Heath's
Computer & Telecommunications Industry Acronym & Abbreviation Directory

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There are currently 1533 acronyms in the directory as of 09/04/12.
Compiled & Written By Heath D. Alberts / Text - Text Only

3WC
3-Way Calling

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AAD
Analog Alignment Diskette

AAL
ATM Adaption Layer

ABC
Atanasoff-Berry Computer

ABE
Agent Building Environment

ABIOS
Advanced Basic Input / Output System

ABR
Available Bit Rate

ABS
Absolute

AC
Alternating Current

ACAD
AutoCad

ACC
Accumulator
Accuracy Control Characters

ACF
Advanced Communications Function

ACK
Acknowledgement

ACL
Access Control List

ACPI
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

ACS
Automatic Class Selection

ADC
Analog Digital Converter

ADCCP
Advanced Data Communications Control Procedures

ADM
Add / Drop Multiplexers

ADP
Automated Data Processing

ADPCM
Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation

ADSC
Adobe Document Structuring Conventions

ADSI
Active Directory Services Interface

ADSL
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

AF
Auxillary-carry Flag

AFC
Automatic Frequency Control

AFIS
Automated Fingerprint Identification System

AFP
AppleTalk File Protocol

AGC
Automatic Gain Control

AGIS
Apex Global Information Services

AGP
Accellerated Graphics Port

AI
Artificial Intelligence

AIMUX
ATM Inverse Multiplexing

AIN
Advanced Intelligent Network

AIS
Alarm Indication Signal

AIX
Advanced Interactive Executive

AJAX
Asynchronous Javascript And XML

AKM
Apogee Kick Motor

ALAT
Advanced Load Address Table

ALB
Advanced Load Balancing

ALC
Airline Link Control
Application Load Certificate
Arithmetic & Logic Circuits
Automatic Level Control

ALDC
Adaptive Lossless Data Compression

ALE
Account Level Equivalence
Address Latch Enable
Application Launch & Embedding
Application Linking Enabling

ALEC
Alternative Local Exchange Carrier

ALEP
Advanced Language Engineering Platform

ALG
Application Layer Gateway

ALGOL
Algorithmic Language

ALI
Acer Laboratories, Inc.

ALIBI
Adaptive Location of Internetworked Bases of Information

ALICE
Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity

ALINK
Active Link

ALIVE
Artificial Life Interactive Video Environment

ALIWEB
Archie-Like Indexing on the Web

ALM
Application Life-Cycle Management
Asynchronous Line Multiplexer

ALN
Asynchronous Learning Network

ALP
Application Layer Program
Application Layer Protocol
Application List Processing

ALR
Advanced Logic Research

ALSA
Architectures of Lrage Systems of Agents

ALT
Alternate

ALU
Arithmetic Logic Unit

AM
Amplitude Modulation

AMA
Automatic Message Accounting

AMASS
Archival Management And Storage System

AMD
Active Matrix Display
Advanced Micro Devices

AME
Advanced Metal Evaporation

AMG
All Music Guide

AMHA
Advanced Macro Heuristic Analysis

AMI
Alternative Mark Inversion
American Megatrends, Inc.
Application Messaging Interface

AMIBIOS
American Megatrends, Inc. Basic Input / Output System

AML
ACPI Machine Language

AMLCD
Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display

AMMA
Advanced Memory Management Architecture

AMON
ATM Monitoring

AMP
Asymmetric MultiProcessing
Attached Media Processor

AMPS
Advanced Mobile Phone System

AMQRS
Audio Master Quality Recording System

AMR
Adaptive Multi-Rate
Audio Modem Riser

AMS
Access Method Services
Advanced Microcomputer Systems

AMSTRAD
Alan Michal Sugar Trading

ANA
Automatic Number Announcement

ANDF
Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format

ANI
Animated Cursor
Automatic Number Identification

ANN
Annotations
Artificial Neural Network

ANS
Advanced Networking Services
American National Standard

ANSI
American National Standards Institute

ANT
Advanced Network Tools
Another Neat Tool

ANX
Automotive Network Exchange

AO
Analog Output

AO/DI
Always On / Dynamic ISDN

AOCE
Apple Open Collaborative Environment

AOCN
Administrative Operating Company Number

AOE
Application Operating Environment

AOL
Alert On Loan
America On-Line

AOP
Aspect-Oriented Programming
Association of Online Professionals

AOS
Add Or Subtract

AOSD
Aspect-Oriented Software Development

AOT
Ahead Of Time

AOW
Asia & Oceania Workshop

AP
Access Point
Access Provider
Application Processor
Application Protocol

APA
Adaptive Packet Assembly
All Points Addressable
Arithmetic Processing Accelerator

APAR
Authorized Program Analysis Report

APC
American Power Conversion

APCUG
Association of Personal Computer User Groups

APDU
Application Protocol Data Unit

APE
Application Performance Explorer

APF
Apple Filing Protocol
Automated Purposing Framework

API
Application Program Interface

APIC
Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller

APIPA
Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing

APIS
Advanced Passenger Information System

APL
A Programming Language
Advanced Picture Level

APLSF
Advanced Programming Language / Shared Files

APM
Advanced Power Management
Application Performance Management

APN
Access Point Name

APNIC
Asia-Pacific Network Information Center

APP
Applecare Protection Plan
Application

APPC
Advanced Program-to-Program Communications

APPCM
Access Protection & Priority Control Mechanism

APPEL
A P3P Preference Exchange Language

APPI
Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking

APPN
Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking

APR
Advanced Port Replicator
apache Portable Runtime

APRP
Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing

APS
Active Pixel Sensor
Advanced Photo System
Advanced Printing Service
Analog Protection System
Asynchronous Protocol Specificiation
Automatic Protection Switching

ARC
Attached Resources Computing

ARG
Alternate Reality Game

ARIES
ATM Research & Industrial Enterprise Study

ARLL
Advanced Run Length Limited

ARP
Address Resolution Protocol

ARPA
Advanced Research Projects Agency

ARPANET
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

ARQ
Automatic Repeat Request

AS
Autonamous System

ASA
American Standards Association

ASAD
Association of Shareware Authors And Distributors

ASAP
Any Service / Any Port

ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASG
Advanced Systems Group

ASIC
Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ASME
American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASP
Apache Server Pages
Active Server Pages
Association of Shareware Professionals

ASPI
Advanced SCSI Programming Interface

ASR
Automatic Send / Recieve

AST
Asynchronous System Trap

AT
Advanced Technology
Attention

ATA
AT Attachment

ATAPI
AT Attachment Packet Interface

ATEC
Authorized Technical Education Center

AT&T
American Telephone & Telegraph

ATM
Adobe Type Manager
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Automated Teller Machine

