Absturz            :: Der Satz "Mein Rechner ist abgestürtzt." wird oft von Nutzern unausgereifter Betriebssysteme verwendet.  Dieser Satz meint eigentlich, daß das Betriebssystem bei der Verwaltung der Resourcen versagt hat.

 

 

URL    :: Steht für Uniform Resource Locator und ist eine "Ortsangabe" im Internet. Ein URL besteht aus einem Protokoll (z.B. http, ftp, telnet, gopher, news, mailto, file), der Zeichefolge "://", einem Hostnamen oder einer IP-Adresse, sowie (optional) dem Verzeichnis bzw. einem Dateienamen.  Beispiel: http://www.linux.de/

 

 

 

 

Die My-Opinion-Gruppe:

 

IMO    In My Opinion

       meiner Meinung nach

IMHO   In My Humble Opinion

       meiner bescheidenen Meinung nach

IMCO   In My Considered Opinion

       meiner wohlueberlegten Meinung nach

IMNSCO In My Not So Considered Opinion

       meiner nicht so wohlueberlegten Meinung nach

IMNSHO In My Not So Humble/Honest Opinion

       meiner nicht so ehrliche/bescheidenen Meinung nach

 

Andere:

FYI    For Your Information

       zu deiner Information

BTW    By The Way

       so nebenbei:.../wo wir gerade dabei sind:...

ASAP   As Soon As Possible

       so bald wie moeglich

ROTFL  Rolling On The Floor Laughing

       vor Lachen auf dem Boden liegend

FAQ    Frequently Asked Questions

       regelmaessg gefragte Fragen (klingt ein bisschen doof in  der Uebersetzung)

RTFM   Read the fucking manual!!

       lies das verdammte Handbuch!!

RTFF   Read the fucking - FAQ!!

       lies die verdammte FAQ!!

SCNR   Sorry, Could Not Resist... :-)

       Schulligung, konnte nicht widerstehen... :-)

BNFSCD But Now For Something Completely Different (- Monty Python)

       doch nun zu etwas ganz anderem

DSH    Desperately Seeking Help

       verzweifelt nach Hilfe suchend

BTC    Biting The Carpet

       in den Teppich beissend

SFMJI  Sorry for my jumping in

       entschuldigt, dass ich mich einmische...

NB     Nota bene! (lat.)

       Merke wohl!, Uebrigens

off topic

       nicht zum Thema gehoerend

 

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 |                                                                          |

 |         die wichtigsten computerabkuerzungen - mal ausgeschrieben        |

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 |                         VERSION:  01.06.1994                             |

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 |       Weitere Abkuerzungen, Kritik, Tips, Hinweise, Anregungen an:       |

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 |                (c) WEBERSCH  --  lw2@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de               |

