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AA Auto Answer

AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

AAB All-to-All Broadcast

AAC Advanced Audio Coding

AAL Asynchronous Transfer Mode Adaption Layer

AAM Automatic Acoustic Management

AAP Applications Access Point [DEC]

AARP AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol

AAS All-to-All Scatter

AASP ASCII Asynchronous Support Package

AAT Average Access Time

AATP Authorized Academic Training Program [Microsoft]

.ABA Address Book Archive (file name extension) [Palm]

ABC * Atanasoff-Berry Computer (First digital calculating machine that used vacuum tubes)

ABEND Abnormal End

ABI Application Binary Interface

ABIOS Advanced BIOS

ABIST Automatic Built-In Self-Test [IBM]

ABLE Adaptive Battery Life Extender

ABM Asynchronous Balanced Mode

ABR Available Bit Rate

ABRD Automatic Baud Rate Detection

ABRS Automated Book Request System [British Library]

ABS Address Book Synchronization [IBM] + Absolute ABT Abort

ABTS ASCII Block Terminal Services

AC Autocheck + Automatic Computer + Alternating Current

ACAP Application Configuration Access Protocol

ACC Accumulator

ACCMAIL Accessing the Internet Via Email

ACD Automatic Call Distribution

ACDI Asynchronous Communications Device Interface

ACE Access Control Encryption/Entry + Adobe Certified Expert + Advanced Computing Environment [SCO] + Adverse Channel Enhancements [Microcom] + * Automatic Computing Engine

ACF Access Control Field + Advanced Communications Function

ACH Automated Clearing House

ACIAS Automated Calibration Interval Analysis System

ACIS American Committee for Interoperable Systems

ACK Acknowledgment

ACL Access Control List + Asynchronous Connection-Less (link)

ACM Association for Computing Machinery

Audio Compression Manager [Microsoft]

ACMS Application Control Management System

ACP Ancillary Control Program + Auxiliary Control Process

ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

ACR Allowed Cell Rate

ACROSS Automated Cargo Release and Operations

Service System

ACS Access + Access Control Set + Access Control System +

* Advanced Computer System [IBM] +

Anti Curl System + Asynchronous Communication Server

ACSS Audio Cascading Style Sheets

ACTLU Active Logical Unit

ACTPU Active Physical Unit

ACTS Automated Computer Time Service

ACTT Advanced Communication and Timekeeping Technology [Seiko]

ACU Automatic Calling Unit

ACVC Ada Compiler Validation Capacity

A/D Analog to Digital

ADA Automatic Data Acquisitions +

(Programming Language named after Augusta Ada Lovelace)

ADB Apple Desktop Bus

ADC Adaptive Data Compression (protocol) [Hayes] +

Add with Carry + Analog to Digital Converter

ADCCP Advanced Data Communication Control Procedures/Protocol

ADD Automatic Document Detection [WordPerfect]

ADF Automatic Document Feeder +

Automatically Defined Function

.ADF Adapter Description File (file name extension)

ADI AutoCad/AutoDesk Device Interface (driver)

ADL Address Data Latch

ADLAT Adaptive Lattice Filter

ADLC Adaptive Lossless Data Compression [IBM] +

Asynchronous Data Link Control

ADMACS Apple Document Management And Conrol System

ADMD Administrative Management Domain [X.400]

ADO ActiveX Data Objects

ADP AOLserver Dynamic Pages + Automatic Data Processing

ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation

ADR Address

ADS Application Development Solutions [AT&T] +

Application Development System +

Automatic Distribution System

ADSC Address Status Changed +

Adobe Document Structuring Conventions

ADSI Active Directory Service Interface [Microsoft] +

Analog Display Services Interface

ADSL (See DSL)

ADSP AppleTalk Datastream Protocol

ADSR Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release

ADT Abstract Data Type + Application Data Types

ADU Automatic Dialing Unit

AE Above or Equal

AEB Analog Expansion Bus [Dialogic]

AEC Architecture, Engineering, Construction

AEM Asynchronous Event Mechanism

.AERO Aviation Industry (Domain Name) [Internet]

AES Advanced Encryption Standard

AESA ATM End System Address

AF Auxiliary carry Flag

AFA Accelerated File Access

AFC Antiferro-Magnetically Coupled (media) [IBM] +

Automatic Font Change + Automatic Frequency Control

AFD Automatic File Distribution

AFDW Active Framework for Data Warehousing [Microsoft]

AFI Authority and Format Identifier

AFII Association for Font Information Interchange

AFIRM Automated Fingerprint images Reporting and Match

AFIS Automated Fingerprint Identification System

.AFM Adobe Font Metrics (file name extension) [Adobe Systems]

AFP Advanced Function Presentation [IBM] +

Advanced Function Printing +

Appletalk Filing Protocol [Macintosh]

AFS Andrew File System (protocols)

AFTP Advanced/Anonymous File Transfer Protocol

AGA Advanced Graphics Adapter

AGC Automatic Gain Control

AGP Accelerated/Advanced Graphics Port

AGRAS Antiglare-Antireflective-Antistatic

AGU Address-Generation Unit

AH Authentication Header (protocol)

AHS Automated Highway Systems

AI Analog Input + Artificial Intelligence

AIA Applications Integration Architecture [DEC]

AIC AIXwindows Interface Composer [IBM]

AIFF Audio Interchange File Format

AIIM Association for Information and images Management

AIM AOL Instant Messenger

AIN Advanced Intelligent Network [Bell Atlantic]

AIP Application Infrastruture Provider

AIR Architecture Implementation Review

AIS Automated Identification System [NCIC] +

Automated Information Systems

AISB Association of Imaging Service Bureaus

AISP Association of Information Systems Professionals

AIT Advanced Intelligent Tape (drive) [Sony]

AIX Advanced Interactive Executive [IBM]

ALAT Advanced Load Address Table

ALC Arithmetic and Logic Circuits +

Automatic Level Control

ALE Address Latch Enable +

Application Linking and Embedding

ALGOL Algorithmic Oriented Language (see IAL)

ALIBI Adaptive Location of Internetworked Bases

of Information

ALICE Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity

ALINK Active Link [HTML]

ALIWEB Archie Like Indexing in the Web [Internet]

ALN Asynchronous Learning Network

ALP Automatic Language Processing

ALR Advanced Logic Research, Inc.

ALT Alternate (mode)

ALT. Alternate lifestyle [USENET Newsgroup Category]

ALU Arithmetic Logic Unit

AMA Automatic Message Accounting

AMANDDA Automated Messaging and Directory Assistance

AMASS Archival Management and Storage System

AMD Active Matrix Display + Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

AMI Alternate Mark Inversion + American Megatrends, Inc. +

Application Messaging Interface

AMMA Advanced Memory Management Architecture

[Everex Systems]

AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone Service

AMR Audio Modem Riser

ANCOVA Analysis of Covariance

ANDF Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format

ANI Automatic Number Identification

.ANI Animated Cursor (file name extension) [Microsoft]

ANN Artificial Neural Network

.ANN Annotations (file name extension) [IBM]

ANOVA Analysis Of Variance

ANSI American National Standards Institute

ANX Automotive Network Exchange [Chrysler/Ford/General Motors]

AO Analog Output

AOCE Apple Open Collaboration Environment

AO/DI Always On/Dynamic ISDN

AOE Application Operating Environment [AT&T]

AOL America Online

AOS Add Or Subtract

AP Adjunct Processor + Application Processor

A/P Accounts Payable

APA Adaptive Packet Assembly + All Points Addressable + Arithmetic Processing Accelerator

APAR Authorized Program Analysis Report [IBM]

APAREN Address Parity Enable [IBM]

APCUG Association of PC User Groups

APDU Application Protocol Data Units

API Application Program Interface

APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (bus) [Intel]

APIS Advanced Passenger Information System

APL * A Programming Language (Mathematics)

APM Advanced Power Management [IBM]

APNIC Asia-Pacific Network Information Center [Internet]

APOP Authenticated Post Office Protocol

.APP Application (file name extension) [R:Base]

APPC Advanced Program-to-Program Communications [IBM]

APPI Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking

APPLETS Applications

APPN Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking [IBM]

APPS Applications

APR Annual Percentage Rate

APRP Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing

APS Advanced Photo System + Advanced Printing Service [IBM] Asynchronous Protocol Specification

APSE ADA Programming Support Environment

APT Address Pass Through + Advanced Parallel Technology + Automatically Programmed Tools

A/R Accounts Receivable

ARA AppleTalk Remote Access

ARAG Antireflective-Antiglare

ARAS Antireflective-Antistatic

.ARC Archive (file name extension)

ARCA Advanced RISC Computing Architecture

ARCnet Attached Resource Computer Network

.ARJ Compressed File (file name extension) [Jung]

ARL Adjusted Ring Length

ARLL Advanced Run Length Limited

ARM Advanced RISC Machine (processor) + Annotated Reference Manual + Asynchronous Response Mode

ARMA Association of Records Managers and Administrators

ARP Address Resolution Protocol [Novell]

ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

ARPL Adjust Requested Privilege Level

ARS Activity Reporting System [Unisys]

ART Adaptive Resonance Theory (algorithm)

ARTA Apple Real Time Architecture

ARTIC A Real-Time Interface Coprocessor [IBM]

ARTS Asynchronous Remote Takeover Server

.ARTS Cultural Groups (Domain Name) [Internet]

ARTT Asynchronous Remote Takeover Terminal

ARQ Automatic Repeat Request

ARU Audio Response Unit

AS Autonomous System [Internet]

ASAI Adjunct Switch Application Interface [AT&T]

ASAP As Soon As Possible + Automatic Switching And Processing AS3AP ANSI SQL Standard Scalable and Portable

ASB Advanced System Buffering [Intel]

.ASC ASCII text (file name extension)

ASCC * Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator [IBM]

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASD Application Structure Database [Microsoft] + Automatic Skip Driver [Microsoft]

ASF Active/Advanced Streaming Format [Microsoft]

ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

ASIT Advanced Security and Identification Technology

ASL Adaptive Speed Levelling

ASLM Apple Shared Library Manager [Macintosh]

.ASM Assembler Source Language (file name extension)

ASMP Asymmetric Multprocessing

ASN Abstract Syntax Notation + Autonomous System Number

ASO Automated Systems Operations

ASP Active Server Page [Microsoft] +

Application/Authorized Service Provider +

Aspect Oriented Programming +

Association of Shareware Professionals

.ASP Active Server Page (file name extension)

ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface [Adaptec]

ASPS Advanced Signal Processing System

ASR Address Space Register + Automatic Send-Receive +

Automatic Speech Recognition +

Automatic System Recovery

AST AST Research, Inc. (named from first initials of

the founders: Albert Wong, Safi Qureshey, Thomas Yuen)

AS/U Advanced Server for Unix

ASYNC Asynchronous

AS/400 Application System/400 [IBM]

AT Advanced Technology + Attention

ATAPI Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface

ATC Advanced Transfer Cache

ATDP Attention Dial Pulse

ATDT Attention Dial Tone

ATE Automated Test Equipment

ATG Advanced Technology Group

ATH Attention Hang-Up (Modem command)

ATL Active Template Library

ATM Adobe Typeface Manager + Air Traffic Management +

Asynchronous Transfer Mode + Automated Teller Machine

ATPS AppleTalk Printing Services [Macintosh]

ATR Automatic Terminal Recognition

ATS Administrative Terminal System +

Apple Terminal Services

AT&T American Telephone and Telegraph

ATTN Attention

ATTRIB Attribute (also ATR)

ATX Advanced Technology Extended [Intel]

ATZ Attention Restore configuration profile from

nonvolatile RAM (Modem command)

.AU Audio (file name extension)

AUDIT Automated Data Input Terminal

AUI Attachment/Autonomous Unit Interface

AUP Acceptable Use Policy [Internet]

AUTO Automatic

AUTOEXEC Automatic Execution

AUX Auxiliary + (First Serial Port)

AV Audio/Video + Audiovisual + Authenticity Verification

AVA Audio Visual Authoring [IBM]

AVC Audio Visual Connection [IBM]

AVD Alternating Voice and Data

AVG Average

AVI Audio Visual Interleave [Microsoft]

AVL AVL Tree (named after its founders:

Adelson, Veiskii and Landis

AVP Attribute-Value Pair

AVR Automatic Voice Recognition

AVT Applied Voice Technology

AVVID Architecture for Voice Video & Integrated Data [Cisco]

AWE Advanced Wave Effects [Creative Lab]

AWG American Wire Gage

AWK (Unix language named after its authors...

