Computer Acronyms

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Last updated: January 13, 2006

«I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Milford, NH. In the booth next to me are two men,
a father and a son. Over coffee, the father is asking his son about modems,
and the son is holding forth pretty well on the subject of fax compatibility, UART
requirements, and so on. But he's little out of date: The father asks, "So should I
get one with a DSP?"
"A what?" says the son.
You just can't get far if you're not up on the lingo. You might squeak by in your
company of technological nonexperts, but even some of them will surprise you.
These days, technical acronyms quickly insinuate themselves into the
vernacular.»
Raphael Needleman
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µ (mu) ABEL
0-9
A/D: Analog/Digital
0-9 (Hardware)
A
µ (mu): Micro A/P: Accounts Payable
Prefix for 10 power -6
A/PC: Auto Personal Computer
1GL: 1st Generation Language (Hardware)
Machine language (Software)
A/R: Accounts Receivable
24/7: 24 hours a day/7 days a week
A/UX: Apple UniX
2D: 2-Dimensional (Operating systems) (Apple)
2D: Double Density AA: Advertising Agent
(Hardware)
AA: Anti-Aliasing
2G: 2nd Generation Method for removing jagged edges
Mobile telecommunication network allowing 14.4 kbps
AA: Auto Answer
transfer rates (Communication)
2GL: 2nd Generation Language AAA: Asp Application Aggregator
Assembler and other low-level languages (Software) AAA: Authentication, Authorization and
Accounting
2HD: 2 sides, High Density
A term for a framework for intelligently controlling access to
(Hardware)
computer resources, enforcing policies, auditing usage, and
2PC: 2-Phase Commit providing the information necessary to bill for services.
Protocol to allow replicated data to be modified at multiple These combined processes are important for effective
sites network management (Security)
2S: 2 Sides AAB: All-to-All Broadcast

(Hardware) AAC: Advanced Audio Coding
2S2D: 2 Sides, Double Density AAC: Authorization and Access Control
(Hardware) (Security)
2SHD: 2 Sides, High Density AAF: Advanced Authoring Format
(Hardware)
AAL: Atm Adaption Layer
3D: 3-Dimensional Layer 3 of the ATM architecture. Adapts user traffic into/from
3DES: Triple Data Encryption Standard ATM 48-byte payloads (Communication)
(Security) AAM: Automatic Acoustic Management
3G: 3rd Generation Feature that allows the host to request that the drive modify
its acoustic behavior (Hardware)
Mobile telecommunication network allowing 300-400 kbps
transfer rates (Communication) AAP: Applications Access Point
3GIO: 3rd Generation Input Output (DEC)
(Hardware) (Intel) AARP: Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol
3GL: 3rd Generation Language (Network) (Apple)
High level programming languages (Software) AAS: All-to-All Scatter
3GPP: Third Generation Partners Project AAS: Auto Area Segmentation
See http://www.3gpp.org/ (Organizations) Scanner technology which detects and optimizes text and
graphics on the same page (Hardware) (Epson)
4G: 4th Generation
Mobile telecommunication network allowing 10Mbit/s transfer AASP: Ascii Asynchronous Support Package
rates (Communication)
AAT: Average Access Time
4GL: 4th Generation Language
AATP: Authorized Academic Training Program
Database access languages (Software)
(Microsoft)
4GT: 4 Gigabyte memory Tuning
ABA: Address Book Archive
5GL: 5th Generation Language Filename extension
Artificial intelligence languages (Software)
ABAP: Advanced Business Application
6DOF: Six Degrees Of Freedom Programming
Powerful programming language created specifically for
A developing SAP applications. ABAP Objects is the new
object-oriented generation of this language, designed to
A: Ampere respond to the needs of SAP's future strategies and
Current measurement unit environments (Software)
a: atto ABC: Atanasoff-Berry Computer

Prefix for 10 power -18 First digital calculating machine that used vacuum tubes
Å: Ångstrom ABEL: Advanced Boolean Expression Language

Length measurement unit corresponding to 10 power -10
meters
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ABEND ACS
ABEND: ABnormal END ACE: Adobe Certified Expert

(Software) (Adobe)
A
ABI: Application Binary Interface ACE: Advanced Computing Environment
Defines the binary system interface between compiled
ACE: Adverse Channel Enhancements
applications and the operating system on which they run
(Software) ACE: Ascii Compatible Encoding
ABIOS: Advanced Basic Input Output System ACE: Automatic Computing Engine
ABIST: Automatic Built-In Self-Test ACF: Access Control Field
(IBM)
ACF: Advanced Communications Function
ABLE: Adaptive Battery Life Extender ACH: Automated Clearing House
ABLE: Agent Building and Learning Environment ACIA: Asynchronous Communication Interface
(IBM) Adapter
ABM: Asynchronous Balanced Mode ACIAS: Automated Calibration Interval
HDLC data transfer mode (Network) Analysis System
ABNF: Augmented Backus Naur Form ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and
ABR: Available Bit Rate Durability
One of five ATM Forum defined service types. Supports (Software)
variable bit rate data traffic with flow control, a minimum ACIS: American Committee for Interoperable
guaranteed data transmission rate and specified performance
Systems
parameters (Communication)
ACK: ACKnowledge
ABRS: Automated Book Request System
A transmission control character transmitted by a station as
ABS: ABSolute an affirmative response to the station with which the
connection has been set up. (Communication)
ABS: Address Book Synchronization
(IBM) ACL: Access Control List
For granting or denying access to computer resources
ABS: Auto Balance System
(security) (Operating systems)
System to reduce vibration and noise in a peripheral
(Hardware) ACL: Advanced Cmos Logic
ABS: Automatic Backup System ACL: Asynchronous ConnectionLess
(Communication)
ABT: ABorT
ACM: Afp Conversion Module
ABTS: Ascii Block Terminal Services
(Software)
AC: Access Customer
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
(Communication)
(Organizations)
AC: Alternate Current
ACM: Audio Compression Manager
AC: Audio Codec (Microsoft)
(Hardware)
ACMS: Application Control Management System
AC: Authentication Center
ACNM: Application Centric Network
AC: AutoCheck Management
AC: Automatic Computer (Software)
ACAP: Application Configuration Access ACO: Alternate Checksum Option

Protocol (Network)
ACC: ACCumulator ACP: Active Code Page

ACC: Authorization Contract for Containers ACP: Ancillary Control Program
Specification (JSR-115) that defines new ACP: Auxiliary Control Process
java.security.Permission classes to satisfy the Java 2
Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) authorization model ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power
(Software) (Sun) Interface
(Hardware)
ACD: Automatic Call Distribution
ACR: Advanced Communication Riser
ACDI: Asynchronous Communications Device
(Hardware)
Interface
ACR: Allowed Cell Rate
ACE: Access Control Encryption
ACROSS: Automated Cargo Release and
ACE: Access Control Entry
Operations Service System
An entry in an Access Control List (ACL). An ACE contains a
set of access rights and a security identifier (SID) that ACS: Access Control Server
identifies a trustee for whom the rights are allowed, denied, or
ACS: Access Control Set
audited (Operating systems)
ACS: Access Control System

ACS ADR
ACS: Admission Control Service ADC: Application Delete Certificate

(Network) (Microsoft)
ADC: Application Development Consultant A
ACS: Advanced Computer System ADCAP: ADvanced CAPability
(IBM)
Used to refer to advanced capability, cuttin edge technology,
ACS: Anti Curl System also in military applications (e.g. ADCAP missile)
ACS: Asynchronous Communication Server ADCCP: Advanced Data Communication Control

Procedures
ACS: Automatic Class Selection
(Communication)
ACS: Automatic Contrast Selection
ADD: Adapter Device Driver
ACSE: Association Control Service Element
ADD: Automatic Document Detection
The method used in International Organization for
Standardization's open systems interconnection (OSI) for ADE: Application Data Export
establishing a call between two applications. (Databases) (Oracle)
ACSI: American Customer Satisfaction Index ADF: Adapter Description File
File name extension
ACSM: Application Centric Storage Management
(Software) ADF: Automatic Document Feeder
ACSS: Aural Cascading Style Sheets Scanner device (Hardware)
ACT: Application Compatibility Toolkit ADF: Automatically Defined Function

(Software) (Microsoft) ADI: Application Desktop Integrator
ACTS: Advanced Communication Technology Spreadsheet-based extension of Oracle Applications. It
provides full-cycle accounting within the comfort and
Satellite
familiarity of a spreadsheet for General Ledger and Oracle
(Communication) (NASA)
Assets (Software) (Oracle)
ACTS: Automated Computer Time Server ADI: AutoCad Device Interface
ACTT: Advanced Communication and Driver
Timekeeping Technology
ADK: Appliance Development Kit
ACU: Automatic Calling Unit (Software)
ACVC: Ada Compiler Validation Capacity ADL: Address Data Latch
AD: Acpi Disassembler ADL: Architecture Description Language
AD: Active Directory (Software)
(Operating systems) ADLAT: ADaptive LATtice filter
ADA: ADA ADLC: Asynchronous Data Link Control
Programming language named after Augusta Ada Lovelace
ADM: Application Distribution and Management
ADA: Adobe Developers Association
ADMACS: Apple Document Management And
(Organizations)
Control System
ADA: Automatic Data Acquisitions ADMD: ADministrative Management Domain
ADAPT: Architecture, Design, Analysis and
ADML: Application Description Markup
Planning Tool
Language
ADB: Apple Desktop Bus (Software)
Bus architecture (Hardware) (Apple)
ADML: Architecture Description Markup
ADBS: Advanced Data Broadcast System Language
(Communication) (Software)
ADC: Active Directory Connector ADMS: Adstar Distributed Management System
(Operating systems) ADO: Activex Data Object
ADC: Adaptive Data Compression (Databases) (Microsoft)
(Hayes) ADODB: Activex Data Object DataBase
ADC: ADd with Carry (Databases) (Microsoft)
ADC: Advanced Data Connector ADP: Access Database Project
(Databases) (Microsoft) Filename extension (Software) (Microsoft)
ADC: Analog to Digital Converter ADP: Aol Dynamic Pages
A device that translates analog signals to digital signals. (Software)
Contrast with digital-to-analog converter (DAC). (Hardware)
ADP: Automatic Data Processing
ADC: Apple Developer Connection
ADPCM: Adaptive Differential Pulse Code
(Apple)
Modulation
ADC: Apple Display Connector Communication protocol (Communication)
(Hardware) (Apple)
ADR: ADdRess

ADR AFP
ADR: Advanced Digital Recording AEC: Architecture, Engineering, Construction

(Hardware) A computer graphics market requiring specialized
A applications that facilitate efficient planning, design, drafting,
ADR2: Advanced Digital Recording 2nd and analysis.
generation
(Hardware) AEGIS: Advanced Electronic Guidance and
Instrumentation System
ADS: Active Directory Service
Windows 2000 network objects database that stores each AEI: Application Enabling Interface
specific network item in a central database and that may be AES: Advanced Encryption Standard
replicated (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Security)
ADS: Advanced Digital System AESA: Atm End System Address
ADS: Application Development Solutions (Communication)
(AT&T)
AF: Assured Forwarding
ADS: Application Development System Using AF, a provider may offer different levels of service for
IP packets received from a customer domain. Each AF class
ADS: Automatic Distribution System
is allocated a specified amount of buffer space and bandwidth
ADS/O: Application Development System / (Network)
Online AFA: Accelerated File Access
ADSC: Adobe Document Structuring AFAIC: As Far As I'm Concerned
Conventions (Net lingo)
ADSI: Active Directory Service Interface AFAICT: As Far As I Can Tell
(Network)
(Net lingo)
ADSI: Analog Display Services Interface AFAIK: As Far As I Know
ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (Net lingo)
Communication infrastructure (Communication)
AFAIR: As Far As I Remember
ADSM: Adstar Distributed Storage Manager (Net lingo)
(Databases) (IBM)
AFAIUI: As Far As I Understand It
ADSM: Advanced Data Storage Management (Net lingo)
(IBM)
AFC: AntiFerromagnetically-Coupled
ADSP: Appletalk DataStream Protocol Multilayer coating expected to permit hard-disk drives to
(Apple) store 100 billion bits (gigabits) of data per square inch of
disk area (Hardware) (IBM)
ADSR: Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release
AFC: Application Foundation Classes
ADT: Abstract Data Type
(Software) (Microsoft)
ADT: Access Developer Toolkit
AFC: Automatic Font Change
AFC: Automatic Frequency Control
ADT: Advanced Dram Technology
(Hardware) AFD: Automatic File Distribution
ADT: Application Data Type AFDW: Active Framework for Data
Warehousing
ADT: Atlantic Daylight Time (Microsoft)
Timezone: GMT -4:00
AFFS: Amiga Fast File System
ADTG: Advanced Data Table Gram
(Operating systems)
Proprietary binary format for storing database data
(Databases) (Microsoft) AFI: Authority and Format Identifier
ADU: Automatic Dialing Unit AFII: Association for Font Information
Interchange
ADUC: Active Directory Users and Computers
A snap-in in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) AFIRM: Automated Fingerprint Image
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) Reporting and Match
ADW: Advanced Docking Window AFIS: Automated Fingerprint Identification
(Software) System
ADW: Application Development Workbench AFK: Away From Keyboard
(Software) (Net lingo)
AE: Above or Equal AFLCD: AntiFerroelectric Liquid Crystal Display

(Hardware)
AeA: America Electronics Association
(Organizations) AFM: Adobe Font Metrics
File name extension (Adobe)
AEB: Analog Expansion Bus
(Dialogic) AFP: Advanced Function Presentation
(IBM)

AFP ALG
AFP: Advanced Function Printing AIM: Aol Instant Messenger

Suite of electronic printing solutions to turn your invoices,
letters, policies, statements and reports into high-quality,
AIM: Application Integration Module A
cost-effective documents (Software) (IBM) AIM: Application Interface Module
AFP: Appletalk Filing Protocol AIN: Advanced Intelligent Network
(Communication) (Apple)
AIO: All In One
AFPL: Alladin Free Public License AIP: Application Infrastructure Provider
AFR: Alternate Frame Rendering AIP: Asp Infrastructure Provider
(Hardware)
AIR: Architecture Implementation Review
AFR: Annualized Failure Rate
(Hardware) AIS: Alarm Indication Signal
AFS: Andrew File System AIS: Automated Information System
AFT: Adapter Fault Tolerance AISB: Association of Imaging Service Bureaus

(Intel) AISI: As I See It
(Net lingo)
AFT: Authenticated Firewall Traversal
(Security) AISP: Association of Information Systems
Professionals
AFTP: Anonymous File Transfer Protocol
AGA: Advanced Graphics Adapter AIT: Advanced Intelligent Tape
(Hardware)
AGA: Advanced Graphics Architecture
AIX: Advanced Interactive eXecutive
Graphics architecture for Amiga computers
IBM's Unix (Operating systems) (IBM)
AGARAS: AntiGlare AntiReflective AntiStatic
AJAX: Asynchronous Javascript Technology
AGC: Automatic Gain Control and Xml
(Hardware) Using JavaScript technology, an HTML page can
AGE: Amorphium Graphics Engine asynchronously make calls to the server from which it was
loaded and fetch XML documents. The XML documents may
AGLR: Anti-Glare, Low Reflection then be used by the JavaScript technology to update or
(Hardware) modify the DOM of the HTML page (Software)
AGP: Accelerated Graphics Port AJDT: AspectJ Development Tools
(Hardware) Provides Eclipse platform based tool support for Aspect
Oriented Software Development (AOSD) with AspectJ. See
AGU: Address Generation Unit
http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/ (Software)
Ah: Ampere Hour aka: Also Known As
Rechargable battery charge measurement unit (Hardware)
(Net lingo)
AH: Authentication Header
ALAT: Advanced Load Address Table
(Network)
ALB: Advanced Load Balancing
AHA: Adaptec Host Adapter
(Hardware) (Adaptec) ALC: Airline Link Control
Service protocol (Network)
AHDL: Analog Hardware Description Language
ALC: Application Load Certificate
AHDT: Alaska-Hawaii Daylight Time
Timezone: GMT -10:00 ALC: Arithmetic and Logic Circuits
AHIG: Apple's Human Interface Guidelines ALC: Automatic Level Control

(Software) (Apple) ALDC: Adaptive Lossless Data Compression
AHS: Abstract Handle Specification (IBM)
AHST: Alaska-Hawaii Standard Time ALE: Account Level Equivalence

Timezone: GMT -10:00 ALE: Address Latch Enable
AI: Analog Input ALE: Application Launch and Embedding
AI: Artificial Intelligence (Software)
AIA: Applications Integration Architecture ALE: Application Linking Enabling

(DEC) ALEC: Alternative Local Exchange Carrier
AIC: Aixwindows Interface Composer (Communication)
(IBM) ALEP: Advanced Language Engineering
AID: Application IDentifier Platform
AIFF: Audio Interchange File Format ALG: Application Layer Gateway

(Apple) Used in conjuction with Network Address Translation (NAT)
to allow IP address translation (Network)
AIIM: Association for Information and Image
Management

ALGOL AOT
ALGOL: ALGOrithmic Language AMPS: Advanced Mobile Phone System

Programming language (Software) (Communication)
A
ALIBI: Adaptive Location of Internetworked AMQRS: Audio Master Quality Recording System
Bases of Information (Hardware)
ALICE: Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer AMR: Adaptive Multi-Rate

Entity Audio Codec. GSM/AMR is an audio standard widely used for
audio in GPRS and W-CDMA networks (Communication)
ALINK: Active LINK
ALIWEB: Archie Like Indexing in the WEB AMR: Audio Modem Riser
Slot for an internal modem (Hardware)
ALM: Application Lifecylcle Management
(Software) AMS: Advanced Microcomputer System
(Hardware) (Siemens-Nixdorf)
ALM: Asynchronous Line Multiplexer
A device that connects multiple terminals or other serial Amstrad: Alan Michael Sugar TRADing
interface devices to Sun network file servers or workstations. Eurpean based company that built the first sub $1000 IBM
Also known as "multiple terminal interface." compatible PCs in the mid 1980's
ALN: Asynchronous Learning Network ANDF: Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format
ALP: Apple List Price ANI: ANImated cursor

Recommended retail price for Apple Macintosh equipment File name extension (Microsoft)
(Hardware) (Apple) ANI: Automatic Number Identification
ALP: Automatic Language Processing ANN: ANNotations
ALR: Advanced Logic Research File name extension (IBM)
ALSA: Architectures of Large Systems of ANN: Artificial Neural Network

Agents ANS: Advanced Networking Services
ALT: ALTernate (Network)
ALU: Arithmetic Logic Unit ANS: American National Standard

Device in a CPU performing arithmetic operations (Hardware) ANSI: American National Standard Institute
AM: Amplitude Modulation An organization that reviews and approves product standards
in the United States. (Organizations)
AMA: Automatic Message Accounting
ANT: Advanced Network Tools
AMASS: Archival Management And Storage
System ANT: Another Neat Tool
Manufacturer Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like
make without make's wrinkles. See
AMD: Active Matrix Display http://jakarta.apache.org/ant (Software)
AMD: Advanced Micro Devices ANX: Automotive Network eXchange
CPU Manufacturer (AMD)
AO: Analog Output
AME: Advanced Metal Evaporation
AO/DI: Always On/Dynamic Isdn
Recording media technology (Hardware)
AOCE: Apple Open Collaborative Environment
AMG: All Music Guide
(Apple)
AMHA: Advanced Macro Heuristic Analysis
(Dr. Solomon)
AOCN: Administrative Operating Company
Number
AMHIK: Ask Me How I Know (Communication)
(Net lingo)
AOE: Application Operating Environment
AMI: Alternate Mark Inversion (AT&T)
AMI: American Megatrends, Inc. AOL: Alert On Lan
AMI: Application Messaging Interface (Network)
AML: Acpi Machine Language AOL: America OnLine

(Network)
AMLCD: Active-Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
(Hardware) AOP: Aspect-Oriented Programming
(Software)
AMMA: Advanced Memory Management
Architecture AOP: Association of Online Professionals
(Organizations)
AMP: Asymmetric MultiProcessing
System architecture that uses different types of processors AOS: Add Or Subtract
in a multi-processor system (Hardware)
AOSD: Aspect-Oriented Software Development
AMP: Attached Media Processor (Software)
(Hardware)
AOT: Ahead Of Time
Programs compilation technique (Software)

AOW AQ
AOW: Asia and Oceania Workshop APP: Applecare Protection Plan

One of the three regional OSI implementors workshops. Extended warranty (Apple)
A
AP: Access Point APP: APPlication
(Hardware) File name extension
AP: Access Provider APPC: Advanced Program to Program

(Communication) Communication
AP: Application Processor APPCM: Access Protection and Priority Control
Mechanism
AP: Application Protocol
(Software) APPEL: A P3p Preference Exchange Language
APA: Adaptive Packet Assembly APPI: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking
(Network)
APA: All Points Addressable
APPN: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking
APA: Arithmetic Processing Accelerator
(Network) (IBM)
APAR: Authorized Program Analysis Report
APR: Advanced Port Replicator
(IBM)
(Hardware)
APC: American Power Conversion
APR: Apache Portable Runtime
APCUG: Association of Personal Computer User Its mission is to provide a free library of C data structures
Groups and routines, forming a system portability layer to as many
operating systems as possible, including Unices, MS Win32,
APCVG: Association of Personal Computer
BeOS and OS/2 (Software)
Users Group
(Organizations) APRP: Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing
APDU: Application Protocol Data Unit APS: Active Pixel Sensor
APE: Application Performance Explorer APS: Advanced Photo System
(Software) (Microsoft) APS: Advanced Printing Service
APF: Apple Filing Protocol (IBM)
(Apple) APS: Analog Protection System
APF: Automated Purposing Framework APS: Asynchronous Protocol Specification
Collection of scripts and utilities that enable you to
consistently and reliably prepare computer hardware (BIOS, APS: Automatic Protection Switching
mass storage) and install the Windows operating system and A mean for automatically detecting and signalling a
layered products on one or more build computers (Microsoft) transmission link failure (Communication)
API: Application Programming Interface APSE: Ada Programming Support Environment

A set of calling conventions defining how a service is invoked (Software)
through a software package. (Software) APSL: Apple Public Source License
APIC: Advanced Programmable Interrupt Software license (Apple)
Controller APSO: Audio Precision System One
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
APIPA: Automatic Private Internet Protocol APT: Address Pass Through
Addressing
(Network) APT: Advanced Package Tool
Software download/installation tool for Debian GNU/Linux
APIS: Advanced Passenger Information System (Operating systems)
APL: A Programming Language APT: Advanced Parallel Technology
(Software)
APT: Automatically Programmed Tools
APL: Applied Physics Laboratory
Advanced research facility in Skaggsville, MD.
APTC: Authorized Prometric Testing Center
Sylvan Prometric is a division of Sylvan Learning Systems. It
APL: Average Picture Level is the global leader in computer-based testing for academic
Monitor quality parameter (Hardware) assessment, professional licensure, and certification.
APLSF: A Programming Language with Shared APTM: Application Program to Transaction
Files Manager
APM: Advanced Power Management APU: Audio Processing Unit
APM: Application Performance Management (Hardware)
APN: Access Point Name APWG: Anti Phishing Working Group

Used on GPRS as access information (Communication) See http://www.antiphishing.org/ (Organizations)
APNIC: Asia-Pacific Network Information AQ: Advanced Queueing

Center (Databases) (Oracle)
APOP: Authenticated Post Office Protocol

AR ASCB
AR: Access Rate ARPANET: Advanced Research Projects Agency

A The data rate of the user access channel. The rate NETwork
(maximum) at which access devices can offer data to the A packet switched network developed in the early 1970s.
frame relay network (Communication) The "grandfather" of today's Internet. ARPANET was
decommissioned in June 1990.
AR: Application Requester
(IBM) ARPL: Adjust Requested Privilege Level
ARA: Appletalk Remote Access ARQ: Automatic Repeat reQuest
(Communication) (Apple) (Communication)
ARAG: AntiReflective, AntiGlare ARS: Activity Reporting System

ARAP: Appletalk Remote Access Protocol ART: Adaptive Resonance Theory
ARAS: AntiReflective, AntiStatic ART: Average Response Time
ARB: Architecture Review Board ARTA: Apple Real Time Architecture
ARC: Advanced Risc Computer ARTIC: A Real-Time Interface Coprocessor
(Hardware) (IBM)
ARC: ARChive ARTS: Asynchronous Remote Takeover Server

File name extension ARTT: Asynchronous Remote Takeover
ARCA: Advanced Risc Computing Architecture Terminal
ARCnet: Attached Resource Computer NETwork ARU: Audio Response Unit
AREQIPA: Application REQuested Internet ARX: Autocad Runtime eXtensions
Protocol over Atm (Software) (Autodesk)
(Network) AS: Advanced Server
ARF: Abort, Retry, Fail AS: Application Server
ARIN: American Registry for Internet Numbers (IBM)
(Organizations) AS: Authentication Service
ARIS: Architecture of Integrated Information AS: Autonomous System
Systems
A self-connected set of networks that are generally operated
ARIS: Attack Registry & Intelligence Service within the same administrative domain (Network)
(Security) AS/400: Application System/400
ARL: Access Rights List (IBM)
ARL: Adjusted Ring Length AS/U: Advanced Server for Unix

ARLL: Advanced Run Length Limited AS3AP: Ansi Sql Standard Scalable And
Portable
ARM: Advanced Risc Machine
Database benchmark (Databases)
ARM: Annotated Reference Manual
ASA: Active Server Application
ARM: Application Response Measurement (Network) (Microsoft)
(Network)
ASA: American Standards Association
ARM: Asynchronous Response Mode
ASA: Architectures of Systems of Agents
HDLC data transfer mode (Network)
ASAI: Adjunct Switch Application Interface
ARMA: Association of Records Managers and
(AT&T)
Administrators
ASAP: As Soon As Possible
ARMS: Architecture for Reliable Managed
(Net lingo)
Storage
ASAP: Automatic Switching And Processing
ARO: Adaptec Raidport Option
(Hardware) (Adaptec) ASB: Advanced System Buffering
(Hardware) (Intel)
AROM: Alterable Read Only Memory
ASC: Accredited Standards Committee
ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
The Internet protocol used to dynamically map Internet ASC: ASCii text
addresses to physical (hardware) addresses on local area File name extension
networks. Limited to networks that support hardware
broadcast. (Network)
ASC: Authorized Support Centers
ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency ASC: Autonomous System Confederation

(Network)
Now called Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA), the U.S. government agency that funded the ASCB: Address Space Control Block
ARPANET. (Organizations) Used in IBM Mainframe OS's Multiple Virtual Storage
(MVS) - z/OS (Operating systems) (IBM)

ASCC AST
ASCC: Automatic Sequence Controlled ASM: ASseMbler

Calculator File name extension
A
(IBM)
ASM: Automatic Storage Management
ASCI: Accelerated Strategic Computing Oracle 10g database feature that provides the database
Initiative administrator with a simple storage management interface
that is consistent across all server and storage platforms
ASCII: American Standard Code for (Databases) (Oracle)
Information Interchange
The standard binary encoding of alphabetical characters, ASMP: ASymmetric MultiProcessing
numbers, and other keyboard symbols (7 bit character code.) System architecture that uses different types of processors
in a multi-processor system (Hardware)
ASD: Application Structure Database
(Microsoft) ASN: Abstract Syntax Notation
The International Organization for Standardization's open
ASD: Automatic Skip Driver systems interconnection (OSI) language for describing
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) abstract syntax.
ASDSP: Application-Specific Digital Signal ASN: Autonomous System Number
Processor
ASO: Automated Systems Operations
ASE: Active Storage Element
ASOG: Access Service Ordering Guideline
ASE: Adaptive Server Enterprise
(Databases) (Sybase)
ASP: Active Server Pages
Dynamic web pages engine (Software) (Microsoft)
ASE: Alladin Smartcard Environment
ASP: Advanced Signal Processing
ASET: Automated Security Enhancement Tool
ASP: Appletalk Session Protocol
A tool that allows a user to specify an overall system
security level (low, medium, or high) and automatically ASP: Application Service Provider
maintain systems at those levels. (Software)
ASF: Active Streaming Format ASP: Association of Shareware Professionals
(Microsoft) (Organizations)
ASF: Advanced Streaming Format ASP: Authorized Service Provider
ASF: Apache Software Foundation ASP: Auxiliary Storage Pool
(Organizations) (IBM)
ASF: Applied Science Fiction ASP: Average Selling (or Street) Price
Manufacturer (ASF)
ASPEN: Automatic System for Performance
ASI: Asynchronous Scsi Interface Evaluation of the Network
ASI: Automatic System Installation ASPI: Advanced Scsi Programming Interface
ASIC: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit ASPN: ActiveState Programmer Network
A gate array or other non-standard chip design for (Software)
proprietary use. (Hardware)
ASPS: Advanced Signal Processing System
ASID: Address Space IDentifier
ASPX: Active Server Pages eXtended
ASIT: Advanced Security and Identification Dynamic web pages engine for the Microsoft .NET framework
Technology (Software) (Microsoft)
ASK: Amplitude Shift Keying ASQ: Automated Software Quality
ASL: Acpi Source Language (Software)
ASL: Adaptive Speed Leveling ASR: Access Service Request

ASL: Age? Sex? Location? ASR: Address Space Register
Used to get to know people better (Net lingo) ASR: Arithmetic Shift Right
ASL: Apache Software License (Software)
ASL: Arithmetic Shift Left ASR: Automatic Send-Receive

(Software) (Communication)
ASLB: Accelerated Server Load Balancing ASR: Automatic Server Recovery

(Operating systems)
ASLM: Apple Shared Library Manager
(Apple) ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition
ASLT: Advanced Solid Logic Technology ASR: Automatic System Recovery
ASM: Advanced Server Manager AST: AST research, inc.
(Operating systems) (Acer) Company named from first initials of the founders: Albert
Wong, Safi Qureshey, Thomas Yuen
ASM: Advanced System Management
(IBM) AST: Atlantic Standard Time
Timezone: GMT -4:00

ASTRAL ATVEF
ASTRAL: Alliance for Strategic Token Ring ATLAS: Authorization Token Layer Acquisition
A Advancement and Leadership Service
Describes the service needed to acquire authorization tokens
ASV: Advanced Super View
to access a target system using the CSIv2 protocol. This
LCD display technology (Hardware)
design defines a single interface with which a client acquires
ASVD: Analog Simultaneous Voice & Data an authorization token
(Communication) ATM: Adobe Type Manager
ASX: Asf Stream Redirector (Software) (Adobe)
File format (Microsoft) ATM: Air Traffic Management
ASYNC: ASYNchronous Communication ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Communication protocol (Communication) A standard for switching and routing all types of digital
AT: Advanced Technology information, including video, voice, and data. With ATM,
an IBM personal computer. Also a motherboard's form factor digital information is broken up into standard-sized packets,
each with the "address" of its final destination.
(IBM)
(Communication)
AT: ATtention
Modem command prefix. Defined by the modem command set
ATM: At The Moment
(Net lingo)
developed by the Hayes company for use on its modems and
now used on most modems (Communication) ATM: Automatic Teller Machine
AT: Azores Time ATMS: Assumption based Truth Maintenance
Timezone: GMT -2:00 System
AT&T: American Telephone And Telegraph ATN: Australian Technology Network
ATA: Advanced Technology Attachment ATOB: Ascii TO Binary
Peripheral bus architecture (Hardware)
ATOMM: Advanced super Thinlayer and high-
ATAG: Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Output Metal Media
W3C recommendation that explains how to develop authoring
ATP: Appletalk Transaction Protocol
tools that make it easier to produce accessible Web pages
that conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (Communication) (Apple)
(WCAG) ATP: Application Transaction Program
ATAPI: Advanced Technology Attachment ATP: Available To Promise
Packet Interface
ATP2: AppleTalk Phase 2
(Hardware)
ATPS: AppleTalk Printing Services
ATC: Address Translation Controller
(Apple)
ATC: Advanced Transfer Cache
ATR: Advanced Telecommunication Research
(Hardware)
(Organizations)
ATDM: Asynchronous Time Division Multiplexer
ATR: Answer To Reset
ATDNet: Advanced Technology Demonstration
ATR: Automatic Terminal Recognition
NETwork
(Network) ATRAC: Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding
Audio compression algorithm, introduced by Sony for its Mini
ATE: Asynchronous Terminal Emulation
Disk, which relies on the masking of low-amplitude frequency
ATE: Atm Terminating Equipment components by temporaly adjacent high-amplitude
components (Sony)
ATE: Automatic Test Equipment
ATS: Abstract Test Suite
ATEC: Authorized Technical Education Center
(Communication)
(Microsoft)
ATS: Administrative Terminal System
ATF: Automated Test Facility
ATS: Apple Terminal Services
ATG: Advanced Technology Group
ATTN: ATTeNtion
ATI: Allied Telesyn International
Networking hardware manufacturer (Hardware) ATU: Adsl Transceiver Unit
Commonly referred to as a DSL "modem" (Hardware)
ATIP: Absolute Time In Pregroove
ATU-C: Adsl Transceiver Unit - Central
ATIS: Alliance for Telecommunication Industry
In a DSL loop, the line card plugged into the DSLAM
Solutions
(Hardware)
Sett http://www.atis.org/ (Organizations)
ATU-R: Adsl Transceiver Unit - Remote
ATL: Active Template Library
Commonly referred to as a DSL "modem" (Hardware)
(Microsoft)
ATVEF: Advanced TeleVision Enhancement
ATL: Adaptive Threshold Learning Forum
ATL: Automated Tape Library (Organizations)
(Hardware)

ATX BAK
ATX: Advanced Technology eXtended AWAC: Audio Waveform Amplifier and

Motherboard format (Hardware) (Intel) Converter A
AU: AUdio AWC: Advanced Web Creations
File name extension
AWD: Access Workflow Designer B
AUC: AUthentication Center Organize and track information (Microsoft)
AUDIT: AUtomated Data Input Terminal AWDE: Artus Wireless Data Enhancer
(Communication) (Nokia)
AUI: Attachment Unit Interface
AWE: Address Windowing Extensions
AUI: Audible User Interface
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
AUP: Acceptable User Policy
AWE: Advanced Wave Effects
AUT: Application Under Test (Creative Labs)
AUTODIN: AUTOmatic DIgital Network AWG: American Wire Gauge
AUTOVON: AUTOmatic VOice Network AWK: Aho, Weinberger and Kernighan
AUX: Apple UniX Unix language named after its authors: Al Aho, Peter
Weinberger and Brian Kernighan
AUX: AUXiliary
AWS: Advanced Workstations and Systems
AV: Access Violation (IBM)
(Software)
AWT: Abstract Windows Toolkit
AV: Anti Virus
(Software) (Sun)
AV: Audio Video
AX: Architecture eXtended
AV: Authenticity Verification
AXI: American eXpress Interactive
AVA: Audio Visual Authoring
(IBM) B
AVA: Avaya Certified Associate b: Bit
AVATAR: Advanced Video Attribute Terminal B: Byte
Assembler and Recreator
B&W: Black & White
AVC: Advanced Visual Computing
(SGI)
B/F: Background/Foreground
AVC: Audio Visual Connection B2B: Business to Business

(IBM) B2C: Business To Customer
AVD: Alternating Voice and Data B2E: Business To Employee
AVE: Autocad Visualization Extension B2G: Business to Government
AVG: AVeraGe E-commerce model
AVGA: Advanced Video Graphic Array B2X: Binary To heXadecimal

(IBM)
AVI: Audio Video Interleaved
File Format
B8ZS: Binary 8 Zero Substitution
Replaces strings of zeroes by pattern with pulses
AVK: Application Verification Kit (Communication)
Tool intended to help developers test their applications for
correct use of J2EE APIs and portability across J2EE
BA: Bell Atlantic
compatible application servers, and to help developers avoid BA: Brokering Agent
inadvertently writing non-portable code (Software) (Sun)
BACP: Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol
AVP: Attribute-Value Pair (Communication)
AVR: Automatic Voice Recognition BAD: Broken As Designed
AVR: Automatic Voltage Regulation BAFUG: Bay Area Freebsd Users Group
(Hardware) (Organizations)
AVS: Adult Verification Service BAI: Bank Administration Institute
AVT: Applied Voice Technology File / report format used in financial services industry
(Software)
AVT: Attribute Value Template
(Software) BAID: Bios Aware Ipl Device
(Hardware)
AVTK: Anti Virus ToolKit
(Software) BAK: BAcKup
File name extension
AVVID: Architecture for Voice, Video and
Integrated Data BAK: Binary Adaptation Kit
(Communication) (Cisco) (Microsoft)

BAKOM BCSP
BAKOM: BundesAmt für KOMmunikation BC4J: Business Components For Java

Swiss regulatory Organisation (Organizations) Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework that
helps developers quickly construct high-performance J2EE
BAL: Basic Assembly Language applications following industry-standard design patterns
B BALUN: BALanced UNbalanced (Software) (Oracle)
BAM: Bidirectional Associative Memory BCA: BroadCast Agent

Business Objects broadcast agent. See also
BAM: Boyan Action Module http://www.businessobjects.com/products/bca/ (Software)
BAP: Bandwidth Allocation Protocol
BCC: Blind Carbon Copy
BAPI: Business Application Programming
BCC: Block Check Character
Interface
In longitudinal redundancy checking and cyclic redundancy
(Software)
checking, a character transmitted by the sender after each
BAR: Base Address Register message block and compared with a block-check character
computed by the receiver to determine if the transmission
BARB: Board ARBiter was successful.
Part of the bus arbitration system (Hardware) (Sun)
BCD: Binary-Coded Decimal
BARRNET: Bay Area Regional Research NETwork Character encoding scheme
BART: Basic Application RunTime BCDBS: Broadband Connectionless Data Bearer
BARTS: Bell Atlantic Regional TimeSharing Service
BAS: BASic BCDIC: Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
File name extension BCEL: Byte Code Engineering Library
BAS: Borland AppServer Library intended to give users a convenient possibility to
(Borland) analyze, create, and manipulate (binary) Java class files
(Software)
BASDA: Business and Accounting Software
Developers Association BCF: Base station Control Function
(Organizations) BCF: Busy Call Forwarding
BASH: Bourne Again SHell BCL: Base Class Library
BASIC: Beginners All-purpose Symbolic (Software) (Microsoft)
Instruction Code BCL: Batch Command Language
Programming language (Software)
BCN: Backbone Concentrator Node
BASM: Built-in ASseMbler
BCNF: Boyce/Codd Normal Form
BAT: Baby Advanced Technology
BCNU: Be Seeing You
A type of system board (Hardware)
(Net lingo)
BAT: BATch
BCP: Basic Call Process
File name extension
BCP: Best Current Practice
BAT: Block Address Translation
BCP: Binary Communications Protocol
BAWUG: Bay Area Wireless Users Group
(Organizations) BCP: Bridging Control Protocol
BB: BridgeBoard BCP: Bulk Copy Program
BBB: Better Business Bureau BCP: Byte Control Protocol
(Organizations) (Communication)
BBB: Bit By Bit BCPL: Basic Computer Programming Language

BBIALB: Be Back In A Little Bit BCR: Best Cost Routing
(Net lingo) (Communication)
BBL: Be Back Later BCR: Byte Count Register

BBLT: Bus BLock Transfer BCRC: Business Component Request Center
(Software)
BBR: Back Bone Ring
BCS: Banking Communication Standard
BBS: Be Back Soon
(Net lingo) BCS: Bar Code Sorter
BBS: Bios Boot Specification BCS: Basic Catalog Structure
(Hardware) (Operating systems) (IBM)
BBS: Bulletin Board System BCS: Binary Compatibility Standard

(Communication) BCS: British Computer Society
BC: Base Code BCSM: Basic Call Sate Model
BC: Business Component BCSP: BlueCore Serial Protocol
(Software) Host controller interface (HCI) procotol (Communication)

BCU BIF
BCU: Bios Configuration Utility BEV: Boot Entry Vector

A field in the Plug and Play (PnP) Header of a device with an
BCU: Bus Controller Unit
associated option ROM. Preboot eXecution Environment
BCV: Boot Connection Vector (PXE) is implemented as a BEV option ROM (Hardware)
A field in the Plug and Play (PnP) header for a device with an
BF: Bad Flag B
associated option ROM (Hardware)
BFC: BrieFCase
BD: Blu-ray Disc
Filename extension (Software) (Microsoft)
Name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly
developed by thirteen leading consumer electronics and pc BFE: Bum F*** Egypt
companies (Hardware) A remote unknown location (Net lingo)
BDA: Bios Data Area BFF: Binary File Format
BDB: Berkeley DataBase (IBM)
(Databases) BFN: Bye For Now
BDC: Backup Domain Controller (Net lingo)
Secondary to the PDC, provides user/computer domain BFRS: Base File Record Segment
authentication (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
BFS: Business Forecasting Software
BDE: Borland Database Engine
(Databases) (Borland)
BFT: Binary File Transfer
BDF: Bitmap Description Format BFTP: Batch File Transfer Protocol

BGA: Ball-Grid Array
BDK: Bean Development Kit
Integrated circuit (IC) packaging that uses half-spherical
(Software) (Sun)
contacts versus pins (Hardware)
BDLC: Burroughs Data Link Control
BGAN: Broadband Global Area Network
BDLS: BiDirectional Loop Switching (Network)
BDM: Background Debug Mode BGE: Branch if Greater or Equal
(Hardware)
BGI: Borland Graphics Interface
BDOS: Basic Disk Operating System File name extension
(Operating systems)
BGP: Border Gateway Protocol
BDR: Bus Device Request An Internet routing protocol used to pass routing information
between different administrative routing domains or
BDSL: Broadband Digital Subscriber Line
Autonomous Systems. BGP does not pass explicit topology
(Communication)
information and is often used between Internet service
BE: Below or Equal providers (Network)
BECN: Backward Explicit Congestion BGT: Branch if Greater Than

Notification BHI: Branch if HIgher
A bit sent by a frame relay network to notify an interface
device (DTE) that congestion avoidance procedures should BHIS: Branch if HIgher or Same
be initiated by the sending device (Communication) BHLI: Broadband High Layer Information
BEDO: Burst Data Extended Output BHO: Browser Helper Object
(Hardware) (Software) (Microsoft)
BEEP: Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol BI: Binary Input
BEL: BELl BI: Business Intelligence
Control character
BIA: Burned-In Address
BELLCORE: BELL COmmunications REsearch A.k.a. MAC Address; unique identifier coded into every NIC
BER: Basic Encoding Rules (Network)
Standard rules for encoding data units described in ASN.1. BIAB: Band-In-A-Box
Sometimes incorrectly lumped under the term ASN.1, which
properly refers only to the abstract syntax description BIB: Back In Business
language, not the encoding technique. Usually said after saying BRB (Be Right Back) to say that
you're back (Net lingo)
BER: Bit Error Rate
(Communication) BIB: BIBliography
File name extension
BERT: Bit Error Rate Test
(Communication) BICI: Broadband InterCarrier Interface
BEST: Borland Enhanced Support and Training BiDi: BIDIrectional
BET: Bit Enhancement Technology BIDS: Borland International Data Structures

(Hardware) BIF: Benchmark Interchange Format
In computer graphics, a standardized file structure for
specifying the geometry of a particular data set from a
particular application as well as the user interactions to be
performed.

BIFET BLT
BIFET: BIpolar Field Effect Transistor BITNET: Because It's Time NETwork
Academic computer network based originally on IBM
BIFF: Binary Interchange File Format
mainframe systems interconnected via leased 9600 bps
BIFS: BInary Format for Scenes lines.
B BIG: Business Information Guide BITNIC: BITnet Network Information Center
Data warehousing (Databases)
BITS: Background Intelligent Transfer Service
BIM: Beginning of Information Marker Enables developers to write client applications that transfer
files asynchronously between a client and server. BITS
BIM: Broadband Interface Module
automatically resumes file transfers after network
BIN: BINary disconnects and machine reboots (Operating systems)
File name extension (Microsoft)
BINAC: BINary Automatic Computer BITS: Bump-In-The-Stack

Configuration where IPsec is implemented "underneath" an
BIND: Berkeley Internet Name Daemon
existing implementation of an IP protocol stack, between the
(Network)
native IP and the local network drivers. This approach, when
BINHEX: BINary HEXadecimal it is adopted, is usually employed in hosts (Network)
BINL: Boot Information Negotiation Layer BITW: Bump-In-The-Wire

(Operating systems) Configuration where IPsec is implemented through the use of
an outboard crypto processor. Such implementations may be
BIOML: BIOpolymer Markup Language designed to serve either a host or a gateway (or both)
XML language designed to be used for the annotation of (Network)
biopolymer sequence information. BIOML allows the full
specification of all experimental information known about
BIU: Bus Interface Unit
molecular entities composed of biopolymers, for example, (Hardware)
proteins and genes BIW: Business Intelligence Warehouse
BIOS: Basic Input/Output System BIX: Byte Information eXchange
The program a personal computer's microprocessor uses to Byte's bulletin board system
get the computer system started after you turn it on
BJ: Bubble Jet
BIP: Bit Interleaved Parity
(Hardware) (Canon)
BIPM: Bureau International des Poids et des BJC: Bubble Jet Color
Mesures
(Hardware) (Canon)
(Organizations)
BKM: Best Known Method
BIPS: Bank Internet Payment System
Based on previous experience, the prefered method for
The BIPS specification includes a protocol for sending completing a task
payment instructions to banks safely over the Internet and a
payment server architecture for processing those payment BKSP: BacKSPace
instructions
BL: BackLit
BIPV: Bit Interleaved Parity Violation BL: Bit Line
BIRT: Business Intelligence and Reporting
BLAST: BLocked ASynchronous Transmission
Tools
Protocol
Open source, Eclipse-based reporting system that integrates
with your application to produce compelling reports for both BLE: Branch if Less or Equal
web and PDF. See also http://www.eclipse.org/birt/ (Software)
BLER: BLock ERror
BIS: Boot Integrity Service BLERT: BLock Error Rate Test
BIS: Business Information System (Communication)
BISDN: Broadband Integrated Services Digital BLISS: Broadband Local Integrated Services
Network Solution
(Communication) Allows service providers to offer a bundle of packet-based
services including local and long distance voice services and
BISP: Business Information System Program
high-speed data (Network) (Cisco)
BISSI: Broadband Inter-Switching System
BLK: BLocK
Interface
BLL: Business Logic Layer
BIST: Built-In Self Test
BLLI: Broadband Low Layer Information
BISYNC: BInary SYNchronous Communications
BLMC: Buried Logic MacroCell
BIT: Binary digIT
BLOB: Binary Large OBject
BitBLT: BIT BLock Transfer
(Databases)
A raster operation that moves a block of bits representing
some portion of an image or scene from one location in the BLOG: weB LOG
frame buffer to another.
BLOS: Branch if LOwer Or Same
BLT: Baghdad Local Time
Timezone: GMT +3:00

BLT BPEL4WS
BLT: BLock Transfer BOF: Bird Of a Feather

Small conference
BMI: Branch if MInus
BMIC: BusMaster Interface Controller BoF: Buffer OverFlow
(Security)
(Intel) B
BML: Bean Markup Language BOFH: Bastard Operator From Hell
A system administrator or technician with very little patience
BML: Business Management Layer who frequently does evil things to users (Net lingo)
BMOS: Bipolar Metal Oxide Semiconductor BOGOF: Buy One Get One Free
BMP: Basic Multilingual Plane Denotes cheap stuff that usually comes in bundled or
First 16-bit subset of the universal character set (UCS). packaged form; connotation is "low quality" (Net lingo)
Also known as Plane 0 BOHICA: Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
BMP: Batch Message Processing (Net lingo)
BMP: Bean-Managed Persistence BOI: Business Object Interface

(Software) (Software)
BMP: BitMaP BOL: Books OnLine

File Format for bitmapped images (Microsoft)
BMR: Ballistic Magneto-Resistive BOM: Basic Online Memory

Hard disk head technology (Hardware) (IBM)
BMS: Basic Mapping Support BOM: Beginning Of Message

BMS: Broadcast Message Server BOM: Byte Order Mark
BMUG: Berkeley Macintosh User Group BOND: Bandwidth ON Demand
BN: Backbone Network BONE: BeOs Networking Environment
Large network to which many networks within an organization (Operating systems)
are connected (Network) BONM: Business-Oriented Network Management
BNC: Bayonet Neill-Concelman BOOTP: BOOTstrap Protocol
Connector (Hardware) A legacy remote booting protocol developed originally for use
BNC: Bayonet Nut Connector with UNIX (Network)
(Hardware) BOP: Bit-Oriented Protocol
BNC: British Naval Connector (Communication)
Connector (Hardware) BOPS: Billion Operations Per Second
BNE: Branch if Not Equal BOPS: Billions of Processes Per Second
BNF: Backus Naur Form Processing speed (Hardware)
Syntax description for programming languages BOR: Business Objects Repository
BNP: Broadband Network Premises (Software)
BNS: Backbone Network Service BOS: Basic Operating System

(Network) BOT: Beginning Of Table
BNU: Basic Networking Utilities BOT: Beginning Of Tape
BO: Binary Output (Hardware)
BO: Business Object BOT: Build, Operate and Transfer

(Software) BOT: roBOT
BOA: Basic Object Adapter BP: BackPropagation
BoB: Break-Out Box BP: Base Pointer
BOC: Basic Operator Console Processor register (Hardware) (Intel)
BOC: Bell Operating Company BP: Business Planner

More commonly referred to as RBOC for "regional Bell (Software) (Microsoft)
operating company." The local telephone company in each of BPB: Bios Parameter Block
the seven U.S. regions.
BPCS: Business Planning and Control System
BOCA: Borland Object Component Architecture
An ERP/MRP program (Software)
BOCS: Business Object Component Set
BPDU: Bridge Protocol Data Unit
(Software)
BPEL: Business Process Execution Language
BOD: Bandwidth On Demand
(Software)
(Network)
BPEL4WS : Business Process Execution
BOF: Beginning Of File Language For Web Services
(Software)

BPF BSV
BPF: Berkeley Packet Filter BS: BullSh**

You say this when you think someone is lying (Net lingo)
bpi: Bits Per Inch
Recording Density BSA: Business Software Alliance
B BPI: Business Process Integration BSAM: Basic Sequential Access Method
BPL: Branch if Plus BSC: Base Station Controller
BPL: Broadband over Power Lines BSC: Binary Synchronous Communication
(Network) Communication protocol (Communication)
Bpl: Bytes Per Line BSC: Boyan SCript

File name extension
BPM: Business Procurement Management
(Software) BSC: Bus State Controller
(Hardware)
BPN: Business Partner Network
BPO: Business Process Outsourcer BSCM: Binary Synchronous Communications
Module
bpp: Bits Per Pixel
BSCS: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
BPR: Business-Process Reengineering
BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution
bps: Bits Per Second UNIX versions developed at the University of California at
Transfer speed (Communication) Berkeley. (Operating systems)
Bps: Bytes Per Second BSDS: BootStrap Data Set
Transfer speed (Communication)
BSF: Bean Scripting Framework
BPSK: Binary Phase-Shift Keying Architecture for incorporating scripting into Java applications
BPU: Branch Processing Unit and applets (Software)
BPV: BiPolar Violation BSF: Bit Scan Forward

T1 line code error with AMI encoding (Communication) BSI: Bentley Systems, Incorporated
BR: Bad Register BSI: BiSynchronous Interface
BRAN: Broadband Radio Access Networks (Network)
An ETSI project, it provides telecommunications services BSI: British Standards Institute
the middle ground between mobile systems and the wired
BSM: Basic Storage Module
access world. BRAN is working on radio systems to meet the
new requirements of the information age (Communication) (IBM)
BRB: Be Right Back BSML: Bioinformatic Sequence Markup

(Net lingo)
Language
BRD: Blue Ray Disk BSOD: Blue Screen Of Death

(Hardware) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
BRF: Benchmark Report Format BSP: Binary Space Partitioning

In computer graphics, a standard format for reporting BSP: Bulk Synchronous Parallelism
benchmark results. This format provides the purchaser with a
BSP: Business Service Provider
consistent data-tracking system for comparing hardware
platforms. BSR: Bit Scan Reverse
BRGC: Binary Reflected Gray Code BSRAM: Burst Static Random Access Memory
BRI: Basic Rate Interface (Hardware)
One of the standard ISDN interfaces defined by the CCITT BSS: Basic Service Set
protocols. BRI consists of two B channels (64 kbps) and one (Communication)
D channel (16 kbps). (Communication)
BSS: Block Started by Symbol
BRI: Brain Response Interface
BSS: Broadband Switching System
BRIEF: Basic Reconfigurable Interactive
Editing Facility BSS: Business Support System
Network management software to monitor performance and
BRS: Big Red Switch resources (Software)
BRT: Be Right There BSSID: Basic Service Set IDentifier
BRU: Backup/Restore Utility BSSMAP: Base Station System Management
(Software) Application Part
BS: BackSpace BST: Binary Search Tree
BS: Banded Signaling BST: British Summer Time
BS: Base Station Timezone: GMT +0:00
BSV: Boot Sector Virus

BSY CAE
BSY: BuSY BVH: Base Video Handler

BT: Bit Test BVO: Business Value Orientation
BT: Bus Terminator BVT: Behavioral Verification Technology
BTA: But Then Again
(IBM) B
(Net lingo) BVT: Build Verification Test
BTAM: Basic Tape Access Method BW: Bus Watcher C
Mechanism that converts XDBus signals to XBus signals and
BTAM: Basic Telecommunication Access Method
passes them to the Module XBus Cache Controller
(IBM)
(Hardware) (Sun)
BTB: Branch Target Buffer
BWA: Broadband Wireless Access
(Hardware)
(Communication)
BTC: Bit Test and Complement
BWBM: BandWidth Balancing Mechanism
BTI: Business Type Identifier BWM: Block-Write Mode
BTL: Bell Telephone Laboratories
BYOB: Bring Your Own Beer
BTLB: Block Translation Look-aside Buffer (Net lingo)
BTM: Benchmark Timing Methodology BYORL: Bring Your Own Rocket Launcher
In computer graphics, a method of measuring how long it (Net lingo)
takes to run the purchaser's benchmark interchange format
program.
BZR: Bit Zone Recording
BTO: Built To Order C

BTOA: Binary TO Ascii
C: C
BTP: Batch Transfer Program Programming language
BTR: "Bet The Ranch" C&T: Chips And Technologies
BTR: Bit Test and Reset C/D: Control Data
BTS: Base Transceiver Station C/S: Client/Server
BTS: Bit Test and Set C2D: Character To Decimal
BTSOOM: Beats The S**t Out Of Me (IBM)
(Net lingo) C2T: Cable Changing Technology
BTT: Back To the Top C2X: Character To heXadecimal
Used in an on-line discussion forum to bump a topic back to (IBM)
the top of the page where more people can see it (Net lingo)
CA: Certification Authority
BTU: Basic Transmission Unit
CA: Chromatic Aberration
BTU: British Thermal Unit
A unit of thermal energy
CA: Collision Avoidance
BTW: By The Way CAAD: Computer Aided Architectural Design

(Net lingo) CAB: CABinet
BTX: Balanced Technology eXtended
Motherboard form factor, designed to replace ATX (Hardware) CAB: Compressed Application Binary
(Microsoft)
BTX: BildschirmTeXt
BU: Bluetooth Unit CABS: Carrier Access Billing System
(Hardware) CAC: Connection Admission Control
BU: Branch Unit CACP: Central Arbitration Control Point
BU: Bulk Update CAD: Computer-Aided Design
Updating many rows in a table in a single operation Use of computer graphics technology to design electronic
(Databases) and mechanical parts and machinery.
BUBL: BUlletin Board for Libraries CAD: Custom Application Developer
BUF: BUFfer CADD: Computer-Aided Design and Drafting
BUI: BUs Interface CADE: Client/server Application Development
BURN: Buffer UnderRuN Environment
(Hardware) CADE: Computer-Aided Document Engineering
BUS: Broadcast and Unknown Server CAE: Client Application Enabler
(Network) CAE: Common Application Environment
BVCP: Banyan Vines Control Protocol CAE: Computer Aided Education

CAE CAT
CAE: Computer-Aided Engineering CAPE: Concurrent Art-to-Product Environment

CAEN: Chemically-Assembled Electronic CAPI: Common Application Programming
Nanocomputer Interface
(Hardware) (Communication)
CAEX: Computer Aided EXploration CAPP: Computer Aided Process Planning
C CAG: Column Address Generator CAPS: CAPitalS

Uppercase letters
CAGR: Compound Annual Growth Rate
CAI: Computer Associates International CAPS: CAssette Programming System
(CAI) CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing
CAI: Computer-Aided Instruction test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
Pronounced as "KAP.chuh", it's a computer-generated test
CAIRN: Collaborative Advanced Interagency that humans can pass but computer programs cannot. For
Research Network more information, see http://www.captcha.net/,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha or
CAIS: Common Apse Interface Specification
http://www.wordspy.com/words/captcha.asp
CAL: CALendar
CAQ: Computer Aided Quality
CAL: Client Access License
CAR: Committed Access Rate
CAL: Computer Aided Logistics (Cisco)
CAL: Computer-Assisted Learning CAR: Courtesy Amount Recognition
CALL: Computer-Aided Language Learning CARB: Central ARBiter
CALS: Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle On Sun servers, a system of central arbiters (one CARB on
Support the control board) and a board arbiter (BARB) (one on every
system board) determine which processor on which system
CAM: Common Access Method board controls the system bus at any given time. (Hardware)
(Communication) (Sun)
CAM: Computer-Aided Manufacturing CARCAS: Computer Aided aRchiving and

Change Accounting System
CAM: Content-Addressable Memory
(Hardware) CARL: Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
CAMAC: Computer Automated Measurement CARP: Cache Array Routing Protocol
And Control (Microsoft)
CAMM: Computer Assisted Material CARP: Common Address Redundancy Protocol

Management Allows multiple hosts on the same local network to share a
set of IP addresses among them (Network)
CAMMU: CAche/Memory Management Unit
(Hardware) CART: Computer-Assisted Radar Tomography
CAN: CANcel CAS: Channel Associated Signaling
CAN: Controller Area Network CAS: Code Access Security
CANBUS: Controller Area Network BUS
(Network) CAS: Column Address Select
CAO: Computer Account Object CAS: Column Address Strobe
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) CAS: Communication Applications Specification
CAO: Computer Aided Office CAS: Computer Algebra System
CAP: CAPture CAS: Computer-Aided Styling
File name extension
CAS: Computerized Autodial System
CAP: Carrierless Amplitude and Phase
modulation CASE: Computer-Aided Software Engineering
(Communication) CASL: Crosstalk Application Scripting Language
CAP: Central Arbitration Point CASS: Computer Assisted Search Service
CAP: Communication Application Platform CASSIS: Classified and Search Support
CAP: Competitive Access Provider Information System
CAT: CATalog
CAP: Computer-Aided Planning
File name extension
CAP: Computer-Aided Publishing
CAT: CATegory
CAP: Converted APplet Short term used to refer to different types of cabling (ie.
(Software) CAT5.) (Hardware)
CAPD: Computing to Assist Persons with CAT: Central Alaska Time
Disabilities Timezone: GMT -10:00

CAT CCD
CAT: Common Authentication Technology CBL: Computer Based Learning

CAT: Computer Adaptive Test CBLT: Character BLock Transfer
CAT: Computer Aided Tomography CBM: Commodore Business Machines
Company; among the first home computer manufacturers
CAT: Computer Aided Transcription
(PET, VIC20, C64, C128, Amiga)
CAT: Computer-Aided Telephony
CBMS: Computer-Based Mail System C
CAT: Computer-Aided Testing
CBO: Cost-Based Optimizer
CAT: Computer-Assisted Training (Databases) (Oracle)
CAT: Computer-Assisted Translation CBQ: Class-Based Queuing
Indicates the use of a series of data processing tools aimed A public domain QoS methodology for classifying packets
at assisting the translator on a level of coherency and queuing them according to criteria defined by an
(consistency) of the text and in terms of working speed administrator to provide differential forwarding behavior for
each traffic class (Network)
CATIA: Computer Aided Three-dimensional
Interactive Application CBR: Case Based Reasoning
CAD/CAM program from Dassault Systems
CBR: Constant Bit Rate
CATID: CATegory IDentifier A class of service defined by ATM. Multimedia
(Software) streams—audio and video—are examples of CBR
applications, since they send at a relatively steady data rate
CATS: Computer Assisted Training System with constant bandwidth allocations (Network)
CATV: CAble TeleVision
CBT: Canon Buffer Transmission
(Hardware)
CBT: Computer Based Training
CATV: Community Antenna TeleVision
(Hardware) CBT: Core Based Tree
(Network)
CAU: Cable Access Unit
(Hardware) CBW: Convert Byte to Word
CAU: Controlled Access Unit CBWFQ: Class-Based Weighted Fair Queueing

Extends the standard WFQ functionality to provide support
CAV: Constant Angular Velocity for user-defined traffic classes. For CBWFQ, you define traffic
(Hardware) classes based on match criteria including protocols, access
CAVE: Computer-Assisted Virtual Environment control lists (ACLs), and input interfaces (Network) (Cisco)
CAVERN: Computer-Assisted Virtual CBX: Computer-controlled Branch Exchange

Environment Research Network CC: Call Control
CAVIT: Convergence of Audio/Video (Communication)
Information Technology CC: Carbon Copy
CAWE: Computer-Aided Web Engineering CC: Cascade Correlation
CBA: Can't Be Arsed CC: Cluster Controller
For when you can't be bothered (Net lingo)
CC: Control Channel
CBBS: Computer Bulletin Board System (Communication)
CBC: Cipher Block Chaining CC: Credit Card
CBCR: Channel Byte Count Register CC: Cross Connector
CBCS: Computer Based Conversation System CC/PP: Composite Capability/Preference
CBD: Component-Based Development Profile
(Software) CCA: Cardholder Certification Authority
CBDO: Chief Business Development Officer CCA: Citrix Certified Administrator
CBDS: Connectionless Broadband Data Service Entry to mid level certification for IT professionals who want
to “demonstrate product expertise on Citrix platform
CBEMA: Computer and Business Equipment products (Citrix MetaFrame XP Presentation Server, Citrix
Manufacturers Association MetaFrame 1.8 for Windows, or Citrix MetaFrame
Presentation Server for UNIX)
CBGA: Ceramic Ball Grid Array
CCAF: Call Control Agent Function
CBI: Computer Based Instruction
CCC: Chaos Computer Club
CBIOS: Compatibility Basic Input Output System
CCC: Computer Control Center
CBIR: Committed Rate Information Burst
The rate above the Committed Information Rate (CIR) up to CCC: Cordless Computer Connection
which the frame relay network can transmit (Communication) (Hardware) (IBM)
CBL: CoBoL CCD: Charge Coupled Device
File name extension (Hardware)
CBL: Common Business Library

CCDA CCSID
CCDA: Cisco Certified Design Associate CCM: Corba Component Model

Introductory to mid-level certification for IT professionals
CCMSE: Checkpoint Certified Managed Security
who can design routed and switched network infrastructures
involving LAN, WAN, and dial access services for businesses
Expert
and organizations (Cisco) Advanced certification for security professionals
implementing Check Point's VPN-1/FireWall-1 and Provider-
CCDP: Cisco Certified Design Professional 1 Internet security solutions
Mid to advanced-level certification for IT professionals who
C can design routed and switched networks involving LAN,
CCN: Computer Communication Network
WAN, and dial access services (Cisco) CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate
Introductory-level certification for IT professionals who can
CCEA: Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator
install, configure, and operate LAN, WAN, and dial access
Mid level certification for IT professionals who want to
services for small networks (100 nodes or fewer) (Cisco)
expand their knowledge of Citrix products and give them even
more extensive experience installing and administering the CCNA: Customer Carrier Name Abbreviation
Citrix MetaFrame suite of products (Communication)
CCF: Cold-Cathode Fluorescent CCNC: Common Channel Network Controller
(Hardware)
CCNC: Computer/Communications Network
CCF: Common Connector Framework Center
(Software) (IBM)
CCNP: Cisco Certified Network Professional
CCF: Connection Control Function Intermediate-level certification for IT professionals who can
install, configure, and troubleshoot local and wide area
CCFT: Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube
networks for enterprise organizations with networks from 100
CCI: Common Client Interface to more than 500 nodes (Cisco)
CCIC: Committee on Computing, Information CCP: Certified Computing Professional
and Communications
CCP: Command Console Processor
(Organizations)
CCP: Compression Control Protocol
CCIE: Cisco Certified Internet Expert
Used for establishing and configuring data compression
Advanced-level certification for IT professionals who have
algorithms over PPP, is responsible for configuring, enabling,
the training, experience and confidence to tackle the most
and disabling data compression algorithms on both ends of
challenging problems in their field (Cisco)
the point-to-point link. See
CCIN: Coordinating Committee of International http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/ccp.htm
Networks (Network)
CCIP: Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional CCP: Console Command Processor

Mid-level certification for IT professionals who have a CCR: Commitment, Concurrency and Recovery
detailed understanding of networking technologies in the An International Organization for Standardization's open
service provider arena including IP routing, IP QoS, BGP, systems interconnection (OSI) application service element
and MPLS (Cisco) used to create atomic operations across distributed
CCIR: Comité Consultatif International de la systems. (Software)
Radio CCRMA: Center for Computer Research in Music
A treaty organization, part of the International and Acoustics
Telecommunications Union (ITU), responsible for obtaining
international agreement on standards for radio and television CCS: Color Calibration System
transmission and the international exchange of programs. CCS: Common Channel Signaling
CCIS: Common Channel Interoffice Signaling (Communication)
CCITT: Comité Consultatif International de CCS: Common Command Set

Télégraphique et Téléphonique SCSI command set
Now it's called ITU (Organizations) CCS: Common Communications Support
CCK: Client Customization Kit (IBM)
Set of tools that help distributors customize and distribute CCS: Continuous Composite Servo
the client. Support is provided for creating CD and download
installers. Wizards are provided to simplify customization, CCS: Cryptographic CheckSum
installation, and ISP signup (Security)
CCK: Complementary Code Keying CCS7: Common Channel signaling System 7

(Communication) CCSA: Checkpoint Certified Security
CCL: Common Command Language Administrator
Checkpoint's initial security certification. Stage 2 is the
CCL: Connection Control Language
CCSE (Security)
CCL: Console Command Language
CCSD: Cellular Circuit-Switched Data
CCM: Change Configuration Management CCSE: Checkpoint Certified Security Expert
CCM: Comprehensive Client Manager Checkpoint Certification. Stage 2 after completing the CCSA
(Security)
CCM: Concurrency Control Mechanism
(Databases) CCSID: Coded Character Set IDentification

CCSP CDPD
CCSP: Cisco Certified Security Professional CD-E: Compact Disc Erasable

Advanced-level certification for IT professionals who are (Hardware)
actively involved in developing business solutions and
designing and delivering multiple levels of security
CDF: Channel Definition Format
departments (Cisco) Is an application of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
designed for push technology
CCT: China Coast Time
Timezone: GMT +8:00
CDF: Comma Delimited Format
File name extension C
CCT: Compuserve Communication Toolbox
(CompuServe) CDF: Compound Document Framework
Combination mechanism for XML-based languages.
ccTLD: Country Code Top Level Domain Therefore, all conformant compound documents have an XML-
(Network) based root document
CCU: Cache Control Unit CDFS: Compact Disk File System

(Operating systems)
CCW: Channel Command Word
(Hardware) (IBM) CD-I: Compact Disk Interactive
(Hardware)
CCW: Com Callable Wrapper
(Software) (Microsoft) CDIA: Certified Document Imaging Architect
CCXML: Call Control eXtensible Markup CDID: Compact Disk Image Designer
Language
CDIF: Case Data Interchange Format
Is designed to provide telephony call control support for
Family of standards that lays out a single architecture for
VoiceXML or other dialog systems. CCXML has been
exchanging information between modelling tools, and between
designed to complement and integrate with a VoiceXML
repositories, and defines the interfaces of the components to
interpreter
implement this architecture
CD: Carrier Detect CDK: Content Development Kit
Serial port signal (Communication)
CD: Change Directory CDK: Control Development Kit
CD: Collision Detect (Software) (Microsoft)
(Communication)
CDL: Computer Design Language
CD: Color Display
CDM: Control Development Module
CD: Compact Disk CDMA: Code Division Multiple Access
(Hardware)
CDMF: Commercial Data Masking Facility
CD+G: Compact Disk Plus Graphics
(IBM)
CD+MIDI: Compact Disk Plus Musical
CDML: Claris Dynamic Markup Language
Instruments Digital Interface
(Claris)
CDA: Communications Decency Act
CD-MO: Compact Disk Magneto Optical
CDA: Compact Disk Audio
CD-MRW: Compact Disk-Mount rainier
Filename extension for CD audio tracks
ReWriteable
CDA: Compound Document Architecture Standard that enables native OS support of data storage on
(DEC) CD-RW. This makes the technology far easier to use and
allows the replacement of the floppy. See http://www.mt-
CDBS: Connectionless Data Bearer Service rainier.org/ (Hardware)
CDBT: Compact Disk-Based Training CDN: Content Delivery Network
CDC: Connected Device Configuration CDO: Collaboration Data Objects
Provides a virtual machine and basic class libraries to
support Java language applications on consumer electronic CDONTS: Collaboration Data Objects for
and embedded devices such as smart communicators, windows New Technology Server
pagers, PDAs, and interactive, digital television set-top (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
boxes (Sun)
CDOS: Concurrent Disk Operating System
CDC: Control Data Corporation
CDP: Certificate in Data Processing
CD-DA: Compact Disk Digital Audio One of the first certifications for computer professionals
CDDI: Copper Distributed Data Interface CDP: Cisco Discovery Protocol
CDE: Certified Directory Engineer Used by Cisco Routers (Network) (Cisco)
(Network) (Novell) CDP: Crl Distribution Point
CDE: Common Desktop Environment (Security)
A graphical user interface running on UNIX. (Operating CDPD: Cellular Digital Packed Data
systems) (Communication)
CDE: Complex Data Entry
CDE: Cooperative Development Environment

CD-PROM CER
CD-PROM: Compact Disk Programmable Read CDX: CompounD indeX

Only Memory File name extension (Microsoft)
(Hardware) (Kodak)
CD-XA: Compact Disk - eXtended Architecture
CDR: Call Detail Record
CE: Cache Enable
(Communication)
CE: Chip Enable
CDR: Clock and Data Recovery
C (Hardware) CE: Collision Elimination
CDR: Common Data Representation CE: Compact Edition
CDR: Corel DRaw CE: Convert Enable

Filename extension CE: Customer Engineer
CD-R: Compact Disk Recordable CEA: Cisco Enterprise Accounting
(Hardware) (Cisco)
CDRA: Character Data Representation CEA: Consumer Electronic Association
Architecture (Organizations)
(IBM)
CEBIT: CEntrum Büro Information
CDRAM: Cache Dynamic Random Access Telekommunikation
Memory
CEBUS: Consumer Electronics BUS
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
CD-RDx: Compact Disk - Rom Data eXchange
CEC: Certified E-commerce Consultant
CDRL: Contract Data Requirements List
CEF: Common Executable Format
CD-ROM: Compact Disk Read Only Memory Format that allows a single executable to be produced to run
A form of storage characterized by high capacity (roughly on all Pocket PC devices, regardless of processor (Software)
600 megabytes) and the use of laser optics rather than
CEG: Continuous Edge Graphics
magnetic means for reading data. (Hardware)
CD-RTOS: Compact Disk - Real Time Operating CEH: Certified Ethical Hacker
System Certification in IT security issued by The International
Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council)
CD-RW: Compact Disk-ReWriteable (Security)
(Hardware)
CEI: Conducted Electromagnetic Interference
CDS: Cell Directory Service
CEI: Connection Endpoint Identifier
CDS: Correlated Double Sampling
CELP: Card Edge Low Profile
Technology to clean the image signal during scanning
(Intel)
(Hardware)
CELP: Code Excited Linear Prediction
CDS: Current Directory Structure
CEMA: Consumer Electroinics Manufacturers
CDSA: Common Data Security Architecture
Association
CDSL: Consumer Digital Subscriber Line (Organizations)
(Communication)
CEMF: Cisco Element Management Framework
CDT: C/C++ Development Tools Collects fault information from various sources.Network
Eclipse subproject working towards providing a fully elements, such as routers or switches, may report fault
functional C and C++ Integrated Development Environment conditions as SNMP traps, Syslog messages, and so on
(IDE) for the Eclipse platform (Software) (Software) (Cisco)
CDT: Cambridge Display Technology CEMM: Consumer Electronics Manufacturers
Association
CDT: Center for Democracy and Technology
(Operating systems) (Compaq)
(Organizations)
CDT: Central Daylight Time CEMS: Constituent Electronic Mail System
Timezone: GMT -6:00 CENELEC: Comité Européen de Normalisation
ELECtrotechnique
CDT: Corel Draw Template
File name extension CENTR: Council of European National Top level
domain Registries
CDV: Cell Delay Variation
(Organizations)
In an ATM network, the variation in cell delay through the
network (Network) CEO: Chief Executive Officer
CD-V: Compact Disk - Video CEOP: Conditional End Of Page
CDW: Computer Discount Warehouse CEPT: Conference of European Postal and
Computer store Telecommunications
(Organizations)
CDW: Copy Database Wizard
(Databases) (Microsoft) CER: Canonical Encoding Rules
CD-WO: Compact Disk - Write Once

CER CHILL
CER: Cell Error Ratio CFMN: Client For Microsoft Networks

In an ATM network, ratio of errored cells to transmitted cells. 32-bit, protected-mode network client for Windows 9x that
Measures the accuracy of cell transmission (Network) provides the redirector and other software components for
Microsoft networking (Network) (Microsoft)
CER: Corporate Error Reporting
Tool that allows IT Administrators to manage error reports CFO: Chief Financial Officer
and error messages created by the Windows Error Reporting
CFO: Compaq Factory Outlet
client (WER) in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 and
error-reporting clients included in other Microsoft programs
(Compaq) C
(Software) (Microsoft) CFP: Call For Papers
CERFNET: California Educational and Research CFQ: Class-based Fair Queuing
Federation NETwork (Network)
CERN: Centre Européen pour la Recherche CFR: Computerized Facial Recognition
Nucléaire
CFRM: Coupling Facility Resource Management
CERT: Computer Emergency Response Team (Databases)
(Organizations)
CFS: Caching File System
CERT/CC: Computer Emergency Response
CFS: Common File System
Team Coordination Center
(Organizations) CFV: Call For Votes
CES: Circuit Emulation Service CG: Computer Generated
CES: Consumer Electronic Show CG: Computer Graphics
CET: Central European Time CG: Control Gate
Timezone: GMT +1:00 CGA: Color Graphics Adapter
CF: ColdFusion Video specification for a resolution of 320x200 pixels in 16
(Software) colors (Hardware)
CF: Compact Flash CGE: Common Graphics Environment

Add-in expansion cards (Hardware) CGI: Common Gateway Interface
CF: Coupling Facility A common method for transferring information between a web
(Databases) server and a back-end application (Network)
CFA: Color Filter Array CGI: Computer Generated Images

In digital imaging, CFAs assign a separate primary color to CGI: Computer Graphics Interface
each pixel by placing a filter of that color over the pixel. . As
photons pass through the filter to reach the pixel, only
CGM: Computer Graphics Metafile
wavelengths of that primary color will pass through File name extension
(Hardware) CGMP: Cisco Group Multicast Protocol
CFB: Call Forward Busy A form of Internet Group Multicast Protocol (IGMP) snooping
that lets the switch send multicasts only to the ports on a
CFB: Cipher FeedBack VLAN that are participating in the multicast (Network)
CFB: Configurable Function Block (Cisco)
CFC: ColdFusion Component CGMS: Copy Generation Management System

(Software) CGS: Continuous-Grain Silicon
CFCC: Coupling Facility Control Code (Hardware)
(Databases) CHAP: Challenge Handshake Authentication
CFD: Call For Discussion Protocol
A security tool offered in point-to-point protocol (PPP) based
CFD: Computational Fluid Dynamics on encrypted password exchange. (Network)
CFDJ: ColdFusion Developer's Journal CHAR: Character
CFDP: Coherent File Distribution Protocol CHAT: Conversational Hypertext Access
(Network) Technology
CFF: Compact Font Format CHCK: CHannel ChecK
(Adobe)
CHCP: CHange Code Page
CFG: ConFiGuration
CHDIR: CHange DIRectory
File name extension
CHFI: Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator
CFM: Code Fragment Manager
Certification in IT security issued by The International
(Apple)
Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council)
CFM: ConFiguration Management (Security)
CFM: Cubic Feet Per Minute CHFN: CHange FiNger
CFML: ColdFusion Markup Language CHGRP: CHange GRouP
(Allaire) CHILL: Ccitt HIgh Level Language

CHIPS CIS
CHIPS: Clearinghouse Interbank Payments CIF: Component Implementation Framework

System Defines the programming model for constructing component
implementations
CHKDSK: CHecK DiSK
CIF: Crystallographic Information File
CHMOD: CHange MODe
File name extension
CHOWN: CHange OWNer
CIF: Customer Information File
C CHP: CHaPter
CIFF: Camera Image FIle Format
CHR: CHaRacter
CIFS: Common Internet File System
CHRP: Common Hardware Reference Platform (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
CHS: Cylinder, Head, Sector CIL: Common Intermediate Language
CHTML: Compressed HyperText Markup CIL: Computer Integration Laboratories
Language
CIM: Common Information Model
CI: Coded Information
CIM: Compuserve Information Manager
CI: Competitive Intelligence
CIM: Computer Integrated Manufacturing
CI: Component Interface
CIM: Cox Interactive Media
CI: Congestion Indication
CIM: Customer Information Management
CI: Content Inspection
CIO: Chief Information Officer
CI/O: Comprehensive Input/ Output
CIOCS: Communication Input/Output Control
Refers to Adaptec's RAID management software. (Hardware)
(Adaptec)
System
CIA: Current Instruction Address CIP: Command Interface Port
CIAC: Computer Incident Advisory Capability CIP: Commerce Interchange Pipeline

(Organizations) (Microsoft)
CIB: Computer Integrated Business CIP: Common Indexing Protocol
CIC: Carrier Identification Code CIP: Computer Integrated Processing
CIC: Cisco Info Center CIPM: Commerce Interchange Pipeline Manager

A service-level monitoring and diagnostics tool that provides (Software) (Microsoft)
network fault and performance monitoring, trouble isolation, CIPS: Canadian Information Processing Society
and real-time service-level management for large networks Accredits academic programs in technology, certifies
(Software) (Cisco) practitioners, and has a code of conduct for professional
CIC: Coordination and Information Center behavior. See also http://www.cips.ca/ (Organizations)
CICA: Center of Innovative Computer CIPSO: Commercial Internet Protocol Security

Applications Option
(Security)
CICS: Customer Information Control System
(IBM) CIR: Committed Information Rate
A minimum access rate the service provider commits to
CICS/VS: Customer Information Control providing the customer (Communication)
System / Virtual Storage
CIR: Consumer InfraRed
CID: Charge-Injection Device
(Hardware)
CID: Configuration, Installation, Distribution CIRC: Cross-Interleaved Reed-solomon Code
CIDL: Component Implementation Definition CIS: Card Information Structure
Language
The semantics of the CORBA Components Model (CCM) CIS: Client Information System
CIDMID: Content-ID and Message-ID CIS: Com+ Internet Service
(Network) (Software) (Microsoft)
CIDR: Classless Inter-Domain Routing CIS: Component Interaction Service

Solution that allows more scalability in the Internet under the (Databases)
current IP version 4 addressing scheme. It provides an CIS: Compressed Image Sequence
interim solution until IP version 6 is put into place (Network)
The XIL library's compressors store (generally related)
CIE: Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage compressed video frames in structures called CIS buffers.
A standard means for specifying the color of an object or light The images may represent frames in a movie, pages in a
source in terms of (x,y) coordinates. document, and so on.
CIF: Common Interchange Format CIS: Compuserve Information Service

(CompuServe)
CIF: Common source Intermediate Format
A video format in which frames are 360 pixels wide and 288 CIS: Computer Information Systems
pixels high (one half of the CCIR 601 frame size). Each pixel
has its own luminance value.