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AA       Auto Answer

AAP      Applications Access Poin

ABEND    ABnormal END of operation

AASP     Ascii Asynchronous Support Package

AAT      Average Access Time

ABEND    ABnormal END

ABI      Application Binary Interface

ABIOS    Advanced BIOS

ABS      ABSolute

ABT      ABorT

AC       ACcumulator

         Automatic Computer

         Alternating Current

ACD      Automated Call Distribution

ACE      Advanced Computing Environment

         Adverse Channel Enhancements

ACF      Access Control Field

         Advanced Communications Function

ACIAS    Automated Calibration Internal Analysis System

ACIS     American Committee for Interoperable Systems

ACK      ACKnowledge

ACL      Access Control List

ACM      Association for Computing Machinery

ACMS     Application Control Management System

ACP      Ancillary Control Program

         Auxillary Control Process

ACROSS   Automated Cargo Release and Operations Service System

ACS      ACceSs

         Access Control Set

         Access Control System

         Asynchronous Communication Server

ACU      Automatic Calling Unit

ADA      Automatic Data Acquisitions

ADC      Analog to Digital Converter

         Adaptive Data Compression

         ADd with Carry

ADCCP    Advanced Data Communication Control Procedures

ADF      Automatic Document Feed

ADI      Autocad Device Interface

ADL      Address Data Latch

ADLAT    Adaptive Lattice Filter

ADMD     ADministrative Management Domain

ADP      Automatic Data Processing

ADPCM    Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation

ADR      ADdRess

ADS      Application Development Solutions

         Application Development System

         Automatic Distribution System

ADSC     Address Status Changed

ADSR     Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release

ADT      Application Data Types

ADU      Automatic Dialing Unit

AE       Above or Equal

AEB      Analog Expansion Bus

AEM      Automatic Emulation Management

AES      Application Environment Service

AFC      Automatic Font Change

AFD      Automatic File Distribution

AFII     Association for Font Information Interchange

AGA      Advanced Graphics Adapter

AGC      Automatic Gain Control

AI       Artificial Intelligence

         Analog Input

AIA      Applications Integration Architecture

AIDS     Automatic Installation and Diagnostic Service

AIIM     Association for Information and Image Management

AIM      Automatic Interface Management

AISB     Association of Imaging Service Bureaus

AISP     Association of Information Systems Professionals

AIX      Advanced Interactive eXecutive

AL       Assembly Language

ALC      Arithmetic and Logic Circuits

         Automatic Level Control

ALE      Address Latch Enable

ALGOL    ALGorithmic Oriented Language

         ALGOrithmic Language

ALR      Advanced Logic Research

ALU      Arithmetic Logic Unit

AM       Amplitude Modulation

AMD      Active Matrix Display

         Advanced Micro Devices

AMMA     Advanced Memory Management Architecture

AMANDDA  Automated Messaging AND Directory Assistance

AMS-DOS  AMStrad Disc Operating System

AMS-TEX  American Mathematical Society TEX

ANCOVA   ANalysis of COVAriance

ANI      Automatic Number Identification

ANOVA    ANalysis Of VAriance

ANSI     American National Standards Institute

AO       Analog Output

AOE      Application Operating Environment

AOS      Add Or Subtract

AP       Adjunct Processor

         Application Processor

         Automatic Pagination

A/P      Accounts Payable

APA      Adaptive Packet Assembly

         All Points Addressable

         Arithmetic Processing Accelerator

APAR     Authorized Program Analysis Report

APAREN   Address PARity ENable

APCUG    Association of PC User Groups

API      Application Program Interface

APL      A Programming Language

APM      Advanced Power Management

APP      Application Portability Profile

APPC     Advanced Peer-to-Peer Communication

APPI     Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking

         Advanced Peer-to-Peer Network

APPN     Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking

APS      Asynchronous Protocol Specification

APSE     Ada Programming Support Environment

APT      Address Pass Through

         Automatically Programmed Tools

A/R      Accounts Receivable

ARCA     Advanced Risc Computing Architecture

ARCNET   Attached Resource Computer NETwork

ARL      Adjusted Ring Length

ARLL     Advanced Run-Length Limited

ARM      Advanced Risc Machine

         Asynchronous Response Mode

ARMA     Association of Records Managers and Administrators

ARMM     Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation

ARNS     Appletalk Remote Network Server

ARP      Address Resolution Protocol

ARPA     Advanced Research Projekt Agency

ARPL     Adjust Requested Privilege Level

ARRL     American Radio Relay League

ARTIC    A Real-Time Interface Copressor

ARQ      Automatic Repeat reQuest

ARU      Audio Response Unit

ASA      Amercian Standards Association

ASAP     As Soon As Possible

         Automatic Switching And Processing

ASC      Accredited Standards Committee

ASCII    American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASEA     Allmaenna Svenska Electricitets-Aktiebolag