AUI
Attachment Unit Interface

AVI
Audio / Video Interleaved

AVN
Ameritech Virtual Network

AWB
Aglets Workbench

AXP
Almost Exactly Prism

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B2B
Business To Business

B8ZS
Binary 8-Zero Substitution

BALUN
Balanced / Unbalanced

BANCS
Bell Application Network Control System

BANM
Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobil

BARRNET
Bay Area Research Network

BASIC
Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BAT
Batch

BBN
Bolt, Beranek & Newman

BBS
Bulletin Board System

BCC
Blind Carbon Copy

BCD
Binary Coded Decimal

B-CDMA
Broadband Code Division Multiple Access

BCR
Business Communications Review

BDC
Backup Domain Controller

BECN
Backward Explicit Congestion Notation

BellCoRe
Bell Communications Research

BEZS
Bandwidth Efficent Zero Suppression

BFT
Binary File Transfer

BGA
Ball Grid Array

BGP
Border Gateway Patrol

B-ICI
Broadband - ISDN Inter-Carrier Interface

BIL
Band Interleaved by Line

BIOS
Basic Input / Output System

BIP
Band Interleaved by Pixel

B-ISDN
Broadband - Integrated Services Digital Network

Bit
Binary Digit

bitBLT
BitBlock Transfer

BITNET
Because It's Time Network

BITS
Background Intelligent Transfer Service

BIU
Bus Interface Unit

BL
Blue Lightning (Chip)

BLOG
Web Log

BMP
Bitmap

BNC
British National Connector

BOOTP
Boot Protocol

BPB
BIOS Parameter Block

BPF
Berkeley Packet Filter

BPS
Bits Per Second

BRB
Be Right Back

BRI
Basic Rate Interface

BSC
Bi-Synchronous Communication

BSD
Berkeley Software Distribution

BSP
Bell Systems Practice

BSQ
Band Sequential

BT
British Telecom

BTB
Branch Target Buffer

BTS
Base Transciever Station

BUS
Broadcast and Unknown Server

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C
Country

CA
Computer Animation

CAB
Cabinet

CAC
Connection Admission Control

CACP
Central Arbitration Control Point

CAD
Computer Aided Design

CADD
Computer Aided Design and Drafting

CAE
Computer Aided Engineering

CAI
Computer Aided Instruction

CAL
Client Access License
Computer Augmented Learning

CAM
Common Access Method
Computer Aided Manufacturing

CAN
Campus Area Network

CAP
Carrierless Amplitude and Phase
Communications Alternative Provider

CARET
Carriage Return

CAS
Column-Address Select

CASE
Computer Aided Software Engineering

CATANET
Concatanated Network

CATV
Cable Television

CAV
Constant Angular Velocity

CB
Citizens Band
Component Broker

CBR
Constant Bit Rate

CBT
Computer Based Training

CC
Carbon Copy
Closed Captioned

CCB
Command Control Block

CCITT
Comite Consultatif International Telephonique et Telegraphique
(International Telephone And Telegraph Consultative Commitee)

CCS
Common Channel Signaling
Common Command Set

CCTV
Closed Circuit Television

CD
Carrier Detect
Compact Disc

CDC
Control Data Corporation

CD-DA
Compact Disc - Digital Audio

CDDI
Copper Distributed Data Interface

CDFS
CD-ROM File System

CDI
Compact Disc Interactive

CDIA
Certified Document Imaging Architect

CDMA
Code Division Multiple Access

CDPD
Cellular Digital Packet Data

CD-R
Compact Disc - Recordable

CD-ROM
Compact Disc - Read Only Memory

CD-RW
Compact Disc - Re-Writable

CDV
Cell Delay Variation

CDVT
Cell Delay Variation Tolerance

CE
Consumer Electronics

CERFNET
California Educational Research Network

CERT
Computer Emergency Response Team

CES
Circuit Emulation Services
Consumer Electronics Show

CF
Carry Flag

CFG
Configuration

CFP
Computers, Freedom and Privacy

CGA
Color Graphics Adapter

CGI
Common Gateway Interface

CGM
Computer Graphics MetaFile

CHAP
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol

CHS
Cylinders / Heads / Sectors

CICS
Customer Information Control System

CIDR
Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CIF
Cells In Frame

CIM
Common Information Model

CIO
Chief Information Officer

CIR
Committed Information Rate

CIS
Card Information Structure
CompuServe Information Services

CISC
Complex Instruction Set Computing

CLE
Customer Located Equipment

CLEC
Competetive Local Exchange Carrier

CLIP
Classical Internet Protocol

CLP
Cell Loss Priority

CLR
Cell Loss Ratio

CLSID
Class Identifier

CLV
Constant Linear Velocity

CMI
Cable Microcell Integrator

CMI/HIC
Cable Microcell Integrator / Headend Interface Converter

CMIP
Common Management Information Protocol

CMOS
Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CMP
Communications Plenum Cable

CMR
Communications Riser Cable

CMS
Code Management System
Content Management System

CMYK
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key

CN
Common Name

CNA
Certified Network Administrator

CNC
Computer Numeric Control

CNE
Certified Network Engineer

CNS
Certified Novell Salesperson

CO
Central Office

COA
Certificate Of Authenticity

COAST
Cache On A Stick

COBOL
Common Business Oriented Language

CODEC
Coder / Decoder
Compression / Decompression

COM
Communications
Computer Output Microfilm

COMDEX
Communications Development Exposition

COPS
Concept Oriented Programming System

CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture

COS
Class Of Service

COSMOS
Computer System for Mainframe Operations

CoSysOp
Co-Systems Operator

COW
Charachter-Oriented Windows Interface

CPC
Cost Per Click

CPE
Customer Premises Equipment

CPM
Cents Per Thousand

CP/M
Control Program / Microcomputer

CPS
Charachters Per Second

CPU
Central Processing Unit

CR
Carriage Return

CRC
Cyclical Redundancy Checking

CRN
Computer Reseller News

CRT
Cathode Ray Tube

C-SCANS
Client-Systems Computer Access Networks

CSD
Corrective Service Diskettes

CSID
Calling Station Identification

CSLIP
Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol

CSMA
Carrier Sense Multiple Access

CSMA/CD
Carrier Sense Multiple Access - Collision Detection

CSNET
Computer Science Network

CSP
CompuCom Speed Protocol
Cryptographic Service Provider

CSS
Cascading Style Sheets

CSS2
Cascading Style Sheets (Level 2)

CSU
Channel Service Unit

CT
Computer Telephony

CTD
Cell Transfer Delay

CTI
Computer-Telephony Integration

CTR
Click Through Rate

CTS
Clear To Send Signal

CTTC
Copper To The Curb

CTTH
Copper To The Home

CTTY
Console Teletype

CUI
Centre Universitaire d'Informatique

CUT
Control Unit Terminal

CVF
Compressed Volume File

CW
Continuous Wave

CWT
Call Waiting

CYBORG
Cybernetic Organism

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D2T2
Dye Diffusion Thermal Transfer

DAC
Digital Analog Converter

DAMA
Demand Assigned Multiple Access

DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DAS
Dual Attachment Station

DASD
Direct Access Storage Device

DAT
Digital Audio Tap
Digital Audio Tape

DATU
Direct Access Testing Unit

DAVID
Digital Audio/Video Interactive Decoder

dB
Decibels

dBm
Decibels per Milliwatt

DBMS
DataBase Management System

DBR
DOS Boot Record

DBS
Demand Broadcast System
Direct Broadcast Satellite

DC
Direct Current

DCA
Document Content Architecture

DCB
Data Control Block

DCC
Direct Cable Connection

DCE
Data Communications Equipment
Distributed Computing Environment

DCS
Digital Communication Services

DD
Data Definition
Definition Description ( HTML )
Double Density
Dynamic Difficulty

DDCMP
Digital Data Communications Message Protocol

DDD
Digital Diagnostic Diskette
Direct Distance Dial

DDE
Dynamic Data Exchange

D-Dial
Diversi-Dial

DDN
Defense Department Network

DDT
Don't Do That
Dynamic Debugging Tool

DE
Discard Eligible

DEC
Digital Equipment Corp.