CIS CLOB
CIS: Contact Image Sensor CLD: Clear Direction Flag

Scanner device (Hardware)
CLDC: Connected Limited Device Configuration
CIS: Customer Information System Is the foundation of the Java runtime environment that
targets small, resource-constrained devices, such as mobile
CIS: Customer Interaction Software phones, mainstream personal digital assistants, and small
CISA: Certified Information System Auditor retail payment terminals (Sun)
CISC: Complex Instruction Set Computer CLEC: Competitive Local Exchange Carrier C
CPU architecture (Hardware) A telephone company that competes with other local phone
companies within an exchange, or calling area, to provide
CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security local telephone service (Communication)
Professional
CLEI: Common Language Equipment
CIT: Computer-Integrated Telephony Identification
CIT: Court of International Trade CLF: Common Log File
(Organizations) (Network)
CITO: Communications and Information CLGA: Ceramic Land Grid Array
Technology Ontario (Hardware)
(Organizations)
CLI: Call Level Interface
CIVIC: Cyclone Integrated Video Interfaces
Controller CLI: Calling Line Identification
(Communication)
CIVR: Computer and Interactive Voice
Response CLI: Clear Interrupt Flag
CIW: Certified Internet Webmaster CLI: Client Library Interface
CIW: Client Installation Wizard CLI: Command Line Interface
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) CLI: Command Line Interpreter
CIX: Commercial Internet eXchange CLI: Common Language Interface
CIX: Compulink Information eXchange CLIB: C LIBrary
CJK: Chinese, Japanese and Korean CLID: Calling Line IDentification
(Software) (Communication)
CJLI: Command Job Language Interpreter CLIE: Communication, Link, Information and
CKD: Count Key Data Entertainment
(Hardware) (Sony)
CKE: Commercial Key Escrow
(Software) CLIM: Common Lisp Interface Manager
CKM: Customer Knowledge Management CLIPS: C Language Integrated Production

System
CKO: Chief Knowledge Officer
Productive development and delivery expert system tool
CL: Cas Latency which provides a complete environment for the construction
Number of clock cycles it takes before data starts to flow of rule and/or object based expert systems (Software)
once a command is received. Low CAS latency is faster than CLIST: Command LIST
high CAS latency (Hardware)
CLK: CLocK
CL: Common Lisp (Hardware)
CLL: ConnectionLess Layer
CL: ConnectionLess
(Communication) CLLI: Common Language Location
Identification
CLAR: Channel Local Address Register (Communication)
CLASS: Centralized Local Area Selective CLNAP: ConnectionLess Network Access
Signaling Protocol
CLASS: CLient Access to Systems and Services CLNP: ConnectionLess Network Protocol
CLASS: Cooperative Library Agency for The International Organization for Standardization's open
Systems and Services systems interconnection (OSI) protocol for providing the
OSI Connectionless Network Service (datagram service).
CLASS: Custom Local Area Signaling Services CLNP is the OSI equivalent to Internet IP, and is sometimes
CLC: Certified Local Carrier called ISO IP.
(Communication) CLNS: ConnectionLess Network Service
CLC: CLear Carry flag CLO: Chief Learning Officer
CLC: Color Laser Copier CLOB: Character Large OBject
(Hardware) (Canon) (Databases)
C-LCD: Cholesteric Liquid Cristal Display
(Hardware)

CLOS CMP
CLOS: Common Lisp Object System CMC: Communication Management

(Software) Configuration
CLP: Cell Loss Priority CMC: Complement Carry Flag
In ATM cells, a bit that specifies whether a cell can be
CMC: Computer-Mediated Communication
discarded, if necessary; for example, if network congestion or
policing occurs (Communication) CMD: Circuit Mode Data
C CLP: CLiPboard CMD: CoMmanD
File name extension File name extension
CLP: Command Line Processor CMF: Creative Music Format

CLP: Constraint Logic Programming CMGM: Cisco Media Gateway Manager
(Software) (Cisco)
CLR: Cell Loss Ratio
In an ATM network, the ratio of lost ATM Cells to transmitted CMI: Control and Management Interface
cells; measures the percentage of cells lost between two (Communication)
points in the network. Cell loss is typically caused by severe
CMIP: Common Management Information
network congestion; it can also result from bit errors in the
cell header (Network)
Protocol
The International Organization for Standardization's open
CLR: Common Language Runtime systems interconnection (OSI) network management
(Software) (Microsoft) protocol. (Communication)
CLR: Compensating Log Record CMIS: Common Management Information
CLS: CLear Screen System
CLS: Closed Loop Solution CMISE: Common Management Information

Service Element
CLS: Common Language Specification
(Software)
CML: Chemical Markup Language
CLSID: CLaSs IDentifier CML: Computer Managed Learning

(Software) CML: Conceptual Modelling Language
CLT: Cairo Local Time CML: Current Mode Logic
Timezone: GMT +2:00
CMM: Capability Maturity Model
CLTP: ConnectionLess Transport Protocol Strategy for improving the software process, irrespective of
Provides for end-to-end Transport data addressing (via the actual life-cycle model used (Software)
Transport selector) and error control (via checksum), but CMM: Conceptual Modeling Language
cannot guarantee delivery or provide flow control.
CMMF: Certificate Management Message Format
CLTS: Clear Task Switch Flag
A PKIX format used to convey certificate requests and
CLTV: Constant Linear Time Velocity revocation requests from end entities to certificate
authorities and to send a variety of information from
CLUI: Command Line User Interface certificate authorities to end entities
CLUT: Color LookUp Table
CMMS: Computerized Maintenance
The color options in a graphics system, arranged by index
Management Software
number. Typically, the system has a default color map. The
index of colors in the color map can be reallocated, however, CMOL: CMip Over Llc
depending on the application.
CMOS: Coats-Mellon Operational Specification
CLV: Constant Linear Velocity
CMOS: Complementary Metal Oxide
(Hardware)
Semiconductor
CM: Communication Manager Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware)
(Communication)
CMOS: Configuration Memory Operating
CM: Configuration Managment System
(Software) CMOT: CMip Over Tcp
CM: Content Management An effort to use the International Organization for
Standardization's open systems interconnection (OSI)
CM: Control Mark
network management protocol to manage TCP/IP networks.
CM: Corrective Maintenance (Network)
CM2: Communication Manager/2 CMOV: Conditional MOVe

CMA: Concert Multi-thread Architecture CMP: Cellular MultiProcessing
Computer architecture (Hardware)
CMAK: Connection Manager Administration Kit
(Microsoft) CMP: Certificate Management Protocol
CMC: Calypso Message Center CMP: Chip MultiProcessor
(Hardware)
CMC: Common Mail Calls
CMP: CoMPare
CMC: Common Messaging Call

CMP COCOT
CMP: Container-Managed Persistence CNIDIR: Coalition for Networked Information

(Software) DIRectories
CMP: Cooperative Marketing Partner CNIDR: Clearinghouse for Network Information
and Discovery and Retrieval
CMPS: CoMPare word String
CNM: Communications Network Management
CMR: Cell Mis-insertion Rate
In an ATM network, the total number of misinserted cells CNM: Customer Network Management C
observed during a specified time interval divided by the time
CNMA: Communications Network for
interval duration (Network)
Manufacturing Applications
CMR: Common Mode Rejection
CNMS: Compaq Netelligent Management
CMRR: Common Mode Rejection Ratio Software
CMS: Call Management Server (Compaq)
CMS: Code Management System CNMS: Cylink Network Management System
CMS: Color Matching System CNN: Composite Network Node
CMS: Compiler Monitor System CNR: Carrier to Noise Ratio
CMS: Content Management System CNR: Communication and Networking Riser

(Software) (Hardware)
CMS: Conversational Monitor System CNR: Communication Network Riser

(Hardware)
CMS: Cryptographic Message Syntax
CNS: Complimentary Network Service
CMT: Connection ManagemenT
CNSS: Core Nodal Switching Subsystem
CMTL: Computer Memory Test Labs
(Organizations)
CNT: CoNTents
File name extension
CMTS: Cable Modem Termination System
(Network)
CNTFET: Carbon NanoTube Field-Effect
Transistor
CMU: Carnegie Mellon University (Hardware)
(Organizations)
CNV: CoNVentional
CMVC: Configuration Management Version
Control CNVT: CoNVerT
(IBM) CNX: Certified Network eXpert
CMW: Compartmented Mode Workstation CO: Central Office
CMY: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow CO: Command Output
The CMY color model subtracts percentages of cyan,
CO: Connection Oriented
magenta, and yellow to yield the desired colors. Subtracting
(Communication)
0 percent of all three colors results in white; subtracting 100
percent of all three colors results in black. (Hardware) CO: Convert Out
CMYK: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK CoA: Care Of Address
Color encoding scheme. The black provides deeper colors, Temporary IP Address used by a mobile user when roaming
expecially full black, compared with the CMY color model. onto a foreign IP network. It is used within mobile IP and can
either be leased from the HA (Home Agent) or FA (Foreign
CNA: Certified Novell Administrator
Agent) (Network)
(Novell)
COAST: Cache On A STick
CNA: Communications Network Application
(Hardware)
CNAPS: Co-processing Node Architecture for
COAST: Computer Operations, Audit, and
Parallel Systems
Security Technology
CNB: Connected Network Backup Laboratory in computer security research in the Computer
On-line storage service Sciences Department at Purdue University
CNC: Computerized Numerical Control COB: Chip-On-Board
CND: Caller Number Delivery COB: Connected Online Backup
CNE: Certified Novell Engineer (Software)
(Novell) COBOL: COmmon Business-Oriented Language
CNF: CoNFiguration Programming language (Software)
File name extension COCOMO: COnstructive COst MOdel
CNG: CalliNG A technique for estimating the effort and duration of a
software project based on its estimated size created by Barry
CNI: Certified Novell Instructor Boehm (Software)
(Novell)
COCOT: Customer Owned Coin Operated
CNI: Common Network Interface Telephone

COD COSIC
COD: Cash On Delivery COMPAQ: COMPatibilty And Quality

Used to refer to the fact that their computers were both IBM
CODASYL: Conference On DAta SYstem
PC compatible and very reliable
Languages
(Organizations) COMSAT: COMmunications SATellite corporation
CODCF: Central Office Data Connecting Facility COMTI: Component Object Model Transaction
Integrator
C CODE: Campaign for an Open Digital
(Microsoft)
Environment
International coalition of civil liberties groups and consumer CON: Console
rights initiatives to protect the public's rights, innovation, Usually include keyboard and screen
and competition against the proposed European Union
Directive on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property CONCERT: COmmunications for North Carolina
Education, Research and Technology
CODE: Client/server Open Development
Environment CONS: Connection-Oriented Network Service
CODEC: COder/DECoder CONTAC: Central Office NeTwork ACcess
CoE: Center Of Excellence COO: Chief Operating Officer

Group of subject matter experts (Organizations) COO: Cost Of Ownership
COE: Central Office Equipment COOL: Cobol Object Orientated Language
COE: Common Operating Environment COP: Character-Oriented Protocol
COE: Consistent Office Environment COPA: Children Online Protection Act
COEES: Central Office Equipment Engineering COPICS: Communications Oriented Production
System Information and Control System
COEM: Commercial Original Equipment (IBM)
Manufacturer COPPA: Child Online Privacy Protection Act
COFA: Change Of Frame Alignment COPS: Common Open Policy Service
(Communication) An IETF proposed standard defining a simple protocol for
provisioning QoS by outsourcing policy-based admission
COFDM: Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division
control over requests for network resources (Network)
Multiplexing
(Communication) COR: Common Object Runtime
(Operating systems)
COFF: Common Object File Format
CORBA: Common Object Request Broker
COG: Chip On Glass
Architecture
(Hardware)
COREN: COrporation for Research and
COG: Component Obsolescence Group Enterprise Network
Advisory group connected with the maintence of older
elctronic hardware including computer systems for specialist COS: Camera Operating System
functions. See also http://www.cog.org.uk/ (Organizations) (Operating systems)
COGO: COordinate GeOmetry COS: Card Operating System
Programming Language (Operating systems)
COL: COLlision CoS: Class Of Service
COL: Computer Oriented Language A category based on type of user, type of application, or
some other criteria that QoS systems can use to provide
COLD: Computer Output to Laser Disc differentiated classes of service (Network)
COLT: Connection Optimized Link Technology COS: Common Object Service
(Communication)
COS: Compatible Operating System
COLUG: Central Ohio Linux Users Group
COS: Corporation for Open Systems
See www.colug.net (Organizations)
A vendor and user group for conformance testing,
COM: COMmand certification, and promotion of International Organization for
File name extension Standardization's open systems interconnection (OSI)
products.
COM: COMmunication port
Serial port (Communication)
COSE: Combined Office Standard Environment
COM: Component Object Model COSE: Common Open Software Environment
COM: Computer Output Microfilm COSIC: COmputer Security and Industrial

Cryptography
COMDEX: COMputer Dealers EXposition (Organizations)
COMET: COrnell Macintosh Terminal Emulator
(Software)
COMP: Compare

COSINE CPW
COSINE: Cooperation for Open Systems CPI: Code Page Information

Interconnection Networking in Europe File name extension (Microsoft)
A program sponsored by the European Commission, aimed at
CPI: Common Part Indicator
using open systems interconnection (OSI) to tie together
European research networks. CPI: Common Programming Interface
(IBM)
COSMIC: COmputer Software Management and
Information Center CPI: Communication Programming Interface C
(NASA) (Communication)
COSMOS: COmputer System for Mainframe CPI: Computer Private branch exchange
OperationS Interface
COSS: Common Object Services Specification CPIC: Common Programming Interface for
COT: Central Office Terminal Communications
(IBM)
COTS: Commercial Off-The-Shelf
(Software) CPI-C: Common Programming Interface for
Communications
COTS: Connection-Oriented Transport Service (IBM)
COW: Cluster Of Workstations CPIO: CoPy In/Out
(Hardware)
CPL: Combined Programming Language
COW: Computer On Wheels
CPL: Common Public License
CP: Connection Processor
CPL: Compressed Printer Language
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
CP: Control Panel
CPL: Control PaneL
CP: Control Point Control panel extension (Microsoft)
CP: Copy Protected CPL: Conversational Programming Language
CP: Customer Premises CPL: Current Privilege Level
(Communication)
CPLD: Complex Programmable Logic Device
CP/M: Control Program for Microprocessors
CPM: Cost Per Minute
(Operating systems)
CPM: Critical Path Method
CPA: Certified Public Accountant
CPA: Cost Per Action CPML: Call Policy Markup Language
(Network)
CPA: Crown Print Auditor
CPN: Compuserve Packet Network
(Hardware) (QMS)
CPO: Chief Privacy Officer
CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
CPC: Constant Point Calculation CPP: C Plus Plus (C++)
Object-oriented programming language based on C. Also,
CPC: Cost Per Click filename extension. (Software)
CPCS: Check Processing Control System CPP: Corporate Preview Program
(IBM) (Microsoft)
CPCS: Common Part Convergence Sublayer CPRM: Content Protection for Recordable Media
CPD: Conseal Provate Desktop CPS: Certification Practice Statement
Personal firewall (Network) (Verisign)
CPE: Central Processing Element cps: Characters Per Second
CPE: Conseal Private Desktop Printing engine speed
(Hardware) CPS: Cycles Per Second
CPE: Cover Page Editor CPSI: Configurable PostScript Interpreter
File name extension
CPSR: Computer Professionals for Social
CPE: Customer Premise Equipment Responsibility
CPEX: Customer Profile EXchange CPT: Command Pass Through
CPFR: Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and CPTWG: Copyright Protection Technical
Replenishment Working Group
(Software) (Organizations)
CPG: Clock Pulse Generator CPU: Central Processing Unit
CPH: Cost Per Hour The part of the computer in which calculations and
manipulations take place. (Hardware)
cpi: Characters Per Inch
CPW: Commercial Processing Workload
CPI: Clock Per Instruction (IBM)

CQA CSD
CQA: Certified Quality Analyst CRL: Certificate Revocation List

(Security)
CR: Candidate Recommendation
CR: Card Reader CRM: Customer Relationship Management
(Hardware) CRME: Certified Remote Management Engineer
CR: Carriage Return CRMF: Certificate Request Message Format
C Usually used as a control code or a terminator A PKIX format used for messages related to life-cycle
management of X.509 certificates. This format is a subset of
CR: Command Register CMMF
(Hardware)
CROM: Control Read-Only Memory
CR: Content Redirection (Hardware)
CR/LF: Carriage Return/Line Feed
CRP: Common Reference Platform
CRAM: Card Random Access Memory
CRS: Can't Remember Stuff
(Hardware)
(Net lingo)
CRAM: Challenge-Response Authentication CRS: Cell Relay Service
Mechanism
(Operating systems) CRS: Computerized Reservation System
CRAM: Computerized Reliability Analysis CRS: Content Replication Service
Method (Microsoft)
(Software) CRT: Cathode Ray Tube
CRAM: Cyberspatial Reality Advancement The CRT operates by firing an electron beam that strikes the
Movement inside of the monitor's display surface, which is coated with
phosphor. The phosphor glows briefly when excited by the
CRAS: Cable Repair Administrative System beam. (Hardware)
CRAYON: CReAte Your Own Newspaper CRTC: Canadian Radio-television and
CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check Telecomunications Commission
An error check in which the check key is generated by a (Organizations)
cyclic algorithm. (Communication) CRTC: Cathode Ray Tube Controller
CRCG: Center for Research in Computer (Hardware)
Graphics CRUD: Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete
CRD: CaRDfile CS: Cable Select
File name extension Allows drives to determaine whether they are master or slave
CREN: Computer Research Education Network according to their position along the bus (Hardware)
CREN: Corporation for Research and Education CS: Chip Select

Networking (Hardware)
CRF: Cable Retransmission Facility CS: Code Segment

CPU register (Hardware) (Intel)
CRF: Commit-Reconcile and Fences
Mechanism-oriented memory model (Software) CS: Computer Science
CRF: Cross Reference File CS: Counter-Strike
See http://www.counter-strike.net/ (Games)
CRFVC: Connection Related Function Virtual
Channel CS/SS: Card Service/Socket Service
CRFVP: Connection Related Function Virtual CS1: Capability Set 1
Path CSA: Calendaring and Scheduling Api
CRI: Color Reproduction Indices (IBM)
CRI: Cray Research, Inc. CSA: Communications Streaming Architecture
Directly connects the Memory Controller Hub to the network
CRIMM: Continuity Rambus Inline Memory
controller. With CSA-based motherboards, network data can
Module
be transferred at a much higher rate with lower latency
A type of system RAM (Hardware) (Hardware) (Intel)
C-RIMM: Continuity - Rambus Inline Memory CSAPI: Common Speller Application Program
Module Interface
(Hardware)
CSAR: Channel System Address Register
CRIN: Centre de Recherche en Informatique de
Nancy CSC: Computer Sciences Corporation
Company Name
CRISC: Complex-Reduced Instruction Set
Computer CSCC: Concurrent SuperComputing Consortium
CRISP: Complex-Reduced Instruction Set CSCW: Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Processor CSD: Circuit-Switched Data

CSD CSS
CSD: Computer Services Department CSNET: Computer Science NETwork

Computer+Science Network. A large computer network,
CSD: Corrective Service Diskette
mostly in the U.S. but with international connections. CSNET
(IBM)
sites include universities, research labs, and some
CSDC: Circuit Switched Digital Capability commercial companies. Now merged with BITNET to form
CREN.
CSDS: Circuit Switched Data Service
CSNW: Client Services for NetWare
CSE: Certified System Engineer (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
C
CSER: Consortium for Software Engineering
CSO: Central Services Organization
Research
(Organizations) CSO: Cold Start Only
In ISDN is a capability of a Network Terminator 1 (NT1)
C-SET: Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Display (Network)
CSFI: Communication Subsystem For CSP: Certified Systems Professional
Interconnection
CSP: Chip-Scale Packaging
CSG: Constructive Solid Geometry
CSP: Commercial Service Provider
CSG: Consulting Services Group
(Lotus) CSP: Commercial Subroutine Package
CSH: C SHell CSP: Communicating Sequential Processes

Unix shell CSP: Component Service Provider
CSH: Complementary Software House CSP: Compucom Speed Protocol
CSI: Command Sequence Introducer CSP: Converged Service Provider
CSI: CompuServe Incorporated CSP: Cross System Product
CSI: Computer Security Institute (IBM)
(Organizations) CSP: Cryptographic Service Provider
CSID: Calling Subscriber IDentification CSP: Crystal Server Pages
CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial A page that contains HTML/VB/JavaScript that is processed
Research Organization by the Web Component Server in the Crystal Enterprise
eBusiness Framework (Software)
CSIRT: Computer Security Incident Response
Team CSPDK: Cryptographic Service Provider
(Security)
Developer's Kit
CSIv2: Common Secure Interoperability
Version 2 CSPDN: Circuit Switched Public Data Network
Addresses the requirements of CORBA security for CSPDU: Convergence Sublayer Protocol Data
interoperable authentication, delegation, and privileges Unit
CSL: Computer Sensitive Language CSPM: Cisco Secure Policy Manager
CSLIP: Compressed Serial Line Interface (Cisco)
Protocol CSR: Certificate Signing Request
CSM: Code Set Map CSRAM: Custom Static Random Access Memory
CSM: Communications Services Manager (Hardware)
CSM: Control Strip Module CSRG: Computer Systems Research Group

(Organizations)
CSMA: Carrier Sense Multiple Access
(Communication) CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
CSMA/CA: Carrier Sense Multiple CSS: Central Structure Store

Access/Collision Avoidance The CSS is an editable hierarchy of structures composed of
(Communication) elements, attributes, and transformations. CSS elements are
drawing primitives such as lines and polygons and CSS
CSMA/CD: Carrier Sense Multiple attributes are qualities such as color and style.
Access/Collision Detect
CSS: Computer Sub System
The access method used by local area networking
technologies such as Ethernet. (Network) CSS: Computer Systems Specialist
CSMS: Customer Support Management System CSS: Contact Start-Stop
CSN: Card-Select Number CSS: Content Scrambling System
Copy protection scheme used for example with DVDs (Digital
CSN: Compaq Service Network
Video Discs)
(Compaq)
CSS: Content Services Switch
(Hardware) (Cisco)
CSS: Continuous System Simulator

CSS CTSS
CSS: Cross-Site Scripting CTD: Cell Transfer Delay

(Software) In an ATM network, measures the peak and mean delay that
cells experience while traveling from one point in the network
CSS: Customizable Starter Site to another (Network)
(Microsoft)
CTE: Charge Transfer Efficiency
CSS: Cybermedia Support Server (Hardware)
C CSS2: Cascading Style Sheet 2 CTE: Customer Termination Equipment
CSSM: Client-Server Systems Management (Network)
(IBM)
CTEC: Certified Training and Education Centre
CST: Central Standard Time CTERM: Command TERMinal
Timezone: GMT -6:00
CTF: Capture, Transform, and Flow
CST: Consolidated Service Test Data warehousing (Databases)
Enhances the way IBM tests and recommends maintenance
packages for z/OS and OS/390 software, including the major CTFT: Color Thin Film Transistor
subsystems (IBM) LCD manufacturing technology (Hardware)
CSTA: Computer-Supported Telephony CTI: Computer Telephony Integration

Applications (Microsoft)
CSTB: Computer Science and CTL: Certificate Trust List
Telecommunications Board
CTL: Complex Text Layout
(Organizations)
CTM: Component Transaction Monitor
CSTE: Certified Software Test Engineer
(Software)
(Software)
CTN: Can't Talk Now
CSTN: Color SuperTwist Nematic
(Net lingo)
CTO: Chief Technical Officer
CSTS: Computer Supported
Telecommunications Standard CTOS: Cassette Tape Operating System
CSU: Channel Service Unit CTOS: Computerized Tomography Operating
System
CSUNET: California State University NETwork
CTOS: Convergent Technologies Operating
CSV: Circuit-Switched Voice
System
CSV: Comma-Separated Value CTP: Capable To Promise
CSV: Common Services Verbs CTP: Community Technology Preview
(Microsoft)
CTP: Convergence Technologies Professional
CSV: Computer System Validation
Vendor-neutral certification for IT professionals who have
Process used mainly at pharmaceutical companies to ensure the core knowledge and skills required by equipment
that systems are reliable and predictable manufacturers, their channel partners, and end-users to sell
CSW: Channel Status Word and service convergence technologies
(Hardware) (IBM) CTPA: Coax-to-Twisted-Pair Adapter
CT: Computer Telephony CTR: Common Technical Regulations
(Hardware)
CTRCO: Calculating, Tabulating, Recording
CTAN: Comprehensive Tex Archive Network COmpany
CTB: Cipher Type Byte The name of this company was changed to "International
Business Machines" by Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
CTB: Communication ToolBox
CTRL: ConTRoL
CTBS: Computer Telephony Business Solution
(Hardware) (IBM)
CTS: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
CTC: Care To Chat CTS: Clear To Send

RS-232 signal (Communication)
(Net lingo)
CTC: Certified Testing Center CTS: Common Type System
CTC: Channel To Channel CTS: Compatibility Test Suite

(Software)
CTC: Counter/Timer Chip
(Hardware)
CTS: Component Transaction Server
CTCA: Channel To Channel Adapter CTS: Computer Telephony Solution
CTCP: Client-To-Client Protocol CTS: Customer Telephone System

CTSS: Compatible Time Sharing System
CTSS: Cray Time Sharing System

CTT D/L
CTT: Care To Text CVP: Content Vectoring Protocol

(Net lingo)
CVS: Computer Vision Syndrome
CTT: Cartridge Tape Transport CVS: Concurrent Version System
CTTC: Cartridge Tape Transport Controller Tool for keeping programs sources under control (Software)
CTW: Catch The Werb CVT: ConVerT

Web organizer (Software)
CVW: CodeView for Windows C
CTY: Catch The Web CW: Control Word
CU: Control Unit CWA: Competitive Web Analysis D
(Hardware)
CWD: Change Working Directory
CUA: Calendar User Agent
(Software) CWD: Convert Word to Double word
CUA: Common Used Acronym CWIS: Campus Wide Information System
CUA: Common User Access CWIS: Community Wide Information System
CUA: Common User Application CWM: Common Warehouse Metamodel

Standard interfaces that can be used to enable easy
CUB: CUrsor Backward interchange of warehouse and business intelligence metadata
CUD: CUrsor Down between warehouse tools, warehouse platforms and
warehouse metadata repositories in distributed
CUE: Custom Updates and Extras heterogeneous environments
CUF: CUrsor Forward CWNA: Certified Wireless Network
CUG: Closed User Group Administrator
(Network) Entry-level certification is for those IT professionals who are
new to wireless networking but who want to come up to speed
CUI: Character-oriented User Interface quickly.
CUI: Common User Interface CWNP: Certified Wireless Network Professional
(IBM)
CWO: Chief Web Officer
CUL: See You Later
CWSP: Certified Wireless Security Professional
Will get in touch later on (Net lingo)
Mid-level certification is for IT professionals who understand
CUP: CUrsor Position how to secure a wireless LAN from hackers and who know
how to protect the valuable information
CUPID: Completely Universal Processor I/o
Design CXI: Common X-windows Interface
(AST) cXML: Commerce eXtensible Markup Language
CUR: CURsor Standard for setting up interactive online catalogs for
File name extension different buyers, where the pricing and product offerings are
company specific. Includes mechanisms to handle purchase
CUSI: Configurable Unified Search Interface orders, change orders, status updates, and shipping
CUSIP: Committee for Uniform Security notifications
Identification Procedures CYA: Cover Your A**
CUSP: Commonly Used System Program (Net lingo)
CUT: Control Unit Terminal CYA: See YA

(Net lingo)
CUTE: Clarkston University Terminal Emulator
CYL: CYLinder
CUTS: Cassette User Tape System
(Hardware) CYMK: Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-Black
Color model
CUU: CUrsor Up
CV: CodeView D
Microsoft's format for debug indormation, embedded in the
object file or executable (Software) (Microsoft) D&D: Drag & Drop
(Software)
CV: Curriculum Vitæ
D&I: Drop And Insert
CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
Refers to the cross connecting of Time-Division Multiplexing
(Security) (TDM) circuits. It allows you to take 64Kb DS0 channels
CVF: Compressed Volume File from one T1 and digitally cross connect them to 64Kb DS0
channels on another T1 (Communication)
CVGA: Color Video Graphics Array
D&M: Design & Modeling
CVIA: Computer Virus Industry Association
D/A: Digital/Analog
CVM: C Virtual Machine
(Hardware)
Is a Java 2 virtual machine designed for devices needing the
functionality of the Java 2 virtual machine feature set, but D/L: DownLoad
with a smaller footprint (Sun)

D/R DASD
D/R: Direct/Reverse DAM: Deferred Action Message

D/S: Dhrystone per Second
D2C: Decimal To Character DAM: Digital Asset Management
(IBM) DAM: Direct Access Mode
D2D: Developer To Developer DAM: Distributed Abstract Machine
D2T2: Dye Diffusion Thermal Transfer DAM: Distributed Associative Memory
Printing technology (Hardware)
D D2X: Decimal To heXadecimal DAML: Darpa Agent Markup Language

(IBM) Language, developed as an extension to XML and the
Resource Description Framework (RDF), designed to
D3D: Direct 3D facilitate the concept of the Semantic Web. See also
(Microsoft) http://www.daml.org/
DA: Data Administrator DAML: Digital Added Main Line
DA: Desk Accessory (Communication)
(Software) (Apple) DAMPS: Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System
DA: Destination Address DAMQAM: Dynamically Adaptive Multicarrier
DA: Differential Analyzer Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
A computer that uses interconnected integrators to solve DAN: Disk Area Network
differential equations.
DAO: Data Access Object
DA: Directory Agent
(Network) (Novell)
DAO: Disk-At-Once
DAA: Data Access Arrangement
CD recording methodology (Hardware)
DAA: Decimal Adjust for Addition DAP: Data Access Page
DAA: Digest Access Authentication (Databases) (Microsoft)
DAB: Digital Audio Broadcasting DAP: Developer Assistance Program
(Communication) DAP: Directory Access Protocol
DAC: Data Acquisition and Control (Network)
DAC: Device Access Code DAP: Dynamic Application Partitioning
DAC: Digital to Analog Converter DAPIE: Developers Application Programming
An electronic device used to convert discrete digital Interface Extensions
numbers to continuous analog signals. In contrast with
DAQ: Data AcQuisition
Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC). (Hardware)
(Hardware)
DAC: Discretionary Access Control
DARI: Database Application Remote Interface
DAC: Dual Attachment Concentrator (IBM)
DACL: Discretionary Access Control List DARMS: Digital Alternate Realization of Musical
A list used by the operating system's directory to control Symbols
access to its objects. A DACL consists of a list of security
identifiers (which identify users) and specific permissions for DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects
each (Operating systems) (Microsoft) Agency
The U.S. government agency that funded the ARPANET.
DACS: Digital Access Control System (Organizations)
DAD: Desktop Application Director DART: Digital Audio Reconstruction Technology
(Borland)
DART: Dynamic Advertising Reporting and
DAE: Digital Audio Extraction Targeting
daemon: Disk And Execution MONitor DAS: Data Acquisition System
(Operating systems) (Hardware)
DAF: Dynamic Authentication Filter DAS: Data Agent Server
DAFS: Direct Access File System DAS: Decimal Adjust for Subtraction
(Operating systems)
DAS: Direct Attached Storage
DAI: Distributed Artificial Intelligence Storage device that connects directly to a single server
DAL: Data Abstraction Layer DAS: Directory Assistance Service
DAL: Data Access Language DAS: Dual-Attached Station
DAL: Data Access Layer DAS: Dynamic Allocation Scheme
DAL: Disk Access Lockout DASD: Direct Access Storage Device
DAM: Data Acquisition and Monitoring

DASL DC
DASL: DAv Searching & Locating DBCP: DataBase Connection Pool

Application of HTTP/1.1 forming a lightweight search (Software)
protocol to transport queries and result sets and allows
clients to make use of server-side search facilities
DBCS: Delivery Bar Code Sorter
DASP: Drive Active, Slave Present DBCS: Double-Byte Character Set

DBD: DataBase Driver
DASP: Dynamic Adaptive Speculative
(Databases)
Preprocessor
(Hardware) DBF: DataBase File
File name extension
DASS: Distributed Authentication Security D
Service DBF: DataBase Format
DAT: DATa (Databases)
File name extension DBI: DataBase Interface
(Databases)
DAT: Digital Audio Tape
(Hardware) DBIF: DataBase InterFace
(Databases)
DAT: Disk Array Technology
DATEX: DATa EXchange DBIS: Dun & Bradstreet Information Services
DAV: Data AVailable DBK: DocBooK

File name extension
(Hardware)
DAV: Digital Audio-Video DBLIB: DataBase LIBrary

(Databases) (Microsoft)
DAV: Distributed Authoring and Versioning
Extension of the HTTP/1.1 protocol DBM: DataBase Manager
(Databases)
DAVIC: Digital Audio/VIdeo Council
(Organizations) DBME: DataBase Managment Environment
DAVID: Digital Audio Video Interactive Decoder DBMS: DataBase Management Environment
A software system facilitating the creation and maintenance
DAW: Digital Audio Workstation of a data base and the execution of programs using the data
A computer whose function is devoted primarily to digital base.
audio recording and production (Hardware)
DBNL: Dial Backup Network Link
DAX: Developer Api eXtension (Network)
DB: Data Buffer DBO: DataBase Owner
DB: DataBase (Databases)
(Databases) DBP: DataBase Publishing
DB: DataBus DBPSK: Differential Binary Phase Shift Keying
Computer port (Hardware) (Communication)
dB: DeciBel dBr: DeciBel Relative
Intensity measurement unit, used mainly in the sound field Audio intensity measurement unit
DB: Device Bay DBR: Dos Boot Record
DB2: DataBase 2 DBRAD: Data Base Relational Application
(Databases) (IBM) Directory
DBA: DataBase Administrator DBRM: DataBase Request Module
(Databases)
DBS: DataBase System
DBA: Date Book Archive (Databases)
Filename extension
DBS: Direct Broadcast Satellite
dBA: DeciBel Adjusted (Communication)
DBAC: DataBase Administration Center DBS: Duplex Bus Selector
DBAS: DataBase Administration System DBTG: DataBase Task Group
DBB: Dynamic Bass Boost Subcommittee of CODASYL (Organizations)
DbC: Design By Contract DBV: Digital Broadcast Video

(Software) DBWR: DataBase WRiter
DBC: Device Bay Controller (Databases) (Oracle)
DBCC: DataBase Consistency Checks DC: Data Cartridge

(Databases) (Hardware)
DBCLOB: Double-Byte Character Large OBject DC: Data Collection

(Databases) DC: Data Communication
(Communication)

DC DDA
DC: Data Compression DCF: Design rule for Camera Filesystem

DC: Data Control DCF: Distributed Coordination Function
(Communication)
DC: Device Context
(Operating systems) DCF: Driver Configuration File
(Lotus)
DC: Device Control
DC: Direct Current DCI: Data Capture Interface
DC: Domain Controller DCI: Display Control Interface

D (Network) DCL: Data Control Language
DCA: Defense Communications Agency DCL: DeCLaration
The government agency responsible for the defense data
DCL: Device CLear
network (DDN). (Organizations)
DCL: Digital Command Language
DCA: Digital Communications Associates
(DEC)
DCA: Distributed Communication Architecture
DCL: Digital Control Logic
DCA: Document Content Architecture
DCLU: Digital Carrier Line Unit
Describes how a document is organized (tabulator, headers,
footers, ...) so it appears the same on different systems DCLZ: Data Compression Lempel-Ziv
DCA: Dynamic Cache Architecture DCM: Digital Carrier Module
DCAF: Distributed Console Access Facility DCML: Dynamic Configuration Markup Language
(IBM) DCNA: Data Communication Network
DCAM: Digital CAMera Architecture
(Hardware) DCO: Digitally Controlled Oscillator
DCAM: Direct Chip Attach Module (Hardware)
DCB: Device Control Block DCOM: Distributed Component Object Model

(Microsoft)
DCB: Disk Coprocessor Board
(Novell) DCP: Device Color Profile
(Software)
DCC: Data Country Code
DCP: Device Control Protocol
DCC: Digital Command Control
DCS: Data Control System
DCC: Digital Compact Cassette
(Hardware) (Philips) DCS: Desktop Color Separation
(Software)
DCC: Digital Content Creation
DCS: Digital Cellular System
DCC: Direct Cable Connection
(Hardware) DCS: Digital Cross-connect System
DCC: Direct Client Connection DCS: Distributed Control System
DCC: Display Combination Code DCT: DiCTionary
File name extension
DCCS: DisContiguous Shared Segments
DCT: Discrete Cosine Transform
DCD: Data Carrier Detect
Mathematical function used by video encoders to achieve a
DCD: Database Connector Descriptor high compression ratio. (Software)
(Databases) (Oracle)
DCT: Display Compression Technology
DCD: Document Content Description
DCU: Data Cache Unit
DCE: Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DCU: Delphi Compiled Unit
DCE: Data Communication Equipment (Software) (Borland)
A type of hardware, such as a modem, that is responsible for
DD: Data Definition
encoding a digital signal for delivery to a compatible DCE
(Databases)
connected by a data link. In contrast with Data Terminal
Equipment (DTE) (Communication) DD: Data Dictionary
DCE: Distributed Computing Environment DD: Digital Display
DCED: Distributed Computing Environment DD: Double Density
Daemon
DDA: Digital Differential Analyzer
DCF: Data Communication Facility A differential analyzer (DA) that uses digital representations
(IBM) for analog quantities.
DCF: Data Compression Facility DDA: Distributed Data Access
DCF: Data Count Field DDA: Domain-Defined Attribute
(IBM)

DDAP DEL
DDAP: Digital Distribution of Advertising for DDP: Document-Driven Programming

Publications (Software)
User-driven organization working towards enabling the
DDR: Dance Dance Revolution
universal exchange of digital ads throughopen process
The most awesomest dance simulator around (Software)
integration and the use of accredited standards. See
(Sony)
http://www.ddap.org (Organizations)
DDB: Device Dependent Bitmap DDR: Dial on Demand Routing

(Network)
DDB: Device Descriptor Block
DDR: Double Data Rate
DDBMS: Distributed DataBase Management Memory access architecture that supports data transfers on D
System both edges of each clock cycle, which doubles the memory
(Databases) chip's data throughput. DDR also consumes less power,
which makes it well-suited for use with notebook computers
DDC: Digital Data Channel
(Hardware)
DDC: Display Data Channel
DDR: Dynamic Desktop Router
DDCMP: Digital Data Communications Message
DDR: Dynamic Document Review
Protocol
(Software) (Symantec)
(DEC)
DDR-SDRAM: Double Data Rate - Synchronous
DDCS: Distributed Data Connection Services
Dynamic Random Access Memory
(IBM)
(Hardware)
DDD: Direct Distance Dialing
DDR-SMII: Double Data Rate - Serial Media
DDE: Direct Data Entry Independent Interface
DDE: Dynamic Data Exchange (Network)
Interprocess communication mechanism (Software) DDS: Data Description Specification
(Microsoft)
DDS: Design Data Sheet
DDEML: Dynamic Data Exchange Manager
Library DDS: Digital Data Storage
(Microsoft) DDS: Digital Dataphone Service
(AT&T)
DDF: Data Decryption Field
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) DDS: Distributed Database Services
DDF: Distributed Data Facility DDS: Distributed Directory Service
DDF: Dynamic Data Formatting DDSA: Digital Data Service Adapter
(IBM)
DDT: Dynamic Debugging Tool
DDI: Device Driver Interface DDWG: Digital Display Working Group
An interface that facilitates driver portability across different (Organizations)
UNIX system versions on SPARC hardware. (Operating
systems) (Sun) DDX: Digital Data eXchange
DDI: Digital Document Interchange DE: Device End
DDI: Direct Dial In DEA: Data Encryption Algorithm
DDIM: Device Driver Initialization Model DEA: Disposable Email Address
DDK: Driver Development Kit DEB: Digital European Backbone
(Software) (Network)
DDL: Data Definition Language DEBI: Dma Extended Bus Interface

(Hardware)
DDL: Document Description Language
DEC: DECrement
DDM: Distributed Data Management
(IBM) DEC: DEvice Clear
DDMA: Distributed Direct Access Memory DEC: Digital Equipment Corporation
DDML: Document Definition Markup Language DECNET: Digital Equipment Corporation
NETworking
DDN: Defense Data Network
Network protocol
Comprises the MILNET and several other Department of
Defense networks. (Network) DECT: Digital Enhanced Cordless
DDNS: Dynamic Domain Name System Telecommunications
(Communication)
(Network)
DDoS: Distributed Denial Of Service DECUS: Digital Equipment Corporation Users
Society
(Network)
DEK: Data Encryption Key
DDP: Datagram Delivery Protocol
DEL: Data Extraction Language
DDP: Distributed Data Processing

DEL DGA
DEL: DELete DF: Destination Field

DELNI: Digital Ethernet Local Network DF: Device Flag
Interconnect DF: Double Flag
DELQA: Digital Ethernet Lowpower Q-bus
DFC: Data Flow Control
network Adapter
DFD: Data Flow Diagram
DELSTR: DELete STRing
(IBM) DFDR: Digital Flight Data Recorder
(Hardware)
DELTA: Developing European Learning through
D Technology Advance DFDSM: Data Facility Distributed Storage
Management
DELUA: Digital Ethernet Lowpower Unibus
network Adapter DFDSS: Data Facility Data Set Services
(Software) (IBM)
DELUG: DEutsche Linux User Group
DfE: Designed For Environment
DEMARC: Distributed Enterprise Managemant
ARChitecture DFE: Desktop Functional Equivalent
(Compaq)
DEMPR: Distributed Enterprise Management
ARChitecture DFHSM: Data Facility Hierarchical Storage
Manager
DEN: Directory Enabled Networking
(IBM)
The DEN Initiative (see www.dtmf.org) is an effort to build
intelligent networks and networked applications that can DFI: Digital Facility Interface
associate users and applications to services available from
DFM: Design For Manufacturability
the network according to a consistent and rational set of
policies (Network) (IBM)
DEN: Document Enabled Networking DFM: Device Fault Manager

(Novell) Provides real-time fault analysis for Cisco devices (Software)
(Cisco)
DENIM: Directory Enabled Net Infrastructure
Model DFN: Dedicated Frogans Network
(Network) (Novell) See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software)
DEPCA: Digital Ethernet Personal Computer- DFN: Deutsches ForschungsNetz

bus Adapter DFP: Data Facility Product
DEQNA: Digital Ethernet Q-bus Network Adapter DFP: Digital Flat Panel
DER: Distinguished Encoding Rules (Hardware)
DEREP: Digital Ethernet REPeater DFP: Distributed Functional Plane
DES: Data Encryption Standard DFPI: Digital Flat Panel Initiative

A commonly used algorithm developed by the U.S. National DFR: Double Frequency Recording
Bureau of Standards for encrypting and decrypting data. (Hardware)
DES: Data Entry Sheet DFS: Direct File System
DES: DEScription DFS: Distributed File System
Ffile name extension (Operating systems)
DES: Domino Extended Search DFS: Domino Fax Server
File name extension (IBM) (Software) (Lotus)
DESC: Defense Electronics Supply Center DFS: Dynamic File System
DESPR: Digital Ethernet Single Port Repeater (Operating systems) (Sun)
DESTA: Digital Ethernet thin-wire STation DFSMS: Data Facility Storage Management
Adapter System
(IBM)
DET: Device Execute Trigger
DFT: Design For Testability
DET: Directory Entry Table
A table on every network volume that contains directory DFT: Diagnostic Function Test
entries for each file on the volume. The table, stored in the DFT: Discrete Fourier Transform
server's memory, enables quick access to the location of
every file (Novell) DFT: Distributed Function Terminal
DEU: Defective End User DFU: Data File Utility
Often described by IS support personnel (Net lingo) DGA: Direct Graphics Access
DEUNA: Digital Ethernet Unibus Network A method of arbitrating access to the display between XGL
Adapter and X11/NeWS server. This allows XGL to talk directly to the
frame buffer, which results in maximum performance.
DEV: DEVice
DF: Data Field

DGC Divx
DGC: Data General Corporation DIL: Dual In Line

Data General produced minicomputers and was featured in Pin organization in ICs (Hardware)
the book "Soul of a New Machine" by Tracey Kidder
(Organizations)
DILLIGAF: Do I Look Like I Give A F***?
Sometimes used by tech support people (Net lingo)
DGC: Distributed Garbage Collection
(Software)
DILLIGAF: Does It Look Like I Give A F**ck
(Net lingo)
DGIS: Direct Graphics Interface Standard
DIME: Desktop Integrated Media Environment
DGP: Dissimilar Gateway Protocol
DIME: Direct Internet Message Encapsulation D
DGR: Dynamic Growth and Reconfiguration
(Artecon) DIME: DIrect Memory Execute
(Hardware)
DGUX: Data General UniX
DIME: Dual Independent Map Encoding
DH: Diffie-Hellman
SSL key exchange method
DIMM: Dual In line Memory Module
(Hardware)
DHCF: Distributed Host Command Facility
DIN: Deutsche Industrie Norm
DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol German standards organization (Organizations)
A system that assigns different IP addresses to devices
each time they connect to the network. DHCP can support a
DIO: Data Input-Output
mix of static and dynamic IP addresses (Network) DIP: Datacenter Infrastructure Provider
DHL: Dynamic Head Loading DIP: Dialup Internet Protocol
DHP: Dr. Halo Picture DIP: Digital Imaging Processing
File name extension
DIP: Dual Inline Pin
DHTML: Dynamic HyperText Markup Language Refers to the physical geometry of an integrated circuit or
DI: Data In other electronic package; rectangular, with pins on the two
longer sides (Hardware)
DI: Destination Index
DIPP: Dual Inline Pin Package
Processor register (Hardware) (Intel)
Refers to the physical geometry of an integrated circuit or
DIA: Document Interchange Architecture other electronic package; rectangular, with pins on the two
longer sides (Hardware)
DIANE: DIrect Access Network for Europe
DIB: Device Independent Bitmap DIR: DIRectory
File format for raster bitmaps (Microsoft) DIS: Draft International Standard
DIB: Directory Information Base DIS: Dynamic Impedance Stabilization
DIB: Dual Independent Bus DISA: Data Interchange Standards Association
(Hardware) DISA: Direct Inward System Access
DIBOL: DIgital Business Oriented Language DISI: Directory Information Services
DIC: DICtionary Infrastructure
File name extension (Network)
DIC: Digital Interface Controller DISM: Digital Interface Standards for Monitors
(Hardware)
DICE: Dolby's Interactive Content Encoding
DISOSS: DIStributed Office Support System
DICE: Dynamic Internet Configuration
(IBM)
Environment
DID: Direct Inward Dialing DISP: DISPlacement
DIDS: Distributed Intrusion Detection System DISP: Domino Internet Starter Pack
(IBM)
DIF: Data Interchange Format
DISP: Dutch Independent Shareware
DiffServ: DIFFerential SERVices Programmer
Allows providers to allocate different levels of service to
different users of the Internet (Network) DIT: Directory Information Tree
A graphical display of an organization's directory structure,
DIFMOS: Double Injection Floating gate Metal sites, and servers, shown as a branching structure. The top-
Oxyde Semiconductor level (root) directory usually represents the organization level
DIFS: Dcf Inter-Frame Spacing DIU: Digital Interface Unit
(Communication)
DIV: DIVide
DIG: Domain Internet Groper
DIVE: Direct Interface Video Extension
(Network)
(IBM)
DII: Dynamic Invocation Interface
Divx: DIgital Video eXpress
(Software)
(Hardware)
DIIP: Direct Interrupt Identification Port

DIW DMIF
DIW: D-Inside Wire DLT: Digital Linear Tape

(AT&T) (Hardware)
DIX: Dec, Intel, Xerox dLVQ: Dynamic Learning Vector Quantizer

DIY: Do It Yourself DLZ: Digital Lempel-Ziv
(Net lingo) Compression algorithm
DIZ: Description In Zip DM: Delta Modulation

File name extension
DM: Desktop Management
D DKI: Driver Kernel Interface DM: Disconnect Mode
An interface between the UNIX system kernel and different
types of drivers. DKI consists of a set of driver-defined DM: Distributed Memory
functions that are called by the kernel. These functions are
DM: Document Management
entry points into a driver. (Operating systems)
DMA: Digital Music Aggregator
DL: Distribution List
DMA: Dimensional Media Associates
DL: DownLoad
DMA: Direct Memory Access
DL/1: Data Language 1 The transfer of data directly into memory without supervision
(IBM)
of the processor. The data is passed on the bus directly
DL/1: Data Language/1 between the memory and another device. In contrast with
Direct Virtual Memory Access (DVMA). (Hardware)
DLA: Drive Letter Access
(HP) DMA: Document Management Alliance
DLB: Dynamic Load Balancing DMAC: Direct Memory Access Controller

(Hardware)
DLC: Data Line Card
(Hardware) DMACS: Distributed Manufacturing Automation
& Control Software
DLC: Data Link Control
DMAPI: Dictation Macro Application
DLC: Digital Loop Carrier Programming Interface
(Hardware) (Software)
DLCI: Data Link Connection Identifier DMB: Dhtml Menu Builder
Identifies the Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC) connections Used to idetify a DHTML/Javascript menu building tool called
from the user to the frame relay cloud. Assigned by the DHTML Menu Builder. Also used in the extension of the
service provider (Communication) application's project files (Software)
DLD: Display List Driver DMB: Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
DLE: Data Link Escape DMB: Domain Master Browser
DLL: Dynamic Link Library (Network)
(Software) (Microsoft) DMC: Desktop Multimedia Conferencing
DLL: Dynamic Link Loader DMCA: Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DLM: Distributed Lock Manager DMD: Device Manager Driver
DLM: Dynamic Link Module DMD: Digital Micromirror Device
DLP: Digital Light Processing (Hardware) (TI)
DLP: Discrete Logarithmic Problem DMD: Directory Management Domain

DLPI: Data Link Provider Interface DMDF: Distributed Management Data Facility
The SVR4 STREAMS-based kernel-level interface that DME: Dictionary Module Editor
supports the services of the Data Link Layer for both
(CAI)
connection-mode and connectionless-mode services.
(Network) DME: Direct Memory Execution
DLR: Dos Lan Requester DME: Distributed Management Environment
DLR: Dynamic Link Routine DMF: Digest Message Format
(Software) DMF: Distribution Media Format
DLS: Data Link Switching (Microsoft)
(IBM) DMG: Data Management Group
DLS: Dos Lan Services The department that manages data.
(Network)
DMI: Definition of Management Information
DLS: DownLoadable Sample DMI: Desktop Management Interface
DLSCAP: Data Link Switching Client Access DMI: Digital Multiplexed Interface
Protocol
(Network) DMIF: Delivery Multimedia Integration
Framework
DLSW: Data Link SWitching

DMK DOE
DMK: Dynamic Management Kit DNAfs: Distributed interNet Application for

(Sun) Financial Services
(Microsoft)
DML: Data Manipulation Language
(Databases) DNC: Direct Numerical Control
DMM: Digital MultiMeter DNC: Dynamic Network Controller
(Hardware)
DNCP: DecNet Control Protocol
DMM: Direct Mail Manager DNCRI: Division of Networking and
(Software) (Microsoft) Communication Research and Infrastructure
DMMS: Dynamic Memory Management System
D
DnD: Drag aNd Drop
DMO: Distributed Management Object (Software)
This OLE server exposes representations of SQL Server DNHR: Dynamic Non Hierarchical Routing
database objects (tables, stored procedures, server
properties, and so on), many of which are usually modified DNI: Decnet Network Interface
through Transact-SQL (Databases) (Microsoft) DNIC: Data Network Identification Code
DMOS: Double-diffused Metal Oxide DNIS: Dialed Number Identification Service
Semiconductor
(Hardware) DNJ: Developer Network Journal
(Microsoft)
DMP: Dot Matrix Printer
DNLC: Directory Name Lookup Cache
DMPC: Distributed Memory Parallel Computer Unix file cache (Operating systems) (Sun)
DMPP: Distributed Memory Parallel Processor DNM: Distributed Network Management
DMQS: Display Mode Query and Set (Software)
(IBM)
DNR: Digital Noise Reduction
DMS: Data Management Software (Hardware)
DMS: Defense Messaging System DNR: Domain Name Resolver
Global messaging system used for transfer of non-classified (Network)
and classified data (for example, encrypted emails) (Software)
DNS: Digital Nervous System
DMS: Desktop Management Suite (Microsoft)
(Seagate)
DNS: Domain Name System
DMS: Digital Multiplexed System The process that translates Internet domain names (such as
DMS: Distributed Media Services www.acronyms.ch) into IP addresses (Network)
DMS: Document Management System DNSSEC: Domain Name System SECurity

(Security)
DMSCMS: Display Management System
DNSSEC: Domain Name System SECurity
DMSD: Digital MultiStandard Decoding extensions
DMSDK: Digital Media Software Development Kit Technique for securing the Domain Name System. It is a set
(Software) (SGI) of extensions to DNS, which provide end-to-end authenticity
and integrity and was designed to protect the Internet from
DMSS: Distributed Mass Storage System certain attacks. See also http://www.dnssec.net/
DMT: Discrete MultiTone DO: Data Out
DMTF: Distributed Management Task Force DO: Distributed Objects
The DMTF is the industry organization that is leading the (Operating systems)
development, adoption and unification of management
standards and initiatives for desktop, enterprise and Internet DOA: Dead On Arrival
environments (Organizations) Service to replace malfunctioning devices (Hardware)
DMU: Data Manipulation Unit DOA: Dead Or Alive

(Games)
DMVT: Dynamic Video Memory Technology
(Hardware) (Intel) DOC: Declaration Of Conformity
DMY: Day Month Year DOC: DOCument
File name extensions
DMZ: De-Militarized Zone
LAN segment between two firewalls (Network) DOCSIS: Data Over Cable Service Internet
Specification
DN: Distinguished Name
(Operating systems) DOCSV: Data Over Circuit-Switched Voice
DN: DowN DOD: Department Of Defense
(Organizations)
DNA: Digital Network Architecture
(DEC) DOD: Direct Outward Dialing
(Communication)
DNA: Distributed interNet Application
(Microsoft) DOE: Distributed Objects Environment

DOE DPT
DOE: Distributed Objects Everywhere DPDT: Double Pole Double Throw

(Operating systems) (Sun)
DPE: Distributed Processing Environment
DOI: Domain Of Interpretation DPI: Data Processing Information
DOIP: Dial Other Internet Providers DPI: Digital Phone Interface
(IBM)
DPI: Distributed Protocol Interface
DOIT: Disabilities, Opportunities,
Internetworking and Technology dpi: Dots Per Inch
Resolution Measurement
DO-IT: Disabilities, Opportunities,
D Internetworking and Technology DPKG: Debian PacKaGe
Binary software package for installation on Debian
DOJ: Department Of Justice GNU/Linux. Also, the software installation program
(Organizations) (Operating systems)
DOLAP: Desktop OnLine Analytical Processing DPKT: Dynamic Public Key Technology
DOM: Document Object Model DPL: Descriptor Privilege Level
Popular, standardized way of manipulating XML data
DPL: Distributed Program Link
DOMAIN: Distributed Operating Multi Access (IBM)
Interactive Network
DPM: Defects Per Million
DOMF: Distributed Object Management Facility
(HP)
DPM: Demand Planning Module
(Software)
DOOM: Decentralized Object-Oriented Machine
DPM: Digital Panel Meter
DoS: Denial Of Service (Hardware)
(Network)
DPMA: Data Processing Management
DOS: Disk Operating System Association
(Operating systems) (Organizations)
DoSBS: Denial Of Service By Service DPMI: Dos Protected Mode Interface
The practice of making large numbers of legal accesses to a (Operating systems)
computer's public interface (i.e. web site) with the intention of
slowing or crashing the system. Hence Denial of Service By DPMS: Display Power Management Signaling
Service - the serving computer cannot keep up with the (Hardware)
demands (Network)
DPMS: Dos Protected Mode Services
DOSEM: Disk Operating System EMulation DPNPH: Data Packet Network-Packet Handler
DOT: Design Oriented Technology DPO: Data Phase Optimization
DOT: DOcument Template DPOF: Digital Print Order Format
Filename extension
DPP: Distributed Parallel Processing
DOV: Data Over Voice
(Communication) DPRAM: Dual-Ported Random Access Memory
A type of random access memory that allows multiple reads
DOVBS: Data Over Voice Bearer Service or writes to occur at the same time (Hardware)
(Communication)
DPRG: Dallas Personal Robotics Group
DOW: Day Of Week United States' oldest club involved in amateur robotics
DOW: Direct OverWrite (Organizations)
DP: Data Processing DPROP: Data PROPagator

(IBM)
DP: Defect Prevention
(Software) DPS: Desktop Purchasing System
Buy-side electronic commerce system which supports the
DP: Detection Point procurement process of indirect goods and services
DPA: Demand Protocol Architecture DPS: Digital Pixel Sensor
(3Com)
(Hardware)
DPA: Document Printing Architecture DPS: Display PostScript
DPAM: Demand Priority Access Method DPS: Document Processing System
DPAREN: Data PARity ENable DPSK: Differential Phase Shift Keying
DPB: Drive Parameter Block (Communication)
DPBC: Delivery Point Bar Code DPST: Double Pole Single Throw
US Mail system to speed mail sorting, increase delivery
DPT: Distributed Processing Technology
accuracy, and reduce postage costs
(DPT)
DPC: Deferred Procedure Call
DPC: Direct Program Control

DPtoTP DS
DPtoTP: Display Coordinates TO Tablet DRF: Data Recovery Field

Coordinates In NTFS file encryption keys are stored there (Operating
Coordinates conversion systems) (Microsoft)
DPV: Distributed Partitioned View DRI: Declarative Referential Integrity

Joins horizontally partitioned data from a set of member (Databases)
tables across one or more servers, making the data appear
DRI: Defense Research Internet
as if from one table (Databases) (Microsoft)
DRI: Digital Research Incorporated
DQDB: Distributed Queue Dual Bus
DRK: Devnet Resource Kit
DQL: Data Query Language
(Software) (Macromedia)
D
DQP: Distributed Query Processor
(Databases)
DRM: Destination Release Mechanism
DRM: Digital Rights Management
DQPSK: Differential Quadrature Phase Shift
Copy-protection scheme
Keying
(Communication) DRM: Distributed Resource Management
DR: Data Received DRMOS: Digital Rights Management Operating
System
DR: Disaster Recovery
Process or plan by which a business would recover it's IT DRMU: Digital Remote Measurement Unit
systems in the case or a major incident (disaster)
DRO: Data Request Output
DR.BOND: Dial-up Router Bandwidth ON Demand DRO: Destructive Read-Out
(NEC)
DRP: Decnet Routing Protocol
DRAC: Dell Remote Assistant Card
(Hardware) (Dell) DRP: Distribution and Replication Protocol
The goal of the DRP protocol is to significantly improve the
DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory efficiency and reliability of data distribution over HTTP
A type of semiconductor random-access memory that stores
information in integrated circuits that contain capacitors.
DRS: Document Registration System
Because capacitors lose their charge over time, the dynamic DRS: Driver ReSource
RAM must be periodically "refreshed" or recharged. File name extension
(Hardware)
DRV: device DRiVer
DRAS: Dynamic Remote Access Service
File name extension
(Microsoft)
DRV: DRiVe
DRAW: Direct Read After Write
DRW: Drawing
DRB: Dram Row Boundary
File name extensions
DRC: Design Rule Checks DS: Data Segment
DRD: Data Reading Device CPU register (Hardware) (Intel)
DRD: Digital Ruggedized Display DS: Data Send
(Hardware)
DS: Data Server
DRDA: Distributed Relational Database DS: Data Strobe
Architecture
(Hardware)
(Databases)
DS: Database Server
DRDAAS: Distributed Relational Database
(Databases)
Architecture Application Server
DS: Differentiated Service
DR-DOS: Digital Research Disk Operating
A IETF standard for a small, well-defined set of per-packet
System
building blocks from which a variety of services may be built,
DRDRAM: Direct Rambus Dynamic Random thereby providing a framework for delivering quality of service
Access Memory (QoS) in networks (Network)
(Hardware) DS: Digital Science
DRDW: Direct Read During Write (Hardware) (Kodak)
DRE: Document Rendering Engine DS: Digital Services

Collection of Java classes that can be used to define an DS: Digital Signal
abstract document and render it in PDF or HTML. A
document consists of a collection of elements such as text, DS: Digital Studio
lists (bulleted, numbered, plain), tables, images, fonts, color, (Sony)
etc. (Software) (IBM)
DS: Directory Service
DREN: Defense Research and Engineering (Network)
Network
DS: Direct-Sequence
(Network)
IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN access method (Communication)
DS: Distribution Service

DS DSP
DS: Double-Sided DSL: Dialogue Scripting Language

(Hardware)
DSL: Digital Subscriber Line
DS/PPM: Direct Sequence/Pulse Position (Communication)
Modulation
DSL: Distributed Service Logic
(Hardware)
DSL: Domain Specific Language
DS0: Digital Signaling Zero A programming languge created to solve a specific type of
(Communication) problem (Software)
DS3D: DirectSound 3D DSL: Dual Stress Liner
D (Operating systems) (Microsoft) Technology by AMD and IBM to strain silicon chips to
DSA: Digital Signature Algorithm enhance their performance (Hardware)
DSA: Digital Storage Architecture DSL: Dynamic Simulation Language

DSA: Directory System Agent DSL2: Downloadable Sounds Level 2
The software that provides the X.500 directory service for a (Hardware)
portion of the directory information base. Generally, each DSLAM: Digital Subscriber Line Access
DSA is responsible for the directory information for a single Multiplexer
organization or organizational unit.
(Hardware)
DSA: Distributed Systems Architecture
DSLCP: Dynamically Switched Link Control
DSA: Dynamic Scalable Architecture Protocol
DSAP: Destination Service Access Point (Network)
DSAV: Dr. Solomon's Anti Virus DSLR: Digital Single-Lens Reflex

DSBAM: Double-SideBand Amplitude Module DSM: Directory Service Migration
DSBM: Designated Subnet Bandwidth Manager DSM: Discrete Sequence Modulation

A device on a managed subnetwork that acts as the Subnet DSM: Distributed Shared Memory
Bandwidth Manager for the subnetwork to which it is attached (Hardware)
(Network)
DSMA: Digital Sense Multiple Access
DSC: Digital Still Camera
(Hardware)
DSM-CC: Digital Storage Media - Command and
Control
DSC: Document Structuring Convention
DSML: Directory Services Markup Language
DSC: Document Structuring Conventions
DSMN: Directory Service Manager for Netware
DSCP: Differentiated Services Code Point (Operating systems)
(Network)
DSN: Data Source Name
DSD: Data Stream Direct (Databases)
DSD: Data Structure Diagram DSN: Delivery Service Notification
DSDD: Double Sided, Double Density DSN: Developer Support News
DSDM: Drop Site Database Manager DSN: Distributed Systems Network
A process (not the sending client) responsible for
maintaining a registry or database of potential drop sites for DSO: Data Source Object
drag and drop operations. (Databases)
DSE: Data Storage Equipment DSO: Decision Support Object