ASI      Amorphous Silicon Drum

ASIC     Application Specific Integrated Circuit

ASIT     Advanced Security and Identification Technology

ASK      Akademische Software Kooperation

         Amplitude Shift Keying

ASL      Adaptive Speed Levelling

ASN.1    Abstract Syntax Notation 1

ASO      Active Siedband Optimum

ASP      Association of Shareware Professionals

         Advanced Signal Processor

ASPEC    Adaptive Spectral Perceptual Entropy enCoding

ASPI     Advanced Scsi Programming Interface

ASPS     Advanced Signal Processing System

ASR      Automatic Send-Receive

         Automatic Speech Recognition

ASU      Asynchron/Synchron-Umsetzer

ASYNC    ASYNchronous

AT       Advanced Technology

ATA      AT bus Attachment

ATC      Address Translation Cache

ATDM     Asynchronous Time Division Multiplexing

ATDMA    Asynchronous Time Division Multiple Access

ATDP     ATtention Dial Pulse

ATDT     ATtention Dial Tone

ATE      Automated Test Equipment

ATF      Automatic Track Finding

ATG      Atdvanced Technology Group

ATH      ATtention Hang-up

ATIS     A Tool Integration Standard

ATK      Andrew ToolKit

ATM      Adobe Type Manager

         Adobe Typeface Manager

         Asynchronous Transfer Mode

         Automated Teller Machine

ATP      Appletalk Transaction Protocol

ATR      Automatic Terminal Recognition

ATS      Administrative Terminal System

         Apple Terminal Services

AT&T     American Telegraph and Telephone Company

AUE      Andrew User Environment

AUDIT    AUtomated Data Input Terminal

AUGE     Apple User Group Europe

AUI      Attached Unit Interface

AUP      Appropriate Use Policies

AUTEX    AUtomatische Telex- und TeletEXauskunft (der DBP)

AVA      Audio Visual Authoring

AVC      Audio Visual Connection

AVCD     Audio Visual Computer Display

AVI      Audio Visual Interleaved

AVON     Amtliches Verzeichniss der OrtsNetze

AWADO    Automatische Wechselschalter in der AnschlussDOse

AWD      Automatische Waehleinrichtung fuer Datenverbindungen

AWG      American Wire Gage

AWK      Aho Weinberger Kernigan

AWL      Anweisungsliste (DIN  19 239)

AWS      Apple Workgroup Server

AX       Architecture eXtended

AXE      Applications Execution Environment

 

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BAC      Balanced Asynchronous Class

BAD      Broken As Designed

BAK      Binary Adaption Kit

BAL      Basic Assembly Language

BAM      Block-Availibility-Map

         Boyan Action Module

BAPT     Bundesamt fuer Post- und Telekommunikation

BARRNET  Bay Area Regional Research NETwork

BARTS    Bell Atlantic Regional TimeSharing

BASH     Borne Again SHell

BASIC    Beginner's All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BASM     Built-in ASseMbler

BATC     Block Address Translation Cache

BBC      British Broadcasting Company

BBS      Bulletin Board Service

         Bulletin Board System

BCC      Block Check Character

BCD      Binary Coded Decimal

BCE      Bell Canada Enterprises

BCL      Batch Command Language

BCP      Bulk Copy Program

BCPL     Basic Computer Programming Language

BCR      Byte Count Register

BCS      British Computer Society

BDE      BetriebsDatenErfassung

BDLC     Burroughs Data Link Control

BDOS     Basic Disk Operating System

BDSG     BundesDatenSchutzGesetz

BECN     Backward Explicit Congestion Notification

BELLCORE BELL COmmunications REsearch

BEM      Boundary Element Method

BER      Basic Encoding Rules

         Bit Error Rate

BERKOM   BERliner KOMmunikationssystem

BERT     Bit Error Rate Test/Tester

BETC     BETween Chain

BFD      Bundesbeauftragter Fuer Datenschutz

 