DECNET
Digital Equipment Corporation Network

DES
Defense Encryption Standard
Digital Encryption Standard

DFDSS
Data Facility Dataset Services

DFHSM
Data Facility Hierarchical Storage Manager

DFSMS
Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem

DG-UX
Data General Unix

DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DI
Destination Index

DIIG
Digital Information Infrastructure Guide

DIMM
Dual In-Line Memory Module

DIN
Deutsche Industrie Norm

DIP
Dual In-Line Package

DIS
Dynamic Impedence Stabilization

DISOSS
Distributed Office Support System

DL
Definition List

DLC
Digital Loop Carrier

DLCI
Data Link Connection Identifier

DLL
Dynamic Link Library

DLSw
Data Link Switching

DLT
Digital Linear Tape

DLVA
Detector Logarithmic Video Amplifier

DMA
Direct Memory Access

DMCA
Digital Millennium Copyright Act

DMF
Distribution Media Floppy

DMI
Desktop Management Interface

DMM
Digital Multi-Meter

DMS
Digital Multiplex Switch
Digital Multiplex System

DMT
Discrete Multi-Tone

DMTF
Desktop Management Task Force

DN
Domain Name

DNA
DEC Network Architecture

DNIS
Dialed Number Identification Service

DNR
Digital Number Recorder

DNS
Domain Name System

DOC
Document

DOS
Disk Operating System

DOW
Direct Over-Write

DPAM
Demand Priority Access Method

DPI
Dot Pitch Integer
Dots Per Inch

DPMS
Display Power Management Signaling
DOS Protected Mode Services

DPT
Distributed Processing Technology

DQDB
Distributed Queue Dial Bus

DRAM
Dynamic Random Access Memory

DS
Dual Screen

DS0
Digital Signal level 0

DSA
Distributed Systems Architecture

DSI
Digital Speech Interpolation

DSK
Dvorak Simplified Keyboard

DSL
Digital Subscriber Line

DSLAM
Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer

DSP
Digital Signal Processor

DSR
Date Set Ready

DSU
Data Service Unit

DT
Definition Term

DTA
Disk Transfer Area

DTD
Document Type Declaration

DTE
Data Terminal Equipment

DTMF
Dual Tone Modulated Frequency

DTP
Desktop Publishing

DTR
Data Terminal Ready

DTV
Desktop Video

DUN
Dial-Up Networking

DV
Digital Video

DVB
Digital Video Broadcasting

DVC
Digital Video Conference

DVD
Digital Video Disc

DVD-R
Digital Video Disc Recordable

DVD-RW
Digital Video Disc Re-Writable

DVI
Digital Video Interactive

DXI
Data Exchange Interface

DYLAN
Dynamic Language

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E1
European 1

E3
European 3

EBCDIC
Extended Binary Code - Decimal Interchange Code

EBR
Extended-Partition Boot Record

ECC
Error Correction Code

ECD
Electronic Cash Disbursements

ECM
Error Correction Mode

ECMA
European Computer Manufacturers Association

ECP
Extended Capabilities Port

ED
Extra-High Density
Extended Density

EDI
Electronic Data Interchange

EDO
Extended Data-Out

EDP
Electronic Data Processing

EEPROM
Electronic Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EEST
Enhanced Ethernet Serial Transciever

EFCI
Explicit Forward Congestion Indication

EFF
Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFT
Electronic Funds Transfer

EGA
Enhanced Graphics Adapter

EGP
Exterior Gateway Protocol

EIA
Electronic Industries Association

EIDE
Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics

EIRP
Effective Isotropic Radiated Power

EIS
Executive Information System

EISA
Enhanced/Extended Industry Standard Architecture

ELAN
Emulated Local Area Network

ELF
Extremely Low Frequency

EMA
Electronic Messaging Association
Enterprise Management Architecture

E-Mail
Electronic Mail

EMF
Electro Motive Force
Enhanced Metafile Format

EMM
Extended Memory Manager

EMR
Electromagnetic Radiation

EMS
Expanded Memory Specification

ENIAC
Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator

EOF
End Of File

EOT
End Of Transfer

EPIC
Electronic Privacy Information Center

EPP
Enhanced Parallel Port

EPROM
Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EPS
Encapsulated Post-Script

ERU
Emergency Recovery Utility

ESA
Enterprise Systems Architecture

ESC
Engineering Service Circuit
Escape

ESD
Electronic Software Distribution
Electro-Static Discharge

ESDI
Enhanced Small Device Interface

ESN
Electronic Serial Number

ESO
Entry Server Offering

ESP
Enhanced Serial Port
Enhanced Service Provider

ESRI
Environmental Systems Research Institute

ETO
Electronic Trading Opportunity

EULA
End-User Licensing Agreement

EV
Extended Validation

EXE
Executable

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F-Key
Dunction Key

FAQ
Frequently Asked Question

FAT
File Allocation Table

FAX
Facsimile

FB
Facebook

FCB
File Control Block

FCC
Federal Communications Commission

FCS
First Customer Release

FDC
Floppy Disk Controller

FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FDMA
Frequency Division Multiple Access