DSE: Directory Services Environment DSO: Digital Storage Oscilloscope
Contains a list of Naming Contexts and Application An oscilloscope with a built-in memory used to store
Partitions maintained by a Domain Controller (Operating electronic waveforms (Hardware)
systems) (Microsoft) DSO: Dynamic Shared Object
DSEA: Display Station Emulation Adapter (Software)
DSF: Dispersion Shifted Fibre DSOM: Distributed System Object Model

Optical fiber type (Communication) (Operating systems) (IBM)
DSHD: Double Sided, High Density DSP: Development Service Provider
DSI: Defense Simulation Internet DSP: Dictionary Server Protocol
(Network)
DSI: Distributed Storage Infrastructure
DSIG: Digital SIGnature DSP: Digital Signal Processor
A computer oriented toward math-intensive applications,
(Security)
often a single chip or small chip set. (Hardware)
DSIMM: Dual Single Inline Memory Module
DSP: Digital Sound Processor
DSIS: Distributed Support Information (Hardware)
Standard

DSP DTSS
DSP: Directory Synchronization Protocol DTC: DeskTop Conferencing

(Lotus)
DTC: Distributed Transactions Coordinator
DSP: Document Services for Printing (Databases) (Microsoft)
DSP: Domain-Specific Part DTCP: Digital Transmission Content Protection

(Network)
DTD: Document Type Definition
DSPT: Display Station Pass-Thru DTE: Data Terminal Equipment
(IBM)
That part of a data station that serves as a data source, data
DSQD: Double Sided, Quad Density sink, or both, and provides for the data communication
control function according to protocols. In contrast with Data
D
DSR: Data Set Ready Communication Equipment (DCE). (Communication)
Serial port signal (Communication)
DTE: Dumb Terminal Emulator
DSR: Device Status Register
DTF: Distributed Test Facility
DSR: Device Status Report
DTL: Dialogue Tag Language
DSRI: Digital Standard Relational Interface (IBM)
DSS: Decision Support System DTL: Diode Transistor Logic
DSS: Digital Signature Standard Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware)
DSS: Direct Station Selector DTLB: Dual Translation Lookaside Buffer

(Hardware)
DTM: Deterministic Turing Machine
DSS: Distributed Security Service DTM: Digital Terrain Mapping
DSSI: Digital Standard Systems Interconnect DTM: Distributed Transaction Monitor
(DEC)
DTM: Document Table Model
DSSLL: Differentiated Services over Specific Interface to a document model designed specifically for the
Link Layers needs of Apache's XPath and XSLT implementations. The
A system for mapping between Differentiated Services and motivation behind this model is to optimize performance and
other bandwidth-management protocols such as 802.1p and minimize storage (Software)
ATM (Network)
DTMF: Dual Tone MultiFrequency
DSSS: Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Use of two simultaneous voice-band tones for dial (such as
(Communication) touch tone) (Hardware)
DSSSL: Document Style Semantic and DTML: Document Template Markup Language
Specification Language
DTMS: Data Transformation Management
International standard for associating processing with SGML
System
documents
DTO: Data Transfer Object
DST: Daylight Saving Time
An "envelope" used to transport any kind of data between
DSTN: Double-layer SuperTwist Nematic tiers of systems (Software)
DTO: Day-Time Organizer
DSU: Data Service Unit (Software)
DSU: Digital Service Unit DTP: DeskTop Publishing
DSVD: Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data DTP: Distributed Transaction Processing
(Communication)
DTR: Data Terminal Ready
DSW: Data Status Word Serial port signal (Communication)
DSW: Device Status Word DTR: Data Transfer Rate
DSX: Digital Signals Cross-connect DTR: Dedicated Token Ring
DT4DTD: DataTypes For Document Type (Network)
Definition DTR: DeskTop Reproduction
DTA: Direct Tape Access DTR: Draft Technical Report
(Seagate)
DTS: Data Transformation Service
DTA: Disk Transfer Area (Databases)
DTAP: Direct Transfer Application Part DTS: Developer Technical Support
DTB: Data Transfer Bus (Software) (Sun)
Part of the VMEbus specification that contains data and DTS: Digital Theater Surround
address pathways and associated control signals. Functional
modules called DTB masters and DTB slaves use the DTB to DTS: Distributed Time Service
transfer data between each other. (Hardware) DTS: Distributed Traffic Shaping
DTC: Design-Time Control (or Component) (Cisco)
(Software) DTSS: Dartmouth Time Sharing System

DTU DWDM
DTU: Demand Transmission Unit DVD-RW: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk-
ReWritable
DTV: DeskTop Video
(Hardware)
DTV: Digital TeleVision
(Hardware)
DVE: Digital Video Effect
DTVC: DeskTop Video Conferencing D-VHS: Digital Video Home System

DVI: DeVice Independent
DU: Disk Usage
File name extension
DUA: Directory User Agent
DVI: Diagonal Viewable Image
D The software that accesses the X.500 directory service on
(Hardware)
behalf of the directory user. The directory user may be a
person or another software element. DVI: Digital Video Interactive
DUAT: Direct User Access Terminal DVI: Digital Video Interface
DUL: Dialup Users List Specification to interface digital flat panels with host PCs
Project to encourage good e-mail behaviour and (Hardware)
accountability without denying regular e-mail. See DVI-A: Digital Video Interface-Analog
http://mail-abuse.org/dul/ (Hardware)
DUN: Dial-Up Networking DVI-D: Digital Video Interface-Digital
(Network) (Hardware)
DUNCE: Dial Up Network Connection DVI-I: Digital Video Interface-Integrated
Enhancement (Hardware)
(Network)
DVI-V: Digital Video Interface-Vga
DUP: DUPlex
(Hardware)
Used in SCSI interface for split backplane (Hardware)
DVL: Digital Video Link
DUT: Device Under Test
DVM: Digital Volt Meter
DUW: Distributed Unit of Work (Hardware)
(IBM)
DVMA: Direct Virtual Memory Access
DV: Digital Video A mechanism to enable a device on the SBus to initiate data
DVB: Digital Video Broadcasting transfers between it and other SBus
(Communication) devices, such as system memory. Contrast with Direct
Memory Access (DMA). (Hardware)
DVC: Desktop Video Conferencing
DVMRP: Distance Vector Multicast Routing
DVC: Digital Video Camera Protocol
(Hardware) (Network)
DVD: Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz DVOF: Digital Video Over Fiber
DVD: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk DVR: device DriVeR
(Hardware) File name extension
DVD+MRW: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk- DVR: Digital Video Recorder
Mount rainier ReWritable (Hardware)
Standard that enables native OS support of data storage on
DVD+RW. This makes the technology far easier to use and DVRMP: Distance Vector Multicast Routing
allows the replacement of the floppy. See http://www.mt- Protocol
rainier.org/ (Hardware) (Network)
DVD+RW: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk- DVX: Digital Voice eXchange
ReWritable DW: Data Warehouse
(Hardware)
(Databases)
DVD-A: Digital Video (or Versatile) Disk-Audio DW: Display Write
(Hardware)
Word Processor (Software) (IBM)
DVD-MMVFF: Digital Versatile Disc MultiMedia DW: Double Word
Video File Format
Four consecutive bytes (32 bits)
DVD-R: Digital Video Disk-Recordable DWA: Data Warehousing Alliance
DVD-RAM: Digital Versatile Disk - Random (Databases) (Microsoft)
Access Memory
DWC: Data Warehouse Catalog
A read-write DVD (Hardware)
Data warehousing (Databases)
DVD-ROM: Digital Versatile Disk - Read Only
DWDM: Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
Memory
(Communication)
A read only DVD (Hardware)

DWF EB
DWF: Design Web Format EADASNM: Engineering and Administrative

Fast, efficient way to distribute design data to anyone who Data Acquisition System Network Management
needs it. With Autodesk Express Viewer, a small, free,
downloadable application, you can view and print that rich
EADT: East Australian Daylight Time
data (Software) (Autodesk) Timezone: GMT +10:00
DWG: DraWinG E-ADT: Extended Abstract Data Type

File name extension (Software)
DWM: Diskless Workstation Management EAGLES: Expert Advisory Group on Language

Engineering Standards
DWMT: Discrete Wavelet MultiTone
EAI: Enterprise Application Integration
D
DWT: Discrete Wavelet Transform
EAM: Enterprise Asset Management
DX: DirectX (Software)
E
EAM: Evanescent Access Method
DX: DupleX
(Communication)
EAN: European Article Number
Bar code standards family
DXB: Drawing eXchange Binary
File name extension (Autodesk) EAP: Early Adopter Program
DXC: Data eXchange Control EAP: Extensible Authentication Protocol

(Security)
DXF: Data eXchange File
EAPI: Extended Application Programming
DXF: Drawing Exchange Format Interface
File name extension (Software)
DXI: Data eXchange Interface EAPoL: Extensible Authentication Protocol
An interface to frame relay networks (Communication) Over Lan
DXL: Domino Xml Language (Security)
(IBM) EAR: Enterprise ARchive
DXPC: Differential X Protocol Compressor Filename extension (Software)
Dxr: Dynamic eXtended Resolution EAR: External Access Register

(Hardware) (Creative Labs) EARL: Enhanced Address Recognition Logic
DXTC: DirectX Texture COmpression Is a custom Catalyst 5000 family switch component similar
(Microsoft) to the learning bridge or content-addressable memory (CAM)
of other types of network switches and routers (Hardware)
DYNSLT: DYNamic SeLecT (Cisco)
(IBM)
EARN: European Academic Research Network
A network using BITNET technology connecting universities
E and research labs in Europe. (Network)
E: Exa EAROM: Electrically Alterable Read Only
Prefix for 10 power 18 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 60) Memory
E&M: Ear & Mouth (Hardware)
Trunking arrangement generally used for two-way switch-to- EARS: Electronic Access to Reference Services
switch or switch-to-network connections (Hardware)
EARS: Electronic Authoring and Routing System
E2E: End-To-End (DEC)
The ability of a network to deliver service needed by a
specific network application from end-to-end, with the ability
EARS: Explicit Archive and Retrieval System
to provide both class of service and reserved bandwidth for EAS: Enterprise Access Server
different types of network traffic (Network)
EAS: Enterprise Agreement for S/390
E3: Electronic Entertainement Expo (Software) (IBM)
EA: Effective Address EASI: Enhanced Asynchronous Scsi Interface
EA: Enterprise Agreement EAST: East Australian Standard Time
Licensing scheme (Microsoft) Timezone: GMT +10:00
EA: Escrowed Authenticator EAT: End Around Test
EA: Extended Attribute Also known as a wrap test, returns output signal to input line
(IBM) (Hardware)
EAB: Enterprise Application Builder EATA: Enhanced Advanced Technology bus

(Software) Attachment
EADAS: Engineering and Administrative Data EAX: Environmental Audio eXtensions

Acquisition System (Hardware) (Creative Labs)
EB: ExaByte
1024 petabytes

EBASIC ECNE
EBASIC: Extended Beginners All-purpose ECB: Event Control Block

Symbolic Instruction Code A data structure used to control sending and receiving of
Programming language (Software) packets in a Novell Network (Operating systems) (Novell)
EBC: Eisa Bus Controller ECC: Electrical Connectivity Checks

EBCDIC: Extended Binary Coded Decimal ECC: Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Interchange Code Technology for public key cryptosystems, providing the
Charachter encoding scheme (IBM) highest security-to-key size ratio (Security)
EBCT: Electron Beam Computed Tomography ECC: Error Checking and Correction
Character encoding scheme The detection, in the processing unit, and correction of all
single-bit errors, plus the detection of double-bit and some
EBD: Emergency Boot Disk multiple-bit errors.
E EBDI: Enhanced Background Debug Interface ECC: Error Correction Code
(Hardware) (Motorola)
ECD: Enhanced Color Display
EBDS: Enhanced Background Debug Software
ECD: Enhanced Compact Disk
EBF: Emergency Bug Fix
(Software)
ECDL: European Computer Driving Licence
The ECDL Foundation works to promote an International
EBF: Engineering Bug Fix certification of industry-standard computing skills. See
(Sybase) http://www.ecdl.com (Organizations)
EBI: Equivalent Background Input ECF: Enhanced Connectivity Facilities
EBI: Extended Background Investigation ECHO: European Commission Host Organization
EBI: External Bus Interface echs: Extended Cylinders, Heads, Sectors
(Hardware) Enables use of hard drives up to 8.4 GB in size (Hardware)
EBIP: Enterprise Business Intelligence Portal ECHT: European Conference on Hypermedia
EBKAC: Error Between Keyboard And Chair Technology
Pronounced 'ebb-kak', is used to describe user errors -- ECI: External Call Interface
"obviously an EBKAC error" (Net lingo) (IBM)
EBML: Extensible Binary Meta Language ECL: EClectic Language
Simple, XML-like binary language for describing data in
ECL: Emitter Coupled Logic
structured style. See http://ebml.sourceforge.net/
Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware)
EBNF: Extended Backus-Naur Form
ECLF: Extended Common Log Format
EBPP: Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (Network)
Allows customers of commerce institutions to view and pay
their bills online
ECM: Electronic Control Module
EBROM: Electronic Book Read Only Memory ECM: Electronic Counter Measures
(Hardware)
EBSS: Extended Basic Service Set
Wireless network with more than one wireless access point ECM: Endpoint Congestion Management
(Network) (Network)
EBT: Electronic Benefits Transfer ECM: Enterprise Commerce Management

ebXML: Electronic Business eXtensible Markup ECM: Enterprise Content Management
Language ECM: Entity Coordination Management
This standard aims at creating a modular electronic business
framework using XML. It is the product of a joint initiative by
ECM: Error-Correction Mode
the United Nations (UN/CEFACT) and the Organization for ECMA: European Computer Manufacturing
the Advancement of Structured Information Systems Association
(OASIS)
(Organizations)
EC: Electronic Commerce ECML: Electronic Commerce Modeling Language
EC: Error Control ECMP: Equal Cost Multipath Protocol
EC: European Community (Network)
EC: Exchange Carrier ECN: Electronic Communications Network
(Communication)
ECN: European Counter Network
ECAF: European Certification Authority Forum ECN: Explicit Congestion Notification
ECAL: Enjoy Computing And Learn (Network)
ECAT: Electronic Card Assembly and Test ECNE: Enterprise Certified Netware Engineer
(IBM) (Novell)
ECB: Electronic CodeBook

ECO EDSAC
ECO: Engineering Change Order EDC: Error Detection Code

Hardware minor revisions, usually in the days of
EDDC: Extended Distance Data Cable
minicomputers, where a change wasn't made to the PCB
layout (which would probably carry the major revision EDE: Encrypt-Decrypt-Encrypt
number/letter), e.g. to correct a problem found in operation
and approved and recorded by HQ staff (Hardware)
EDFA: Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifier
(Communication)
ECOM: Electronic Computer Originated Mail
EDGAR: Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis
ECOOP: European Conference on Object and Retrieval
Orientated Programming
EDGE: Enhanced Data-rate for Gsm Evolution
ECP: Enhanced Communication Protocol
EDI: Electronic Data Interchange
ECP: Extended Capabilities Port E
EDI: Electronic Document Interchange
(Hardware)
(DEC)
ECPA: Electronic Communication Privacy Act
EDID: Extended Display Identification Data
ECPP: Enterprise Collaborative Processing (Hardware)
Portal
EDIF: Electronic Design Interchange Format
ECR: Enterprise Content Repository A standard file format for exchanging CAD data.
ECR: Enterprise Customer Resource EDIFACT: Electronic Data Interchange For
eCRM: Electronic Customer Relationship Administration Commerce and Transport
Management EDIINT: Electronic Data Interchange-Internet
A complete view of customer interactions, stored in INTegration
electronic format for review and data manipulation (Software) Standard detailing a set of protocols and requirements to
ECS: Element Construction Set package, secure, communicate and authenticate
Java API for generating elements for various markup transactions over the Internet in an interoperable manner
languages it directly supports HTML 4.0 and XML, but can EDIT: Emulsion Direct Imaging Technology
easily be extended to create tags for any markup language (Hardware)
(Software)
EDL: Edit Decision List
ECS: Enhanced Chip Set
EDLC: Ethernet Data Link Control
ECS: Enterprise Control Station
EDM: Electronic Document Management
ECS: Event Communication Service
EDM: Engineering Data Management
ECSA: Exchange Carriers Standards Association
EDM: Enterprise Data Model
ECTF: Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum
Data warehousing
Brings together the best industry thinkers on the planet to
deliver on a shared vision in the computer telephony industry EDM: Environmental Descriptor Manager
to allow for open access to a diversity of communications (Databases)
products and services. See also http://www.ectf.org/
EDMS: Electronic Document Management
(Organizations)
System
ECTL: Electronic Communal Temporal Lobe
EDO: Extended Data Output
ECTS: European Consumer Trade Show Memory manufacturing technology (Hardware)
ECU: Eisa Configuration Utility EDOC: Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
ED: End Delimiter EDODRAM: Extended Data Out Dynamic
ED: Enhanced Density Random Access Memory
(Hardware)
ED: Erase Display
EDOS: Enhanced Disk Operating System
ED: Extra-high Density
Mmeory manufacturing technology
2.88 MB floppy disk (Hardware)
EDP: Electronic Data Processing
EDA: Electronic Design Automation
EDP: Extended Dos Partition
EDA: Embedded Document Architecture
EDAC: Electromechanical Digital Adapter Circuit
EDPM: Electronic Data Processing Machine
EDB: Embedded DataBase
EDPS: Electronic Data Processing System
EDB: External Data Bus
EDR: External Developer Release
(Hardware)
EDRAM: Extended Dynamic Random Access
EDC: Easy Data Communication
Memory
(Communication)
(Hardware)
EDC: Electronic Digital Computer
EDS: Electronic Data Systems
EDC: Enhanced Data Correction EDSAC: Electronic Delay Storage Automatic
EDC: Error Detection and Correction Computer

EDSRA EIP
EDSRA: Earth Data System Reference EFL: Emitter Follower Logic

Application (Hardware)
EDT: Eastern Daylight Time EFM: Eight to Fourteen Modulation

Timezone: GMT -5:00
EFM: Ethernet First Mile
EDTV: Enhanced Definition TeleVision (Network)
(Hardware)
E-FORM: Electronic FORM
EDU: Engine Dispatchable Unit EFS: Encrypting File System
(Databases)
(Operating systems)
EDVAC: Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic
EFSP: Enhanced Fax Service Provider
Computer
E First stored-program digital computer EFT: Electronic Funds Transfer
EDW: Enterprise Data Warehouse EFT: Euro FileTransfer
EE: Extended Edition EFTPoS: Point Of SaleElectronic Funds

(IBM) Transfer at Point Of Sale
EEA: Extended Enterprise Applications EFTS: Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of

(Software) Sale
EEC: Extended Error Correction EGA: Enhanced Graphics Adapter

Video specification for a resolution of 640x350 pixels in 16
EEG: ElectroEncephaloGram colors (Hardware)
EEI: Equipment to Equipment Interface EGP: Exterior Gateway Protocol
EEL: Epsilon Extension Language A reachability routing protocol used by gateways in a two-
level internet. EGP is used in the Internet core system.
EEM: External Expansion Module (Network)
EEMA: European Electronic Messaging EGREP: Extended Global Regular Expression
Association Print
(Organizations)
EGS: Enhanced Graphics System
EEMAC: Electrical & Electronic MAnufacturers
of Canada EGSM: Extended Global System for Mobile
communications
EEMS: Enhanced Expanded Memory (Communication)
Specification
(Operating systems)
EHCI: Enhanced Host Controller Interface
(Hardware)
EEP: Entry Exit Procedure
EHF: Encoding Header Field
EEPRO: Ethernet Express PRO
Network interface card (Hardware) (Intel) EHF: Extreme High Frequency
EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable EHLLAPI: Emulator High-Level Language

Read Only Memory Application Programming Interface
A non-volatile PROM that may be written to as well as read EIA: Electronics Industries Association
from. (Hardware) (Organizations)
EES: Escrow Encryption Standard EIAJ: Electronic Industry Association of Japan
EESP: Enterprise Extended Services Portal (Organizations)
EET: Eastern European Time EiB: ExbIByte

Timezone: GMT +1:00 Unit of measurement, introduced by the International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024
EF: Expedited Forwarding PiB
A Per-Hop Behavior in the Differentiated Service standard,
used to create a virtual leased line service (Network)
EICAVR: European Institute for Computer Anti-
Virus Research
EFA: Extended File Attribute
EIDE: Enhanced Integrated Drive (or Device)
EFCI: Explicit Forward Congestion Indication Electronics
EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation Bus architecture (Hardware)
EFI: Electromechanical Frequency Interference EIGRP: Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing

Protocol
EFI: Electronics For Imaging
(Network) (Cisco)
EFI: Extensible Firmware Interface
EIM: Electronic Image Management
Specification that defines a new model for the interface
between operating systems and platform firmware EIO: Enhanced Input/Output
EFI: External Functional Interface EIP: Enterprise Information Portal
(IBM)
EFIGS: English, French, Italian, German,
Spanish

EIR EMR
EIR: Equipment Identity Register EM: Extensions Manager

A database containing a list of all valid IMEIs on the network
EMA: Electronic Mail Association
(Communication)
EMA: Enterprise Management Architecture
EIS: Enterprise Information System
EMA: Enterprise Memory Architecture
EIS: European Information System
(Operating systems)
EIS: Executive Information System
EMACS: Editing MACroS
EISA: Extended Industry Standard Architecture
E-MAIL: Electronic MAIL
PC bus architecture (Hardware)
EMB: Enhanced Master Burst
EISS: Europaeisches Institut für
SystemSicherheit EMB: Extended Memory Block
EITAAC: Electronic and Information EMBARC: Electronic Mail Broadcast to A
E
Technology Access Advisory Committee Roaming Computer
(Organizations) EMBM: Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping
EJB: Enterprise Java Bean EMC: ElectroMagnetic Compatibility
(Software) (Sun)
EMC: E-Mail Connection
EJC: Electronic Journal of Communication
EMC: Emergency Management Card
EKP: Enterprise Knowledge Portal (Hardware) (Intel)
(IBM)
EMC: Enhanced Memory Chip
EL: ElectroLuminescent
EMC: Extended Math Coprocessor
(Hardware)
EL: Erase Line EMEA: Europe, Middle East and Africa
EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework
EL1: Extensible Language One
Modeling framework and code generation facility for building
ELAN: Emulated Local Area Network tools and other applications based on a structured data
model. See also http://www.eclipse.org/emf/ (Software)
ELC: Embedded Linking and Control
ELD: Electronic License Distribution EMF: ElectroMagnetic Field
ELEC: Enterprise Local Exchange Carrier EMF: Enhanced MetaFile

File format for graphics (Microsoft)
ELF: Electronic Location Finder
EMF: Extensible Message Format
ELF: Executable and Linking Format
EMI: ElectroMagnetic Interference
(Software)
ELF: Extremely Low Frequency EMI: Enhanced Multilayer Image
Cisco's multicast routing implentation permits any host to
(Hardware)
send a packet but only members of the multicast group to
ELH: Entity Life History receive it if "EMI" is enabled on the Stack Master. (Network)
(Cisco)
ELI: Embedded Lisp Interpreter
EML: Element Management Layer
ELIC: Electronic Library Information Center
EML: EMaiL
ELINT: ELectronic INTelligence
Filename extension used by MS Outlook Express (Software)
ELK: Extension Language Kit (Microsoft)
ELLIS: EuLisp LInda System EMM: Expanded Memory Manager
ELM: ELectronic Mail EMM: Extended Memory Management
(Network)
EMMA: European MultiMedia Award
ELOD: Erasable Laser Optical Disk
EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation
ELP: Equational Logic Programming Markup language intended for use by systems that provide
semantic interpretations for a variety of inputs, including but
ELS: Entry Level System
not necessarily limited to, speech, natural language text,
ELSA: ELektronische SAchen GUI and ink input. See also http://www.w3.org/TR/emma/
German hardware manufacturer (Hardware)
EMMP: Enterprise Mission Management Portal
ELSNET: European Language and Speech EMO: Exchange Messaging Outlook
NETwork
EMP: ElectroMagnetic Pulse
EM: ElectroMagnetic
(Hardware)
EM: Electronic Mail
EMR: ElectroMagnetic Radiation
EM: EMphasized EMR: Electronic Medical Record
EM: End of Medium (Software)
EM: Enterprise Management EMR: Enhanced Metafile Record
EM: Expanded Memory

EMS EPIC
EMS: Electronic Mail System EOF: Enterprise Object Framework

(Software) (Apple)
EMS: Electronic Messaging Service
EMS: Element Management System EOI: End Of Input
(Software) EOI: End Of Interrupt
EMS: Energy Management System EOI: End Or Identify
EMS: Enhanced Message Service EOJ: End Of Job
EMS: Entrust Messaging Server EOL: End Of Line
(Security)
EOL: End Of List
EMS: Expanded Memory Specification EOM: End Of Message
E (Software)
(Communication)
EMSAPI: Extended Messaging Services EON: Edge Of Network
Application Programming Interface (Network) (IBM)
EMSC: Electronic Mail Standards Committee EON: Extranet Object Network
EMT: Eastern Mediterranean Time (Network)
Timezone: GMT +2:00
EOP: End Of Procedure
EMV: Europay, Mastercard and Visa EOR: Electro-Optical Reconnaissance
EMWAC: European Microsoft Windows nt EOR: Exclusive OR
Academic Centre
Also XOR
EMX: Enterprise Messaging eXchange
EOS: Earth Observing System
(Lotus)
(NASA)
EN: Europa Norm
EOS: Ecc On Simm
ENA: Electronic Networking Association (Hardware)
ENA: Extended Network Addressing EOS: Electrical OverStress
ENC: ENCoded Electrically overstressing and damaging a device or
component by too much voltage or current (Hardware)
File name extension
ENC: Enterprise Naming Context EOS: End Of String
EOS: Extended Operating System
ENDC: European Network Design Center
ENDEC: ENcoder/DECoder EOSDIS: Earth Observing System Data and
Information System
ENDS: END of Segment (NASA)
ENIAC: Electronic Numerical Integrator And EOT: End Of Table
Computer
First fully electronic digital computer
EOT: End Of Tape
(Hardware)
ENL: EndNote Library
File extension for EndNote Program used in bibliographies
EOT: End Of Text
(Software) EOT: End Of Transmission
ENQ: ENQuiry (Communication)
ENS: Enterprise Network Services EoU: Ease Of Use
ENSS: Exterior Nodal Switching Subsystem EOUG: European Oracle User Group
ENT: Enterprise Network Tools EoVDSL: Ethernet Over Very high bit rate
Digital Subscriber Line
EO: Europe Online (Communication)
EOA: End Of Address EP: ElectroPhotographic
(Communication) Laser printing technology (Hardware)
EOB: End Of Block EP: Exchange Provider
(Communication) (Communication)
EOC: End Of Character EPA: Enhanced Performance Architecture
EOC: End Of Conversion EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
EOD: End Of Data (Organizations)
EOD: Erasable Optical Disk EPAC: Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder
EOF: End Of File EPD: Early Packet Discard
A particular character, usually a Control-D, that tells the (Network)
system it has reached the end of the file.
EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center
EPIC: Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing

EPL ESI
EPL: Effective Privilege Level ERM: Enterprise Resource Management

(Software)
EPL: Electronic switching system Programming
Language ERM: Entity-Relationship Model
EPLD: Electrically Programmable Logic Device ERMA: Electronic Recording Method, Accounting
(Hardware)
ERMS: Email Response Management System
EPM: Enhanced editor for Presentation Manager
EROM: Erasable Read Only Memory
(IBM)
EROS: Earth Resources Observation System
EPM: Enterprise Print Manager
An OS/390 software solution for management of printers and ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning
print jobs in addition to the various printing functions. The ERR: ERRor
host data, AFP as well as line data, are converted into printer
data streams such as PCL5 and PostScript (Software) ERU: Emergency Recovery Utility
E
(Microsoft)
EPM: Enterprise Process Management
(IBM) ES: Extended Services
EPO: Electronic Public Offering ES: Extra Segment
EPOS: Electronic Point Of Sale
Electronic cash registers and their software used in stores ESA: Enterprise Systems Architecture
(IBM)
EPP: Enhanced Parallel Port
(Hardware) ESA: European Space Agency
(Organizations)
EPRI: Electric Power Research Institute
(Organizations) ESB: Enterprise Service Bus
EPROM: Erasable Programmable Read Only ESC: Eisa System Component
Memory ESC: ESCape
A non-volatile memory chip that is programmed
after they it is manufactured. EPROMs differ from PROMs in
ESC/P: Epson Standard Code for Printers
that they can be erased (generally by exposing the (Epson)
semiconductor material to the ultraviolet light) and can be ESCD: Extended System Configuration Data
reprogrammed after having been erased. (Hardware)
ESCM: Extended Services Communications
EPRPI: Enhanced Primary Rate Peripheral Manager
Interface
(IBM)
EPS: Encapsulated PostScript
ESCON: Enterprise System CONnection
A file format for graphics and text supported by several
Architecture (IBM)
graphics drawing applications. (Adobe)
ESCSI: Embedded Small Computers System
EPSF: Encapsulated PostScript Files
Interface
EPSI: Encapsulated PostScript Interchange Bus architecture (Hardware)
A version of the encapsulated PostScript format that
ESD: Electronic Software Distribution
describes an image using a standard text file. (Adobe)
ESD: ElectroStatic Discharge
EQD: English Query Domain
(Hardware)
Filename extension (Databases) (Microsoft)
EQP: EQuiPment ESD: Emergency Startup Disk
ER: Entity Relationship
ESDF: Electronic Document Systems
ER: Explicit cell Rate Foundation
ER/RC: Extended Result/Response Code See www.edsf.org (Organizations)
ERA: Extended Registry Attributes ESDI: Enhanced Small Device Interface

ERA/O: Embedded Remote Access Option ESDRAM: Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic
(Hardware) (Dell) Random Access Memory
(Hardware)
ERAS: Electronic Routing and Approval System
ESDS: Entry Sequenced Data Set
ERD: Emergency Repair Disk
ESE: Exchange Server Enterprise
ERD: Entity-Relationship Diagram
(Microsoft)
ERIC: Educational Resources Information
ESE: Extensible Storage Engine
Center
Stores all active directory objects (Operating systems)
ERIN: Environmental Resources Information (Microsoft)
Network
ESF: Extended SuperFrame
ERLL: Enhanced Run Length Limited
ESI: Edge Side Include
ERM: Enterprise Relationship Management (Software)

ESI ETTh
ESI: End System Identifier ESS: Extended Service Set

(Communication)
ESI: Enhanced Serial Interface
Communication specification (Hayes) ESSID: Extended Service Set IDentifier
(Communication)
ESIS: End System to Intermediate System
ES-IS: End System to Intermediate System EST: Eastern Standard Time
Timezone: GMT -5:00
The International Organization for Standardization's Open
Systems Interconnection (OSI) protocol by which end ESTO: Equipment Superior To Operator
systems announce themselves to intermediate systems. When a computer seems to have a mind of its own. For
ESM: Enterprise Security Manager example, when you watch it spam all 800 people in your
Scalable security policy compliance and host-based contact list and you can't stop it (Net lingo)
E vulnerability assessment tool (Software) (Symantec) ESTT: E-mail Server Test Tool
ESM: Enterprise System Management Ziff-Davis labs test suite for email servers
ESM: European Satellite Multimedia ESU: ElectroStatic Unit

ESM: External Storage Module ET: Enhancement Technology
A Sun external unit that contains disk or tape drives and that ETACS: Extended Total Access Communication
can be connected to a desktop SPARCstation system. System
(Hardware) (Sun)
(IBM)
ESMA: Extended Server Memory Architecture ETANN: Electrically Trainable Analog Neural
(Operating systems) Network
ESMD: Embedded Storage Module Disk Chip (Intel)
ESMD: Enhanced Storage Module Device ETB: End of Transmission Block

ESME: External Short Message Entity ETC: Electronic Toll Collection
(Communication) ETC: Enhanced Throughput Cellular
ESMR: Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio Cellular modem protocol (AT&T)
ESMTP: Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol etc: Essential Text Configuration
In any unix (and variants like linux) system the /etc directory
ESN: Electronic Security Number
(Operating systems)
ESN: Electronic Serial Number
ETF: Enriched Text Format
ESN: Electronic Switched Network
ETFTP: Enhanced Trivial File Transfer Protocol
ESNET: Energy Sciences NETwork
ETIS: European Telecommunications
ESO: Equipment Superior to Operator Information Service
(Net lingo)
ETL: Extract, Transform and Load
ESP: Emulation Sensing Processor (Databases)
ESP: Encapsulated Security Payload ETLA: Extended Three Letter Acronym
(Network)
ETML: Extract, Transform, Move, and Load
ESP: Enhanced Serial Port (Databases)
(Hardware)
ETOM: Electron-Trapping Optical Memory
ESP: Enhanced Service Provider
ETPL: Endorsed Tempest Products List
ESP: Enterprise System Platform ETR: Early Token Release
ESP: Estimated Street Price
ETR: Etsi Technical Report
ESP: Ethernet Serial Port ETS: Econometric Time Series
ESP: Eudora Sharing Protocol
ETS: Ethernet Terminal Servers
ESP: Expert Searching and Pricing (Hardware)
ESPRIT: European Strategic Program of ETS: European Telecommunications Standard
Research and development in Information
ETSI: European Telecommunication Standards
Technology
Institute
ESR: Event Service Routine (Organizations)
ESRB: Entertaining Software Rating Board ETTb: Ethernet To The Business
(Organizations) Telecommunications carrier service providing Ethernet to a
business subscriber. See also ETTh and ETTx.
ESRO: Efficient Short Remote Operation
(Communication)
(Network)
ETTh: Ethernet To The Home
ESS: Electronic Switching System
Telecommunications carrier service providing Ethernet to a
ESS: Enterprise Storage Server home subscriber. See also ETTb and ETTx. (Communication)
(IBM)

ETTx FAT
ETTx: Ethernet To The X EXIF: EXchangeable Image File format

Telecommunications carrier service providing Ethernet to a Standard for storing interchange information in image files,
business subscriber (ETTb) or home subscriber (ETTh). See especially those using JPEG compression. Most digital
also ETTb and ETTh. (Communication) cameras now use the EXIF format. See also
http://www.exif.org/
ETX: End of TeXt
(Communication) EXP: EXPonent
EU: Execution Unit EXT: EXTernal
EUC: End User Computing EXTRA: EXecutionTRace Analyzer
EUC: Extended Unix Code EXTRN: EXecution TRace Analyzer
An encoding scheme that allows up to four codesets to EXUG: European X Users Group
coexist in one data stream. EUC supports one primary
character set and three supplementary character sets. E-ZINE: Electronic magaZINE
E
(Operating systems)
EUI: End-User Interface

F F
EULA: End User License Agreement f: femto
EUNET: European Unix NETwork
F/T: Full Time
Euro CASE: EUROpean Council of Applied
Sciences and Engineering F/V: Frequency to Voltage converter
(Organizations) (Hardware)
EUUG: European Unix Users Group FA: Foreign Agent

(Organizations) Node in a mobile IP network that enables roamed users to
register on the foreign network. The FA will communicate with
EUV: Extreme Ultra Violet the HA (Home Agent) to enable IP datagrams to be
(Hardware) transferred between the home network and the roamed user
EUVL: Extreme UltraViolet Lithography on the foreign network (Network)
(Hardware) FAB: FABrication plant
EVA: Economic Value Added Usually referred to chip fabrication plants
EVE: Extensible Vax Editor FAC: File Access Code
EVGA: Extended Video Graphics Adapter FACE: Framed Access Command Environment
EVGA: Extended Video Graphics Array FACS: Facility fir Access Control and Security
EVLIW: Encapsulated Very Long Instruction FAIL: Fast Artificial Intelligence Language
Word FAMOS: Floating gate Avalanche Metal Oxide
(Hardware) Semiconductor
EVM: Embedded Virtual Machine (Hardware)
EVS: Economic Value Sourced FANS: Future Air Navigation System
EW: Electronic Warfare FAP: File Access Protocol
EWAN: Emulator Without A Name FAP: Format And Protocol
EWN: Enterprise Wide Network FAPI: Family Application Programming

A computer network that links all the computers in an
Interface
organization (Network) FAQ: Frequently Asked Question
EWOS: European Workshop for Open Systems FAR: Fixed Alternative Routing
The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Implementors
FARE: Film Automatic Retouching and
workshop for Europe.
Enhancement
EWS: Early Warning Status Film scanner technology (Hardware) (Canon)
System that alerts the host system if drive performance
FARNET: Federation of American Research
approaches unacceptable reliability levels (Hardware)
NETworks
EWS: Employee Written Software (Organizations)
(IBM)
FASIC: Function and Algorithm-Specific
ExCA: EXchangeable Card Architecture Integrated Circuit
(Intel)
FASMI: False Analysis of Shared
EXE: Executable Multidimensional Information
File name extension
FAST: First Application System Test
EXE2BIN: EXEcutable To BINary
FAT: File Allocation Table

FAT12 FDOCA
FAT12: File Allocation Table 12 bits FCO: Flow Control Operator bits
Every entry in the table is 12 bits wide (Operating systems)
FCP: Fibre Channel Protocol
(Microsoft)
FC-PGA: Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array
FAT16: File Allocation Table 16 bits
IC pins organization (Hardware)
Every entry in the table is 16 bits wide (Operating systems)
(Microsoft) FCPH: Fibre Channel PHysical and signaling
interface
FAT32: File Allocation Table 32 bits
Every entry in the table is 32 bits wide (Operating systems) FCR: FIFO Control Register
(Microsoft)
FCRAM: Fast-Cycle Random Access Memory
FAX: FACSimile (Hardware)
Also a file name extension
FCS: Fiber Channel Standard
FAZAM: Full Armor Zero AdMinistration FCS: First Customer Ship
F FB: Fiber optic Backbone FCS: Frame Check Sequence
FBA: Fair Buffer Allocation The standard 16-bit cyclic redundancy check used for HDLC
(Network) and frame relay frames. The FCS detects bit errors occurring
in the bits of the frame between the opening flag and the FCS
FBC: Find By Content (Communication)
FBGA: Fine Ball-Grid Array FD: Flat Display
Integrated circuit (IC) packaging that uses half-spherical (Hardware) (Sony)
FD: Floppy Disk
FBRAM: Frame Buffer Random Access Memory
A special type of Dynamic RAM (DRAM) used in high-speed FD: Full Duplex
frame buffers. Similar to Video RAM (VRAM), FBRAM is FDBMS: Federated Database Management
specifically designed for use in high-speed frame buffers and System
graphics accelerators. (Hardware)
(Databases)
FC: Fiber Channel
FDC: Floppy Disk Controller
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
FC: Frame Control
FDCN: Financial Data Cast Network
FC: Functional Component
FDCT: Forward Discrete Cosine Transform
(Software)
(Software)
FC/AL: Fiber Channel/Arbitrated Loop
FDD: Floppy Disk Drive
FC/EL: Fiber Channel/Enhanced Loop (Hardware)
FCA: Flow Control Acknowledge FDDI: Fiber Digital Device Interface
FC-AL: Fiber Channel - Arbitrated Loop (Hardware)
(Hardware) FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FCB: File Control Block An emerging high-speed networking standard. The underlying
medium is fiber optics, and the topology is a dual-attached,
FCBS: File Control BlockS counter-rotating token ring (Hardware)
FCC: Federal Communications Commission FDDITPPMD: Fiber Distributed Data Interface
(Organizations) Twisted Pair-Physical layer, Medium Dependent
FCC: File Carbon Copy FDE: Full Duplex Ethernet
FCCSET: Federal Coordinating Council for FDF: Forms Data Format
Science, Engineering and Technology (Adobe)
FC-EL: Fiber Channel - Enhanced Loop FDFS: File Descriptor File System
(Hardware) A pseudo file system that provides explicit names for
FCFS: First Come, First Served opening files using file descriptors. (Operating systems)
Process or thread scheduling (Operating systems) FDI: Feeder Distribution Interface
FCI: Fibre Channel Interface Similar to a DSLAM Cross-Connect box (Communication)
FCI: Flow Control Indicator FDII: Feeder Distribution Interface

Interconnect
FCI: Flux Changes per Inch (Communication)
FCIF: Flexible Computer Interface Form FDL: File Definition Language
(Communication)
FDM: Frequency-Division Multiplexing
FCIF: Full Common Intermediate Format
FDMA: Frequency-Division Multiple Access
Video Teleconferencing standard
FCL: Fibre Channel Loop FDOCA: Formatted Data Object Content
Architecture
FCO: First Class Object (IBM)
(Software)

FDSL FIP
FDSL: Fractional Digital Subscriber Line FF: Form Feed

(Communication) A printer command that tells a printer to move to the top of
the next page. In the ASCII character set, the form-feed
FDSL: Free Digital Subscriber Line character has the decimal value 12. Also known as the page
(Communication) eject character.
FDTE: Female Data Terminal Equipment FF: Friendly Fire
RS-232 adapter (Hardware) Used in online First Person Shooter (FPS) games (Games)
FDx: Full DupleX FFA: Free For All
(Communication)
FFDC: First Failure Data Capture
FE: Family Edition (IBM)
(Software)
FFI: Foreign Function Interface
FE: Functional Entity A facility make calls from one computer language to another
FEA: Finite Element Analysis (Software)
Engineering stress analysis with a computer (Software) FFIF: File Format for Internet Fax
F
FEA: Functional Entity Action FFJ: Forte For Java
FEAR: False Emotions Appearing Real Java integrated development environment (IDE) (Software)
(Net lingo) (Sun)
FEBE: Far End Block Error FFOL: Fddi Follow-On-LAN
FEC: Fast EtherChannel FFS: Fast FileSystem

(Hardware) (Cisco) FFS: Fast Filing System
FEC: Fetch Execute Cycle FFS: For F***'s Sake
FEC: Forward Error Correction (Net lingo)
Sending redundant data so that if data loss occurs, data FFST: First Failure Support Technology
recovery is possible without retransmission (Communication) (IBM)
FECN: Forward Explicit Congestion Notification FFT: Fast Fourier Transform
A bit sent by a frame relay network to notify an interface
device (DTE) that congestion avoidance procedures should
FFT: Final Form Text
be initiated by the receiving device (Communication) (IBM)
FED: Field Emitting Display FG: Floating Gate

(Hardware) FGREP: Fixed Global Regular Expression Print
FEFO: First-Ended, First-Out FH: Frequency Hopping
FEK: File Encryption Key (Communication)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) FHS: Fan Heat-Sink
FEM: Finite Elements Method FHS: File Hierarchy Standard
FEP: Front End Processor (Operating systems)
FEPI: Front End Programming Interface FHSS: Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
(Communication)
FEPROM: Flash Erasable Programmable Read
Only Memory FIA: File Integrity Assessment
(Hardware) FIB: Forwarding Information Base
FER: Forward Error Correction FICON: FIber CONnection
FeRAM: FErroelectric Random Access Memory (IBM)
(Hardware) FID: Filtering IDentifier
FERC: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Communication)
(Organizations) FIF: Fractal Image Format
FESDK: Far East Software Development Kit FIFO: First In First Out
(Microsoft) (Hardware)
FET: Field-Effect Transistor FIFOFS: First In First Out File System
A type of transistor in which the flow of current between the Named pipe files that give processes common access to
source and the drain is modulated by application of a data. (Operating systems)
transverse electric field between two gate electrodes.
(Hardware) FILO: First In Last Out
FF: Flip-Flop FIN: Functional Identification Number

(Hardware) FIOC: Frame Input/Output Controller
FF: ForFait FIP: Facility Interface Processor
Used in online gaming (Games)
FIP: File Processor Buffering

FIPA FOOT
FIPA: Foundation for Intelligent Physical FMD-ROM: Fluorescent Multilayer Disk - Read
Agents Only Memory
(Organizations) (Hardware)
FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standard FMH: Function Management Header

The FIPS PUB is the National Bureau of Standards’ guide to
FMRI: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
the standards it issues.
FMS: File Management System
FIR: Fast InfraRed
FMT: ForMaT
FIR: Finite Impulse Response
FMV: Full Motion Video
FIRST: ForschungsInstitut fër
Rechnerarchitektur und SoftwareTechnik FNC: Federal Networking Council
The body responsible for coordinating networking needs
FIRST: Forum of Incident Response and
among U.S. federal agencies. (Organizations)
Security Teams
FNC: Frogans Network Certificate
F FIS: Frontline Information System
See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software)
FIST: ForschungsInstitut für
FNI: File Not Identified
Rechnerarchitektur und SoftwareTechnik
Used primarily for software scanning applications (asset
FITS: Flexible Image Transport System management) (Software)
FIU: Fingerprint Identification Unit FNS: Frogans Network System
(Hardware) See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software)
FIX: Federal Internet eXchange FNSL: Frogans Network System Language

FK: Foreign Key See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software)
(Databases) FNT: FoNT
FL: Fiberoptic Link File name extension
FLA: Five Letters Acronym FO: F*** Off

(Net lingo)
FLA: Four Letters Acronym
FO: Fiber Optic
FLAC: FLorida Automatic Computer
Early 1950's digital computer used at Cape Canaveral
FO: Formatting Object
FLACC: Full Level Algol Checkout Compiler FOA: Formatted Object Authoring
Java application that gives users a graphical interface to
FLAG: Fiber-optic Link Around the Globe author XSL-FO stylesheets. With FOA you can generate
(Network) pages and page sequences, and fill them with content
provided from one or more XML files (Software)
FLC: Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal
FLD: FieLD FOAD: F*** Off And Die
(Net lingo)
FLEA: Four Letter Extended Acronym
FOC: Fiber Optic Cable
FLGA: Fine Land Grid Array
FOCUS: FOrum of Control data USers
Integrated circuit (IC) packaging that uses small flat
contacts versus pins (Hardware) FOD: Fax On Demand
FLL: Foxpro Link Library FOD: Flexible Optical Disk
(Microsoft)
FOG: First Osborne Group
FLOPS: FLoating-point Operations Per Second
FOIP: Fax Over Internet Protocol
A measure of the speed at which a computer can operate.
(Hardware) FOIRL: Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link
FLTK: Fast Light Toolkit FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing
Pronounced "fulltick", is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for FOLED: Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode
UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows® and MacOS X. FLTK
(Hardware)
provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat and
supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT FOMAU: Fiber Optic Media Access Unit
emulation (Software)
FON: Fiber Optics Network
FM: Fault Management
FON: FONt
A series of information flows at the physical and ATM layer
File name extension
designed to identify the location and cause of a fault within
the network (Communication) FOOBAR: Ftp Operation Over Big Address
FM: Frequency Modulation Records
FMA: Fused Multiply-Add FOOT: Forum for Object Oriented Technology

CPU instruction type
FMD: Fluorescent Multilayer Disk
(Hardware)

FOP FRF
FOP: Formatting Objects Processor FPM: Fast Packet Multiplexing

Output-independent print formatter driven by XSL formatting A multiplexing technique that sends data packets over the
objects. It is a Java application that reads a formatting network and requires error detection/correction only at the
object tree and then renders the resulting pages to a destination node (Communication)
specified output. See http://xml.apache.org/fop/ (Software)
FPM: Fast Page Mode
FOR: FORtran (Hardware)
File name extension
FPMPMI: Flat Panel Monitor Physical Mounting
FORTRAN: FORmula TRANsactor Interface
Programming language (Hardware)
FOSE: Federal Office Systems Exposition FPNW: File and Print services for NetWare
FOSI: Format Option Specification Instance (Operating systems)
FOSSIL: Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface FPO: Frame Pointer Omission

Layer Technique that gives a debugger enough information to find
the next function information on the stack without using F
FOT: Fiber Optic Transceiver frame pointers (Software)
FOX: Field Operational X.500 FPP: Fixed Path Protocol
FP: Floating Point FPP: Floating Point Processor
FP: Foundation Profile FPR: Floating-Point Register
(Software)
FPS: Fast Packet Switching
FP: Frame Pointer
FPS: Favorite Picture Selection
Processor register (Hardware)
FPS: First Person Shooter
FPA: Floating Point Accelerator
Game genre (Games)
A device (board or integrated circuit - IC) that speeds up
floating-point calculations. (Hardware) fps: Frames Per Second
Motion images reproduction speed
FPA: Function Point Analysis
A method used to determine the complexity of a program FPSE: FrontPage Server Extensions
(Software) (Software) (Microsoft)
FPC: Floating Point Calculation FPT: Forced Perfect Termination
FPC: Floating Point Coprocessor FPU: Floating-Point Unit
FPCE: Floating-Point C Extension (Hardware)
Specification FPX: FlashPiX
FPD: Flat Panel Display Filename extension (Kodak)
(Hardware) FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name
FPD: Full Page Display (Network)
(Hardware) FRAD: Frame Relay Access Device
FPDU: Ftam Protocol Data Unit FRAD: Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler
FPE: Floating Point Engine FRAG: FRAGment
FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array FRAM: Ferroelectric Random-Access Memory
An integrated circuit containing an array of logic circuits in
FRAP: Frame Relay Access Probe
which the connections between the individual circuits can be
programmed after manufacture, typically at the time of (Network)
installation (in the field). (Hardware) FRC: Frame Rate Control
FPI: Floating-Point Interface (Hardware)
FPI: Formal Public Identifier FRC: Functional Redundancy Checking

FPIM: Fax Profile for Internet Messaging FRED: Fair Random Early Detection
Defines how fax messages can be encoded as SMTP/MIME A variation of Random Early Detection (RED) (Network)
messages (Communication) FRED: FRame EDitor
FPLA: Field Programmable Logic Array FRED: FRont-End to Dish
An array of logic elements. Its interconnections are
programmable after manufacture (Hardware) FRF: Floating point Register File
FPLMTS: Future Public Land Mobile FRF: Frame Relay Forum

Telecommunications System An association of corporate members consisting of vendors,
carriers, users and consultants committed to the
FPLS: Field Programmable Logic Sequencer implementation of Frame Relay in accordance with national
(Hardware) and international standards (Organizations)

FRICC FTTC
FRICC: Federal Research Internet Coordinating FSN: Full Service Network

Committee
FSP: Fax Service Provider
Now replaced by the Federal Networking Council (FNC).
(Organizations) FSP: File Service Protocol
FRL: Frame Representation Language FSP: Full Service Provider
FRM: Forward Resource Management FSQ: Flow Service Quality
FRPI: Flux Reversals Per Inch FSR: Free System Resources
FRR: Functional Recovery Routine FSR: Full Scale Range
FRS: Family Radio Service FSS: Fast System Switch
Wireless communication and networking service FSS: Field Support Service
(Communication)
A group of technical engineers providing short-term
FRS: File Record Segment assistance and product knowledge to customers that are
F FRS: File Replication Service
deploying, developing, and maintaining Lotus environments
(Lotus)
FST: Finite State Technology
FRS: Flexible Route Selection (Software)
FRSM: Frame Relay Service Module FST: Flat Square Tube
(Network) (Cisco) (Hardware)
FRU: Field-Replaceable Unit FST: French Summer Time
An assembly replaced in its entirety when any one of its Timezone: GMT +1:00
components fails. (Hardware)
FSTN: Film-compensated SuperTwisted
FRUNI: Frame Relay User Network Interface Nematic
(Network) LCD display technology (Hardware)
FS: File Separator FT: Fault Tolerant
FS: File System FT: Field Test
FS: Frame Status FTA: Floptical Technology Association
FSA: Fluidic Self-Assembly FTAM: File Transfer Access and Management
LCD manufacturing technology (Hardware)
The International Organization for Standardization's Open
FSAA: Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing Systems Interconnection (OSI) remote file service and
(Hardware) protocol. (Network)
FSAG: Free Software Association of Germany FTAM: File Transfer and Access Method
FSAM: Federated Storage Area Management FTC: Federal Trade Commission

A naturally scalable environment of pooled, federated (i.e., (Organizations)
available when needed), modular, multivendor storage FTE: Fault-Tolerant Ethernet
resources (HP)
(Network)
FSB: Front Side Bus FTFM: F*** The F***ing Manual
The bus within a microprocessor that connects the CPU with
(Net lingo)
main memory (Hardware)
FTL: Flash Transition Layer
FSCK: File System Consistency checK
(Intel)
FSD: File System Driver
FTM: Flat Tension Mask
(Operating systems)
FTOS: File Transfer Osi Support
FSDL: Frogans Slide Description Language
See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software) FTP: File Transfer Protocol
The Internet protocol (and program) used to transfer files
FSE: Full Screen Editor between hosts. (Network)
FSF: Free Software Foundation FTP: Foiled Twisted Pair
(Organizations)
FTPD: File Transfer Protocol Daemon
FSIOP: File System Input/Output Processor
(Hardware)
FTR: Full Text Retrieval
FSK: Frequency-Shift Keying FTS: Federal Telecommunication System

(Communication) FTS: Fidonet Technical Standard
FSL: Function Selection via the Line FTS: Full Text Search
Created by I-Data to support special printing needs
FTSC: Fidonet Technical Standard Conference
FSM: Finite-State Machine FTTB: Fiber To The Basement
FSMO: Flexible Single Master Operation
FTTC: Fiber To The Curb

FTTH GCC
FTTH: Fiber To The Home GAAP: Generally Accepted Accounting

(Communication) Principles
FTTN: Fiber To The Neighborghood GAC: Global Assembly Cache
Microsoft .NET assembly cache (Software) (Microsoft)
FTTP: Fiber To The Premise
(Network) GAIA: Gui Application Interoperability
Architecture
FTX: Fault Tolerant uniX
GAIN: German Advanced Integrated Network
FUBAB: F***ed Up Beyond All Belief
(Net lingo) GAL: Generic Array Logic
(Hardware)
FUBAR: F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
(Net lingo) GAL: Global Address List
FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt GALPAT: GALlopping PATtern
Memory test technique
FUEL: Fatwire UpdateEngine Library F
(Software) GALSA: Governed Architectures of Large
Systems of Agents
FUI: File Update Information
GAM: Global Allocation Map
G
FUUG: Finnish Unix User Group
(Databases)
(Organizations)
GAN: GALloping PATtern
FVT: Full Video Translation
GAN: Global Area Network
FW: FirmWare
(Network)
FWH: Firmware Hub
GAP: Generic Access Profile
(Hardware) (Intel)
GAPI: Gateway Application Programming
FWIW: For What It's Worth
Interface
(Net lingo)
GARO: Graphics Art language with Raster
FWT: French Winter Time
Operations
Timezone: GMT +1:00
Printer language (Canon)
FWTK: FireWall ToolKit
GARP: Generic Attribute Registration Protocol
(Security)
(Communication)
FXO: Foreign eXchange Office
GART: Graphic Address Remapping Table
An FXO interface connects to the Public Switched Telephone
(Hardware)
Network's (PSTN) central office and is the interface offered
on a standard telephone (Hardware) GATT: Graphics Address Translation Table
FXP: File eXchange Protocol Gb: GigaBit
FXS: Foreign eXchange Station GB: GigaByte
An FXS interface connects directly to a standard telephone 1024 megabytes
and supplies ring, voltage, and dial tone (Hardware)
GBDE: Geom Based Disk Encryption
FXU: FiXed point Unit Strong cryptographic facility for denying unauthorised access
to data stored on a "cold" disk for decades and longer. GBDE
FY: Financial Year
operates on the disk(-partition) level allowing any type of file
FY: Fiscal Year system or database to be protected (Operating systems)
FYI: For Your Information GBIC: GigaBit Interface Converter
(Net lingo) A transceiver that converts between electrical and optical
signals for high-speed networking (Hardware)
G GBP: Group Buffer Pool
G: Giga (Databases)
Prefix for 10 power 9 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 30) Gbps: Giga Bits Per Second
G.SHDSL: Giga Single-pair High bit rate Digital Transfer Speed (Communication)
Subscriber Line GBps: Giga Bytes Per Second
(Communication) Transfer Speed (Communication)
G/L: General Ledger GC: Global Catalog
G2G: Got To Go Active directory's caching system (Operating systems)
(Net lingo) GC: Graphics Context
G2H: Gilat-To-Home The storage of various information for graphics output, such
as foreground pixel, background pixel, line width, clipping
Two-way broadband satellite access
region, and so on. (Operating systems)
G4U: Good For yoU
GCA: General Communications Architecture
(Net lingo)
GCC: Gnu C Compiler
GA: General Availability
(Software)

GCCD GID
GCCD: Glass-passivated Ceramic Chip Diode GEM: Graphics Environment Manager

(Software) (Digital Research)
GCL: Graphics Command Language
GCOS: General Comprehensive Operating GENIE: General Electric Network for
System Information Exchange
GCR: Group Coded Recording GEO: Geosynchronous Earth Orbit

(Hardware) GEOS: Graphic Environment Operating System
GCRA: Generic Cell Rate Algorithm GET: Get Execute Trigger
GCS: Group Control System GFC: Generic Flow Control
(Communication)
GD: God Damn
(Net lingo) GFDL: Gnu Free Documentation License
(GNU)
GDA: Global Data Area
GDA: Global Directory Agent GFI: General Format Identifier
GDA: Gnome Data Access GFI: Ground-Fault Interceptor

G GDAP: Government Document Application GFLOPS: Giga FLoating point Operations per
Profile Second
Processing speed
GDB: Gnu DeBugger
(Software) GFP: Global Functional Plane
GDBM: Gnu DataBase Manager GFS: Grandfather, Father, Son

Backup methodology
GDD: Gesellschaft für Datenschutz und
Datensicherung GFSK: Gaussian Frequency-Shift Keying
GDDM: Graphical Data Display Manager GFTD: Gone For The Day
GDG: Generation Data Group GFU: Good For yoU

(IBM) (Net lingo)
GDI: Graphics Device Interface GFY: Go Fuck Yourself

(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Net lingo)
GDLC: Generic Data Link Control GFY: Good For You

(IBM) (Net lingo)
GDMO: Guidelines for the Definition of GG: Good Game

Managed Objects Said during online play (Games)
GDOS: Graphics Device Operating System GGP: Gateway to Gateway Protocol
GDP: Graphic Draw Primitive GGP: Gotta Go Pee

(Net lingo)
GDS: General Data Stream
GGSN: Gateway Gprs Support Node
GDS: Global Directory Service
Gateway between the GPRS network and public data networks
GDT: Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing such as IP and X.25. GGSNs also connect to other GPRS
networks to facilitate GPRS roaming (Communication)
GDT: Global Descriptor Table
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) GH: Getting Hard
(Net lingo)
GDT: Graphics Development Toolkit
GHTSTN: Guest Host Technique SuperTwisted
GE: Greater than or Equal Nematic
(Software)
GHz: GigaHertZ
GEAR: Gigabyte Enhanced Agp Riser
Used to provide AGP support for PCI-E motherboards GI: Gesellschaft für Informatik
(Hardware) GIAC: Global Information Assurance
GECOS: General Electric Comprehensive Certification
Operating System Certification programs designed to serve the people who are
or will be responsible for managing and protecting important
GEF: Graphical Editor Framework information systems and networks. See also
Allows developers to take an existing application model and http://www.giac.org/
easily create a rich graphical editor (Software)
GiB: GibIByte
GEIS: General Electric Information Service Unit of measurement, introduced by the International
GEM: Global Enterprise Manager Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024
MiB
GEM: Grain Equalization and Management
Film scanner technology GID: Group IDentifier
The number used by the system to control access to
accounts owned by other users. (Operating systems)

GIF GPM
GIF: Graphical Interchange Format GMR: Giant Magneto-Resistive

File format for bitmapped images (CompuServe) Hard disk head technology (Hardware)
GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out GMRAE: Geometric Mean Relative Absolute
Error
GII: Global Information Infrastructure
GILS: Government Information Locator Service GMRP: Garp Multicast Registration Protocol
It allows a device to declare membership of a Layer 2
GIMP: Gnu Image Manipulation Program multicast group
Freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as
photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
GMS: Global Management System
See www.gimp.org (Software) GMS: Global Messaging Service
(Novell)
GIMPS: Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
GINA: Graphical Identification aNd GMT: Greenwich Mean Time
Authentication Also called UTC
GIOP: General Inter-Orb Protocol GMTA: Great Minds Think Alike

(Net lingo)
Gips: Giga Instructions Per Second
GIS: Geographic Information System
GNA: Global Network Academy G
A graphic application using a database of specialized GND: GrouND
information, such as geographical and demographic data. (Hardware)
(Software) GNN: Global Network Navigator
GIS: Global Information Solutions (Network)
(AT&T)
GNOME: Gnu Network Object Model
GIX: Global Internet eXchange Environment
GJ: Good Job GNU: Gnu's Not Unix
(Net lingo) GOAD: Gnome Object Activation Directory
GKMP: Group Key Management Protocol GOCA: Graphic Object Content Architecture
(Security)
GOD: Global OutDial
GKS: Graphical Kernel System
An international standard 2-D graphics library consisting of a
GOLP: Government Open License Program
set of defined graphic primitives and a tool set for application The Microsoft Government Open License Program is
developers. designed to provide a simple volume-licensing solution and
is a cost-effective way for qualified government entities
GL: Graphics Language needing as few as five licenses to purchase software
(Software) (Software) (Microsoft)
GLA: Good Luck All GOSIP: Government Open Systems
Used in online gaming (Games) Interconnection Profile
GLIS: Global Land Information System GP: Gas Plasma
GLM: General Linear Models GP: General Purpose
GLOBE: Global Learning by Observations to GP: Gold Plated
Benefit the Environment (Hardware)
GLTY: Good Luck To You GPC: General-Purpose Computation
(Net lingo)
GPC: Graphics Performance Characterization
GLUT: openGL Utility Toolkit GPCI: Graphics Processor Command Interface
Is a window system independent toolkit for writing OpenGL
programs. It implements a simple windowing application GPE: Graphics Picture Enhancement
programming interface (API) for OpenGL (Software) (Hardware) (Sony)
GLY: GLossarY GPF: General Protection Fault
File name extension (Microsoft) Common error in 16-bits Windows (Software) (Microsoft)
GM: General Midi GPI: Graphics Programming Interface
GMCH: Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (Software)
(Hardware) (Intel) GPIB: General Purpose Interface Bus
Bus architecture (Hardware)
GMDI: Gigabit Media-Dependent Interface
GMI: Generic Management Information GPIO: General Purpose Input Output
GMII: Gigabit Media Independent Interface GPL: General Public License

(Network) (GNU)
GML: Generalized Markup Language GPL: Graphics Programming Language
GMP: Global Mobile Professional GPM: Group Policy Manager

(Operating systems)

GPO GVU
GPO: Group Policy Object GSM: Global System for Mobile communications
(Operating systems) (Communication)
GPP: Generic Packetized Protocol GSMP: General Switch Management Protocol

(Network)
GPR: General Purpose Register
(Hardware) GSNW: Gateway Service for NetWare
(Microsoft)
GPRC: Glass Passivated Rectifier Chip
GPRS: General Packet Radio Service GSP: Generic Server Passer
(Communication) GSP: Global Service Provider
GPS: Global Positioning System GSR: Gigabit Switch Router
(Hardware)
GPS: Global Product Specification
GPSI: Graphics Processor Software Interface GSS: Generic Security Service
GPSS: General Purpose Simulation System GSSAP: Generic Security Service Application
Protocol
GPT: Guid Partition Table (Security)
G (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
GSSAPI: Generic Security Services Application
GPU: Graphics Processing Unit Programming Interface
GPV: General Public Virus GSTN: General Switched Telephone Network
GQL: Graphical Query Language GSTS: Ground-based Surveillance and
GQoS: Generic Quality of Service Tracking System
(Network) GT: Greater Than
GRADD: GRaphics Adapter Device Driver (Software)
(IBM) GTDM: Group Time Division Multiplexing
GRAM: Global Resource Allocation Manager GTE: General Telephone Electronics
GRASP: General Responsibility Assignment GTF: Generalized Timing Format
Software Patterns
GTFO: Get The F**k Out
(Software)
To ask someone to leave now (Net lingo)
GRE: Generic Routing Encapsulation
GTG: Got To Go
Protocol for encapsulation of an arbitrary network layer
protocol over another arbitrary network layer protocol (Net lingo)
(Network) GTK: Gimp ToolKit
GRE: GRaphics Engine Set of libraries to create graphical user interfaces. It has a C-
based object-oriented architecture that allows for maximum
GREP: Global Regular Expression Print flexibility (Software) (GNU)
GRIC: Global Reach Internet Connection GTL: Gunning Transceiver Logic
(Communication)
gTLD: Generic Top Level Domain
GRINS: GRaphical INterface to Smil (Network)
gRMS: G Root Mean Square GTM: Gnome Transfer Manager
Measurement unit used to quantify a vibration; "g" is the
gravitational acceleration constant (Hardware)
GTO: Guide To Operations
(IBM)
GRP: Group
File name extension
GTP: Geometry Theorem Prover
GRS: General Retention Schedule GTS: Generic Traffic Shaping

Length of time archived data is to be kept in an archive (Cisco)
database GUI: Graphical User Interface
GRUB: GRand Unified Bootloader The pictorial point of interaction between you and the
computer and its special applications, usually with a mouse
(Operating systems)
or other selection device. (Operating systems)
GS: General Synthesis
GUID: Globally Unique IDentifier
(Hardware) (Roland)
GUIDE: Graphical User Interface Design Editor
GS: Group Separator
GUUG: German Unix User Group
GSDS: Genealogy Software Distribution System
GVPN: Global Virtual Private Network
GSE: Giac Security Expert
(Network)
GSI: General Server Interface
GVT: Global Virtual Time
GSI: Grid Security Infrastructure
GVU: Graphic, Visualization, and Usability
GSM: Global Shared Memory

GWAPI HDR
GWAPI: Go Webserver Application HBA: Host Bus Adapter

Programming Interface A controller board connecting the I/O expansion bus to the
(Software) (Lotus) SCSI subsystem. (Hardware)
GWART: GateWay Address Routing Table HBCI: Home Banking Computer Interface
GW-BASIC: Gee Whiz Beginners All-purpose HBI: Horizontal Blanking Interval
Symbolic Instruction Code (Hardware)
GWE: Global Write Enabled HCA: Hich-Contrast Addressing

(Hardware) (Hardware) (Sharp)
GWES: Graphics, Windowing and Events HCG: High-Contrast Addressing

Subsystem
HCI: Host Controller Interface
BlueTooth technology (Communication)
GWIA: GroupWare Internet Agent HCL: Hardware Compatibility List
(Novell)
HCL: Host Control Links
H HCSDS: High-Capacity Satellite Digital Service
G
H: Header HCSS: High Capacity Storage System
File name extension HCTDS: High-Capacity Terrestrial Digital
Service
H
H&J: Hyphenation And Justification
(Software) HCU: Home Computer User
H/PC: Hand-held Personal Computer HD: Hard Disk
(Hardware) (Hardware)
H/V: Horizontal/Vertical HD: High Density
H/W: HardWare HDA: Head Disk Assembly
HA: Header Authentication HDB3: High-Density Bipolar 3
HA: High Availability (Communication)
HA: Home Agent HDC: Hard Disk Controller

Component for mobile IP applications that run on home or HDC: High Dependability Computing
private networks (Network)
HD-CD: High Definition Compact Disk
HACMP: High Availability Cluster Multi-
Processing HDD: Hard Disk Drive
(IBM) (Hardware)
HACN: Home Agent Control Node HDDL: High-level Dialogue Definition Language
(Software) (Philips)
(Network)
HAI: Hardware Accelerator Interface HD-DVD: High Definition Digital Video (or
Versatile) Disk
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
HAL: Hard Array Logic
HDF: Hierarchical Data Format
HAL: Hardware Abstraction Layer
HDH: Hdlc Distant Host
HAL: Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic
HDI: Head to Disk Interference
Computer
HAL: Home Automated Living HDI: Hoops Device Interface
HAL: House-programmed Array Logic HDL: Hardware Description Language
HALO: High Altitude Long Operation HDLC: High-level Data-Link Control

A generic link-level communications protocol developed by
Communication aircraft (Communication)
the International Standards Organization. HDLC manages
HAND: Have A Nice Day synchronous, code-transparent, serial information transfer
(Net lingo) over a link connection (Communication)
HAP: Host Access Protocol HDLP: High-Level Data Link Protocol

HAS: Home Automation System HDM: Hardware Device Module
(Hardware)
HASP: Houston Automatic Spooling Priority
HAT: Hashed Address Table HDML: Handheld Device Markup Language
HDMOS: High Density Metal Oxide
HAT: Heap Analysis Tool
Semiconductor
Tool for tracking down heap problems in Java programs
(Software) (Sun) HDP: Hard Disk Password
(Security)
HAWK: Hostile Activity Watch Kernel
HDR: HeaDeR

HDR HLLAPI
HDR: High Data Rate HGML: Hyper Graphics Markup Language

(Communication)
HHT: Hand-Held Terminal
HDR: High Dynamic Range Hand-held programming terminal to communicate with a
programmable logic controller (PLC) on the fly (Hardware)
HDR: Host Data Replicator
(Databases) HIC: Hybrid Integrated Circuit
HD-ROM: High Density Read Only Memory HID: High-Intensity Discharge
(Hardware) Light bulb technology used mainly in projectors (Hardware)
HDSC: High Density Signal Carrier HID: Human Interface Device

(DEC) (Hardware)
HDSL: High bit rate Digital Subscriber Line HIDS: Host-based Intrusion Detection System
(Communication) (Security)
HDSM: Heterogeneous Distributed Shared HIF: Hyper-g Interchange Format

Memory File name extension
(Hardware) HiFD: HIgh-capacity Floppy Disk
HDSS: Holographic Data Storage System (Hardware) (Sony)
HDT: Hawaii Daylight Time HIFI: Hypertext Interface For Information

H Timezone: GMT -10:00 HIL: Human Interface Link
HDT: Host Digital Terminal (HP)
HDTP: Handheld Device Transport Protocol HIMEM: HIgh MEMory

(Communication) HIP: Hardware Instrumentation Package
HDTS: High Density Thumb Screw (Hardware)
SCSI connector with manually screwable screws (Hardware) HIPERLAN: HIgh-PErformance Radio Local Area
(HP) Network
HDTV: High-Definition TeleVision (Network)
(Hardware) HIPPI: HIgh Performance Parallel Interface
HDVD: High Definition Volumetric Display (Hardware)
HDW: HarDWare HIRD: Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth
(Operating systems) (GNU)
HDx: Half DupleX
(Communication) HITS: Hypertext-Induced Topic Search
HEC: Header Error Check HJB: HotJava Browser
(Communication) (Sun)
HEL: Hardware Emulation Layer HKCC: HKey_Current_Config
Windows NT Registry key (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
HEP: Horizontal Enterprise Portal
HEPNET: High Energy Physics NETwork HKCR: HKey_Classes_Root
HES: Home Entertainment System
HKCU: HKey_Current_User
(Hardware)
HEX: HEXadecimal
HKDD: HKey_Dyn_Data
HF: High Frequency Windows NT Registry key (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
HF: Human Factors HKLM: HKey_Local_Machine
HFC: Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial Windows NT Registry key (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Hardware) HKU: HKey_Users
HFEP: Host - Front End Protocol Windows NT Registry key (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Network) HLB: Horny Little Bastard
HFS: Hierarchical File System (Net lingo)
(Operating systems) (Apple) HLCO: High Low Close Open
HFT: High Function Terminal HLD: Height, Length, Depth
(IBM)
HLHSR: Hidden-Line, Hidden-Surface Removal
HFT: Host Function Table
HLL: High-Level Language
(Software)
(Software)
HGA: Hercules Graphics Adapter
HLLAPI: High-Level Language Application
HGC: Hercules Graphics Card Programming Interface
HGCP: Hercules Graphics Card Plus