Al Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan)

AWS Advanced Workstations and Systems (group) [IBM]

AWT Abstract Window Toolkit [Java]

AX Architecture Extended + Automatic Transmission

B

BA Bell Atlantic (company)

BACP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol

BAK Binary Adaptation Kit [Microsoft]

.BAK Backup (file name extension)

BAL Basic Assembly Language

BALUN Balanced Unbalanced (device)

BAM Boyan Action Module

BAPI Business Application Programming Interface [SAP]

BARTS Bell Atlantic Regional Timesharing

.BAS Basic Language (file name extension)

BASH Bourne Again Shell [Unix]

BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BASM Built-In Assembler

BAT Block Address Translation

.BAT Batch Processing (file name extension)

B2B Business-To-Business

BBS Bulletin Board System

B2C Business To Consumer

BCC Block Check Character

BCC: Blind Carbon Copy

BCD Binary Coded Decimal

B-CHANNEL Bearer Channel

BCL Base Class Libraries + Batch Command Language

BCN Beacon

BCNF Boyce-Codd Normal Form

BCP Best Current Practice + Bulk Copy Program

BCPL Basic Computer Programming Language

BCR Byte Count Register

BCS Bar Code Sorter

BDA Bios Data Area

BDC Backup Domain Controller

BDE Borland Database Engine [Borland]

BDLS Bidirectional Loop Switching

BDOS Basic Disk Operating System

BDR Bus Device Request

BDSL (See DSL)

BE Below or Equal

B2E Business To Employees

BECN Backward Explicit Congestion Notification

BEDO Burst Extended Data Out

BEEP Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol

BEL Bell

BELLCORE Bell Communications Research

BER Basic Encoding Rules + Bit Error Rate

BERT Bit Error Rate Test/Tester

BF Bad Flag

B/F Background/Foreground

.BFC Briefcase (file name extension) [Microsoft]

BFF Binary File Format [IBM]

BFT Binary File Transfer

BFTP Batch FTP

BGA Ball Grid Array

BGCOLOR Background Color [HTML]

BGE Branch if Greater or Equal

.BGI Borland Graphic Interface (file name extension)

BGP Border Gateway Protocol

BGT Branch if Greater Than

BHI Branch if Higher

BHIS Branch if Higher or Same

BI Binary Input

.BIB Bibliography (file name extension)

BiDi Bi-Directional

BIFET Bipolar Field Effect Transistor

BIFF Binary Interchange File Format

BIM Beginning of Information Marker

.BIN Binary (file name extension)

BINAC * Binary Automatic Computer

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain

BINHEX Binary Hexadecimal

BIOS Basic Input/Output System

BIS Business Information System

BISDN Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network

BIST Built-In Self-Test

BiSYNC (See BSYNC)

BIT Binary Digit

BITNET Because It's Time Network

BITNIC Bitnet Network Information Center

BIU Bus Interface Unit

BIW Business Intelligence Warehouse [SAP]

BIX Byte Information Exchange (BBS)

.BIZ Businesses (Domain Name) [Internet]

.BK! Backup (file name extension) [WordPerfect]

.B~K Backup (file name extension)

BKSP Backspace

BL Backlit + Bit Line

BLAST Bell Labs Layered Space Time +

Blocked Asynchronous Transmission (protocol) [Communications Research Group]

.BLD BASIC Bload Graphics (file name extension)

BLE Branch if Less or Equal

BLER Block Error

BLK Block

BLMC Buried Logic Macrocell

BLOB Binary Large Object

BLOG Web Log

BLOS Branch if Lower Or Same

BMI Branch if Minus

BMIC BusMaster Interface Controller [Intel]

BMP Basic Mapping Support + Basic Multilingual Plane + Batch Message Processing Program

.BMP Bitmap (file name extension) [Paintbrush Format]

BNC Bayonet Neill-Concelman (connector used with coaxial cable invented by Mr. Neill Concelman) +

British Naval Connector

BNE Branch if Not Equal

BNF Backus-Naur Form (also Backus-Normal Form) [developed by John Backus and Peter Naur]

BNS Backbone Network Service

BO Binary Output

BOA Basic Object Adapter

BOB Break-out Box

BOC Basic Operator Console

BOF Beginning Of File

BOM Basic Online Memory [IBM] + Beginning Of Message

BOND Bandwidth On Demand

BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol [Internet]

BOPS Billion Operations Per Second

BORPQU Borland Pro Quattro

BORQU Borland Quattro

BOS Basic Operating System

BOT Beginning Of Table + Beginning of Tape + Robot

BP Base Pointer

BPB BIOS Parameter Block

BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Unit Berkeley Packet Filter

BPI Bits Per Inch

BPL Branch if Plus

BPP Bits Per Pixel

BPR Business Process Re-engineering [Linux]

BPS Bits Per Second + Bytes Per Second

BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying

BR Bad Register

BRGC Binary Reflected Gray Code

BRI Basic Rate Interface + Brain Response Interface

BS Backspace

BSAM Basic Sequential Access Method

BSC Base Station Controller + Binary Synchronous Communication

.BSC Boyan Script (file name extension) [Boyan Communications]

BSCS Bachelor of Science (Degree) in Computer Science

BSD Berkely Software/Standard Distribution

BSF Bit Scan Forward

BSI British Standards Institute

BSM Basic Storage Module [IBM]

BSP Bulk Synchronous Parallelism

BSR Bit Scan Reverse

BS-RAM Burst Static RAM

BSS Block Started by Symbol

BST Binary Search Tree

BSY Busy

BSYNC Binary Synchronous Communications (protocol)

BT Bit Test

BTAM Basic Telecommunications Access Method [IBM]

BTB Branch Target Buffer

BTC Bit Test and Complement

BTI Business Type Identifier

BTOA Binary To ASCII

BTP Batch Transfer Program

BTR Bit Test and Reset

BTS Base Transceiver Station + Bit Test and Set

BU Branch Unit

BUBL Bulletin Board for Libraries [Janet]

BUF Buffer

BUS Broadcast and Unknown Server

BVH Base Video Handler

BWM Block-Write Mode

B2X Binary To Hexadecimal [REXX]

BYTE Binary Element String

C C Programming Language

.C C source code (file name extension) [C]

CA Certification Authority + Collision Avoidance

CAB Compressed Application Binary [Microsoft]

.CAB Cabinet (file name extension) [Microsoft]

CACLS Command-Line Access Control Lists [Microsoft]

CAD Computer Aided Design

CADD Computer Aided Design and Drafting

CADE Client/server Application Development Environment

CAE Client Application Enabler + Common Applications Environment + Computer Aided Engineering

CAEN Chemically Assembled Electronic Nanocomputer

CAEX Computer Aided Exploration

CAG Column Address Generator

CAI Computer Aided Instruction

CAIRN Collaborative Advanced Interagency Research Network

CAL Calendar + Client Access License +

Computer Aided Learning

CALS Computer-Aided Acquisition in Logistic Support

CAM Common Access Method + Computer Aided Manufacturing +

Contents Addressable Memory

CAN Cancel + Controller Area Network

CANBUS Conroller Area Network Bus

CAP Carrierless Amplitude and Phase-Modulation + Central Arbitration Point + Communication Application Platform + Competitive Access Provider + Computer Aided Publishing

.CAP Capture (file name extension)

CAPD Computing To Assist Persons With Disabilities [Johns Hopkins University]

CAPE Concurrent Art-to-Product Environment

CAPS Capitals (Upper Case Letters) + Cassette Programming System

CAPTCHA Completely Automatic Public Turing Test To Tell

Computers and Humans Apart

CAR Committed Access Rate [Cisco]

CARL Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries [Internet]

CART Computer-Assisted Radar Tomography

CAS Column Address Select/Strobe + Communications Application Specification + Computer Aided Styling

CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering

CASL Crosstalk Application Scripting Language [DCA]

CASS Computer Assisted Search Service

CASSIS Classified and Search Support Information System

CAT Computer Adaptive Test + Computer Aided Testing + Computer Aided Tomography + Computer Aided Transcription + Concatenate

.CAT Catalog (file name extension)

CATS Computer Assisted Training System

CAT SCAN Computerized Axial Tomography Scan

CATV Community Antenna Television (this was the original name for what is now known as Cable TV)

CAU Controlled Access Unit

CAV Constant Angular Velocity

CAVE Computer Automatic Virtual Environment

CBC Cipher Block Chaining

CBCR Channel Byte Count Register

CBDS Connectionless Broadband Data Service

CBEMA Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association

CBGA Ceramic Ball Grid Array

CBI Computer Based Instruction\Instrumentation

CBL Computer Based Learning

.CBL COBOL source code (file name extension)

CBMS Computer-Based Mail System

CBN Community Based Networks

CBR Case Based Reasoning + Constant Bit Rate

CBT Computer Based Training

CBW Convert Byte to Word

CBX Computer-Controlled Branch Exchange

CC Cluster Controller

CC: Carbon Copy

CCD Charged-Coupled Device

CCFT Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube

CCI Common Client Interface

CCIE Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert [Cisco]

CCITT Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique/ Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone

CCL Connection/Cursor Control Language

CCM Corba Component Mode

CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate

CCNP Cisco Certified Network Professional

CCP Certified Computing Professional +

Console Command Processor

CC/PP Composite Capabilities/Preference Profile

CCS Common Command Set + Common Communications Services + Common Communications Support + Continuous Composite Servo + Cryptographic Checksum

.CCS Color Calibration System (file name extension)

CCSIS Coded Character Set ID

CCSD Cellular Circuit-Switched Data

CCTLD Country Code Top-Level Domain

CD Carrier Detect + Change Directory + Collision Detection + Color Display + Compact Disk

C/D Control Data

C2D Character To Decimal [REXX]

CDA Compound Document Architecture [DEC]

.CDA CD Audio-Track (file name extension)

CDBT Compact Disk-Based Training

CDC Connected Device Configuration + Control Data Corporation

CD_CHRDY Card Channel Ready [IBM]

CD-DA Compact Disk - Digital Audio

CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interface

CDE Common Desktop Environment + Complex Data Entry

CD-E Compact Disk - Erasable

CDF Channel Definition Format

.CDF Comma Delimited Format (file name extension)

CDFS Compact Disc File System [Microsoft]

CD+G Compact Disk plus Graphics

CD-I Compact Disk - Interactive

CDIA Certified Document Imaging Architect

CDL Computer Design Language

CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

CDMF Commercial Data Masking Facility [IBM]

CD-MO Compact Disk - Magneto Optical

CDO Collaboration Data Objects [Microsoft]

CDOS Concurrent Disk Operating System

CDP * Certificate In Data Processing (First certification for Computer Professionals)

CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data

CDR Call Detail Record + Call Detail Recording + Common Data Representation

.CDR CorelDRAW (file name extension) [Corel]

CD-R Compact Disk - Recordable

CD-RAM Cached RAM

CD-RDx Compact Disk - Read Only Memory Data Exchange Standard

CDRL Contract Data Requirements List

CD-ROM Compact Disk - Read Only Memory

CD-ROM-XA CD-ROM Extended Architecture

CD-RTOS Compact Disk - Real Time Operating System

CD-RW Compact Disk - Rewritable

CDS Current Directory Structure

CDSA Common Data Security Architecture

CDSL (See DSL)

.CDT Corel Draw Template (file name extension)

CD-V Compact Disk - Video

CD-WO Compact Disk - Write Once

.CDX Compound Index (file name extension) [Fox Pro]

CD-XA Compact Disk - Extended Architecture

CE Cache Enable + Chip Enable + Collision Elimination + Convert Enable

CEB Conditional End Bracket

CEC Certified E-Commerce Consultant

CEG Continuous Edge Graphics

CEI Conducted Electromagnetic Interference

CELP Card Edge Low Profile (socket) [Intel]

CEMS Constituent Electronic Mail System

CEOP Conditional End Of Page

CER Canonical Encoding Rules

CERN The European Particle Physics Laboratory (initials originally from Conseil Europien pour la Recherche Nucliaire)

CERT Computer Emergency Response Team

CFB Cipher Feedback + Configurable Function Block

.CFG Configuration (file name extension)

CFM Code Fragment Manager [Macintosh] + Cubic Feet Per Minute

CFML ColdFusion Markup Language

CFR Computerized Facial Recognition

CFS Caching/Common File System

CFV Call For Votes [Bitnet]

CG Control Gate

CGA Color Graphics Adapter

CGE Common Graphics Environment

CGI Computer Generated Images + Computer Graphics Interface

CGI-BIN Common Gateway Interface - Binary

.CGM Computer Graphics Metafile (file name extension) + Graph (file name extension) [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC]

CGS Continuous-Grain Silicon

CHAP Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol

CHAR Character

CHAT Conversational Hypertext Access Technology [Internet]

CHCK Channel Check

CHCP Change Code Page

CHDIR Change Directory

CHFN Change Finger [Unix]

CHGRP Change Group

CHIPS Clearinghouse Interbank Payments System

.CHK CHKDSK (file name extension)