FEC
Foreign Exchange Carrier
Forward Error Correction

FECN
Forward Explicit Congestion Notification

FED
Field Emission Display

FEDTV
Field Emission Display Television

FEP
Front End Processor

FERF
Far End Reporting Failure

FIFO
First In / First Out

FITS
Flexible Image Transport System

FM
Frequency Modulation

FOIM
Field Office Information Management

FOIRL
Fiber Optic Inter-Repeater Link

FORTRAN
Formula Translator

FPNW
File and Print for NetWare

FPS
Floating Point System
Frames Per Second

FPT
Forced Perfect Termination

FPU
Floating Point Unit

FQDN
Fully Qualified Domain Name

FRAD
Frame Relay Access Device

FRF
Frame Relay Form

FSA
Financial Services Authority

FSK
Frequency Shift Keying

FSN
Full Service Network

FTAM
File Transfer Access Management

FTC
Federal Trade Commission

FTP
File Transfer Protocol

FTPD
File Transfer Protocol Daemon

FTS
Federal Telecommunications System

FTTC
Fiber To The Curb

FTTH
Fiber To The Home

FUNI
Frame User Network Interface

FVIPS
First Virtual Internet Payment System

FYI
For Your Information

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G
Gigabyte

GATC
Google Analytics Tracking Code

Gb
Gigabit

Gbps
Gigabits Per Second

GB
Game Boy
Gigabyte

GBA
Game Boy Advance

GCRA
Generic Cell Rate Algorithm

GDG
Generation Data Group

GDI
Graphics Device Interface

GDS
Generation Dataset

GEIS
General Electric Information Systems

GES
Global Enterprise Services

GFC
Generic Flow Control

GGP
Gateway-to-Gateway Protocol

GIF
Graphical Interchange Format

GIG
Gigabyte

GIGO
Garbage In - Garbage Out

GIS
Geographic Information System

GNR
Genetic engineering / Nanotech / Robotics

GOES
Geosynchronous Orbital Earth Satellite

GOSIP
Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile

GPC
General Purpose Computer

GPF
General Protection Fault

GPS
Global Positioning System

GSM
Global Service for Mobile

GSNW
Gateway Services for NetWare

GSO
Geostationary Orbit

GTA
Grand Theft Auto

GTLD
Generic Top-Level Domain

GTPNet
Global Trade Point Network

GUI
Graphical User Interface

GW2K
Gateway 2000

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HAL
Hardware Abstraction Layer

HAM
Home Amature Mechanic

HAN
Home Area Network

HBA
Host Bus Adapter

HCL
Hardware Compatability List

HCSS
High-Capacity Storage System

HD
Hard Drive
High-Definition
High Density

HDA
Head Disk Assembly

HDC
Hard Disk Controller

HDLC
High-Level Data Link Control

HDSL
High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line

HDT
Host Digital Terminal

HDTV
High-Definition Television

HEC
Header Error Control

HEPNET
High Energy Physics Network

HEX
Hexadecimal

HFC
Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial

HGC
Hercules Graphics Card

HIC
Headend Interface Converter

HLF
High-Level Formatting

HLL
High-Level Language

HLLAPI
High-Level-Language Application Program Interface

HLP
Help

HMA
High Memory Area

HMMP
HyperMedia Management Protocol

HMMS
HyperMedia Management Schema

HMP
Host Monitoring Protocol

HP
Hewlett-Packard

HPC
Hand-held Personal Computer

HPFS
High Performance File System

HPT
High-Pressure Tin

HR
Horizontal Rule

HRD
High Resolution Diagnostic Diskette

HRSC
High Resolution Stereo Camera

HSI
High-Speed Interconnect

HSSI
High Speed Serial Interface

HST
High-Speed Technology

HTML
Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HW
HRSC / WAOSS

Hz
Hertz

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IA
Intel Architecture

IAB
Internet Activities Board
Interactive Advertising Bureau

IAD
Integrated Access Device

IAM
Inverse ATM Mux

IANA
Internet Assigned Number Authority

IARPA
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency

IBM
International Business Machines

IBS
IntelSat Business Service

IC
Integrated Circuit

ICANN
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers

ICD
International Code Designation

ICE
Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics

ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol

ICR
Intelligent Charachter Recognition

ICRIS
Integrated Customer Record Information System

IDC
Internet Database Connector

IDE
Integrated Drive Electronics

IDG
International Data Group

IDP
Integrated Data Processing

IDSL
ISDN Digital Subscriber Line

IEEE
Institute Of Electronic and Electrical Engineers

IEN
Integrated Enterprise Network

IESG
Internet Engineering Steering Group

IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force

IFM
Intelligent Flow Management

IGMP
Internet Group Multicast Protocol

IGP
Internet Gateway Protocol

IIOP
Internet Inter-ORB Protocol

IIS
Internet Information Services

IISP
Interim Inter-Switch Protocol

ILMI
Integrated Layer Management Interface

IMAP
Internet Messaging Access Protocol

IMC
Initial Microcode Load

IMP
Interface Message Processor

IMUX
Inverse Multiplexing

IN
Intelligent Network

INI
Initialization

INTELSAT
International Telecommunications Satellite Organization

InterNIC
Internet Network Information Center

INWG
International Network Working Group

I/O
Input / Output

IOS
Inter-Network Operating System

IP
Internet Protocol

IPC
Internet Proxy Cache

IPL
Initial Program Load

IPMI
Internet Provider Multicast Initiative

IPN
Internet Protocol Number

IPNG
Internet Protocol - Next Generation

IPO
Initial Public Offering

IPv4
Internet Protocol version 4

IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6

IPX
Internetwork Packet Exchange

IRC
Internet Relay Chat

IRF
Inherited Rights Filter

IRL
In Real Life

IRQ
Interrupt - Request Line

IRTF
Internet Research Task Force

IRTOS
I2O Real-Time Operating System

ISA
Industry Standard Architecture
Interactive Services Association

ISAM
Indexed Sequential Access Method

ISDN
Integrated Services Digital Network

ISIS
Internally Switched Interface System
Investigative Support Information System

ISM
Internet Service Manager

ISMF
Interactive Storage Management Facility

ISO
International Standards Organization

ISP
Internet Service Provider

ISPA
Inverted Socket Process Architecture

ISPF/PDF
Interactive System Productivity Facility / Program Development Facility

IT
Information Technology

ITS
Internet Telephony Server

ITT
International Telephone & Telegraph

ITTA
Information Technology Training Association

ITU
International Telecommunications Union

ITV
Interactive Television

IWM
Integrated Woz Machine

IXC
InterExchange Carrier

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JAMF
Jive Ass Motherfucker
Just Another Motherfucker

JCL
Job Control Language

JDBC
Java DataBase Connectivity

JDK
Java Developers Kit

JEDEC
Joint Electron Devices Engineering Council

JES
Job Entry Subsystem

JIT
Just In Time

JMAPI
Java Management Application Interface

JNDI
Java Naming Directory Interface

JNET
Japanese Network

JOVIAL
Jule's Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language

JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group

JPG
Joint Photographic Experts Group

JSP
Java Server Pages

JTS
Java Transaction Services

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K
Kilobyte

KABU
Keep Alive Base Unit

kb
Kilobit

kbps
Kilobits Per Second

kB
Kilobyte

kc
KiloCycle

kHz
KiloHertz

KIF
Knowledge Interchange Format

KnU
Knowledge Utility

KOTOR
Knights Of The Old Republic

KPI
Key Performance Indicators

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LAN
Local Area Network

LANE
Local Area Network Emulation

LAP-B
Link Access Procedure - Balanced

LAPM
Link Access Procedure - Modems

LAR
Large Account Reseller

LASER
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

LAT
Local Area Transport

LATA
Local Access and Transport Area

LAV
Load Average

LBA
Logical Block Addressing

LCC
Leadless Chip Carrier

LCD
Liquid Crystal Display

LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LD-CELP
Low-Delay Code Excited Linear Prediction