HLP HPR
HLP: HeLP HP: HoneyPot

File name extension An Internet-attached server that acts as a decoy, luring in
potential hackers in order to study their activities and
HLQ: High Level Qualifier monitor how they are able to break into a system (Security)
HLR: Home Location Register HP/UX: Hewlett-Packard UniX
HLS: Hue, Luminance, Saturation (Operating systems) (HP)
Color model
HPA: High Performance Addressing
HLT: HaLT
HPAS: Hypermedia Presentation and Authoring
HMA: High Memory Area System
Method to access the first 64kB segment above the 1MB
HP-AS: Hewlett-Packard Application Server
boundary in DOS/Windows 16-bits (Microsoft)
(HP)
HMA: Hub Management Architecture
HPB: High Ping Bastard
HMC: Highspeed Memory Controller Network multiplayer games attribute (Software)
HMD: Head Mounted Display HPC: High-Performance Computing
HMFIC: Head Mother Fucker in Charge HPCA: High Performance Computer
Another name for the boss (Net lingo) Architecture
HMI: Host Micro Interface (Hardware)
H
(CompuServe) HPCC: High-Performance Computing and
HMI: Html Mail Interface Communications
(Microsoft) HPDJ: Hewlett-Packard Desk Jet
HMI: Human-Machine Interface HPF: High Performance Fortran
HMM: Hidden Markov Model HPFS: High Performance File System
HMMP: HyperMedia Management Protocol (Operating systems) (IBM)
HMMU: Hardware Memory Management Unit HPG: Hewlett-Packard Graphics

(Hardware) HPGL: Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
HMOS: High performance Metal Oxide Language to describe vector graphics (usually for plotters)
(Software) (HP)
Semiconductor
HPIB: Hewlett Packard Interface Bus
HMP: Host Monitoring Protocol
Is a version of GPIB (also known as IEEE.488) and was used
H-MUX: Hybrid MUltipleXer on Hewlett Packard (Now Aligent Technologies) lab
equipment. Early versions used a different connector
HNET: Holographic NEural Technology
(Hardware) (HP)
HOAP: Humanoid for Open Architecture
Platform HP-IB: Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus
(Hardware) (HP)
HOAS: Hold On A Second
HP-IL: Hewlett-Packard Interface Loop
(Net lingo)
A serial communications interface, expecially for small
HOB: High-Order Byte calculators, i.e. 41C (Communication) (HP)
HOD: Host-On-Demand HPLJ: Hewlett-Packard Laser Jet
HO-DSP: Higher Order Domain-Specific Part HPLT: High Productivity Languages/Tools
(Network)
HPNA: Home Phoneline Networking Alliance
HOL: High Order Language (Organizations)
HOLAP: Hybrid On-Line OnLine Analytical HPOFS: High Performance Optical File System
Processing
HPOM: Home Page Object Model
HOOPS: Hierachical Object Orientated Picture (Microsoft)
System
HPPA: Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture
HOPS: Hierarchical Object Orientated Picture
System HPPCL: Hewlett-Packard Printer Control
Language
HOSED: Hardware Or Software Error Detected
HPPE: High Performance Processing Element
General error not yet diagnosed. If ignored, progressed to
(Hardware)
SNAFU and then FUBAR (Net lingo)
HOTT: Hot Off The Tree HPPI: High-Performance Peripheral Interface
Electronic newsletter HPPN: Hewlett-Packard Proactive Notification
HOTW: Hot Off The Web (HP)
Web organizer (Software) HPR: High Performance Routing
HOV: High Occupancy Vehicle (IBM)
HP: Hewlett-Packard

HPSA HUMAN
HPSA: High Parallel System Architecture HSP: High Speed Printer

(Hardware)
HSR: Horizontal Scan Rate
HPSB: High-Performance Serial Bus (Hardware)
Also known as FireWire (Hardware)
HSRP: Hot Standby Router Protocol
HPUX: Hewlett-Packard UniX (Network) (Cisco)
HP-VUE: Hewlett-Packard Visual User HSSDS: High Speed Switched Digital Service
Environment HSSI: High Speed Serial Interface
HPW: High Performance Workstation
HST: Hawaii Standard Time
(Sun)
Timezone: GMT -10:00
HQ: HeadQuarter HST: High Speed Technology
HR: High-Rate (3Com)
IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN access method (Communication)
HST: HiSTory
HR: Human Resource
HST: HoST
HRAA: High Resolution Anti Aliasing HSV: Hue, Saturation, Value
Technology found in the nVidia GeForce3 Chip (Hardware)
(nVidia) HSYNC: Horizontal SYNChronization
H HRAD: Hosted Rapid Application Development
(Hardware)
HT: Horizontal Tab

HRC: Hybrid Ring Control
HT: Hyper-Threading
HREF: Hypertext REFerence
A technology started with Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor at
HRG: High Resolution Graphics 3.06 that enables the processor to execute two thread in
parallel, so the software can run more efficiently and the user
HRIS: Human Resource Information System
can multitask more effectively (Hardware) (Intel)
HRMS: Human Resource Management System
HTA: HyperText Application
HRTF: Head-Related Transfer Function (Network)
HS: High Speed HTCPCP: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol
HSB: Hue, Saturation, Brightness (Network)
Color model HTDM: Hybrid Time Division Multiplexing
HSC: Help and Support Center HTH: Hope This Helps
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Net lingo)
HSC: Hierarchical Storage Controller HTL: High Threshold Logic
HSC: High Speed Channel (Hardware)
HSCSD: High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data HTML: HyperText Markup Language

For the Global System for Mobile (GSM) (Communication) A file format, based on SGML, for hypertext documents on the
Internet. It is simple and enables the embedding of images,
HSD: High Speed Data sounds, video streams, form fields, and basic text formatting.
HSF: Heat Sink and Fan HTPC: Home Theater Personal Computer
Common combination of a fan attached to a heat sink that is (Hardware)
placed in contact with a microprocessor that needs to be
cooled. (Hardware) HTT: Hyper-Threading Technology
Implementation of simultaneous multithreading on Intel
HSFS: High Sierra File System Pentium 4, Mobile Pentium 4, and Xeon processors (Intel)
(Operating systems)
HTTP: HyperText Transport (or Transfer)
HSI: High Speed Interface Protocol
HSI: Hue, Saturation, Intensity The Internet protocol that fetches hypertext objects from
Color model remote hosts. It is based on TCP/IP.
HSIL: Host Side Igmp Library HTTPD: HyperText Transfer Protocol Daemon
(Network) (Cisco) HTTP-NG: HyperText Transfer Protocol - Next
HSL: High Speed Link Generation
(IBM) HTTPS: HyperText Transport (or Transfer)
HSL: Hue, Saturation, Luminance Protocol Secure
Color model (Hardware) The secure version of HTTP allowing transfer of encrypted
data
HSLAN: High Speed Local Area Network
HTX: HTml eXtension
HSLN: High Speed Local Network
HUD: Heads Up Display
HSM: Hierarchical Storage Management
HUMAN: High-speed Unlicensed Metropolitan
HSM: Hitachi System Manager Area Network
HSMOS: High Speed Metal Oxide Semiconductor (Network)

HURD IAS
HURD: Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons IA: Information Appliance

(Operating systems) (GNU) (Hardware)
HURSE: Hasp Unit Record SErvice IA: Information Architecture

To get a punch or print of your cards (Operating systems)
IA: Intel Architecture
(IBM)
(Hardware) (Intel)
HUT: Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope
IAA: Intel's Application Accelerator
HVC: Hue, Value, Chroma
IAB: Internet Activities Board
HVD: High Voltage Differential The group that administrates the development of the Internet
(Hardware) suite of protocols (TCP/IP). The IAB has two investigative
task forces, the IRTF and the IETF. Now its called Internet
HVP: Horizontal and Vertical Position Architecture Board (Organizations)
HVS: Human Visual System
IAB: Internet Architecture Board
HW: HardWare The new name of what was called Internet Activities Board
(Organizations)
HWCP: HardWare Code Page
HWD: Height, Width, Depth IAC: InterApplication Communication
(Apple)
HWDM: Hyperfine Wavelength-Division
Multiplexing IAC: Internet Application Component
(Communication)
(Software) H
HWG: Here We Go! IAD: Integrated Access Device
Mostly used in online gaming (Games) IAD: Intrusion-Aware Design
I
(Security)
HWIH: Here's What I Have
(Net lingo) IADM: Internet Application Distribution
HYTEA: HYperText Environment for Authoring Management
IAEC: International Address Element Code
Hz: HertZ
Frequency measurement unit IAFA: Internet Anonymous Ftp Archives
(Network)
I IAG: Instruction Address Generation
(ISC)2: International Information System IAHC: Internet Ad Hoc Committee
Security Certification Consortium (Organizations)
(Organizations)
IAI: Internet Application Integration
I/F: InterFace
IAK: Internet Access Kit
I/O: Input/Output (IBM)
The equipment used to communicate with a computer, the
IAL: Intel Architecture Lab
data involved in that communication, the media carrying the
data, and the process of communicating that information (Intel)
I/T: Integration/Transformation IAL: International Algebraic Language

Another name for Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) ALGOL was first called IAL
(Databases) IALATFTTJH: I Am Laughing At The Funny
I2: Internet 2 Thing That Just Happend
(Network) An alternative to LOL used to represent humor (Net lingo)
I2C: Intelligent Interface Controller IAM: Index Allocation Map

(Hardware) (Databases)
I2C: Inter-Integrated Circuit IAM: Internet Answering Machine

2-wire bus developed by Philips Semiconductors in the early (Software)
1980's for efficient inter-IC communications. See IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/markets/mms/protoc
ols/i2c/ (Hardware) (Philips) IANAL: I Am Not A Lawyer
Standard disclaimer before dispensing legal advice (Net lingo)
I2-DSI: Internet 2-Distributed Storage
Infrastructure IANW: International Academic NetWorkshops
(Network) IAP: Internet Access Policy
I2O: Intelligent Input Output IAP: Internet Access Provider
I3: Innovation In Infrastructure IARP: Inverse Address Resolution Protocol
I4DL: Interface, Inheritance, Implementation, (Network)
Installation Definition Language IAS: Information Access Service
IA: Illustrated Audio IAS: Interactive Application System
Sound file format

IAS ICE
IAS: Internet Access Server ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned

(Network) Names and Numbers
(Organizations)
IAS: Internet Authentication Service
ICAP: Intenet Content Adaption Protocol
IASS: Internet Alphaserver System Software
(Network)
(DEC)
ICAP: Internet Calendar Access Protocol
IAT: Import Address Table
(Lotus)
IAT: Information Access Technology ICAPI: Internet Connection server Application

Programming Interface
IAT: Internet Appliance Toolkit (Software) (IBM)
(Network) (QNX)
ICAS: Intel Communicating Applications
IAUG: International Aix User Group Specifications
IAYF: Information At Your Fingertips ICB: Internet Citizen's Band
IB: Interface Builder ICC: Integration Competency Center
(Software) (Apple) (Software)
IBA: Intel Boot Agent ICC: Intelligent Communications Control
(Intel)
ICC: International Color Consortium
IBC: Instrument Bus Computer (Organizations)
I iBCS: Intel Binary Compatibility Specification ICCB: Internet Configuration Control Board
IBG: International Biometrics Group (Organizations)
(Security) ICCC: InterClient Communication Convention
IBIP: Information Based Indicia Program ICCCM: Inter-Client Communication
Bar code postage system Conventions Manual
IBM: International Business Machines The document that describes the conventions for the
communication between X clients. This includes such
IBM-GL: International Business Machines conventions as client-to-client, client-to-window manager,
Graphics Language client-to-session manager, and color characterization
communication. (Operating systems)
IBN: Integrated Business Network
IBOC: In-Band, On-Channel ICCD: International Conference on Computer
Design
IBTL: In Before The Lock
ICCF: Interactive Computing and Control
A cry made prior to an on-line moderator locking an
inapproprate topic on in an on-line discussion forum (Net
Facility
lingo) Program development and testing environment (Software)
(IBM)
IBV: Information Behavior and Value
ICCP: Institute for the Certification of
IC: I See Computing Professionals
(Net lingo)
ICCS: Integrated Communications Cabling
IC: Input Circuit System
IC: Input Context ICD: Installable Client Driver
An abstraction for representing the state of a particular input
thread for use with an input method. Multiple ICs can be
ICD: International Code Designator
associated with an input method. ICDA: Integrated Cached Disk Array
IC: Integrated Circuit ICDL: International Computer Driving Licence
(Hardware) The ICDL Foundation works to promote an International
IC: Interexchange Carrier certification of industry-standard computing skills. See
http://www.ecdl.com (Organizations)
(Communication)
ICDS: I-data Compressed Data Stream
IC: Internet Connector
An i-data/MPI Tech architected bi-directional host-to-
printer data stream that contains both data and controls.
IC: Interrupt Controller ICDS is generated by EPM and PSS host applications
ICA: Independent Computing Architecture ICE: Image Correction and Enhancement

Film scanner technology
ICA: Intelligent Communication Adapter
ICE: In-Circuit Emulation
ICA: Intelligent Console Architecture
(Hardware)
ICA: Intra-application Communications Area
ICE: Information and Content Exchange
ICALP: International Conference on Automata, Protocol for use by content syndicators and their
Languages and Programming subscribers. It focuses on automating content exchange and
ICAN: Individual Customer Access Network reuse, both in traditional publishing contexts and in business-
to-business relationships

ICE ICW
ICE: Integrated Computing Environment ICQ: I Seek You

Communication program (Software)
ICE: Internal Consistency Evaluator
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) ICR: Intelligent Character Recognition
ICEM: Integrated Computer aided Engineering iCRT: Intelligent Content Recognition
and Manufacturing Technology
ICES: Interference-Causing Equipment ICS: Ibm Cabling System
Standard
ICS: Implementation Conformance Statement
ICF: Integrated Catalog Facility ICS: Incremental Change Synchronization
ICF: Interactive Communication Facility A mechanism to monitor, export, and import changed items
(IBM) (both hierarchy and content) between a database and an
information store or between two information stores
ICF: Internet Connection Firewall (Software) (Microsoft)
(Security) (Microsoft)
ICS: Integrated Client Setup
ICH: I/o Controller Hub
(Hardware) (Intel) ICS: Internet Caching System
(Network)
ICI: Image Component Information
ICS: Internet Conferencing System
ICI: Inter-Cpu Interrupt (Network)
I-C-IT: Intelligent Control Interactive ICS: Internet Connection Sharing
Technology (Network) (Microsoft)
ICL: Industrial Code and Logic
I
ICS: Intuitive Command Structure
Manufacturer
ICS: Iris Certificate Security
ICL: Interface Clear
ICSA: International Computer Security
ICLID: Incoming Call Line IDentification Association
ICM: Image Color Management (Organizations)
(Software) ICSA: Internet Cellular Smart Access
ICM: Image Color Matching ICSAPI: Internet Connection Services
(Kodak) Application Programming Interface
ICM: InComing Message ICSC: Intelligent Channel/Storage Control
ICM: Internet Call Manager ICSE: International Conference on Software
ICMC: International Computer Music Engineering
Conference ICSF: Internet Connection Sharing and Firewall
ICMF: Integrated Coupling Migration Facility Makes it possible for home and small office users to create
and manage private networks in which multiple computers
ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol share a single connection to the Internet (Operating
The protocol used that handles errors and control messages systems) (Microsoft)
at the Internet Protocol layer. For example, the ping
command is an implementation of the ICMP. ICMP occurs on ICSW: Internet Connection Sharing Wizard
the IP (network) level of the TCP/IP protocol suite. (Network) (Microsoft)
(Communication)
ICT: Information and Communications
ICO: ICOn Technology
File name extension A broader definition of Information Technology (IT) including
communications
iCOMP: Intel COmparative Microprocessor
Performance ICTSB: Information and Communications
(Intel) Technology Standards Board
Initiative from the three recognized European standards
ICP: Image CoProcessor
organizations with the participation of specification providers
(Hardware) as partners to co-ordinate specification activities in the field
ICP: Independent Content Provider of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)
(Network) (Organizations)
ICP: Integrated Channel Processor ICU: Instruction-Cache Unit
ICP: Intelligent Communication Protocol ICU: Intel Configuration Utility

ICP: Internet Cache Protocol ICU: Interactive Chart Utility

(Network) ICU: Internet Communication Utilities
ICP: Internet Content Provider (Communication)
ICP: Internet Control Pack ICU: Isa Configuration Utility

(Network) (Microsoft) ICW: Internet Connection Wizard

ID IE
ID: IDentifier IDIOT: Intrusion Detection In Our Time

Project to develop a new approach to efficient misuse
IDA: Inernational Database Association
detection methods. Its design made use of a new
(Organizations)
classification of intrusion methods based on complexity of
IDA: Intelligent Drive Array matching and temporal characteristics (Security)
(Hardware) IDIV: Integer DIVide
IDA: International Database Association IDK: Internet Development Kit
IDAPI: Independent Database Application (Software)
Programming Interface IDL: Interactive Data Language
(Software) (Borland)
IDL: Interface Definition Language
IDARS: Integrated Document Archive and A language-independent way to describe a module interface
Retrieval System (Software)
IDAS: Interchange DAta Structure IDLE: International Date Line East
IDBMS: Integrated DataBase Management Timezone: GMT +12:00
System IDLW: International Date Line West
(Databases) Timezone: GMT -12:00
IDC: Integrated Desktop Connector IDM: Integrated Document Management
IDC: Inter-Device Communication IDN: Internationalized Domain Name
IDC: International Data Corporation IDNX: Integrated Digital Network eXchange
I IDC: Internet Data Center (IBM)
IDC: Internet Database Connector IDP: Integrated Data Processing
(Network) (Microsoft) IDP: Internet Datagram Protocol
iDCT: Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform IDPR: Inter-Domain Policy Routing protocol
IDDD: International Distance Direct Dialing (Network)
(Communication) IDR: Intelligent Disaster Recovery
IDDE: Integrated Development & Debugging (Seagate)
Environment IDR: Intelligent Document Recognition
(Symantec)
IDRAM: Integrated Dynamic Random Access
IDE: Integrated Development Environment Memory
(Software)
(Hardware)
IDE: Integrated Drive (or Device) Electronics IDRC: Improved Data Recording Capacity
Bus architecture (Hardware)
(Hardware)
IDE: Interactive Design and Engineering IDS: Information Delivery System
IDE: Interface Design Enhancement IDS: Internal Directory System
IDEA: International Data Encryption Algorithm IDS: Intrusion Detection System
IDEA: Internet Design, Engineering, and (Security)
Analysis notes IDSL: Isdn Digital Subscriber Line
IDEMA: International Disk drive Equipment (Communication)
and Materials Association
IDT: Integrated Device Technologies
International not-for-profit trade association that represents
(IDT)
the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) industry and its infrastructure.
See also http://www.idema.org/ (Organizations) IDT: Interface Design Tool
IDEN: Integrated Data Enhanced Network IDT: Interrupt Descriptor Table
(Network) IDTS: I Don't Think So
IDF: Intermediate Distribution Frame (Net lingo)
IDFK: I Don't F***ing Know IDU: Interface Data Unit
(Net lingo)
IDUG: International Db2 Users Group
IDGA: International Game Developers (Databases) (IBM)
Association
IDUP-GSS-API: Independent Data Unit
(Organizations)
Protection Generic Security Service
IDI: Initial Domain Identifier Application Programming Interface
(Network) IDVC: Integrated Data/Voice Channel
IDX: InDeX
File name extension
IE: Information Element

IE IID
IE: Information Engineering IFP: Instruction Fetch Pipeline

IE: Internet Explorer IFPI: International Federation of
(Software) (Microsoft) Phonographic Industry
(Organizations)
IEAK: Internet Explorer Administrator Kit
(Software) (Microsoft) IFPUG: International Function Point User Group
Promotes and encourages the effective management of
IEC: InterExchange Carrier
application software development and maintenance activities
IEC: International Electrotechnical Commission through the use of Function Point Analysis (FPA) and other
(Organizations) software measurement techniques (Organizations)
IEE: Institute of Electrical Engineers IFR: Interleaved Frame Recording

IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics IFS: Installable File System
Engineers (Operating systems)
(Organizations) IFS: Internal Field Separator
IEF: Information Engineering Facility IFS: Internal Field Seperator
IEG: Information Exchange Group IFS: Internet File System
IEMSI: Interactive Electronic Mail Standard (Operating systems)
Identification IFSM: InFormation Systems Management
IEN: Internet Engineering Notes IFSMgr: Installable File System ManaGeR
IEN: Internet Experiment Notebook (Operating systems)
I
IEP: Initial Experience Predictor IFT: Inverse fast Fourier Transform
IEPA: Individual Expert Participation IFX: Interactive Financial eXchange
Agreement IGA: Integrated Graphics Array
(Sun)
IGC: Institute for Global Communications
IESG: Internet Engineering Steering Group
The executive committee of the IETF (Organizations) IGC: Integrated Graphics Controller
IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force IGES: Initial Graphics Exchange Specification
An engineering and protocol standards body that develops File format for graphics interchange
and specifies protocols and Internet standards, generally in IGFET: Insulated-Gate Field Effect Transistor
the network layer and above. See www.ietf.org (Organizations)
IGFOS: International Government Forum for
IETFWG: Internet Engineering Task Force Open Systems
Working Group (Organizations)
IEW: Information Engineering Workbench IGMP: Internet Group Management Protocol
IF: Information Flow The TCP/IP protocol that permits Internet hosts to take part
in IP multicasting. It is an efficient means of broadcasting
IF: Inner Firewall messages to groups of end-stations (Network)
(Security)
IGN: Ibm Global Network
IFB: Internet Free/Busy
Microsoft Outlook feature (Software) (Microsoft) IGP: Integrated Graphics Processor
(Hardware)
IFC: Internet Foundation Classes
(Software) IGP: Interior Gateway Protocol
The protocol that enables the exchange or routing
IFCC: Internet Fraud Complaint Center information between collaborating routers on the Internet.
(Organizations) Examples of IGPs include Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
IFCM: Independent Flow Control Messages and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
IFD: Image File Directory IGRP: Interior Gateway Routing Protocol

(Cisco)
IFD: Information Flow Diagram
IGS: Internet Go Server
i-FED: Intelligent Field Emitting Display
(Hardware)
IGSN: Internet Gprs Support Node
(Communication)
IFF: Interchange File Format
IHA: Intel Hub Architecture
IFG: Incoming Fax Gateway (Hardware) (Intel)
IFIP: International Federation of Information IHD: Integrated Help Desk
Processing societies (IBM)
IFITL: Integrated Fiber In The Loop IHV: Independent Hardware Vendor
Enables Internet access through a technology known as
A third-party hardware manufacturer (Hardware)
Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE). (Network)
IID: Interface IDentifier
IFMP: Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol
(Software)
IFNA: International FidoNet Association

IIF IMP
IIF: Immediate IF IM: Input Method

(Databases) The algorithm by which users enter the text of a language.
Input methods differ for each language, depending on that
IIF: Immediate InterFace language’s structure and conventions
III: Interstate Identification Index IM: Instant Messaging
IIIR: Integration of Internet Information
IM: Interface Module
Resources
IMA: Interactive Multimedia Association
IIL: Integrated Injection Logic
IMA: International Midi Association
IIM: Internet Interaction Management
IMAC: Isochronous Media Access Control
IIN: Integrated Information Network
IMACS: Image Management and
IIOP: Internet Interoperable Orb Protocol
Communication System
(Communication)
IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol
IIR: Immediate Impulse Response (Network)
IIR: Incremental Image Rendering IMAPI: Image Mastering Application
IIRC: If I Recall Correctly Programming Interface
(Net lingo) Allows an application to stage and burn a simple audio or
data image to CD-R or CD-RW devices (Operating systems)
IIRG: International Information Retrieval Guild
(Microsoft)
The oldest surviving hacker organization. See
http://www.iirg.org/ (Organizations) IMC: Internet Mail Connector
I (Software) (Microsoft)
IIS: Internet Information Server
(Network) (Microsoft) IMC: Internet Message Center
(Network)
IISP: Interim Inter-switch Signaling Protocol
IMDB: In-Memory DataBase
IITF: Information Infrastructure Task Force
(Databases)
IJCAI: International Joint Conference on
IMDb: Internet Movie DataBase
Artificial Intelligence
IMDS: IMage Data Stream
IK: Inverse Kinematics
(IBM)
IKBS: Intelligent Knowledge Based System
IME: Input Method Editor
IKE: Internet Key Exchange (Software) (Microsoft)
IKMP: Internet Key Management Protocol IME: Integrated Messaging Exchange
(Network)
IMEI: International Mobile Equipment Identity
IKP: Internet Keyed Payment A code that uniquely identifies the mobile terminal hardware.
IL: Intermediate Language It is important in GSM for keeping a record of lost or stolen
mobile telephones. A copy of each IMEI is stored in the EIR
A platform-independent, compiler-generated language
(Communication)
suitable to run on platform-specific virtual machines
(Software) IMF: International Monetary Fund
ILA: Image Light Amplifier (Organizations)
ILE: Integrated Language Environment IMG: IMaGe

(Software) (IBM) File name extension
ILEC: Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier IMHO: In My Humble Opinion

Also known as primary local exchange carrier (Net lingo)
(Communication) IML: Initial Microcode Load
ILLINET: ILlinois LIbrary NETwork (IBM)
ILM: Information Lifecycle Management IMM: Input Method Manager

Not a technology, ILM is a combination of processes and (Software) (Microsoft)
technologies that determines how data flows through an
IMM: Intel Mobile Module
environment. By doing so, it helps end users manage data
(Hardware) (Intel)
from the moment it is created to the time it is no longer
needed IMM: Interactive MultiMedia
ILMI: Interim Local Management Interface IMNSHO: In My Not So Humble Opinion
iLO: Integrated Lights-Out (Net lingo)
Remote management feature on HP servers. (Hardware) (HP) IMO: In My Opinion
ILP: Instruction-Level Parallelism (Net lingo)
CPU architecture IMO: Intenet Mail Only
ILS: International Language Support Microsoft Outlook feature (Software) (Microsoft)
ILS: Internet Locator Service IMP: Information Management Practice

IMP IOCtl
IMP: Interface Message Processor INM: Integrated Network Management

(Hardware)
INM: International Neural Machines
IMP: Internet Mail Only INN: Inter Node Network
IMPA: Intelligent Multi-Port Adapter INN: InterNet News
IMPP: Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (Network)
IMR: Internet Monthly Report INND: InterNet News Daemon

(Network)
IMS: Image Management Services
IMS: Information Management System INOC: Internet Network Operations Center
(IBM) INP: Instant Network Presence
(Network)
IMS: Instructional Management System
IMS: Intermediate Maintenance Standard INRIA: Institut National de Recherche en
Informatique et Automatique
IMS: Internet Mail Service
INS: INput String
IMSI: International Mobile Subscriber Identity
A unique number within the SIM card that identifies the
INS: Integrated Network Server
subscriber to the system (Communication) INT: INTeger
IMSO: Integrated Micro Systems Operation INT: INTernal
IMSP: Internet Message Support Protocol INT: INTernational
(Network) organization Domain name I
IMSVS: Information Management INT: INTerrupt
System/Virtual Storage (Software) (Intel)
IMTC: International Multimedia INTA: INTerrupt Acknowledge
Teleconferencing Consortium
INTAP: Interoperability Technology
IMTV: Interactive Multimedia TeleVision Association for Information Processing
IMUL: Integer MULtiply The technical organization that officially develops Japanese
OSI profiles and conformance tests (Organizations)
IMUX: Inverse MUltipleXer
INTEL: INTegrated ELectronics
IN: Individual Network (Intel)
IN: INput InterNIC: INTERnet Network Information
IN: Intelligent Network Center
INA: Intelligent Network Architecture INTO: INTerrupt if Overflow occurs
INAP: Intelligent Network Application Protocol INTRAC: INtelligent Traffic Routing And Control
Allows applications to communicate between various (Network)
nodes/functional entities of an intelligent network. The
INTSERV: INTegrated SERVices
protocol defines the operations required to be performed
The transport of audio, video, real-time, and classical data
between nodes/functional entities for providing intelligent
traffic within a single network infrastructure (Network)
network services
INC: INCrement IO: Information Orientation
IO: Input/Output
INCITS: InterNational Committee on
Information Technology Standards IO: Internal Objects
Organization for standardization in the field of Information (Software) (Microsoft)
and Communications Technologies (ICT), encompassing
IOC: Input/Output Controller
storage, processing, transfer, display, management,
organization, and retrieval of information (Organizations) IOC: Inter-Office Channel
INCM: Intelligent Network Conceptual Model IOCC: Input/Output Channel Converter
IND: INDex IOCC: Input/Output Controller Chip
File name extension
IOCCC: International Obfuscated C Code
INET: International NETworking conference Contest
INF: INFormation IOCP: Inter-Orb Communication Protocol
File name extension (Communication)
INFS: Internet Network File System IOCS: Input/Output Control System
INGRES: INteractive Graphic REtrieval System IOCtl: Input/Output ConTroL
INI: INItialization
File name extension
INIT: INITialize
INL: Inter Node Link

iODBC IPM
iODBC: Independent Open DataBase IPCMOS: Interlocked Pipeline Complementary

Connectivity Metal Oxide Semiconductor
Open source, platform independent implementation of both Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware)
the ODBC and X/Open specifications. It is rapidly emerging
as the industry standard for developing solutions that are
IPCP: Internet Protocol Control Protocol
language, platform and database independent. See also (Network)
http://www.iodbc.org/ (Software) IPCS: Integrated Personal Computer Server
IOE: Internet Operating Environment (Hardware)
IOF: Infrared Optical Film IPCS: Interactive Problem Control System

IONL: Internal Organization of the Network IPD: Intelligent Printer Data
Layer IPDC: Internet Protocol Device Control
The ISO/OSI standard for the architecture of the network
layer. The IONL divides the network layer into subnetworks IPDS: Ibm Personal Dictation System
interconnected by convergence protocols (internetworking (IBM)
protocols), resulting in a catenet or internet (Organizations)
IPDS: Intelligent Printer Data Stream
IOP: Input/Output Parity (IBM)
(Hardware)
IPDU: Internet Protocol Data Unit
IOP: Input/Output Processor IPDVMRP: Internet Protocol Distance Vector
(Hardware) Multicast Routing Protocol
IOPL: Input/Output Privilege Level IPE: Integrated Programming Environment
I IOQD: In-Order Queue Depth IPF: Information Presentation Facility
(Hardware) (Intel)
IPF: Invalid Page Format
IOR: Interoperable Object Reference
IPFC: Information Presentation Facility
IORDY: Input/Output channel ReaDY Compiler
(Hardware) (IBM)
IOREQ: Input/Output REQuest IPI: Intelligent Peripheral Interface
Microprocessor signal used in I/O addressing (Hardware) A device-generic interface used for large-capacity, high-
IORQ: Input/Output ReQuest performance disks. The IPI supports disk transfer rates at
3Mbyte/sec and above (Hardware)
Microprocessor signal used in I/O addressing (Hardware)
IOS: Input/Output System IPI: Internet Policy Institute
A device-generic interface used for large-capacity, high-
IOS: Internet Operating System performance disks. The IPI supports disk transfer rates at
(Operating systems) 3MB/sec and above (Organizations)
IOS: InterOrganizational System IPI: Inter-Processor Interrupt
IOSGA: Input/Output Support Gate Array (Hardware)
IOUG: International Oracle Users Group IPIC: International Primary Interexchange

Carrier
See http://www.ioug.org/ (Organizations)
(Communication)
IP: Information Provider
IPL: Ibm Public License
IP: Instruction Pointer (IBM)
IPL: Information Programming Language
IP: Intellectual Property
IPL: Initial Program Load
IP: Intelligent Peripheral Also known as the bootstrap or boot process
IP: Internet Protocol IPL: Ion Projection Lithography
The major network layer protocol in the Internet Protocol
suite. IP describes the routing of packets, among its many IPM: Images Per Minute
tasks (Network) ipm: Impressions Per Minute
IPAUTH: Internet Protocol AUTHentication Printing speed measurement unit (Hardware)
(Security) IPM: InfoPrint Manager
IPBF: Installed Peripheral Base Flexibility IBM's Info Print Manager - Creates IPDS data (IBM)
IPC: Instructions Per Clock ipm: Instructions Per Minute

IPC: InterProcess Communication IPM: Intelligent Power Module
The process of sharing data between processes and, when (Hardware)
necessary, coordinating access to the shared data IPM: Internet Protection Module
(Operating systems)
(Network)
IPCE: InterProcess Communication
IPM: Internetwork Performance Monitor
Environment
A network response time and availability troubleshooting
application (Software) (Cisco)

IPM IRTOS
IPM: InterPersonal Message IRAM: Intelligent Random Access Memory

(Hardware)
ipm: Interruptions Per Minute
IPMI: Intelligent Platform Management IRC: Internet Relay Chat
(Network)
Interface
(Hardware) IRC: Interrupt Request Controller
(Hardware)
IPMI: Internet Protocol Multicast Initiative
(Network) IRCA: Internet Content Rating Association
IPNG: Internet Protocol Next Generation (Organizations)
(Network) IRCP: Internet Relay Chat Protocol
(Network)
IPO: Input, Processing and Output
IPO: International Purchasing Office IRD: Implementation Row Descriptor
(Databases)
IPO: Internet Protocol over Optical
(Network) IRD: Integrated Receiver/Descrambler
IPP: Infrastructure Portal Provider IrDA: InfraRed Data Association

(Organizations)
IPP: Internet Printing Protocol
(Network) IRDP: Icmp Router Discovery Protocol
(Network)
IPP: Internet Protocol Processor
(Hardware) IRDS: Information Resource Dictionary System
IPR: Intellectual Property Rights IRET: Interrupt RETurn I

ips: Inches Per Second IRF: Inheritance Rights Filter
(Hardware) (Novell)
IPS: Information Processing Standards IRF: Interger Register File
IPS: In-Plane Switching IRF: Intermediate Routing Function

(Hardware) IRIS: Internet Retailer Information System
iPS: Iplanet Portal Server IRL: In Real Life
IPSE: Integrated Project Support Environment (Net lingo)
IPSec: Internet Protocol SECurity IRL: Insert Row Locking

A set of protocols that give greater IP-level security to data (Databases)
packets transmitted over Virtual Private Networks IRL: Integer Register File
IPSRA: Internet Protocol Security Remote IRL: Interactive Reader Language
Access
IrLAN: InfraRed Local Area Network
(Security)
IrLAP: InfraRed Link Access Protocol
IPTC: International Press Telecommunications
(Communication)
Council
IPv: Internet Protocol, Version IRLED: InfraRed Light Emitting Diode
(Communication) IrLMP: InfraRed Link Management Protocol
(Communication)
IPWG: Internet Privacy Working Group
(Organizations) IRM: Information Resource Management
IPX: Internetwork Packet eXchange IRM: Inherent Rights Mask
(Network) (Novell)
IRP: I/o Request Packet
IPX/SPX: Internet Packet Data structure used by Windows to communicate to kernel-
eXchange/Sequenced Packet eXchange mode device drivers. (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
IPXCP: Internetworking Packet eXchange IRQ: Interrupt ReQuest

Control Protocol A signal that a device requires CPU attention (Hardware)
(Network) IRQL: Interrupt ReQuest Level
IPXODI: Internet Packet eXchange Open IRR: Internal Rate of Return
Datalink Interface
IRS: Internal Revenue Service
IQL: Interactive Query Language
IRSG: Internet Research Steering Group
IR: InfraRed
(Hardware) IRTF: Internet Research Task Force
The task force of the Internet Activities Board that
IR: Instruction Register addresses research and development of the Internet Protocol
(Hardware) suite (Organizations)
IR: Interface Repository IRTOS: I2o Real Time Operating System
(Operating systems)

IRTP ISO
IRTP: Internet Reliable Transaction Protocol ISE: Integrated Software Engineering

(ISE)
IRX: Information Retrieval eXperiment
IS: Image Stabilization ISEN: Internet Search Environment Number
Is the foundation of a portal that comprehensively catalogs
A system like this can help your digital camera take clearer
the Internet's databases. See also http://www.isen.org/
images (Hardware)
IS: Information System ISF: Information Security Forum

(Organizations)
IS: Internal System
ISFUG: Integrated Software Federal User
IS: Interrupt Status Group
ISA: Industry Standard Architecture ISH: Information Super Highway
PC bus architecture (Hardware)
ISHO: Inter-System HandOver
ISA: Instruction-Set Architecture Transfer of 3G calls to 2G networks mid call and vice-versa
ISA: Interactive Services Association (Network)
ISA: Internet Security and Acceleration ISI: Information Sciences Institute

(Microsoft) ISI: Internally Specified Index
ISA: Internet Server Application ISIS: Image and Scanner Interface Standard
(Software)
ISIS: Integrated Systems and Information
ISACA: Information Systems Audit and Control Services
Association
I See http://www.isaca.org/ (Organizations)
IS-IS: Intermediate-System to Intermediate-
System
ISAKMP: Internet Security Association Key The ISO/OSI protocol by which intermediate systems
Management Protocol exchange routing information
(Network)
ISKM: Internet Starter Kit for the Macintosh
ISAM: Indexed Sequential Access Method ISL: Inter Switch Link
ISAPI: Internet Server Application (Hardware) (Cisco)
Programming Interface ISL: Interactive System Language
ISLM: Integrated Services Line Module
ISBN: International Standard Book Number
ISLN: Integrated Services Local Network
ISC: Information Supply Chain
ISLU: Integrated Services Line Unit
ISC: Instruction Set Computer
ISM: Industrial, Scientific, Medical
ISC: Internet Service Center
Radio frequency band (Communication)
ISC: Internet Storm Center ISM: Integrated Service Module
See http://isc.sans.org/ (Organizations)
(Hardware)
ISC: Inter-System Communication ISM: Integrated Switch Module
(IBM)
(Hardware)
ISCA: International Computing Security
ISM: Internet Service Manager
Association
(Microsoft)
(Organizations)
ISMA: Internet Streaming Media Alliance
iSCSI: Internet Small Computer System
(Organizations)
Interface
ISMF: Interactive Storage Management Facility
ISD: Image Section Descriptor
ISN: Information Systems Network
ISD: Instructional Systems Design
ISN: Initial Sequence Number
ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network
Synchronization between two hosts to establish a TCP
A communication technology offered by telephone carriers
connection. (Network)
worldwide. ISDN combines voice and digital network services
in a single medium, offering customers digital data services ISN: Internet School Networking
and voice connections through a single wire (Communication) (Network)
ISDN-UP: Integrated Services Digital Network ISN: Internet Services Network
User Part
ISN: Internet Shopping Network
A communications technology offered by telephone carriers
worldwide. ISDN combines voice and digital network services ISN-LAN: Information System Network-Local
in a single medium, offering customers digital data services Area Network
and voice connections through a single wire
ISO: Independent System Operator
ISDP: I See Dead People
Tactical-ops, assault on terror gaming clan. See
http://www.isdp.tk/ (Games)

ISO ITRS
ISO: International Organization for ISUP: ISdn User Part

Standardization Provides the signaling functions necessary to basic bearer
An international standards body that reviews and approves services and supplementary services for voice and non-voice
independently designed products for use within specific applications in the Integrated Services Digital Network
industries. ISO also develops standards for information (ISDN)
exchange, such as the ISO/OSI model for computer
ISV: Independent Software Vendor
networks. See http://www.iso.org/ (Organizations)
A third-party software developer (Software)
ISO/OSI: International Standardization
IT: Information Technology
Organization/Open Systems Interconnection
IT: Integration/Transformation
ISOC: Internet SOCiety
Another name for Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
(Organizations)
(Databases)
ISODE: International Standardization
ITA: Interim Type Approval
Organization Development Environment
ITAA: Information Technology Association of
ISP: Integrated System Peripheral control
America
ISP: Interactive String Processor (Organizations)
ISP: Internet Service Provider ITB: Information Technology Branch
Communications service company that provides Internet
ITB: Intermediate Text Block
access and services to its customers. ISPs range in size
from small independents serving a local calling area to large, ITC: Information Technology Consultant
established telecommunications companies (Network) An Information Technology (IT) position
ISP: Interrupt Stack Pointer ITC: International Typeface Corporation
I
ISP: Interrupt Status Port ITDI: Information Technology Pioneer
ISPF: Interactive System Programming Facility International
ISPP: Internet Secure Payments Protocol ITE: Independent Trading Exchange

(Security) ITE: Information Technology Equipment
ISQL: Interactive Structured Query Language ITF: Interactive Test Facility
ISR: Information Storage and Retrieval ITI: Information Technology Industry council
ISR: Interrupt Service Routine Washington-based trade association representing the leading
U.S. providers of information technology (IT) products and
(Operating systems)
services. See also http://www.itic.org/ (Organizations)
ISR: Interrupt Status Register
ITIL: Information Technology Infrastructure
ISS: Internet Security Systems Library
(Network)
iTIP: Icalendar Transport-indendent
ISS: Internet Sharing Software Interoperability Protocol
(Software) Specification that defines the format of calendar information
sent between calendar user agents. See also the RFC 2445
ISSA: Information Systems Security
Association ITLB: Instruction Tanslation Look-aside Buffer
(Organizations) ITM: Instruction Translation Look-aside Buffer
ISSCC: International Solid-State Circuits ITMS: Immediate check Truth Maintenance
Conference System
ISSLL: Integrated Services over Specific Link ITN: Identification Tasking and Networking
Layers
(Network) ITN: Internet Travel Network
ISSLOW: Integrated Services System for LOW ITOT: Iso Transport service On top of Tcp
bitrate lines (Network)
(Network) ITP: Information Technology Practice
ISSN: Integrated Special Services Network ITP: Information Technology Project
ISSN: International Standard Serial Number ITP: Internet Transaction Processing
IST: Immerse System Technology ITR: Information Technology Research
IST: Initial System Test ITR: Input Transaction Record
IST: Intelligent Scanning Technology ITR: Internet Talk Radio
ISTG: InterSite Topology Generator ITRS: International Technology Roadmap for
Managing active directory replication (Operating systems) Semiconductors
(Microsoft) (Organizations)

ITS JAF
ITS: Incompatible Time-sharing System IVS: Interactive Videodisk System

An influential but highly idiosyncratic operating system
IVT: InfoViewer Titles
written for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 at MIT and long used at
(Microsoft)
the MIT AI Lab (Operating systems)
ITS: Intelligent Transportation System IVT: Interrupt Vector Table

IVTS: International Video Teleconferencing
ITS: Internet Transaction Server
Service
ITSEC: Information Technology Security
Evaluation Criteria IW: Information Warehouse
I-WAY: Information highWAY
ITSO: International Technical Support
Organization IWC: Inside Wire Cable
(IBM)
IWF: InterWorking Function
ITSP: Internet Telephone Service Provider IWS: Intelligent WorkStation
ITTP: Intelligent Terminal Transfer Protocol IWS: Iplanet Web Server
(Communication) (Ericsson)
IXC: IntereXchange Carrier
ITU: International Telecommunications Union A long-distance carrier such as AT&T, MCI and Sprint
International organization under the auspices of the United
(Communication)
Nations that develops radio (ITU-R) and telecommunications
(ITU-T) standards. Prior to 1993, the ITU-T Standardization IXF: Integration eXchange Format
Sector was known as the CCITT (Organizations) (IBM)
I ITUG: International Telecommunications User IYHO: In Your Humble Opinion

Group (Net lingo)
J ITUSA: Information Technology Users IYKWIM: If You Know What I Mean

Standards Association (Net lingo)
ITU-T: International Telecommunications
Union Technical standards group J
ITU-TIES: International Telecommunications J/K: Just Kidding
Union -Telecom Information Exchange (Net lingo)
Services
J2EE: Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition
ITU-TSS: International Telecommunications (Software) (Sun)
Union -Telecommunication Standards Section
J2ME: Java 2 platform, Micro Edition
iTV: Interactive TeleVision (Software) (Sun)
ITX: Intermediate Text Block J2SE: Java 2 platform, Standard Edition
ITYM: I Think You Mean (Software) (Sun)
(Net lingo) JA: Jump Address
IU: Integer Unit JA: Jump if Above
IUAP: Internet User Account Provider (Software)
IUMA: Internet Underground Music Archive JAAS: Java Authentication and Authorization
Service
IUP: Infrastructure Utility Provider
Is a package that enables services to authenticate and
IUP: Internet User Population enforce access controls upon users. It implements a Java
(Network) version of the standard Pluggable Authentication Module
(PAM) framework, and supports user-based authorization.
IUS/ITB: Interchange Unit (Security) (Sun)
Separator/Intermediate Transmission Block
JAD: Joint Application Development
IV: Initialization Vector
JADE: Jasmine Application Development
(Security)
Environment
IV&V: Initialization Vector (Databases) (CAI)
IVC: Integrated Visual Computing JAE: Java Applet Environment
(SGI) (Software) (Sun)
IVDS: Integrated Voice and Data Systems JAE: Jump if Above or Equal
IVDT: Integrated Voice/Data Terminal JAF: Javabeans Activation Framework
IVIS: Interactive Video Information System With JAF, Java developers can take advantage of standard
services to determine the type of an arbitrary piece of data,
IVIT: Intelligent Voice Interactive Technology encapsulate access to it, discover the operations available
IVL: Independent Vendor League on it, and to instantiate the appropriate bean to perform said
operations (Sun)
IVL: Intel Verification Lab
IVR: Interactive Voice Response

JAI JDNC
JAI: Java Advanced Imaging JCA: Java Cryptography Architecture

Application programming interface (API) that enables (Software) (Sun)
developers to easily incorporate high-performance, network-
enabled, scalable, platform-independent image processing
JCAT: Java Coordination And Transactions
into Java technology-based applications and applets Includes (but is not limited to) the facilities required for
(Software) (Sun) applications to be invoked and return results before, during or
after calls; to process call parameters or subscriber-supplied
JAIN: Java for the Advanced Intelligent information; and to engage in further call processing and
Network control (Sun)
A set of Java technology based APIs which enable the rapid
JCC: Java Call Control
development of Next Generation telecom products and
Includes the facilities required for observing, initiating,
services on the Java platform (Sun)
answering, processing and manipulating calls, where a call is
JAM: Just A Minute understood to include (but is not necessarily limited to) a
When your in an on-line conversation and you need to put the multimedia, multiparty session over the underlying integrated
other person on hold while you quickly do something (Net network (Sun)
lingo)
JCE: Java Cryptography Extension
JAMES: Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server Is a set of packages that provide a framework and
Is a 100% pure Java server, designed to be a complete and implementations for encryption, key generation and key
portable enterprise mail engine solution based on currently agreement, and Message Authentication Code (MAC)
available open protocols (SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP) algorithms (Security) (Sun)
JANET: Joint Academic NETwork JCK: Java Compatibility Kit

A U.K. university network (Network) (Software) (Sun)
JAR: Java ARchive JCL: Job Control Language

(Software)
JAWS: Jamming And Warning System
(Hardware) JCP: Java Community Process J
Produces high-quality specifications in "Internet time" using
JAXB: Java Architecture for Xml Binding
an inclusive, consensus building approach that produces a
Architecture that provides an API and tools that automate
specification, a reference implementation (to prove the
the mapping between XML documents and Java objects
specification can be implemented), and a technology
(Software) (Sun)
compatibility kit (Sun)
JAXM: Java Api for Xml Messaging JCWDE: Java Card Workstation Development
Enables applications to send and receive document oriented Environment
XML messages using a pure Java API (Software) (Sun)
(Software) (Sun)
JAXP: Java Api for Xml Processing JDBC: Java DataBase Connectivity
Enables applications to parse and transform XML documents
(Databases)
using a pure Java API that is independent of a particular XML
processor implementation (Software) (Sun) JDC: Java Developer Connection
(Sun)
JAXR: Java Api for Xml Registries
Provides a mechanism for publishing available services in an JDE: Java Development Environment
external registry, and for consulting the registry to find those
JDEE: Java Development Environment for
services (Software) (Sun)
Emacs
JAX-RPC: Java Api for Xml-based Remote
JDF: Job Description Format
Procedure Call
Defines a mechanism for exchanging synchronous XML- JDI: Java Debug Interface
based messages between applications (Sun) (Software) (Sun)
JBCL: Java Beans Component Library JDIC: JDesktop Integration Components
(Software) Project that aims to make Java technology-based
applications first-class citizens of current desktop platforms
JBE: Jump if Below or Equal
without sacrificing platform independence. Its mission is to
JBIG: Joint Bi-level Image experts Group enable seamless desktop/Java integration (Software)
This was (and is) a group of experts nominated by national JDJ: Java Developer's Journal
standards bodies and major companies to work to produce
standards for bi-level image coding. See also JDK: Java Development Kit
http://www.jbig.org/ (Organizations) (Software) (Sun)
JBOD: Just a Bunch Of Disks JDMK: Java Dynamic Management Kit
A storage subsystems using multiple independent disk Is the foundation for building and distributing network
drives, as opposed to one form of RAID or another (Hardware) management intelligence into applications, networks and
devices. It is the first compatible implementation of the JMX
JBPC: Java-Based Pipeline Configurator
specification (Sun)
JC: Jump if Carry set
JDNC: Java Desktop Network Components
JCA: Java Card Assembly Aims to provide the shortcuts required to construct desktop
(Software) (Sun) applications in significantly less time by reducing the
learning, design, and coding requirements (Software)
JCA: Java Connector Architecture
(Software)

JDO JNI
JDO: Java Data Objects JIPS: Janet Internet Protocol Service

Is an application programming interface (API) for transparent
JIS: Japan Industrial Standard
database access. The programmer can write code in the Java
programming language that transparently accesses the JISC: Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
underlying data store, without using database-specific code
(Databases) (Sun)
JIT: Just In Time
Programs compilation technique (Software)
JDOM: Java Document Object Model
Java-oriented API for reading and writing XML documents
JITA: Just In Time Activation
Allows an objects to tell COM+ that its work is done and that
JDOQL: Java Data Objects Query Language it can be destroyed (Software) (Microsoft)
(Software)
JITC: Just In Time Compiler
JDSL: Java Data Structures Library JJ: Just Joking
(Software)
(Net lingo)
JDT: Java Development Toolkit JK: Just Kidding
Project that provides tool plug-ins that implement a Java IDE
(Net lingo)
that supports the development of Java applications including
Eclipse plug-ins.The JDT project allows Eclipse to be a JKS: Java KeyStore
development environment for itself. See www.eclipse.org (Security)
(Software)
JL: Jump if Less
JDWP: Java Debug Wire Protocol
(Sun)
JLE: Japanese Language Environment
JE: Jump if Equal JLE: Jump if Less than or Equal to
JEDEC: Joint Electronic Devices Engineering JLF: Java Layered Framework

Council Set of Java code to provide a foundation for faster Java
J software development (Software)
JEIDA: Japanese Electronics Industry
JLIP: Joint Level Interface Protocol
Development Association
JEITA: Japanese Electronics and Information JLS: Java Language Specification
Technology industries Association (Sun)
(Organizations) JMAPI: Java Management Application
JEPI: Joint Electronic Payment Initiative
(Sun)
JERI: Jini Extensible Remote Invocation
JMF: Java Media Framework
(Software) (Sun)
(Software) (Sun)
JES: Java Embedded Server
JMI: Java Metadata Interface
(Sun)
Implements a dynamic, platform-neutral infrastructure that
JES: Job Entry System enables the creation, storage, access, discovery, and
exchange of metadata (Software) (Sun)
JESI: Java Edge Side Include
(Software) JMM: Java Memory Model
(Software)
JESS: Java Expert System Shell
A CLIPS expert system written for Java (Software) JMP: JuMP
(Software)
JET: Joint Engine Technology
(Databases) (Microsoft) JMS: Java Message Service
JET: Jpeg Enhancement Technology JMSC: Japanese Midi Standard Committee
JFC: Java Foundation Classes JMX: Java Management eXtension
(Software) Formerly known as LMAPI (Sun)
JFET: Junction Field Effect Transistor JNA: Jump if Not Above

JFIF: Jpeg File Interchange Format JNAE: Jump if Not Above or Equal
JFS: Journalized File System JNB: Jump if Not Below
(Operating systems) JNBE: Jump if Not Below or Equal
JG: Jump if Greater JNDI: Java Naming and Directory Interface
JGE: Jump if Greater or Equal Is a standard extension to the JavaTM platform, providing
Java technology-enabled applications with a unified interface
JGF: Java Graphics Format to multiple naming and directory services in the enterprise
JGSS: Java Generic Security Service (Sun)
(Sun) JNG: Jump if Not Greater
JIC: Just In Case JNGE: Jump if Not Greater or Equal
(Net lingo)
JNI: Java Native Interface
JIMI: Java Image Management Interface (Sun)
(Sun)

JNLE JTS
JNLE: Jump if Not Less or Equal JSCP: Java Software CoProcessor

JNLP: Java Network Launching Protocol JSDK: Java Servlet Development Kit
(Sun) (Software)
JNO: Jump if No Overflow JSDT: Java Shared Data Toolkit

JNP: Jump if No Parity JavaTM Shared Data Toolkit
(Software) (Sun)
JNS: Jump if No Sign
JSF: Java Server Faces
JNZ: Jump if Not Zero Technology that simplifies building user interfaces for
JODE: Java Optimize and Decompile JavaServer applications. Developers of various skill levels
can quickly build web applications by assembling reusable UI
Environment
components in a page and connecting these components to a
(Software)
data source (Software) (Sun)
JOE: Java Objects Everywhere
JSGF: JSpeech Grammar Format
JOHNNIAC: JOHn Neumann Integrator and
JSML: JSpeech Markup Language
Automatic Computer
JSP: JavaServer Pages
JOOP: Journal of Object Orientated
(Software)
Programming
JSPA: Java Specification Participation
JOSS: Johnniac Open Shop System
Agreement
JOSS: Joint Object Services Submission (Sun)
JOVE: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs JSPC: JavaServer Pages Compiler
JOVIAL: Jules Own Version of the International (Software)
Algorithmic Language JSR: Java Specification Request J
JPDA: Java Platform Debugger Architecture Is the actual description of a proposed and final specification
Multi-tiered debugging architecture that allows tools for the Java platform (Sun)
developers to easily create debugger applications which run JSS: Java Security Service
portably across platforms, virtual machine (VM)
Java interface to Network Security Service (NSS). It
implementations and SDK versions (Software) (Sun)
supports most of the security standards and encryption
JPE: Jump if Parity Even technologies supported by NSS. JSS also provides a pure
Java interface for ASN.1 types and BER/DER encoding
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group
A joint venture of the CCITT and ISO that developed a JSS: Javascript Style Sheet
standard for compressing gray-scale or color still images JSSE: Java Secure Socket Extension
JPG: Joint Photographic experts Group Is a set of Java packages that enable secure Internet
Filename extension (short for JPEG) communications. It implements a Java version of SSL and
TLS protocols and includes functionality for data encryption,
JPL: Jet Propulsion Laboratory server authentication, message integrity, and optional client
JPLDIS: Jet Propulsion Laboratory Display authentication (Software) (Sun)
Information System JST: Japan Standard Time
JPNF: Join-Projection Normal Form Timezone: GMT +9:00
JPO: Jump if Parity Odd JSTL: Jsp Standard Tag Library
JRB: Java Relational Binding JSWDK: JavaServer Web Development Kit

(Software) (Software) (Sun)
JRE: Java Runtime Environment JTA: Java Transaction Api

(Software) (Sun)
JRI: Java Runtime Interface JTAG: Joint Test Action Group

Native interface proposed by Netscape (Software) (Netscape) (Hardware)
JRMP: Java Remote Method Protocol JTAPI: Java Telephony Application

(Software)
(Sun)
JRP: Joint Requirement Planning
JTB: Jump Trace Buffer
JS: JavaScript
(Software) (Netscape)
JTC: Join Transitive Closure
Allows the DBMS optimizer to consider a join order other than
JS: Jump if Sign those made available explicitly by the query's WHERE clause
JSA: Japanese Standards Association (Databases) (Sybase)
JSAPI: Java Speech Application Programming JTC: Joint Technical Committee

Interface JTM: Job Transfer and Manipulation
(Software) (Sun)
JTMS: Justification based Truth Maintenance
JSC: Java Swing Connection System
(Sun)
JTS: Java Transaction Service

JTSIN KMA
JTSIN: Joint Transmission Services KBMS: KeyBoard/MouSe

Information Network Connector. It's simply a duplicate of the PS/2 ports and it's
used to connect other devices that use the PS/2 without
JUG: Java User Group having to give up the keyboard and mouse, and also is
JUGHEAD: Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy convenient for things that you need to mount internally
Excavation And Display (Hardware)
JUMP: Java User Migration Path kbps: KiloBits Per Second

(Software) (Microsoft) Transfer Speed (Communication)
JUNET: Japan Unix NETwork kBps: KiloBytes Per Second

Transfer Speed (Communication)
JVM: Java Virtual Machine
KBS: Knowledge-Based System
JVMDI: Java Virtual Machine Debug Interface
(Sun) KCC: Knowledge Consistency Checker
A domain service that creates and modifies the replication
JVMPI: Java Virtual Machine Profiler Interface
topology of Active Directory (Network) (Microsoft)
JVS: Java Validation Suite
KCS: Kansas City Standard
(Software)
Recording standard (Hardware)
JWS: Java Web Server
KCS: Kiva C++ Server
(Sun)
JWS: Java Web Start KD: Kernel Debugger
Gives you the power to launch full-featured applications with
(Operating systems)
a single click from your Web browser. You can now download
and launch applications without going through complicated KDC: Key Distribution Center
installation procedures (Software) (Sun)
J KDE: K Desktop Environment
JWSDL: Java Web Service Description Language
KDS: Knowledge Discovery Server
Provides a standard set of APIs for representing and
K manipulating services described by Web Service Description
(Lotus)
Language (WSDL) documents (Sun) KDT: Key Definition Table
JWSDP: Java Web Services Developer Pack KEA: Key Exchange Algorithm
The Java Web Services Developer Pack is an all-in-one (Security)
download containing key technologies to simplify building of
web services using the Java 2 Platform (Software) (Sun)
KEFIR: KEy FIndings Reporter
JXTA: JuXTApose KERMIT: Kl-10 Error-free Reciprocal Micro

Started as a research project at Sun Microsystems, its goal
Interconnect over Tty lines
is to explore a vision of distributed network computing using KES: Key Escrow System
peer-to-peer topology, and to develop basic building blocks
and services that would enable innovative applications for KFM: K FIle Manager
peer groups (Software) KFX: KoFaX
JZ: Jump if Zero File Format for fax transmission
KHG: Kernel Hacking Guide
K KHz: KiloHertZ
k: Kilo KiB: KibIByte
Prefix for 10 power 3 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 10) Unit of measurement, introduced by the International
K&R: Kernighan And Ritchie Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024
"Traditional" or "classic" C language specification, named bytes
after its authors, Brian Kerninghan and Dennis Ritchie KIF: Knowledge Interchange Format
(Software)
KIPS: Kilo Instruction Per Second
KAM: Keep Alive Memory Processing speed
KAS: Kiva Administrative Server KIR: Kyocera Image Refinement
(Software) (Netscape) (Hardware)
KB: KeyBoard KIS: Knowbot Information Service
(Hardware)
KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid
kb: KiloBit
KIT: Kernel software for Intelligent Terminals
kB: KiloByte
1024 bytes
KJS: Kiva Java Server
KB: Knowledge Base
KM: Keyboard Monitoring
KBD: KeyBoarD
KM: Knowledge Management
KBE: Knowledge Based Engineering
KMA: Kiss My A**
(Net lingo)

KMS LAR
KMS: Key Management Server L2: Level 2

Mostly used in Microsoft Exchange to issue security (Hardware)
certificates (Security) (Microsoft)
L2CAP: Logical Link Control and Adaptation
KNI: Katmai New Instruction Protocol
(Intel)
L2F: Layer 2 Forwarding
KOS: Kill On Site (Network) (Cisco)
(Games)
L2TP: Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
KPA: Key Process Area (Network)
(Software)
LA: Limited Availability
KPCMS: Kodak Precision Color Management
LAC: L2tp Access Concentrator
System
Device attached to the switched network or located on an end
(Software) (Kodak)
system supporting L2TP to pass PPP traffic (Network)
KPDL: Kyocera Page Description Language LACP: Link Aggregation Control Protocol
(Hardware)
Part of an IEEE specification (802.3ad) that allows to bundle
KPF: Kerio Personal Firewall several physical ports together to form a single logical
(Security) channel (Network)
KPI: Kernel Programming Interface LADDR: LAyered Device DRiver

(Microsoft)
KPI: Key Performance Indicator
LADT: Local Access Data Transport
KQML: Knowledge Query and Manipulation
Language LAF: Look And Feel
(Software)
KRS: Knowledge Retrieval System
LALL: Longest Allowed Lobe Length
KSAM: Keyed Sequential Access Method
Accessing a flat file using a simple or compound key LAM: Local Area Multicomputer
(Software) (HP) LAME: Lame Ain't an Mp3 Encoder
K
KSDS: Keyed Sequential Data Set (Software)
KSE: Kernel Scheduled Entitiy LAMP: Linux, Apache, Mysql, Perl (or Php or
L
(Operating systems) Phyton)
Web applications platform (Software)
KSH: Korn SHell
LAN: Local Access Network
KSPH: KeyStrokes Per Hour
LAN: Local Area Network
KSR: Keyboard Send Receive
Data communications network connecting computers and
(Hardware)
related equipment, usually over an area not greater than 10
kVA: Kilo Volt-Ampere km (Network)
Electric power measurement unit (Hardware) LANACS: Local Area Network Asynchronous
kVAh: Kilo Volt Ampere Hour Connection Server
Electrical energy measurement unit (Hardware) LANAID: LAN Adapter Installation and
KVM: K Virtual Machine Diagnostic
A virtual machine designed from the ground up with the (Network)
constraints of inexpensive mobile devices in mind (Sun) LANCE: Local Area Network Controller Ethernet
KVM: Keyboard, Video, Mouse LANDP: Local Area Network Distributed
(Hardware) Platform
KWIC: Key Word In Context LANE: Local Area Network Emulation
A permuted index offering lists of titles, with each of the A set of services and protocols that provide for the emulation
major words as the first word, and the remaining words using of LANs, using ATM as a backbone to allow connectivity
key words or phrases among LAN and ATM attached end stations (Network)
KWS: Knowledge Work System LAP: Link Access Procedure
KXS: Kiva eXecutive Server Communication protocol (CCITT X.25) (Network)
(Software) (Netscape) LAP: Linux Application Platform
LAPB: Link Access Procedure Balanced
L
(Network)
L&F: Look & Feel
LAP-B: Link Access Procedure-Balanced
(Software)
LAPD: Link Access Procedure-D channel
L&H: Lernout And Hauspie Communication protocol (Communication)
L1: Level 1 LAPM: Link Access Procedure for Modems
(Hardware)
LAPS: Lan Adapter and Protocol Support
LAR: Load Access Rights

LART LDIF
LART: Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool LCI: Lan Connect Interface

(Hardware)
LASER: Light Amplification by the Stimulated
Emission of Radiation LCID: Language Code IDentifier
LASS: Local Area Signaling Service LCID: LoCale IDentifier
LASTport: Local Area Storage TransPORT LCK: Library Construction Kit
Protocol (DEC) (Microsoft)
LAT: Local Access Terminal LCM: Landesk Configuration Manager

(Operating systems) (Intel)
LAT: Local Address Table
A table containing the IP address range that is inside a LCM: Leaf Creation Method
firewalled network (Network) (Microsoft)
LCM: Life-Cycle Management
LAT: Local Area Transport (Software)
(Network)
LCN: Logical Cluster Number
LATA: Local Access and Transport Area (Operating systems)
Local telephone company's geographical area
(Communication)
LCOS: Liquid Crystal On Silicon
(Hardware)
LATM: Local Asynchronous Transfer Mode
LCP: Link Control Protocol
LAVC: Local Area Vax Cluster Part of the point-to-point protocol (PPP) to establish,
LAWN: Local Area Wireless Network configure, and test data link connections (Network)
LB: Local Bus LCR: Least Cost Routing

Bus architecture (Hardware) (Network)
LBA: Logical Block Addressing LCR: Line Control Register

LBL: LaBeL LCS: Laboratory for Computer Science
MIT's department
LBM: Local Bus Master
LCS: Lotus Communication Server
LBOT: Logical Beginning of Tape
L (Hardware) LCSD: Laminate Chip Signal Diode
LBR: LiBraRian LCT: Last Compliance Time
LBT: Listen Before Talk LCU: Last Cluster Used
LBT: Local Bus Targets LD: Laser Disc
(Hardware)
LBX: Local Bus Accelerator
LD: Link Dead
LBX: Low-Band with X
When a link between two points goes dead (disconnects) (Net
LC: Liquid Crystal lingo)
(Hardware) LD: LoaD
LCA: Life-Cycle Assessment Same as MOV (move). The Zilog Z80, for instance, used LD
as the assembler opcode for what Intel called MOV (move)
LCA: Logic Cell Array because of copyright issues (machine code was the same)
LCA: Lotus Communications Architecture (Software)
(Lotus) LDA: Logical Device Address
LCC: Leadless Chip Carrier LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(Hardware) A standardized TCP/IP protocol for access to a central
LCCM: LanClient Control Manager X.500-based directory that is shared by many different
(IBM) services. Many vendors plan to use LDAP to access policy
information stored on third-party directories (Network)
LCD: Liquid Crystal Display
LDC: Lotus Development Corporation
(Hardware)
LDCM: LanDesk Client Manager
LCD: Loss of Cell Delineation
LDDS: Long Distance Discount Services
LCD: Lowest Common Denominator
LDGW: Lotus Domino Go Webserver
LCDUI: Liquid Crystal Display User Interface
(Software) (IBM)
(Software)
LDI: Lvds Digital Interface
LCE: Link Control Entity
(Hardware)
(Communication)
LDIF: Ldap Data Interchange Format
LCF: Lightweight Client Framework
File format suitable for describing directory information or
LCF: Low Cost Fiber modifications made to directory information. It is typically
used to import and export directory information between
Lch: Luminance Chrominance Hue
LDAP servers or to describe a set of changes to be applied to
Color model (Hardware)
a directory (Communication)

LDM LIMA
LDM: Logical Disk Manager LF: Line Feed

An instruction to a certain computer or printer to move down
LDM: Long Distance Modem
one line, without moving the cursor or print head. Also used
LDMS: LanDesk Management Suite as a terminator
LDP: Label Distribution Protocol LF: Login Facility

A fundamental concept in Multi Protocol Label Switching is
LFAP: Lightweight Flow Admission Protocol
that two Label Switching Routers must agree on the meaning
of the labels used to forward traffic between and through them LFH: Low Force Helix
(Network) Connector pin type (Hardware)
LDP: Linux Document Project LFI: Last File Indicator
LDP: Loader Debugger Protocol LFM: Log File Monitor
LDT: Lightning Data Transport LFN: Long FileName
(Hardware) (AMD)
LFR: Logical Forms Recognition
LDT: Local Descriptor Table (Software)
LE: Less than or Equal LFS: Linux From Scratch
(Software) Project that provides you with the steps necessary to build
LE: Light Edition your own custom Linux system
(Software) LFT: Low Function Terminal
(IBM)
LE: Limited Edition
(Software) LFU: Least Frequently Used
LEA: Load Effective Address LGA: Land Grid Array
LEAD: Live Early Adoption and Demonstration Integrated circuit (IC) packaging that uses small flat
LEAF: Law Enforcement Access Field
LGA: Leadless Grid Array
LEAP: Lightweight Extensible Authentication Integrated circuit (IC) packaging. Synonym of Land Grid
Protocol Array (Hardware)
(Cisco)
LGDT: Load Global Descriptor Table L
LEAS: Lata Equal Access System
LGPL: Lesser General Public License
LEC: Lan Emulation Client An evolution of the Library General Public License (GNU)
(Network)
LGPL: Library General Public License
LEC: Layered Error Correction (GNU)
LEC: Local Exchange Carrier LGX: Linux/Gnu/X
Local telephone company such as Pacific Bell, Southwestern
LIAS: Library Information Access System
Bell, Bell Atlantic, etc. (Communication)
LECS: Lan Emulation Configuration Server LIB: LIBrary
File name extension
See also LES (Network)
LIC: Licensed Internal Code
LED: Light Emitting Diode
(Hardware) LIC: Line Interface Coupler
(IBM)
LEL: Link, Embed and Launch-to-edit
(Lotus) LICS: Lotus International Character Set
LEM: Language Extension Module LIDE: Light emitting diode In-Direct Exposure
Scanner technology (Hardware) (Canon)
LEN: Low Entry Networking
LIDT: Load Interrupt Descriptor Table
LEO: Low Earth Orbit
LIEP: Large Internet Exchange Packet
LEOT: Logical End Of Tape
(Novell)
(Hardware)
LEP: Light Emitting Polymer LIF: Low Insertion Force
(Hardware) LIFE: Logistics Interface For manufacturing
Environment
LER: Label Edge Router
(Hardware) LIFO: Last In First Out
(Hardware)
LES: Lan Emulation Server
(Network) LILO: Last In Last Out
(Hardware)
LES: Language Engineering Services
LILO: LInux LOader
LEX: LEXicon
LIM: Lotus/Intel/Microsoft
LIMA: Lotus/Intel/Microsoft/Ast

LIMDO LOF
LIMDO: Light Intensity Modulation Direct LMDS: Local Multipoint Distribution System
Overwrite (Communication)
LIMM: Light Intensity Modulation Method LME: Layer Management Entity

LIMOS: Laser Intensity MOdulation System LMFAO: Laughing My F***ing A** Off
(Net lingo)
LIMS: Library Information Management System
LIP: Large Internet Packet LMI: Link Management Interface
LIPS: Lightweight Internet Person Schema LMI: Local Management Interface
LIPS: Logical Inferences Per Second LMK: Let Me Know

(Net lingo)
LIPS: Logical Instruction Per Second
Processing Speed LMKHIW: Let Me Know How It Works
When sending data to someone that should fix a problem.
LIR: Local Internet Registry (Net lingo)
(Network)
LMM: Logical Memory Manager
LIS: Library and Information Science (Databases) (Sybase)
LIS: Logical Ip Subnet LMOS: Leave Mail On Server
LISC: Local Interconnection Service Center LMP: Link Manager Protocol
(Communication)
LMS: Lan Management Solution
LISP: LISt Processor (Software) (Cisco)
LMS: Learning Management System
LITHP: LInk Type description language for
HyperText Processing LMS: Library Management System
LIU: Lan Interface Unit LMS: Lotus Messaging Switch

(Lotus)
LIW: Long Instruction Word
LMSW: Load Machine Status Word
(Hardware)
LMU: Lan Management Utilities
L LK: LocK
(IBM)
Lock file (Operating systems)
LKG: Last Known Good LMU: Lan Manager for Unix
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) LN: Load Number
LLB: Local Location Broker LN: Logarithm Natural
Base e
LLC: Logical Link Control
Token Ring link protocol (IEEE 802.2) (Network) LN:DI: Lotus Notes:Document Imaging
LLDT: Load Local Descriptor Table LNBF: Low-Noise Block receiving horns with
LLF: Low Level Format integrated Feeds
(Communication)
LLL: Low-Level Language
LNK: LiNK
(Software)
File name extension
LLN: Line Link Network
LNP: Local Number Portability
LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Communication)
(IBM)
LNS: L2tp Network Server
LM: Lan Manager Maintains L2TP sessions with whatever is connected to the
(Network) (IBM) LAC (Network)
LM: License Manager LO: helLO
LM: Link Manager (Net lingo)
LM/X: Lan Manager for uniX LOB: Large OBject