BFS      Breadth First Search

BFT      Binary File Transfer

BFTP     Background File Transfer Protocol

BGA      Ball Gride Array

BGP      Border Gateway Protocol

BGT      Branch if Greater Than

BHI      Branch if HIgher

BHIS     Branch if HIgher or Same

BHP      Bayerische Hacker-Post

BHT      Branch History Table

BI       Binary Input

BIGFON   Breitbandiges Integriertes Glasfaser-Fernmelde-OrtsNetz

BIM      Beginning of Information Marker

BIMOS    BIpolar Metal Oxid Semiconductor

BIND     Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server

BIOS     Basic Input/Output System

BIP      Bit-Interleave Parity

BIS      Bibliographic Information System

         Business Information System

BISYNC   Binary SYNchronous Communication protocol

BIT      BInary DigiT

BITNET   Because It's Time NETwork

BIU      Bus Interface Unit

BIX      Byte Information Exchange

BKS      Bundesverband Kabel + Satellit

BKSP     BacKSPace

BL       BackLit

BLADE    Basic Linear Algebra for Distributed Environments

BLAS     Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms

BLAST    BLocked ASynchronous Transmission

BLER     BLock Error Rate

BLERT    BLock Error Rate Test

BLM      Bayerische Landeszentrale fuer neue Medien

BLMC     Buried Logic MacroCell

BLOB     Binary Large OBject

BLOS     Branch if Lower Or Same

BMC      Block Multiplex Channel

BMI      Branch if MInus

BMIC     BusMaster Interface Controller

BMP      Batch Message Processing Program

BMUG     Berkeley Macintosh Users Group

BNC      British Naval Connector

BNE      Branch if Not Equal

BNF      Backus-Naur Form

BNPF     Begin Negative Positive Finish

BO       Binary Output

BOART    Bus Oriented Asynchronouse Receiver Transmitter

BOC      Bell Operating Company

BOFS     Birds Of a Feather Session

BOM      Beginning Of Message

BOOTP    BOOTstrap Protocol

BOP      Bit Oriented Protocol

BORPQU   BORland Pro QUattro

BORQU    BORland QUattro

BOS      Basic Operating System

BOT      Beginning Of Table

         Beginning Of Tape

BP       Base Pointer

BPB      Bios Parameter Block

BPI      Bits Per Inch

BPL      Branch if PLus

BPS      Bits Per Second

         Bytes Per Second

BPU      Branch Prediction Unit

BQS      Berkeley Quality Software

BR       Bad Register

         Befehlsregister

BRAM     Broadcast Recognizing Access Method

BRE      Basic Regular Expression

BRI      Basic Rate Interface

         Brain Response Interface

BRIM     Bridge Router Interface Module

BS       BackSpace

BSA      Business Software Alliance

BSAM     Basic Sequential Access Method

BSC      Binary Synchronous Communication

BSCS     Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

BSD      Berkely Standard Distribution

BSDL     Boundary Scan Description Language

BSF      Bit Scan Forward

BSI      British Standards Institute

BSM      Bracket State Manager

BSMTP    Batch Simple Message Transfer Protocol

BSR      Bit Scan Reverse

BSYNC    Binary Synchronous Communications

BTAC     Branch Target Address Cache

BTAM     Basic Telecommunications Access Method

BTB      Branch Target Buffer

BTC      Bit Test and Complement

BTI      British Telecom International

BTMA     Busy Tone Multiple Access

BTP      Batch Transfer Program

BTR      Bit Test and Reset

BTS      Bit Test and Set

BTU      Basic Transmission Unit

BTW      By The Way

BTX      BildschirmTeXt

BUAF     Big Ugly Ascii Font

BUAG     Big Ugly Ascii Graphic

BUUG     Belgian Unix User Group

BWM      Block-Write Mode

BWQ      Buzz Word Quotient

BWSN     Baden-Wuerttembergisches SchulNetz

BZR      BefehlsZaehlRegister

BZT      Bundesamt fuer Zulassungen in der Telekommunikation

B/F      Background/Foreground

B-ISDN   Breitband-ISDN

 