CHKDSK Check Disk

CHMOD Change Mode

CHOWN Change Owner

CHP Chapter

CHR Character

CHRP Common Hardware Reference Platform

CHS Cylinder Head Sector

CHTML Compressed HTML

CI Component Interface

CIA Current Instruction Address

CIAC Computer Incident Advisory Capability

CICS/VS Customer Information Control System/Virtual Storage [IBM]

CID Charge-Injection Device + Configuration/Installation/Distribution

CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CIF Common Interchange/Intermediate Format + Crystallographic Information File + Customer Information Feed

CIFS Common Internet File System

CIL Common Intermediate Language [ECMA]

CIM Common Information Model + CompuServe Information Manager + Computer Integrated Manufacturing

CIO Chief Information Officer

CIOCS Communication Input/Output Control System

CIP Command Interface Port + Common Indexing Protocol

CIR Committed Information Rate

CIRC Circular Reference + Cross-Interleaved Reed-Solomon Code

CIS Card Information Structure + Client Information System + CompuServe Information Service + Computer Information Systems + Contact Image Sensor + Customer Information System

CISC Complex Instruction Set Computing

CIT Computer-Integrated Telephony

CIVR Computer and Interactive Voice Response

CIW Certified Internet Webmaster

CIX Commercial Internet Exchange + Compulink Information Exchange

CJLI Command Job Language Interpreter

CKD Count Key Data (device)

CLAR Channel Local Address Register

CLASS Client Access to Systems and Services + Cooperative Library Agency for Systems and Services + Custom Local-Area Signaling Services

CLC Clear Carry Flag

CLD Clear Direction Flag

CLDC Connected Limited Device Configuration

CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier

CLI Call-Level Interface + Clear Interrupt Flag + Client Library Interface + Command Line Interface + Common Language Infrastructure/Interface

CLIB C Library

CLID Calling Line Identification

CLIST Command List

CLK Clock

CLNP Connectionless Network Protocol

CLOS Common Lisp Object System

CLP Cell Loss Priority + Constraint Logic Programming

.CLP Clipboard (file name extension) [Microsoft]

CLR Common Language Runtime [Microsoft]

CLS Clear Screen + Common Language Support

CLSID Class Identifier

CLTP Connectionless Transport Protocol

CLTS Clear Task Switch Flag

CLTV Constant Linear Time Velocity

CLUI Command Line User Interface

CLUT Color Look-Up Table

CLV Constant Linear Velocity

CM Centimeter + Control Mark + Corrective Maintenance

CMA Concert Multi-thread Architecture

CMC Common Mail Calls + Common Messaging Calls + Communication Management Configuration + Complement Carry Flag + Computer-Mediated Communication [Internet]

CMD Circuit Mode Data

.CMD Command (file name extension)

CMF Creative Music Format

CNIDR Clearinghouse for Network Information and Discovery and Retrieval [Internet]

CMIP Common Management Information Protocol

CMIS Common Management Information Services/System

CML Chemical Markup Language + Conceptual Modelling Language + Computer Managed Learning + Current Mode Logic

CMM Capability Maturity Model

CMMS Computerized Maintenance Management Software

CMMU Cache/Memory Management Unit [Motorola]

CMOS Coats-Mellon Operational Specification + Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

CMOV Conditional Move

CMP Compare + Computer

CMPS Compare Word String

CMS Call Management Server + Code Management System + Compiler Monitor System + Conversation Monitor System

CMTS Cable Modem Termination System

CMVC Configuration Management Version Control [IBM]

CMW Compartmented Mode Workstation

CMY Cyan-Magenta-Yellow (color model)

CMYK Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black (color model)

CNA Certified NetWare/Network Administrator

CNAPS Co-Processing Node Architecture for Parallel Systems

CNC Computerized Numerical Control

CNE Certified NetWare Engineer

.CNF Configuration (file name extension)

CNG Calling (tone)

CNI Certified Novell Instructor [Novell]

CNIDR Clearinghouse for Networked Information and Discovery and Retrieval [Internet]

CNN Composite Network Node

CNR Carrier to Noise Ratio + Communication Network Riser

CNSS Core Nodal Switching Subsystem [Internet]

.CNT Contents (file name extension)

CNV Conventional (pertaining to Memory)

CNVT Convert

CNX Certified Network Expert

CO Central Office + Command Output + Convert Out

COAST Card On A Stick (module)

COAX Coaxial Cable

COB Chip-On-Board

.COB COBOL source code (file name extension)

COBOL Common Business-oriented Language (See HLL)

.COD Code List (file name extension)

CODASYL * Conference on Data System Languages (Group that designed COBOL)

CODE Client-Server Open Development Environment

CODEC Coder/Decoder + Compression/Decompression

COEM Commercial Original Equipment Manufacturer

COFF Common Object File Format [Unix]

COGO Coordinate Geometry (Programming Language)

COL Collision + Computer Oriented Language

COLD Computer Output to Laser Disk

COLL Collision

COM Component Object Model [Microsoft] + Computer Output Microfilm

.COM Command (file name extension) + Commercial Business (Domain Name) [Internet]

COM1 First serial Port (asynchronous port)

COM2 Second serial Port

COM3 Third serial Port

COM4 Fourth serial Port

COMDEX Computer Dealers Exposition

COMET Cornell Macintosh Terminal Emulator

COMM Communications

COMP Compare

COMP. Computers [USENET Newsgroup Category]

COMSAT Communications Satellite Corporation

CON Console (includes Keyboard and Screen)

COND Condition

CONFIG Configuration

CONS Connection-Oriented Network Service

CONTONE Continuous Tone

.COOP Cooperatives-Business (Domain Name) [Internet]

COPICS Communications Oriented Production Information and Control System [IBM]

COR Common Object Runtime

CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture

COREN Corporation for Research and Enterprise Network

COS Compatible Operating System

COSE Combined Office Standard Environment + Common Open Software/Systems Environment

COSMIC Computer Software Management and Information Center [NASA]

COSMOS Computer System for Mainframe Operations

COSS Common Object Services Specification

COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf (software)

CP Copy Protected

CPA Certified Public Accountant + Cost Per Action

CPAN Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

CPC Constant Point Calculation + Cost Per Click

CPCS Check Processing Control System [IBM]

CPE Central Processing Element + Customer Premises Equipment + Customer Provided Equipment

.CPE Cover Page (file name extension)

CPFR Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment

CPG Clock Pulse Generator

CPI Characters Per Inch + Clock Per Instruction + Common Programming Interface [IBM]

.CPI Code Page Information (file name extension) [MS-DOS]

CPI-C Common Programming Interface for Communications [IBM]

CPIO Copy In and Out [Unix]

CPL Current Privilege Level

.CPL Control Panel (file name extension)

CPLD Complex Programmable Logic Device

CPM Critical Path Method

CP/M Control Program for Microcomputers [Digital Research]

CPO Chief Privacy Officer

CPRM Content Protection for Recordable Media

CPS Characters Per Second + Cycles Per Second

CPT Command Pass Through

CPU Central Processing Unit

CPW Commercial Processing Workload [IBM]

CR Carriage Return

CRAM Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism + Cyberspatial Reality Advancement Movement

CRAYON Create Your Own Newspaper

CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check

.CRD Cardfile (file name extension) + Chord (music file name extension)

CREN Computer Research Education Network + Corporation for Research and Education Networking

CRF Cable Retransmission Facility + Cross Reference File

CRI Color Reproduction Indices

CRL Certificate Revocation List

CR/LF Carriage Return/Line Feed

CRM Customer Relationship Management

CROM Control Read Only Memory

CRT Cathode Ray Tube

CRTC CRT Controller

CRUD Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete

CS Chip Select + Clear to Send + Code Segment

C/S Client/Server

CSA Calendaring and Scheduling API [IBM]

CSAR Channel System Address Register

CSCW Computer Supported Cooperative Work

CSD Circuit-Switched Data + Computer Services Department + Corrective Service Diskette [IBM]

CSDS Circuit Switched Data Service

CSE Certified System Engineer

CSFI Communication Subsystem For Interconnection

CSG Constructive Solid Geometry + Consulting Services Group [Lotus]

CSI Command Sequence Introducer + CompuServe Incorporated

CSID Call Subscriber Identification

CSL Computer Sensitive Language

CSLIP Compressed Serial Line Interface Protocol [Internet]

CSM Code Set Map (file) + Communications Services Manager + Control Strip Module [Macintosh]

CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access/with Collision Avoidance

CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access/with Collision Detection

CSMS Customer Support Management System

CSN Card-Select Number

CSNET Computer Science Network

CSO Central Services Organization

CSP Certified Systems Professional + Chip-Scale Packaging + Commercial Service Provider + Commercial Subroutine Package + CompuCom Speed Protocol [CompuCom] + Communicating Sequential Processes + Cross System Product [IBM]

CSPDN Circuit Switched Public Data Network

CSRAM Custom Static RAM

CSS * Continuous System Simulator (Language)

CSS Cascading Style Sheet [Microsoft] + Contact Start-Stop + Content Scrambling System

CSSM Client-Server Systems Management [IBM]

CS/SS Card Service/Socket Service

CSTA Computer-Supported Telephony Applications

CSU Channel Service/Switching Unit

CSV Circuit-Switched Voice + Comma-Separated Value/Variable + Common Services Verbs (interface) [Microsoft]

C2T Cable Changing Technology

C&T Chips and Technologies

CTB Cipher Type Byte

CTC Channel To Channel + Counter/Timer Chip

CTCP Client-To-Client Protocol

CTI Computer-Telephony Integration

CTL Complex Text Layout

CTOS Cassette Tape Operating System + Computerized Tomography Operating System + Convergent Technologies Operating System

CTPA Coax-to-Twisted-Pair Adapter

CTRCO * Calculating, Tabulating, Recording Company (The name of this company was changed to "International Business Machines" by Thomas J. Watson, Sr.)

CTRL Control

CTS Clear To Send + Computer Telephony Solution [IBM] + Customer Telephone System

CTSS * Compatible Time Sharing System

CUA Common User Access [IBM]

CUB Cursor Backward

CUD Cursor Down

CUE Custom Updates and Extras (card) [Egghead Software]

CUF Cursor Forward

CUI Character-Oriented User Interface + Common User Interface [IBM]

CUP Cursor Position

CUPID Completely Universal Processor I/O Design [AST]

.CUR Cursor (file name extension)

CUSIP Committee for Uniform Security Identification Procedures [U.S. Treasury]

CUT Control Unit Terminal

CUTE Clarkston University Terminal Emulator

CUU Cursor Up

CVF Compressed Volume File

CVGA Color Video Graphics Array

CVIA Computer Virus Industry Association

CVS Computer Vision Syndrome + Concurrent Versions System

CVT Convert

CVW CodeView for Windows

CWA Competitive Web Analysis

CWD Convert Word to Double Word + Change Working Directory [Internet]

CWIS Campus Wide Information Service/System [Internet] + Community Wide Information Service/System [Internet]

C2X Character To Hexadecimal [REXX]

CXML Commerce Extensible Markup Language

CYL Cylinder

CYMK Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-Black (color model)

D

D/A Digital to Analog

DAA Data Access Arrangement + Decimal Adjust for Addition

DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting

DAC Data Acquisition and Control + Device Access Code + Digital to Analog Converter + Dual Attachment Concentrator

DACL Discretionary Access Control List

DACTLU Deactive Logical Unit

DAD Desktop Application Director [Borland]

DAE Digital Audio Extraction

DAF Destination Address Field

DAI Distributed Artificial Intelligence

DAL Data Access Language [Apple Computer] +

Data Access Layer + Disk Access Lockout

DAM Data Acquisition and Monitoring

DAMPS Digital AMPS

DAO Data Access Object [Microsoft] + Disk At Once

DAP Data Access Protocol [DEC] +

Developer Assistance Program

Dynamic Application Partitioning [IBM]

DAPIE Developers Application Programming Interface Extensions

DARI Database Application Remote Interface [IBM]

DARMS Digital Alternate Realization of Musical Symbols

DART Digital Audio Reconstruction Technology

DAS Decimal Adjust for Subtraction +

Dual-Attached Station

DASD Direct Access Storage Device [IBM]

DAT Digital Audio Tape + Disk Array Technology

.DAT Data (file name extension)

DATACOM Data Communications

DAV Digital Audio-Video +

Distributed Authoring and Versioning

DAVIC Digital Audio-Visual Council dB Decibel

DB Data Base + Data Buffer + Device Bay dBA Adjusted Decibel

DBA Data Base Administrator

.dba Date Book Archive (file name extension) [Palm]

DBC Device Bay Controller

DBCS Delivery Bar Code Sorter + Double-Byte Character Set

.DBF Database Format (file name extension)

