOMAS THOR THR .THS TI TIA TID TIES .TIF TIFF TIGA TIGER TIIAP TIM TIP TK/TK TLA TLB TLI TLU .TLX TM TMP TN TNC TNO ToC TOD TOP TPC TPF TPI TPL TPM TPORT TPS TPW TQFP TQM TR T/R

Tokyo Electronics Corporation Tiny Editor Terminal Endpoint Identifier Turbo Editor Macro Language [Borland] Temporary Thermal Eclipse Reading [Sony] Terminator Power Text File Device Driver Thin-Film Electroluminescent Tagged Font Metric (file name extension) Thin-Film Transistor (screens) Trivial File Transfer Protocol Total Harmonic Distortion Thread (file name extension) The (U.S.) House (of Representatives) Open Multimedia Access System Tandy High-Performance Optical Recording Transmit Holding Register Thesaurus (file name extension) Texas Instruments, Inc. Telecommunications Industry Association + The Internet Adapter [Internet] Target ID Time Independent Escape Sequence Tagged Image File (filename extension) Tagged Image File Format Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program [NII] Technical Information Memo [Compaq] Terminal Interface Processor Track to Track Three-Letter Acronym Translation Lookaside Buffer Transport Layer Interface Table Lookup Telex (file name extension) Trademark Temporary Twisted Nematic Terminal Node Controller The Netherlands Organization Table Of Contents Time Of Day Technical and Office Protocol Transaction-Processing Performance Council Transactions Processing Facility [IBM] Tracks Per Inch Table Producing Language Transactions Per Minute Twisted Pair Port Transceiver [AT&T] Transactions Per Second + Transaction Processing System Turbo Pascal for Windows Thin Quad Flat Pack Total Quality Management Terminal Ready Transmit/Receive

TRADIC * Transistorized Airborne Digital Computer (Name of first computer to be entirely transistorized) .TRM Terminal (file name extension) TRN Threaded Read News [Internet] + Token Ring Network TRON The Real-Time Operating System Nucleus TS Top Secret TSA Target Service Agent + Technical Support Alliance TSAPI Telephony Services Application Program Interface [AT&T + Novell] TSB Termination Status Block TSE The Semware Editor TSO Time Sharing Option TSR Terminate and Stay Resident TSS Task State Segment + Time Sharing System TS/SI Top Secret/Sensitive Information .TST Test (file name extension) TSTN Triple Supertwisted Nematic TSV Tab Separated Values TT Typewriter Text TTA Transport-Triggered Architecture TTCN Tree and Tabular Combined Notation .TTF TrueType Font (file name extension) TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic TTP Thermal-Transfer Printing TTS Text-To-Speech + Transaction Tracking System TTY Teletype TUI Text-Based User Interface [WordPerfect] TUMS Table Update and Management System [Stanford University] .TUT Tutorial (file name extension) TVF Table of contents Verbosely from File [UNIX] TVFS Toronto Virtual File System [IBM] TVI Television Interference TVOL Television On-Line TWAIN Technology Without Any Interesting Name (connection between application and scanner software) TWX Teletypewriter Exchange Service TXD Transmit Data .TXF Tax Exchange Format (file name extension) TXT Text TXT2STF Text To Structured File [Lotus Agenda] TZ Time Zone [Unix] UA User Agent + User Area UAE Unrecoverable Application Error UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter .UC2 Compressed File (file name extension) [UltraCompressor] UCL Universal Communications Language UCS Unicode Conversion Support + Universal Character Set + User Coordinate System UCT Universal Coordinated Time UDC User Defined Commands UDE Universal Data Exchange UDF Universal Disk Format + User Defined Functions UDG User Defined Gateway UDP User Datagram Protocol UDT Uniform Data Transfer UFS Unix File System UG User Group UI Unix International + User Interface UID User Identifier

UIMS UL ULA ULN ULSI UMA UMB UNC UNCOL UNI UNICOM UNICOS UNIVAC UNIX UNMA UP UPC UPG UPL UPM UPS URC UREP URI URL URN US USART USB USENET USERID USOC USQ USR USRT USSA UT UTC UTI UTP UU UUCP UUD UUE UUI UV VA VAD VADD VADSL VAL .VAL VAM VAN VAP