(Databases)
LMA: Lightspeed Memory Architecture
(Hardware) (nVidia) LOB: Line-Of-Business
LMAO: Laughing My A** Off LOB: Low-Order Byte

(Net lingo) LOC: Lines Of Code
LMB: Left Mouse Button LOC: Loop Online Control
LMB: Local Master Browser LOCIS: Library Of Congress Information System
(Network)
LOD: Level Of Detail
LMBCS: Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set
LODSB: LOaD String Byte
(Lotus)
LOF: Loss of Frame
LMD: Last Modification Date
(Communication)

LOFS LRS
LOFS: LOopback File System lpi: Lines Per Inch

A file system type that lets the user create a new virtual file
LPI: Linux Professional Insitute
system. The user can access files using an alternative path
Serves the community of Linux and open source software
name (Operating systems)
users vendors and developers, in the interest of increasing
LOG: LOGarithm and supporting professional use of such software throughout
Base 10 world. See also http://www.lpi.org/ (Organizations)
LOGML: LOG Markup Language LPL: Logical Page List

XML application designed to describe log reports of web (Databases)
servers
LPL: Lotus Programming Language
LOL: Laughing Out Loud (Lotus)
(Net lingo)
lpm: Lines Per Minute
LOL: Lots Of Love Printing speed (Hardware)
(Net lingo)
LPM: Logical Process Manager
LOM: Lan On Motherboard (Databases) (Sybase)
This is a network device that is built onto the motherboard
LPN: Logical Page Number
(or baseboard) of the machine (Hardware)
LPP: Land Pre-Pits
LON: Lan On Notebook
Addressing aid in writing DVD-R (Hardware)
(Hardware)
LPP: Licensed Program Product
LON: Local Operating Network
LPPL: Latex Project Public License
LOOPE: LOOP while Equal
See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.html
LOOPNE: LOOP while Not Equal
LPR: Line PRinter
LOOPNZ: LOOP while Not Zero
LPR: Line Printer Remote
LOOPS: Lisp Object Oriented Programming
LPRA: Low Power Register Array
System
(Hardware)
LOOPZ: LOOP while Zero
lps: Lines Per Second
LOP: Loss of Pointer Printing speed (Hardware)
L
LORE: Line Oriented Editor LPS: Low Power Schottky
LOS: Loss of Signal (Hardware)
(Communication) LPT: Line PrinTer
LOTOS: Language Of Temporal Order (Hardware)
Specification LPWA: Lucent Personalized Web Assistant
LOV: List Of Values Anonymous web browsing service
LP: Linear Programming LPX: Low Profile Extended

Motherboard format (Hardware)
LP: Logical Partition
LQ: Letter Quality
LPAR: Logic Programming and Automated
Reasoning LQM: Link Quality Monitoring
LPAR: Logical Partition LR: Link Register
(Operating systems) (IBM) LR: Logical Record
LPB: Local Peripheral Bus LRC: Local Register Cache
LPB: Low Ping Bastard LRC: Longitudinal Redundancy Check
Network multiplayer games attribute (Software)
LRF: Little Rubber Feet
LPC: Lightweight Procedure Call Support devices for computer cases and other equipments
LPC: Linear Predictive Coding LRL: Least Recently Loaded
LPC: Local Procedure Call LRM: Language Reference Manual
LPC: Low Pin Count LRM: Least Recently used Master
(Hardware)
LRMP: Lightweight Reliable Multicast Protocol
LPCM: Linear Pulse Code Modulation (Network)
(Communication)
LRPC: Lightweight Remote Procedure Call
LPD: Line Printer Daemon (Software)
LPDP: Line Printer Daemon Protocol LRS: Language ReSource
LPDU: Logical Protocol Data Unit File name extension
LPF: League for Programming Freedom LRS: Line Repeater Station

LRSN LW
LRSN: Log Record Sequence Number LTE: Line Terminating Equipment

(Databases)
LTF: Leap To Frogans
LRU: Least Recently Used See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software)
LS: Laser Servo LTNS: Long Time No See

(Hardware) (Compaq) (Net lingo)
LS: Library Server LTO: Linear Tape Open

(Hardware)
LS: License Server
LS: Login Server LTO: Locate-To-Order
(Security) LTPS: Low-Temperature PolySilicon
(Hardware)
LSA: Lan and Scsi Adapter
(IBM) LTR: Left-To-Right
LSA: Line Sharing Adapter LTR: LeTteR
LSA: Link State Advertisement LTR: Load Task Register
(Network)
LTS: Leaning Toothpick Syndrome
LSA: Local Security Authority Expresses readability in PERL regular expressions (Software)
LTSS: Long Term Station Statistics
LSAPI: License Services Application LU: Logical Unit
LU6.2: Logical Unit 6.2
LSAS: Local Security Authentication Server
Verifies validity of user logons to PC/Server. (Operating LUA: Logical Unit Application
systems) (Microsoft) LUG: Linux User Group
LSB: Least Significant Bit (or Byte) LUG: Local Users Group
LSC: Least Significant Character LUI: Local User Input
LSD: Least Significant Digit LUIS: Library User Information Service
L LSE: Language Sensitive Editor LUN: Logical Unit Number
LSI: Large Scale of Integration SCSI subaddressing (Hardware)
IC manufacturing integration level: it's the process of placing LUNI: Lane User Network Interface
from 3,000 to 100,000 transistors on one chip (Hardware)
LUS: LookUp Service
LSL: Link Support Layer
Provides the functionality to discover and register services
LSL: Load Segment Limit (Software)
LSMS: Lucent Security Management Server LUT: LookUp Table

(Lucent) LUW: Logical Unit of Work
LSN: Log Sequence Number LV: Logical Volume
LSN: Logical Sector Number (IBM)
LSNP: Loop Service with Number Portability LV: Low Voltage

(Communication) (Hardware)
LSP: Label Switched Path LVCS: Logility Value Chain Solution

(Software)
LSP: License Service Provider
An Netware Loadable Module (NLM) that responds to LVD: Low Voltage Differential
requests from NetWare Licensing Services (NLS) clients and (Hardware)
licensing service managers for licensing information or
LVDS: Low Voltage Differential Signalling
license units (Novell)
(Hardware)
LSR: Label Switch Router
LVM: Logical Volume Manager
in MPLS, LSRs function to read the incoming label, remove it,
and then based on its FEC, append a new Label to it (Network) Provides a higher-level view of the disk storage on a
computer system than the traditional view of disks and
LSR: Link State Routing partitions. This gives the system administrator much more
flexibility in allocating storage to applications and users
LST: Linux Support Team
(Operating systems)
LST: LiST
LVM: Low Voltage Differential Signaling
File name extension
(IBM)
LT: Less Than
LVQ: Learning Vector Quantization
(Software)
LW: Lazy Write
LT: Local Team
As in Rational ClearCase LT (Software) (Rational) LW: Length Width
LTC: Longitudinal Time Code

LWP MAP
LWP: LightWeight Process MAC: Move, Add, Change

A class of processes that share resources with each other Abbreviation for a specific task request (Network)
and therefore use fewer resources than ordinary processes
(Operating systems)
MAC: Multiple Access Computers
LWP: Lotus WordPro MAC: Multiplexed Analog Component

A color standard that transmits three color components in
File format for documents
time-compressed serial analog form (Hardware)
LWT: Lightweight Windowing Toolkit
MAC: Multiply ACcumulate
LY: Love You CPU instruction type
(Net lingo)
MACH: Multilayer ACtuator Head
LYL: Love Ya Lots (Epson)
(Net lingo)
MACS: Mail order And Catalog System
LYLAB: Love Ya Like A Brother
MACS: Modem Access Control System
(Net lingo)
MAD: Microsoft Active Directory
LYLAS: Love Ya Like A Sister
(Net lingo)
MAD: Mpeg Audio Decoder
LZ: Landing Zone
(Software)
(Hardware)
MADCAP: Multicast Address Dynamic Client
LZ: Lempel-Ziv Allocation Protocol
LZH: Lempel-Ziv-Haruyasu Protocol that allows hosts to request multicast address
Compression algorithm derived from the LZSS scheme with a allocation services from multicast address allocation
sliding window and additional compression applied to the servers. This protocol is part of the Multicast Address
output of the LZSS compressor by dynamic Huffman coding Allocation Architecture being defined by the Multicast
(Software) Address Allocation Working Group (Communication)
LZMA: Lempel-Ziv Modified Algorithm MADD: Multiply-ADD

Compression algorithm (Software) CPU instruction type
LZS: Lempel-Ziv-Stac MADE: Manufacturing and Automated Design
Compression algorithm (Software) Engineering
L
LZSS: Lempel-Ziv-Storer-Szymanski MADYMO: MAthematical DYnamic MOdeling
Compression algorithm (Software)
M
MAE: Macintosh Application Environment
LZW: Lempel-Ziv-Welch MAE: Merit Access Exchange
MAE: Metropolitan Area Exchange
LZX: Lempel-Ziv eXtended
MAGIC: Multi-dimensional Applications Gigabit
Internetworking Consortium
(Organizations)
M
MAGMA: Minimal Architecture for Generalized
M: Mega Markup Applications
Prefix for 10 power 6 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 20)
mAh: MilliAmpere per Hour
m: Milli
MAI: Multiple Applications Interface
M4IF: Mpeg-4 Industry Forum MAJC: Microprocessor Architecture for Java

See http://www.m4if.org/ (Organizations)
Computing
(Sun)
MA: Migration Agent
MAM: Memory Allocation Map
(Communication) (Novell)
MAME: Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator
mA: Milliampere
MAB: Multi-Architecture Binary MAN: MANual
File name extension
(Software)
MABO: Multiplier-Arithmetic BOlton MAN: Metropolitan Area Network
Between a LAN and WAN in size and scope (Network)
MAC: MACro
MANIAC: Mathematical Analyzer Numerical
File name extension
Integrator And Computer
MAC: Mandatory Access Control
MAO: Machine Account Object
(Security)
MAC: Media Access Control
MAOS: Multiple Application Operating System
(Network)
(Operating systems)
MAC: Message Authentication Code
MAP: Maintenance Analysis Procedures
(Security)
MAP: Management and Administration Platform

MAP MCC
MAP: Manufacturing Automation Protocol MAX: MAXimum

MAP: Migration Assistance Program MAXML: Multichannel Accessible eXtensible
MAP: Mobile Application Part Markup Language
Adds functionality for mobile text applications to the Public MB: Medium Business
Land Mobile Network (PLMN). MAP handles numerous
services for text messaging to and from mobile terminals, for
Mb: MegaBit
example Short Message Service Centres in GSM Networks MB: MegaByte
1024 kilobytes
MAP/TOP: Manufacturing Automation Protocol
Technical Office Protocol MB: MotherBoard
(Hardware)
MAPE: Mean Absolute Percentage Error
MAPI: Messaging Application Programming MBASIC: Microsoft Beginners All-purpose
Interface Symbolic Instruction Code
(Microsoft) (Microsoft)
MAPICS: Manufacturing, Accounting and MBCS: Multi-Byte Character Set

Production Information Control System MbD: Management by Delegation
(IBM) (Software)
MAPOS: Multiple Access Protocol Over MBGP: Multicast Border Gateway Protocol
Sonet/sdh Based on RFC 2283 (Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4), it
(Network) offers a method for providers to distinguish which prefixes
they will use for performing multicast reverse path forwarding
MAPS: Mail Abuse Prevention System
(RPF) checks (Network)
MAPS: Mcis Administration and Provisioning
MBO: Management By Objectives
Service
(Microsoft) MBONE: Multicast backBONE
(Network)
MAR: Memory Address Register
(Hardware) Mbps: MegaBits Per Second
Transfer speed (Communication)
MARC: MAchine Readable Cataloging
MBps: MegaBytes Per Second
MARC: Multitechnology Automated Reader Card
Transfer Speed (Communication)
M MARS: Multicast Address Resolution Server
MBQ: Message-Based Queueing
(Network)
MBR: Master Boot Record
MARVEL: Machine-Assisted Realization of the
Virtual Electronic Library MBS: Maximum Burst Size
MAS: Microsoft Authorized Support MBSA: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
(Microsoft) Scans for missing hotfixes and vulnerabilities in some
Microsoft products (Security) (Microsoft)
MAS: Multi-Agent System
(Software) MBX: MailBoX
MASM: Macro ASseMbler MC: Model Coordinates
(Software) (Microsoft) The coordinate system used for describing a single object (a
graphics entity). When each object is described in its own
MASS: Maximum Availability and Support model coordinate space, all are mapped to one world
Subsystem coordinate space
MAT: Maintenance Access Terminal MCA: Merchant Certification Authority
MathML: MATHematical Markup Language erchant Certification Authority
XML application for describing mathematical notation and MCA: Micro Channel Architecture
capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML Bus architecture (Hardware) (IBM)
is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and
processed on the Web, just as HTML has enabled this MCAD: Mechanical Computer-Aided Design
functionality for text A specialized computer graphics program for the design of
mechanical structures, such as automobiles, airplanes, and
MAU: Media Attachment Unit their parts (Software)
(Network)
MCAD: Microsoft Certified Application
MAU: Multistation Access Unit Developer
(Network) Mid-level certification for professional developers who build
MAVDM: Multiple Application Virtual Dos powerful applications using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and
Machine Web services (Microsoft)
MAVICA: MAgnetic VIdeo CAmera MCAV: Modified Constant Angular Velocity

(Hardware) (Sony) MCB: Memory Control Block
MAW: Microsoft At Work MCBF: Mean Cycle Between Failure
MAX: MAssively parallel uniX MCC: Manchester Code Converter

MCC MDF
MCC: Manchester Computing Centre MCSD: Microsoft Certified Solution Developer

(Microsoft)
MCC: Memory Controller Chip
(Hardware) MCSE: Microsoft Certified System Engineer
(Microsoft)
MCDBA: Microsoft Certified DataBase
Administrator MCSP: Microsoft Certified Solution Provider
(Microsoft) (Microsoft)
MCF: Meta-Content Framework MCT: Microsoft Certified Trainer

(Netscape) (Microsoft)
MCGA: MultiColor Graphic Adapter MCU: MicroController Unit
(Hardware)
MCU: Multi-Chip Unit
MCGAM: Mixer Conformant Global Address (DEC)
Mapping
MCU: Multipoint Control Unit
(Network)
MD: Make Directory
MCH: Memory Controller Hub
(Hardware) MD: Message Digest
(Network)
MCI: Media Control Interface
MD: MicroDrive
MCI: Microwave Communications, Inc. (Hardware) (IBM)
Now MCI Communications corporation
MD: Mini Disk
MCIS: Microsoft Commercial Internet System
(Sony)
MD: Monochrome Display
MCL: Microsoft Compatibility Labs
(Microsoft) MD5: Message Digest 5
Cryptographically strong message digest, see RFC 1321
MCL: Much Clown Love (http://www.iesg.org/rfc/rfc1321.txt) (Security)
Used by icp fans also known as juggalos (Net lingo)
MDA: Mail Delivery Agent
MCM: MultiChip Module One of the programs that handle email (see also MTA and
MCN: Metropolitan Campus Network MUA) (Software)
MCNE: Master Certified Novell Engineer MDA: Market Development Agreement

(Novell)
M
MDA: Medicated Digest Authentication
MCNS: Multimedia Cable Network System MDA: Model Driven Architecture
(Hardware) (Cisco) Standards-based approach to system development
MCP: Master Control Program MDA: Monochrome Display Adapter
MCP: Media and Communications Processor (Hardware)
(Hardware) MDA: MultiDimensional Analysis
MCP: Microsoft Certified Professional MDAC: Microsoft Data Access Component
(Microsoft) (Databases) (Microsoft)
MCP: Multiport Communication Processor MDB: Message-Driven Bean
MCP: Myrinet Control Program (Software)
(Network) MDB: Microsoft DataBase
MCP/AS: Master Control Program/Advanced File format (Databases) (Microsoft)
System MDB: Multiple-Device Boot
MCPC: Multi Channel Per Carrier A diskette used to boot from a CD-ROM or from a network
(Operating systems)
MC-PGA: Metallized Ceramic - Pin Grid Array
IC pins organization MDBE: Microsoft DataBase Engine
MCPS: Microsoft Certified Product Specialist
(Microsoft) MDBMS: Multidimensional DataBase
Management System
MC-QFP: Metalized Ceramic - Pin Grid Array
(Databases)
MCR: Maximum Cell Rate MDD: Multidimensional Discrete Data
MCR: Modem Control Register (Databases)
M-CRM: Mobile Customer Relationship MDF: Main Distribution Frame
Management (Network)
MCS: Material Control System MDF: Master Data File
MCS: Multichannel Communications System MDF: Menu Definition File
MCSA: Microsoft Certified System Administrator File name extension
(Microsoft)

MDFE MFI
MDFE: Multilevel Decision Feedback ME: Millenium Edition

Equalization Windows version (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Hardware)
ME: Motion Estimation
MDI: Medium Dependent Interface
MEB: Memory Expansion Board
MDI: Memory Display Interface MED: Management of External Data
MDI: Multiple Document Interface (Databases)
(Microsoft)
MED: Minimum Expected Delay
MDI: Multiplex Device Interface
MEDAPE: MEDium Absolute Percentage Error
MDIC: Manchester Decoder and Interface Chip MEF: Message Exchange Format
(AT&T)
(Network)
MDIS: MetaData Interchange Specification MEL: Mercury Exchange Limited
MDK: Multimedia Developers Kit
MEL: Michigan Electronic Library
(Microsoft)
MEL: Multos Executable Language
MDL: Method Definition Language
MEM: MEMory
MDL: Microstation Development Language
MEMO: Multimedia Environment for MObiles
MDLP: Mobile Data Link Protocol
MEMS: Micro ElectroMechanical System
MDLS: Member Digital Library Subscription (Hardware) (TI)
MDM: Machine Debug Manager
MEO: Medium Earth Orbit
MDM: Media Device Manager MERCI: Multimedia European Research
MDM: Membership DIrectory Manager Conferencing Integration
(Microsoft)
MERS: Most Economic Route Selection
MDMF: Multiple Data Message Format MERVA: Message Entry and Routing with
Format used to send Caller ID information (Communication) Interfaces to Various Applications
MDPM: Multilevel Distributed Process Modeling IBM connectivity to SWIFT network (Network) (IBM)
MDR: Memory Data Register MES: Manufacturing Execution System

M (Hardware) MES: Mobile Entertainment Service
MDR: MetaData Repository Nokia's platform that allows developers to create interactive
games for WAP (Software) (Nokia)
MDR: MicroDesign Resources
MESI: Modified, Exclusive, Shared and Invalid
MDR: Minimum Design Requirement
MEST: Middle European Summer Time
MDRAM: Multi-bank Dynamic Random Access
Timezone: GMT +1:00
Memory
(Hardware) MET: Memory Enhancement Technology
(HP)
MDRC: Manufacturing Design Rule Checker
MET: Middle European Time
MDS: Macintosh Development System
Timezone: GMT +1:00
(Software) (Apple)
MEWT: Middle European Winter Time
MDS: Manufacturing Design System
Timezone: GMT +1:00
MDS: Meta Data Service
MF: Multi Frequency
(Databases)
MFC: Microsoft Foundation Classes
MDS: Metacomputing Directory Service
MDS: Microprocessor Development System
MFC: MultiFunction Center
(Software)
(Hardware)
MDSM: MultiDimensional Storage Manager
MFC&T: Microsoft Foundation Classes &
(Databases) (IBM)
Templates
MDT: Mechanical DeskTop (Software) (Microsoft)
MDT: Mountain Daylight Time MFD: MultiFunction Device
Timezone: GMT -7:00 (Hardware)
MDTE: Male Data Terminal Equipment MFENET: Magnetic Fusion Energy NETwork
RS-232 adapter (Hardware)
MFFS: Microsoft Flash File System
MDX: MultiDimensional eXpression (Microsoft)
(Databases)
MFI: MainFrame Interactive
MDY: Month Day Year
MFI: Multifunction Interpreter

MFIOP MIF
MFIOP: MultiFunction Input/Output Processor MHEG: Multimedia and Hypermedia information

(Hardware) coding Expert Group
MFLOPS: Million Floating point Operation Per MHP: Managed Hosting Provider
Second MHPCC: Maui High Performance Computing
A unit of measure of execution speed that rates the oating-
Center
point performance of a computer
MHS: Message Handling System
MFM: Modified Frequency Modulation
A unit of measure of execution speed that rates the floating- MHz: MegaHertZ
point performance of a computer (Hardware)
MI: Management Interface
MFN: Main Frogans Network MI: Multiple Inheritance
See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software) (Software)
MFP: MultiFunction Printer MI/MIC: Mode Indicate/Mode Indicate Common
(Hardware)
MIA: Mobile Internet Access
MFPI: MultiFunction Peripheral Interface
MIB: Management Information Base
MFR: Multilink Frame Relay
(Network) MiB: MebIByte
Unit of measurement, introduced by the International
MFS: Macintosh File System Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024
(Operating systems) (Apple) kiB
MFS: Magnetic tape Field Search MIB: Multimedia Integration Box
MFS: Memory File System (Siemens-Nixdorf)
MFS: Message Format Service MIC: Macro Interpretative Command
MFS: Modified Filing System MIC: Market Intelligence Center

(Operating systems) MIC: Media Interface Connector
MFT: Master File Table MIC: Message Integrity Check
Table containing NT's file system structure (Operating
MICE: Modular Integrated Communications
systems) (Microsoft)
Environment
MFT: Mean Field Theory
MICR: Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
MFT: Multiprogramming with a Fixed number M
MICS: Macro Interpretive Commands
of Tasks
MID: Message IDentifier
MFTP: Multicast File Transfer Protocol
MID: Mobile Information Device
MFU: Most Frequently Used
(Hardware)
MGA: Matrox Graphics Adapter
MIDAS: Multi-tIer Distributed Application
MGA: Monochrome Graphics Adapter Service
(Hardware) (Borland)
MGC: Media Gateway Controller MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Provides a single management platform for fault, A note-oriented control language for specifying music. MIDI
configuration, performance and security management. It data consists of codes specifying notes and timing. These
manages the Cisco PGW 2200 PSTN Gateway and the Cisco codes can be generated by or output to MIDI-compatible
SC2200 Signaling Controller. Cisco MGC Node Manager devices, such as keyboards or synthesizers (Hardware)
integrates access to all signaling components (Software)
(Cisco)
MIDL: Microsoft Interface Definition Language
(Microsoft)
MGCP: Media Gateway Control Protocol
Controls (trunks) gateways interconnected with the Public
MIDP: Mobile Information Device Profile
Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) with packet networks Is a set of Java APIs which, together with the Connected
and controls (residential) gateways that function as network Limited Device Configuration (CLDC), provides a complete
interfaces for customer premise located equipment J2METM application runtime environment targeted at mobile
(Communication) information devices, such as mobile phones and entry level
PDAs (Sun)
MGDI: Multiplatform Graphics Device Interface
MIE: Mobile Internet Explorer
MGE: Modular Gis Environment
MIF: Maker Interchange Format
MGET: Multiple GET (Adobe)
MGML: Minimal Generalized Markup Language MIF: Management Information File
MGR: ManaGeR MIF: Management Information Format
MH: Modified Huffman MIF: Minimum Internetworking Functionality
MHDL: Mimic Hardware Description Language MIF: Module Interconnection Facility

MIFST MMC
MIFST: Microsoft Internet Finance Server MITACS: Mathematics of Information

Toolkit Technology and Complex Systems
(Network) (Microsoft) (Organizations)
MIG: Metal In Gap MIX: Member Information eXchange

MII: Media-Independent Interface MIXER: Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay
A 40-pin miniature-D connector that provides the electrical (Network)
interface between some Sun systems and 10BASE-T or
100BASE-T Ethernet network transceivers (Hardware) (Sun)
MJ: Modular Jack
MJD: Modified Julian Date
MII: Microsoft/IBM/Intel
MIL: Machine Interface Layer MKDIR: MaKe DIRectory
MKS: Mortice Kern Systems
MILNET: MILitary NETwork
Originally part of the ARPANET, MILNET was partitioned in ML: Machine Language
1984 to provide military installations with reliable network
ML: Meta Language
service, while the ARPANET continued to be used for
(Software)
research (Network)
MIM: Map Image Metafile MLA: Multi-Letter Abbreviation
Used in comedy along with TLA
MIM: Metal-Insulator-Metal
(Hardware) MLAPI: MultiLingual Application Programming
Interface
MIMD: Multiple Instruction Multiple Data
MLC: MultiLayer Ceramic
MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MLC: MultiLevel Cell
(Network)
Memory technology (Hardware)
MIMO: Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
(Communication)
MLE: Multi Language Environment
MIN: MINimum MLE: MultiLine Editor
MIN: Mobile Identification Number MLE: MultiLine Entry field
MIND: Microsoft INternet Developer MLI: Multiple Link Interface

Microsoft magazine for Web developers (Microsoft) MLID: MultiLink Interface Driver
M MinLSN: MINimum recovery Log Sequence MLM: Mailing List Manager
Number MLP: Meridian Lossless Packing
(Databases)
MLPPP: MultiLink Point-to-Point Protocol
MINT: Mint Is Not Tos (Communication)
MINUET: Minnesota INternet Users Essential MLS: MultiLevel Secure
Tools
MLT: Mechanized Line Test
MINX: Multimedia Information Network
Determines obvious line errors or loop lenght indications
eXchange (Hardware)
MIO: Memory Input/Output MM: Management Module
MIP: Mixed Integer Programming MM: MicroMiniature
MIP: Mobile Internet Protocol (Hardware)
(Network) MM: Mobile Management
MIPS: Microprocessor without Interlocked MM: MultiMedia
Piped Stages
MMA: Microcomputer Managers Association
MIPS: Million Instructions Per Second
A unit of measure of execution speed that rates the MMA: Midi Manufacturer Association
performance of a computer CPU MMAPI: Mobile Media Application Programming
MIR: Micro-Instruction Register Interface
MIS: Management Information System MMC: Matched Memory Cycle
MIS: Mobile Information Server MMC: Microcomputer Marketing Council
(Software) (Microsoft) MMC: Microsoft Management Console
MIS: Multimedia Information Sources (Microsoft)
MISC: MISCellaneous MMC: Microsoft Media Console

(Microsoft)
MISD: Multiple Instruction Single Data
MMC: MultiMedia Card
MISF: Microsoft Information Security
(Hardware)
Framework
(Microsoft) MMC: MultiMedia Commands
MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MMCD MO-ROD
MMCD: MultiMedia Compact Disk MNP: Microcom Networking Protocol

MMCD-E: MultiMedia Compact Disk-Erasable MO: Magneto-Optical

(Hardware)
MMCX: MultiMedia Communication Exchange
MMDS: Multichannel Multipoint Distribution MO: Managment Object
Service MO:DCA: Mixed Object Document Content
(Communication) Architecture
MMF: Make Money Fast MOB: Memory-Order Buffer
(Net lingo)
MOC: Microsoft Official Curriculum
MMF: Multi Mode Fiber (Microsoft)
(Hardware)
MOCA: Microsoft Online Crash Analysis
MMF: MultiMedia File (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Filename extension
MOD: Magneto-Optical Disk
MMG: Massively Multiplayer Game MOD: Microsoft Office 2000 Developer
MMI: Man-Machine Interface (Software) (Microsoft)
MMIS: Materials Manager Information System MOD: MODulus

Reminder of the integer division
MML: Maker Macro Language
MML: Music Markup Language MODEM: MOdulator/DEModulator
MMM: Mobile Media Mode MOF: Managed Object Format

(Microsoft)
MMO: Mobile MOdule
MOF: Meta-Object Facility
(Hardware) (Intel)
Standard interfaces that can be used to define and
MMOD: Male MODem manipulate a set of interoperable metamodels and their
Modem adapter (Hardware) (Cisco) corresponding models
MMOG: Massively Multiplayer Online Game MOF: Microsoft Operations Framework
(Games) Provides technical guidance that enables organizations to
achieve mission-critical system reliability, availability,
MMORPG: Massive Multiplayer Online Role
Playing Game
supportability, and manageability of Microsoft products and M
technologies (Microsoft)
(Games)
MOG: Multiplayer Online Game
MMPM: MultiMedia Presentation Manager
MOHLL: Machine Oriented High Level Language
MMPM/2: MultiMedia Presentation Manager 2
MOLAP: Multidimensional On-Line Analytical
MMR: Modified Modified Read Processing
MMRPG: Massive Multiplayer Role Playing Game MOM: Manufacturing Operations Management
(Games)
MOM: Message-Oriented Middleware
MMS: Maximum Message Size (Software)
MMS: Merchant Management System MOM: Microsoft Office Manager
MMS: Microsoft Media Server (Microsoft)
Streaming protocol used by the Microsoft Media Server. Used MOMA: Message-Oriented Middleware
to access unicast content from a Windows Media Server to a
Association
Windows Media Player (Network) (Microsoft)
(Organizations)
MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service
MONET: Multiwavelength Optical NETwork
MMU: Memory Management Unit (Network)
(Hardware)
MOO: Mud, Object Oriented
MMVF: MultiMedia Video FIle A client used to connect to a MUD
(NEC)
MOP: Maintenance Operations Protocol
MMX: Matrix Manipulation eXtensions (Network)
(Intel)
MOP: Meta Object Protocol
MMX: MultiMedia eXtensions A reflective facility of an object-oriented language (Software)
(Intel)
MOPA: MultiProtocol Over Atm
MNG: Multiple-image Network Graphics (Communication)
A Portable Network Graphics (PNG)-like image format
supporting multiple, animated, transparent and compressed
MOPS: Million Operations Per Second
images MO-ROD: Magneto Optical-Rewriteable Optical
MNN: My Netscape Network Disk
(Hardware)
MNOS: Metal Nitride Oxide Semiconductor

MOS MPP
MOS: Magneto-Optic Storage MP: My Pleasure

(Net lingo)
MOS: Mean Opinion Score
MOS: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor MP+: Multichannel Protocol Plus
(Network) (Ascend)
Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware)
MOS: Microsoft Office Specialist MP3: MPeg layer 3

Sound encoding format (Software)
(Microsoft)
MOSES: Massive Open Systems Environment MPA: Memo Pad Archive

Standard Filename extension
MOSFET: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field- MPAA: Motion Picture Association of America

Effect Transistor (Organizations)
(Hardware) MPC: Mobile Productivity Center
MOSPF: Multicast Open Shortest Path First Palm cradle (Hardware)
(Communication) MPC: Multimedia Personal Computer
MOSS: Mime Objects Security Services Multimedia specifications
MOSTL: Microsoft Office Smart Tag List MPC: MultiPath Channel

Tool that makes it easy for Office developers to build and MPC+: MultiPath Channel Plus
update XML lists of terms to recognize (Software) (Microsoft) (IBM)
MOT: Multimedia Object Transfer MPCC: MultiProtocol Communication Controller
MOTD: Message Of The Day (Hardware)
MOTIS: Message-Oriented Text Interchange MPCS: Mission Planning and Control Station
Systems MPDU: Message Protocol Data Unit
MOTO: Master Of The Obvious MPE: Multi-Programming Executive
(Net lingo) (HP)
MOTOS: Member Of The Other Sex MPEG: Motion Pictures Expert Group
(Net lingo) A group that has developed standards for compressing
MOTSS: Member Of The Same Sex moving pictures and audio data and for synchronizing video
(Net lingo) and audio datastreams. Also, a file format
M MPI: Message Passing Interface
MOU: Memorandum of Understanding
(Sun)
MOUS: Micorsoft Office User Specialist
(Microsoft)
MPI: MultiPrecision Integer
MOV: Metal Oxide Varistor MPI: Multiprocessor Interconnect Bus

(Hardware) MPIF: Message Passing Interface Forum
MOV: MOVe MPK: MultiProcessing Kernel
Processor instruction (Operating systems)
MOV: MOVie MPL: Message Passing Library
Fileformat for movies (Apple) (IBM)
MOVS: Microsoft Office/Vba Solution MPL: Mozilla Public License
(Microsoft) MPLS: MultiProtocol Label Switching
MOVS: MOVe String An architecture on the IETF standards track for integrating a
Processor instruction mechanism for label-swapping with Layer 3 routing to
accelerate packet forwarding (Network)
MO-WORM: Management Object
MPMD: Multiple Processor/Multiple Data
MP: Massively Parallel
MPOA: Multi-Protocol Over Atm
MP: Master Plan
An ATM Forum standard for the routing of multiple protocols
MP: MicroProcessor across an ATM substrate. It enables ATM services to be
integrated with existing local-area networks that use
MP: Multi Processor Ethernet, token-ring or TCP/IP protocols (Network)
A computer using two or more nearly equal processing units
under integrated control (Hardware) MPOE: Minimum Point Of Entry
Location phone and data lines first come into a building
MP: Multilink Protocol (Communication)
Method for splitting, recombining and sequencing datagrams
across multiple logical data links. Originally designed to MPOW: Multiple Purpose Operator Workstation
exploit multiple bearer channels in ISDN, it's equally MPP: Massively Parallel Processing
applicable to any situation in which multiple PPP links
connect two systems (Network) MPP: Message Posting Protocol
MP: MultiProtocol MPP: Message Processing Program

MPPC MS
MPPC: Microsoft Point to Point Compression MRC: Mesh Router Chip

(Network) (Microsoft) (Network)
MPPD: Multi Purpose Peripheral Device MRCF: Microsoft Realtime Compression Format
MPPE: Microsoft Point to Point Encryption MRCI: Microsoft Real-time Compression
Encrypts data for Point to Point Protocol (PPP) or Point to Interface
Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) connections (Network) (Microsoft)
(Microsoft)
MRCP: Media Resource Control Protocol
MPQP: Multi-Protocol Quad Port Protocol specifically designed to address the need for client
(IBM) control of media processing resources such as Automatic
Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-To-Speech (TTS)
MPR: MultiPart Repeater
engines
MPR: Multi-Protocol Routing
MREQ: Memory REQuest
(Network)
Microprocessor signal used in I/O addressing (Hardware)
MPS: MultiPage Signal
MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MPS: Multiple Priority System A medical imaging technique used for image capture. Tissue
(Network) area is simultaneously subjected to electromagnetic
radiation and a magnetic field
MPS: MultiProcessor Specification
M-RIB: Multicast Routing Information Base
MPSX: Mathematical Programming System
(Network)
eXtended
MRJ: Macos Runtime for Java
MPT: MultiPort Transceiver
(Software) (Apple)
MPTA: Multi Protocol Transport Architecture
MRM: Most Recently used Master
MPTN: Multi-Protocol Transport Network
MRNET: Minnesota Regional NETwork
MPTP: Micro Payment Transfer Protocol
MRO: Maintenance, Repair and Operation
MPTS: Multi-Protocol Transport Services
MRO: Multi-Region Operation
MPTS/2: Multi Protocol Transport Services 2 (IBM)
MPTY: More Power To You MROC: Miniature Ruggedized Optical Correlator
(Net lingo) (Hardware)
MPU: MicroProcessor Unit
M
MRP: Manufacturing Resource Planning
(Hardware)
MRP: Material Requirement Planning
MPVM: Message Parallel Virtual Machine
MRPL: Main Ring Path Length
(Sun)
MPW: Macintosh Programmer's Workshop MRS: Media Recognition System
(Software) (Apple) MRS: Message Routing System
(Communication)
MQ: Message Queuing
(Software) MRS: Micro Reflective Structure
(Hardware) (Sharp)
MQE: Managed Query Environment
(Databases) MRS: Monitoring and Recovery Subsystem
MQH: Memory Queue Handler MrSID: MultiResolution Seamless Image
On Sun server systems, the device on the system board that Database
provides the interface between the system board SIMMs and Image compression algorithm
the backplane XDBus (Hardware) (Sun)
MRT: Mean Repair Time
MQI: Message Queuing Interface
MRTG: Multi Router Traffic Grapher
(IBM)
MRU: Maximum Receive Unit
MR: Magneto-Resistive
Hard disk head technology (Hardware) MRU: Most Recently Used
MR: Maintenance Release MR-X: Magneto Resistive - eXtended
MR: Memory Read MS: Memory Stick

(Hardware) (Hardware) (Sony)
MR: Modem Ready MS: Memory System

MR: Modified Read MS: Message Store
MRAM: Magnetic Random Access Memory MS: MicroSoft
(Hardware) ms: MilliSecond
MRB: Method Request Broker Time measurement unit
MS: Mobile Station

MSA MSMQ
MSA: Management Services Architecture MSDP: Multicast Source Directory Protocol

(IBM) Developed for peering between Internet service providers
(ISPs), it enables Rendezvous Points (RPs) to share
MSAA: MicroSoft Active Accessibility information about active sources (Network)
(Software)
MSDR: Multiplexed Streaming Data Request
MSACM: MicroSoft Audio Compression Manager
(Microsoft) MSDS: MicroSoft Developer Support
(Microsoft)
MSAU: MultiStation Access Unit
(Network) MSDSS: MicroSoft Directory Synchronization
Services
MSAV: MicroSoft Anti Virus (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Microsoft)
MSDTC: MicroSoft Distributed Transactions
MSB: Most Significant Bit (or Byte) Coordinator
MSBD: Media Stream Broadcast Distribution (Databases) (Microsoft)
Protocol used to distribute streams between Windows Media
MSE: MicroSoft Exchange
Encoder and the Windows Media server components, and to
transfer streams between servers (Microsoft)
MsecSP: Managed SECurity Service Provider
MSBF: Mean Swaps Between Failures
MSEQ: MicroSoft English Query
MSC: MicroSoft C
MSC: Mobile Switching Center
MSF: Microsoft Solutions Framework
MSCDEX: MicroSoft CD-rom EXtensions (Microsoft)
MSFC: Multilayer Switch Feature Card
MSCE: MicroSoft Certified Engineer (Network)
(Microsoft)
MSFP: Management Service Focal Point
MSCHAP: MicroSoft Challenge Handshake
Authentication Protocol MSFR: Minimum Security Function
Requirements
(Microsoft)
(IBM)
MSCM: Multiple Slots on Continuation
Mechanism MSG: MeSsaGe
M MSCP: Mass Storage Control Protocol
File name extension
MSI: Medium-Scale Integration
MSCS: MicroSoft Cluster Server The process of placing from 100 to 3,000 transistors on a
MSCT: MicroSoft Certified Trainer chip (Hardware)
(Microsoft) MSI: MicroSoft Installer
MSCTEC: MicroSoft Certified Technical (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Education Center MSIE: MicroSoft Internet Explorer
(Microsoft) (Software) (Microsoft)
MSD: Mass Storage Device MSIL: MicroSoft Intermediate Language
MSD: Microsoft System Diagnostics (Software) (Microsoft)
(Microsoft) MSIMN: MicroSoft Internet Mail and News
MSD: Most Significant Digit (Microsoft)
MSDA: MicroSoft Direct Access MSISDN: Mobile Station Integrated Services

(Microsoft) Digital Network
The number used to call a mobile subscriber. An MSISDN
MSDE: MicroSoft Database Engine consists of a country code, a national destination code and a
(Databases) (Microsoft) subscriber number (Communication)
MSDE: MicroSoft Desktop Engine MS-ISDN: Mobile Station Integrated Services
(Databases) (Microsoft) Digital Network number
MSDK: Microsoft Solutions Development Kit MSJ: Microsoft Systems Journal
(Microsoft) Microsoft magazine (Microsoft)
MSDL: MicroSoft Download Library MSK: Minimum-Shift Keying
(Microsoft)
MSKB: MicroSoft Knowledge Base
MSDN: Macintosh Software Distribution Network (Microsoft)
MSDN: MicroSoft Developer Network MSL: Map Specification Library
(Microsoft)
MSL: Microsoft Software Library
MSDOS: MicroSoft Disk Operating System
MSL: Mirrored Server Link
MSMQ: MicroSoft Message Queue

MSN MTTD
MSN: MicroSoft Network MTBCF: Mean Time Between Critical Failures

MTBF: Mean Time Between Failures
MSN: Multiple Subscriber Number The average time a component can operate without a failure.
The MTBF is the number of failures divided by the number of
MSNF: Multiple Systems Networking Facility hours the component has operated (Hardware)
MSO: Multiple-Systems Operator
MTBJ: Mean Time Between Jams
MSP: Management Service Provider MTBRP: Mean Time Between Parts Replacement
MSP: Message Send Protocol
MTC: Midi Time Code
(Network)
MTD: Memory Technology Drivers
MSP: Messaging Service Provider
MTD: Month To Date
MSP: MicroSoft Paint Time series function
MTDA: Mean Time between Data Access
MSR: Magnetic Super Resolution The average time before non-redundant components fail,
(Hardware)
causing data inaccessibility without loss or corruption.
MSR: MicroSoft Research (Hardware)
(Microsoft) MTDL: Mean time to Data Loss
MSR: MicroSoft Reserved (partition) The average time before the failure of an array component
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) causes data to be lost or corrupted. (Hardware)
MSRN: Mobile Station Roaming Number MTDT: Moscow Time Daylight Time
Timezone: GMT +3:00
MSRP: Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price
MTE: MuTating Engine
MSS: Managed Security Service
MTF: Microsoft Tape Format
MSS: Mass Storage Subsystem (Hardware) (Microsoft)
An early version of the Sun pedestal disk storage system
(Hardware) (Sun) MTF: Modulation Transfer Function
(Hardware)
MSS: Multiprotocol Switched Server
(Hardware) (IBM) MTFTP: Multicast Trivial File Transfer Protocol
(Network)
MSSP: Managed Security Service Provider
MST: Mountain Standard Time
MTH: Memory Translator Hub M
(Hardware)
Timezone: GMT -7:00
MTI: Mips Technologies Inc.
MSTS: MicroSoft Terminal Server
(Operating systems) MTN: Mobile Telephone Network
MSU: Mass Storage Unit MTOM: Message Transmission Optimization
(Hardware) Mechanism
MSU: Media Server Unit MTP: Message Transfer Part

MSU: Millions of Service Units MTP: Multicast Transport Protocol
(Network)
MSU: Modem Sharing Unit
(Hardware) MTRP: Maximum Transfer Rate Performance
MSVC: MicroSoft Visual C MTS: Message Telephone Service

MSW: Machine Status Word MTS: Message Transfer System
(Software)
MT: Machine Translation
MTS: Michigan Terminal System
MT: Management Team
Academic operating system (OS), 1960s-90s. Along with
MTA: Message Transfer Agent Multics at MIT, it was among the first operational virtual
An ISO/OSI application process that stores and forwards memory operating systems in the world (Operating systems)
messages in the X.400 message handling system. Compare MTS: Microsoft Transaction Server
with Internet mail agent
(Microsoft)
MTA: Message Transfer Architecture
MTS: Multichannel Television Sound
(Software)
MTSO: Mobile Telephone Switching Office
MTA: Multimedia Terminal Adapter
(Network)
MTA: Multiple Terminal Access MTST: Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter
MTA: Multi-Threaded Apartment (Hardware) (IBM)
A threading context in which components must handle
MTST: Moscow Time Standard Time
synchronization themselves. Under COM+ the threads that
Timezone: GMT +3:00
run in the MTA com from a thread pool managed by the
system (Software) (Microsoft) MTT: Multi-Transaction Timer
MTBB: Mean Time Between Breakdowns MTTD: Mean Time To Diagnose

MTTF n
MTTF: Mean Time To Failure MVLS: Microsoft Volume License Site

(Hardware) (Microsoft)
MTTFF: Mean Time To First Failure MVNO: Mobile Virtual Network Operator
MTTR: Mean Time To Repair MVP: Most Valuable Professional
The average time required to bring an array storage (Microsoft)
subsystem back to full fault tolerance. (Hardware)
MVP: Multimedia Video Processor
MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit
MVP: Music Video Producer
MUA: Mail User Agent (Software)
MUD: Multi-User Dialogue MVR: Multimedia Vehicle and Repository
MUD: Multi-User Dimensions (Software) (IBM)
Formerly, Multi-User Dungeon MVS: Multiple Virtual Storage
MUD: Multi-User Dungeon IBM Mainframe operating system (IBM)
Multi-user interactive role-playing games on the Internet MVS/SP: Multiple Virtual Storage/System
MUG: Multi-User Game Product
MUI: Multilanguage User Interface MVS/XA: Multiple Virtual Storage/eXtended

(Operating systems) Architecture
MUI: Multimedia User Interface MVT: Multiprogramming with a Variable

number of Tasks
MUL: MULtiply
MW: Memory Write
MULDEM: MULtiplexer-DEMultiplexer (Hardware)
MULTICS: MULTiplexed Information and MW: MiddleWare
Computing Service
MWFM: Mobile Wireless Fault Mediator
MULTOS: MULTiapplication-card Operating (Network) (Cisco)
System
(Operating systems) MWI: Mobile Web Initiative
Proposes to address issues like interoperability and usability
MUMBLE: Multi User Multicast Basic Language for mobile phones through a concerted effort of players in the
Exchange mobile field, including authoring tool vendors, content
M MUMPS: Massachusetts "general hospital" providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and
mobile operators
Utility Multi-Programming System
N A programming language with extensive tools for the support MWM: Motif Window Manager
of database management systems. MUMPS was originally (Operating systems)
used for medical records and is now widely used where
multiple users access the same databases simultaneously,
MWS: Matsushita White Skipping
e.g. banks, stock exchanges,... (Databases) MX: Mail eXchanger
MUP: Multiple Unc Provider MXCC: Module Xbus Cache Controller
(Network) On Sun server systems, a device located on the processor
MUSE: Multi-User Simulated Environment module that controls the ow of data between the XBus and the
module cache RAM and processor chip (Hardware) (Sun)
MUT: Monitor Under Test
MXF: Material eXchange Format
MUX: MUltipleXer A SMPTE standard that defines a file format for AV media
MUX: Multi-User eXperience and associated metadata
mV: MilliVolt MXS: Microsoft eXchange Server

On Sun server systems, a device located on the processor
MVA: Market Value Added module that controls the flow of data between the XBus and
MVA: Multi-domain Vertical Alignment the module cache RAM and processor chip (Microsoft)
(Hardware) (Fujitsu) MZ: Mark Zbikowski
MVB: Multimedia Viewer Book DOS executable file header identifier
MVC: Model View Controller MZAP: Multicast-scope Zone Announcement

Protocol
MVC: Multimedia Viewer Compiler
Protocol for discovering the multicast administrative scope
MVCC: Multi-Version Concurrency Control zones that are relevant at a particular location. MZAP also
(Databases) provides mechanisms whereby common misconfigurations of
administrative scope zones can be discovered
MVD: MultiValued Dependencies (Communication)
MVDM: Multiple Virtual DOS Machines MZR: Multiple Zone Recording
MVGA: Monochrome Video Graphics Array
MVIF: Multi-Vendor Interacting Forum
N
MVIP: MultiVendor Integration Protocol n: Nano

N/I NBMA
N/I: Non-Interlaced NAS: Netscape Application Server

(Operating systems) (Netscape)
N+I: Networld + Interop
Trade conference NAS: Network Access Server
(Network)
NAB: National Association of Broadcasters
NAB: Netscape Application Builder NAS: Network Application Support
(DEC)
NAC: Network Adapter Card NAS: Network Attached Storage

(Hardware)
NAC: Network Administration Center
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space
NACCB: National Association of Computer Administration
Consultant Businesses (Organizations)
(Organizations)
NASAA: North American Securities
NACD: National Association of Computer Administrators Association
Dealers (Organizations)
NACS: National Advisory Committee on NASDAQ: National Association of Securities
Semiconductors Dealers Automatic Quotation
NACS: Netware Asynchronous Communication NASI: Netware Asynchronous Services
Server Interface
NACS: Network Access Control System (Novell)
NAD: Network Access Device NASIRC: Nasa Automated Systems Internet

Response Capability
NAD: Network Activity Display
(Network) NASKER: Nasa AmeS KERnel
NAE: Not Above or Equal NASL: Name/Age/Sex/Location
(Net lingo)
NAG: National Algorithms Group
NASSL: Network Accessible Services
NAG: Network Architecture Group
Specification Language
NAK: Not AcKnowledged
NAT: Network Address Translation
A control code returned by a receiving station indicating that
A technology that enables a network to use one set of IP
a station with an established connection has sent incorrect
addresses for internal traffic and a second for external traffic
information
(Network)
NAL: Novell Application Launcher
NATOA: National Association of N
(Software) (Novell)
Telecommunications Officers & Advisors
NAM: Number Assignment Module
NAT-PT: Network Address Translation -
NAMI: Network Adaptive Multimedia Image Protocol Translation
NAMPS: Narrow-band Analog Mobile Phone (Communication)
Service NAU: Network Access Unit
NAMS: National Association of Multimedia (Network)
Shareware NAU: Network Addressable Unit
NaN: Not A Number (Network)
A symbolic entry that is encoded in oating-point format NAUN: Nearest Active Upstream Neighbour
(Software)
NAV: Norton Anti Virus
NANAE: News.Admin.Net-Abuse.Email (Symantec)
Usenet newsgroups
NAVSTAR: NAVigation Satellite Timing And
NAP: Network Access Point Ranging
A symbolic entry that is encoded in floating-point format
(Network)
NAWS: Negotiate About Window Size
NAPI: Network Application Programming NBD: Next Business Day

Interface Support term
NAPLPS: North American Presentation-Level NBDD: NetBios Datagram Distribution

Protocol Syntax (Network)
(Communication) NBE: Not Below or Equal
NAPT: Network Address & Port Translation NBI: Nothing But Initials
(Network)
NBMA: Non-Broadcast Multi Access
NARP: Nbma Address Resolution Protocol
(Network)
NAS: Netobjects Authoring Server

NBNS NDEF
NBNS: NetBios Name Service NCGA: National Computer Graphics Association

Service that keeps track of which names are in use at which
NCI: Network Computer, Inc.
IP addresses, thus allowing the underlying IP network to find
Manufacturer
the nodes and transport NetBIOS messages between them.
The Name Service runs on UDP port 137 (Network) NCI: Non Coded Information
NBO: Networked Business Object NCIA: Native Client Interface Architecture
(Software)
NCIC: National Crime Information Center
NBP: Name Binding Protocol
NCITS: National Committee for Information
NBP: Network Bootstrap Program Technology Standards
This is the first program that is downloaded into a machine
NCMOS: N-channel Complementary Metal
that has selected a Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
capable device for remote boot services
Oxyde Semiconductor
NCMT: N-channel Complementary Metal Oxide
NBS: Narrowband Socket
Semiconductor
NBS: National Bureau of Standards
NCN: Nixdorf Communications Network
(Organizations)
NCOS: Network Computer Operating System
NBS: Numeric BackSpace
NCP: Netware Core Protocol
NBSCP: NetBios Frames Control Protocol
(Network) NCP: Network Control Program
Communication management in IBM networks (Network)
NBSP: Non-Breakable SPace
(IBM)
NBSS: NetBios Session Service NCP: Network Control Protocol
(Network)
(Network)
NBT: NetBios on Tcp/ip NCP: Non-Carbon Paper
NC: Naming Context
NCP: Not Copy Protected
Part of the Active Directory configuration (replication
topology and related metadata) (Network) (Microsoft) NCQ: Native Command Queuing
Technology designed to increase performance and endurance
NC: Network Computer
by allowing the drive to internally optimize the execution
(Network) order of workloads (Hardware)
NC: Network Control NCR: National Cash Registers
NC: Network Coordinator NCS: Network Computing System
N NC: No Carry (HP)
NC: No Connection NCSA: National Center for Supercomputing

(Hardware) Applications
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developers of
NC: Norton Commander
the original NCSA Mosaic browser (Organizations)
NC: Numerical Control NCSC: National Computer Security Center
NCA: Network Communications Adapter (Organizations)
NCA: Network Computing Architecture NCSI: Network Communications Services
(Oracle) Interface
NCAPI: Netscape Client Application NCSL: National Computer Systems Laboratory
Programming Interface NCTE: Network Channel-Terminating Equipment
NCTL: National Computer and
NCC: National Computer Conference Telecommunications Laboratory
NCC: National Computing Center NDA: Non Disclosure Agreement
NCC: Network Control Center NDAC: No Data ACcepted
(Network)
NDB: Non-Directional Beacon
NCC: Norton Control Center
Norton Utilities' program (Software) (Symantec)
NDC: Normalized Device Coordinates
The coordinate system between the user’s world coordinates
NCC: Novell Customer Connection (WC) and the graphics system’s physical device coordinates
(Novell) in the viewing pipeline
NCCF: Network Communications Control Facility NDCC: Network Data Collection Center
NCD: Network Computing Device NDDK: Network Device Development Kit
NCF: Netware Command File NDDL: Neutral Data Definition Language
(Novell)
NDE: News Development Environment
NCF: Network Computing Framework
NDEF: Not DEFined
(Network) (IBM)

NDIS NI
NDIS: Network Driver Interface Specification NetBIOS: NETwork Basic Input Output System
(Network) (Network)
NDL: Network Database Language NETBLT: NETwork BLock Transfer

(Databases)
NETCDF: NETwork Common Data Format
NDM: Network Data Manager NETMON: NETwork MONitor
On-line storage service
NEWS: Netware Early Warning System
NDMP: Network Data Management Protocol
(Network) NEWS: Network Extensible Window System
A window system based on PostScript that Sun developed
NDMS: Netware Distributed Management and licenses (Operating systems) (Sun)
Services
NEWT: NEWs Terminal
NDN: Non-Delivery Notice
NEXT: Near-End CrossTalk
NDP: Numeric Data Processor
NeXT: NEw eXtended Technology
NDPS: Novell Distributed Print Services
(Network) (Novell) NF: Naturally Flat
Crt technology (Hardware) (Mitsubishi)
NDR: Network Data Representation
(Network) NFAS: Non-Facility Associated Signaling
In ISDN, a single D-channel can control multiple PRIs
NDR: Non-Delivery Report (Network)
NDRO: Non Destructive ReadOut NFE: Net Future Expectation
NDS: Netware Directory Service NFF: No Fault Found
(Network) (Novell)
NFI: Near Field Imaging
NDT: Non Destructive Testing Touch screen where the screen itself is the sensor. NFI uses
NE: Network Element a sophisticated sensing circuit that can detect a conductive
object - a finger or conductive stylus - through a layer of
(Network)
glass, as well as through gloves or other potential barriers
NE: Not Equal (Hardware)
(Software) NFI: No F***ing Idea
NEARNET: New England Academic and (Net lingo)
Research NETwork NFM: No Further Messages
NEAT: Novell Easy Administration Tool End of script, ie: you dont want to talk to this person
(Novell) anymore (Net lingo) N
NEB: Netscape Extension Builder NFR: Near Field Recording
(Software) (Netscape) (Hardware)
NEC: National Electrical Code NFS: Network File System

A Sun distributed file system that provides transparent
NEC: Nippon Electric Corporation
access to remote file systems on heterogeneous networks
(NEC) (Operating systems) (Sun)
NECA: National Exchange Carrier Association NFT: Network File Transfer
(Organizations)
NG: NewsGroup
NED: Nasa Extragalactic Database Discussion forum
(NASA)
NGE: Not Greater or Equal
NEFS: Network Extensible File System
NGI: Next Generation Internet
NEG: NEGative
NGIO: Next Generation Input Output
NELIAC: Navy Electronics Laboratory (Hardware) (Intel)
International Algol Compiler
NGWS: Next Generation Windows Services
NEMA: National Electrical Manufacturers (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Association
NHC: National Hurricane Center
NEP: Network Entry Point
NHR: National Handwriting Recognition
NEP: Network Equipment Provider
NHRP: Next Hop Resolution Protocol
NES: National Education Supercomputer (Network)
NES: Netscape Enterprise Server NHSE: National Hpcc Software Exchange
NI: New Instructions
NEST: Novell Embedded Systems Technology
(Hardware) (Intel)
(Novell)
NI: No Increase
NetBEUI: NETwork Bios Extended User
Interface NI: Non Interlaced
(Network) (Hardware)

NIA NLP
NIA: Next Instruction Address NIPR: Non-secure Internet Protocol Router

(Network)
NIAM: Natural language Information Analysis
Method NIPS: Network I/os Per Second
NIC: Network Information Center NIR: Network Information Retrieval
Originally, a single NIC at SRI International served the (Network)
ARPANET (and later the defense data network [DDN]
community) (Network) NIS: Network Information Service
A distributed network database containing key information
NIC: Network Interface Card about the systems and the users on the network. The NIS
(Hardware) database is stored on the master server and all the slave
servers (Network) (Sun)
NIC: New Internet Computer
(Hardware) NIS: Norton Internet Security
NIC: Numeric Intensive Computing
NIS/YP: Network Information System/Yellow
NiCd: NIckel-CaDmium
Pages
Rechargable battery technology
N-ISDN: Narrowband Integrated Services
NICE: Narrative, Immersive, Collaborative
Digital Network
Environment
Rechargeable battery technology N-ISDN: National Integrated Services Digital
Network
NICE: Network Information and Control
Exchange NISI: Network Information Services
Infrastructure
NICE: Novell Internet Connection Expert
(Network)
(Network) (Novell)
NISO: National Information Standards
NICOLAS: Network Information Center OnLine
Organization
Aid System
(NASA) NISP: Networked Information Services Project
NID: Network Interface Device NIST: National Institute of Standards and
(Hardware) Technology
(Organizations)
NID: New Interactive Display
(NEC) NITC: National Information Technology Center
NID: Next IDentifier NITOL: Norway-net with IT for Open Learning
N NIDL: Network Interface Definition Language NIU: Network Interface Unit

(Network) NIW: Network Installation Wizard
NIDS: Network Intrusion Detection System (Software) (Microsoft)
(Security) NIXL: Nas Interface eXchange Language
NIFC: Netscape Internet Foundation Classes (Network)
(Software) (Netscape) NJ: Nice Job
NIH: Not Invented Here (Net lingo)
NIHCL: National Institute of Health Class NJE: Network Job Entry

Library (IBM)
NII: National Information Infrastructure NJM: Native Java Microprocessor

(Hardware)
NIIT: National Information Infrastructure
Testbed NL: New Line
NILO: Network Interface LOader NLA: Network Location Awareness
Boot Linux, FreeBSD, Windows 95/98/NT4 and support the Enables Windows Sockets 2 applications to identify the
Intel PXE standard, and is suitable for burning into ROM. It is logical network to which a Windows computer is attached and
an evolution of the previous Etherboot and Netboot projects. to which physical network interface a given application has
See http://www.nilo.org/ saved specific information (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
NIM: Network Installation Management NLANR: National Laboratory for Applied

(IBM) Network Research
NiMH: NIckel-Metal Hydride NLB: Network Load Balancing
Rechargable battery technology (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
NIMS: Novell Internet Messaging System NLDM: Network Logical Data Manager
(Novell) NLE: Not Less or Equal
NIO: Native Input/Output NLM: Netware Loadable Module
Rechargeable battery technology (Operating systems) (Novell)
NIO: New Input/Output NLP: Natural Language Processing
Java's new I/O subsystem (Software) (Sun)

NLPID NPI
NLPID: Network Layer Protocol IDentifier NMP: Network Management Protocol

(AT&T)
NLQ: Near Letter Quality
NLS: National Language Support NMPA: National Music Publishers Association
(Organizations)
(Operating systems)
NLS: Netware Licensing Service NMPF: Network Management Productivity

(Novell)
Facility
NLS: Network License Server NMR: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

NMS: Netelligent Management Software
NLSFUNC: National Language Support FUNCtion
(Network)
NLSP: Netware Link Services Protocol
Link-state routing protocol based on IS-IS. See also IS-IS NMS: Network Management System
NLT: Natural Language Technology NMT: Nordic Mobile Telephone

Pre-GSM mobile telephone network in the nordic countries
(Software)
(Communication)
NLUUG: NetherLands Unix User Group
NMU: Network Management Unit
(Organizations)
(Hardware)
NLV: National Language Version
NN: Network Node
(IBM)
NN: Neural Network
NLX: New Low-profile Extended
Motherboard format, evolution of LPX (Hardware) NN: No News
NM: Network Management NNI: Network-Node Interface
(Network) (Communication)
NM: Nothing Much NNM: Network Node Manager

(Net lingo) (Network)
NMA: Network Management Architecture NNSC: Nsf Network Service Center

NMC: Network Management Center NNTP: Network News Transport Protocol
(Communication)
NME: Norton Mobile Essentials
(Software) (Symantec) NOC: Network Operation Center
A center that operates a production network. Tasks include
NMEA: National Marine Electronics Association
monitoring and control, troubleshooting, and user assistance
Organization that developed (among other things) the NMEA (Network)
interface standard for data exchange between marine
NOP: No OPeration
N
electronic devices, also used today in most Global
Positioning Systems (GPSs) (Organizations) (Hardware)
NMF: Network Management Forum NOPAC: Network On-line Public Access Catalog
NMH: Not Much Here NORA: Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness
(Net lingo) NORMA: NO Remote Memory Access
NM-HDV: Network Module - High Density Voice NOS: Network Operating System
(Hardware) (Cisco)
NOTA: None Of The Above
NMI: Native Method Invocation For multiple choice answers (Net lingo)
(Software)
NOW: Network Of Workstations
NMI: Non-Maskable Interrupt (Hardware)
(Hardware)
NOYB: None Of Your Business
NML: Network Management Layer (Net lingo)
NML: Nonconfirmed Mailing List NP: No Problem
Database of Internet Protocol addresses (IP addresses) Answer when someone says ty/thank you (Net lingo)
which have been demonstrated to be the sources of mailing
lists which do not fully verify the email addresses on their NP: Nondeterministic Polynomial time
list. See http://mail-abuse.org/nml/
NP: Number Portability
NMLI: Native Mode Lan Interconnection (Communication)
Is an IntraLATA high speed transport service used to
NPA: Network Printer Alliance
interconnect LANs at geographically separated sites
(Network) NPA: Numbering Plan Address
NMM: Netware Management Map NPDA: Network Problem Determination Aid
(Novell) NPE: Null Pointer Exception
NMM: Network Management Module A NPE happens when trying to access data from a null
(Network) memory location (Software)
NMOS: Negative Channel Metal-Oxide NPH: No Parse Headers

Semiconductor NPI: Network Printer Interface

NPL NT
NPL: Netscape Public License NSAPI: Netscape Server Application

(Netscape) Programming Interface
NPL: Non-Procedural Language
(Software) NSB: Netware for Small Business
(Operating systems) (Novell)
NPM: Network Printer Manager
(Software) NSC: Network Service Center
NPMS: Named Pipes/Mail Slots NSC: Norton System Center
NPP: Network Payment Protocol
NSERC: National Sciences and Engineering
NPS: Novell Productivity Specialist
Research Council
(Novell)
NSF: National Science Foundation
NPSI: Network Protocol Service Interface
(Organizations)
NPT: Non-Programmable Terminal
(Hardware)
NSfIP: NextStep For Intel Processors
NSFNET: National Science Foundation NETwork
NPTN: National Public Telecomputing Network
NSI: Nasa Science Internet
NPU: Natural Processing Unit
NSI: Network Solutions, Inc
NPU: Network Processing Unit
Manages .com, .net, .org, .edu top level domains
(Communication)
(Organizations)
NPX: Numeric Processor eXtension
NSIS: National Schengen Information System
NQS: Network Queing System
NSIS: Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
NRC: National Research Council Tool that allows programmers to create quick and user
(Organizations) friendly installers for Windows. It is released under an open
source license and is completely free for any use. See also
NREN: National Research and Education
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ (Software)
Network
NSM: Netscape Server Manager
NRFD: Not Ready For Data
(Netscape)
(Communication)
NSM: Network and System Management
NRM: Network Resource Manager
NSN: Nasa Science Network
NRM: Normal Response Mode
HDLC data transfer mode (Network) NSP: Native Signal Processing
N NRN: No Response Needed NSP: Network Service Provider
(Net lingo) NSP: Network Services Protocol
NROFF: New Run-OFF NSPR: NetScape Portable Runtime
NRP: Node Route Processor Provides platform independence for non-GUI operating
system facilities, including threads, thread synchronization,
(Hardware) (Cisco)
normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar
NRZ: Non Return to Zero time, basic memory management (malloc and free) and
Data transmission using +/- voltage levels or carrier offsets shared library linking (Netscape)
(Hardware)
NSS: Network Security Service
NRZI: NonReturn to Zero Inverted Set of libraries designed to support cross-platform
development of security-enabled server applications.
NRZL: NonReturn to Zero Level
Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS,
NS: Name Server PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509
v3 certificates, and other standards
ns: NanoSecond
Time measurement unit NSS: Network Storage Solutions
Company
NS: National Semiconductor
NSS: Nodal Switching Subsystem
NS: Network Series
(Hardware) NSS: Novell Storage Services
(Novell)
NS: Network Supervisor
NSSC: Nasa Standard Spacecraft Computer
NS: Non Stop
NSTC: National Science and Technology Council
NSA: National Security Agency
(Organizations) NSTL: National Software Testing Labs
NSA POLY: National Security Agency POLYgraph NT: Network Terminator
NSAP: Network Services Access Point NT: New Technology
(Network) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
NT: Nice Try
(Net lingo)

NT NVS
NT: No Text NTSD: New Technology Symbolic Debugger

(Net lingo) (Microsoft)
NT: Nome Time NTSL: National Software Testing Laboratories

Timezone: GMT -11:00 (Organizations)
NT-1: Network Terminator type 1 NTT: Nippon Telephone & Telegraph

NTAS: New Technology Advanced Server NTU: Network Termination Unit
NTWS: New Technology WorkStation
NTCR: New Technology Challenge/Response (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
NUA: Network User Address
NTDS: New Technology Directory Service NUB: Network Utility Box
(Hardware)
NTE: New Technology Embedded NUI: Network User Identification
(Network)
NTF: No Trouble Found NUI: Network User Interface
NTFS: New Technology File System (Operating systems)
NUI: Notebook User Interface
NTHQ: New Technology Hardware Qualifier NUL: NULl
Hardware troubleshooting program (Operating systems)
An invisible character with an internal code of 0 that
(Microsoft)
occupies no space if printed. Not to be confused with a blank,
NTIA: National Telecommunications and which is invisible but occupies a space
Information Administration NUMA: NonUniform Memory Access
(Organizations)
NURB: Non Uniform Rational B-spline
NTIS: National Technical Information Service
NURBS: Non Uniform Rational B-Spline
NTK: Newton ToolKit A curve definition method based on the B-spline curve, which
NTLDR: New Technology LoaDeR offers additional exibility through knots along the spline.
Bootstrap loader for Microsoft Windows NT-based operating Some knots can have more weight added (like a magnet) to
systems (Operating systems) (Microsoft) pull the curve toward those knots
NTLM: New Technology Lan Manager NURMS: Non Uniform Rational MeshSmooth
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) Method of tesselation used by 3D Studio MAX (Software)
NTO: Network Terminal Operator NUUG: Norwegian Unix User Group N

(Organizations)
(Network)
NTONC: National Transparent Optical Network NV: No oVerflow
Consortium A curve definition method based on the B-spline curve, which
offers additional flexibility through knots along the spline.
(Organizations)
Some knots can have more weight added (like a magnet) to
NTOP: New Technology Option Pack pull the curve toward those knots
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) NVDM/2: NetView Distribution Manager 2
NTP: Network Time Protocol NVE: Network Visible Entity
(Communication)
A network addressable service (ie. protocol socket) that acts
NTRAS: New Technology Remote Access as a network service process (not a node.) (Network) (Apple)
Services NVM: Non Volatile Memory
NTRK: New Technology Resource Kit (Hardware)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) NVML: NaVigation Markup Language
NTRU: Number Theory is Really Useful NVOD: Near-Video On Demand
Technology for high speed, low footprint public key
cryptography, based on the mathematics of lattice reduction. NVP: Network Voice Protocol
(Marketed by NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc, NVP: Nominal Velocity of Propagation
http://www.ntru.com/) (Security)
NVRAM: Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
NTS/2: Network Transport Services 2 A type of RAM that retains information when power is
NTSA: Netware Telephony Services removed from the system (Hardware)
Architecture NVS: Non-Volatile Storage
(Novell) (Hardware)
NTSC: National Television Systems Committee
The group that proposed a method of composite color
encoding based on quadrature modulation of I and Q color
difference components onto a color subcarrier and adding the
resulting chroma signal to luminance (Organizations)

NVSIMM OCN
NVSIMM: Non-Volatile Single In line Memory OASYS: Office Automation SYStem

Module
OAW: Optically Assisted Winchester
A nonvolatile single inline memory module (SIMM) that
(Hardware)
incorporates a battery on the device to prevent data loss in a
power failure. Battery current is shared among a group of OBD: On Board Diagnostics
NVSIMMs. This feature prevents memory failure if one
battery fails (Hardware)
OBD: Online Bugs Database
NVT: Network Virtual Terminal OBEX: OBject EXchange

Set of protocols allowing objects such as vCard contact
NVT: Novell Virtual Terminal information and vCalendar schedule entries to be exchanged
(Novell) using either IrDA or Bluetooth
NWFS: NetWare File System OBI: Open Buying on the Internet

(Operating systems) (Novell) (Organizations)
NWNet: NorthWestern states NETwork OBJ: OBJect

File name extension
NWS: Netware Web Server
(Novell) OBS: Old Backup Server
NYSERNet: New York State Education and OBV: Object By Value
Research NETwork (Software)
NZDSF: Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted Fibre OBVI: Object-Based Video Interface
Optical fiber type (Communication)
OBZ: One Big Zip
NZT: New Zealand Time (Net lingo)
Timezone: GMT +12:00
OC: Optical Carrier
NZUSUGI: New Zealand Unix System User
OC-3: Optical Carrier level 3
Group, Inc.
OC4J: Oracle Containers For Java
O (Software) (Oracle)
OCA: Online Crash Analysis
O&O: Over & Out
When leaving an on-line conversation permanently (Net lingo)
O/R: Originator/Recipient OCA: Oracle Certified Associate
Certification for apprentice skill level IT professionals who
OA: Office Automation have have a foundation of knowledge that will allow them to
OAB: Offline Address Book act as a junior team member (Oracle)
N (Microsoft) OCD: Out-of-Cell Delineation
OAB: One-to-All Broadcast OCE: Open Collaborative Environment
O (Apple)
OAD: Open Architecture Driver
OAD: Over-the-Air Downloading OCF: Object Component Framework
OAG: Official Airline Guide
OCF: OpenCard Framework
OAG: Online Air Guide
OCFS: Oracle Cluster File System
OAI: Open Applications Interface (Oracle)
OAM: Operations, Administation, and OCI: Oracle Call Interface
Management (Databases) (Oracle)
A set of network management functions for ATM similar to
those in OA&M and OAM&P. Special cells, called OAM cells, OCIA: Optically Coupled Interface Adapter
are used to carry OAM related information (Communication) Interface in many other respects similar to RS232. It is used
extensively on Point Of Sale (POS) equipments (Hardware)
OARNet: Ohio Academic Resources NETwork
OCL: Object Constraint Language
OAS: Office Automation System
OCL: Operator Control Language
OAS: One-to-All Scatter
OCL: Os/2 Class Library
OAS: Oracle Application Server
(Software) (Oracle) OCLC: Online Computer Library Center
OASIS: Open Access Same-time Information OCM: Oracle Certified Master
System Advanced-level certification that is targeted toward Oracle9i
DBA OCPs with 3 - 4 years of professional Oracle
OASIS: Organization for the Advancement of experience (Oracle)
Structured Information Standards
(Organizations)
OCN: Operating Company Number
(Communication)
OASLM: Optically Addressed Spatial Light
Modulator
(Hardware)