DBIS Dun & Bradstreet Information Services

.DBK Docbook (format) (file name extension)

dBm Decibels to a Milliwatt

DBM Data Base Manager

DBMS Data Base Management System

DBR DOS Boot Record

DBS Data Base Server + Direct (to home) Broadcast (satellite) System

DBV Digital Broadcast Video

DBWR Database Writer [Oracle]

DB2 Database 2

DC Data Collection + Data Communication + Data Control + Device Control + Direct Current

D2C Decimal To Character [REXX]

DCA Digital Communications Associates +

Document Content Architecture [IBM]

DCAF Distributed Console Access Facility [IBM]

DCAM Digital Camera + Direct Chip Attach Module

DCB Device Control Block + Disk Coprocessor Board [Novell]

DCC Data Country Code + Digital Command Control + Digital Compact Cassette + Direct Cable/Client Connection + Display Combination Code

DCD Data Carrier Detect

DCE Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment + Data Communications Equipment + Distributed Computing Environment [OSF] + Distributed Computing Equipment

DCED Distributed Computing Environment Daemon

DCF Data Communication Facility [IBM] + Data Compression Facility + Data Count Field [IBM] + Driver Configuration File [Lotus]

D-CHANNEL Data Channel

DCI Display Control Interface

DCL Data Control Language + Declaration +

DEC Command Language [DEC] + Device Clear + Digital Control Logic + Digital Command Language [Digital]

DCML Dynamic Configuration Markup Language

DCOM Distributed Component Object Model

DCP Device Control Protocol + Digital Light Processing [TI]

DCS Data Collection System + Data Control System + Desktop Color Separation + Distributed Control System

DCT Discrete Cosine Transform

.DCT Dictionary (file name extension)

DCU Data-Cache Unit

DD Day + Digital Display + Double Density

DDA Distributed Data Access + Domain-Defined Attribute

DDB Device Dependent Bitmap + Device Descriptor Block

DDC Digital Data Channel [VESA] + Display Data Channel

DDCMP Digital Data Communications Message Protocol [DEC]

DDC1 Display Data Channel One

DDCS Distributed Database Connection Services [IBM]

DDD Direct Distance Dialing

DDE Direct Data Entry + Dynamic Data Exchange [Microsoft]

DDEML Dynamic Data Exchange Manager Library [Microsoft]

DDF Display Data Channel + Dynamic Data Formatting [IBM]

DDI Device Driver Interface + Digital Document Interchange + Direct Dial In

DDK Device Driver Kit [Microsoft Windows]

DDL Data Definition Language + Data Description Language

DDM Distributed Data Management

DDN Defense Data Network

DDNS Dynamic Domain Naming System

DDOS Distributed Denial Of Service

DDP Datagram Delivery Protocol + Distributed Data Processing

DDR Dynamic Document Review [Symantec]

DDR-SDRAM Double Data Rate-SDRAM

DDS Data Description Specification + Digital Dataphone Service [AT&T] + Design Data Sheet + Digital Data Storage + Distributed Database Services

DDX Digital Data Exchange

DE Device End

DEA Data Encryption Algorithm + Disposable Email Address

DEC Decrement + Device Clear + Digital Equipment Corporation

DECNET Digital Equipment Corporation Networking (protocol)

DEF Desktop Functional Equivalent [Compaq]

.DEF Definitions + Defaults (file name extensions)

DEFRAG Defragment

DEK Data Encryption Key

DEL Delete

DELSTR Delete String [REXX]

.DEM Demonstration (file name extension)

DEN Directory Enabled Network + Document Enabled Networking [Novell-Xerox]

DER Distinguished Encoding Rules

DES Data Encryption Standard + Data Entry Sheet

.DES Description (file name extension)

DET Device Execute Trigger

DEV Device

DF Data Field + Default + Destination Field +

Device Flag + Double Flag

DFC Data Flow Control

DFD Data Flow Diagram

DFDR Digital Flight Data Recorder

DFM Design For Manufacturability [IBM]

DFP Digital Flat Panel

DFS Distributed File System

DFSMS Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem [IBM]

DFT Design For Testability + Diagnostic Function Test +

Discrete Fourier Transform +

Distributed Function Terminal

DFU Data File Utility

DGIS Direct Graphics Interface Standard

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DHL Dynamic Head Loading

.DHP Dr. Halo PIC (file name extension)

DHTML Dynamic HTML

DI Data In + Destination Index

DIA Document Interchange Architecture [IBM]

DIB Device Independent Bitmap +

Directory Information Base +

Dual Independent Bus [Intel]

DIBOL DEC Business Oriented Language

.DIC Dictionary (file name extension)

DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

DID Direct Inward Dialing

DIDS Distributed Intrusion Detection System

DIF Data Interchange Format

DIFFSENS Differential Sense

DIIP Direct Interrupt Identification Port

DIME Direct Internet Message Encapsulation

DIMM Dual In-Line Memory Module

DIN Deutsche Industrie Norm (German equivalent of EIA)

DIO Data Input-Output

DIP Dialup Internet Protocol [Internet] + Digital Imaging Processing +

Dual In-line Package + Dual In-line Pin

DIR Directory (file)

DIS Draft International Standard + Dynamic Impedance Stabilization [CompuCom]

DISA Data Interchange Standards Association + Direct Inward System Access

DISP Displacement (offset)

DIT Directory Information Tree

DIV Divide

DIVE Direct Interface Video Extension [OS/2 Warp]

DIVX Digital Video Express

DIW D-Inside Wire [AT&T]

DIX Digital-Intel-Xerox (Original Ethernet Standard)

.DIZ Description In Zip (file name extension)

DL Download (also D/L)

DL/1 Data Manipulation Language 1 [IBM]

DLB Dynamic Load Balancing

DLC Data Link Control (protocol) [IBM] + Distributed Loop Carrier

DLCI Data Link Connection Identifier

DLD Display List Driver

DLE Data Link Escape

DLL Dynamic Link Library

DLM Distributed Lock Manager + Dynamic Link Module

DLP Digital Light Processing [TI]

DLPI Data Link Provider Interface

DLR DOS LAN Requester

DLS Data Link Switching [IBM]

DLT Digital Linear Tape

DM Distributed Memory

DMA Direct Memory Access/Addressing + Document Management Alliance

DMAC DMA Controller

DMACS Distributed Manufacturing Automation & Control Software

DMD Digital Micromirror Device [TI]

DME Direct Memory Execution + Distributed Management Environment

DMF Distribution Media Format [Microsoft]

DMI Desktop Management Interface

DML Data Manipulation Language + Dialog Markup Language [W3C]

DMM Digital Multimeter

DMMS Dynamic Memory Management System

DMOS Double-diffused Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

DMP Dot Matrix Printer

DMPC Distributed Memory Parallel Computer

DMPP Distributed Memory Parallel Processor

DMQS Display Mode Query and Set [IBM]

DMS Data Management Software + Data/Document Management System

DMSD Digital Multistandard Decoding

DMSDK Digital Media Software Development Kit [SGI]

DMSS Distributed Mass Storage System

DMT Digital/Discrete Multi-Tone

DMTF Desktop Management Task Force

DMY Day Month Year

DN Down

DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid

DNC Direct Numerical Control

DNIC Data Network Identification Code

DNIS Dialed Number Identification Service

DNS Domain Naming System

DO Data Out + Distributed Objects

DOA Dead On Arrival

.DOC Document + Documentation (file name extensions)

DOCSIS Data Over Cable-Service Interface Specification

DOCSV Data Over Circuit-Switched Voice

DOE Distributed Objects Environment/Everywhere

DOIP Dial Other Internet Providers [IBM]

DO-IT Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology

DOLAP Desktop OLAP

DOM Document Object Model [W3C]

DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility

DOS Denial Of Service + Disk Operating System

DOSEM DOS Emulation

.DOT Document Template (file name extension)

DOV Data Over Voice

DOW Day Of Week

DP Data Processing

DPA Demand Protocol Architecture [3Com] + Document Printing Architecture

DPAM Demand Priority Access Method

DPAREN Data Parity Enable [IBM]

DPB Drive Parameter Block

DPC Direct Program Control

DPI Distributed Protocol Interface + Dots Per Inch

DPL Descriptor Privilege Level

DPM Digital Panel Meter

DPMA Data Processing Management Association

DPMI DOS Protected Mode Interface [Microsoft]

DPMS Digital Power Management Signaling + Display Power Management Support

DPO Data Phase Optimization

DPS Document Processing System

DPSK Differential Phase Shift Keying

DPtoTP Display Coordinates to Tablet Coordinates (converting)

DQDB Distributed Queue Dual Bus

DQL Data Query Language

DR Data Received

D/R Direct or Reverse

DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory

DRAW Direct Read After Write

DR.BOND Dial-up Router Bandwidth On Demand [NEC]

DRDA Distributed Relational Database Algorithm/Architecture [IBM]

DR-DOS Digital Research-Disk Operating System

DRDW Direct Read During Write

DRE Direct Recording Electronic (voting systems)

DRI Declarative Referential Integrity + Digital Research Incorporated

DRM Digital Rights/Distributed Resource Management

DRO Data Request Output + Destructive Read-Out

DRS Document Registration System

.DRS Driver Resource (file name extension) [WordPerfect]

DRV Drive

.DRV Device Driver (file name extension) (Also see .DVR)

.DRW Draw + Drawing (file name extensions)

DS Data Segment + Data Send + Data Server + Double Sided

D/S Dhrystone Per Second

DS3 Digital Signal Level 3

DSA Digital Signature Algorithm + Directory System Agent

DSAP Destination Service Access Point

DSD Direct Stream Digital [Sony-Philips]

DSDD Double Sided, Double Density (diskette)

DSE Data Storage Equipment

DSEA Display Station Emulation Adapter

DSECT Dummy Control Section

DSHD Double Sided, High Density (diskette)

DSIG Digital Signature

DSIS Distributed Support Information Standard

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

ADSL Asymmetric DSL

BDSL Broadband DSL

CDSL Consumer DSL [Rockwell]

FDSL Fixed Directory Subscriber List

HDSL High-Bit-Rate DSL +

High-Data-Rate DSL

IDSL Integrated Services Digital Network DSL

RDSL Rate-Adaptive DSL

SDSL Single-Line DSL + Symmetric DSL

VDSL Very-High-Bit-Rate DSL

VADSL Very-High-Rate Asymmetric DSL

VDSL Very-High-Data-Rate DSL

DSL Dynamic Simulation Language

DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer

DSM Distributed Shared Memory + Domain-Specific Modeling

DSMA Digital Sense Multiple Access

DSML Directory Services Markup Language

DSN Data Source Name + Delivery Service Notification

DSO Dynamic Shared Object

DSOM Distributed System Object Model

DSP Delivery Service Partner + Digital Signal Processing/Processor + Digital Sound Processor + Directory Synchronization Protocol [Lotus]

DSPT Display Station Pass-Thru [IBM]

DSQD Double Sided, Quad Density (diskette)

DSR Data Set Ready + Device Status Register + Device Status Report

DSS Decision Support System + Digital Signature Standard + Digital Spread Spectrum + Direct Station Selector

DSSI Digital Standard Systems Interconnect [DEC]

DSSS Direct-Sequencing Spread Spectrum

DSSSL Document Style Semantics and Specifications Language

DSTN Double Supertwisted Nematic

DSU Data Service/Switching Unit + Digital Service Unit

DSVD Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data

DSW Data Status Word + Device Status Word

DSX Digital Signals Cross-Connect

D2T2 Dye Diffusion Thermal Transfer (printing)

DTA Disk Transfer Area

.DTA Data (file name extension)

DTC Desktop Conferencing

DTCP Digital Transmission Copy Protection [Hitachi, Intel, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba]

DTD Document Type Definition

DTE Data Terminal Equipment + Dumb Terminal Emulator

DTF Distributed Test Facility

DTL Dialogue Tag Language [IBM] + Diode-Transistor Logic

DTM Digital Terrain Mapping

DTMF Data Tone Multiple Frequency + Dual Tone Multifrequency

DTP Desktop Publishing + Distributed Transaction Process

DTR Data Terminal Ready + Data Transfer Rate

DTS Distributed Traffic Shaping [Cisco]

DTSS Dartmouth Time Sharing System

DTV Desktop Video + Digital Television

DTVC Desktop Video Conferencing

DU Disk Usage

DUA Directory User Agent

DUAT Direct User Access Terminal

DUN Dial-Up Networking [Microsoft]

DUNCE Dial Up Network Connection Enhancement

DV Digital Video

.DV DESQview Script (file name extension)

DVC Desktop Video Conferencing + Digital Video Camera

DVD Digital Video Disk

DVD-A Digital Video Disk-Audio

DVD-R Digital Video Disk-Recordable

DVD-RAM Digital Versatile Disc-RAM

DVD-ROM Digital Versatile Disc-ROM

DVE Digital Video Effect

DVI Digital Video Interactive + Digital Visual Interface

.DVI Device Independent (file name extension)