LEC
LAN Emulation Client
Local Exchange Carriers

LECS
LAN Emulation Configuration Server

LED
Light Emitting Diode

LegOS
Lego™ Operating System

LEN
Line Equipment Number

LES
LAN Emulation Server

LF
Line Feed

LHB
Line History Block

LI
List Item

LibOp
Libraries Operator

LIF
Low Insertion Force

LIFO
Last In / First Out

LILO
Linux Loader

LIM
Lotus-Intel-Microsoft

LIS
Lithium Ion Storage

LISP
List Processing

LLC
Logical Link Control

LLF
Low-Level Formatting

LMDS
Local Multipoint Distribution Service

LNA
Low Noise Amplifier

LNB
Low Noise Block Deconverter

LNNI
LAN Emulation Network-to-Network Interface

LoD
Legion of Doom

LOD
Level Of Detail

LPC
Local Procedure Call

LPT
Local Printer Terminal

LSO
Local Shared Objects

LT
Line Termination

LU
Logical Unit

LUN
Logical Unit Number

LUNI
LAN User-to-Network Interface

LZW
Lempel-Ziv-Walsh (Compression)

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M
Megabyte

MAC
Macintosh
Media Access Control

MAN
Metropolitan Area Network

MAP
Manufacturing Automation Protocol

MAPI
Messaging Application Programming Interface

MAPS
Multiservice Access Platforms

MARS
Multicast Address Resolution Server

MASER
Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

MATV
Master Antenna Television

MAU
Medium Attachment Unit
Multi-Station Access Unit

Mb
Megabit

MB
Megabyte

Mbps
Megabits Per Second

MBS
Master Boot Sector
Maximum Burst Size

MBT
Maximum Burst Tolerance

MC
Mini-Cartridge

MCA
MicroChannel Architecture

MCGA
MultiColor Graphics Array

MCI
Media Control Interface
Microwave Communications, Inc.

MCR
Minimum Cell Rate

MDA
Monochrome Display Adapter

MDC
McAfee Development Center

MDI
Multiple Document Interface

MDRAM
Multibank Dynamic Random Access Memory

MEG
Megabyte

MEMS
Microelectromechanical Systems

MF
Modulated Frequency

MFM
Modified Frequency Modulation

MFTP
Multi-Cast File Transfer Protocol

MGA
Monochrome Graphics Adapter

MHS
Message Handling Service

MHz
Megahertz

MI
Mode Indicate

MIB
Management Information Bases

MIC
Microsoft Internet Chat
Mode Indicate - Common

MICA
Modem ISDN Channel Aggregation

MICR
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

MICROTEL
Microsoft / Intel

MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIDR
Mosaicked Image Data Record

MIG
Metal-In-Gap

MILES
Merisel's Information and Logistical Efficency System

MILNET
Military Network

MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension

MIN
Mobile Identification Number

MIPL
Multimission Image Processing Laboratory

MIPS
Millions of Instructions Per Second
Multimission Image Processing Subsystem

MIS
Management Information System

MLP
Microsoft License Packs

MMDS
Multipoint Multichannel Distribution Service

MMO
Massively Multi-User Online

MMORPG
Massively Multi-User Online Role Playing Game

MMUD
Massively Multi-User Dungeon

MMX
Multimedia Extension

MNP
Microcom Networking Protocol

MO
Magneto-Optical

MOCA
Merisel Open Computing Alliance

MoD
Masters of Deception

MOD
Modulo

MODEM
Modulator / Demodulator

MOL
Microsoft Open License
Machine Oriented Language

MOLP
Microsoft Open License Program

MOM
Microsoft Office Manager

MOS
Metal Oxide Semiconductor

MPC
Multimedia Personal Computer

MPD
Mini Port Driver

MPEG
Motion Picture Experts Group

MPG
Motion Picture Experts Group

MPOA
Multi-Protocol Over ATM

MPS
Multi-Processor Specification

MR
Magneto-Resistive

MS
Microsoft System(s)

MSCDEX
Microsoft Compact Disc Executable

MSD
Microsoft Diagnostic

MS-DOS
Microsoft Disk Operating System

MSN
Microsoft Network

MSNBC
Microsoft - National Broadcasting Company

MSO
Multiple System Operators

MSTP
Multimission Software Transmission Project

MSTV
Microsoft Television

MTA
Major Trading Area
Mail Transfer Agent
Message Transfer Agent

MTBF
Mean Time Before Failure

MTTR
Mean Time To Repair

MTV
Music Television

MUA
Mail User Agent

MUD
Multi-User Dungeon

MULTICS
Multiplexed Information and Computing Service

MUP
Mindstorms™ Users Panel

MUX
Multiplexer

MVP
Modular Voice Processor

MVS
Multiple Virtual Storage

MVS/ESA
Multiple Virtual Storage / Enterprise Systems Architecture

MVS/SP
Multiple Virtual Storage / System Product

MVS/TSO
Multiple Virtual Storage / Time Sharing Option

MVS/XA
Multiple Virtual Storage / Extended Architecture

MWI
Message Waiting Indicator

MWN
Message Waiting Notification

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NACK
Negative Acknowledgement

NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement

NAP
Network Access Point

NASDAQ
North American Securities Dealers - Automated Quoting

NAU
Network Addressable Unit

NBB
Number of Bytes of Binary

NC
Network Computer

NCA
Network Computing Architecture

NCC
Network Control Center

NCF
Netware Command File

NCIC
National Crime Information Computer

NCM
Node Controller Module

NCP
Network Core Protocol
Network Control Program

NCPS
Netware Cross-Platform Services

NCSA
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
National Computer Security Association

NCSC
National Computer Security Center

NDA
Non-Disclosure Agreement

NDIAG
Norton Diagnostics

NDIS
Network Device Interface Specification

NDMP
Network Data Management Protocol

NDS
Novell Directory Service

NEARNET
New England Academic and Research Network

NEAT
Novell Easy Administration Tool

NEDS
New Economy Depression Syndrome

NetBEUI
NetBIOS Extended User Interface

NetBIOS
Network Basic Input / Output System

NEWS
Novell Electronic Webcasting Service

NFR
Not For Resale

NFS
Network File System

NHRP
Next Hop Resolution Protocol
Non-Hierarchical Routing Protocol

NIC
Network Information Center
Network Interface Card

NiCD
Nickel Cadmium

NII
National Information Infrastructure

NIMBY
Not In My Backyard

NiMH
Nickel Metal Hydride

NIMS
Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer

NIS
Network Information Service

NLB
Number of Lines of Binary

NLM
NetWare Loadable Module

NLP
Natural Language Processing

NLQ
Near Letter Quality

NLS
Online System

NMI
Non-Maskable Interrupt

NNI
Network Node Interface
Network-to-Network Interface

NNTP
Network News Transport Protocol

NOC
Network Operations Center

NOF
Not On File

NORAD
North American Defense Command

NOS
Network Operating System

NPA
Numbering Plan Area

NPC
Network Parameter Control

NPN
Notes Public Network

NPR
National Public Radio
Network Process Engineering

NQC
Not Quite C

NRN
Novell Remote Network

NRT
Non-Real-Time

NSA
National Security Agency

NSFNET
National Science Foundation Network

NSI
Network Solutions, Inc.