User Interface Management System Underwriters Laboratories + Unordered List + Upload Uncommitted Logic Array Universal Link Negotiation Ultra Large Scale Integration Unified Memory Architecture Upper Memory Block [LIM/AST] Universal Naming Convention + Uuencoded Netnews Collator [Unix] Universal Computed Oriented Language User-Network Interface Universal Integrated Communication (System) Universal Compiler FORTRAN compatible Universal Automatic Computer (AT&T Bell Laboratories Operating System) Unified Network Management Architecture Uniprocessor Universal Product Code Upgrade User Program Language Unix Programmer's Manual + User Profile Management [IBM] Uninterruptible Power Supply + Uninterruptible Power System Uniform Resource Characteristics + Uniform Resource Citation Unix RSCS Emulation Protocol (protocol) Uniform Resource Identifier Uniform Resource Locator Uniform Resource Name/Number Unit Separator Universal Synchronous-Asynchronous Reciever/Transmitter Universal Serial Bus [Intel] User's Network [Internet] User Identification Universal Service Ordering Code Unsqueezed (files) US Robotics (corporation) Universal Synchronous Receiver/Transmitter User Supported Software Association (United Kingdom) User Terminal Coordinated Universal Time Universal Text Interchange/Interface Unshielded Twisted-Pair (cable) Uuencode/Uudecode Unix-To-Unix Copy Program UUDecoding [Unix] UUEncoding [Unix] User-To-User Information [AT&T] Ultraviolet Virtual Address Value Added Dealer Value Added Disk Driver Very-High-Rate Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Value + Voice Application Language Validity Checks (file name extension) [Paradox] Virtual Access Method Value Added Network Value Added Process

VAR VAST VAX/VMS VB VBA VBE/AI vBNS VBR VBRUN .VBX VCC VCD VCL VCOS VCPI VCR VDD VDDM VDE VDISK VDM VDMAD VDS VDSL VDT VDU VEGA VEMM VEMMI VER VERONICA VERR VERW VESA VF VFAT V.FC VFD VFW VGA VGC VHDL VHS VHSIC VI VIE VIF VIM VIO VINES ViP VIP VIPER VIS

Value Added Reseller + Value Added Retailer + Variable Variable Array Storage Technology Virtual Address Extension/Virtual Memory System [DEC] Variable Block + Visual Basic [Microsoft] Visual Basic for Applications [Microsoft] Vesa Bios Extension/Audio Interface Very High Speed Backbone Network Service [MCI + NSF] Variable Bit Rate Visual Basic Runtime Visual Basic Extension (file name extension) Virtual Channel Connection Virtual Communications Driver Visual Component Library Visual Caching Operating System [AT&T] Virtual Control Program Interface Video Cassette Recorder Virtual Device Driver Virtual Device Driver Manager Video Display Editor + Visual Development Environment Virtual Disk Virtual DOS Machine [IBM] Virtual Direct Memory Access Device [Microsoft] Virtual DMA Services Very-High-Data-Rate Digital Subscriber Line Video Dial Tone + Video Display Terminal Video Display Unit + Visual Display Unit Video-7 Enhanced Graphics Adapter [Video-7, Inc.] Virtual Expanded Memory Manager Versitile Multimedia Inteface Verify + Version Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-Wide Index to Computer Archives [Internet] Verify Read Access Verify Write Access Video Electronics Standards Association Virtual Floppy Virtual File Allocation Table [Microsoft] Version.First Class (communications standard) Vacuum Fluorescent Display Video For Windows [Microsoft] Video Graphics Array Video Graphics Controller VHSIC Hardware Description Language Very High Speed + Video Home System + Virtual Host Storage Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Visual Interactive (editor) [UNIX] Virtual Information Environment Virtual Interface + Virtual Interrupt Flag Vendor Independent Mail + Vendor Independent Messaging + Video Interface Module Video Input/Output + Virtual Input/Output Virtual Networking System [Banyan] Visual Programming [Lotus] Variable Information Processing + Video Information Provider + Virtual Interrupt Pending Verifiable Integrated Processor for Enhanced Reliability Video Information System [Tandy] +