DVM Digital Volt Meter

DVMRP Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol [Internet]

DVOF Digital Video Over Fiber

DVR Digital Video/Voice Recorder

.DVR Device Driver (file name extension) (Also see .DRV)

DW Data Warehousing

DWDM Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer

DWG Drawing

DWMT Discrete Wavelet Multitone

DWT Discrete Wavelet Transform

D2X Decimal To Hexadecimal [REXX]

.DXB Drawing Interchange Binary (file name extension)

[AutoCAD]

DXC Data Exchange Control

DXF Data Exchange File + Drawing Exchange Format

DXI Data Exchange Interface

DYNSLT Dynamic Select [IBM]

DYNSRC Dynamic Source

E

EA Effective Address + Extended Attribute [OS/2]

EAI Enterprise Application Integration

EAP Extensible Authentification Protocol

EAR External Access Register

EARN European Academic Research Network

EAROM Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory EARS Electronic Access to Reference Services + Electronic Authoring and Routing System [DEC] + Explicit Archive and Retrieval System [Langley Research]

EATA Enhanced AT Bus Attachment

EAX Environmental Audio Extensions [Creative]

EB Exabyte (1, 024 petabytes) (One Billion Billion characters of information)

EBASIC Extended BASIC

EBC EISA Bus Controller

EBCT Electron Beam Computed Tomography

EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code [IBM]

EBI Equivalent Background Input + Extended Background Investigation

EBNF Extended Backus-Naur Form

EBOOK Electronic Book

EBPP Electric Bill Presentment and Payment

EBR Extended Boot Record

EBT Electronic Benefits Transfer

EC Electronic Commerce + Error Control

ECAL Enjoy Computing And Learn

ECAT Electronic Card Assembly and Test [IBM]

ECB Electronic Codebook + Event Control Block

ECC Elliptic Curve Crypto + Error Check Code + Error Checking and Correction + Error Correction Code

ECD Enhanced Color Display + Enhanced Compact Disk

ECHO European Commission Host Organization [Internet]

ECI External Call Interface

ECL Emitter Coupled Logic

ECM Electronic Control Module

ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association

ECN Electronic Communications Network

ECNE Enterprise Certified NetWare Engineer [Novell]

ECP Enhanced/Extended Capabilities Port [Microsoft]

ECS Enhanced Chip Set

ECTL Electronic Communal Temporal Lobe

ECU EISA Configuration Utility

ED Erase Display

EDA Electronic Design Automation + Embedded Document Architecture [Go Corporation]

EDB Embedded Database

EDC Electronic Digital Computer + Enhanced Data Correction + Error Detection and Correction

EDDC Extended Distance Data Cable

EDE Encrypt-Decrypt-Encrypt

EDGAR Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval

EDGE Enhanced Data-Rates for Global Evolution

EDI Electronic Data Interchange + Electronic Document Interchange [DEC]

EDIF Electronic Design Interchange Format

EDIFACT EDI for Administration Commerce and Transport

EDL Edit Decision List

EDLC Ethernet Data Link Control

EDLIN Editor (Line Text)

EDMS Electronic Document Management System

EDO Extended Data Out

EDOS Enhanced DOS for Windows

EDP Electronic Data Processing

EDPM Electronic Data Processing Machine

EDRAM Enhanced/Eraseable/Extended Dynamic Random Access Memory

EDS Electronic Data Systems (corporation)

EDSAC * Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator

.EDU Educational Institutions (Domain Name) [Internet]

EDVAC * Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (First stored-program digital computer)

EE Extended Edition [IBM]

EEC Extended Error Correction

EEG Electroencephalogram

EEL Epsilon Extension Language

EEM Extended Memory Management

EEMAC Electrical & Electronic Manufacturers of Canada

EEMS Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification

EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EES Escrow Encryption Standard

EFA Extended File Attribute

EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFI Electromechanical Frequency Interference + Electronics For Imaging + Extensible Firmware Interface

EFIGS English, French, Italian, German, Spanish

EFL Emitter Follower Logic

E-FORM Electronic Form

EFS Encrypting File System

EFTS Electronic Funds Transfer System

EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter

EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol

EGREP Extended Global Regular Expression Print [Unix]

EHCI Enhanced Host Controller Interface

EHLLAPI Emulator High Level Language Application Programming Interface [IBM]

EIA Electronic Industries Association

EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics

EIM Electronic Image Management

EIS Executive Information System

EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture

EJB Enterprise JavaBeans

EL Electroluminescent (display) + Erase Line

ELAN Emulated Local Area Network

ELC Embedded Linking and Control

ELD Electronic License Distribution

ELEC Enterprise Local Exchange Carrier

ELF Executable and Linking Format + Extremely Low Frequency

ELS Entry Level System

EM Electronic Mail + Emphasized + End of Medium + Expanded Memory

EMA Electronic Mail Association + Enterprise Management/Memory Architecture

EMACS Editing Macros [Unix]

E-MAIL Electronic Mail

EMB Extended Memory Block [LIM/AST]

EMBARC Electronic Mail Broadcast to a Roaming Computer [Motorola]

EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility + Enhanced Memory Chip + E-Mail Connection + Extended Math Coprocessor

EMCC * Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company (World's first computer company, founded by Presper Eckart and John Mauchly, who invented and built the first UNIVAC)

EMF Extended Metafile Format [Microsoft]

EMI Electromagnetic Interference

.EML Electronic Mail (file name extension)

EMM Expanded Memory Manager

EMR Electro-Magnetic Radiation + Enhanced Metafile Record

EMS Electronic Mail System + Electronic Message Service + Energy Management System + Enhanced Messaging Service +

Expanded Memory Specification [LIM]

EMSAPI Extended Messaging Services Application Programming Interface

EMWAC European Microsoft Windows NT Academic Centre

.ENC Encoded (file name extension)

ENDEC Encoder/Decoder

ENDS Ends Segment

ENIAC * Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer (First fully electronic digital computer)

ENQ Enquiry

ENSS Exterior Nodal Switching Subsystem [Internet]

EOA End Of Address

EOB End Of Block

EOC End Of Conversion

EOF End Of File + Enterprise Objects Framework[Next Computer]

EOI End Of Interrupt + End Or Identify

EOJ End Of Job

EOL End Of Line + End Of List

EOM End Of Message

EOR Exclusive OR (Also XOR)

EOS Earth Observing System [NASA] + End Of String + Error Correction Code on SIMM

EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data and Information System [NASA]

EOT Embedded Open Type (format) [Microsoft] + End Of Table + End Of Tape (marker) + End Of Text + End Of Transmission

EP Electrophotographic Engine

EPIC Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (chip) [Intel]

EPL Effective Privilege Level

EPLD Electrically Programmable Logic Device

EPM Enhanced Editor for Presentation Manager [IBM] + Enterprise Process Management [IBM]

EPP Enhanced Parallel Port

EPROCESS Executive Process

EPROM Electrically Programmable Read Only Memory + Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

.EPS Encapsulated PostScript (file name extension)

EPSF Encapsulated PostScript Files

ERA Extended Registry Attributes

ERAS Electronic Routing and Approval System [Hughes Aircraft]

ERD Emergency Repair Disk + Entity Relationship Diagram

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center [Internet]

ERLL Enhanced Run Length Limited

ERMA * Electronic Recording Method, Accounting [General Electric]

EROM Erasable Read Only Memory

EROS Earth Resources Observation System [U.S. Geological Survey]

ERP Enterprise Resource Planning

ERR Error

ER/RC Extended Result/Response Code

ERU Emergency Recovery Utility [Microsoft]

ES Extra Segment

ESA Enterprise Systems Architecture [IBM] + European Space Agency

ESC EISA System Component + Escape

ESCD Extended System Configuration Data

ESCM Extended Services Communications Manager [IBM]

ESCON Enterprise System Connection (Architecture) [IBM]

ESC/P Epson Standard Code for Printers

ESD Electronic Software Distribution + Electrostatic Discharge + Emergency Startup Disk

ESDI Enhanced Small/System Device Interface

ESDRAM Enhanced SDRAM

ESF Extended Superframe

ESI End System Identifier + Enhanced Serial Interface (specification) [Hayes]

ESMR Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio

ESN Electronic Security/Serial Number

ESP Emulation Sensing Processor + Encapsulating Security Payload (header) + Enhanced Serial Port [Hayes] + Enhanced Service Provider + Enterprise System Platcorm + Estimated Selling Price + Eudora Sharing Protocol [Qualcomm]

ESR Event Service Routine

ESS Electronic Switching System

ESU Electro-Static Unit

ET Enhancement Technology

ETACS Extended Total Access Communication System [IBM]

ETANN Electrically Trainable Analog Neural Network (chip) [Intel]

ETB End of Transmission Block

ETC Electronic Toll Collection + Enhanced Throughput Cellular (modem protocol) [AT&T]

E-TEXT Electronic Text

ETF Enriched Text Format

ETOM Electron-Trapping Optical Memory

ETPL Endorsed Tempest Products List

ETS Econometric Time Series

ETX End Of Text

EU Execution Unit

EUC End User Computing + Extended Unix Code [IBM]

EUDORA (Named after author of story: "Why I Live at the P.O.", Ms. Eudora Welty)

EUI End-User Interface

EULA End-User License Agreement

EUVL Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography

EVE Extensible VAX Editor

EVGA Extended Video Graphics Array + Extended Video Graphics Adapter

EWAN Emulator Without A Good Name [Internet]

EWS Employee Written Software [IBM]

ExCA Exchangeable Card Architecture [Intel]

.EXE Executable (file name extension)

EXE2BIN Program used to convert an (.EXE) file to binary format (.COM) file

EXIF Exchangeable Image File Format

EXM Enterprise Messaging Exchange [Lotus]

EXP Exponent

EXT External

EXTRN External Reference

E-ZINE Electronic Magazine

F

FAB Computer-Chip Fabrication Plant

FAC File Access Code

FAMOS Floating Gate Avalanche MOS

FANS Future Air Navigation System

FAP File Access Protocol

FAPI Family Application Program Interface

FAQ Frequently Asked Question

FARNET Federation of American Research Networks [Internet]

FASIC Function and Algorithm-Specific Integrated Circuit

FAT File Allocation Table

FAX Facsimile

.FAX Fax (file name extension)

FBC Find By Content

FC/AL Fiber Channel/Arbitrated Loop

FCB File Control Block

FCC Federal Communications Commission

FCC: File Carbon Copy

FCCSET Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology

FC/EL Fiber Channel/Enhanced Loop

FCI Flux Changes per Inch

FCL Fibre Channel Loop

FCPGA Flip Chip Pin Grid Array [Intel]

FCR FIFO Control Register

FCRAM Fast-Cycle RAM

FCS Fiber Channel Standard + Frame Check Sequence

FD Floppy Disk + Floppy Drive + Full Duplex

FDC Floppy Disk Controller

FDDI Fiber Digital Device Interface + Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FDHD Floppy Drive High Density

FDISK Fixed Disk

FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing

FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access

FDSL (See DSL)

FDX Full Duplex

FEC Forward Error Correction

FECN Forward Explicit Congestion Notification

FED Field Emission/Emitter Display

FEFO First-Ended, First-Out

FEP Front End Processor

FEPI Front End Programming Interface

FEPROM Flash EPROM

FERAM Ferroelectric RAM

FESDK Far East Software Development Kit [Microsoft]

FET Field Effect Transistor

FF Flip-Flop + Form Feed

FFDC First Failure Data Capture [IBM]

FFS Fast File System

FFST First Failure Support Technology [IBM]

FFT Fast Fourier Transform + Final Form Text [IBM]

FG Floating Gate

FGREP Fixed Global Regular Expression Print [Unix]

FHS Fan Heat-Sink

FHSS Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum

FIA File Integrity Assessment

FIB Forwarding Information Base

FIF Fractal Image Format

FIFO First-In, First-Out

FILO First-In, Last-Out

FINDSTR Find Strings

FIP File Processor Buffering

FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard

FIR Fast Infrared + Finite Impulse Response

.FIRM Business or Firm (Domain Name) [Internet]

FIRST Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams

FITS Flexible Image Transport System

FIU Fingerprint Identification Unit [Sony]

FIX Federal Internet Exchange

FK Foreign Key

FLA Four Letter Acronym

FLC Ferro-electric Liquid Crystal

FLD Field

FLIR Forward Looking Infrared (system)

FLL FoxPro Link Library [Microsoft Fox Pro]

FLOPS Floating Point Operations Per Second

.FLR Folder (file name extension)