NSM
Network / Systems Managment

NSP
National Service Provider

NT
New Technology

NTFS
NT File System

NTP
Network Time Protocol

NTSC
National Television Standards Commitee

NTT
Numbered Test Trunk

NUI
Network User Identification

NUMA
Non-Uniform Memory Access

NVRAM
Non-Volatile Random Access Memory

NWG
Network Working Group

NYNEX
New York - New England Exchange

NYSERNET
New York State Education Research Network

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O
Organization

OA&M
Operations Administration & Maintainance

OAG
Open Applications Group

OCR
Optical Charachter Recognition

OCE
Open Collaboration Environment

OCIS
Organized Crime Information Systems

ODBC
Open Database Compliant

ODI
Open Data-Link Interface

ODN
OutDial Notification

ODP
Open Directory Project

ODSI
Open Directory Service Interface

OEM
Original Equipment Manufacturer

OFDM
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

OL
Ordered List

OLAP
Online Analytical Processing

OLE
Object Linking and Embedding

OMR
Optical Mark Recognition

ONE
Open Network Environment

OneDOJ
One Department Of Justice

ONMS
Open Network Management System

ONU
Optical Networking Unit

OOF
Out-Of-Frame

OPC
Organic Photoconducting Cartridge

OPT
Open Protocol Technology

ORMS
Operating Resource Management System

OS
Operating System

OS/2
Operating System 2

OSF
Open Software Foundation

OSI
Open Standards Interconnection
Open Systems Interconection

OSPF
Open Shortest Path First

OSR
OEM System Release

OT
Open Transport

OU
Organizational Unit

OURS
Open User-Recommended Solutions

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P2P
Peer To Peer

PABX
Private Automatic Branch Exchange

PAD
Packet Assembler / Disassembler

PAL
Phase Alteration Standard
Phase Alternating Line
Programmable Array Logic

PAM
Peachtree Accounting - Macintosh

PAP
Password Authentication Protocol

PARC
Palo Alto Research Center - (Xerox PARC)

PAS
Publicly Available Submitter

PAW
Peachtree Accounting for Windows

PAX
Private Automatic Exchange

PBIS
Peachtree Business Internet Suite

PBMS
Pacific Bell Mobile Services

PBS
Portable Base Station
Public Broadcasting Service

PBX
Private Branch Exchange

PC
Personal Computer

PCA
Peachtree Complete Accounting
Performance and Coverage Analyzer

PCDOS
Personal Computer Disk Operating System

PCI
Personal Computer Interconnect
Peripheral Component Interface

PCL
Printer Control Language

PCM
Pulse Code Modulation

PCMCIA
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PCR
Peak Cell Rate

PCS
Personal Communication System
Proxy Cache Server

PD
Phase-Change - Dual

PDA
Personal Digital Assistant

PDC
Primary Domain Controller

PDF
Portable Data File

PDN
Public Data Network

PDP
Program Data Processor

PDQ
Peachtree Data Query

PDS
Partitioned Dataset
Planetary Data System
Premise Distribution System

PDU
Protocol Data Unit

PEM
Product Error Message

PF
Program Function

PFA
Peachtree First Accounting

PGA
Pin-Grid Array
Professional Graphics Adapter

PGP
Pretty Good Privacy

PHP
Personal Home Page

PIC
Preferred InterExchange Carrier
Primary InterExchange Carrier
Programmable Interrupt Controller
Picture

PIF
Program Information File

PIG
Product Information Guide

PIM
Personal Information Manager

PIN
Personal Identification Number

PING
Packet Internet Groper

PIO
Programmed Input / Output

PIXEL
Picture Element

PLCC
Plastic Leaded-Chip Carrier

PLCP
Physical Layer Convergence Protocol

PLE
Public Local Exchange

PLL
Phase Locked Loop

PLOrk
Princeton Laptop Orchestra

PLoS
Public Library of Science

PLP
Packet Level Procedure

PMS
Pantone Matching System

PNG
Portable Network Graphics

PNNI
Private Network-to-Network Interface

PnP
Plug and Play

POA
Power Open Association

POH
Power On Hours

POP
Point Of Presence
Post Office Protocol

POS
Programmable Option Select
Point Of Sale

POST
Power On - Self Test

POTS
Plain Old Telephone Service

PPD
Post-Script Printer Description

PPC
Pay Per Click

PPI
Programmable Peripheral Interface

PPN
Project-Programmer Number

PPP
Point-To-Point Protocol

PPS
Pulses Per Second

PPTP
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

PQFP
Plastic Quad Flat Pack

PR
Page Rank
Public Relations

PRI
Primary Rate Interface

PRIMOS
Prime Operating System

PRML
Partial Response - Maximum Likelihood

PROFS
Professional Office System

PROM
Programmable Read-Only Memory

PRW
Peachtree Report Writer

PS
Physical Sequential
Play Station
Post-Script
Programmed Symbols

PS/1
Personal System / 1

PS/2
Personal System / 2

PS1
Play Station 1

PS2
Play Station 2

PS3
Play Station 3

PSC
Peachtree Support Center

PSDN
Packet Switched Data Network

PSP
Play Station Portable

PSTN
Public Switched Telephone Network

PU
Physical Unit

PUN
Physical Unit Number

PUP
PARC Universal Packet

PVC
Permanent Virtual Circuit
Permanent Virtual Connections

PWS
Peer Web Services

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QA
Quality Assurance

QAM
Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QBE
Query By Example

QBP
QuickBooks Pro

QDN
Query Direct Number

QDOS
Quick and Dirty Operating System

QEMM
Quarterdeck Extended Memory Manager

QIC
Quarter Inch Cartridge
Quarter Inch Committee

QIO
Queue Input / Output

QoS
Quality of Service

QPSK
Quadrative Phase Shift Keying

QTW
Quick-Time for Windows

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RAD
Rapid Application Development
Remote Antenna Driver