Visual Instruction Set [Sun] + Voice Information System VJ HEADER Van Jacobsen Header (compression) [Unix] VLAN Virtual Local Area Network VL-BUS Vesa Local-Bus [VESA] VLD Variable-Length Decoder VLF Very Low Frequency VLINK Visited Link [HTML] VLIW Very Large Instruction Word VLM Virtual Loadable Module VLSI Very Large Scale Integration VLSIPS Very Large Scale Immobilized Polymer Synthesis VLT Variable List Table VM Virtual Machine + Virtual Memory VMA Virtual Memory Address VMB Virtual Machine Boot VME Virtual Memory Environment VMM Virtual Machine/Memory Manager VMOS Vertical MOS VMP Virtual Modem Protocol VMS Virtual Memory System + Voice Message System VMT Virtual Memory Technique VNA Virtual Network Architecture VOC Creative Voice (format) [Sound Blaster] VOD Video On Demand VOL Volume VOM Volt-Ohm-Milliammeter VOR Visions Of Reality VOS Verbal/Voice Operating System VP Virtual Path VPD Virtual Printer Device + Vital Product Data [IBM] VPDN Virtual Private Data Network VPDS Virtual Private Data Service [MCI] VPE Visual Programming Environment VPL Virtual Programming Language VPN Virtual Page Number + Virtual Private Network VPS Voice Processing System VPSC Vault, Process, Structure, Configuration VPT Virtual Print Technology [Dataproducts] VR Virtual Reality + Voltage Regulated/Regulator VRAM Video Random Access Memory VRE Voltage Regulated Extended VRM Voltage Regulator Module VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language (originally named Virtual Reality Markup Language) VROOMM Virtual Real-time Object Oriented Memory Manager [Borland] .VRS WordPerfect Graphics Driver (file name extension) VRT Voltage Regulation Technology [Intel] 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 VSI Virtual Socket Interface VSIO Virtual Serial Input Output VSLI Very Large Scale Integration VSM Virtual Shared Memory + Virtual Storage Management + Visual System Management [IBM]

VSN VSOS VSYNC VT VTAM VUI VUP VMS VWB VxD .VXD V&V W/ W3 W3A W3C W4 WABI WAIS WAITS WAN WATS .WAV WBEM WC WCS WDL WDRAM WebNFS WELL WFW WGS WHAM WHC WINE WINForum WINS WINSOCK WINWORD WISE WIT .WKB .WKE .WKQ .WKS .WKZ .WK1 WL WMC .WMF WNIC WNIM W/O WORM WOS WOSA WP .WPD .WPG

Volume Serial Number Virtual Storage Operating System Vertical Sync Vertical Tab Virtual Telecommunications Access Method [IBM] Video User Interface VAX Unit of Performance Virtual Memory System + Voice Message System Visual WorkBench [Microsoft] Virtual Extended Driver [Microsoft] Virtual Device (file name extension) [Microsoft] Verification and Validation With (see WWW) World Wide Web Applets World Wide Web Consortium What-Works-With-What Windows Application Binary Interface [SunSoft] Wide Area Information Server Wide Area Information Transfer System Wide Area Network Wide Area Telecommunications Service Waveform Audio (file name extension) Web-Based Enterprise Management Word Count World Coordinate System Windows Driver Library [Microsoft] Windows Dynamic Random Access Memory Web Network File System [Sun] Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (BBS) Windows For Workgroups [Microsoft] Work Group System Waveform Hold and Modify [Microsoft] Workstation Host Connection Windows Emulator Wireless Information Networks Forum Windows-Internet Naming Service [Microsoft] Windows Open Systems Architecture [Microsoft] + Windows Sockets Word For Windows [Microsoft] WordPerfect Information System Environment Web Interactive Talk [Internet] Workbook (file name extension) [WordPerfect] Worksheet (file name extension) [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC] Spreadsheet (file name extension) [BORQU] Worksheet (file name extension) [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC] Compressed Spreadsheet (file name extension) [BORQU] Worksheet (file name extension) [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC] Word Line Workflow Management Coalition Windows Metafile Format (file name extension) [Microsoft] Wide-Area Network Interface Co-Processor Wide-Area Network Interface Module Without Write Once, Read Many Workstation Operating System Windows Open Services/Systems Architecture [Microsoft] WordPerfect + Word Processing + Write Protected Windows Printer Description (file name extension) WordPerfect Graphics (file name extension)