FMD Fluorescent Multilayer Disk

FMRI Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

FMS Forms Management System

FMT Format

FMV Full Motion Video

FNT Font

FOCUS Forum of Control Data Users

FOD Fax On Demand

FOG First Osborne Group

FOIP Fax Over Internet Protocol

FOIRL Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link [IEEE]

FOLDOC Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing

.FON Font + Phone + Phone Directory (all file name extensions)

.FOR Fortran source code (file name extension)

FORTH (Programming Language)(See HLL)

FORTRAN Formula Translator (Programming Language)(See HLL)

FOSE Federal Office Systems Exposition

FOSI Format Option Specification Instance

FOSSIL Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer

FPC Floating Point Calculation

FPCE Floating-Point C Extension (specification)

FPGA Field Programmable Gate-Array

FPLA Field Programmable Logic-Array

FPM Fast Page Mode

FPP Fixed Path Protocol + Floating Point Processor

FPR Floating-Point Register

FPS Favorite Picture Selection + Frames Per Second

FPT Forced Perfect Termination

FPU Floating Point Unit

FPX FlashPix (format) [Kodak]

FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name [Internet]

FRAD Frame Relay Access Device + Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler

FRAG Fragment + Fragmentation

FRAM Ferroelectric Random-Access Memory

FRC Functional Redundancy Checking

FRED Frame Editor + Front-End to Dish

FRMR Frame Reject

FRPI Flux Reversals Per Inch

.FRS WordPerfect Graphics Driver (file name extension)

FS File Separator

FSB Front Side Bus

FSD File System Driver [OS/2]

FSE Full Screen Editor

FSF Free Software Foundation [Internet]

FSK Frequency Shift Keying

FSN Full Service Network

FSO Free Space Optics

FSP File Service Protocol

FSR Free System Resources

FST Flat Square Tube (monitor)

F/T Full Time

FTAM File Transfer, Access and Management + File Transfer and Access Method

FTL Flash Transition Layer [Intel]

FTM Flat Tension Mask [Zenith]

FTP File Transfer Protocol [Internet]

FTPD File Transfer Protocol Daemon

FTTB Fiber To The Basement

FTTC Fiber To The Curb

FTTN Fiber To The Neighborhood

FTS Federal Telecommunication System

FTX Fault Tolerant Unix

FUI File Update Information

FUNC Function

FVT Full Video Translation

FWTK Firewall Toolkit

FXP File Exchange Protocol

FYI For Your Information

H

.H Header (file name extension) [C]

HACMP High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing [IBM]

HAL Hard Array Logic + Hardware Abstraction Layer +

House-Programmed Array Logic

HAL * Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic (computer) [from 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"]

HAP Host Access Protocol

HARP-MRI Harmonic Phase MRI

HASP Houston Automatic Spooling Priority (System)

HBA Host Bus Adapter

HCL Hardware Compatibility List

HCSS High Capacity Storage System

HCU Home Computer User

HD Hard Disk + High Density

HDA Head Disk Assembly

HDC High Dependability Computing [Carnegie Mellon]

HDCD High Definition Compatible Digital

HDCP High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection

HDD Hard Disk Drive

HDF Hierarchical Data Format [NCSA]

HDI Head to Disk Interference

HDL Hardware Description Language

HDLC High-Level Data Link Control

HDM Hardware Device Module

HDML Handheld Device Markup Language

HDR Header + High Data Rate

.HDR Header Data (file name extension)

HDSC High Density Signal Carrier [DEC]

HDSL (See DSL)

HDSS Holographic Data Storage System

HDT Host Digital Terminal

HDTV High Definition Television

HDVD High Definition Volumetric Display

HDW Hardware

HDX Half Duplex

HEOS High Earth Orbiting Satellite

HERC Hercules

HEX Hexadecimal

HFC Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial

HFS Hierarchical File System [Macintosh]

HFT High Function Terminal [IBM]

HGA Hercules Graphics Adapter

HGCP Hercules Graphics Card Plus

HGP Human Genome Project

HH Hour

HIDS Host-Based Intrusion Detection System

HIF Hyper-G Interchange Format

HIFD High-Density Floppy Disk

HIL Human Interface Link [HP]

HIMEM High Memory

HIPPI High Performance Parallel Interface

HLCO High Low Close Open

HLL High Level Language

HLLAPI High Level Language Application Programming Interface

.HLP Help (file name extension)

HLQ High Level Qualifier

HLS Hue, Luminance, Saturation (color model)

HLT Halt

HMA High Memory Area [Microsoft] + Hub Management Architecture

HMD Head Mounted Display

HMI Human-Machine Interface

HMM Hidden Markov Model

HMMP Hyper-Media Management Protocol

HMOS High Density Metal Oxide Semiconductor + High Speed Metal Oxide Semiconductor

HMP Host Monitoring Protocol

HOL High Order Logic

HOLAP Hybrid OLAP

HOTT Hot Off The Tree (electronic newsletter)

HOV High Occupancy Vehicle

HP Hewlett-Packard (Company)

HPC Handheld Personal Computer

HPCC High Performance Computing and Communications

HPDJ Hewlett-Packard Desk Jet

HPFS High-Performance File System

HPG Hewlett-Packard Graphics

HPGL Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language

HPIB Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus

HPLJ Hewlett-Packard Laser Jet

HPOM Home Page Objects Model [Microsoft]

HPPA Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture

HPPI High Performance Parallel Interface

HPR High Performance Routing [IBM]

HPSB High Performance Serial Bus

HPUX Hewlett-Packard Unix

HPW High Performance Workstation [Sun]

.HQX BinHex (file name extension) [Macintosh]

HRIS Human Resource Information System

HRG High Resolution Graphics

HRMS Human Resource Management System

HRTF Head Related Transfer Function

HS High Speed

HSB Hue, Saturation, Brightness (color model)

HSC Hierarchical Storage Controller + High Speed Channel

HSI Hue, Saturation, Intensity

HSM Hierarchical Storage Management

HSP High Speed Printer/Processor

HSSI High Speed Serial Interface

HST High Speed Technology [U.S. Robotics]

.HST History + Host (file name extensions)

HSV Hue Saturation Value

HTML HyperText Markup Language

HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol

HTTP-NG HTTP Next Generation

HTTPS HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure

HUD Heads Up Display

HUT Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope

H/V Horizontal/Vertical

HVP Horizontal & Vertical Position

H/W Hardware

HWCP Hardware Code Page

HWD Height-Width-Depth

HWDM Hyperfine Wave Division Multiplexing

.HYP Hyphenation (file name extension)

HYTELNET Hypertext-browser for Telnet Accessible Sites

Hz Hertz

I

IA Intel Architecture [Intel]

IAB Internet Architecture Board

IAC Inter-Application Communication [Macintosh]

IAD Integrated Access Device

IAEC International Address Element Code

IAG Instruction Address Generation

IAK Internet Access Kit [IBM]

IAL * International Algebraic Language (ALGOL was first called IAL)

IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

IAP Internet Access Provider

IAS Internet Access Server

IAT Import Address Table

IAUP Internet User Account Provider

IBC Instrument Bus Computer

iBCS Intel Binary Compatibility Specification

IBIP Information Based Indicia Program [U.S. Postal Service]

IBM International Business Machines (Corporation)

IBM-GL IBM Graphics Language

IC Input Circuit + Integrated Circuit + Interrupt Controller

ICA Intelligent Console Architecture + Intra-application Communications Area

ICANN International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

ICAP Internet Calendar Access Protocol [Lotus]

ICAS Intel Communicating Applications Specifications

ICB Internet Citizen's Band

ICCP Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals

ICD International Code Designator

ICE In-Circuit Emulator [Intel] + Integrated Computing Environment [Langley Research] + Internal Compiler Error

ICES Interference-Causing Equipment Standard

ICF Internet Connection Firewall [Microsoft]

ICI Image Component Information + Inter-CPU Interrupts

ICL Interface Clear

ICLID Incoming-Call Line Identification

ICM Image Color Matching [Kodak] + Incoming Message

.ICM Image Color Management (file name extension)

ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol [Novell]

.ICO Icon (file name extension)

iCOMP Intel Comparative Microprocessor Performance [Intel]

ICP Image Coprocessor + Integrated Channel Processor

ICQ I Seek You (messaging program0

ICR Intelligent Character Recognition

ICS Internet Connection Sharing [Microsoft] + Intuitive Command Structure

ICSAPI Internet Connection Services API

ICU Instruction-Cache Unit + Intel Configuration Utility [Microsoft] +

ISA Configuration Utility

ID Identification + Identifier

IDA Integrated Digital Access + Intelligent Disk Array + Intelligent Drive Array

IDAPI Integrated Database Application Programming Interface

IDC Integrated Database/Desktop Connector + Internet Database Connector [Microsoft] + Internet Data Center

IDDE Integrated Development & Debugging Environment [Symantec]

IDE Imbedded Drive Electronics +

Integrated Development Environment [Borland] + Integrated Drive Electronics + Intelligent Drive Electronics + Interactive Design and Engineering + Interface Design Enhancement

IDEA International Data Encryption Algorithm

IDEN Integrated Data Enhanced Network

IDF Intermediate Distribution Frame

IDI Initial Domain Identifier

IDIV Integer Divide

IDL Interactive Data Language + Interface Definition Language

IDM Integrated Document Management

IDMS Integrated Data Base Management System

IDNX Integrated Digital Network Exchange [IBM]

IDP Integrated Data Processing

IDR Intelligent Document Recognition

IDS Intrusion Detection System

IDSL (See DSL)

IDT Interface Design Tool + Interrupt Descriptor Table

.IDX Index (file name extension)

IE Internet Explorer [Microsoft]

IEC International Electrotechnical Commission

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IEF Information Engineering Facility

IEMSI Interactive Electronic Mail Standard Identification

IEN Internet Engineering Notes

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group

I/F Interface

IFC Internet Foundation Classes

IFD Image File Directory

IFF Interchangeable File Format [Amiga]

IFG Incoming Fax Gateway

IFP Instruction Fetch Pipeline

IFS Installable/Integated File System

IFSM Information Systems Management

IGA Integrated Graphics Array

IGC Integrated Graphics Controller

IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Standard

IGFET Insulated-Gate Field Effect Transistor

IGMP Internet Group Multicast Protocol

IGP Interior Gateway Protocol

IGRP Interior Gateway Routing Protocol [Cisco]

IGS Internet Go Server

IHD Integrated Help Desk [IBM]

IHV Independent Hardware Vendor

IIF Immediate Interface

III Interstate Identification Index [NCIC]

IIOP Internet Inter-ORB Protocol

IIR Immediate Impulse Response

IIS Internet Information Server/Services [Microsoft]

IITF Information Infrastructure Task Force

IKE Internet Key Exchange

IKMP Internet Key Management Protocol

IKP Internet Keyed Payments [IBM]

ILA Image Light Amplifier

ILE Integrated Language Environment [IBM]

ILEC Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier

ILP Instruction-Level Parallelism

ILS International Language Support

IM Instant Messenger

IMAC Internet Macintosh [Apple]

IMACS Image Management and Communication System

IMAP Interactive Mail Access Protocol +

Internet Message Access Protocol

IMAX Maximum Image

IMDB In-Memory Database

IMDS Image Data Stream (format) [IBM]

IME Input Method Editor

IMG Image

.IMG Image Data (file name extension)

IML Initial Microcode Load [IBM]

IMP Information/Interface Message Processor

IMPA Intelligent Multi-Port Adapter [DCA]

IMPP Internet Messaging and Presence Protocol

IMR Internet Monthly Report

IMS Information Management System + Intermediate Maintenance Standards

IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity

IMSP Internet Message Support Protocol

IMTC International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium

IMTV Interactive Multimedia Television

IMUL Integer Multiply

IMUX Inverse Multiplexer

IN Input

INC Increment

.IND Index (file name extension)

.INF Information (file name extension)

.INFO Information Services (Domain Name) [Internet]

INFS Internet Network File System

.INI Initialize (file name extension)

INIT Initialization + Initialize

INM Integrated Network Management

INND Internet News Daemon

INS Input String + Integrated Network Server

INT Integer + Internal + Interrupt +

International (organization Domain name) [Internet]

INTA Interrupt Acknowledge

InterNIC Internet Network Information Center

INTO Interrupt if Overflow occurs

I2O Intelligent Input/Output

I/O Input/Output

IOC Inter-Office Channel

IOCC Input/Output Channel Converter + Input/Output Controller Chip

IOCS Input/Output Control System

IOCTL Input/Output Control

IODE Integrated Development and Debugging Environment [Symantec]

IOF Infrared Optical Film

IOP Input/Output Processor

IOPL Input/Output Privilege Level

IOR Interoperable Object Reference

IOS Internet Operating System

IOSGA Input/Output Support Gate Array

IP Instruction Pointer + Intellectual Property + Internet Protocol

IPBF Installed Peripheral Base Flexibility

IPC Instructions Per Clock + Interprocess Communication

IPCMOS Interlocked Pipeline CMOS [IBM]