OCP OFDM
OCP: Open-Closed Principle ODMA: Open Distributed Management

Object-oriented principle that states that software entities Architecture
should be open for extensions but closed for modifications
(Software)
ODMA: Open Document Management Api
ODMG: Object Data Management Group
OCP: Oracle Certified Professional
See http://www.odmg.org/ (Organizations)
Mid-level certification for IT professionals who manage large-
scale databases or develop applications that are used ODMG: Object Database Management Group
enterprise-wide (Oracle)
ODP: On-Demand Producer
OCR: Optical Character Recognition Multimedia authoring program (Software)
OCS: Object Compatibility Standard ODP: Open Data Path
OCS: On-Card Sequencer Provide a way for more than one program in the same job to
share the same file status information (Software) (IBM)
OCS: Open Content Syndication
ODP: Open Distributed Processing
OCS: Oracle Collaboration Suite
Oracle's mail/calendar solution (Software) (Oracle) ODP: OverDrive Processor
OCSP: Online Certificate Status Protocol ODPS: On Demand Packaging Service

A PKIX protocol used for determining the current status of a Intranet Software distribution solution by IBM (Software)
digital certificate (IBM)
OCTAVE: Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, ODQL: Object Database Query Language
(Databases)
and Vulnerability Evaluation
Approach for self-directed risk evaluations that puts ODR: Optimized Dynamic Routing
organizations in charge, balances critical information assets,
business needs, threats, and vulnerabilities and measures
ODS: Open Data Services
the organization against known or accepted good security (Microsoft)
practices (Security) ODS: Operational Data Store
OCX: Ole Control eXtension ODS: Overhead Data Stream
ODSI: Open Directory Services Interface
OD: Optical Disk
ODT: Open DeskTop
ODA: Open Data Access
(Software)
ODTUG: Oracle Development Tools User Group
ODA: Open Document Architecture OE: Operating Environment
ODAPI: Open DataBase Application OE: Outlook Express

Programming Interface (Software) (Microsoft)
(Software) OE: Output Enable
ODBC: Open DataBase Connectivity (Hardware) O
(Software) (Microsoft) OECD: Organization for Economic Cooperation
ODBMS: Object DataBase Management System and Development
(Organizations)
(Databases)
ODE: Object Database and Environment OEDB: Operating Experience DataBase
Nuclear power plants use a common database of operating
ODE: Office 97 Developer Edition information
OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer
ODF: Open Document Format A manufacturer that sells equipment for resale under an end-
Open document file format for saving and exchanging equipment manufacturer’s trademark or name (Hardware)
editable office documents (Software)
OEP: Operand Execution Pipeline
ODI: Open Data-link Interface
OEP: Original Entry Point
(Network)
(Software)
ODI: Open Device Interconnect
OF: Outer Firewall
(Novell)
(Security)
ODIF: Open Document Interchange Format
OF: Overflow Flag
ODISS: Optical Digital Image Storage System
OFA: Optimal Flexible Architecture
ODL: Object Definition Language
OFB: Output FeedBack
ODM: Object Data Manager
OFC: Open Financial Connectivity
(IBM)
OFCOM: Office Fédéral de la COMmunication
ODM: Optimized Distribution Model
Swiss regulatory Organisation (Organizations)
(Compaq)
OFDM: Orthogonal Frequency Division
ODM: Original Design Manufacturing
Multiplexing
(Communication)

OFMT ONDS
OFMT: Output ForMaT O-LTM: Optical Line Terminating Multiplexer

OFP: Organizational Fitness Profiling OLTP: OnLine Transaction Processing
OFS: Object File System OM: Object Manager
(Operating systems)
OM: Object Model
OFS: Output Field Separator (Software)
OFTP: Odette File Transfer Protocol OMA: Object Management Architecture

Defined by the RFC 2204, it's a protocol that supports both (Microsoft)
direct communication between installations and indirect
communication via a third party clearing centre (Network)
OMA: Outlook Mobile Access
OFX: Open Financial eXchange
OMAP: Open Multimedia Applications Platform
OGL: Open Graphics Language
Single, vendor-independent Application Programming
OMCA: OpenManage Client Administrator
(Dell)
Interface (API) for the development of 2D and 3D graphics
applications (Software) (SGI) OMCI: OpenManage Client Instrumentation
OGSA: Open Grid Services Architecture OME: Open Messaging Environment
OGSS: Ordered Grid Super Sampling Protocol
Full-scene anti-aliasing technique (Hardware) OMF: Object Management Framework
OHCI: Open Host Controller Interface OMF: Object Module Format
OIA: Operator Information Area (Microsoft)
OIC: Oh, I See OMF: Observation Markup Format

(Net lingo) Is an application of XML used to encode weather observation
reports
OID: Object IDentifier
OMF: Open Media Framework
OIDL: Object Interface Definition Language
OMF: Open Message Format
OIL: Operator Identification Language
OMFG: Oh My F***ing God
OIM: Open Information Model (Net lingo)
Set of standard object models which define how applications
can create exchangeable metadata OMFI: Open Media Framework Interchange
OIS: Office Information System OMG: Object Management Group
(Organizations)
OIW: Osi Implementors Workshop
OMG: Oh My God (or Gosh)
OJI: Open Jvm Integration
(Net lingo)
Project extending the plug-in architecture to allow Java
O virtual machines to be plugged into Mozilla-based browser OMI: Open Management Interface
releases
OMI: Open Messaging Interface
OKC: Online Knowledge Community
OMI: Open Microprocessor Initiative
OLAM: Optimal Linear Associative Memory
OMI-STN: Optical Mode Interface-SuperTwisted
OLAP: On-Line Analytical Processing Nematic
OLB: Object Language Bindings OML: Object Manipulation Language
(Databases) (Software)
OLCP: On-Line Complex Processing OMR: Optical Mark Recognition
OLE: Object Linking and Embedding OMS: Object Management System
OMT: Object Modeling Technique
OLED: Organic Light Emitting Diode (Software)
(Hardware)
OMW: On My Way
OLE-DB: Object Linking and Embedding- (Net lingo)
DataBase
ON: Online Network
COM-based data access objects (Databases) (Microsoft)
ONA: Open Network Architecture
OLGA: OnLine Guitar Archive
ONAC: Operations Network Administration
OLI: Optical Line Interface Center
(AT&T)
ONAL: Off Network Access Line
OLIT: Open Look Intrinsics Toolkit
An X Window system-based widget set and library used to ONC: Open Network Computing
create applications using the OPEN LOOK graphical user (Network) (Sun)
interface (Operating systems) ONDS: Open Network Distribution Services
OLMC: Open Look Intrinsic Toolkit (IBM)
OLSP: On-Line Service Provider

ONE ORB
ONE: Open Network Environment OO-TP: Object-Oriented Transaction Processing

(Sun) (Software)
ONI: Operator Number Identification OOUI: Object-Oriented User Interface

ONMS: Open Network Management System OP: OPeration
ONS: Open Networking System OPA: Open Publishing Architecture
ONU: Optical Network Unit OPAC: On-line Public Access Catalog
OO: Object Oriented OPC: Ole for Process Control
OOA: Object-Oriented Analysis OPC: Open Process Control
OOAD: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design OPC: Optical PhotoConductor
OOB: Out Of Band OPC: Organic Photoconducting Cartridge
OOBE: Object-Oriented Business Engineering OPCODE: OPerational CODE

OOBE: Out-Of-Box Experience OPD: OPeranD
What happens when you first open the box containing your
OpenGL: OPEN Graphics Language
new computer
Single, vendor-independent Application Programming
OOCASE: Object Oriented Computer Aided Interface (API) for the development of 2D and 3D graphics
Software Engineering applications (Software) (SGI)
OOCTG: Object-Oriented Cobol Task Group OPES: Open Pluggable Edge Services
(Network)
OOD: Object-Oriented Design
OPI: Open Press Interface
OODB: Object-Oriented DataBase
(Software)
OODBMS: Object-Oriented DataBase
Management System OPL: Opaque Device Library
OODL: Object-Oriented Dynamic Language OPL: OpenContent License

Licensing scheme for content. See also
OODS: Object-Oriented Data Source http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml
OOF: Out Of Frame OPM: Operations Per Minute
State that occurs when several consecutive Synchronous
OPML: Outline Processor Markup Language
Digital Hierarchy (SDH) frames are received with invalid
(errored) framing patterns (Communication) XML-based format that allows exchange of outline-structured
information between applications running on different
OOFS: Object-Oriented File System operating systems and environments
(Operating systems)
OPOS: Ole for Point Of Sale
OOL: Object-Oriented Language
O
OPP: Order Processing Pipeline
OOo: OpenOffice.org (Network) (Microsoft)
Free productivity suite compatible with all major office
suites. See also http://www.openoffice.org/ (Software)
OPROM: Optical Programmable Read Only
Memory
OOOE: Out Of Order Execution (Hardware)
Processor level architecture feature (Hardware)
OPS: Off Premise Station
OOOS: Object-Oriented Operating System A PBX station in a location separated from the location of the
OOP: Object-Oriented Programming main PBX (Communication)
(Software) OPS: Open Profiling Standard
OOPL: Object-Oriented Programming Language (Netscape)
(Software) ops: Operations Per Second
OOPS: Object-Oriented Programming System OPS: Oracle Parallel Server
OOPSLA: Object-Oriented Programming (Oracle)
Systems and Language Architecture OPT: Open Protocol Technology
OOPSTAD: Object-Oriented Programming for OPT: OPTions
SmallTalk Application Development association File name extension
OOS: Object-Oriented Systems OPUS: Octal Program Updating System
OOS: Off-line Operating Simulator OQL: Object Query Language
OOS: Out Of Service OQS: Object Query Service
OOSA: Object-Oriented System Analysis (Software)
OOSH: Object-Oriented SHell OR: OverRun

(Hardware)
OOT: Object-Oriented Technology
ORB: Object Request Broker

ORBS OSP
ORBS: Open Relay Behaviour-modification OSD: Open Software Description

System An application of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), is a
vocabulary used for describing software packages and their
ORBZ: Open Relay Blackhole Zone dependencies for heterogeneous clients
ORDB: Open Relay DataBase
OSD: Open Software Distribution
A service to fight against spam or unsolicited commercial
email (UCE). See http://www.ordb.org/ OSD: Operating System Deployment
ORDBMS: Object Relational DataBase
Management System OSDL: Open Source Development Lab
(Databases) Non-profit, global consortium of leading technology
companies dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux.
ORDVAC: ORDnance Variable Automatic See http://www.osdl.org/ (Organizations)
Computer
OSDN: Open Source Development Network
ORI: Online Retrieval Interface (Software)
ORK: Office Resource Kit
OSDS: Operating System for Distributed
Switching
ORM: Object Role Modeling
OSE: Office Server Extension
(Databases)
ORM: Object/Relational Mapping OSE: Open Systems Environment
Technique of mapping a data representation from an object
model to a relational data model with a SQL-based schema OSF: Open Software Foundation
ORM: Optical Remote Module OSF: Operation System Function

ORMS: Operating Resource Management System OSGi: Open Services Gateway Initiative
(Software) Independent, non-profit corporation working to define and
promote open specifications for the delivery of managed
OROM: Optical Read Only Memory
broadband services to networks in homes, cars and other
(Hardware) environments. See also http://www.osgi.org (Organizations)
O-ROM: Optical Read Only Memory OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health
ORPC: Object Remote Procedure Call Administration
ORS: Output Record Separator OSI: Open Source Initiative

ORSS: Optical Recognition System Simulator OSI: Open Systems Interconnection
7-layer hierarchical reference structure developed by the
OS: Operating System
International Standards Organization for defining, specifying,
O A collection of programs that monitor the use of the system and relating communications protocols; not a standard or a
and supervise the other programs executed by it (Operating protocol (Communication)
systems)
OSI/RM: Open Systems
OS/2: Operating System 2 Interconnection/Reference Model
(Operating systems) (IBM)
OSIG: Online Special Interest Group
OS/360: Operating System/360
OSM: On-Screen Manager
OS/400: Operating System/400 (Hardware) (NEC)
OS/E: Operating System/Environment OSM: On-Screen Menu
OS-9: Operating System-9 OSM: Operating system-Specific Module
OSA: Open Scripting Architecture OSM: Optical Storage Manager
OSA: Open System Architecture OSME: Open Systems Message Exchange
OSAF: Open Source Applications Foundation OSN: Office System Node
Organization that aims to create and gain wide adoption of
Open Source application software of uncompromising quality OSN: Open Service Node
and to build an innovative, sustainable alternative application (Communication)
despite market inertia. See also
OSN: Open Systems Network
http://www.osafoundation.org/ (Organizations)
OSP: Ole db Simple Provider
OSCE: OfficeScan Corporate Edition
OSCML: OSChooser Markup Language
OSP: On-Screen Programming
OSP: Operations Service Provider
OSCRL: Operating System Command Response
Language OSP: Optical Signal Processing
(Hardware)
OSD: On-Screen Display
(Hardware) OSP: Optical Storage Processor

OSPF P2P
OSPF: Open Shortest Path First OU: Organizational Unit

An Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) specified by the Internet
OUCL: Oxford University Computing Laboratory
Engineering Task Force (IETF) (Network)
OUG: Occam User Group
OSPM: Operating System-directed Power
Management OUI: Organizational Unique Identifier
With OSPM, the operating system determines when to do OURS: Open User Recommended Solutions
power management and the BIOS determines how to do
group
power management. The two pieces work in concert to
provide maximum power savings OUTS: OUTput String
OSQL: Object Structured Query Language OV: OVerflow
OSR: Oem Service Release OVAL: Object-based Virtual Application
Language
OSS: Open Source Software
(Software) OVL: OVerLay
File name extension
OSS: Operating System-Specific
OVR: OVeRlay
OSS: Operations Support System
File name extension
OSSIM: Open Source Security Information
OWA: Outlook Web Access
Management
Distribution of open source products that are integrated to
provide an infrastructure for security monitoring. See also OWC: Office Web Component
http://www.ossim.net/ (Security) Collection of COM controls designed to bring interactive
spreadsheet modeling, database reporting, and data
OST: Offline STorage
visualization to a number of control containers (Software)
OSTA: Optical Storage Technology Association (Microsoft)
(Organizations)
OWG: Optical WaveGuide
OSW/L2: Operating System-9 Windows/Level 2
OWL: Object Windows Library
OSX: Operating System Ten (Software) (Borland)
Apple's unix operating system (Operating systems) (Apple)
OWL: Web Ontology Language
OT: Object Technology Semantic markup language for publishing and sharing
ontologies on the World Wide Web. OWL is developed as a
OT: Off Topic
vocabulary extension of RDF (the Resource Description
(Net lingo)
Framework) and is derived from the DAML+OIL Web
OTA: Office of Technology Assessment Ontology Language
OTA: Operation-Triggered Architecture O-WORM: Optical Write Once Read Many

OTDR: Optical Time Domain Reflectometer OWT: Open source Windowing Toolkit
O
OTF: Open Token Foundation
P
OTI: Object Technology International
P: Peta
P
OTM: Object Transaction Monitor Prefix for 10 power 15 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 50)
(Software)
p: Pico
OTM: Optical Translation Measurement
(Hardware)
P&D: Plug & Display
OTML: Offline Tagging Markup Language
(Hardware)
OTN: Oracle Technology Network
P&M: Personalization & Membership
(Oracle)
(Microsoft)
OTOH: On The Other Hand P&S: Point And Shoot
(Net lingo)
Digital camera type (Hardware)
OTP: One-Time Password authentication P&S: Publish & Subscribe
(Security)
P/N: Part Number
OTP: One-Time Programmable
P/PC: Palm Personal Computer
OTP: Open Trading Protocol
(Hardware)
The Internet Open Trading Protocol (OTP) provides an
interoperable framework for Internet commerce. It is P/T: Part Time
payment system independent and encapsulates payment
P2C2: Pantone Personal Color Calibrator
systems such as SET, Mondex, CyberCash, DigiCash,
(Pantone)
GeldKarte, etc.
OTPROM: One-Time Programmable Read Only P2P: Peer To Peer
Memory P2P: People To People
OTS: Object Transaction Service P2P: Point To Point

P2SC PAX
P2SC: Power 2 Super Chip PAL-SLM: Parallel-Aligned Liquid crystal Spa

IBM's Deep Blue processor (Hardware) (IBM) tial Light Modulator
(Hardware)
P3P: Platform for Privacy Preferencies Project
PAM: Paging Area Memory
PA: Platform for Privacy Preferences Project
(Hardware) (HP) PAM: Pluggable Authentication Module
With the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) framework,
PAB: Personal Address Book
multiple authentication technologies can be added without
PABX: Private Automatic Branch eXchange changing any of the login services, thereby preserving
(Hardware) existing system environments (Security)
PAC: Perceptual Audio Coder PAM: Presence and Availability Management

(Hardware) PAM: Primary Access Method
PAC: Platform Adaptor Component PAM: Programmable Attribute Map
PAC: Privilege Attribute Certificate PAM: Pulse-Amplitude Modulation
PAC: Programme Advisory Committee (Communication)
(Communication) PAMR: Public Access Mobile Radio
PACE: Priority Access Control Enabled PAN: Personal Account Number
(3Com)
PAN: Personal Area Network
PACS: Picture Archiving and Communication (Network)
System
PAP: PAcket-level Procedure
PACS-L: Public Access Computer Systems List
PAP: Password Authentication Protocol
PAD: Packet Assembler/Disassembler A security provision in point-to-point protocol (PPP)
An access device to an X.25 network (Communication) (Network)
PADS: Pen Application Development System PAP: Printer Access Protocol
PAE: Physical Addressing Extension PAP: Push Access Protocol
Extension for Windows 2000/2003 Advanced Server to
address more than 4 GB of memory (Operating systems)
PAR: Parallel
(Microsoft) PAR: Personal Animation Recorder
PAF: Postal Address File PAR: Personal Audio Recorder
PAIH: Public-Access Internet Host (Hardware)
PAIS: Public-Access Internet Site PAR: Project Authorization Request
PAK: PAcKed PARC: Palo Alto Research Center

File name extension (Organizations) (Xerox)
PAL: PALette PA-RISC: Precision Architecture Reduced

Instruction Set Computer
P File name extension
(HP)
PAL: Paradox Application Language
(Databases) (Borland) PAS: PAScal
File name extension
PAL: Phase Alternate Line
European TV standard. A composite color standard similar to PAS: Publicly Available Specification
NTSC, except that the v-axis subcarrier reference signal PAS/2: Personal Application System/2
inverts in phase at the horizontal line rate
PAT: PATtern
PAL: Privileged Architecture Library File name extensions
PAL: Processor Abstraction Layer PAT: Performance Acceleration Technology
Contains the code necessary to initially boot the processor Speeds data flow between the processor and system memory
and includes error recovery and processor self-test routines to increase performance. Introduced with the Intel 875P
(Hardware) (Intel) chipset (Hardware) (Intel)
PAL: Programmable Array Logic PAT: Port Address Translation
PAL: Programmable Assembly Language PATA: Parallel Advanced Technology
PAL: Publication Access List Attachment
SQL Server replication security mechanism (Databases) Peripheral bus architecture (Hardware)
(Microsoft) PATN: Port Access Telephone Number
PALC: Parallel-Aligned Liquid crystal Spatial PAV: Parallel Access Volumes
Light Modulator
Display technology PAWS: Protect Against Wrapped Sequences
(Network)
PALS: Principles of the Alphabet Literacy
System PAX: Portable Archive eXchange

PB PCR
PB: PetaByte PC-DOS: Personal Computer - Disk Operating

2 to the 50th power bytes. Is equal to 1024 terabytes System
(IBM)
PB: Pipeline Burst
Cache memory architecture (Hardware) PCEB: PCi to Eisa Bridge
(Intel)
PBA: Printed Board Assembly
PCF: Packet Control Function
PBC: Port Bypass Circuit
(Communication)
(Hardware)
PBCAK: Problem Between Chair And Keyboard PCFS: Personal Computer FIle System
A file system specification that provides the capability to
It's when the problem is the computer user (Net lingo)
read and write files in DOS format on the SPARC (Operating
PBD: PowerBuilder Dynamic library systems) (Sun)
(Databases) (Sybase)
PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
PBE: Prompt By Example A 32-bit bus providing a maximum 132 Mbyte/sec data
transfer rate. PCI devices have autoconfiguration
PBGA: Plastic Ball Grid Array
capabilities and do not have to be configured by users
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
PBI: Phone Based Interface PCI: Protocol Control Information
PBM: Play By Mail PC-I/O: Program Controlled Input/Output
PBOT: Physical Beginning of Tape PCIC: Pc-Card Interrupt Controller
(Hardware)
PCI-E: Peripheral Component Interconnect -
PBR: Policy-Based Routing Express
(Cisco) New interface replacing PCI and AGP, max bandwidth of
PBX: Private Branch eXchange 500MB/sec (Hardware)
Privately owned central switching office (Communication) PCL: Portable Common Loops
PC: Personal Computer PCL: Printer Control Language
PC: Printed Circuit (HP)
PC: Program Counter PCL: Process Control Language

A CPU register that contains the address (location) of the PCL: Programmable Command Language
instruction to be executed next in the program sequence
PCM: Personal Computer Manufacturer
PC: Programmable Controller
PCM: Physical Connection Management
A slightly smart electronic circuit, usually for industrial
processes; acronym quickly changed to PLC after IBM PCM: Printer Cartridge Metric
brought out its Personal Computer (Hardware) (HP)
PC/IXF: Personal Computer Intergrated PCM: Process Change Management
eXchange Format (Software)
PC/SC: Personal Computer Smart Card PCM: Pulse Code Modulation
P
PC/TCP: Personal Computer Integrated PCMA: Paired Carrier Multiple Access
eXchange Format
PCMC: Pci, Cache and Memory Controller
PCA: Payment gateway Certification Authority (Intel)
PCA: Personal internet Client Architecture PCMCIA: Personal Computer Memory Card
(Intel) International Association
PCA: Power Calibration Area An organization that supports several standards for a
compact hardware interface that accepts a variety of devices
PCACIAS: Personal Computer Automated (Organizations)
Calibration Interval Analysis System
PCMIM: Personal Computer Media Interface
PCAV: Partial Constant Angular Velocity Module
(Hardware)
PCMS: Project and Configuration Management
PCB: Printed Circuit Board System
(Hardware)
PCN: Personal Computer Network
PCB: Program Control Block
PCN: Public Communications Network
PCBC: Plain Cipher Block Chaining
PCNFS: Personal Computer Network File
PCBO: Personal Computer Branch Office System
(IBM)
PCO: Point of Control and Observation
PCD: Photo Compact Disc
PCR: Packet Cell Rate
File format for digitized photos (Kodak)
PCR: Processor Configuration Register
PCDA: Program Controlled Data Acquisition

PCS PDT
PCS: Patchable Control Store PDF: Printer Description File

File name extension (Borland)
PCS: Personal Communication Service
PCS: Personal Computing System PDF: Processor Defined Function
(Hardware) PDF: Program Development Facility
PCS: Personal Conferencing Specification PDH: Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
(Communication)
PCS: Physical Code Sublayer
(Network) PDI: Personal Data Interchange
(Software)
PCS: Planning Control Sheet
PCS: Print Contrast Signal PDI: Power and Data Interface
PCS: Process Control Systems PDIAL: Public Dialup Internet Access List
PCS: Program Counter Store PDK: Product Development Kit

(Network) (Intel)
PCS: Project Control System
PDL: Page Description Language
PCSA: Personal Computing Systems
Architecture PDL: Program Description Language
PCT: PiCTure PDL: Program Design Language

File name extension PDM: Product Data Management
PCT: Private Communication Technology PDM: Program Development Manager
(Communication)
PDN: Public Data Network
PCTE: Portable Common Tool Environment (Network)
PCX: PiCture eXchange PDO: Portable Distributed Objects
File name extension (Operating systems)
PD: Personal Display PDOM: Persistent Document Object Model
(Hardware)
PDP: Parallel Data Processing
PD: Phase change Dual PDP: Plasma Display Panel
Optical recording system (Hardware) (Matsushita)
(Hardware)
PD: Portable Device PDP: Policy Decision Point
(Hardware)
The point where policy decisions are made, responsible for
PD: Public Domain handling policy decisions on behalf of PEPs (Network)
PDA: Personal Digital Assistant PDP: Primary Dos Partition

PDB: Palm DataBase
File name extension PDP: Programmable Data Processor
P PDB: Program DataBase PDQ: Parallel Data Queries

Microsoft's format for debug indormation, not embedded in PDQ: Pretty Darn Quick
the object file or executable (Software) (Microsoft)
(Net lingo)
PDC: Personal Digital Cellular
PDR: Personal Digital Recorder
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
PDC: Primary Domain Controller
PDS: Packet Driver Specification
Provides user/computer domain authentication (Operating
systems) (Microsoft) PDS: Partitioned Data Set
(Databases) (IBM)
PDC: Professional Developer Conference
(Microsoft) PDS: Planetary Data System
PD-CD: Phase-change Dual Compact Disk PDS: Portable Document Software
(Hardware) PDS: Processor Direct Slot
PDD: Physical Device Driver (Apple)
PDD: Portable Digital Document PDS: Professional Developer's Summit

(Microsoft)
PDE: Plug-in Development Environment
Project extending the Platform and the JDT to provide views PDSN: Packet Data Serving Node
and editors that make it easier to build plug-ins for Eclipse. Provides access to the Internet, intranets and applications
See www.eclipse.org (Software) servers for mobile stations utilizing a cdma2000 Radio
Access Network (RAN)
PDES: Product Data Exchange Specification
PDSP: Peripheral Data Storage Processor
PDF: Package Definition File
PDSS: Post Development and Software Support
PDF: Portable Document Format
File format for document interchange (Adobe) PDT: Pacific Daylight Time
Timezone: GMT -8:00

PDT PFE
PDT: Performance Diagnostic Tool PEEK: Partners Early Experience Kit

(IBM)
PEEL: Programmable Electrically Erasable
PDT: Pliable Display Technology Logic
PDT: Programmable Drive Table PEL: Picture ELement

(IBM)
PDU: Plug Distribution Unit
PDU: Protocol Data Unit PEM: Port Expander Module
The ISO/OSI term for packet. A PDU is a data object PEM: Privacy-enhanced Electronic Mail
exchanged by protocol machines (entities) within a given (Security)
layer. PDUs consist of both protocol control information
(PCI) and user data PEOT: Physical End Of Tape
(Hardware)
PDW: Package and Deployment Wizard
(Microsoft) PEP: Packet Exchange Protocol
PDX: ParaDoX PEP: Packetized Ensemble Protocol

File name extension (Borland) PEP: Point-Edge-Polygon
Type of graphics editor (Software)
PDX: Phone Data eXchange
(Hardware) PEP: Policy Enforcement Point
A port on a network device where the policy decisions are
PDX: Printer Description eXtension
actually enforced (Network)
PE: Parity Error
PERC: Portable Environment for Real-time
(Hardware)
Control
PE: Parity Even (Operating systems)
PE: Personal Edition PERC: PowerEdge Raid Controller
(Software) (Hardware) (Dell)
PE: Phase Encoding PERL: Practical Extraction Report Language
PE: Portable Executable A flexible programming language especially designed for
processing text (Software)
File format for Win32 programs (Software) (Microsoft)
PE: Processing Element PERM: Pre-Embossed Rigid Magnetic
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
PE: Professional Edition PEROM: Programmable Erasable Read Only
Memory
(Software)
PE: Protect Enable PERT: Program Evaluation and Review
Technique
PEA: Pocket Ethernet Adapter
PES: Packetized Elementary Stream
PEAP: Protected Extensible Authentication (Communication)
Protocol P
PES: Positioning Error Signal
A protocol proposed by Microsoft, Cisco and RSA Security
for securely transporting authentication data, including PES: Processor Enhancement Socket
passwords, over 802.11 wireless networks (Security)
PES: Proposed Encryption Standard
PEAR: Php Extension and Application
Repository PET: Personal Electronic Transactor
Commodore's first personal computer (Hardware)
See http://pear.php.net (Software)
PEARL: Process and Experiment Automation PET: Print Enhancement Technology
Realtime Language (Compaq)
PEBCAC: Problem Exists Between Chair and PET: Progressive Educational Technology
Computer PEX: Phigs Extension to X
Tech support types sometimes use this to explain to each A protocol for 3-D graphics in a network window system that
other that the user is incompetent (Net lingo) supports both PHIGS and PHIGS PLUS features
PEBCAK: Problem Exists Between Chair And PFA: Predictive Failure Analysis
Keyboard
PFB: Printer Font Binary
Describes the location of many computer glitches (Net lingo)
File name extension
PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard
PFC: Power Factor Correction
And Chair
Feature included in some power supply boxes that reduces
An answer to problems with inexperienced computer users
the amount of reactive power generated (Hardware)
(Net lingo)
PFC: Powerbuilder Foundation Class
PEC: Program Execution Control
(Software) (Sybase)
PECL: Php Extension Community Library
PFE: Programmer's File Editor
See http://pecl.php.net (Software)

PFM PIDL
PFM: Printer Font Metrics PHIGS PLUS: Programmer's Hierarchical

File name extension Interactive Graphics Standard Plus Lumiere
Und Surfaces
PFN: Page Frame Number
An extension to PHIGS that includes additional capabilities,
PFPU: Processor Frame Power Unit such as lighting from single and multiple sources, depth-
cueing, NURBS, and complex geometric primitives
PFR: Portable Font Resource
PHOLED: PHosphorescent Organic Light
PFR: Power Fail Restart
Emitting Diode
PFS: Page Free Space (Hardware)
(Databases)
PHP: Personal Home Pages
PFS: Parallel File System Now is Perl Hypertext Preprocessor
(Operating systems)
PHP: Php: Hypertext Preprocessor
PFX: Personal inFormation eXchange Open-source general-purpose server-side scripting language
(Microsoft) that is especially suited for Web development and can be
embedded into HTML. See also http://www.php.net/ (Software)
PFY: Pimple Faced Youth
Young assistant to Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH) (Net PHS: Personal Handphone System
lingo)
PHY: PHisical laYer
PGA: Pin Grid Array
PI: PHysical laYer
PIA: Peripheral Interface Adapter
PGA: Professional Graphics Adapter (Hardware)
(IBM)
PiB: PebIByte
PGA: Programmable Gate Array
Unit of measurement, introduced by the International
(Hardware) Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024
PGC: Program Group Control TiB
(Microsoft) PIBKAC: Problem Is Between Keyboard And
PGD: Planar Gas Discharge Chair
Display technology (Hardware) Typical cause of most computer errors (Net lingo)
PGDN: PaGe DowN PIC: Personal Information Carrier

PGL: Professional Graphics Language PIC: Personal Intelligent Communicator
PGM: Portable GrayMap PIC: Point In Call
File format for images (Software) PIC: Primary Interexchange Carrier
PGM: Pragmatic General Multicast (Communication)
Reliable multicast transport protocol for applications that PIC: Priority Interrupt Controller
require ordered, duplicate-free, multicast data delivery from (Hardware)
multiple sources to multiple receivers (Network)
P PIC: Programmable Interrupt Controller
PGM: ProGraM (Hardware)
PGML: Precision Graphics Markup Language PICO: PIne COmposer
(Adobe)
Simple, command line Unix text editor (Software)
PGP: Pretty Good Privacy PICS: Platform for Internet Content Selection
Encryption program (Software)
PICS: Plug-in Inventory Control System
PGP: ProGram Parameter
File name extension (Autodesk) PICS: Protocol Implementation Conformance
Statement
PGUP: PaGe UP
PICS/DCPR: Protocol Implementation
PHB: Per-Hop-Behavior Conformance Statement/Detailed Continuing
The forwarding treatment given to a specific class of traffic, Property Record
based on criteria defined in the Differentiated Service field.
Routers and switches use PHBs to determine priorities for PICT: PICTure
servicing various traffic flows (Network) PID: Personal IDentifier
PHB: Pointy Haired Boss (Software)
Taken from the Dilbert comic strip (Net lingo) PID: Process IDentifier
PHF: Perfect Hash Function A unique, system-wide, identification number assigned to a
(Software) process. Also called process ID, process number (Operating
systems)
PHIGS: Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive
Graphics Standard PID: Product IDentifier
An international standard 3-D graphics library consisting of a PID: Proportional, Integral, Derivative
graphical tool set for application developers. PHIGS uses
hierarchical data structures. You can create, alter, PIDL: Personalized Information Description
manipulate, and store objects dynamically Language

PIE PLATO
PIE: Presence, Identity and Edge PIP: Picture In Picture

Core constituents of peer to peer (P2P) applications (Hardware)
PIER: Procedures for Internet/Enterprise PIP: Problem Isolation Procedure

Renumbering
PIP: Programmable Interconnect Point
PIF: Picture Interchange Format PIPO: Parallel In, Parallel Out
File name extension
PIR: Protocol Independent Routing
PIF: Program Information File
File name extension (Microsoft) PIR: Public Interest Registry
Registry for the .org domain name extension (Organizations)
PII: Pentium 2
(Hardware) (Intel) PIT: Point In Time
PII: Personally Identifiable Information PIT: Programmable Interval Timer

(Security) (Hardware)
PII: Program Integrated Information PITA: Pain In The A**

(Net lingo)
PIII: Pentium 3
(Hardware) (Intel) PITB: Pain In The Butt
(Net lingo)
PIIX: Pci Ide/Isa Accelerator
PIU: Path Information Unit
PILOT: Programmed Inquiry Learning Or
Teaching PJL: Printer Job Language
(Hardware) (HP)
PIM: Personal Information Manager
PJPEG: Progressive Joint Photographic Experts
PIM: Platform Independent Model
Group
PIM: Primary Interface Module Compressed images file format
PIM: Print Image Matching P-JPEG: Progressive Joint Photographic
(Hardware) Experts Group
PIM: Protocol Independent Multicast Compressed images file format
IP routing protocol-independent and can leverage whichever PK: Primary Key
unicast routing protocols are used to populate the unicast (Databases)
routing table, including EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, and static routes
(Network) PKC: Public Key Cryptography
PIM-DM: Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense PKCS: Public Key Cryptography Standard

Mode PKE: Private Key Encryption
Uses a push model to flood multicast traffic to every corner
PKI: Public Key Infrastructure
of the network (Network)
(Security)
PIM-SM: Protocol Independent Multicast-
Sparse Mode PKIX: Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509)
Uses a pull model to deliver multicast traffic. Only network
A working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force P
(IETF) that is developing Internet standards needed to
segments with active receivers that have explicitly
support a PKI based on X.509 certificates
requested the data will receive the traffic (Network)
PIN: Personal Identification Number PKM: Personal Knowledge Management
PIN: Positive Intrinsic Negative PL: Perl Language

File name extension
PIN: Process Identification Number
PL/1: Programming Language/1
PIN: Processor Independent Netware Programming language (Software)
PINE: Pine Is Not Elm PL/IP: Parallel Line Internet Protocol
PING: Packet INternet Groper PL/M: Programming Language for
(Network) Microcomputers
PINX: Private Integrated services Network (Microsoft)
eXchange PL/SQL: Procedural Language/Structured
(Communication) Query Language
PIO: Parallel Input/Output (Databases) (Oracle)
PIO: Processor Input/Output PLA: Programmable Logic Array

An array of logic elements. Its interconnections are
PIO: Programmable Input/Output
programmable after manufacture (Hardware)
(Hardware)
PLAF: Pluggable Look And Feel
PIP: Pattern and Information Processing
(Software)
PIP: Periphal Interchange Program
PLATO: Programmed Logic for Automatic
PIP: Peripheral Interchange Program Teaching Operations
PIP: Personal Information Processor

PLB PMS
PLB: Picture Level Benchmark PM: Private Message

In computer graphics, an industry-standard benchmark (Net lingo)
method used to measure graphics performance
PM: Process Manager
PLBCAK: Problem Lies Between Chair And
PM: Programming Model
Keyboard
Describes the location of many computer glitches (Net lingo)
PM/X: Presentation Manager for X
PLBSI: Picture Level Benchmark Sample
Implementation PM6: PageMaker 6
Filename extension (Adobe)
PLC: PowerLine Communication
Technology that uses the power lines to connecto to the PMA: Photo Marketing Association
Internet (Network) (Organizations)
PLC: Programmable Logic Controller PMA: Physical Medium Attachment
PLCC: Plastic Leadless Chip Carrier PMA: Program Memory Area
PLCP: Physical Layer Convergence Procedure PMAC: Peripheral Module Access Controller
PLD: Programmable Logic Device PMC: Pci Mezzanine Card
PLDI: Programming Language Design and PMC: Project Management Committee
Implementation (Software)
PLDS: Pilot Land Data System PMD: Packet Mode Data
(NASA)
PMD: Physical Media Dependence
PLE: Programmable Logic Element (Network)
(Hardware)
PME: Power Management Event
pLED: Polymeric Light Emitting Diode Feature that allows most LAN devices to wake up from
(Hardware) standby states (S1 or S3) (Hardware)
PLF: Pluggable Look and Feel PMFJI: Pardon Me For Jumping In
PLIP: Parallel Line Internet Protocol PMI: Protected Mode Interface
(Communication) PML: Pattern Markup Language
PLL: Phase-Locked Loop XML-based format to describe software patterns. A pattern
represents a recurring solution to a software development
PLL: PreLinked Library problem within a particular context (Software)
File name extension
PML: Personal Mailing List
PL-LCD: PhotoLuminescent Liquid Cristal
Display PMM: Post Memory Manager
P (Hardware) A mechanism used by option ROMs to allocate RAM memory
for use during system startup (Hardware)
PLMN: Public Land Mobile Network
(Communication)
PMML: Predictive Modeling Markup Language
PLO: Phase Locked Oscillator PMMU: Paged Memory Management Unit

PL-OU: PhotoLuminescent Liquid Crystal PMOS: Positive Channel Metal Oxide

Display Semiconductor
PLS: PhysicaL Signaling PMP: Performance Management Pack

(Operating systems) (HP)
PLS: PLeaSe
(Net lingo)
PMP: Point to MultiPoint
PLS: Primary Link Station PMP: Portable Music Player

(Hardware)
PLU: Primary Logical Unit
PMP: Preventive Maintenance Package
PLV: Production Level Video
PMPL: Pi**ing My Pants Laughing
PM: Performance Monitoring (Net lingo)
PM: Peripheral Module PMR: Problem Management Report
PM: Phase Modulation (IBM)
PM: Power Management PMS: Pantone Matching System

(Hardware) A spot color matching system used by printers. By specifying
a Pantone name or number you are assured of having a known
PM: Presentation Manager
spot color in the printed page
PM: Preventative Maintenance PMS: Policy Management System

PMT POS
PMT: PhotoMultiuplier Tube POE: Power Over Ethernet

Scanning sensor (Hardware) (Hardware)
PMU: PhotoMultiplier Tube POEP: Primary Operand Execution Pipeline

PN: Processing Node POF: Plastic Optic Fiber
PNA: Phoneline Networking Alliance POH: Path OverHead
(Organizations)
POH: Power-On Hours
PNA: Programmable Network Access POI: Path Overhead Indicator
PNA: Progressive Networks Audio POI: Point Of Information
A proprietary protocol for backward compatibility with
RealSystem versions 3 through 5. URLs using PNA start with POI: Point Of Interaction
pnm://
POI: Point Of Interest
PNC: Planet NetCom POIX: Point Of Interest eXchange
Australian internet service provider
POJO: Plain Old Java Object
PNC: Prestige Network Commander Term coined to denote a normal Java object that is not a
(Software) (Zyxel) JavaBean, an EntityBean, a SessionBean, etc., and does not
PnD: Plug aNd Display serve any other special role or implement any special
(Hardware) interfaces of any of the Java frameworks (EJB, JDBC, ...)
(Software)
PNG: Portable Network Graphics
POL: Problem-Oriented Language
File format for graphics network transmission
PON: Purchase Order Number
PNI: Prescott New Instructions
Processor core extenstion code which serves to improve POOL: Parallel Object Oriented Language
thread synchronization (Hardware) (Intel) POOP: Parallel Object Oriented Programming
PNNI: Private Network to Network Interface Programming for parallel processors in any object-oriented
programming language (Software)
PNNI: Public Network Node Interface
POP: Package for Online Programming
PnP: Plug aNd Play
POP: Point Of Presence
PNS: PeaceNet Sweden
(Network)
PNW: Personal NetWare
POP: Post Office Protocol
PO: Parity Odd A standard protocol used for retrieving e-mail from a mail
PO: Purchase Order server (Network)
POA: Portable Object Adapter POP: Power-On Password

(Security)
POA: PostOfiice Agent
(Novell)
POP2: Post Office Protocol 2
(Network)
POC: Point Of Contact
POP3: Post Office Protocol 3
P
POC: Proof Of Concept (Network)
POCM: Portal Object Component Model POPA: POP All registers
POCSAG: Post Office Code Standardization POPF: POP Flags
Advisory Group
Synchronous digital paging scheme (Communication)
POPL: Principles of Programming Languages
POD: Piece Of Data POR: Plan Of Record
POD: Plain Old Documentation POR: Point Of Return
POD: Plain Old Dos POR: Power-On-Reset
POD: Power On Display POS: Packet Over Sonet

(Network)
POD: Problem Of the Day
Today's current difficulty with software (or hardware)
POS: Parent Over Shoulder
POD: Proof of Deposit POS: Persistent Object Server

Software system used by financial institutions to verify teller POS: Pick Operating System
transactions. Usually consists of reader/sorter control Old operating system (Operating systems)
software, reject-reentry system, and reporting systems
(Software) POS: Piece Of S**t
(Net lingo)
POD: Publishing On Demand
POS: Point Of Sale
PODP: Pentium OverDrive Processor (Hardware)
An upgrade processor for the 486 systems intended to
emulate a Pentium (586) (Hardware) (Intel) POS: POSitive
POE: Power Open Environment POS: Programmable Option Select

POSE PQO
POSE: PalmOS Emulator ppm: Pages Per Minute

Printing engine speed (Hardware)
POSE: Picture-Oriented Software Engineering
POSI: Promoting conference for Open System PPM: Perl Package Manager
(Software)
Interconnect
POSIX: Portable Operating System Interface PPM: Portable PixelMap
File format for images (Software)
A set of standards that define the applications interface to
basic system services for input/output, file system access, PPM: Processor Power Module
and process management. It uses the C programming (Hardware)
language, which establishes standard semantics and syntax
(Operating systems) PPM: Pulse Position Modulation
POST: Power On Self Test PPML: Personalized Print Markup Language
Personal computer boot test Printer Language
POSTNET: POSTal Numeric Encoding Technique PPN: Project Programmer Number

Bar code P-POP: Plain-Paper Optimized Printing
POSYBL: PrOgramming SYstem for distriButed (Hardware) (Canon)
appLications PPP: Point to Point Protocol
POTS: Plain Old Telephone Service An internet protocol for host dial up connections. PPP frames
Basic telephone service supplying standard single line (Service Data Units) can support the transport of various
telephones, telephone lines, and access to the Public (encapsulated) Protocol Data Units (Network)
Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) PPPoA: Point-to-Point Protocol Over Atm
POTS: Plain Old Time Sharing (Network)
(Operating systems) PPPoATM: Point-to-Point Protocol Over
POV: Point Of View Asynchronous Transfer Mode
(Net lingo) High-speed switching technique used to transmit high
volumes of voice, data, and video traffic. ATM operates at
POWER: Performance Optimization With speeds ranging from 25 Mbps to 622 Mbps and is used
Enhanced Risc mainly in telephone company backbone networks (Network)
(IBM)
PPPoE: Point to Point Protocol Over Ethernet
PowerPC: Performance Optimization With (Network)
Enhanced Risc Performance Computing
PPPoI: Point to Point Protocol Over Isdn
PP: Parallel Port (Network)
PP: Physical Partition PPPPPP: Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor
PP: Physical Plane Performance
To plan ahead (Net lingo)
PPA: Pixel Processing Accelerator
(Hardware) PPRC: Peer to Peer Remote Copy
Data replication (Software) (IBM)
P PPC: PowerPC
PPS: Packets Per Second
PPC: Program to Program Communication
(Network)
PPD: Partial Packet Discard
PPS: Per-Pixel Shading
(Network)
PPS: Power Personal Systems
PPD: PostScript Printer Description
(IBM)
File name extension
PPS: Precision Positioning System
PPDS: Personal Printer Data Stream
(IBM) PPS: Public Packet Switching
PPGA: Plastic Pin Grid Array PPT: PowerPoinT
IC pins organization File format for slide presentations (Microsoft)
ppi: Pixels Per Inch PPTP: Point to Point Tunneling Protocol

A system designed to help create Virtual Private Networks
PPI: Precise Pixel Interpolation
over the Internet and protect the data sent over public wires
PPI: Programmable Peripheral Interface (Network)
PPID: Parent Process IDentifier PPVPN: Provider Provisioned Virtual Private

Network
PPIT: Perpetual Point-In-Time
(Network)
(Fujitsu)
PQ: PowerQuest
PPL: Pcboard Programming Language
Manufacturer
PPL: PeoPLe
PQA: Palm Query Application
(Net lingo)
PQFP: Plastic Quad Flat Package
PPL: Polymorphic Programming Language
PQO: Parallel Query Option

PQS PSDS
PQS: Persistent Query Service PROFS: PRofessional OFfice System

(Software) (Microsoft) (IBM)
PR: Packet Radio PROG: PROGram

PR: Performance Rating PROGID: PROGrammatic IDentifier
PR: Public Relations PROLOG: PROgramming in LOGic

PRACSA: Public Remote Access Computer
Standards Association PROM: Programmable Read Only Memory
A permanent memory chip programmed by the user rather
PRAM: Parallel Random-Access Machine
than at the chip manufacturer, as is true with a ROM. You
PRAM: Parameter Random Access Memory need a PROM programmer or burner to write data onto a
PROM (Hardware)
P-RAM: Parameter Random Access Memory
PRC: Pilot Resource PROMATS: PROgrammable MAgnetic Tape
File name extension (3Com)
System
PRC: Primary Reference Clock PROTEL: Procedure Oriented Type Enforcing

Clock used in synchronous networks like SONET and SDH
Language
(Communication) PRTSC: PRinT SCreen
PRCS: Project Revision Control System PS: Personal Services
Front end to a set of tools that (like CVS) provide a way to Office automation integrated programs (Software)
deal with sets of files and directories as an entity, preserving
PS: Pixel Shader
coherent versions of the entire set (Software)
PRD: PRinter Driver
PS: PlayStation
File name extension
Game console (Hardware) (Sony)
PReP: Powerpc REference Platform
PS: PostScript
PREPNet: Pennsylvania Research and File format for graphic printers
Economic Partnership NETwork
PS: Power Supply
PRF: PReFerences (Hardware)
File name extension
PS: Presentation Service
PRF: Problem Report Form
PS: Privilege Service
PRF: Pulse Repetition Frequency
PS: Proportional Spacing
PRI: Primary Rate Interface
An ISDN standard, similar to basic rate interface (BRI),
PS/2: Personal System 2
defined by CCITT protocol, but providing multiple B channels IBM personal computer family (Hardware) (IBM)
(23 or 30) supported by a single D channel (Communication) PS2: PlayStation 2
PRIDE: PRofitable Information by DEsign Game console (Hardware) (Sony) P
PRISM: Parallel Reduced Instruction Set PSAPI: Presentation Space Application
Multiprocessing Programming Interface
PRISM: PhotoRefractive Information Storage PSC: Personal Super Computer
Materials PSC: Primary Site Controller
PRJ: PRoJect PSC: Print Server Command
PSC: Product Service Center
PRM: Partner Relationship Management
PSCNet: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
PRM: Private Mobile Radio NETwork
PRMD: PRivate Management Domain PSD: PhotoShop Drawing
PRML: Partial-Response Maximum-Likelihood File name extension. Used by Photoshop and other Adobe
programs (Software) (Adobe)
PRN: Printer
PSD: Postal Security Device
PRNG: Pseudo-Random Number Generator
(Hardware)
PRO: PROfile
PSD: Programmer's Supplementary Documents
File name extension
PSDC: Public Switched Digital Capability
PROC: PROCedure
PSDN: Packet-Switched Data Network
PROCFS: PROCess FIle System
(Network)
A type of file system that resides in memory. The PROCFS
contains a list of active processes, by process number, in the PSDS: Packet-Switched Data Service
/proc directory. Information in the /proc directory is used by (Communication)
commands such as ps (Operating systems)

PSE PUN
PSE: Packet Switch Exchange PSS: Print SubSystem

Software for IBM mainframes that provides an AFP and line
PSE: Persistent Storage Engine
data printing solution using PCL and PostScript printers
(Databases)
(Software)
PSE: Port Switched Ethernet PSS: Process Status Structure
PSF: Permanent Swap File
PSS: Product Support Service
PSF: Print Services Facility PSSP: Parallel System Support Program
PSfD: Premier Support For Developers (Operating systems) (IBM)
(Microsoft)
PST: Pacific Standard Time
PSID: PostScript Image Data Timezone: GMT -8:00
PSIU: Packet Switch Interface Unit PST: Pakistan Standard Time

PSK: Phase-Shift Keying Timezone: GMT +5:00
(Communication) PST: Public Switched Telephone
PSL: Problem Statement Language PSTN: Public Switched Telephone Network
Usually refers to the local telephone company
PSL: Public Software Library
PSM: Persistent Storage Manager PSU: Power Supply Unit
(Hardware) PSU: Program Storage Unit
PSM: Persistent Stored Module PSW: Program Status Word
(Databases)
PT: Page Table
PSM: Personal Security Manager PT: Payload Type
Set of libraries that perform cryptographic operations on
(Communication)
behalf of a client application. These operations include
setting up an SSL connection, object signing and signature PTD: Parallel Transfer Disk
verification, certificate management, and other common PKI
PTE: Page Table Entry
functions
PTE: Path Terminating Equipment
PSM: Personal Software Marketing
PSM: Platform Specific Model PTF: Print To Fax
Fax driver for Lotus Domino Fax Server (Software)
PSM: Printing Systems Manager
PTF: Program Temporary Fix
PSMG: Play Streaming Media Group (IBM)
(Organizations)
PTI: Packet Type Identifier
PSN: Packet Switching Network
PTML: Proxicom Template Markup Language
A node in the ARPANET and MILNET, formerly called an
interface message processor (IMP) (Network) PtMP: Point-To-MultiPoint
PSN: Processor Serial Number (Communication)
P (Hardware) PTOCA: Presentation Text Object Content
PSO: Personal Service Organization Architecture
PSP: PaintShop Pro PtP: Point-To-Point

(Communication)
(Software)
PSP: Personal Software Product PTR: Point-in-Time Repair
(IBM) Backup disaster recovery procedure (Software)
PSP: Preventive Service Planning PTT: Postal Telegraph and Telephone

(IBM) (Organizations)
PSP: Program Segment Prefix PTT: Push To Talk

Functionality in the group communication terminal device.
PSPDN: Packet-Switched Public Data Network You have to push PTT-button to get the permission for
PSR: PowerSoft Report transmission (Communication)
(Databases) (Sybase) PTW: Primary Translation Word
PSRAM: PseudoStatic Random Access Memory PTY: Pseudo-Terminal driver
(Hardware)
PU: Physical Unit
P-SRAM: Pseudo-Static Random Access Memory (Hardware)
PSRG: Privacy and Security Research Group PUB: PUBlic
PSRT: PostScript Round Table PUC: Peripheral Unit Controller
PSS: Packet Switch Services PUC: Public Utilities Commission
PUCP: Physical Unit Control Point
PUN: Physical Unit Number

PUP QIC
PUP: Parc Universal Packet

Protocol Q
PURL: Persistent Uniform Resource Locator Q&A: Questions & Answers
Instead of pointing directly to the location of an Internet Q/A: Questions and Answers
resource, a PURL points to an intermediate resolution
service. The PURL resolution service associates the PURL QA: Quality Assurance
with the actual URL and returns that URL to the client.
QAB: Quick As a Bunny
PUS: Processor Upgrade Socket Similar to ASAP but cuter (Net lingo)
PUSHA: PUSH All registers QAM: Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

(Communication)
PUSHF: PUSH Flags
QAS: Quasi-Associated Signaling
PV: Physical Volume
PVA: Personal Virtual Assistant QAS: Quick Arbitration and Selection
(Hardware)
PVC: Permanent Virtual Circuit
Dedicated end-to-end virtual circuit that is set up
QBE: Query By Example
(Databases)
permanently in an ATM network (Network)
PVC: PolyVinyl Chloride QBF: Query by Form
PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine QBIC: Query By Image Content

(Databases)
PVM: Pass-through Virtual Machine
(IBM) QC: Quality Control
PVM: Perc Virtual Machine QC: Quantum Coprocessor

(Operating systems) (Hardware)
PVP: Packet Video Protocol QC: Queued Component
PVP: Parallel Vector Processing QCDP: Quality Color Dithering Modus
PVP: Personal Video Player QCIF: Quarter Common source Intermediate

(Hardware)
Format
A video format in which frames are 180 pixels wide and 144
PVR: Personal Video Recorder pixels high (1/4 the size of the CIF format). Each pixel has
Stores video on a hard disk instead of a video tape (Hardware) its own luminance value; however, blocks of 4 pixels share
chrominance values
PVS: Parallel Visualization Server
QD: Querty/Dvorak
PW: PassWord
Keyboard layout
PWB: Printed Wire Board
QDA: Qualitative Data Analysis
PWB: Programmer's WorkBench
QDF: Quicken Data File
(Microsoft)
File name extension (Software) (Intuit)
PWD: Print Working Directory
QDI: Quicken DIctionary
P
PWM: Pulse-Width Modulation File name extension (Software) (Intuit)
(Communication)
QDL: Quadri Data Layer Q
PWP: Personal Web Pages
(Microsoft)
QDOS: Quick and Dirty Operating System
MS-DOS ancestor (Operating systems)
PWPN: PowWow for Private Networks
QDR: Quad Data-Rate
Instant messaging program (Software)
(Hardware)
PWR: PoWeR
QDT: Quicken DaTa
PWS: Peer Web Services File name extension (Intuit)
QEA: Queued Event Architecture
PWS: Personal Web Server
QEMM: Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager
(Network)
(Operating systems) (Quarterdeck)
PWS: Programmable WorkStation
(Hardware)
QFA: Quick File Access
QFE: Quick Fix Engineering
PWSCS: Programmable WorkStation
(Software)
Communication Services
(IBM) QFP: Quad Flat Pack
PX: Primary indeX QFP: Quicken Financial Planner
(Borland) (Software) (Intuit)
PXE: Preboot eXecution Environment QIC: Quality Information using Cycle time
Provides a way for a system to initiate a network connection
to various servers prior to loading an Operating System (OS)

QIC RAG
QIC: Quarter-Inch Cartridge QUARC: QUarterdeck's Antivirus Research

An industry-standard 1/4-inch magnetic tape cartridge used Center
for data backup or storage (Hardware) (Quarterdeck)
QIF: Quicken Interchange Format QUEL: QUEry Language
File format for financial data (Software)
QUT: Queensland University of Technology
QKD: Quantum Key Distribution An Australian university (Brisbane, Queensland)
(Organizations)
QL: Quantum Leap
Name for an unsuccessful mid 1980's Sincliar QVGA: Quarter Video Graphic Array
Microcomputer based on the Motorola 68008 Video specification for a resolution of 320 X 240 pixels used
microprocessor. by Pocket PCs (Hardware)
QLI: Query Language Interpreter QXGA: Quad eXtended Graphics Array
Video specification for a resolution of 2048 X 1536 pixels
QLLC: Qualified Logical Link Control
(Hardware)
QMF: Query Management Facility
(IBM) R
QMT: Quicken Memorized lisT
R&D: Research & Development
File name extension (Intuit)
R.A.V.E.: Real Animated Vector Effects
QMU: Quarterly Maintenance Update
(IBM) R/O: Read Only
QNX: Quicken iNdeXes R/T: Receive/Transmit
File name extension (Intuit) R/W: Read/Write
QoS: Quality Of Service RA: Real Audio
QoS can be characterized by several basic performance File name extension
criteria, including availability, response time and throughput,
lost calls or transmissions due to network congestion, RA: Remote Assistance
connection set-up time, and speed of fault detection and (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
correction (Network) RA: Resource Adapter
QoSR: Qualiy Of Service Raouting (Software)
A dynamic routing protocol that has expanded its path- RA: Return Authorization
selection criteria to include QoS parameters such as
available bandwidth, link and end-to-end path utilization, RAB: Raid Advisory Board
node resources consumption, delay and latency, and induced Industry organization of manufacturers and users of disk
jitter (Network) systems and related products whose mission is to educate
users regarding all aspects of storage technology, and in
QP: QuickPropagation
particular, RAID technology. (Organizations)
QPA: Quality Of Service Routing
RAC: Rambus Asic Cell
(Hardware) (Intel)
(Hardware)
QPG: Quantum Phase Gate
RAC: Real Application Cluster
QPL: Qualified Product List (Databases) (Oracle)
Q QPM: Quantitative Process Management RACF: Resource Access Control Facility
(Software) Provides improved security for an installation's data. RACF
R QPSK: Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying protects your vital system resources and controls what users
can do on the operating system (Security) (IBM)
(Communication)
RACMan: Remote Automation Connection
QRSL: Quad Rambus Signaling Level
MANager
(Hardware)
(Network)
QSA: Qt Script for Applications
RAD: Rapid Access Disk
Multiplatform application-scripting toolkit based on Qt. See
http://www.trolltech.com/ (Software) RAD: Rapid Application Development
(Software)
QSAM: Queued Sequential Access Method
QT: QuickTime RADAR: RAdio Detection And Ranging
File Format for movies (Apple) RADAR: Rights, Availabilities, Distribution
Analysis and Reporting
QTAM: Queued Teleprocessing Access Method
(IBM) RADB: Routing Arbiter Data Base
QTC: QuickTime Conferencing RADIUS: Remote Authentication Dial-In User
(Apple) Service
QTD: Quarter To Date RADSL: Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line
Time series function (Communication)
RAG: Row Address Generator

RAI RCW
RAI: Rapid Application Integration RATP: Reliable Asynchronous Transfer Protocol

(Software)
RAVE: Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine
RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or (Apple)
Independent) Disks
RAW: Reconfigurable Architecture Workstation
(Hardware)
RAWT: Remote Abstract Windows Toolkit
RAIS: Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive (Software) (Sun)
Systems
RB: Right Button
RAIT: Redundant Array of Independent Tapes
(Hardware) RBA: Relative Byte Address
RALU: Register-equipped Arithmetic Logic Unit RBBS: Remote Bulletin Board System
(Hardware) RBCS: Remote Bar Code System
RAM: Random Access Memory RBF: Random Block Filemanager
(Hardware)
RBH: Remote Bridge Hub
RAM: Real Audio Metafile
RBL: Realtime Blackhole List
File name extension
System for creating intentional network outages
RAM: Rioport Audio Manager ("blackholes") for the purpose of limiting the transport of
known-to-be-unwanted mass e-mail. See http://mail-
RAMAC: Raid Architecture with Multi-level
abuse.org/rbl/
Adaptive Cache
RBOC: Regional Bell Operating Company
RAMDAC: Random Access Memory Digital to
The local telephone company in each of the seven U.S.
Analog Converter
regions. (Communication)
Chip on a video board that generates the analog video
signals (Hardware) RC: Release Candidate
Pre-release version of a program (Software)
RAMP: Remote Access Maintenance Protocol
(Network) RC: Resource Compiler
(Software)
RAMP: Risk Analysis and Management Program
RCA: Radio Corporation of America
RAN: Radio Access Network
(Organizations)
RAND: RANDom
RCA: Readers' Choice Award
RAND: Rural Area Network Design
RCC: Remote Cluster Controller
RAP: Rapid Application Prototyping
RCF: Reader's Comment Form
RAPI: Remote access Application Programming
RCI: Rectal Cranial Inversion
Interface
When someone has things a** backward (Net lingo)
RCL: Rotate Carry Left
RAPI: Rsvp Application Programming Interface
An RSVP-specific API that enables applications to interface RCP: Remote Control Panel
explicitly with an RSVP process (Network)
RCP: Remote CoPy
RAPS: Real Application on Parallel Systems
RCP: Restore Cursor Position
RAR: Resource Adapters aRchive RCP: Rich Client Platform
RARE: Reseaux Associés pour la Recherche Minimal set of plug-ins needed to build a rich client R
Européenne application. See also
The European Association of Research Networks. Now called http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Rich_Client_Platform
TERENA (Network) (Software)
RARP: Reverse Address Resolution Protocol RCR: Rotate Carry Right

(Network) RCS: Records Communications System
RAS: Random Access Storage RCS: Reference Color Space
RAS: Reader Admission System (Software)
RAS: Reliability, Availability, Serviceability RCS: Revision Control System

Manages multiple revisions of files by automating the
RAS: Remote Access Service storage, retrieval, logging, identification, and merging of
(Network) revisions. It's particularly useful for text that is revised
RAS: Row-Address Strobe frequently, such as programs, documentation, graphics,
papers, and form letters (Software) (GNU)
RASAPI: Remote Access Service Application
Programming Interface RCSS: Records Communications Switching
(Microsoft) System
RAT: Register Alias Table RCTC: Rewritable Consumer Time Code
RAT: Remote Access Trojan RCW: Runtime Callable Wrapper

(Security) (Software) (Microsoft)

RD REPNE
RD: Receive Data RDN: Relative Distinguished Name

(Hardware) (Operating systems)
RD: Recursive Design RDO: Remote Data Object

RD: Remote Desktop RDOS: Real-time Disk Operating System
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Operating systems)
RD: Remove Directory RDP: Rapid Deployment Pack

RD: Rendezvous Point
Unlike source trees that have their root at the source, shared RDP: Reliable Datagram Protocol
trees use a single common root placed at some chosen point
in the network. This shared root is called a RP (Network) RDP: Remote Display (or Desktop) Protocol
RDA: Remote Data Access
RDR: Remote Data Recovery
RDAO: Remote Data Access Object
RDRAM: Rambus Dynamic Random Access
Memory
RDB: Receive Data Buffer (Hardware)
RDB: Relational DataBase RDS: Radio Digital System
(Databases)
RDS: Remote Data Service
RDB: Rigid Disk Block (Databases)
RDBMS: Relational DataBase Management RDSR: Receiver Data Service Request
System
RDT: Radio Digital Terminal
(Software)
RDBMS-MIB: Relational DataBase Management RDTO: Receive Data Transfer Offset
System - Management Information Base (IBM)
RDC: Remote Data Control RDX: Realistic Display miXer

(Microsoft) RE/TM: Rare Earth/Transition Metal
RDC: Ricoh Digital Camera REC: RECorder
(Hardware) (Ricoh) File name extension
RDD: Replicable Database Driver RECFM: RECord ForMat
RDDL: Resource Directory Description
Language RED: Random Early Detection
XML-based language for describing a resource directory. A A congestion-avoidance algorithm developed in the early
resource directory provides a text description of some class 1990s built on the base-level TCP behavior of automatically
of resources and of other resources related to that class. It slowing transmissions when packet loss is detected
also contains a directory of links to these related resources (Network)
(Software)
REF: REFerence
RDE: Receive Data Enable
REG: REGister
(Hardware)
REGAL: Rigid Epoxy Glass Acrylic Laminate
RDES: Remote Data Entry System
REGEX: REGular EXpression
RDF: Resource Definition Format
R (Software) REGIS: REmote Graphics Instruction Set
RDF: Resource Description Framework ReLaTe: REmote LAnguage TEaching
(Netscape) RELAX: REgular LAnguage description for Xml
RDI: Remote Defect Indicator Uses XML syntax to express the structure relationships that
are present in a DTD, and adds the XML Datatype Schema
RDIMM: Registered Dual In-line Memory Module mechanisms, as well
(Hardware)
RELML: Real Estate Listing Markup Language
RDL: Remote Digital Loopback
RELSECT: RELative SECTor
RDL: Report Definition Language
REM: REMark
XML-based industry standard used to define reports
(Software) REM: REMote
RD-LAP: Radio Data Link Access Protocol REM: Remote Equipment Module
RDM: Reliably Delivered Message REM: Ring Error Monitor
RDM: Remote Data Module REN: REName
RDM: Remote Deployment Manager REN: Ringer Equivalence Number
RDM: Remote Diagnostic Manager REP: REPeat
(Operating systems) (Acer)
REPE: REPeat while Equal
RDM: Resource Description Message
REPNE: REPeat while Not Equal

REPNZ RIPES
REPNZ: REPeat while Not Zero RGMP: Router-port Group Management Protocol
IP multicast constraining mechanism for router-only network
REPZ: REPeat while Zero
segments. RGMP must be enabled on the routers and on the
REQ: REQuest Layer 2 switches (Network)
RES: Remote Execution Service RH: Request (or Response) Header

RES: RESet RHCE: Red Hat Certified Engineer
Mid to advanced level certification for IT professionals who
RES: RESolution
are able to install and configure Red Hat Linux, understand
RES: RESource limitations of hardware and configure basic networking and
File name extension file systems
RES: Robots Exclusion Standard RHCT: Red Hat Certified Technician

Standard that allows web site administrators to indicate to
RHD: Removable Hard Drive
visiting robots which parts of their site should not be visited
(Hardware)
by the robot
RET: Resolution Enhancement Technology RHEL: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(Operating systems)
(HP)
RET: RETurn RI: Reference Implementation

(Software)
RETR: RETRieve
RI: Referential Integrity
REX: Relocatable EXecutable (Databases)
REXEC: Remote EXECution RI: Ring Indicator
REXX: Restructured EXtended eXecutor (Hardware)
Programming language (IBM) RIA: Rich Internet Application
RF: Radio Frequency Evolution of the web development and deployment model
(Communication) (Software)
RFA: Resident Flash Array RIAA: Recording Industry Association of

(Hardware)
America
(Organizations)
RFC: Remote Function Call
(Software)
RID: Record IDentifier
RFC: Request For Comments RID: Relative Identifier

RFD: Request for Discussion
RIDE: Rapid Integrated Drive Electronics
RFE: Request for Enhancement (Hardware)
RFI: Radio Frequency Interference RIFF: Resource Interchange File Format
RFI: Request For Information File name extension (Microsoft)
RFID: Radio Frequency IDentification RIG: Related Interest Group
RFP: Request For Proposal RIM: Real-time Interaction Management
RFQ: Request For Quotation RIM: Remote Installation and Maintenance
(Microsoft)
RFQ: Request For Quote
RFS: Remote File Sharing RIM: Research In Motion R
(Hardware)
RFS: Remote File System
(Operating systems)
RIME: Relaynet International Message
Exchange
RFT: Revisable Form Text
RIMM: Rambus Inline Memory Module
RFU: Reserved for Future Use (Hardware)
RG: Residential Gateway RIP: Raster-Image Processor
(Network)
RIP: Remote Imaging Protocol
RGB: Red Green Blue
RIP: Routing Information Protocol
The color systems obtain their colors through a direct
combination of red, green, and blue components. The range of An Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) with Berkeley UNIX
colors that can be displayed depends on the number of bits (Network)
that have been assigned to each pixel (Hardware) RIPE: Reseaux Internet Protocol Européens
RGC: Routing Group Connector The European continental TCP/IP network operated by EUnet
(Microsoft) (Network)
RGMII: Reduced Gigabit Media Independent RIPEM: Riordan's Internet Privacy Enhanced
Interface Mail
(Network) RIPES: Reconnaissance Imagery Processing &
Exploitation System

RIPL ROFLMHO
RIPL: Remote Initial Program Load RMON: Remote MONitoring

RIPS: Raster Image Processing System RMON: Resident MONitor
RIPv2: Routing Information Protocol Version 2 RMP: Remote Maintenance Processor
Extension of the Routing Information Protocol (RIP). Its (IBM)
purpose is to expand the amount of useful information in the
RIP packets and to add security elements (Network)
RMS: Reason Maintenance System
RIR: Regional Internet Registry RMS: Record Management System

(Operating systems) (DEC)
(Network)
RIS: Remote Intallation Service RMS: Root Mean Square

(Operating systems) (Microsoft) RMSE: Root Mean Square Error
RISC: Reduced Instruction Set Computer RMT: Raw Magnetic Tape
A computer architecture that uses fewer and less complex RMT: Ring ManagemenT
instructions than complex instruction set computing (CISC).
Some complex instructions performed by hardware in CISC RMTP: Reliable Message Transport Protocol
computers are done by software in RISC computers RMW: Read, Modify, Write
(Hardware)
RN: Read News
RISLU: Remote Integrated Services Line Unit
RNA: Remote Network Access
RIT: Raw Input Thread
(Microsoft)
(Microsoft)
RNC: Radio Network Controller
RITA: Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting
(Hardware)
Agent
(Network) RND: RaNDom
RJ: Registered Jack RNG: Random Number Generator
Connector for phone and network cables (Hardware) RNI: Raw Native Interface
RJE: Remote Job Entry Native interface proposed by Microsoft (Software) (Microsoft)
(Network) RNOC: Regional Network Operations Center
RK: Resource Kit RNP: Regional Network Provider
(Operating systems)
RNR: Receive Not Ready
RKRM: Rom Kernel Reference Manual
RNS: Run from Network Server
RLD: Received Line Detect (Software)
RLE: Run Length Encoding RNUI: Remote Network User Identification
RLL: Run Length Limited ROB: ReOrder Buffer
Magnetic supports read/write technology (Hardware) (Intel)
RLN: Remote Lan Node ROC: Reconstruction Of Color
RLP: Radio Link Protocol Film scanner technology
RLP: Resource Location Protocol ROD: Rewritable Optical Disk

RLSD: Received Line Signal Detected ROD: Rewriteable Optical Disk
(Hardware)
R RLT: Remote Line Test
ROFL: Rolling On Floor Laughing
RM: Relay Module
(Net lingo)
(Hardware)
ROFLKAS: Rolling On Floor Laughing, Kicking
RM: Reset Mode
And Screaming
RM: Resource Management (Net lingo)
RMA: Return Material Authorization ROFLMAO: Rolling On Floor Laughing My A** Off
RMB: Right Mouse Button (Net lingo)
RMC: Raptor Management Console ROFLMAOWTIME: Rolling On Floor Laughing My

(Software) (Symantec) A** Off With Tears In My Eyes
(Net lingo)
RMD: Required Markup Declaration
ROFLMFAO: Rolling On Floor Laughing My
RMDIR: ReMove DIRectory F***ing A** Off
RMI: Remote Messaging Interface (Net lingo)
RMI: Remote Method Invocation ROFLMHO: Rolling On Floor Laughing My Head
(Software) Off
(Net lingo)
RMID: Resource Manager IDentifier
RMM: Ring Management Module

ROFLOL RR
ROFLOL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out ROX: Risc Os on X

Loud RISC-OS desktop environment clone for Unix/X-window
(Net lingo) (Operating systems)
ROFLOLBAG: Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out RP: Relay Party

Loud Busting A Gut RPC: Remote Procedure Call
(Net lingo)
Interprocess communication mechanism (Software)
ROI: Return On Investment RPCL: Remote Procedure Call Language
ROL: ROtate Left RPCS: Refined Printing Command Stream
ROLAP: Relational OnLine Analytical Processing (Hardware) (Ricoh)
ROM: Read Only Memory RPF: Reverse Path Forwarding