RADAR
Radio Detection And Ranging

RAD/RASP
Remote Antenna Driver / Remote Antenna Signal Processor

RADSL
Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line

RAID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives

RAM
Random Access Memory
Remote Access Modem

RAMDAC
Random Access Memory Digital to Analog Converter

RAP
Roving Analysis Port

RARP
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

RAS
Remote Access Services

RASP
Remote Antenna Signal Processor

RBB
Residential Broadband

RBOC
Regional Bell Operating Companies

RCF
Remote Call Forwarding

RDF
Radio Direction Finding

RDM
Report Display Manager

RDN
Relative Distinguished Name

RDP
Reliable Datagram Protocol

RDRAM
Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory

RECS
Reseller Electronic Communication System

REM
Remark

REMOB
Remote Observation

RET
Resolution Enhancement Technology

REXEC
Remote Executable

REXX
Restructured Extended Executor

RF
Radio Frequency

RFC
Request For Comments

RFQ
Request For Quotation

RFI
Radio Frequency Interface
Request For Information

RFID
Radio Frequency Identification

RFNM
Request For Next Message

RFS
Remote File Service
Remote File System

RGB
Red-Green-Blue

RIP
Routing Information Protocol

RISC
Reduced Instruction Set Computing

RJE
Remote Job Entry

RLE
Run Length Encoding

RLL
Run Length Limited

RLOGIN
Remote Login

RM
Resource Management

RMA
Return Merchandise Authorization

RMS
Record Management Services

RO
Receive Only

ROI
Return On Investment

ROM
Read Only Memory

RoR
Ruby On Rails

RPC
Remote Procedure Call
Revenue Per Click

RPG
Role Playing Game

RPM
Revolutions Per Minute

RSA
Rivest, Shamir and Adleman (Encryption)

RSEXEC
Resource Sharing Executive

RSH
Remote Shell
Restricted Shell

RSS
Really Simple Syndication
Rich Site Summary

RSVP
Resource Reservation Protocol

RT
Real Time

RTC
Real-Time Clock

RTCP
Real-Time Transport Control Protocol

RTF
Rich Text Format

RTFM
Read The F***ing Manual

RTL
Run-Time Library

RTP
Real-Time Transport Protocol

RTS
Request To Send

RTSP
Real-Time Streaming Protocol

RTTY
Radio TeleType

RU
Request Unit
Response Unit

RVD
Remote Virtual Disk

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S-bots
Simple Robots

SAA
Service Aspects and Applications
Systems Application Architecture

SACD
Super Audio Compact Disc

SAFE
Security And Freedom Through Encryption

SAP
Service Advertising Protocol

SAR
Segmentation And Reassembly

SARC
Symantec Antivirus Research Center

SAS
Single Attachment Station

SASI
Shugart Associates System Interface

SATAN
Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks

SATNET
Satellite Network

SCC
Switching Control Center

SCCS
Switching Control Center System

SCE
Service Creation Environment

SCLM
Software Configuration And Library Manager

SCO
Santa Cruz Operation

SCP
Service Control Point

SCPC
Single-Channel Per Carrier

SCR
Sustained Cell Rate

SCSI
Small Computer System Interface

SDH
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

SDL
Shielded Data Link

SDLC
Synchronous Data Link Control

SDSC
San Diego Supercomputer Center

SDSF
System (Spool) Display And Search Facility

SEAL
Secure Electronic Authorization Laboratory
Simple And Efficent Adaption Layer

SECABS
Small Exchange Carrier Access Billing System

SECAM
Sequential And Memory

SEED
Symantec Expression Equivalency Document

SEL
Search Engine Land

SEM
System Error Message

SEO
Search Engine Optimization

SERP
Search Engine Results Page

SET
Secure Electronic Transactions

SFA
Sales Force Automation

SFT
System Fault Tolerance

SGI
Silicon Graphics, Inc.

SGML
Standardized General Markup Language

S-HDSL
Single-Line - High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line