WPHD .WPK WPM .WPM WPOS WPS WPVM .WQ1 .WQ! WRAM .WRI WRK WS WSAPI WT WWIS WWW WYSBYGI WYSIWYG XA XAPIA X2B .XBM .XPM X2C XCHG XCMD XCOPY X2D XDF XDR XFCN XGA XID XIOS XLAT XLM XMIT XMM XMS XNS XOFF XON XOR XPRM XRT XSMD XTAL XTCLK YAM YAHOO (Y/N)? YTD .z .Z ZBR Z-CAV

Write-Protect Hard Disk Keyboard (file name extension) [WordPerfect] Words Per Minute Macro (file name extension) [WordPerfect] Workplace Operating System Windows Printing System [Microsoft] + Workplace Shell [OS2] Windows Parallel Virtual Machine Spreadsheet (file name extension) [BORPQU] Compressed Spreadsheet (file name extension) [BORPQU] Windows Random Access Memory Write (file name extension) Windows Resource Kit [Microsoft] WordStar + Workstation Web Site Application Program Interface [O'Reilly] Write Through World Wide Information System [Internet] World-Wide Web [Internet] What You See Before You Get It What You See Is What You Get Extended Architecture + Extended Attribute X.400 Application Program Interface Association Hexadecimal to Binary [REXX] X-Windows Bitmaps (file name extension) (black and white) X-Windows Pixelmaps (file name extension) (color) Hexadecimal to Character [REXX] Exchange External Command Extended Copy Hexadecimal to Decimal [REXX] Extended Density Format [IBM] Extended/External Data Representation External Function Extended Graphics Array [IBM] Exchange Identifier Extended Input/Output System Translate Excel Macro Language [Microsoft] Transmit Extended Memory Manager [LIM/AST] Extended Memory Specification [LIM/AST] Xerox Network System (protocol) [Xerox] Transmitter Off Transmitter On Exclusive OR (Also EOR) Xerox Print Resources Manager [Xerox] Extensions for Real-Time Extended Storage Module Drive (interface) Crystal External Transmit Clock Yet Another Modem [Omen Technology] Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle [Internet] (Asks for a YES or NO decision) Year To Date Packed file (file name extension - using Pack/Unpack program)..lower case z..[Unix] Compressed file (file name extension - using Compress/Uncompress program)..upper case Z..[Unix] Zone-Bit Recording [IBM] Zoned Constant Angular Velocity

ZDL ZDS ZIF ZIP .ZIP .ZOO ZPV ZSL ~ * *.* .$$$ 1GL 286 2GL 386 3COM 3GL 486 4GL 6DOF

Zero Delay Lockout Zenith Data Systems Zero-Insertion Force (socket) Zigzag In-Line Package + Zone Improvement Plan (ZIPcode) Compressed File (file name extension) [PKWare] Compressed File (file name extension) [Dhesi] Zoomed Port Video [Toshiba] Zero Slot LAN Tilde Wildcard character (asterisk) Star-Dot-Star (represents Any file name.Any file name extension) Temporary File (file name extension) First Generation Language (machine language) 80286 (microprocessor) Second Generation Language (assembly language) 80386 (microprocessor) 3 Com Corporation (The 3 Coms are Computer, Communications and Compatability) Third Generation Language (programming language) 80486 (microprocessor) Fourth Generation Language (descriptive language) Six Degrees of Freedom UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UU UU UU BABEL: A GLOSSARY OF UU UU COMPUTER ORIENTED ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS UU UU UU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Version 97A UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Copyright (C) 1989-1997 Irving Kind All Rights Reserved c/o K & D, One Church Lane, Baltimore, MD 21208 Jan 1997 version = 97A May 1997 version = 97B Sep 1997 version = 97C Jan 1998 version = 98A May 1998 version = 98B Sep 1998 version = 98C

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ APPENDIX A: Obtaining BABEL from the Internet --------------------------------Method 1 - GOPHER ----------------To get the latest babel.txt file via Gopher: If you have access to a Gopher client, gopher directly to: gopher.temple.edu From the Main Menu, select "Temple University Computer Resources and Information" and then "Internet & Bitnet Information (Help-Net)". Then select "Glossary of Computer Abbreviations and Acronyms (BABEL.TXT)".