(Hardware) Enables routers to correctly forward multicast traffic down
the distribution tree. It makes use of the existing unicast
ROM: Report Object Model
routing table to determine the upstream and downstream
Object model at the base of the Business Intelligence and
neighbors (Network)
Reporting Tools (BIRT) (Software)
RPG: Report Program Generator
ROMB: Raid On MotherBoard Programming language (Software)
(Hardware)
RPL: Remote Program Link
ROOM: Real-time Object-Oriented Modeling
RPL: Remote Program Load
ROP: Raster OPeration Bootable network device protocol, developed and used
The logical operations (called ANDs, ORs, NORs, and so on) mostly by IBM
performed on portions of the bit planes—called bitmaps or
pixmaps—in the frame buffer. These operations perform RPL: Requested Privilege Level
fundamental movements and transfers of pixel data RPL: Resident Programming Language
ROP: Remote OPeration RPM: Radio Packet Modem
ROP: Risc OPeration RPM: Red-hat Package Manager
ROPE: Remote Object Proxy Engine (Operating systems)
ROPES: Rapid Object-oriented Process for RPM: Remote Printer Management
Embedded Systems (Network) (Novell)
(Operating systems)
rpm: Rounds (or Revolutions) Per Minute
ROR: ROtate Right (Hardware)
ROS: Read-Only Storage RPM: Route Processor Module
(IBM) (Network) (Cisco)
ROS: Return on Service RPN: Real Page Number
ROSCOE: Remote Operating System RPN: Reverse Polish Notation
Conversational Online Environment
RPPROM: ReProgrammable Programmable
ROSE: Remote Operations Service Element Read Only Memory
A lightweight RPC protocol used in ISO/OSI message
RPQ: Request for Price Quotation
handling, directory, and network management application
protocols RPR: Relative Performance Rating
ROT: Rule Of Thumb RPSL: Routing Policy Specification Language R
ROT: Running Object Table RPT: RePeaT
(Software) RQBE: Relational Query By Example
ROTFL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing (Microsoft)
(Net lingo) RQN: Real-Quick Newsletter
ROTFLMAO: Rolling On The Floor Laughing My FreeBSD newsletter (Operating systems)
A** Off RR: Radio Resource
(Net lingo)
RR: Real Reality
ROTFLMAOASTC: Rolling On The Floor Laughing
My A** Off And Scaring The Cat RR: Register to Register
(Net lingo) The class of CPU instructions (and assembler codes that go
with them) relating to only registers, not main memory (e.g."
ROTFLMAOWTIME: Rolling On The Floor Add the contents of register A with register B, putting the
Laughing My A** Off With Tears In My Eyes result in register A") (Hardware)
(Net lingo)
RR: Resource Record
ROTFLPMP: Rolling On The Floor Laughing, (Network)
Peeing My Pants
RR: Round Robin
(Net lingo)
Process or thread scheduling (Operating systems)
ROV: Real Option Valuation

RRAS RTF
RRAS: Routing Remote Access Service RSM: Removable Storage Manager

(Network) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
RRCM: Reservation Request Control Mechanism RSM: Route Switch Module

Basically a router on a card in the switch for routing between
RRDF: Remote Recovery Data Facility
Virtual Local Area Networks (Network)
RRDS: Relative Record Data Set
RSN: Real Soon Now
RRIP: Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol (Net lingo)
RRN: Relative Record Number RSoP: Resultant Set Of Policies
RRP: Recommended Retail Price (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
RRSHB: Resource Representation Soap Header RSP: Required Space Character

Block RS-PC: Reed Solomon Product Code
RS: Radio Shack RSPX: Remote Sequenced Packet eXchange
RS: Recommended Standard RSS: Really Simple Syndication
RS: Record Separator Is an XML-based, universal way for developers to describe
their sites and to make their content available to others (for
RS: Reed-Solomon example, for syndication)
Reed-Solomon codes are block-based error correcting codes
with a wide range of applications in digital communications RSS: Relay Spam Stopper
and storage. Reed-Solomon codes are used to correct errors Queryable DNS-based database of spam-relaying mail
in many systems (Communication) servers. See http://work-rss.mail-abuse.org/rss/
RS: Register Select RSS: Rich Site Summary

(Hardware) Synonym of Really Simple Syndication
RS: Registry Service RST: ReSeT

RS: Remote Scripting RST: ReSTart
Allows code in a client page to call functions in an ASP page RSTS: Resource Sharing Time Sharing
running on the server (Microsoft) (DEC)
RSA: Random Scheduling Algorithm RSTS/E: Resource System Time
RSA: Remote Supervisor Adapter Sharing/Enhanced
PCI adapter which simplifies remote system management by RSU: Recommended Service Upgrade
providing around-the-clock remote access to the server. The
IBM-recommended PTFs (Program Temporary Fix) supplied
RSA monitors the server and sends out alerts to designated
as part of monthly z/OS service support (Software) (IBM)
recipients via LAN, pager, email or SNMP if a failure is
detected (Hardware) (IBM) RSVP: Resource reSerVation Protocol
RSA: Rivest-Shamir-Adleman An IETF standard which allows an end device and a network
to negotiate specific QoS characteristics (Network)
RSAC: Recreational Software Advisory Council
RSX: Realistic Sound eXperience
(Organizations)
RSX: Realtime resource Sharing eXecutive
RSACI: Recreational Software Advisory Council
on the Internet RT: Real-Time
(Organizations) RT: Risc Technology
RSCS: Remote Spooling Communications RT: Run Time
R System
RT/DSS: Real-Time/Decision Support Service
RSD: Route Server Daemon
RTAM: Remote Terminal Access Method
RSH: Remote SHell
RTB: Rich Text Box
RSI: Repetitive Stress Injury (Software) (Microsoft)
RSIP: Realm Specific Internet Protocol RTC: Real-Time Clock
Like NAT, RSIP translates between public and private IP
(Hardware)
addresses. But instead of requiring a boundary router to
translate, RSIP uses a simple protocol between a user's RTC: Rich Thin Client
desktop PC and a boundary router to perform preparatory All about technologies for thin client with rich functionality
signaling (Network) and widget set, as opposed to Html clients (Software)
RSL: Request-and-Status Link RTCP: Real-Time Control Protocol
RSL: Resilient Server Link RTDM: Real-Time Data Migration
RSM: Relational Storage Manager RTEL: Reverse TELnet
(Databases) (IBM)
RTF: Real Time Fifo
RSM: Remote Session Manager
RTF: Rich Text Format
RSM: Remote Storage Management File format for documents

RTFA S/PDIF
RTFA: Read The F***ing Article RTU: Right To Use

Used on news sites when someone makes an ill-informed The Sun software licensing, usually included in the price of
comment/reply (Net lingo) the software (Sun)
RTFM: Read The F***ing Manual RTV: Real-Time Video

FAQ by beginner (Net lingo)
RTX: Run Time eXtension
RTFM: Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement RU: Request (or Response) Unit
(Network)
RUN: Responsible Use of the Network
RTG: Real Time Geometry
RUN: Rewind/UNload
RTI: ReTurn from Interrupt (IBM)
RTL: Raster Transfer Language RUP: Rational Unified Process
RTL: Register Transfer Language (Software)
RTL: Resistor Transistor Logic RUS: Recipient Update Service

Microsoft Exchange Mail Server Service that generates and
RTL: Right-To-Left
updates email addresses seen in the Global Address List
RTL: Run Time Library (GAL) (Software) (Microsoft)
RTM: Release To Manufacturing RUW: Remote Unit of Work
RTM: Response Time Monitor (IBM)
RTM: RunTime Manager RVA: Ramac Virtual Array

(Borland) RVA: Relative Virtual Address
RTMP: Routing Table Maintenance Protocol RVA: RendezVous Agent
RTN: Recursive Transition Network (Network)
(Network) RVD: RendezVous Daemon
RTN: Reuters Transaction Network (Network)
RTOS: Real Time Operating System RVI: ReVerse Interrupt

(Operating systems) RVRAD: RendezVous Relay Agent Deamon
RTP: Rapid Transport Protocol (Network)
RTP: Real-time Transport Protocol RVRD: RendezVous Routing Daemon

(Communication) (Network)
RTR: Real Time Replicator RVSA: Remote Variant Selection Algorithm

(Network) RW: Read Write
RTS: Real-Time Strategy Device capability to read and write its media (Hardware)
Type of game RWM: Read-Write Memory
RTS: Remote Takeover System RWP: Remote Write Protocol
RTS: Request To Send (Network)
Serial port signal (Communication) RWU: Remote Wake Up
RTS: Run Time System (Network)
RTSE: Reliable Transfer Service Element RX: Receive

R
A lightweight ISO/OSI application service used above X.25 RXD: Receive Data
networks to handshake application PDUs across the session (Hardware)
service and TP0 (Network)
RZ: Return to Zero
S
RTSJ: Real-Time Specification for Java Return to Zero
(Software)
RTSP: Real Time Streaming Protocol S
Application-level protocol for control over the delivery of
FTPS: File Transfer Protocol over Ssl
data with real-time properties (Network)
RTT: Real-Time Technology S.u.S.E.: Software Und SystemEntwicklung
Refers to a technology that allows a user to receive data S/H: Sample/Hold
during the actual time that a physical process occurs, known
S/MIME: Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail
as real time. Real time is measured in milliseconds or
microseconds
Extensions
An e-mail security standard that makes use of public key
RTTI: Run-Time Type Information encryption (Security)
(Software)
S/N: Signal to Noise
RTTY: Radio TeleTYpewriter
S/PDIF: Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format
RTU: Real Time Unix A standard for digital connection of consumer audio devices

S/STP SANS
S/STP: Screened Shielded Twisted Pair SADL: Structural Architecture Description

(Hardware) Language
Intended for the definition of software architecture
S/TK: Sectors per TracK
hierarchies that are to be analyzed formally (Software)
S/UTP: Screened Unshielded Twisted Pair
SADT: Structured Analysis and Design
(Hardware)
Techniques
S1AS: Sun One Application Server
SAF: Security Authentication Facility
(Sun)
SAF: Service Access Facility
S2S: Server To Server A tool provided with the SunOS 5.3 operating system that
(Software) controls access to local and network system services, such
SA: Security Association as printers, modems, and terminals (Operating systems)
(Sun)
SA: Selective Availability
SAFE: Security And Freedom through
SA: Service Agent Encryption
SA: Software Assurance SAG: Sql Access Group
Licensing scheme (Microsoft)
SAIL: Stanford Artificial Intelligence
SA: Source Address Laboratory
SA: Structured Analysis SAINT: Security Administrator's Integrated
SAA: Service Assurance Agent Network Tool
(Communication) SAINT: Symbolic Automatic INTegrator
SAA: Systems Application Architecture SAL: Shift Arithmetic Left
SAAJ: Soap with Attachments Api for Java SAL: Spatial Aggregation Language
Enables developers to produce and consume messages
conforming to the SOAP 1.1 specification and SOAP with SALT: Speech Application Language Tags
Attachments note (Software) (Sun) Lightweight set of extensions to existing markup languages,
in particular HTML and XHTML that enable multimodal and
SAAL: Signaling Atm Adaptation Layer telephony access to information, applications and Web
(Communication) services from PCs, telephones, tablet PCs and wireless
personal digital assistants
SABM: Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode
(Network) SAM: Scsi-3 Architecture Model
SABME: Set Asynchronous Balanced Mode SAM: Security Accounts Manager
Extended (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
in ISDN, is a TEI assignment (LAPD negotiation) (Network) SAM: Sequential Access Method
SABRE: Semi-Automatic Business Research SAM: Serial Access Memory
Environment
SAM: Single Application Mode
SAC: Service Access Control
(Microsoft)
The Service Access Facility (SAF) master program
(Operating systems) (Sun) SAM: Storage Area Management
SAC: Simple Api for Css SAM: System Administration Module
(Operating systems)
SAC: Single Attachment Concentrator
SAMI: Synchronized Accessible Media
SACD: Super Audio Compact Disk
Interchange
(Hardware)
S SAML: Security Assertion Markup Language
SACK: Selective ACKnowledge
(Communication) SAN: Storage Area Network
SACL: System Access Control List SAN: System Area Network
An ACL that controls the generation of audit messages for (Network)
attempts to access a securable object. The ability to get or SANE: Standard Apple Numeric Environment
set an object's SACL is controlled by a privilege typically
(Apple)
held only by system administrators (Operating systems)
SANE: System Administration and NEtworking
SAD: Security Association Database
In each IPsec implementation there is a nominal Security SANITI: Storage Area Network Integrated
Association Database, in which each entry defines the Technology Initiative
parameters associated with one Security Association
SANS: System Administration, Networking and
(Network)
Security institute
SAD: Streams Administrative Driver Organization that develops, maintains, and makes available
A driver that provides an interface to the autopush at no cost, the largest collection of research documents
mechanism about various aspects of information security, and it operates
the Internet's early warning system - Internet Storm Center.
(Organizations)

SAO SBR
SAO: Sector-At-Once SATAN: System Administration Tool for

CD recording methodology (Hardware) Analyzing Networks
(Network)
SAP: Second Audio Program
SATF: Shared Access Transport Facility
SAP: Service Access Point
The point at which the services of an OSI layer are made SAV: Symantec AntiVirus
available to the next higher layer. The SAP is named Previously called Norton AntiVirus (NAV) (Software)
according to the layer providing the services (Symantec)
SAP: Service Advertising Protocol SAVDM: Single Application Virtual Dos Machine
(Network)
SAX: Simple Api for Xml
SAP: Session Announcement Protocol
SB: Small Business
(Communication)
SB: Sound Blaster
SAP: Symbolic Assembly Program (Creative Labs)
SAP: Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der SB: Sound Board
datenverarbeitung
A german company that produces the leading suite of client- SBA: Scene Balance Algorithm
server business software ("Systems, Applications and (Kodak)
Products in data processing").
SBA: Service-Based Architecture
SAPI: Speech Application Programming
SBAS: Satellite-Based Augmentation System
Interface
(Software) (Microsoft) SBB: Subtract With Borrow
SAPR: Systems Assurance Product Review SBC: Scsi Block Commands
(IBM) SBC: Session Border Controller
SAR: Segmentation And Reassembly An appliance that simplifies handling of VoIP at the border of
The process of breaking packets into ATM cells and a network (Communication)
reassembling cells back into data packets (Communication) SBC: Single-Board Computer
SAR: Shift Arithmetic Right (Hardware)
SAR: Specific Absorbtion Rate SBCCS: Single Byte Command Code Set
SAR: Store Address Register SBCM: Small Business Customer Manager
(Microsoft)
SAR: Successive Approximation Register
SBCR: Smart Business Card Reader
SAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar
(Hardware)
SARC: Symantec's Antivirus Research Center
SBCS: Single-Byte Character Set
(Symantec)
SBF: Sequential Block Filemanager
SARG: Search ARGument
(Databases) (Sybase) SBF: Simple Boot Flag
(Operating systems)
SAS: Sales Accounting System
SBFM: Small Business Financial Manager
SAS: Secure Attention Sequence
A key sequence that begins the process of logging on or off.
The default sequence is CTRL+ALT+DEL (Operating SBI: Sound Blaster Instrument
systems) (Microsoft)
SBI: Speaker Box Interface
SAS: Serial Attached Scsi An interface that integrates audio capability with ISDN on
Storage connection technology (Hardware) the Sun workstation (Hardware) (Sun)
S
SAS: Server Attached Storage SBL: Softbridge Basic Language
SAS: Single Attached Station SBM: Small Business Manager

SAS: Single Audio System
SBM: Subnet Bandwidth Manager
SAS: Statistical Analysis System
An IETF proposed standard for handling resource
SASI: Sughart Associates System Interface reservations on shared and switched IEEE 802-style local-
Old hard disk bus (Hardware) area media (Network)
SASL: Simple Authentication and Security Layer SBN: Site Builder Network
(Microsoft)
SAT: Sim Application Toolkit
Normally terminal device commands the Subscriber Identity SBP: Serial Bus Protocol
Module (SIM). Terminal device supporting SAT feature gives (Hardware)
for SIM a feature to command terminal device
(Communication)
SBR: Source BRowser
SATA: Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
Peripheral bus architecture (Hardware)

SBS SCOPE
SBS: Small Business Server SCD: Slowly Changing Dimension

SCD: Sparc Compliance Definition
SBS: Small Business Suite A formal specification of the system hardware and software to
(Software) (Novell) be met by manufacturers of SPARC systems to ensure that
those systems run compliant applications (Sun)
SBS: Smart Battery Specification
(Hardware) SCD: Standard Color Display
SC: Servlet Container SCDMA: Synchronous Code-Division Multiple

(Software) Access
SC: Smart Card SCE: Security Configuration Editor

SC: System Clock SCE: Service Creation Environment

(Hardware) SCE: Sniffer Certified Expert
Certification for network professionals who can demonstrate
SC: System Controller
an in-depth understanding of Sniffer Technologies software
(Hardware)
SCE: Structure Chart Editor
SCA: Scalable Computing Architecture
SCEF: Service Creation Environment Function
SCA: Shared Communications Area
SCF: Sequential Character Filemanager
SCA: Single Connector Attachment
(Hardware) SCF: Service Control Function
SCADA: Supervisory Control And Data SCF: System Control Facility
Acquisition SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface
Systems used in industry to monitor and control plant status
and provide logging facilities SCI: Serial Communication Interface
(Hardware)
SCAF: Service Control Agent Function
SCI: Supply Chain Intelligence
SCAM: Scsi Configured AutoMatically
SCI: System Control Interrupt
SCART: Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils
Radiorécepteurs et Téléviseurs SCIL: Serial Control Interface Logic
A socket standard used in Europe, named after its creator (Hardware)
company, to connect many kinds of audiovisual equipment - SCJP: Sun Certified Java Programmer
sometimes also called the Peritel or Euro connector
(Sun)
(Hardware)
SCAS: SCAn String SCL: Soap Contract Language
Specification to describe the capabilities of Web services
SCB: Subsystem Control Block
SCLM: Software Configuration and Library
(IBM)
Management
SCC: Scsi Controller Commands (IBM)
SCC: Serial Communications Controllers SCM: Scalable Connection Management
SCC: Serial Controller Chip SCM: Service Control Manager
SCC: Source Code Control (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(Software) SCM: Sniffer Certified Master
SCC: Standards Council of Canada SCM: Software Configuration Management
(Organizations) (Software)
S
SCC: SuperComputer Center SCM: Station Class Mark
SCC: Sustainable Computing Consortium SCM: Supply Chain Management
(Organizations)
SCMS: Serial Copy Management System
SCC: Synchronous Channel Check
SCNA: Sun Certified Network Administrator
(IBM)
(Sun)
SCCI: Source Code Control Interface
SCO: Santa Cruz Operation
(Software)
SCO: Second Class Object
SCCP: Signaling Connection Control Part
(Software)
SCCP: Simple Conference Control Protocol
SCO: Synchronous Connection-Oriented
SCCS: Source Code Control System
SCOOPS: SCheme Object Oriented
A software development tool for tracking file versions during
a long, involved software development or documentation
Programming System
project (Software) SCOPE: Simple COmmunications Programming
SCD: Service Control Device Environment
(Hayes)
(Communication)

SCOS SDI
SCOS: Single Object Copy Store SCW: Setup Computer Wizard

(Software) (Lotus) (Microsoft)
SCP: Save Cursor Position SCX: Specialized Communications eXchange

SCP: Secure CoPy SD: Secure Digital
(Hardware)
SCP: Service Control Point
SCP: Session Control Properties SD: Send Data
(Network) SD: Serial Digital
(Communication)
SCP: Sniffer Certified Professional
SCP: Subsystem Control Port SD: Single Density
(Hardware)
SCP: Sun Certified Programmer
(Sun) SD: Structured Design
SCP: Sunlink Communications Processor SD: Super Density

(Hardware)
A printed circuit board that enables multi-vendor connection
with either synchronous or asynchronous operation. The SCP SD: Symbolic Debugger
works with SNA 3270 and X.25 SunLink software products (Software)
(Hardware) (Sun)
SDA: Screen Design Aid
SCP: System Control Program
SDA: Self-Decrypting Archive
SCPC: Single Channel Per Carrier (Security)
SCQL: Structured Card Query Language SDA: Software Delivery Agent
(Databases)
SDA: Software Disk Array
SCR: SCRipt
File name extension SDA: Source Data Automation
SCR: Silicon Controlled Rectifier SDA: System Display Architecture

(DEC)
SCR: Standard Context Routing
SDAI: Standard Data Access Interface
SCR: Sustainable Cell Rate
SDAM: Single Dos Application Mode
SCRAM: Software Configuration, Release And
Management SDAR: Satellite Digital Audio Radio
SCRN: SCReeN SDB: Symbolic DeBugger
SCRS: Scalable Cluster of Risc Systems SDD: Software Description Database
SCS: Sna Character String SDD: Subscriber Data Document
SCSA: Signal Computing System Architecture SDD: Super Density Disk

(Dialogic) SDD: System Distribution Directory
SCSA: Sun Certified System Administrator SDDI: Shielded Distributed Data Interface
(Sun)
SDDS: Sony Dynamic Digital Sound
SCSA: Sun Common Scsi Architecture Multi-channel (5.1 or 7.1) digital audio format, compressed
SCSE: Symantec Certified Security Engineer from PCM at 48 kHz. The data rate can go up to 1280 kbps
Certification is for IT professionals who focus on a single SDE: Shared Data Environment
security segment and the implementation and in depth To share data across different platforms
management of solutions in that segment (Symantec)
SCSI: Small Computers System Interface
SDE: Smart Decision Engine S
SDE: Spatial Database Engine
An industry standard for connecting etherogeneous devices
(disks, tapes, CD-ROMs, ...) to a workstation (Hardware) (Databases)
SCSIHQ: Small Computers System Interface SDF: Space Delimited Format

Hardware Qualifier File name extension
Hardware troubleshooting program (Operating systems) SDF: Standard Data Format
(Microsoft) File name extension
SCSL: Sun's Community Source Licensing SDF: System Dialog Facility
(Sun)
SDH: Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SCSP: Server Cache Synchronization Protocol Worldwide standard for synchronous transmission systems
(Network) (typically fiber optic) (Communication)
SCTP: Stream Control Transmission Protocol SDI: Selective Dissemination of Information
SCU: System Control Unit SDI: Serial Digital Interface
SCVP: Simple Certificate Validation Protocol (Hardware)
SDI: Single Document Interface

SDI SEAL
SDI: Software Development Interface SDOC: Selective Dynamic Overload Controls

SDI: Standard Disk Interface SDP: Service Discovery Protocol
SDI: Storage Device Interconnect SDP: Session Description Protocol
(Network)
SDI: Storage Device Interface
SDIS: Switched Digital Integrated Service SDP: Specialized Data Point
SDK: Software Development Kit SDR: Single Data Rate

Memory access architecture (Hardware)
(Software)
SDKJ: Software Development Kit for Java SDR: Store Data Register
SDL: Service Description Language SDR: Streaming Data Request
SDL: Specification and Description Language SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic Random Access
Memory
SDL: System Design Language (Hardware)
SDL/GR: Specification and Description SD-ROM: Super Density Read Only Memory
Language/Graphical Representation,
SDS: Short Data Service
SDLC: Software Development Life Cycle Data message in mobile TETRA network. Similar to Short
(Software) Message Service (SMS) in GSM (Communication)
SDLC: Sun DownLoad Center SDS: Sudden Death Syndrome
(Software) (Sun) Used in digital photography when your camera dies a sudden
SDLC: Synchronous Data Link Control death (Hardware)
A link-level communications protocol used in an IBM SNA SDS: Sun Directory Services
network that manages synchronous, code-transparent, serial (Operating systems) (Sun)
information transfer over a link connection (Communication)
SDS: Switched Data Service
SDLP: Standard Device Level Protocol
SDS: Synchronous Data Set
SDLT: Super Digital Linear Tape
(Hardware)
SDS: Sysops Distribution System
S-DLT: Super Digital Linear Tape SDSC: Synchronous Data Set Controller
(Hardware) SDSCnet: San Diego Supercomputer Center
SDM: Semantic Data Model NETwork
SDSL: Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
SDM: System Data Mover
(Communication)
SDM: System Development Methodology
S-DSMA: Slotted Digital Sense Multiple Access
SDM: System Development Multitasking
SDTV: StanDard Definition Television
SDMF: Single Data Message Format
SDU: Service Data Unit
Format used to send Caller ID information (Communication)
SDMI: Secure Digital Music Initiative SDU: Software Distribution Utilities
SDV: Switched Digital Video
SDML: Signed Document Markup Language
(AT&T)
SDMM: Security Domain Membership
Management SDX: Storage Data Acceleration
Specifies the interfaces supporting the elements within a SDXF: Structured Data eXchange Format
SDMM architecture which interact via SDMM mechanisms
SE: Second Edition
S SDMMC: Secure Digital MultiMedia Card (Software)
SDMS: Scsi Device Management System SE: Sign Extension
(NCR)
SE: Single Ended
SDN: Software Defined Network (Hardware)
(AT&T)
SE: Special Edition
SDN: Sun Developer Network
SE: Standard Edition
(Software) (Sun)
(Software)
SDNS: Secure Data Network Service
SEA: Self Extracting Archive
SDNSDU: Secure Domain Name System (Apple)
Dynamic Update
SEA: Standard Extended Attribute
(Network)
(IBM)
SDO: Service Data Objects
SEAC: Standards Eastern Automatic Calculator
Framework that simplifies and unifies data application
development in a service oriented architecture (SOA). It SEAL: Screening External Access Link
supports and integrates XML and incorporates J2EE patterns (DEC)
and best practices (Software)
SEAL: Simple and Efficient Adaptation Layer

SEAS SGEN
SEAS: Solaris Easy Access Server SETI: Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
(Network) (Sun)
SETL: SEt Theory Language
SEC: Single Edge Contact SEU: Smallest Executable Unit
Processor package used in Pentium 2, Pentium 3 and
Celeron (Hardware) (Intel) SEU: Source Entry Utility
SEC: Single Error Correction SF: Service Feature
SECAM: SEquentiel Couleur Avec Mémoire SF: Sign Flag
A composite color standard based on line-alternate U and V SFA: Sales Force Automation
color difference signals that are frequency-modulated onto a
color subcarrier SFBI: Shared Frame Buffer Interconnect
SECB: Severely Errored Cell Block SFC: System File Checker

SECC: Single Edge Contact Cartridge
(Hardware) SFD: Start Frame Delimiter
SED: Stream EDitor SFDR: Spurious-Free Dynamic Range

SED: Stream-Oriented Editor SFF: Small Form Factor
(Hardware)
SEG: SEGment
SFFC: Small Form Factor Committee
SEH: Structured Exception Handling (Organizations)
SEI: Service Endpoint Interface SFI: Software Fault Isolation
Java interface that declares the methods that a client can
invoke on the service (Software) SFN: Short FileName
SEI: Software Engineering Institute SFNW5: Services For NetWare 5
Federally funded research and development center; its core (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
purpose is to help others make measured improvements in SFP: Small Formfactor Pluggable
their software engineering capabilities. See also
A standard hot swappable small multi-pin conector used
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/ (Organizations)
mostly for fibre channel optical modules on disk array
SEL: SELect controllers. (Hardware)
SEL: SELector byte SFPS: Secure Fast Packet Switching
SEM: Scanning Electron Microscope SFQ: Stochastic Fair Queuing
SEM: Sql Enterprise Manager
A hash function used to map flow to
SEM: Standard Electronic Module one of set of queues (Network)
SEM: Strategic Enterprise Management SFQL: Structured Full-text Query Language

SEO: Search Engine Optimization SFS: System File Server
Increasing ranking placement on search engines SFT: System Fault Tolerant
SEP: Scalable Encryption Processor SFTP: Secure File Transfer Protocol
(Hardware) (Cisco) Also known as File Transfer Protocol over SSH (Secure SHell)
SEPP: Secure Encryption Payment Protocol SFTP: Simple File Transfer Protocol
SEPP: Single-Edge Processor Package SFU: Services For Unix
(Hardware) A set of tools to better integrate existing Unix and Windows
SEQUEL: Structured English QUEry Language environments (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
S
SER: SERial SFX: SelF eXtracting
Archive with self extracting capabilities
SER: Service Edge Router
(Network) SFX: Sound eFfectS
File name extension
SERCOS: SErial Realtime COmmunications
System SG: Signal Ground
SERDES: SERializer/DESerializer SGA: Shared Global Area
(Hardware) SGAM: Shared Global Allocation Map
SERK: Server Extensions Resource Kit (Databases)
Microsoft Frontpage server extensions additional SGC: Scsi Graphic Command
documentation and software (Software) (Microsoft)
SGC: Server-Gated Cryptography
SERM: Structured Entity Relationship Model (Security) (Microsoft)
SET: Secure Electronic Transaction SGCP: Simple Gateway Control Protocol
A protocol for secure electronic transactions over the
Internet SGDT: Store Global Descriptor Table
SET: Softwave Engineering Technology SGEN: Signal GENerator

SGI SIIT
SGI: Silicon Graphics, Inc SIA: Socially Intelligent Agent

Constructor (SGI) (Software)
SGM: Shaded Graphics Modeling SIA: Specific Industry Application

Applications that are specific to an industry (Software)
SGML: Standard Generalized Markup Language
A method of tagging a document to apply to many format SIB: Service Independent building Block
elements. This language has become popular with the
increased use of the Internet
SIC: Silicon Integrated Circuit
SIC: Standard Industrial Code
SGMP: Simple Gateway Management Protocol
The predecessor to Simple Network Management Protocol SID: Sccs delta ID
(SNMP) (Network) The number used to represent a specific SCCS delta
(Software)
SGR: Set Graphics Rendition
SID: Security IDentifier
SGRAM: Synchronous Graphics Random Access
Memory SID: Serial Input Data
(Hardware) SID: Sound Interface Device
SGSN: Serving Gprs Support Node (Hardware)
Provides packet routing to and from the SGSN service area
SID: Station IDentification
for all users in that service area (Communication)
(AT&T)
SHA: Secure Hash Algorithm
SID: Symbolic Interactive Debugger
A hashing algorithm that generates a 160-bit hash value
(SHA-1). Used with the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) in SID: System IDentification
the Digital Signature Standard (DSS), among other places
SIDF: System Independent Data Format
(Security)
SIDH: System Identification for Home Systems
SHAR: SHell ARchive
SIDT: Store Interrupt Descriptor Table
SHD: Self-Healing Driver
(Operating systems) SIE: Serial Interface Engine
The USB module responsible for bus protocol (Hardware)
SHED: Segmented Hypergraphics EDitor
SIF: Setup Information File
SHF: Super High Frequency
(Operating systems)
SHG: Segmented HyperGraphics
SIFT: Sender-Initiated File Transfer
SHIT: So Happy It's Thursday (Network)
(Net lingo)
SIFT: Stanford Information Filtering Tool
SHL: Shift Logical Left
SIG: SIGnature
SHOE: Simple Html Ontology Extension
SIG: Special Interest Group
SHP: Super High Pressure (Organizations)
Projector's lamp type (Hardware)
SIGBIT: Special Interest Group on Business
SHR: Shift Logical Right Information Technology
S-HTTP: Secure HyperText Transport Protocol SIGCAT: Special Interest Group on Cd-rom
(Network) Applications and Technology
SHV: Standard High Volume SIGGRAPH: Special Interest Group for GRAPHics
SI: Semantic Interpretation A group sponsored by the Association for Computing
Machinery. SIGGRAPH holds an annual conference on
Process by which a semantic interpreter generates a
graphics that includes vendor product displays, lectures, and
S semantic result based on an utterance that matches a path
graphics technology courses (Organizations)
through a grammar. A semantic result typically contains
information that is more useful to the application than the SIGIR: Special Interest Group on Information
text of the utterance Retireval
SI: Serial Input (Organizations)
(Hardware) SIGPLAN: Special Interest Group on
SI: Shift-In Programming LANguages
SI: Source Index SII: Static Invocation Interface

Processor register (Hardware) (IBM) SIIA: Software & Information Industry
SI: System Information Association
An association for software companies. See also
SI: System Integrator http://www.siia.net/ (Organizations)
SI/SO: Serial In/Serial Out SIIT: Stateless Ip/Icmp Translation algorithm
SI/SO: Shift In/Shift Out Translates between IPv4 and IPv6 packet headers (including
ICMP headers) in separate translator "boxes" in the network
SIA: Semiconductor Industry Association without requiring any per-connection state in those "boxes"
(Organizations) (Communication)

SIL SLIC
SIL: Solid Immersion Lens SIS: Supplier Information System

Compact disk head technology (Hardware)
SISAL: Streams and Iteration in a Single
SIM: Security Information Management Assignment Language
Software designed to automate the collection of event log
SISL: System Interrupt Steering Logic
data from security devices and helping users make sense of
it through a common management console (Security) SISNET: Signal in Space through the interNET
SIM: SIMplex SISSL: Sun Industry Standards Source License
Used in SCSI interface for a single backplane (Hardware) (Sun)
SIM: SIMulator SIT: Special Information Tones

SIM: Subscriber Identity Module SIT: StuffIT
(Hardware) File name extension (Apple)
SIM: Systems Insight Manager SIU: System Interface Unit

(Operating systems) (HP) SIV: System Integrity Verifier
SIMD: Single Instruction, Multiple Data SIVIT: SIemens VIrtual Touchscreen
SIMM: Single In line Memory Module (Hardware) (Siemens-Nixdorf)
A circuit board that holds surface-mount memory chips. A SIX: Shared with Intent eXclusive
SIMM is compact and efficient (Hardware) Database management system's locking attribute
SIMS: Stalker Internet Mail Server (Databases)
SIMTEL: SIMulation and TELeprocessing SJF: Shortest Job First

Process or thread scheduling (Operating systems)
SIMULA: SIMULAtion
Programming language SKIP: Simple Key management for Internet
Protocol
SIN: Specification Information Note
(Network)
SIO: Serial Input/Output
SKU: StockKeeping Unit
Communications driver
SLA: Service Level Agreement
SIP: Scsi-3 Interlocked Protocol
A contract between a service provider and customer defining
SIP: Session Initiation Protocol provider responsibilities in terms of network levels, times of
IETF standard protocol for IP-communication, enabling IP- availability, method of measurement, consequences if
Telephony gateways, client endpoints, PBXs and other service levels aren't met, and all costs involved (Network)
communication systems or devices to communicate with
SLAN: Secure Local Area Network
each other (Communication)
SLB: Server Load Balancing
SIP: Single In-line Package
The packaging of an electronic component with all leads SLB: Static Load Balancing
protruding from one side only (Hardware) SLC: Subscriber Line Concentrator
SIP: Smds Interface Protocol (Communication)
SIPC: Simply Interactive Personal Computer SLD: Second Level Domain

(Hardware) (Microsoft) (Network)
SIPO: Serial In, Parallel Out SLDRAM: Synchronous Link Dynamic Random
SIPP: Simple Internet Protocol Plus Access Memory
(Hardware)
SIPP: SImple Polygon Processor
SLDT: Store Local Descriptor Table
SIPP: Single In line Pin Package
(Hardware)
SLED: Single Large Expensive Disk S
Refers to older mainframe hard disks that were used as a
SIPR: Secure Internet Protocol Router basis for comparison during the initial UC Berkeley RAID
(Network) studies. (Hardware)
SIR: Save Instruction Recognition SLEE: Service Logic Execution Environment

SIR: Serial InfraRed SLG: Service Level Guarantee
SIR: Sustained Information Rate SLI: Scan Line Interlacing
(Hardware)
SIRDS: Single-Image Random Dot Stereogram
SIRENE: Supplementary Information REquest SLIC: Serial Link and Interrupt Controller
at the National Entry SLIC: Session Layer Interface Card
(Hardware)
SIS: Single Instance Store
Architecture designed to maintain duplicate files with a SLIC: Subscriber Line Interface Card
minimum of disk, cache, and backup media overhead Interface between home phone lines and Central Office (CO)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Hardware)
SIS: Strategic Information System SLIC: System Level Integration Circuit

SLIC SMIT
SLIC: System Licensed Internal Code SMASE: System Management Application

(IBM) Service Element
SLIM: Structured Language for Internet Markup SMASH: Simple, Many And Self-Healing
Supercomputing architecture (Hardware) (IBM)
SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
An Internet protocol used to run IP over serial lines such as SMAU: Smart Multistation Access Unit
telephone circuits or RS-232 cables interconnecting two (Network)
systems. SLIP is now being replaced by PPP
(Communication) SMB: Server Message Block
A common format for sharing files, directories and devices in
SLM: Service Level Management Microsoft's operating systems (Operating systems)
SLM: Spatial Light Modulator SMB: Small-Medium Business
(Hardware)
SMBIIOS: System Management Basic Input
SLMR: Silly Little Mail Reader Output System
SLO: Service Level Objective SMBus: System Management BUS
(Network)
SMC: Scsi-3 Medium changer Command
SLOSH: Sea, Lake and Overland Surge from
SMC: Solaris Management Console
Hurricane
SLOT: Scanned Laser Output Terminal
SMC: Standard Microsystems Corporation
SLP: Service Location Protocol (Organizations)
(Network)
SMD: Storage Module Device
SLP: Service Logic Program An industry-standard interface used for large-capacity, high-
SLPD: Service Location Protocol Domain performance disks (Hardware)
(Network) SMD: Surface-Mount Device
SLR: Single-Lens Reflex (Hardware)
(Hardware) SMDR: Station Message Detail Recording
SLS: Softlanding Linux System SMDR: Storage Management Data Requester
SLSI: Super Large Scale of Integration SMDS: Switched Multimegabit Data Service
The process of placing from 50,000 to 100,000 circuit An emerging high-speed networking technology to be offered
components. Also, the quality of their connections (Hardware) by the telephone companies in the U.S.
SLSS: Systems Library Subscription Service SME: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
(IBM)
SME: Subject Matter Expert
SLU: Secondary Logical Unit SMF: Semantic Modelling Format
SLU: Spoken Language Understanding XML-based language that can be used to persist English
Query model information (Databases) (Microsoft)
SLU: Subscriber line Unit
(Hardware) SMF: Service Management Function
SLU: Subscriber line Usage SMF: Single Mode Fiber
(Communication) SMF: System Manager Facility
SM: Set Mode (Compaq)
SM: Shared Memory SMFA: Special Management Functional Element
SM: Smart Media SMG: Special Mobile Group
S (Hardware) SMI: Security Management Interface
SM: System Management (Software)
SMA: Software Migration Assistant SMI: Static Memory Interface
(Hardware)
SMAE: System Management Application Entity
SMAF: Service Management Agent Function SMI: Structure of Management Information
The rules that define the objects that can be accessed
SMAP: System Management Application Process through a network management protocol (Network)
SMAPI: Speech Manager Application SMI: Sun Microsystems Inc.
SMI: System Management Interrupt
(Software)
SMIF: Standard Mechanical InterFace
SMART: Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology SMIL: Synchronized Multimedia Integration
Drives equipped with this feature report predicted failures Language
based on threshold values determined by the manufacturer.
SMIT: System Management Interface Tool
This allows the network manager to replace a drive before it
(IBM)
fails. (Hardware)

SMK SNMP
SMK: Software Migration Kit SMT: System Management Terminal

(Microsoft) (Software) (Zyxel)
SMKD: Scalable Multicast Key Distribution SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
(Security) The Internet email protocol. Defined in RFC 821, with
associated message format descriptions in RFC 822
SML: Service Management Layer
SMTPE: Society of Motion Picture and
SML: Shared Memory Link
Television Engineers
SML: Siemens Modular Link See http://www.smpte.org (Organizations)
SML: Smart Markup Language SMU: System Management Utility
The goal of SML is to enable automation of all interactions
with XML documents providing general methods to represent
SMX: Server Macro eXpansion
a set of smart device functions SN: Serial Number
SML: Standard Machine Language SNA: Survivable Network Analysis
SML: Standard Meta Language (Security)
SML/NJ: Standard Meta Language/New Jersey SNA: System Network Architecture

The proprietary network architecture of IBM (Network) (IBM)
SMLI: Stateful Multi-Layer Inspection
SNACP: System Network Architecture Control
SMM: System Management Mode Protocol
(Intel)
(Network)
SMM: System Manager's Manual SNADS: System Network Architecture
SMOBC: Solder Mask Over Bare Copper Distribution Service
(Network) (IBM)
SMOR: Storage Manager On Rom
(Hardware) (DPT) SNAFU: Situation Normal All Fouled Up
(Net lingo)
SMP: Simple Management Protocol
SNAM: Server Net Access Manager
SMP: Smart Messaging Protocol
(Network)
(Communication) (Nokia)
SNAP: Sub-Network Access Protocol
SMP: Software Motion Picture
SNAP: SubNetwork Attachment Point
SMP: Symbolic Manipulation Program
SNAP: System and Network Administration
SMP: Symmetric MultiProcessing
Program
A form of multiprocessing in which more than one processor
can run kernel-level code simultaneously (Hardware) SNAPI: Structured N-dimensional Application
SMP: System Modification Program
(Oracle)
(Software)
SNAT: Secure Network Address Translation
SMP/E: System Modification Program/Extended
Provides a secure mechanism for translating internal,
(Software)
nonroutable addresses into routable addresses. As traffic
SMPC: Shared Memory Parallel Computer flows out of a data center, the gateway and source address of
IP packets are translated and switched to the appropriate
SMPP: Short Message Peer to Peer protocol
upstream gateway router (Network)
SMPP, developed by Logica Aldiscon is intended as a way of
providing an open and generic interface between an ESME SNCA: Solaris Network Cache and Accelerator
and a SMSC for message transfer (Sun)
SMPS: Switching Mode Power Supply SNCP: Single Node Control Point
S
SMPTE: Society of Motion Picture & Television SND: SouND
Engineers File Format for music
(Organizations)
SNEWS: Secure NEWs Server
SMRAM: System Management Random Access
SNF: Server Natural Format
Memory
SNI: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme
SMS: Short Message Service
SNI: Site Need Index
SMS: System Managed Storage
(Hardware) (IBM) SNI: Sna Network Interconnection
SMS: System Management Server SNI: Subscriber Network Interface
SMSC: Short Message Service Centre SNIA: Storage Networking Industry Association
(Organizations)
SMSW: Store Machine Status Word
SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol
SMT: Station ManagemenT
The protocol that manages networks. SNMP-enabled devices
SMT: Surface-Mount Technology can communicate with each other (Network)
(Hardware)

SNMPSEC SPAP
SNMPSEC: Simple Network Management SOM: Scripting Object Model

Protocol SECurity (Software)
(Security)
SOM: Self-Organizing Map
SNNS: Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator Algorithm used to visualize and interpret large high-
dimensional data sets. Typical applications are visualization
SNOBOL: StriNg Oriented symBOlic Language of process states or financial results by representing the
Programming Language (Software) central dependencies within the data on the map
SNP: Serial Number/Password SOM: Start Of Message
SNPP: Simple Network Paging Protocol (Communication)
(Network)
SOM: Structured Object Method
SNQP: Simple Nomenclator Query Protocol SOM: System Object Model
(Network) (Operating systems) (IBM)
SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio SONAR: SOund Navigation And Ranging
SNRM: Set Normal Response Mode SONDS: Small Office Network Data System
(Communication)
SONET: Synchronous Optical NETwork
SNRME: Set Normal Response Mode Extended North American transport standard for optical networks with
(Communication) speeds from approximately 52 Mb/s (OC-1) to 10 Gb/s (OC-
SNS: Subject Name Server 192) (Network)
SNTP: Simple Network Time Protocol SOP: Small Outline Package

(Network) SOP: Standard Operating Procedure
SO: Security Officer SOS: Silicon On Sapphire
SO: Serial Output (Hardware)
(Hardware) SOS: Sophisticated Operating System
SOA: Service Oriented Architecture SOS: Standard and Open System
Is essentially a collection of services. These services
SOTA: State Of The Art
communicate with each other. The communication can
involve either simple data passing or it could involve two or SOW: Statement of Work
more services coordinating some activity (Software)
SOX: Schema for Object-oriented Xml
SOA: Start Of Authority Is a schema proposal that includes extensible data types,
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol namespaces, and embedded documentation
(Software) SOX: SOund eXchange
SOB: Start Of Block SP: Sequence Processor
SOC: Separation Of Concerns SP: Service Pack
Software development technique used in aspect-oriented
SP: Signal Processor
programming (AOP) (Software)
SP: Solution Provider
SOC: System On a Chip
(Hardware) SP: Stack Pointer
SOCKS: SOCKet Secure
SP: System Product
SODIMM: Small Outline Dual In-line Memory
Module SP3: Secure Portable Player Platform
S (Hardware) SPA: Secure Password Authentication
SO-DIMM: Small Outline Dual In line Memory (Microsoft)
Module SPA: Service Provider Api
SOE: Standard Operating Environment SPA: Software Publishers Association
SOEP: Secondary Operand Execution Pipeline (Organizations)
SOG: Service Order Gateway SPAG: Standards Promotion and Application

Group
SOH: Start Of Header
(Communication) SPAN: Space Physics Analysis Network
SOHO: Small Office/Home Office SPAN: Switched Port Analyzer
Cisco feature that selects network traffic for analysis by a
SOI: Silicon On Insulator
network analyzer such as a SwitchProbe device or other
(Hardware) Remote Monitoring (RMON) probe (Network) (Cisco)
SOJ: Small-Outline J-lead SPAP: Shiva Password Authentification Protocol
(Hardware) (Security)
SOL: Simulation Oriented Language

SPARC SPOOL
SPARC: Scalable Processor ARChitecture SPI: Serial Peripheral Interface

Architecture based on a reduced instruction set computer
SPI: Service Provider Interface
(RISC) concept. Sun and its suppliers designed the
architecture to significantly improve price and performance SPI: Smart Plug-In
(Hardware) (Sun)
SPI: Stateful Packet Inspection
SPARQL: Simple Protocol And Rdf Query (Security)
Language
SPI: Stream Programming Interface
SPB: Stored Procedure Builder (Software)
Development environment for creating, installing and testing
stored procedures (Databases) (IBM)
SPI: System Packet Interface
(Network)
SPC: Scsi-3 Primary Command
SPI: System Programming Interface
SPC: Small Peripheral Controller
SPI-2: Scsi Parallel Interface - version 2
SPC: Software Publishing Certificate Contains all pertinent features from SCSI-2, SPI, and Fast-
A PKCS #7 signed-data object containing X.509 certificates 20 plus the new features of Fast-40 and Low Voltage
(Security) Differential. SPI-2 is a complete definition of the parallel
SCSI physical and protocol layers
SPC: Software Publishing Corp..
SPC: Statistical Process Control SPI-3: Scsi Parallel Interface - version 3
Contains all pertinent features from SPI-2 plus the new
SPC: Stored Program Control features of Fast-80 (160 MByte/Sec on 16-bit buses) and
SPCF: Service Point Command Facility packetized protocol. Thus SPI-3 is a complete definition of
the parallel SCSI physical and protocol layers
SPCS: Stored Program Controlled Switch
SPID: Service Profile IDentifier
SPD: Security Policy Database (Network)
Specifies what services are to be offered to IP datagrams and
in what fashion (Network) SPIKE: Science Planning Intelligent Knowledge-
based Environment
SPD: Serial Presence Detect
SPIRE: Spatial Paradigm for Information
SPD: Software Product Description Retrieval and Exploration
(Software)
SPIRES: Stanford Public Information REtrieval
SPD: System Products Division System
Proprietary AS/400 I/O bus (Hardware) (IBM)
SPKI: Simple Public Key Infrastructure
SPDL: Standard Page Description Language (Security)
SPDU: Session Protocol Data Unit SPKM: Simple Public-Key Mechanism
SPE: System Policy Editor SPL: Schedule Plus type Library
It provides an administrator with the means to centrally (Software) (Microsoft)
manage Windows desktop environments, and is a flexible
alternative to mandatory user profiles (Operating systems) SPL: Set Priority Level
(Microsoft) SPL: SPelL checker
SPEC: Standard Performance Evaluation File name extension
Corporation SPL: SPooLer
A group of participating computer system manufacturers that
develops a series of accepted test programs to measure SPL: Stored Procedure Language
system computing performance (Databases)
SPECFS: SPECial File System SPL: System Programming Language

A pseudo file system that provides access to character (HP) S
special and block devices (Operating systems)
SPLD: Simple Programmable Logic Device
SPEM: Software Process Engineering SPM: Statistical Packet Multiplexing
Metamodel
Technology to dynamically allocate bandwidth to active
This metamodel is used to describe a concrete software circuits (Network)
development process or a family of related software
development processes SPM: System Performance Monitor
(IBM)
SPF: Shortest Path First
(Network) SPM/2: System Performance Monitor/2
SPF: Stateful Packet Filter SPN: Service Principal Name
(Network) The name by which a client uniquely identifies an instance of
a service. If you install multiple instances of a service, each
SPF: System Programming Facility instance must have its own SPN
SPGA: Staggered Pin Grid Array SPOC: Single Point Of Contact
SPOF: Single Point Of Failure
SPI: Scsi Parallel Interface
SPOOL: Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On
SPI: Security Parameter Index Line

SPOT SRM-E
SPOT: Shared Product Object Tree SQLJ: Structured Query Language for Java
(IBM) (Databases)
SPP: Scalable Parallel Processing SQM: Software Quality Management

(Software)
SPP: Sequenced Packet Protocol
SPP: Standard Printer Port SQoS: Secure Quality Of Service
SPPS: Scalable Power Parallel System SQRT: SQuare RooT

(IBM) SR: Service Release
SPR: Software Problem Report SR: Shift Register
A bug report. (Software)
SR: Speech Recognition
SPR: Special Purpose Register SR: Status Register
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
SPR: Statistical Pattern Recognition SRAM: Shadow Random Access Memory
SPR: Symmetrical Phase Recording SRAM: Static Random Access Memory
SPREAD: Systems Programming, Research, SRAPI: Speech Recognition Application
Engineering And Development Programming Interface
(IBM)
SRAT: Static Resource Affinity Table
SPS: Secure Packet Shield Can be used to describe the physical location of processors
SPS: Shock Protection System and memory in large-scale systems, allowing threads and
memory to be grouped in an optimal manner (Operating
SPS: Standby Power System systems) (Microsoft)
SPS: Structured PostScript SRB: Source-Route Bridge
That PostScript code which has been commented and
structured in a strict way to enable filters and print spoolers SRC: SouRCe
to manipulate it without actually processing any of the File name extension
PostScript code
SRC: System Resource Controller
SPS: Symantec Product Specialist (IBM)
(Symantec)
SRD: Screen ReaDer system
SPSS: Statistical Package for the Social SRD: Support Readiness Document
Sciences Free documents that focus on installation, configuration, and
(Software) common user problems related to various Java platforms and
SPT: Scsi Pass Through tools (Sun)
SPT: Sectors Per Track SRDRAM: Self-Refreshed Dynamic Random

Access Memory
SPTI: Scsi Pass-Through Interface
SRE: Self Routing switch Element
SPTS: SharePoint Team Service
(Software) (Microsoft) SRF: Service Resource Function
SPU: System Processing Unit sRGB: Standard Red Green Blue

(Hardware)
SPUC/DL: Serial Peripheral Unit
Controller/Data Link SRGS: Speech Recognition Grammar
Specification
SPUD: Storage Pedestal Upgrade Disk
Grammar intended for use by speech recognizers and other
S SPX: Sequenced Packet Exchange grammar processors so that developers can specify the
(Network) (Novell) words and patterns of words to be listened for by a speech
recognizer. See also http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar/
SQ: SQueezed
SRL: Segmentation and Reassembly Layer
SQE: Signal Quality Error
SRM: Security Reference Monitor
SQFP: Small Quad Flat Package
IC package
SRM: Storage Resource Manager
(Software)
SQL: Structured Query Language
The international standard language for defining and
SRM: Supplier Relationship Management
accessing relational databases (Databases) Software enabling a company or entity to better coordinate
activities and share information with suppliers (Software)
SQL/CLI: Structured Query Language/Call
Level Interface SRMD: Security Risk Management Discipline
Detailed process that is useful in determining which threats
SQL/DS: Structured Query Language/Data and vulnerabilities have the most potential impact on a
System particular organization (Security) (Microsoft)
(IBM)
SRM-E: Service Resource Module Enhanced
(Network) (Cisco)

SRMP SSP
SRMP: Soap Reliable Messaging Protocol SSCP: System Services Control Point
SRMP enhances SOAP by defining additional headers that
SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner
ensure reliability in application-to-application
communication (Software) SSCS: Service Specific Convergence Sublayer
SRN: Source/Recipient Node SSCS: Solid-State Circuits Society
(Organizations)
SRO: Sharable and Read Only
SRP: Secure Remote Password SSD: Solid State Disk
Secure password-based authentication and key-exchange SSDD: Same S**t Different Day
protocol. See also http://srp.stanford.edu/ (Security) (Net lingo)
SRP: Security Rollup Package SSDP: Simple Service Discovery Protocol
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
SRP: Source Routing Protocol SSDU: Session Service Data Unit

SRP: Suggested Retail Price SSE: Software Support Engineer
SRPI: Server-Requester Programming SSE: Streaming Simd Extensions
Interface Xeon CPU extension to the instruction set (Hardware) (Intel)
(IBM)
SSEC: Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator
SRQ: Service ReQuest (IBM)
SRR: Serially Reusable Resource SSF: Service Switching Function
SRS: Screen Reader System SSFDC: Solid State Floppy Disc Card
SRS: Shared Registration System Also known as SmartMedia (Hardware)
(Network) SSG: Service Selection Gateway
SRS: Sound Retrieval System (Network) (Cisco)
SRVIFS: SeRVer Installable File System SSGA: System Support Gate Array
SS: Single-Sided SSH: Secure SHell

(Hardware) SSH: Site Security Handbook
SS: Solid State (Security)
(Hardware) SSI: Server-Side Include
SS: Stack Segment SSI: Single System Image
SSI: Small-Scale Integration
SS/SNA: Server to Server System Network The process of placing fewer than 10 components on one
Architecture chip (Hardware)
SS7: Signaling System 7 SSID: Service Set IDentifier
SSA: Serial Storage Architecture (Network)
(Hardware) SSJS: Server-Side JavaScript
SSA: Survivable Systems Analysis (Software)
Practical engineering process that enables you to SSL: Secure Sockets Layer
systematically assess the survivability properties of A protocol for secure network communications using a
proposed systems, existing systems, and modifications to combination of public and secret key technology (Security)
existing systems (Security)
SSL: Synthesizer Specification Language
SSA: System Software Associates
SSM: Source Specific Multicast S
SSAD: Structured System Analysis and Design Extension of IP multicast where datagram traffic is forwarded
SSADM: Structured System Analysis and to receivers from only those multicast sources to which the
Design Method receivers have explicitly joined (Network)
SSAP: Session Service Access Point SSML: Speech Synthesis Markup Language
Markup specification for voice browsers designed to provide
SSAP: Source Service Access Point a rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the
SSB: Single SideBand generation of synthetic speech in Web and other applications.
See also http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/
SSBAM: Single SideBand Amplitude Modulation
SSO: Single Sign-On
SSC: Scsi Stream Command (Security)
SSCE: Site Server Commerce Edition SSP: Security Support Provider
(Microsoft)
A dynamic-link library that implements the SSPI by making
SSCF: Service Specific Coordination Function one or more security packages available to applications.
Each security package provides mappings between an
SSCOP: Service Specific Connection Orientated application's SSPI function calls and an actual security
Protocol model's functions (Security)
SSCP: Service Switching Control Point SSP: Service Switching Point

SSP STP
SSP: Silicon Switch Processor STDERR: STanDard ERRor

SSP: Storage Service Provider STDIN: STanDard INput
SSP: Switch to Switch Protocol STDM: Statistical Time Division Multiplexer
SSP: System Stack Pointer STDOUT: STanDard OUTput
SSP: System Support Program STDPRN: STanDard PRiNter
IBM s/36 operating system (Operating systems) (IBM)
STE: Section Terminating Equipment
SSPI: Security Support Provider Interface STEP: STandard for the Exchange of Product
A common interface between transport-level applications,
data
such as Remote Procedure Call (RPC), and security
Is a major International Standards Organisation (ISO) effort
providers. SSPI allows a transport application to call one of
to standardise methods for the exchange of data from many
several security providers to obtain an authenticated
fields of engineering
connection (Security)
STEP: Standard Template for Electronic
SSRP: Simple Server Redundancy Protocol
Publishing
(Cisco)
STF: STructured File
SSS: System Support Station
File name extension (Lotus)
(Hardware)
STFG: Search The Friendly Google
SSSD: Single Sided Single Density
(Net lingo)
SST: Shiva Smart Tunneling
STFN: Surf The F***ing Net
SST: Simple Sipp Transition For those who RTFM, and still couldn't work it out (Net lingo)
SST: Spread-Spectrum Technology STFU: Shut The F**k Up
SST: Sustained Stewardship Teraflop (Net lingo)
(IBM) STFW: Search The F***ing Web
SST: Swedish Summer Time Answer for easy-find questions (Net lingo)
Timezone: GMT +1:00 STI: SeT Interrupt flag
SST: Systems Services and Technology STING: Software Technology INterest Group
SSTP: Shared Spanning Tree Protocol STIX: SmallTalk Interface to X
(Network)
STK: Satellite ToolKit
SSU: System Setup Utility Graphical, object-oriented software for satellite and space
SSX: Small Services eXecutive station orbital and sensor coverage analysis (Software)
Operating system (Operating systems) STL: Standard Template Library
STA: Single Threaded Apartment (Software)
A threading context for components that require a message STM: Scanning Tunneling Microscope
queue or thread affinity. Access to components in an STA is (Hardware)
by definition synchronized (Software) (Microsoft)
STM: Synchronous Transfer Mode
STA: Spanning Tree Algorithm
STM: Synchronous Transport Module
STAR: Self-defining Text ARchival (Communication)
STAR: Shareware Trade Association and STN: Super-Twist Nematic
Resources LCD display technology (Hardware)
StAX: STreaming Api for Xml STN-LCD: SuperTwist Nematic Liquid Crystal
S STB: Set-Top Box Display
(Hardware) STONE: STructured and OpeN Environment
STB: Simply The Best STOS: STOre String
Name of many companies
STP: Secure Transfer Protocol
STB: Software Technical Bulletin
STP: Service Transaction Program
STB: STroBe
STP: Shielded Twisted Pair
STC: SeT Carry flag (Hardware)
STC: Sub-Technical Committee STP: Signal Transfer Point
STD: SeT Direction flag StP: Software Through Pictures
STD: STanDard STP: Spanning Tree Protocol
STD: State Transition Diagram STP: Straight Through Processing
STDA: StreetTalk Directory Assistance Ability to take a financial transaction though complete
(Banyan) confirmation automatically
STDAUX: STanDard AUXiliary STP: Synchronized Transaction Processing

STPML SWIG
STPML: Straight Through Processing Markup SUSP: System Use Sharing Protocol
Language
SUT: Socket Under Test
An XML message specification designed for the financial
securities trading industry to meet the requirements of SUTT: Single User Test Tools
straight through processing
SVC: Switched Virtual Circuit
STPP: Strategic Technology Protection Program Virtual connection set up only for the duration of a single
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) communications session. In contrast, a permanent virtual
circuit remains available at all times (Network)
STR: Store Task Register
SVCD: Super Video Compact Disc
STR: Suspend To Ram (Hardware)
Power saving state
SVF: Simple Vector Format
STR: Synchronous Transmitter Receiver
SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics
STRESS: STRuctural Engineering System Solver
Programming language SVGA: Super Video Graphics Array
Video specification for a resolution of 800 X 600 pixels in
STRUDL: STRUctural Design Language 256 colors (Hardware)
Programming language
S-VHS: Super Video Home System
STS: Synchronous Transport Signal
SONET signal (Communication)
SVI: Switched Virtual Interface
Represents a VLAN of switch ports as one interface to the
STT: Secure Transaction Technology routing or bridging function in the system (Network)
(Microsoft)
SVID: System V Interface Definition
STTL: Standard Transistor Transistor Logic Applies to the Unix OS (Operating systems)
(Hardware)
SVM: System Virtual Machine
STTS: Simple Tree Transformation Sheets (Microsoft)
STX: Start of TeXt SVM: System Volume Mangement
(Communication)
SVN: Switched Virtual Network
STX: Streaming Transformations for Xml (IBM)
One-pass transformation language for XML documents. STX
SVR: SerVeR
is intended as a high-speed, low memory consumption
alternative to XSLT. See http://stx.sourceforge.net/ SVR4: System V Release 4
(Software)
SVRn: System V Release n
STY: STYle Applies to the Unix OS (Operating systems)
File name extension
SVS: Symmetric Virtual Servers
SU: Scalable Unit
SW: SoftWare
(Hardware)
SW: Status Word
SUA: Single User Account
Allows multiple users to share a single IP address (either SWAC: Standards Western Automatic Calculator
dynamic or static) assigned by your Internet Service
SWAIS: Simple Wide Area Information Server
Provider (ISP) (Network)
SWAK: Sealed With A Kiss
SUB: SUBroutine
Saying goodbye (Net lingo)
SUB: SUBstitute
SWAN: Sun Wide Area Network
SUB: SUBtract
SWAP: Shared Wireless Access Protocol
SUE: Stupid User Error (Communication) S
(Net lingo)
SWAP: Simple Workflow Access Protocol
SUG: Sun User's Group
SWAP: Stewart Warner Array Program
SUMA: Software Upgrade and Maintenance
SWAR: Simd Within A Register
Agreement
A form of parallelism used in most microprocessors.
(Software)
Examples include MMX, SSE, SSE2, and 3DNow instructions
SUN: Stanford University Network (Hardware)
SUNET: Swedish University NETwork SWBPD: Semantic Web Best Practices and
SUNVIEW: SUN's Visual Integrated Deployment
Environment for Workstations SWF: ShockWave Format
File format
SUR: Shell Update Release
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) SWI: SoftWare Interrupts
SURAnet: Southeastern Universities Research SWIFT: Society for Worldwide Interbank
Association NETwork Financial Telecommunication
SUS: Software Update Services SWIG: Simplified Wrapper and Interface
Software update management solution (Software) (Microsoft) Generator

SWIM TAP
SWIM: System Wide Information Management SYSGEN: SYStem GENerator

(Network)
SYSLOG: SYStem LOG
SWISH: Simple Web Indexing System for SYSMOD: SYStem MODification
Humans
SYSOP: SYStem OPerator
SWMBO: She Who Must Be Obeyed
(Net lingo) SYSREQ: SYStem REQuest
SWOP: Specifications for Web Offset SZ: Send Zmodem

Publications
These specifications standardize the submission of materials T
supplied to web offset publications, and areas of
responsibility for each of the involved industry segments.
T: Tera
See http://www.swop.org/ (Organizations) Prefix for 10 power 12 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 40)
SWP: Simple Web Printing T&E: Travel And Entertainment

(Software)
SWP: SWaP
File name extension T&L: Transform And Lighting
Graphics function
SWRL: Semantic Web Rule Language
Intended to be the rule language of the Semantic Web T/B: Top/Bottom
SWS: Sun Web Server T/R: Transmit/Receive

(Sun) T9: Typing on 9 keys
SWS: Symantec Web Security TA: Technical Assembly
(Symantec)
TA: Terminal Adapter
SWT: Standard Widget Toolkit An ISDN-compatible device that converts non-ISDN
(Software) transmission to ISDN transmission (Hardware)
SWT: Swedish Winter Time TAB: Tape Automated Bonding
Timezone: GMT +1:00 (Hardware)
SWTX: Server Workstation Technology TAC: Technical Assistance Center
eXtended (Cisco)
A size and form factor specification for motherboards
TAC: Terminal Access Controller
(Hardware)
TACACS: Terminal Access Controller Access-
SX: SimpleX
Control System
(Communication)
(Network)
SXGA: Super eXtended Graphics Array
TACS: Total Access Communication System
Video specification for a resolution of 1280 X 1024 pixel
(Hardware) TAD: Telephone Answering Device
SXGA+: Super eXtended Graphics Array Plus TAF: Transparent Application Failover
Video specification for a resolution of 1400 X 1050 pixels (Databases) (Oracle)
(Hardware)
TAG: Technical Advisory Group
SXI: StarOffice Impress TAG: Telecommunications Access Gateway
Star/Open Office presentation file extension (Software)
(Communication)
SXQL: Simple Xml Query Language TAL: Typed Assembly Language
SYL: See You Later (Software)
S (Net lingo)
TalAE: TALigent Application Environment
SYLK: SYmbolic LinK (Software)
T SYM: SYMbols TalDE: TALigent Development Environment
File name extension
TalOS: TALigent Object Services
SYMM: SYnchronized MultiMedia TAN: Table Area Network
SYMPL: SYsteM Programming Language TAN: Tape Area Network
SYN: SYNonym TAN: TransAction Number
File name extension
TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A
SYNC: SYNChronous Free Lunch
SYS: SYStem (Net lingo)
SYS: SYStem configuration TAO: Track-At-Once
File name extension CD recording methodology (Hardware)
SYS: SYStem device driver TAP: Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol
File name extension
TAP: Terminal Access Point
SYSADMIN: SYStem ADMINistrator

TAPCIS TDCC
TAPCIS: The Access Program for the TCB: Trusted Code Base
Compuserve Information Service (Software)
TAPI: Telephony Application Programming T-CCS: Transparent Common Channel Signaling

Interface (Hardware) (Cisco)
TCK: Test Compatibility Kit
TAR: Tape ARchive (Software) (Sun)
TARFU: Things Are Really F***ed Up TCL: Tool Control Language
(Net lingo)
TCL/TK: Tool Control Language ToolKit
TAS: Telcom Analysis System
TCM: Technology Change Management
(Hardware)
(Software)
TAS: Telephone Access Server
TCM: Thermal Conduction Module
TAS: Total Access System
TCM: Time Compression Multiplexer
TAS: Totalnet Advanced Server
TCM: Trellis-Coded Modulation
(Hardware) (Sun)
TCO: Tjänstemännens Central Organization
TASM: Turbo ASseMbler Swedish organization establishing norms for monitor
electromagnetic emissions (Organizations)
TAT: Theoretical Arrival Time TCO: Total Cost of Ownership
TAXI: Transparent Asynchronous Transceiver TCP: Tape-Carrier Package
Interface
(Hardware)
TB: TeraByte TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
1024 gigabytes
A communications protocol that ensures data is sent
TBAV: ThunderByte Anti Virus between computers on the Internet (Network)
(Software) TCP/IP: Transmission Control
TBBS: The Bread Board System Protocol/Internet Protocol
The protocol suite originally developed for the Internet. Also
TBC: Time Base Corrector
called Internet Protocol suite (Network)
TBGA: Tape Ball Grid Array TCPA: Trusted Computing Platform Alliance
(Hardware)
(Intel)
TBH: To Be Honest TCP-ACO: Transmission Control Protocol
(Net lingo) Alternate Checksum Option
TBK: ToolBooK TCPBEUI: Transmission Control Protocol Bios
File name extension Extended User Interface
TBMT: Transmitter Buffer eMpTy TCPC: The Clean Personal Computer group
(Hardware)
TCPLDP: Transmission Control Protocol
TBO: Total Benefit of Ownership extensions for Long Delay Paths
TBT: Technology Based Training TCPLW: Transmission Control Protocol Large
TBU: Tape Backup Unit Windows
(Network)
TC: Technical Committee
TCPSAT: Transmission Control Protocol over
TC: Test Control
SATellite
TC: Transmission Control (Network)
(Communication)
TCQ: Tagged Command Queuing
TC: Transmission Convergence SCSI feature to allow multiple I/O requests T
(Communication)
TCSEC: Trusted Computer Systems Evaluation
TCA: Transaction Cost Analysis Criteria
Methodology that can be used to measure the cost of
TCSH: Trusted C SHell
individual shopper operations such as registering, browsing,
searching a catalog, adding an item to a shopping cart, TD: Transmit Data
checking out, and so on (Microsoft) (Hardware)
TCAM: TeleCommunication Access Method TDA: To Do Archive
(IBM) Filename extension
TCAP: Transaction Capabilities Application Part TDC: Tabular Data Control
Adds transaction based functionality to the Public Switch
TDC: Tape Data Controller
Telephone Network (PSTN)
TCAV: Trend Chip Away Virus TDC: Terrestrial Data Circuit
Antivirus hardware for motherboards that blocks boot-time TDCC: Transportation Data Coordinating
viruses (Hardware) Committee

TD-CDMA THD
TD-CDMA: Time Division Code Division Multiple TELCO: TELephone Central Office
Access (Communication)
(Communication)
TeleVAS: TELEphony Value Added Service
TDD: Telecommunications Device for the Deaf
TELNET: TELephone NETwork
TDE: Terminal Display Editor TEML: Turbo Editor Macro Language
TDES: Triple Data Encryption Standard (Borland)
(Security)
TEMP: TEMPorary
TDF: Trace Definition File
TEMS: Tornado Electronic Messaging Service
File name extension (IBM)
(Software)
TDF: Typeface Definition File TEN: TransEuropean Network
File name extension
TER: Thermal Eclipse Reading
TDI: Transport Data Interface (Sony)
TDL: Test Description Language
TERM: Technology Enabled Relationship
TDM: Technical Document Management Management
TDM: Telecom Designed Network TERMCAP: TERMinal CAPability
TDM: Text Data Mining TERMINFO: TERMinal INFOrmation
TDM: Time-Division Multiplexing TERMPWR: TERMinator PoWeR
Multiplexing technique that apportions the time available on
TESS: The Exponential Security System
its composite link equally between its channels, interleaving
(Security)
data from successive channels (Communication)
TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access TETRA: TErrestrial Trunked RAdio
Modern digital Private Mobile Radio (PRM) and Public Access
TDMATBICPLY: This Doesn't Mean A Thing But Mobile Radio (PAMR) technology for police, ambulance and
It Confuses People Like You fire services, security services, utilities, military etc.
TDMS: Terminal Display Management System TFDD: Text File Device Driver
TDP: Tag Distribution Protocol TFEL: Thin-Film ELectroluminescent
TDP: Telelocator Data Protocol TFI: Terminal Facility Identifier
TDP: Triton Data Path TFM: Tagged Font Metric
File name extension
TDR: Time Domain Reflectometry
TFP: Tops Filing Protocol
TDS: Tabular DataStream
Database client to server communication protocol TFS: Translucent File Service
(Databases) A copy-on-write file system that enables users to share file
hierarchies while providing each user with a private hierarchy
TDS: Tex Directory Structure
for saving files as they are modified
TDSR: Transmitter Data Service Request
TFT: Task File Table
TDtoDP: Tablet Coordinates TO Display
TFT: Thin Film Transistor
Coordinates
LCD monitors manufacturing technology (Hardware)
TE: Terminal Equipment
TFTP: Trivial File Transfer Protocol
An ISDN-compatible terminal device that is attached to the
Simple version of the FTP protocol often used to transfer data
ISDN at the user interface
with diskless workstations, X-terminals and routers (Network)
TE/2: Terminal Emulator/2
TFTPD: Trivial File Transfer Protocol Daemon
TEAMA: Taiwanese Electric Appliance
T Manufacturer's Association
Server-side TFTP service responsible for hosting specific file
download requests made by the client
TEB: Thread Environment Block TGA: TarGA
TEC: Tokyo Electronics Corporation File format for images
TECO: Text Editor and COrrector TGC: Terminal Group Controller
TED: Tiny EDitor TGIF: Thank Goodness It's Friday

(Net lingo)
TED: Transient Electromagnetic Device
(Hardware)
TGP: Thumbnail Gallery Post
TEDIS: Trade Electronic Data Interchange TGT: Ticket Granting Ticket

Systems (Security)
TEI: Terminal Endpoint Identifier TH: Transmission Header

(Communication)
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative
THD: Total Harmonic Distortion
TEL: Tivoli Enterprise Console
A sound quality parameter (lower is better) (Hardware)

THEnet TM
THEnet: Texas Higher Education NETwork TIPHON: Telecommunications and Internet