IPCP Internet Protocol Control Protocol

IPCS Integrated PC Server

IPDC Internet Protocol Device Control

IPDS IBM Personal Dictation System [IBM] + Intelligent Printer Data Stream [IBM]

IPF Invalid Page Format

IPFC Information Presentation Facility Compiler [IBM]

IPI Intelligent Peripheral Interface

IPL Initial Program Load/Loader + Ion Projection Lithography

IPL * Information Programming Language

IPM Images Per Minute + Interpersonal Message

IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface

IPNG Internet Protocol, next generation

IPP Integrated Performance Primitives [Intel] + Internet Printing Protocol

IPR Intellectual Property Rights

IPSE Integrated Project Support Environment

IPSEC Internet Protocol Security

IPTC International Press Telecommunications Council

IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange [Novell]

IQL Interactive Query Language

IR Infrared

IRC Internet Relay Chat

IRD Integrated Receiver/Descrambler

IRDA Infrared Data Association

IRDS Information Resource Dictionary System

IRET Interrupt Return

IRF Intermediate Routing Function + Inheritance Rights Filter [Novell]

IRL Interactive Reader Language + Inter-Repeater Link

IRLAP Infrared Link Access Protocol

IRLED Infrared Light Emitting Diode

IRM Information Resource Management + Inherent Rights Mask

IRQ Interrupt Request

IRQL Interrupt Request Level

IRTF Internet Research Task Force

IRX Information Retrieval Experiment

IS Information System + Interrupt Status

ISA Industry Standard Architecture (bus) [IBM] + Instruction-Set Architecture

ISAKMP Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol

ISAM Indexed Sequential-Access Management/Method

ISAPI Internet Server API [Microsoft]

ISBN International Standard Book Number

ISC Instruction Set Computer + Inter-Systems

Communication [IBM]

ISD Image Section Descriptor + Instructional Systems Design

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ISH Information Super Highway

ISI Internally Specified Index

ISIS Integrated Systems and Information Services

ISKM Internet Starter Kit for the Macintosh

ISL Interactive System Language + Inter Switch Link [Cisco]

ISM Integrated Services Model [IETF] + Internet Service Manager [Microsoft]

ISMF Interactive Storage Management Facility

ISOC Internet Society

ISO International Organization for Standardization

ISP Internet Service Provider + Interrupt Stack Pointer + Interrupt Status Port

ISPF Interactive System Programming Facility

ISR Information Storage and Retrieval + Interrupt Service Routine + Interrupt Status Register

ISRC International Standard Recording Code

ISS Internet Sharing Software

ISSN International Standard Serial Number

ISV Independent Software Vendor

IT Information Technology

ITB Information Technology Branch + Intermediate Text Block

ITC International Typeface Corporation

ITE Information Technology Equipment

ITF Interactive Test Facility

ITN Identification Tasking and Networking

ITP Internet Transaction Processing

ITR Information Technology Research [NSF] + Input Transaction Record + Internet Talk Radio

ITU International Telecommunication Union

ITUG International Telecommunications User Group

ITU-TIES ITU-Telecom Information Exchange Services

ITU-TSS ITU-Telecommunication Standards Section

ITV Interactive Television

ITX Intermediate Text Block

IU Integer Unit

IUAP Internet User Account Provider

IUS/ITB Interchange Unit Separator/Intermediate Transmission Block

IVDS Integrated Voice and Data Systems

IVIS Interactive Video Information System

IVL Independent Vendor League + Intel Verification Lab

IVR Interactive Voice Response

IVS Interactive Videodisk System

IVT Interrupt Vector Table

IV&V Independent Verification & Validation

I-WAY Information Highway

IXC Interexchange Carrier

J

JA Jump Address + Jump if Above

JAD Joint Application Design/Development

JADE Java Addition to the Default System

JAE Jump if Above or Equal

JANET Joint Academic Network

JAR Java Archive (file format)

JAXM Java API for XML Messaging

JBE Jump if Below or Equal

JC Jump if Carry set

JCA Java Cryptography Architecture

JCL Job Control Language

JDBC Java Database Connectivity

JDF Job Description format

JDK Java Development Kit

JDSL Java Data Structures Library

JE Jump if Equal

JEDEC Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council

JEIDA Japanese Electronics Industry Development Association

JEPI Joint Electronic Payment Initiative

JES Job Entry System

JFC Java Foundation Classes

JFET Junction Field Effect Transistor

JFIF JPEG File Interchange Format

JFS Journaled File System [IBM]

JG Jump if Greater

JGE Jump if Greater or Equal

JIPS JANET Internet Protocol Service

JIT Just-In-Time (compiler)

JL Jump if Less

JLE Jump if Less than or Equal to

JLIP Joint Level Interface Protocol

JMAPI Java Management Application Program Interface

JMF Java Media Framework [Sun]

JMI Java Metadata Interface

JMP Jump

JMS Java Message Service

JMX Java Management Extensions

JNA Jump if Not Above

JNAE Jump if Not Above or Equal

JNB Jump if Not Below

JNBE Jump if Not Below or Equal

JNG Jump if Not Greater

JNGE Jump if Not Greater or Equal

JNI Java Native Interface

.JNK Junk (file name extension)

JNLE Jump if Not Less or Equal

JNO Jump if No Overflow

JNP Jump if No Parity

JNS Jump if No Sign

JOE Java Objects Everywhere

JOHNNIAC* John Neumann Integrator and Automatic Computer [Rand Corp.]

JOSS * Johnniac Open Shop System [Rand Corp.]

JPE Jump if Parity Even

JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group

JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory

JPNF Join-Projection Normal Form

JPO Jump if Parity Odd

JRE Java Runtime Environment

JS Jump if Sign

JSP Java Server Page

JSSE Java Secure Socket Extension

JTAG Joint Test Action Group [IEEE]

JTAPI Java Telephony Application Programming Interface

JZ Jump if Zero

JNZ Jump if Not Zero

JSS Java-Script Style Sheet

JUGHEAD Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation and Display [Internet]

JVM Java Virtual Machine

K

K-12 Kindergarten through 12th Grade [US Education System]

KAM Keep Alive Memory

Kb Kilobit

KB Keyboard + Kilobyte (1, 024 bytes)

KBD Keyboard (also KEYB)

KBD$ Keyboard [OS/2]

KBE Knowledge Based Engineering

Kbps Kilobits Per Second

KBps Kilobytes Per Second

KDE K Desktop Environment

KDT Key Definition Table

KEFIR Key Findings Reporter [GTE]

KEYBBE Foreign language KEYBoard program - Belgium

KEYBBR Foreign language KEYBoard program - Brazil

KEYBCF Foreign language KEYBoard program - Canadian-French

KEYBCZ Foreign language KEYBoard program - Czechoslovakia (Czech)

KEYBDK Foreign language KEYBoard program - Denmark

KEYBFR Foreign language KEYBoard program - France

KEYBGR Foreign language KEYBoard program - Germany

KEYBHU Foreign language KEYBoard program - Hungary

KEYBIT Foreign language KEYBoard program - Italy

KEYBLA Foreign language KEYBoard program - Latin America

KEYBNL Foreign language KEYBoard program - Netherlands

KEYBNO Foreign language KEYBoard program - Norway

KEYBPL Foreign language KEYBoard program - Poland

KEYBPO Foreign language KEYBoard program - Portugal

KEYBSF Foreign language KEYBoard program - Swiss-French

KEYBSG Foreign language KEYBoard program - Swiss-German

KEYBSL Foreign language KEYBoard program - Czechoslovakia (Slovak)

KEYBSP Foreign language KEYBoard program - Spain

KEYBSU Foreign language KEYBoard program - Finland

KEYBSV Foreign language KEYBoard program - Sweden

KEYBUK Foreign language KEYBoard program - United Kingdom

KEYBUS Foreign language KEYBoard program - United States

KEYBYU Foreign language KEYBoard program - Yugoslavia

KHz Kilohertz

KIF Knowledge Interchange Format

KIS Knowbot Information Service [Internet]

KPI Kernel Programming Interface

KQML Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language

KRS Knowledge Retrieval System

KSDS Keyed Sequential Data Set

KSH Korn Shell (program) [Unix]

KSPH Keystrokes Per Hour

KSR Keyboard Send Receive

KVM Keyboard, Video, Mouse (switch) + Kilobyte Virtual Machine

L

L2F Layer Two Forwarding [Cisco]

L2TP Layer Two Tunneling Protocol

LADDR Layered Device Driver Architecture [Microsoft]

LALL Longest Allowed Lobe Length

LAN Local Area Network

LANACS Local Area Network Asynchronous Connection Server

LANDP LAN Distributed Platform

LANE Local Area Network Emulation

LANG Language

LAP Linux Application Platform

LAPB Link Access Procedure Balanced (protocol)

LAPD Link Access Procedure on the D-Channel (protocol)

LAPM Link Access Procedure for Modems

LAR Load Access Rights

LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

LASTport Local Area Storage Transport (protocol) [DEC]

LAT Local Access Terminal + Local Area Transport [DEC]

LATA Local Access and Transport Area

LAVC Local Area VAX Cluster

LAWN Local Area Wireless Network

LB Left Button (of 2 or 3 button Mouse)

LBA Logical Block Addressing

LBL Label

LBR Librarian

.LBR Library (file name extension)

LBT Listen Before Talk

LBX Local Bus Accelerator

LCA Lotus Communications Architecture [Lotus]

LCC Leadless Chip Carrier

LCCM LAN Client Control Manager [IBM]

LCD Liquid Crystal Display + Lowest Common Denominator

LCF Low Cost Fiber

LCK Library Construction Kit [Microsoft FoxPro]

LCP Link Control Protocol

LCR Least Cost Routing + Line Control Register

LCS Link Connection Subsystem

LCSD Laminate Chip Signal Diode

LCU Last Cluster Used

LDA Logical Device Address

LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol [IBM]

LDC Lotus Development Corporation

LDDS Long Distance Discount Services (company)

LDM Logical Disk Manager + Long Distance Modem

LDP Label Distribution Protocol

LDT Local Descriptor Table

LE Less or Equal

LEA Load Effective Address

LEAD Live Early Adoption and Demonstration [W3C]

LEAF Law Enforcement Access Field

LEC Local Area Network Emulation Client + Local Exchange Carrier

LED Light Emitting Diode

LEL Link, Embed and Launch-to-edit [Lotus]

LEM Language Extension Module

LEN Low Entry Networking

LEO Low Earth Orbit

LEP Light-Emitting Polymers

LES Local Area Network Emulation Server

.LET Letter (file name extension)

LEX Lexicon

LF Line Feed

L2F Layer 2 Forwarding (protocol) [Cisco]

LFAP Lightweight Flow Admission Protocol

LFI Last File Indicator

LFM Log File Monitor

LFN Long File Name

LFT Low Function Terminal [IBM]

LFU Least Frequently Used

LGA Leadless Grid Array

LGDT Load Global Descriptor Table

LGPL Lesser General Public License

LIAS Library Information Access System

.LIB Library (file name extension)

LIC Line Interface Coupler [IBM]

LICS Lotus International Character Set [LDC]

LIDT Load Interrupt Descriptor Table

LIEP Large Internet Exchange Packet [Novell]

LIF Low Insertion Force

LIFO Last In, First Out

LILO Last In, Last Out

LIM Lotus/Intel/Microsoft

LIMA Lotus/Intel/Microsoft/AST

LIMDO Light Intensity Modulation Direct Overwrite

LIMM Light Intensity Modulation Method

LIMS Library Information Management System

LINUX (Operating system named after Linus Torvalds)

LIP Large Internet Packet

LIPS Lightweight Internet Person Schema +

Logical Inferences Per Second

LISP List Processing (Language)(See HLL)

LISTSERV List Server [Internet]

LIU LAN Interface Unit

LIW Long Instruction Word

LLC Logical Link Control

LLDT Load Local Descriptor Table

LLF Low Level Format

LMB Left Mouse Button

LMBCS Lotus Multi-Byte Character Set [Lotus]

LMD Last Modification Date

LMDS Local Multipoint Distribution Service

LMI Link/Local Management Interface

LMOS Leave Mail On Server

LMS Lotus Messaging Switch [Lotus]

LMSW Load Machine Status Word

LMU LAN Management Utilities [IBM] + LAN Manager for Unix

LN Load Number + Logarithm (Natural)

LN:DI Lotus Notes:Document Imaging

LNK Link

LOB Line of Business

LOC Lines Of Code + Loop On-Line Control

LOCIS Library of Congress Information System

LOD Letter Of Destruction + Level Of Detail

LODSB Load String Byte

LOG Logarithm (Base 10)