Method 2 - FTP -------------To get the latest babel.txt file, if you have ftp access via The Internet, type these commands in lower case text: ftp ftp.temple.edu At Login : anonymous At Password: your email address cd /pub/info/help-net get babel.txt Method 3 - LISTSERV ------------------To get the latest babel.txt file via Listserv if on The Internet: Send e-mail to: [email protected] Subject line should be left blank. In body of the message, type: GET BABEL TXT HELP-NET Method 4 - BITNET ----------------To get the latest babel.txt file via Listserv for Bitnet users: Send e-mail to: listserv@templevm Subject line should be left blank. In body of the message, type: GET BABEL TXT HELP-NET Method 5 - WWW -------------To get the latest BABEL in HTML format, use one of these URLs: http://www.access.digex.net/~ikind/babel.html ftp://ftp.access.digex.net/pub/access/ikind/public_html/babelhtm.zip Method 6 - BBS -------------From your favorite Bulletin Board, for the TEXT version, download: BABEL.ZIP NOTE for all methods: -------------------After Jan 1, 1997 BABEL.TXT, .HTML or .ZIP will contain Version 97A After May 1, 1997 BABEL.TXT, .HTML or .ZIP will contain Version 97B After Sep 1, 1997 BABEL.TXT, .HTML or .ZIP will contain Version 97C ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ APPENDIX B: The following examples are included to serve as a brief

introduction to what may be found when reading email and news groups and when using IRC on the Internet. - - - - - - In email and news, "smiley faces", rather than words, are used to express the writer's feelings. Turn your head to the side to read them. :-) :-] ;-) 8-) also <jk> Just kidding <g> Grin Smile Smirk Wink Wide-eyed :-D :-( :-X :-O Laughing Frown Close-mouthed Open-mouthed

- - - - - - In email and during on-line conversations, a variety of letter groups are used to abbreviate the writer's comments. BRB BTW Be right back By the way IMHO ROFL TIA In my humble opinion Rolling on the floor laughing Thanks in advance

FOAF Friend of a friend

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ APPENDIX C: COUNTRY DOMAIN NAMES At the present time there are over 200 recognized Country Domain Names. Two-letter abbreviations that represent the country names are used in addresses seen on the Internet. The following names (92 to date) represent the country of origin from where someone has downloaded BABEL. This list should be useful when checking the origin of your own mail. .ae .al .am .ar .at .au .aw .be .bg .bh .bm .bn .br .bs .ca .ch United Arab Emirates Albania Armenia Argentina Austria Australia Aruba Belgium Bulgaria Bahrain Bermuda Brunei Darussalam Brazil Bahamas Canada Switzerland

.cl .cn .co .cr .cy .cz .de .dk .do .ec .ee .eg .es .fi .fo .fr .gb .ge .gl .gr .gt .hk .hr .hu .id .ie .il .in .is .it .jm .jp .kr .kw .lb .lc .li .lk .lt .lu .lv .mc .md .mo .mt .mu .my .mx .ni .nl .no .nz .pe .ph .pk .pl .pt .ro .ru .se

Chile China Columbia Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Germany Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador Estonia Egypt Spain Finland Faroe Islands France Great Britian Georgia Greenland Greece Guatemala Hong Kong Croatia Hungary Indonesia Ireland Israel India Iceland Italy Jamaica Japan Korea (South) Kuwait Lebanon Saint Lucia Liechtenstein Sri Lanka Lithuania Luxembourg Latvia Monaco Moldova Macau Malta Mauritius Malaysia Mexico Nicaragua Netherlands Norway New Zealand Peru Phillipines Pakistan Poland Portugal Romania Russian Federation Sweden

.sg .si .sk .su .th .tr .tt .tw .ua .uk .us .uy .ve .yu .za .zw

Singapore Slovenia Slovakia (Slovak Republic) USSR (former) Thailand Turkey Trinidad and Tobago Taiwan Ukraine United Kingdom United States Uruguay Venezuela Yugoslavia South Africa Zimbabwe

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