Protocol Harmonzation Over Networks
THOMAS: The House of representatives Open
ETSI Standard to support the market for voice
Multimedia Access System
communication and related voice band communication
THOR: Tandy High-performance Optical between users. It will ensure that users connected to IP
Recording based networks can communicate with users in Switched
Circuit Networks
THR: Transmit Holding Register
TIS: Tools Interface Standard
THS: THeSaurus
File name extension TIS: Transaction Information System
THT: Token Holding Timer TITOFET: Tunneling-In, Tunneling-Out Field
Effect Transistor
THX: Tomlinson Holman eXperiment
Certification and quality control program that applies to TK/TK: TracK to TracK
sound systems and acoustics in theaters, home equipment, TKIP: Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
and digital mastering processes (Security)
TI: Texas Instruments TL1: Translation Language 1
TI: Transport Independent (Communication)
TIA: Telecommunications Industry Association TLA: Three Letters Acronym

TIA: Thank you In Advance TLB: Translation Look-aside Buffer
(Net lingo) (Hardware)
TIA: The Internet Adapter TLD: Tag Library Descriptor
TIB: Tag Information Base (Software) (Sun)
TiB: TebIByte TLD: Top Level Domain

Unit of measurement, introduced by the International (Network)
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 TLDA: Technology License and Distribution
GiB Agreement
TIC: Total Initial Cost TLE: Template Language Extensions
TID: Target IDentifier (Software)
TIES: Time Independent Escape Sequence TLI: Transport Layer Interface

An interface that is to supersede the socket-based
TIF: Tagged Image File
interprocess communications mechanisms as the way to
Filename extension access transport services. Modeled after the industry
TIFF: Tagged Image File Format standard ISO Transport Service Definition (Communication)
File format for images TLN: Trunk Line Network
TIGA: Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture TLP: Transmission Level Point
(Hardware) (TI)
TLS: Thread Local Storage
TIGER: Topologically Integrated Geographic (Software)
Encoding and Referencing
TLS: Transport Layer Security
TIIAP: Telecommunications and Information A protocol from the IETF based on SSL. It will eventually
Infrastructure Assistance Program supersede SSL while remaining backward-compatible with
TIL: Tech Information Library SSL implementations (Security)
TIM: Technical Information Memo TLSWG: Transport Layer Security Working

Group
(Compaq)
(Organizations)
TIME: Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions
TLU: Table LookUp T
TIMI: Technology Independent Machine
Interface TLX: TeLeX
(IBM) TM: TradeMark
TIMS: Text Information Management Systems TM: Traffic Management
TINA: Telecommunication Information (Communication)
Networking Architecture TM: Transaction Manager
TINA-C: Telecommunication Information TM: Transaction Monitor
Networking Architecture Consortium
TM: Translation Memory
TIP: Terminal Interface Processor Also known as translation database, is a collections of
TIP: Text Input Processor entries where a source text is associated with its
corresponding translation in one or more target languages
(Software)
TM: Transmission and Multiplexing
TIP: Transaction Internet Protocol
(Communication)
TIP: Transputer Image Processing

TMA tpi
TMA: Transparent Media Adapter TNT: The News Toolkit

Scanner add-on to acquire material on transparent media See also NeWS (Sun)
(Hardware)
Tnx: ThanKS
TMDA: Tagged Message Delivery Agent (Net lingo)
TMDB: Tivoli Management DataBase TOC: Table Of Contents
TMDS: Transition-Minimized Differential TOD: Time Of Day
Signaling
TODC: Time-Of-Day Clock
(Hardware)
A clock module that contains the system date and time (year-
TME: Tivoli Management Environment month-day-hour-minutes). (Hardware)
(Tivoli)
TODS: Transactions On Database Systems
TMF: Tivoli Management Framework TOE: Tcp Off-load Engine
TMF: Transaction Monitoring Facility (Hardware)
TMI: Too Much Information TOEFL: Test Of English as a Foreign Language
(Net lingo)
TOF: Tiny Open Firmware
TML: TeMpLate TOGAF: The Open Group Architecture
File name extension
Framework
TMN: Telecommunication Management Network TOMS: Transactions On Mathematical Software
(Communication)
TOOIS: Transactions On Office Information
TMP: TeMPorary Systems
File name extension
TOP: Technical Office Protocol
TMPFS: TeMPorary File System
A file system type that uses local memory for disk reads and
TOPICS: Total Online Program and Information
writes (Operating systems) Control System
TMR: Transient Memory Record TOPLAS: Transactions On Programming

Languages And Systems
TMR: Triple Modular Redundancy
tops: Theoretical Operations Per Second
TMS: Time Multiplexed Switch Processing power (Hardware)
TMS: Traffic Management System TOPS: Timesharing OPerating System
TMS: Truth Maintenance System TOS: Terms Of Service
TMSC: Tape Mass Storage Control TOS: The Operating System
TMX: Translation Memory eXchange TOS: Time Of Service
Vendor-neutral open XML standard for the exchange of
Translation Memory (TM) data created by Computer- ToS: Type Of Service
Assisted Translation (CAT) software A field within an IP header which can be used by the device
originating the packet, or by an intermediate networking
TN: Twisted Nematic device, to signal a request for a specific QoS level (Network)
(Hardware)
TP: Transaction Processing
TNC: Terminal Node Controller
TP: Turbo Pascal
TNC: Threaded Neill Concelman
TP: Twisted Pair
TNEF: Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format
Format for converting a set of MAPI properties into a serial
TPC: Transaction Processing Council
data stream. Primarily used by transport providers that need (Organizations)
to encode MAPI message properties for transmission TPCP: Two Phase Commit Protocol
through a messaging system that does not support those
T properties directly (Software) (Microsoft)
(Communication)
TPD: Tail Packet Discard
TNFS: Trusted Network File System
(Network)
(Security)
TPD: Technical Product Documentation
TNG: The New Generation
(CAI) TPDU: Transport Protocol Data Unit
TNIEG: Trusted Network Interpretation TPE: Twisted Pair Ethernet
Environmental Guideline TPF: Tiny Personal Firewall
(Network) Software firewall produced byTiny Software, Inc
TN-LCD: Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Display (http://www.tinysoftware.com/) (Security)
TNO: The Netherlands Organization TPF: Transaction Processing Facility

(IBM)
TNPC: Taiwanese New Pc Consortium
tpi: Tracks Per Inch
TNS: Trivial Name Server
Recording density (Hardware)

TPI TSN
TPI: Transport Provider Interface TROSN: The Real-time Operating System

The kernel components of the Transport Layer Interface (TLI) Nucleus
TPL: Table Producing Language TRP: Token Ring Port
TPL: Transaction Processing Language TRPC: Transactional Remote Procedure Call
TPM: Transaction Processing Manager TRR: Token Ring Repeater
tpm: Transactions Per Minute TRT: Token Rotation Timer
Processing speed
TS: Terminal Services
TPORT: Twisted pair PORT transceiver (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
(AT&T)
TS: Top Secret
TPOS: Transaction Processing Operating TS: Transaction Server
System (Software) (Microsoft)
TPPC: Transaction Processing Performance TS/SI: Top Secret/Sensitive Information
Council
(Organizations) TSA: Target Service Agent
(Operating systems) (Novell)
TP-PMD: Twisted Pair Physical layer Medium
Dependent TSA: Technical Support Alliance
TPR: Third-Party Relay TSA: Telephony Services Architecture
TPS: Transaction Processing System TSAP: Transport Service Access Point

TPS: Transactions Per Second TSAPI: Telephony Server Application
TPT: Twisted Pair Transceiver
(Novell)
TPW: Turbo Pascal for Windows TSB: Termination Status Block
TPx: Transport Protocol class x
TSC: Triton System Controller
TQFP: Thin Quad Flat Pack TSD: Type-Specific Driver
(Hardware)
TSDU: Transport Service Data Unit
TQM: Total Quality Management
The amount of user data whose identity is preserved from one
TR: Technical Report end of a transport connection to the other
TR: Terminal Ready TSE: Technical Support Engineer

TR: TRavan TSE: Terminal Server Edition
Tape medium type (TR-3, TR-4) (Hardware) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
TRADIC: TRansistorized Airborne DIgital TSE: The Semware Editor

Computer TSF: Text Services Framework
Name of first computer to be entirely transistorized Simple and scalable framework that enables advanced text
TRAM: TRAnsputer Module input and natural language technologies for applications
TrAX: TRansformation Api for Xml TSI: Time Slot Interchanger
TREX: Tree Regular Expressions for Xml TSI: Transmission Subscriber Identification
A means of expressing validation criteria by describing a TSI: Transport Security Initiative
pattern for the structure and content of an XML document Works in conjunction with the sysadmin and vendor
TRIB: Transfer Rate of Information Bits communities to develop the knowledge and tools to combat
the junk email problem. See http://mail-abuse.org/tsi/
TRIP: Telephony Routing over Internet Protocol
TSID: Transmitting Subscriber IDentifier
Discovery and exchange of IP telephony gateway routing
(Communication)
T
tables between providers
TRIPS: Trade Related aspects of Intellectual TSLM: Terminal Services License Manager
Property rightS (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
TRM: TeRMinal TSM: Tivoli Storage Manager

File name extension Protects data from hardware failures and other errors by
storing backup and archive copies of data on offline storage
TRN: Threaded Read News (IBM)
TRN: Token Ring Network TSM: Topology Specific Module
(Network) (Novell)
TRO: Total Return on Ownership TSM: Transaction Services Manager
TROLI: Token Ring Optimized Link Interface TSMP: True Symmetric MultiProcessor
TRON: The Realtime Operating system Nucleus TSN: Task Sequence Number

TSO TY
TSO: Time Sharing Option TTYL: Talk To You Later

Multitasking system for IBM MVS operating system (Net lingo)
TUC: Total User Cell
TSO/CMS: Time Sharing Option/Conversational
TUCAA: The Ultimate Computer Acronyms
Monitor System
Archive
TSOP: Thin Small-Outline Package
TUCD: Total User Cell Difference
(Hardware)
TUCOWS: The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock
TSP: Telephony Service Provider
Software
TSP: Time Stamp Protocol
TUG: Tex Users Group
(Security)
TUI: Text-based User Interface
TSP: Time Synchronization Protocol
TUMS: Table Update and Management System
TSP: Total Service Provider
TUP: Telephone User Path
TSPI: Telephony Service Provider Interface
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) TUT: Transistor Under Test
(Hardware)
T-SQL: Transact Structured Query Language
(Databases) (Microsoft) TUT: TUTorial
File name extension
TSR: Terminate and Stay Resident
TUV: Technische Überwachungs-Verein
TSS: Task State Segment (Organizations)
TSS: The Screen Savers TUX: Torvald's UniX
Technical TV show. See also
Name of the Linux penguin. (Operating systems)
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/
TV: TeleVision
TSS: Time Sharing System
(Hardware)
(Operating systems)
TVD: Total Virus Defense
TST: TeST
File name extension TVF: Table of contents Verbosely from File
TSTN: Triple SuperTwisted Nematic TVFS: Toronto Virtual File System
(IBM)
TSV: Tab Separated Values
TVI: TeleVision Interference
TSW: TeleSoftWare
TVO: Total Value of Ownership
TT: Typewriter Text
TVOL: TeleVision On-Line
TTA: Transport-Triggered Architecture
TVT: TeleVision Terminal
TTCN: Tree and Tabular Combined Notation
(Hardware)
TTDS: Trusted Time Date Stamping
TWAIN: Toolkit Without An Important Name
TTF: TrueType Font Improperly expanded as shown, this term comes from
File format for fonts Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the
twain shall meet...", reflecting the difficulty of connecting
TTFN: Ta Ta For Now
digital imaging devices (like scanners) to personal computers
That's all for now (Net lingo)
TWIP: TWentIeth of a Point
TTL: Time To Live
Equal to 1/1440th of an inch.
(Network)
TWP: Technical Working Procedure
TTL: Transistor-Transistor Logic
Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware) TWT: Travelling Wave Tube
(Hardware)
T TTP: Thermal-Transfer Printing
TWX: TeletypeWriter eXchange service
TTP: Trusted Third Parties
TX: Transmit
TTRP: Time Token Rotation Protocol
(Communication)
TTRT: Target Token Rotation Time
TXD: Transmit Data
TTS: Text-To-Speech
TXF: Tax eXchange Format
TTS: Transaction Tracking System File name extension
(Novell)
TXT: TeXT
TTS: Trouble Ticketing System File name extension
TTY: TeleTYpewriter TXT2STF: TeXT To Structured Text File
Historically, a Teletypewriter equipment. Today, any dumb (Lotus)
terminal that can access a computer or workstation
(Hardware) TY: Thank You
(Net lingo)

TYIA UDF
TYIA: Thank You In Advance UBR: Uddi Business Registry

(Net lingo) (Software)
TYS: Told You So UBR: Universal Broadband Router

(Net lingo) Router used in broadband cable systems (Communication)
TYVM: Thank You Very Much UBR: Unspecified Bit Rate

(Net lingo)
UC: UnCacheable
TZ: Time Zone Video memory access method in BIOS (Hardware)
UCAA: Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive

U (Remedios)
U: Unit UCAID: University Corporation for Advanced
Rack-mountable devices height measurement unit Internet Development
corresponding to 1.75 inches (Hardware) (Organizations)
U2W: Ultra-2-Wide UCB: Unit Control Block
(Hardware)
UCE: Unsolicited Commercial Email
UA: Unnumbered Acknowledgement
UCF: Universal Communications Facility
UA: User Agent (CAI)
An ISO/OSI application process that acts on behalf of a user
or organization in the X.400 message handling system. The
UCITA: Uniform Computer Information
UA creates, submits, and receives messages for you Transactions Act
UA: User Area UCL: Universal Communications Language
UAAG: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines UCLP: Universal Commerce Language and
W3C recommendation that provides guidelines for designing
Protocol
user agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for UCM: Unified Change Management
people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, A Change Management (CM) concept implemented by
and neurological) Rational Software Corporation (Software) (Rational)
UAB: Unix Appletalk Bridge UCR: Under Color Removal
UAC: Universal Access Control UCS: Unicode Conversion Support
UADSL: Universal Asymmetric Digital UCS: Universal Character Set
Subscriber Line
(Communication)
UCS: User Coordinate System
UAE: Unrecoverable Application Error UCSD: University of California at San Diego
UAF: User Authorization File UCSD: User Centered Systems Design

A process for developing usable systems with user focus
UAGL: User Agent accessibility GuideLines
UCT: Universal Coordinated Time
UAM: User Authentication Method
UDA: Universal Data Access
UAN: Universal Application Network (Databases)
Standards-based, service-oriented architecture that enables
organizations to solve the business integration problem UDB: Universal DataBase
within and beyond the enterprise (Software) (Databases) (IBM)
UAP: Unified Approval Procedure UDBC: Universal DataBase Connectivity

(Databases)
UAPDU: User Agent Protocol Data Unit
UDC: Universal Decimal Classification
UAProf: User Agent PROFile
UART: Universal Asynchronous UDC: User Defined Commands
Receiver/Transmitter UDD: User Data Document T
(Hardware)
UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery and
UAS: User Application Software Integration U
UAWG: Universal Adsl Working Group UD-DVD: Ultra Definition Digital Video (or
(Organizations) Versatile) Disk
(Hardware)
UBA: UniBus Adapter
UDE: Universal Data Exchange
UBB: Ultimate Bulletin Board
A message board (Software) UDEC: Universal Digital Electronic Computer
UBD: User brain damage UDF: Uniqueness Database File
When a computer user does something really weird (Net lingo) (Software) (Microsoft)
UBE: Unsolicited Bulk E-mail UDF: Universal Disk Format

(Hardware)
UBL: Universal Business Language
UDF: User-Defined Function
UBNI: Ungermann-Bass Network Interface

UDG UMTS
UDG: User Defined Gateway UID: User IDentifier

In the Unix operating system, the number assigned to each
UDI: Unrestricted Digital Information
login name. The system uses UID numbers to identify, by
(Communication)
number, the owners of files and directories (Operating
UDM: Unstructured Data Management systems)
UDMA: Ultra Direct Memory Access UID: User Interface Document

(Hardware)
UIL: User Interface Language
UDO: Ultra Density Optical UIMS: User Interface Management System
Optical storage technology that increases capacities by
using an extremely focused blue laser to write and read data. UIN: Universal Internet Number
Hewlett-Packard (HP), Sony, and Plasmon collaborated on UL: Underwriters Laboratories
the UDO standard (Hardware) (HP)
(Organizations)
UDO: User-Defined Object UL: Unordered List
(Software)
UL: UpLoad
UDP: User Datagram Protocol
It is a connectionless transport mechanism for IP networks ULA: Uncommitted Logic Array
(Communication) ULANA: Unified Local Area Network
UDP/IP: User Datagram Protocol/Internet Architecture
Protocol ULC: Ultra-Light Client
UDRP: Uniform domain-name Dispute (Software)
Resolution Policy ULN: Universal Link Negotiation
UDS: User Data Source ulp: Unit in Last Place
UDT: Uniform Data Transfer In binary formats, the least-significant bit of the significant,
bit 0, is the unit in the last place
UDT: User-defined Data Type
ULP: Upper Layer Protocol
UDX: Universal Data eXchange
ULSI: Ultra Large Scale Integration
UDX: User-Defined Extension The process of placing more than 100,000 components on a
UFB: Un-F***ing-Believable chip (Hardware)
(Net lingo) ULV: Ultra Low Voltage
UFCOM: Ufficio Federale delle COMunicazioni (Hardware)
Swiss regulatory Organisation (Organizations) UM: Unified Messaging
UFS: Unix File System UM: Universal Manageability
The default disk-based file system under the Unix operating
system (Operating systems) UMA: Unified Memory Architecture
UFST: Universal Font Scaling Technology UMA: Universal Management Agent
UFT: Unsolicited File Transfer UMA: Universal Measurement Architecture

(Network) UMA: Upper Memory Area
UG: User Group UMADS: Universal Measurement Architecture
UHA: Ultra-High Aperture Data Storage
LCD display technology (Hardware) UMB: Upper Memory Block
UHCI: Universal Host Controller Interface UMC: United Microelectronics Corporation
UHE: Ultra High Efficiency UME: Uni Management Entity
(Hardware)
UML: Unified Modeling Language
UHF: Ultra-High Frequency A specification defining a graphical language for visualizing,
specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of
UHL: Universal Hypertext Link
distributed object systems
U UHP: Ultra-High Performance
UMOD: Unreal MODule
(Hardware)
Type of compressed files associated with Unreal Tournament
UI: Unix International (Games)
A consortium consisting of Sun, AT&T, and others that
UMS: Unified Messaging Server
formed to advance a UNIX System V-based environment,
including the Open Look GUI (Organizations) UMS: Universal Management Service
(IBM)
UI: User Interface
(Operating systems) UMS: User Mode Scheduler
UIC: User Identification Code UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunications
System
UID: Unit IDentifier
(Communication)

UN/EDIFACT USQ
UN/EDIFACT: United Nations Electronic Data UPS: United Parcel Service

Interchange For Administration Commerce
UR: Uncommitted Read
and Transport
(Databases)
UN/GTDI: United Nations Guidelines for Trade
URA: Uniform Resource Agent
Data Interchange
(Network)
UNC: Universal Naming Convention
URC: Uniform Resource Characteristics
UNC: Uuencoded Netnews Collator
URC: Uniform Resource Citation
UNCOL: UNiversal Computed Oriented Language A set of attribute/value pairs describing a resource. Some of
the values may be URIs of various kinds. Others may
UNDI: Universal Network Driver Interface
include, for example, authorship, publisher, datatype, date,
Architectural interface to Network Interface Cards (NICs)
copyright status and shoe size.
that provides a hardware-dependent mechanism for the
Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) base code to use a URD: Url Rendezvous Directory
NIC for network access without controlling the NIC hardware (Network)
directly (Hardware)
UREP: Unix Rscs Emulation Protocol
UNE: Unbundled Network Element Protocol
(Communication)
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier
UNEP: Unbundled NEtwork Platform The generic set of all names/addresses that are short strings
UNI: Universal Network Interface that refer to resources (specified 1994; ratified as Internet
Draft Standard 1998). (Network)
UNI: User-Network Interface
The interface between the Frame Relay
U-RIB: Unicast Routing Information Base
Assembler/Disassembler (FRAD) and the service provider (Network)
(Communication) URL: Uniform Resource Locator
UNICODE: UNIversal CODE The set of URI schemes that have explicit instructions on
how to access the resource on the internet. (Network)
UNICOM: UNiversal Integrated COMmunication
URN: Uniform Resource Name
UNII: Unlicensed National Information
A particular scheme which is currently under development in
Infrastructure the IETF, which should provide for the resolution using
UNIVAC: UNIVersal Automatic Computer internet protocols of names which have a greater persistence
than that currently associated with internet host names or
UNIX: UNiplexed Information and Computing organizations. (Network)
Service
Modern abbreviation of UNICS. Ken Thomson and Dennis
URT: User Registration Tool
Ritchie, the original creators of UNIX, chose this name Dynamic authorization and policy control framework that
because it was a pun on MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information manages access to the LAN by partitioning user traffic
and Computing Service), the project they were working on through VLANs (Software) (Cisco)
when UNIX was born (Operating systems) US: Unit Separator
UNMA: Unified Network Management USART: Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous
Architecture Receiver/Transmitter
UNO: United Nations Organization (Hardware)
(Organizations) USB: Universal Serial Bus
UOW: Unit Of Work (Hardware)
UP: UniProcessor USBIF: Universal Serial Bus Implementers

Forum
UPC: United Pan-european Communications
(Organizations)
Large european cable operator
USENET: USEr's NETwork
UPC: Universal Product Code
(Hardware) USL: Unix System Laboratories
(Organizations)
UPC: User Parameter Control
USM: UnSharp Mask U
UPG: UPGrade
Used in digital photography, is a filter that first blurs the
UPI: Universal Peripheral Interface image (mask) and then subtract that mask from original. The
(Hardware) result is optically sharper image (edges are with higher
contrast)
UPL: User Program Language
USM: User-based Security Model
UPM: Unix Programmer's Manual
(Network)
UPM: User Profile Management
USN: Update Sequence Number
(IBM)
(Operating systems)
UPN: User Principal Name
USOC: Universal Service Ordering Code
UPnP: Universal Plug aNd Play
USQ: UnSQueezed
UPS: Uninterruptible Power Supply
(Hardware)

usr VAh
usr: Unix System Resources UUT: Unit Under Test

In any unix (and variants like linux) system the /usr directory (Hardware)
(Operating systems)
UV: UltraViolet
USR: US Robotics
UW: Uncommitted Write
Company
(Databases)
USRT: Universal Synchronous
UWB: Ultra-Wide Band
Receiver/Transmitter
(Communication)
(Hardware)
UWIN: Unix for WINdows
USSA: User Supported Software Association
Software that enables Unix software to be executed on a
USSD: Unstructured Supplementary Services Windows platform (Operating systems) (AT&T)
Data
UWR: Ultra Wideband Radio
Is a means of transmitting information or instructions over a
(Communication)
GSM network (Communication)
UXF: Uml eXchange Format
USWC: Uncacheable Speculative Write
XML-based model interchange format for UML (Unified
Combining
Modeling Language). UXF is a simple and well-structured
Video memory access method in BIOS (Hardware)
format to encode, publish, access and exchange UML
UT: Universal Time models, and allows UML to be highly interoperable
UT: Unreal Tournament UXGA: Ultra eXtended Graphics Array

See http://www.unrealtournament.com/ (Games) Display adapter capable of a resolution of 1600 X 1200 pixel
(Hardware)
UT: User Terminal
UY: Up Yours
UTC: Coordinated Universal Time
(Net lingo)
UTF: Ucs Transformation Format
UTI: Universal Text Interchange V
uTOK: User's Tree Of Knowledge V: Volt
Voltage measurement unit
UTOPIA: Universal Test and Operation Physical
Interface for Atm V&V: Verification And Validation
Physical layer specification for local connectivity between
V.FC: Version First Class
ATM devices (Communication)
Communications standard
UTP: Unshielded Twisted Pair
V/F: Voltage to Frequency converter
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
UTRA: Umts Terrestrial Radio Air interface
V/IP: Voice over Internet Protocol
(Communication)
(Communication)
UTRAN: Umts Terestrial Radio Access Network
VA: Virtual Address
(Communication)
VA: Visual Age
UTS: User Too Stupid
(IBM)
Dumb user with an error caused by himself (Net lingo)
VA: Volt-Ampere
UUCP: Unix to Unix Copy Program
Electric power measurement unit (Hardware)
A program that uses the UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Protocol
VAC: Volts Alternating Current
UUCP: Unix to Unix Copy Protocol
A protocol for communication between consenting UNIX VACM: View-based Access Control Model
systems (Network) (Network)
UUD: Unix-To-Unix Decoding VACS: Vector-based Asynchronous

Obtained with UUDecode, a Unix utility that decodes data Communication System
from 7-bit ASCII
VAD: Value Added Dealer
UUE: Unix-To-Unix Encoding
U Obtained with UUEncode, a Unix utility that encodes data
VAD: Voice Activity Detection
When enabled on voice port or a dial peer, silence is not
into 7-bit ASCII
transmitted over the network, only audible speech. The sound
V UUENCODE: Unix-to-Unix ENCODE quality is slightly degraded, but the connection uses much
Process that encodes binary data into 7-bits ASCII less bandwidth
characters. Used to exchange data across platforms, mainly VADD: Value Added Disk Driver
via e-mails and newsgroup messages attachments
VADD: VisualAge Developer Domain
UUI: User-To-User Information (Software) (IBM)
(AT&T)
VADSL: Very-high rate Asymmetric Digital
UUID: Universal Unique IDentifier Subscriber Line
UUO: Unimplemented User Operation VAh: Volt Ampere Hour
A DEC-10 system monitor call (originally Un-Used
Electrical energy measurement unit (Hardware)
Operation) (DEC)

VAI VCS
VAI: Video As Input VBNS: Very high speed Backbone Network

Service
VAIO: Video Audio Integrated Operation
(Network)
(Hardware) (Sony)
VBO: Virtual Back Office
VAIO-U: Video Audio Integrated Operation-
(Communication)
Ubiquitous
(Hardware) (Sony) VBR: Variable Bit Rate
VAJ: Visual Age for Java VBRUN: Visual Basic RUNtime
(Software) (IBM)
VBS: Visual Basic Script
VAL: VALue VBX: Visual Basic eXtension
VAL: Voice Application Language (Software) (Microsoft)
VAM: Virtual Access Method VC: Venture Capital

VAN: Value-Added Network VC: Virtual Circuit
(Network) A logical connection between two network nodes that acts as
though it is a direct physical connection even though it may
VAN: Virtual Access Network physically be packet based (Network)
(Network)
VC: Virtual Container
VANDL: VANcouver Data Language (Communication)
VAP: Value Added Provider
VC++: Visual C++
VAP: Value-Added Process Development platform (Software) (Microsoft)
VAR: Value Added Reseller VCC: Virtual Channel Connection
VAR: Value Added Retailer (Network)
VaR: Value At Risk VCD: Video Compact Disc

VAR: Value-Added Reseller VCD: Virtual Communications Driver

A company that buys hardware and software, adds more VCE: Visual Composition Editor
features or services to it, then resells the upgraded product (Software) (IBM)
VAR: VARiable VCI: Virtual Channel Identifier
VAR: Volt-Ampere Reactive A 16-bit value in the ATM cell header that provides a unique
Electric power measurement unit (Hardware) identifier for the virtual channel (VC) within the virtual path
(VP) that carries that particular cell (Communication)
VAROS: VAriable Refraction Optical System
VCI: Virtual Circuit Identifier
Scanner technology (Hardware) (Canon)
VCL: Visual Component Library
VAST: Variable Array Storage Technology
VAT: Value Added Tax
VCM: Version and Configuration Management
VAX: Virtual Address eXtension (Software)
(Hardware) (DEC)
VCM: Version Conflict Manager
VB: Variable Block (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
VB: Visual Basic VCM: Version Control Management
Programming language (Software) (Microsoft)
VCM: Virtual Channel Memory
VBA: Visual Basic for Applications (Hardware)
VCN: Virtual Cluster Number
VBE/AI: Vesa Bios Extension/Audio Interface (Operating systems)
VBI: Vertical Blanking Interval VCOS: Virtual Computer Operating System
(Hardware) (Operating systems)
VBIDE: Visual Basic Integrated Development VCOS: Visual Caching Operating System
Environment
VCPI: Virtual Control Program Interface
(Software) (Microsoft) V
VBIS: Value-Based Information System VCQ: Vibrant Color Quality
(Hardware) (Matrox)
VBITS: Visual Basic Insiders' Technical Summit
(Microsoft)
VCR: Video Cassette Recorder
(Hardware)
VBL: Vertical Blanking Interrupt
VCR: Voluntary Content Rating
VBNS: Very high Bandwidth Network Service
VCS: Version Control System
(Network)
VCS: Virus Control System

VCSEL VI
VCSEL: Vertical Cavity Side-Emitting Laser VERW: VERify Write access

Used in high-bandwidth communication applications
VES: Video Encoding Standard
(Hardware)
(Oracle)
VDB: Virtual DataBase
VESA: Video Electronics Standard Association
(Databases)
(Organizations)
VDC: Virtual Device Coordinates
VF: Virtual Floppy
In computer graphics, a device-independent coordinate
system that isolates the specification of view boundaries VF: Voice Frequency
from device coordinates
VFAT: Virtual File Allocation Table
VDC: Volts Direct Current (Microsoft)
VDD: Virtual Device Driver VFC: Virtual FIle Cabinet
(Software)
VDD: Visual Database Designer
VDDM: Virtual Device Driver Manager VFD: Vacuum Fluorescent Display
(Hardware)
VDE: Video Display Editor
VFO: Virtual Front Office
VDE: Virtual Domain Environment (Communication)
(Network)
VFS: Virtual File System
VDE: Visual Development Environment (Operating systems)
VDI: Video Display Input VFW: Video For Windows
(Hardware)
(Microsoft)
VDI: Virtual Device Interface VG: Voice Grade
VDISK: Virtual DISK (Communication)
VDM: Virtual Dos Machine VGA: Video Graphic Array
VDMAD: Virtual Direct Memory Access Device Video specification for a resolution of 640 X 480 pixels in
256 colors (Hardware)
(Microsoft)
VGC: Video Graphics Controller
VDN: Vector Directory Number
(Communication) VGE: Video Graphics Enhancer
(Hardware)
VDP: Variable Data Printing
VGI: Visual Gateway Interface
VDS: Variable Drop Size
(Software)
Printing technology (Hardware) (NEC)
VHDCI: Very High Density Cable Interconnect
VDS: Virtual Dedicated Server
(Hardware)
Specialized software platform that provides a secured private
space for your hosted services VHDL: Vhsic Hardware Description Language
VDS: Virtual Dma Services VHDTS: Very High Density Thumb Screw
68-pin SCSI connector with manually screwable screws
VDSL: Very high bit rate Digital Subscriber Line
(Hardware) (HP)
(Communication)
VHF: Very High Frequency
VDT: Video Dial Tone
VHG: Virtual HyperGlossary
VDT: Video Display Terminal
(Hardware) VHM: Voice Health Monitor
Helps system administrators and network managers
VDU: Video Display Unit
determine and maintain the stability of the Voice over IP
VDWQT: Vertical Deferred Write Queue (VoIP) network within their enterprise by using a series of
Threshold availability and health checks (Software) (Cisco)
(Databases) VHS: Very High Speed
VEGA: Video7 Enhanced Graphics Adapter VHS: Video Home System
VEMM: Virtual Expanded Memory Manager VHS: Virtual Host Storage
VEMMI: VErsatile MultiMedia Interface VHSIC: Very High Speed Integrated Circuit
V
VENUS: Very Extensive Non-Unicast Service VI: Vertical Interval
VEP: Vertical Enterprise Portal The raster lines that are precluded by a video signal standard
from containing a picture
VER: VERify
VI: Video Input
VER: VERsion (Hardware)
VERONICA: Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide
VI: Virtual Interface
Index to Computerized Archives
(Hardware)
VERP: Variable Envelope Return Paths
VI: Visual Interactive
VERR: VERify Read access

VIA VME
VIA: Vendors Isdn Association VJ++: Visual J++

(Organizations) Java development platform (Software) (Microsoft)
VIA: Virtual Interface Architecture VKD: Virtual Keyboard Driver

(Network)
VLA: Variable Length Array
VIC: Very Inexpensive Computer (Software)
(Hardware)
VLAN: Virtual Local Area Network
VIC: Video Interface Chip A networking architecture that allows end-systems on
(Hardware) topologically disconnected subnetworks to appear to be
connected on the same LAN. Predominately used in
VIC: Virtual Image Copy reference to ATM networking. Similar in functionality to
(Databases) bridging (Network)
VIC: Voice Interface Card VLB: Vesa Local Bus
(Hardware) (Cisco) Bus architecture (Hardware)
VID: Visual InterDev VL-BUS: Vesa Local BUS
VLC: VideoLan Client
VIDC: VIDeo Controller Highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video
(Hardware) formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as
well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See
VIE: Virtual Information Environment
also http://videolan.org/vlc/
VIF: Virtual InterFace
VLC: Volume License Customer
VIF: Virtual Interrupt Flag
VLD: Variable Length Decoder
VIM: Vendor-Independent Mail
VLF: Very Low Frequency
Messaging protocol (Communication)
VLF: Virtual Log File
VIM: Video Interface Module
SQL Server transaction log logical segment (Databases)
VINES: VIrtual NEtworking System (Microsoft)
(Network) VLIW: Very Long Instruction Word
VIO: Video Input/Output VLK: Volume License Key
VIO: Virtual Input/Output VLM: Very Large Memory
VIO: Voice Input/Output (Operating systems)
VIP: Variable Information Processing VLM: Virtual Loadable Module

(Operating systems)
VIP: Video Information Provider
VIP: Video Interface Port VLR: Visitor Location Register
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
VIP: Virtual Interrupt Pending VLSI: Very Large Scale of Integration
The process of placing more than 100,000 transistors on
VIP: Visual Interactive Parser one chip (Hardware)
ViP: VIsual Programming VLSIPS: Very Large Scale Immobilized Polymer
(Lotus) Synthesis
VIPER: Verifiable Integrated Processor for VLSM: Variable Length Subnet Masking
Enhanced Reliability (Network)
VIRS: Vertical Interval Reference Signal VLT: Variable List Table
VIRUS: Vital Information Resources Under VLV: Virtual List View
Siege (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
VIS: Video Information System VM: Virtual Machine
VIS: Viewable Image Size (Operating systems)
(Hardware) VM: Virtual Memory
VIS: Visual Instruction Set VMA: Virtual Memory Address
VIS: Voice Information System
V
VMAC: Virtual Media Access Control
VIS: Volumetric Imaging System VMB: Value-Based Management
(Hardware)
VMB: Virtual Machine Boot
VITC: Vertical Interval TimeCode
VMBOX: Virtual MailBOX
VITS: Vertical Interval Test Signal
VME: Versa Module Eurocard
VIVO: Video In/Video Out
VME: Virtual Machine Environment
Video card connector that captures and produces video
signals (Hardware) (nVidia) VME: Virtual Memory Environment

VMEBus VQ
VMEBus: Versatile Modular E-BUS VOM: Volt Ohm Milliampere

Bus architecture (Hardware) (Hardware)
VML: Vector Markup Language VOR: Visions Of Reality

XML application which defines a format for the encoding of
VOS: Virtual Object System
vector information together with additional markup to
describe how that information may be displayed and edited
VMM: Virtual Machine Manager VOS: Voice Operating System

(Operating systems) VOX: Voice Operated eXchange
Voice operated transmission in radio telecommunication.
VMM: Virtual Memory Manager When the device detects voice the transmission is connected
VMOS: Vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor (Communication)
(Hardware)
VoxML: Voice Markup Language
VMOS: Virtual Multitasking Operating System VP: Vice President
(Operating systems)
VP: Virtual Path
VMP: Virtual Modem Protocol
VPA: Volume Purchase Agreement
VMS: Virtual Machine Storage
VPBX: Virtual Private Branch eXchange
VMS: Virtual Memory System (Hardware)
(Operating systems) (DEC)
VPD: Virtual Printer Device
VMS: Voice Message System
VPD: Vital Product Data
VMT: Virtual Memory Technique Information about a device that is stored on the device itself.
VMTP: Versatile Message Transaction Protocol Typical VPD information includes a product model number, a
(Network) unique serial number, product release level, maintenance
level, and other information specific to the device type
VNA: Virtual Network Architecture
VPDN: Virtual Private Data Network
VNC: Virtual Network Computing
A remote display system which allows you to view a
VPDS: Virtual Private Data Service
computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine VPE: Video Port Extension
where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and (Hardware)
from a wide variety of machine architectures (AT&T)
VPE: Visual Programming Environment
VNOS: Visual Network Operating System
VPI: Virtual Path Indentifier
VNS: Virtual Network Service A value in the cell header that identifies the virtual path (VP)
VO: Value Object to which the cell belongs. The field is 8 bits in cells
(Software) traversing an UNI circuit and 12 bits in cells traversing
network circuits (Communication)
VO: Video Output
(Hardware)
VPIM: Voice Profile for Internet Messaging
Defines how voice messages can be encoded as SMTP/MIME
VO: Virtual Office messages for transport over Internet messaging networks
VoATM: Voice Over Asynchronous Transfer (Communication)
Mode VPL: Virtual Programming Language
Enables a router to carry voice traffic over an ATM network
VPM: Video Port Manager
(Network)
VPM: Virtual Parallel Machine
VOB: Version Object Base
VPM: Vulnerability and Patch Management
VOC: VOiCe
File format for audio
VPN: Virtual Page Number
VOD: Video On Demand
VPN: Virtual Private Network
VoD: Voice Over Data
A network that functions as if it were private, though it exists
VoDSL: Voice Over Digital Subscriber Line on public wires. Data is protected through encryption and
(Communication) other security mechanisms (Network)
VoFR: Voice Over Frame Relay VPS: Voice Processing System

V Enables a router to carry voice traffic over an Frame Relay VPSC: Vault, Process, Structure, Configuration
network (Network)
VPT: Virtual Print Technology
VoIP: Voice Over Internet Protocol
A technology for transporting integrated digital voice, video, VPT: Virtual Project Team
and data over IP networks (Network) VPU: Visual Processing Unit
VOL: VOLume Graphics coprocessor (Hardware)
VOLT: Visual Opentype Layout Tool VQ: Vector Quantization

(Software) (Microsoft) VQ: Video Quality

VQF VUI
VQF: Vector Quantization Format VSF: Vertical Scanning Frequency

An audio codec similar to MP3 but less lossy and (arguably)
VSI: Virtual Socket Interface
more intelligent. See http://www.vqf.com (Software)
VSIA: Virtual Socket Interface Alliance
VQP: Vlan Query Protocol
(Organizations)
(Network) (Cisco)
VSIMM: Video Single In line Memory Module
VR: Virtual Reality
A small printed circuit card that contains memory chips for
VR: Voltage Regulator storing video images (Hardware)
VRAM: Video Random Access Memory VSIO: Virtual Serial Input Output
A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) used in high-speed graphics
VSM: Virtual Shared Memory
frame buffers, providing separate buses for the CPU and the
frame buffer logic (Hardware) VSM: Virtual Storage Management
V-RATE: Vendor Risk Assessment and Threat VSM: Visual System Management
Evaluation (IBM)
(Security) VSN: Volume Serial Number
VRC: Vertical Redundancy Check VSOS: Virtual Storage Operating System
VRD: Virtual Retinal Display VSP: Vertical Service Provider
(Hardware)
VSR: Very Short Reach
VRE: Voltage Regulated Extended (Communication)
VRM: Vendor Relationship Management VSS: Visual Source Safe
VRM: Visitor Relationship Management (Software) (Microsoft)
VRM: Voltage Regulation Module VSYNC: Vertical SYNChronization

VRML: Virtual Reality Modeling Language VT: Vertical Tab
VROOMM: Virtual Real-time Object Oriented VT: Video Terminal
Memory Manager (Hardware) (DEC)
(Borland)
VTAM: Virtual Table Access Method
VRRP: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol IBM operating system module (Operating systems)
(Network)
VTAM: Virtual Telecommunications Access
VRT: Voltage Regulation Technology Method
(Intel) IBM's application program to interface with
telecommunication devices (Communication) (IBM)
VRU: Voice Response Unit
VTAS: Voice Traffic Analysis System
VS: Virtual Storage
(HP)
(IBM)
VTF: Volunteer Task Force
VSA: Virtual System Architecture
Group of individuals in the anti-spam community who have
VSA: Visual Studio Analyzer donated their time and expertise to assist MAPS in its
Is a tool to help you analyze performance, isolate faults, and mission. See http://mail-abuse.org/vtf/
understand the structure of your distributed applications. You
VTNS: Virtual Telecommunications Network
can use Visual Studio Analyzer with applications and
Service
systems built with any of the Visual Studio tools (Software)
(Microsoft) VTP: Vlan Trunking Protocol
VSA: Visual Studio for Applications Layer 2 messaging protocol that mantains VLAN
configuration consistency by managing the addition, deletion,
Provides a fully integrated way for customers to seamlessly
and renaming of VLANs on a network-wide basis (Network)
customize and extend the functionality of Web-based
(Cisco)
applications using familiar tools (Software) (Microsoft)
VTR: Video Tape Recorder
VSAM: Virtual Storage Access Method
(Hardware)
VSAT: Very Small Aperture Terminal VTS: Virtual Tape System
(Hardware)
(Communication) V
VSB: Very Small Business VTS: Volume Tracking Driver
VTX: VideoTeX
VSB: Vestigial Sideband Modulation
(Communication)
(Communication)
VTY: Virtual teleTYpewriter
VSD: ViSio Diagram
Virtual terminal for remote console access. (Network)
Filename extension (Microsoft)
(Cisco)
VSDT: Variable-Size Droplet Technology
VUI: Visual User Interface
Print technology (Hardware)
(Operating systems)
VSE: Virtual Storage Extended

VUI WATS
VUI: Vocal User Interface WAB: Windows Address Book

Filename extension (Software) (Microsoft)
VUP: Vax Unit of Performance
VuXML: VUlnerabilities and eXposures Markup WABI: Windows Application Binary Interface
Language WAC: Web Authorization Control
Markup language designed for the documentation of security
WADT: West Australian Daylight Time
issues within a single package collection (Security)
Timezone: GMT +7:00
VVDS: Vsam Volume DataSet
WAE: Wireless Application Environment
WAG: Wild A** Guess
VVM: Veritas Volume Manager
(Net lingo)
Easy-to-use, online storage management tool for enterprise
environments, which reduces planned and unplanned WAG: Wireless Applications Group
downtime. It ensures high availability of data and optimized (Organizations)
I/O performance and offers freedom of choice in storage
hardware investments WAI: Web Accessibility Initiative
VVR: Veritas Volume Replicator WAI: Web Application Interface

Provides the foundation for seamless availability across (Netscape)
sites. Based on VERITAS Volume Manager, it reliably, WAIPF: Web Accessibility Initiative Protocols
efficiently, and consistently replicates data to remote and Formats
locations over any IP network when data loss and prolonged
downtime cannot be tolerated WAIS: Wide Area Information Server (or
Service)
VWB: Visual WorkBench
(Network)
(Microsoft)
WAITI: WAIT for Interrupt
VWIC: Voice/Wan Interface Card
(Hardware) (Cisco) WAITS: Wide Area Information Transfer
System
VWM: Virtual Window Manager
WAL: Write Ahead Log
VXA: Variable Speed Architecture
(Hardware) WAN: Wide Area Network
A T1, T3, broadband, or other network covering an area
VxD: Virtual device Driver generally larger than a city or metropolitan area network
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Network)
VxD: Virtual eXtended Driver WAP: Wireless Access Point
(Microsoft) Centrally connects wireless network nodes similar to a hub
VxFS: Veritas File System connecting wired PCs. (Network)
(Operating systems) WAP: Wireless Application Protocol
VXML: Voice eXtensible Markup Language WAPI: Workflow Application Programming
Interface
W Workflow Management Coalition specification to enable
interoperability between workflow management systems and
W: Watt applications (Software)
Power measurement unit
WAR: Web ARchive
W: Word
WARIA: Workflow And Reengineering
Two consecutive bytes (16 bits)
International Association
W/: With The charter of the WARIA is to identify and clarify issues
W/E: WhatEver that are common to users of workflow, electronic commerce
and those who are in the process of reengineering their
(Net lingo)
organizations. See also http://www.waria.com/ (Organizations)
W/O: WithOut WARP: Web service Aggregation, Rely and
W2K: Windows 2000 Propagation
WAS: Web Application Server
W3: World Wide Web (Network) (Oracle)
V W3A: World Wide Web Applets WAS: Web Application Stress

W3C: World Wide Web Consortium (Software) (Microsoft)
W (Organizations) WASP: Wireless Application Service Provider

W3I: WinWhatWhere Investigator (Software)
System activity monitor (Operating systems) WAST: West Australian Standard Time
W3J: World Wide Web Journal Timezone: GMT +7:00
W4: What-Works-With-What WAT: West Africa Time

Timezone: GMT -1:00
WAAS: Wide Area Augmentation System
WATS: Wide Area Telephone Service

WAV WEP
WAV: WAVeform WDF: Windows Driver Foundation

File format for audio streams Strategy for the next generation of Windows drivers. WDF
defines a single driver model that supports the creation of
WB: Wide Band object-oriented, event-driven drivers for either kernel mode
(Communication) or user mode (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
WB: Workbench WDG: Web Design Group
Pre-PPC Amiga operating system (Organizations)
WBEM: Web-Based Enterprise Management WDJ: Web Developer's Journal
WBI: Web Browsing Intelligence WDL: Windows Driver Library
WBMP: Wireless BitMaP (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
File Format for bitmapped images suitable for WAP devices WDM: Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
WBS: Work Breakdown Structure A mechanism to allow multiple signals to be encoded into
multiple wavelengths (Communication)
WBT: Web-Based Training
WDM: Windows Driver Model
WBTS: Windows-Based Terminal Server (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
WBXML: Wap Binary eXtensible Markup
WDP: Wireless Datagram Protocol
Language
WDRAM: Windows Dynamic Random Access
WC: Word Count
Memory
WC: World Coordinates
WDS: Wireless Distribution System
The coordinate system that is scaled so that user-defined
(Communication)
objects can be represented in units appropriate to the
application, such as inches, meters, and miles WDT: Wap Developer's Toolkit
WCA: Web Clipping Application (Software)
WCAG: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WDU: Windows Desktop Update

These guidelines explain how to make Web content (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
accessible to people with disabilities. The guidelines are WE: Write Enable
intended for all Web content developers and for developers of (Hardware)
authoring tools. The primary goal of these guidelines is to
promote accessibility WEA: Web-Enabled Application
WCCP: Web Cache Communications Protocol WebDAV: WEB Distributed Authoring and
(Network) (Cisco) Versioning
Extension of the HTTP/1.1 protocol to allow clients to
WCDMA: Wideband Code Division Multiple publish, lock, and manage resources on the Web
Access
WebNFS: WEB Network File System
W-CDMA: Wideband Code Division Multiple
Access
(Communication) WEC: Web Extender Client
Microsoft Office 2000 protocol that is used for Web
WCGL: Web Content accessibility GuideLines
publishing, and is usually implemented through the use of
WCI: Web-based Customer Interaction Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions (Microsoft)
WCM: Web Content Management WECA: Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance

(Organizations)
WCS: Web Communications Server
(Hardware) WEDT: Western Europe Daylight Time
Timezone: GMT +0:00
WCS: World Coordinate System
WEFT: Web Embedding Fonts Tool
WCSS: Wap Cascading Style Sheets
WCTL: Web Crossing Template Language
WELL: Whole Earth eLectronic Link
WD: Western Digital
WEMA: Western Electronics Manufacturers
(Hardware)
Association
WD: Working Draft (Organizations)
WDA: Web-Disabled Application WEO: World Economic Outlook
WDATAM: What Do All The Acronyms Mean WEP: Watchguard Event Processor
(Net lingo)
WEP: Windows Entertainment Pack W
WDDX: Web Distributed Data eXchange (Software) (Microsoft)
XML-based technology that enables the exchange of complex
WEP: Windows Entry Point
data between Web programming languages, creating what
some refer to as 'Web syndicate networks' (Software)
WEP: Wired Equivalent Privacy
Lower level data encryption for wireless security (Network)

WEP WLG
WEP: Wireless Encryption Protocol WIF: Wavelet Image File

(Network) File format for images
WER: Windows Error Reporting Wi-Fi: WIreless FIdelity

(Operating systems) (Microsoft) IEEE 802.11 standard (Network)
WEST: Western Europe Standard Time WIM: Windows Image Format

Timezone: GMT +0:00 Used by the SMS 2003 Operating System Deployment
Feature Pack (Software) (Microsoft)
WFC: Windows Foundation Classes
(Software) (Microsoft) WiMAX: Worldwide Interoperability Microwave
Access
WfM: Wired For Management
IEEE 802.16 broadband wireless access standard
WFM: Works For Me
WIMP: Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointing
(Net lingo)
devices
WfMC: WorkFlow Management Coalition
WIN: Wireless Information Network
Non-profit, international organization of workflow vendors,
users, analysts and university/research groups. See also WINA: Wap Interim Naming Authority
http://www.wfmc.org/ (Organizations)
WINE: Wine Is Not an Emulator
WFP: Windows File Protection Windows Emulator for Unix platforms (Operating systems)
Feature which prevents the replacement of essential system
WINForum: Wireless Information Networks
files installed as part of Windows 2000 (Operating systems)
FORUM
(Microsoft)
WinHEC: WINdows Hardware Engineering
WFQ: Weighted Fair Queuing
Conference
Per-flow packet scheduling in network elements that
automatically categorizes traffic flows into high and low WINS: Windows Internet Name Service
priority, based on volume of packets seen by a router or (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
switch (Network)
WINSOCK: WINdows SOCKets
WfW: Windows For Workgroups (Operating systems)
(Microsoft)
Wintel: WINdows/inTEL
WG: Working Group System based on Intel Processors and Microsoft Windows
WGA: Windows Genuine Advantage operating system
Part of Microsoft’s on-going effort to protect its customers WIRE: Web/Internet Resource Executive
and partners from counterfeit software, is a program that
increases customer awareness of the value of genuine WIS: Wan Interface Sublayer
Windows XP (Microsoft) (Network)
WGPO: WorkGroup PostOffice WIS: Windows Installer Service

WGS: WorkGroup System
WISC: Writeable Instruction Set Computer
WH2FO: Word Html To Formatting Objects
(Hardware)
Java application that processes an HTML output, created
with Word 2000, and transforms it into an XML content file WISE: Web-Integrated Software metrics
and an XSL stylesheet file. From these files, a standard XSLT Environment
processor may be used to obtain a file containing only XSL- (Network)
FO markup (Software)
WISE: Wordperfect Information System
WHAM: Waveform Hold And Modify Environment
(Microsoft)
WISP: Wireless Internet Service Provider
WHC: Workstation Host Connection (Network)
WHISPER: Windows Highly Intelligent SPEech WIT: Web Interactive Talk
Recognition
(Microsoft)
WKB: WorKBook
File name extension
WHQL: Windows Hardware Quality Labs
WKS: WorKSheet
WIA: Windows Image Acquisition File name extension (Lotus)
Standardized API for acquiring digital images from devices
that are primarily used to capture still images and for WL: Word Line
managing these devices (Operating systems) (Microsoft) WLAN: Wireless Local Area Network
W WIC: Wan Interface Card (Network)
(Hardware) (Cisco) WLBS: Windows Load Balancing Service
WIC: Whole Internet Catalogue (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
WICD: Web Integration Compound Document WLE: WebLogic Enterprise

Device independent foundation for Compound Document WLG: dr. Watson LoG
profiles based on XHTML, CSS and SVG
Filename extension (Microsoft)
WIDL: Web Interface Definition Language

WLL WRAM
WLL: Wireless Local Loop WOM: Wake On Modem

WLM: Work Load Manager WOM: Write-Only Memory

(Hardware)
WLS: WebLogic Server
WM: Windows Messenger WOOF: Web-centric Open Object Framework
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) WOR: Wake On Ring
(Network)
WM: Workstation Manager
(Novell) WORM: Write Once Read Many
(Hardware)
WMA: Windows Media Audio
(Microsoft) WOS: Workstation Operating System
WMC: Workflow Management Coalition WOSA: Windows Open Systems Architecture
WME: Windows Media Encoder
(Microsoft) WOW: Windows on Win32
WMF: Windows Metafile Format
File format for graphics (Microsoft) WOW: WithOut Worry
(Hardware) (Xerox)
WMF: Wireless Multimedia Forum
WMFSDK: Windows Metafile Format Software WP: Word Processor
Development Kit WP: WordPerfect
(Microsoft) (Software) (Corel)
WMI: Windows Management Instrumentation WP: Write Protected
Microsoft's implementation of Web-Based Enterprise
WPA: Wi-fi Protected Access
Management (WBEM), which is an industry initiative to
Designed to improve security over the older WEP encryption
develop a standard technology for accessing management
methods (Security)
information in an enterprise environment (Operating
systems) (Microsoft) WPA: Windows Product Activation
WML: Website Meta Language (Software) (Microsoft)
Free and extensible Webdesigner's off-line HTML generation WPAN: Wireless Personal Area Network
toolkit for Unix, distributed under the GNU General Public (Network)
License. See also http://thewml.org/
WPD: Windows Printer Description
WML: Wireless Markup Language
File name extension
WMLS: Wireless Markup Language Script WPD: WordPerfect Document
WMP: Windows Media Player File format for documents (Corel)
WPG: WordPerfect Graphics
WMRM: Write Many, Read Many File name extension
(Hardware)
WPHD: Write-Protected Hard Disk
WMT: Windows Media Technology WPM: WordPerfect Macro
File name extension
WMV: Windows Media Video wpm: Words Per Minute
(Microsoft)
Speech recognition processing power (Software)
WNIC: Wide-area Network Interface WPOS: WorkPlace Operating System
Coprocessor
WPP: Web Presence Provider
WNILS: Whois and Network Information
Web site design, development, and deployment company
Lookup Service
(Network) WPS: Windows Printing System
(Microsoft)
WNIM: Wide-area Network Interface Module
WPS: WorkPlace Shell
WNT: Windows New Technology
(IBM)
Early acronym for NT, based on incrementing each letter of
VMS (the original NT designers came from DEC) in the same WPVM: Windows Parallel Virtual Machine
way 2001's HAL came from "IBM" (Operating systems)
WPW: Web Publishing Wizard
(Microsoft)
(Software) (Microsoft) W
WOF: Web Objects Framework
WPW: WordPerfect for Windows
(Network)
(Software)
WOL: Wake On Lan
WQL: Wmi Query Language
(Hardware)
WOLF: Web Objects for Legacy Functions
WRAM: Window Random Access Memory
(Software)
(Hardware)

WRDS WTP
WRDS: Wharton Research Data Service WSIL: Web Services Inspection Language
Provides an XML format for assisting in the inspection of a
WRED: Weighted Random Early Detection
site for available services and a set of rules for how
Combines IP precedence and Random Early Detection
inspection related information should be made available for
capabilities to provide differentiated performance
consumption (Software)
characteristics for different classes of service (Network)
WSIL4J: Web Services Inspection Language
WRI: WRIte
For Java
File name extension
Java class library that provides an API that is can be used to
WRK: Windows Resource Kit locate and process WS-Inspection documents (Software)
(Microsoft)
WSJ: Web Services Journal
WRT: With Regards To WSML: Web Services Markup Language
(Net lingo)
WSP: Web Standards Project
WS: Web Services Collective effort of web developers and end users whose
Web-based enterprise applications that use open, XML- mission is to stop the fragmentation of the web, by
based standards and transport protocols to exchange data persuading the browser makers that common standards are
with calling clients. Also used to prefix web services in everyone's best interest
interoperability applications or standards (Software)
WSP: Wireless Session Protocol
WS: WordStar
WSRP: Web Services for Remote Portlets
WS: WorkSpace Standard that will allow for the "plug-n-play" of portals, other
WS: WorkStation intermediary web applications that aggregate content, and
applications from disparate sources (Software)
WSAD: Websphere Studio Application
Developer WSRP4J: Web Services for Remote Portlets For
(Software) (IBM) Java
Apache's java implementation of WSRP. See also
WSAPI: Web Site Application Programming http://ws.apache.org/wsrp4j/ (Software)
Interface
(O'Reilly & Associates)
WSTK: Web Services ToolKit
(Software) (IBM)
WSC: Windows Script Component
WSUI: Web Service User Interface
WS-CDL: Web Services Choreography WSVT: Web Service Validation Tools

Description Language Project that provides a set of Eclipse plugins to validate and
analyze Web services with respect to the core Web services
XML-based language that describes peer-to-peer
specifications and their usage together (Software)
collaborations of Web Services participants by defining their
common and complementary observable behavior; where WSXGA: Wide Super eXtended Graphics Array
ordered message exchanges result in accomplishing a Display adapter capable of a resolution of 1680 X 1050 pixel
common business goal (Hardware)
WSDD: Web Service Deployment Descriptor WT: Write Through
(Software)
WTA: Wireless Telephony Application
WSDL: Web Service Description Language
WTAI: Wireless Telephony Application
An XML format for describing network services as a set of
endpoints operating on messages containing either
Interface
document-oriented or procedure-oriented information (Software)
WSDP: Web Services Developer Pack WTD: Week To Date

The Java Web Services Developer Pack is an all-in-one Time series function
download containing key technologies to simplify building of WTF: What The F**k
web services using the Java 2 Platform (Software) (Sun) (Net lingo)
WSE: Web Services Enhancements WTG: Way To Go
Add-on to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft (Net lingo)
.NET Framework providing developers the latest advanced
Web services capabilities to keep pace with the evolving Web WTK: Wireless ToolKit
services protocol specifications (Software) (Microsoft) (Software)
WSF: Windows Script File WTL: Windows Template Library
Filename extension (Software) (Microsoft) Library for developing Windows applications and UI
components. It extends ATL (Active Template Library) and
WSH: Windows Script Host
W (Microsoft)
provides a set of classes for controls, dialogs, frame
windows, GDI objects, and more (Software) (Microsoft)
WS-I: Web Services Interoperability WTLS: Wireless Transport Layer Security
See http://www.ws-i.org (Organizations)
WTO: World Trade Organization
WSIF: Web Services Invocation Framework (Organizations)
Simple Java API for invoking Web services, no matter how or
where the services are provided (Software) WTP: Wireless Transport Protocol

WTS XKMS
WTS: Web Transaction Security XBL: Xml Binding Language

(Security) Markup language for describing bindings that can be attached
to elements in other documents. Bindings can be attached to
WTS: Windows Terminal Server elements using either cascading stylesheets (CSS) or the
(Microsoft) document object model (DOM)
WTX: Workstation Technology eXtended XBM: X BitMap
A size (max 16.75"x14" -- 425mm x 356mm, LxW) and form File format for bitmapped images
factor specification for motherboards. See also
http://www.wtx.org (Hardware) XBRL: eXtensible Business Reporting Language
WUI: Web User Interface XCBF: Xml Common Biometric Format
(Network) XCHG: ExCHanGe
WUM: Wind Up Merchant XCMD: eXternal CoMmanD
Someone who posts messages on boards specifically to wind (Software) (Apple)
up other users (Net lingo)
XCP: eXtended Copy Protection
WUS: Windows Update Services Rootkit-based copy protection scheme
An evolution of SUS, WUS is the update management
component of Windows Server (Software) (Microsoft) XDE: eXtended Development Experience
As in Rational Software's XDE product (Software) (Rational)
WUXGA: Wide Ultra eXtended Graphics Array
Display adapter capable of a resolution of 1920 X 1200 pixel XDF: Extended Density Format
(Hardware) (IBM)
WV: Working Voltage XDK: Xbox Development Kit

WVGA: Wide Video Graphic Array XDK: Xml Development Kit

Video specification for a resolution of 852 X 480 pixels in (Software)
256 colors (Hardware)
XDM: X Display Manager
WWD: Wireless Web Display A program supplied with the OpenWindows interface that
manages X displays
WWDC: WorldWide Developers Conference
(Apple) XDR: eXternal Data Representation
A standard for machine-independent data structures
WWIS: World Wide Information System
developed by Sun (Sun)
WWW: World Wide Web
XDR: Xml Data Reduced
The web of systems and the data in them that is the Internet
(Network) XFCN: eXternal FunCtioN
WXGA: Wide eXtended Graphics Array XFDL: eXtensible Forms Description Language
Display adapter capable of a resolution of 1280 X 768 pixel XGA: eXtended Graphics Array
(Hardware)
Video specification for a resolution of 1024 X 768 pixels in
WYP: What's Your Problem? 256 colors (Hardware)
(Net lingo) XGMML: eXtensible Graph Markup and Modeling
WYSBYGI: What You See Before You Get It Language
XML application based on GML which is used for graph
WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get
description. XGMML uses tags to describe nodes and edges
WZC: Wireless Zero Configuration of a graph. The purpose of XGMML is to make possible the
(Network) (Microsoft) exchange of graphs between differents authoring and
browsing tools for graphs
X XHTML: eXtensible HyperText Markup Language

(Software)
X: X windows
A windowing system developed by MIT (Operating systems) XID: eXchange IDentifier
X2B: heXadecimal To Binary XIF: eXternal Interface File
(IBM) XIF: Xml Interchange Format
X2C: heXadecimal To Character XIFF: eXtended Image File Format
(IBM) File format for images
X2D: heXadecimal To Decimal XIL: X Imaging Library
(IBM) The XIL is a platform programming interface for imaging and
video support (Operating systems)
W
XA: eXtended Architecture
XA: eXtended Attribute XIOS: eXtended Input/Output System
X
X-ACT: Xml Active Content Technologies XIP: eXecute-In-Place
XAPIA: X.400 Application Programming XIS: eXtensible Information Server

Interface Association XKMS: Xml Key Management Specification
(Organizations) (Security)

XL XSLT
XL: eXtended Length XNRL: Xml Namespace Related-resource

(Hardware) Language
HTML-based markup language designed to contain a human-
XLA: eXceL Add-In
readable description of an XML namespace as well as
pointers to multiple resources related to that namespace
XLAT: TransLATe XNS: Xerox Network Services
XLF: ExceptionaL Fortran (Network)
(IBM)
XOFF: Transmitter OFF
XLF: eXtensible Log Format XON: Transmitter ON
XLK: eXceL bacKup XOP: Xml-binary Optimized Packaging.
File name extension (Microsoft) A mean of more efficiently serializing XML Infosets (see
XLL: eXtensible Linking Language [XMLInfoSet]) that have certain types of content
XLM: eXceL Macro XOR: eXclusive OR

File name extension (Microsoft) XP: Cross Platform
XLS: eXceL Spreadsheet XP: eXPerience
File name extension (Software) (Microsoft) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
XLT: eXceL Template XP: eXtreme Performance
File name extension (Microsoft) (Hardware) (Compaq)
XLW: eXceL Workbook XP: eXtreme Programming
File name extension (Software) (Microsoft) (Software)
XMA: eXtended Middleware Architecture XPCOM: Cross Platform Component Object
(Software) Model
XMI: Xml Metadata Interchange (Software)
A specification enabling easy interchange of metadata XPE: eXPerience Embedded
between modeling tools (based on the OMG-UML) and (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
metadata repositories (OMG-MOF based) in distributed
heterogeneous environments XPFE: Cross Platform Front End
XMIT: TransMIT XPG: X/open Portability Guide
(Operating systems)
XML: eXtensible Markup Language
XPIDL: Cross Platform Interface Definition
XMLC: eXtensible Markup Language Compiler
Language
Converts a HTML or XML document to a Java class
(Software)
XMLDSIG: eXtensible Markup Language Digital
XPM: X PixMap
SIGnature
File format for bitmapped images
(Security)
XPRM: Xerox Print Resources Manager
XMLP: eXtensible Markup Language Protocol
(Xerox)
XML-QL: eXtensible Markup Language-Query
XPS: Xml Paper Specification
Language
Paginated representation of electronic paper described in an
XMM: eXtended Memory Manager XML-based format (Microsoft)
XMML: eXploration and Mining Markup XQL: eXtensible Query Language
Language
XR: eXternal Reset
Superset of XML, specific to exploration and mining.
(Hardware)
XMP: eXtensible Metadata Platform
XRC: eXtended Remote Copy
Provides Adobe applications and workflow partners with a
common XML framework that standardizes the creation, XRCC: Xerox Research Centre of Canada
processing, and interchange of document metadata across (Organizations) (Xerox)
publishing workflows (Software) (Adobe)
XRF: eXtended Recovery Facility
XMPP: eXtensible Messaging and Presence (IBM)
Protocol
IETF's formalization of the core protocols created by the
XRNS: eXtensible Resource Name System
Jabber community in 1999. See also http://www.xmpp.org/ XRT: eXtensions for Real-Time
XMS: eXtended Memory Specification XSD: Xml Schema Definition
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) XML-based grammar for describing the structure of XML
documents. A schema-aware validating parser can validate
X XMSG: Xml MeSsaGing
an XML document against an XSD schema and report any
XNI: Xerces Native Interface discrepancies
Framework for communicating a "streaming" document
XSL: eXtensible Style Language
information set and constructing generic parser
configurations. See also http://xml.apache.org XSLT: eXtensible Stylesheet Language
Transformation

XSLTC ZV
XSLTC: eXtensible Stylesheet Language YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary

Transformation Compiler (Net lingo)
Provides a compiler to compile an XSL stylesheet into a
YST: Yukon Standard Time
translet (a set of Java classes) and a runtime processor to
Timezone: GMT -9:00
apply the translet to an XML document and perform a
transformation (Software) YTD: Year To Date
XSMD: eXtended Storage Module Drive Time series function
XSP: eXtensible Server Pages YW: You're Welcome

(Net lingo)
xSP: eXternal Service Provider
Seller of services to other companies
Z
XSS: Cross-Site Scripting
(Software) ZAC: Zero Administration Client
XSSI: eXtended Server Side Includes ZAI: Zero Administration Initiative
XST: Cross-Site Tracing ZAK: Zero Administration Kit

(Microsoft)
XT: eXtended Technology
(IBM) ZAW: Zero Administration for Windows
(Microsoft)
XTAL: CrysTAL
ZB: ZetaByte
XTCLK: eXternal Transmit CLocK 1024 exabytes
XTLA: eXtended Three Letters Acronym ZBR: Zero Bug Release
XTM: Xml Topic Map Point in the software development at which all features are
correctly implemented and have no bugs logged against them
XTND: Xml Transition Network Definition (Software)
XTR: Efficient Compact Subgroup Trace ZBR: Zone-Bit Recording
Representation
A crypto system that is a particularly efficient and compact ZCAV: Zone Constant Angular Velocity
implementation of the classical Diffie-Hellman scheme. See (Hardware)
http://www.ecstr.com (Security) Z-CAV: Zoned Constant Angular Velocity
XUL: Xml-based User interface Language ZD: Ziff-Davis
XVGA: eXtended Video Graphics Array ZDBOp: Ziff-Davis Benchmark OPeration
Display standard (Hardware)
ZDL: Zero Delay Lockout
XWB: eXtend WorkBench
Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) (Software)
ZDMI: Ziff-Davis Market Intelligence
XWD: X Window Dump ZDS: Zenith Data Systems

ZDTV: Ziff-Davis TeleVision
Y ZEN: Zero Effort Networking
Y2K: Year 2000 (Novell)
YACC: Yet Another Compiler Compiler ZIF: Zero Insertion Force

Unix program (Operating systems) (Hardware)
YAHOO: Yet Another Hierarchically Officious ZIP: Zigzag Inline Package

Oracle (Hardware)
YAHU: Yet Another Header Utility ZIP: Zone Improvement Plan

Utilities for peeking into executables headers (Software) Postal code
YAI: Yet Another Isp ZLR: Zoom Lens Reflex

(Hardware)
YAM: Yet Another Modem
ZNA: Zero Network Administration
YAST: Yet Another Setup Tool
(Network)
YATE: Yet Another Terminal Emulator
ZOPE: Z Object Publishing Environment
(Software)
ZPV: Zoomed Port Video
YB: YottaByte
1024 zetabytes ZSL: Zero Slot Lan
YDT: Yukon Daylight Time ZV: Zoomed Video
Timezone: GMT -9:00
X
YHBW: You Have Been Warned
(Net lingo)
YIM: Yahoo! Instant Messenger
Y
(Software)
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2S: 2 Sides AAB: All-to-All Broadcast

a: atto ABC: Atanasoff-Berry Computer

Å: Ångstrom ABEL: Advanced Boolean Expression Language

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ABEND: ABnormal END ACE: Adobe Certified Expert

ACAP: Application Configuration Access ACO: Alternate Checksum Option

ACC: ACCumulator ACP: Active Code Page

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ACS: Admission Control Service ADC: Application Delete Certificate

ACS: Asynchronous Communication Server ADCCP: Advanced Data Communication Control

ACT: Application Compatibility Toolkit ADF: Automatically Defined Function

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ADR: Advanced Digital Recording AEC: Architecture, Engineering, Construction

AE: Above or Equal AFLCD: AntiFerroelectric Liquid Crystal Display

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AFP: Advanced Function Printing AIM: Aol Instant Messenger

AFS: Andrew File System AIS: Automated Information System

AFT: Adapter Fault Tolerance AISB: Association of Imaging Service Bureaus

AHIG: Apple's Human Interface Guidelines ALC: Automatic Level Control

AHST: Alaska-Hawaii Standard Time ALE: Account Level Equivalence

AIA: Applications Integration Architecture ALE: Application Linking Enabling

AIFF: Audio Interchange File Format ALG: Application Layer Gateway

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ALGOL: ALGOrithmic Language AMPS: Advanced Mobile Phone System

ALICE: Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer AMR: Adaptive Multi-Rate

ALN: Asynchronous Learning Network ANDF: Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format

ALP: Apple List Price ANI: ANImated cursor

ALSA: Architectures of Large Systems of ANN: Artificial Neural Network

ALU: Arithmetic Logic Unit ANS: American National Standard

AML: Acpi Machine Language AOL: America OnLine

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AOW: Asia and Oceania Workshop APP: Applecare Protection Plan

AP: Access Provider APPC: Advanced Program to Program

API: Application Programming Interface APSE: Ada Programming Support Environment

APN: Access Point Name APWG: Anti Phishing Working Group

APNIC: Asia-Pacific Network Information AQ: Advanced Queueing

APOP: Authenticated Post Office Protocol

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AR: Access Rate ARPANET: Advanced Research Projects Agency

ARAG: AntiReflective, AntiGlare ARS: Activity Reporting System

ARC: ARChive ARTS: Asynchronous Remote Takeover Server

ARL: Adjusted Ring Length AS/U: Advanced Server for Unix

ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency ASC: Autonomous System Confederation

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ASCC: Automatic Sequence Controlled ASM: ASseMbler

ASL: Adaptive Speed Leveling ASR: Access Service Request

ASL: Arithmetic Shift Left ASR: Automatic Send-Receive

ASLB: Accelerated Server Load Balancing ASR: Automatic Server Recovery

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ATX: Advanced Technology eXtended AWAC: Audio Waveform Amplifier and

AVC: Audio Visual Connection B2B: Business to Business

AVGA: Advanced Video Graphic Array B2X: Binary To heXadecimal

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BAKOM: BundesAmt für KOMmunikation BC4J: Business Components For Java

BAM: Bidirectional Associative Memory BCA: BroadCast Agent

BBB: Bit By Bit BCPL: Basic Computer Programming Language

BBL: Be Back Later BCR: Byte Count Register