LOGO (Programming Language)(See HLL)

LON Local Operating Network

LOOPE Loop while Equal

LOOPNE Loop while Not Equal

LOOPNZ Loop while Not Zero

LOOPZ Loop while Zero

LORE Line Oriented Editor

LPAR Logic Programming and Automated Reasoning

LPC Local Procedure Call

LPD Line Printer Daemon (protocol) [Berkley]

LPDU Logical Protocol Data Unit

LPI Lines Per Inch

LPL Lotus Programming Language [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC]

LPM Lines Per Minute

LPN Logical Page Number

LPR Line Printer + Line Printer Remote

LPS Low-Power Schottky

LPT Line Printer Terminal

LPT1 First Parallel Printer Port

LPT2 Second Parallel Printer Port

LPT3 Third Parallel Printer Port

LQ Letter Quality

LQM Link Quality Monitoring (protocol)

LR Link Register

LRC Local Register Cache + Longitudinal Redundancy Check

LRL Least Recently Loaded

LRM Language Reference Manual + Least Recently-Used Master

.LRS Language Resource (file name extension) [WordPerfect]

LRU Least Recently Used

LSA LAN and SCSI Adapter [IBM] + Line Sharing Adapter + Local Security Authority [Microsoft]

LSAPI License Services Application Program Interface

LSB Least Significant Bit

LSC Least Significant Character

LSD Least Significant Digit

LSI Large Scale Integration

LSL Link Support Layer + Load Segment Limit

LST List

.LST List (file name extension)

LTO Linear Tape Open

L2TP Layer 2 Transport/Tunneling Protocol

LTPS Low-Temperature Polysilicon

LTR Left-To-Right + Letter + Load Task Register

LU Logical Unit (Also LUN)

LUA Logical Unit Application (interface)

LUI Local User Input

LUIS Library User Information Service

LUN Logical Unit Number

LUT Lookup Table

LV Logical Volume [IBM]

LVDS Low-Voltage Differential Signaling

LVM Logical Volume Management [IBM]

LW Lazy Write

.LYR Lyrics (music file name extension)

LZW Lempel-Ziv-Welch (algorithm)

M

mA Milliampere

MAC Macintosh (Apple Macintosh Computer) + Mandatory/Media/Medium Access Control + Message Authentication Code

MAC * Multiple Access Computers

.MAC MacPaint (file name extension) + Macro (file name extension)

MACH Multilayer Actuator Head [Epson]

MADE Manufacturing and Automated Design Engineering

MADYMO Mathematical Dynamic Modeling [TNO]

MAE Merit Access Exchange + Metropolitan Area Ethernet

MAGMA Minimal Architecture for Generalized Markup Applications

mAh Milliampere-Hour

MAI Multiple Applications Interface

.MAI Mail (file name extension)

MAJC Microprocessor Architecture for Java Computing [Sun]

MAN Manual [Unix] + Metropolitan Area Network

MANIAC * Mathematical Analyzer Numerical

Integrator and Computer

MANPAGE Manual Page [Unix]

MAP Maintenance Analysis Procedures + Manufacturing Automation Protocol + Memory Allocation Map

.MAP Linker Map (file name extension)

MAPI Mail/Messaging Applications Programming Interface [Microsoft]

MAPICS Manufacturing, Accounting and Production Information Control System [IBM]

MARC Machine Readable Cataloging + Multi-Technology Automated Reader Card

MARVEL Machine-Assisted Realization of the Virtual Electronic Library [Library of Congress]

MASM Macro Assembler [Microsoft]

MASS Maximum Availability and Support Subsystem [Parallan]

MAT Maintenance Access Terminal

MAU Media Access/Adapter Unit + Multistation Access Unit

MAVDM Multiple Application VDM

MAX Maximum

MB Megabyte (1, 024 kilobytes) + Middle Button (of 3 button Mouse)

MBASIC Microsoft BASIC [Microsoft]

MBCS Multi-Byte Character Set [IBM]

MBONE Multicast Backbone [Internet]

MBps Megabytes Per Second

Mbps Megabits Per Second

MBR Master Boot Record

MBX Mailbox

MCA Micro Channel Adapter/Architecture [IBM]

MCAD Mechanical Computer Aided Design

MCB Memory Control Block

MCF Meta Content Framework

MCGA Multicolor Graphics Array

MCH Memory Controller Hub [Intel]

MCI MCI Communications Corp. (name from initials of original company - Microwave Communications, Inc.) + Media Control Interface [Microsoft]

MCL Microsoft Compatibility Labs [Microsoft]

MCM Multi-Chip Module

MCNE Master Certified Novell Engineer [Novell]

MC-PGA Metallized Ceramic - Pin Grid Array

MCPS Microsoft Certified Product Specialist [Microsoft]

MC-QFP Metallized Ceramic - Quad Flat Pack

MCR Modem Control Register

MCSD Microsoft Certified Systems Developer [Microsoft]

MCSE Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer [Microsoft]

MCU Microcontroller Unit + Multi-Chip Unit [DEC] + Multipoint Control Unit

MD Make Directory + Mini Disk [Sony] + Monochrome Display

MDA Mail Delivery Agent + Model Drive Architecture + Monochrome Display Adapter + Multidimensional Analysis

MDDBMS Multidimensional Data Base Management System

.MDF Menu Definition File (file name extension)

MDI Memory Display Interface + Multiple Document Interface

MDIC Manchester Decoder and Interface Chip [AT&T]

MDK Multimedia Developers Kit [Microsoft]

MDLP Mobile Data Link Protocol

MDR Metadata Repository + Minimum Design Requirement

MDX Multi-Dimensional Expressions

MDY Month Day Year

.ME Opening Information (file name extension) (As in READ.ME)

MEB Memory Expansion Board

MED Minimum Expected Delay

MEG Megabyte

MEM Memory

MEMS Micro-Electro-Mechanical System

.MEN Menu (file name extension)

MERCI Multimedia European Research Conferencing Integration

MES Manufacturing Execution System

MESI Modified, Exclusive, Shared and Invalid (protocol)

MET Memory Enhancement Technology [Hewlett-Packard]

.MET Metafile (file name extension)

MFC Microsoft Foundation Class [Microsoft]

MFFS Microsoft Flash File System [Microsoft]

MFI Multifunction Interpreter

MFIOP Multifunction I/O Processor

MFLOPS Million Floating Point Operations Per Second

MFM Modified Frequency Modulation

MFP Multi-Function Peripheral/Printer/Product

MFPI Multifunction Peripheral Interface

MFS Macintosh File System [Macintosh] + Magnetic Tape Field Search + Memory File System Modified Filing System [Revelation Technologies]

MFT Master File Table + Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks

MGA Monochrome Graphics Adapter

MGCP Media Gateway Control Protocol

MGE Modular GIS Environment

MGET Multiple Get [Unix]

MGML Minimal Generalized Markup Language

MGR Manager

MHS Message Handling Service + Message Handling System

MHz Megahertz

MI Management Interface

MIB Management Information Base

MIC Message Integrity Check

MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

MICRO One-millionth

MICS Macro Interpretive Commands

MID Mobile Information Device

MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIDP Mobile Information Device Profile

MIF Management Information Format

.MIF Management Information Files (file name extension)

MIG Metal In Gap

MII Microsoft/IBM/Intel

MIL Machine Interface Layer [Go Corporation] + .MIL Military (Domain name) [Internet]

MIM Map Image Metafile + Metal-Insulator-Metal (screen)

MIMD Multiple Instruction Multiple Data Stream (processor)

MIME Multimedia Internet Message Extensions + Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MI/MIC Mode Indicate/Mode Indicate Common

MIN Minimum + Mobile Identification Number

MIND Microsoft Internet Developer [Microsoft]

MINUET Minnesota Internet Users Essential Tools [Internet]

MIPS Million Instructions Per Second

MIR Music Information Retrieval

MIS Management Information System + Multimedia Information Sources [Internet]

MISC Miscellaneous

MIX Member Information Exchange

.MIX Microsoft Picture It! (format)

MKDIR Make Directory

ML Machine Language + Meta Language

MLAPI Multilingual Application Programming Interface

MLC Multilayer Ceramic + Multilevel Cell (program) [Internet]

MLE Multi-Line Editor

MLID Multi-Link Interface Driver

MLM Mailing List Manager [Internet]

MLP Meridian Lossless Packing

MLPPP Multilink PPP

MM Minutes + Month

MMA Microcomputer Managers Association

MMC Matched Memory Cycle + Microcomputer Marketing Council + Microsoft Management Console [Microsoft]

MMCD MultiMedia Compact Disk

MMCX Multimedia Communication Exchange [Lucent Technologies]

MMDS Multi-channel Multipoint Distribution Service

MMF Multi Mode Fiber (cable)

MMI Man-Machine Interface

MMIS Materials Manager Information System

MMPM Multi Media Presentation Manager

MMS Multimedia Messaging Service

MMU Memory Management Unit

MMVF Multimedia Video File [NEC]

MMX Matrix Manipulation Extensions [Intel] + Multimedia Extensions

MNOS Metal Nitride Oxide Semiconductor

MNP Microcom Networking Protocol [Microcom]

.MNU Menu (fine name extension)

MO Magneto-Optical (disk drive)

MOB Memory-Order Buffer

MOBO Mother Board

MOD Module + Modulus

MODEM Modulator Demodulator

MOHLL Machine Oriented High Level Language

MOLAP Multidimensional On-Line Analytical Processing

MOM Manufacturing Operations Management + Message-Oriented Middleware + Microsoft Office Manager [Microsoft]

MONET Multiwavelength Optical Networking

MONO Monaural

MOO MUD, Object Oriented [Internet]

MOP Maintenance Operations Protocol

MOPS Million Operations Per Second

MOS Magneto-Optic Storage + Mean Opinion Score +

Metal Oxide Semiconductor

MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor

MOTD Message Of The Day

MOV Metal Oxide Varistor + Move

MOVS Move String

MP Massively Parallel (processing) + Multiple Processors

MP3 MPEG Audio Layer 3

.MPA Memo Pad Archive (file name extension) [Palm]

MPC Multimedia Personal Computer + Multipath Channel

MPCS Mission Planning and Control Station (Software)

MPE Multiple Programming Executive [HP]

MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group

MPI Message Passing Interface + Multiprecision Integer

MPLS Multi Protocol Label Switching [Cisco]

MPM Message Passing Library [IBM]

MPMD Multiple Processor/Multiple Data

MPOA Multi-Protocol over Asynchronous-Transfer-Mode

MPP Massively Parallel Processing/Processors + Message Posting Protocol + Message Processing Program

MPQP Multi-Protocol Quad Port [IBM]

MPR Multipart Repeater + Multi Protocol Router [Novell]

MPS Multiprocessor Specification

MPTN Multi-Protocol Transport Network

MPTS Multi-Protocol Transport Services

MPU Microprocessor Unit

MQI Messaging and Queuing Interface [IBM]

MR Magneto Resistive + Modem Ready

MRAM Magnetic Random Access Memory

MRCF Microsoft Realtime Compression Format

MRCI Microsoft Realtime Compression Interface

MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging

MRM Most Recently-Used Master

MRO Multi-Region Operation

MRP Manufacturing Resources Planning + Materials Requirement Planning

MRPL Main Ring Path Length

MRS Media Recognition System

MRT Mean Repair Time

MRU Maximum Receive Unit + Most Recently Used

MS Memory System + Message Store + Microsecond + Microsoft Corporation + Millisecond

MSACM Microsoft Audio Compression Manager [Microsoft]

MSAU Multi-Station Access Unit

MSAV Microsoft Anti Virus [Microsoft]

MSB Most Significant Bit

MSBF Mean Swaps Between Failures

MSC Mobile Switching Center

MSCDEX Microsoft Compact Disc Extensions [Microsoft]

MSCE Microsoft Certified Software Engineer [Microsoft]

MSCHAP Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol [Microsoft]

MSCS Microsoft Cluster Server [Microsoft]

MSD Mass Storage Device + Most Significant Digit + Microsoft System Diagnostics [Microsoft]

MSDE Microsoft Data Engine [Microsoft1)

MSDN Microsoft Developer Network [Microsoft]

MS-DOS Microsoft - Disk Operating System [Microsoft]

MSDR Multiplexed Streaming Data Request

MSDS Microsoft Developer Support [Microsoft]

MSFR Minimum Security Function Requirements [IBM]

MSG Message

.MSG Program Message (file name extension)

MSI Medium Scale Integration

MSIE Microsoft Internet Explorer [Microsoft]

MSIMN Microsoft Internet Mail and News [Microsoft]

MSL Map Specification Library + Mirrored Server Link

MSMQ Microsoft Message Queue-Server [Microsoft]

MSN Microsoft Network [Microsoft]

MSO Multiple Service/System

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