SI
Source Index

SIF
Standard Input Format

SIFR
Scalable Inman Flash Replacement

SIG
Special Interest Group

SIM
Subscriber Identity Module

SIMM
Single In-Line Memory Module

SIP
Single In-Line Package
Session Initiation Protocol

SIPP
Single In-Line Pin Package

SKIP
Simple Key management for Internet Protocol

SLED
Single Large Expensive Disk

SLIP
Serial Line Internet Protocol

SLMR
Silly Little Mail Reader

SMB
Server Message Block

SMCC
Sun Microsystems Computer Company

SMDS
Switched Multi-Megabit Data Services

SMI
System Management Interrupt

SMM
System Management Mode

SMP
Symmetrical Multi-Processing

SMPTE
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

SMS
Service Management Systems
Storage Management Subsystem

SMT
Station Management

SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SMX
Search Marketing Expo

SNA
Systems Network Architecture

SNADS
Systems Network Architecture Distribution Services

SNAP
Sub-Network Access Protocol

SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol

SOHO
Small Office / Home Office

SO-J
Small Outline J-lead

SONET
Synchronous Optical Network

SP
Stack Pointer

SPARC
Scalable Processor Architecture

SPID
Service Profile Identification

SPP
Standard Parallel Port

SPS
Standby Power Supply

SPX
Sequenced Packet Exchange

SQL
Structured Query Language

SRAM
Static Random Access Memory

SRT
Source Routing Transparent

SS6
Signaling System 6

SS7
Signaling System 7

SSA
Serial Storage Architecture

SSB
Single Side Band

SSCOP
Service Specified Convergence Protocol

SSD
Solid State Disk

SSFD
Solid State Floppy Disk

SSL
Secure Sockets Layer

SSPA
Solid State Power Amplifier

STA
Spanning Tree Algorithm

STD
Standard

STM
Synchronous Transfer Mode

STP
Shielded Twisted Pair
Signal Transfer Protocol

SUBLIB
Subroutine Library

SUE
Stupid User Error

SUN
Stanford University Networks

SVC
Switched Virtual Circuit

SVGA
Super Video Graphics Array

SWF
ShockWave Flash

SWIM
Super Woz Integrated Machine

SYS
System

SysOp
Systems Operator

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T
Terabyte

TA
Terminal Adaptor

TAE
Transportable Applications Environment

TAG
Technical Advisory Group

TAP
Technological Assistance Program

TAPI
Telephony Applications Program Interface

TAR
Tape Archive

Tb
Terabit

Tbps
Terabits Per Second

TB
Terabyte

TBD
To Be Determined

TCAM
Telecommunications Access Method

TCG
Teleport Communications Group

TCL
TAE Command Language

TCM
Trellis Coded Modulation

TCP
Tape Carrier Packaging
Transmission Control Protocol

TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

TCQAM
Trellis Coded Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

TD
Table Data

TDM
Time-Division Multiplexing

TDMA
Time Division Multiple Access

TDR
Time Domain Reflectometry

TelOp
Teleconference Operator

TEM
Transmission Electron Microscope

TEMPEST
Transient Electromagnetic Emanations Standard

TFT
Thin Film Transistor

TFTP
Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TG
Technical Guide

TGID
Trunk Group Identification Number

TH
Table Header

THD
Total Harmonic Distortion

THENET
Texas Higher Education Network

TIA
The Internet Adapter

TIC
Token-Ring Interface Coupler

TIF
Tagged Image File

TIFF
Tagged Image File Format

TIGA
Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture

TII
Technology Independent Interface

TIP
Terminal IMP

TLA
Three Letter Acronym

TLB
Translation Lookaside Buffer

TLD
Top Level Domain

TMN
Time Management Networking

TOP
Technical & Office Protocol

TOS
Terms Of Service

TP
Twisted Pair

TP-4
Transport Protocol 4

TPA
Third Party Application

TPD
Third Party Developer

TPI
Tracks Per Inch

TPPD
Twisted Pair - Physical-Media Dependent

TR
Table Row

TRPC
Transaction Remote Procedure Call

TRS
Tandy Radio Shack

TSAPI
Telephony Services Applications Program Interface

TSO
Time Sharing Option

TSO/E
Time Sharing Option / Extensions

TSPS
Traffic Service Position System

TSR
Terminate - Stay Resident

TSU
Time Sharing User

TSV
Tab Separated Values

TT
Text Telephone

TTF
True-Type Font

TTL
Time To Live
Transistor-to-Transistor Logic

TTS
Transaction Tracking System

TTT
Trunk-to-Trunk Transfer

TTY
Teletype

TUCAA
The Ultimate Computer Acronym Archive

TUCOWS
The Ultimate Collection Of Windows Sockets

TV
Television

TVRO
Television - Receive Only

TWAIN
Technology Without An Interesting Name

TWTA
Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier

TXT
Text

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UAE
Unrecoverable Application Error

UART
Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter

UBR
Unspecified Bit Rate

UCM
Universal Cable Module

UDF
Universal Disk Format

UDP
User Datagram Protocol

UGC
User Generated Content

UI
User Interface

UIC
User Identification Code

UL
Underwriters Laboratories
Unordered List

ULF
Ultra Low Frequency

UMA
Upper Memory Area

UMB
Upper Memory Block

UNC
Universal Naming Convention

UNI
User-To-Network Interface

UNIVAC
Universal Automatic Computer

UNMA
Unified Network Management Architecture

UPC
Universal Product Code
Usage Parameter Control

UPnP
Universal Plug And Play

UPS
Uninterruptable Power Supply

URL
Uniform Resource Locator

USB
Universal Serial Bus

USENET
User Network

USL
Unix System Laboratory

USR
U.S. Robotics

UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair

UUCP
Unix-to-Unix Copy Program

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VAC
Volts - A/C Current

VAFC
VESA Advanced Feature Controller

VAN
Value-Added Network

VAP
Value-Added Process

VAR
Value-Added Reseller

VAX
Virtual Address Extension

VB
Visual Basic

VBI
Vertical Blanking Interface

VBR
Variable Bit Rate

VC
Virtual Channel
Virtual Circuit

VCC
Virtual Channel Connection

VCI
Virtual Channel Identifier

VCR
Video Cassette Recorder

VCRI
Virtual Control Program Interface

VDC
Volts - Direct Current

VDSL
Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line

VDT
Video Dial Tone

VDU
Video Display Unit

VERONICA
Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Networkwide Index to Computerized Archives

VESA
Video Electronics Standard Asociation

VFAT
Virtual File Allocation Table

VFC
Vector Function Chainer
Video Feature Connector

VFW
Video For Windows

VGA
Video Graphics Array

VICAR
Video Image Communication And Retrieval

VIDS
VICAR Interactive Display Subsystem

VINES
Virtual Networking Software

VL
VESA Local

VLA
Volume Licensing Agreement

VLAN
Virtual Local Area Network

VLB
VESA Local Bus

VLF
Very Low Frequency

VLM
Virtual Loadable Module

VLOG
Video Log

VLSI
Very Large Scale Integration

VM
Virtual Machine

V-Mail
Voice Mail

VMB
Voice Mail Box

VMC
VESA Media Channel

VMM
Virtual Memory Manager

VMS
Virtual Memory System

VoIP
Voice Over Internet Protocol

VP
Virtual Path

VPC
Virtual Path Connection

VPI
Virtual Path Identifier

VPN
Virtual Private Network

VQ
Vector Quantication

VR
Virtual Reality

VRAM
Video Random Access Memory

VRDI
Virtual Raster Display Interface

VRML
Virtual Reality Modeling Language

VSAM
Virtual Storage Access Method

VSAT
Very Small Aperture Terminal

VS/VD
Virtual Source / Virtual Destination

VSWR
Voltage Standing Wave Radio

VT
Virtual Tributary

VTAM
Virtual Telecommunications Access Method

VTOA
Voice and Telephony Over ATM

VxD
Virtual Device Driver
Virtual Extension Device

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W3
World Wide Web

W3C
World Wide Web Consortium

W4WG
Windows For Workgroups

WAIS
Wide Area Information Search

WAITS
Wide Area Information Transfer Systems

WAN
Wide Area Network

WAOSS
Wide Angle Optoelectronic Stereo Scanner

WATS
Website Activity Tracking Statistics
Wide Area Telephone Service

WAV
Waveform

WCS
Wireless Communication Service(s)

WDM
Wave Division Multiplexing

WELL
Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link

WFW
Windows For Workgroups

WinHEC
Windows Hardware Engineering Conference

WinHTTP
Windows Hypertext Transfer Protocol

WLID
Windows Live Identification

WINS
Windows Internet Name Service

WINSOCK
Windows Socket

WINTEL
Windows / Intel

WMF
Windows MetaFile

WORM
Write Once - Read Many

wOz
Wheels Of Zeus

WP
WordPress

WPG
WordPerfect Graphics

WTOR
Write To Operator With Reply

WWAN
Wireless Wide Area Network

WWW
World Wide Web

WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get

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X-Fi
eXtreme Fidelity

XGA
Extended Graphics Array

XHTML
eXtensible Hyper Text Markup Language

XLS
Excel Spreadsheet

XMM
Extended Memory Manager

XMS
Extended Memory Specification

XNS
Xerox Network Services

XT
Extended

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Y2K
Year Two-Thousand

Y3K
Year Three-Thousand

YAHOO
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

YASNS
Yet Another Social Networking Service

YMS
Young Micro Systems

YP
Yellow Pages

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ZAC
Zero Administration Client

ZAI
Zero Administrative Initiative

ZAK
Zero Administration Kit

ZAW
Zero Administration for Windows

ZB
ZataByte

ZBR
Zero Bug Release
Zone-Bit Recording

ZCAV
Zoned Constant Angular Velocity

ZD
Ziff-Davis

ZDBOp
Ziff-Davis Benchmark Operation

ZDL
Zero Delay Lockout

ZDMI
Ziff-Davis Market Intelligence

ZDS
Zenith Data Systems

ZDTV
Ziff-Davis Television

ZEN
Zero Effort Networking

ZF
Zero Flag

ZIF
Zero Insertion Force

ZIP
Zig-Zag In-Line Package
Zone Improvement Plan

ZLR
Zoom Lens Reflex

ZNA
Zero Network Administration

ZOPE
Z Object Publishing Environment

ZPV
Zoomed Port Video

ZSL
Zero Slot LAN

ZV
Zoomed Video