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CA       Cellular Automata

         Collision  Avoidance

         Computer Associates

CAA      Computer Aided Anthropometrics

         Computer Aided Assembling

CAAD     Computer Aided Architectural Design

CAC      Computer Aided Clamping system

         Computer Aided Creativity

CACM     Communications of the ACM

CAD      Computer Aided Design

         Computer Aided Drafting

CADAM    Computer Aided Design And Manufacturing

CADD     Computer Aided Design and Drafting

CADMAT   Computer Aided Design, Manufacturing And Testing

CAE      Common Applications Environment

         Computer Aided Engineering

CAG      Column Address Generator

CAI      Computer Aided Instruction

CAIS     Common ASPE Interface Set

CAIT     Computer Aided Inspection and Testing

CAL      CALendar

         Computer Aided Learning

         Computer Assisted Learning

CALS     Computer Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support

CALTECH  California Institute of TECHnology

CAM      Common Access Method

         Computer Aided Manufacturing

         Content Addressable Memory

CAMAC    Computer Automated Measurement And Control

CAMD     Computer Aided Molecular Design

CAN      Campus Area Network

         Complete Area Network

         Costumer Access Network

CAO      Computer Aided Optimization

CAP      Columbia Appletalk Package

         Central Arbitration Point

         Computer Aided Planning

         Communication Application Platform

         Computer Aided Publishing

CAPD     Computing to Assist Persons with Disabilities

CAPI     Common Application Programmer's Interface

CAPPC    Computer Aided Production Planning and Control

CAPPP    Computer Aided Process and Production Planning

CAPS     CAssette Programming System

CAPSC    Computer Aided Production Scheduling and Control

CAPTAIN  Character And Pattern Telephon Access Information Network

CAQ      Computer Aided Quality

CAR      Computer Aided Retrieval

         Computer Assisted Radiology

CARE     Computer Aided Reserve Engineering

CARL     Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries

CARLOS   CAncer Registry LOwer Saxony

CARS     Computer Aided Risc Simulation

CAS      Column Address Select

         Communicating Applications Specification

         Computer Aided Styling

         Computer Algebra System

CASE     Computer Aided Software Engineering

CASL     Crosstalk Application Scripting Language

CASS     Computer Assisted Search Service

CASSIS   Classified And Search Support Information System

CAT      Computer Aided Telecommunications

         Computer Aided Testing

         Computer Aided Tomography

         Computer Aided Transcription

CATIA    Computer graphics Aided Three dimensional Interactive Application

CATP     Computer Aided Technical Publishing

CATS     Computer Assisted Training System

CATV     Community Antenna TeleVision

CAU      Computer Access Unit

CAV      Constant Angular Velocity

CAVE     Computer Aided Vision Engineering

CBASIC   Commercial Beginners' All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

CBC      Ciper Block Chaining

CBCR     Channel Byte Count Register

CBENA    Computer Business Equipment Manufacturers' Association

CBIP     Compressed Binaries Ibm Pc

CBL      Computer Based Learning

CBR      Constant Bit Rate

         Continuouse Bit Rate

CBT      Computer Based Training

CBW      Convert Byte to Word

CBX      Computer-controlled Branch eXchange

CC       Cluster Controller

CCC      Chaos Computer Club

CCD      Charge Coupled Devices

CCFT     Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube

CCR      Commitment, Concurrency, Recovery

CCRN     Coordinating Council on Research Networks

CCITT    Commitee Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique

CCP      Console Command Processor

         Console Command Program

CCS      Common Communications Support

         Continuous Composite Servo

CCSY     Cooperative Computing System Program

CCT      Computerized Communcation Terminal

CCU      Central Communcation Unit

CCUT     Computer Center at the University of Tokyo

CCVR     Centre de Cacul Vectoriel pour la Recherche

CD       Carrier Detect

         Change Directory

         Collision Detection

         Color Display

         Committee Document

         Compact Disk

CDA      Compound Document Architecture

CDC      Control Data Corporation

CDDI     Copper Distributed Data Interface

CDE      Complex Data Entry

CDI      Compact Disc Interactive

CDIF     Case Data Interchange Format

CDK      Cyperspace Developer Kit

CDL      Computer Design Language

CDM      Compressed Data Mode

CDMA     Code Division Multiple Access

CDOS     Concurrent Disk Operating System

CDPD     Cellular Digital Packet Data

CDRA     Character Data Representation Architecture

CDR      Call Detail Record

         Call Detail Recording

         Corel DRaw

CDRL     Contract Data Requirements List

CDS      Cell Directory Service

         Current Directory Structure

CDTV     Compact Disk TeleVision

CD-R     Compact Disk Recordable

CD-RDX   Compact Disk - Read only memory Data eXchange standard

CD-ROM   Compact Disk - Read Only Memory

CD-RTOS  Compact Disk - Real Time Operating System

CD-V     Compact Disk - Video

CE       Cache Enable

         Chip Enable

         Collision Elimination

         Convert Enable

CEBIT    welt-CEntrum Buero Information Telekommunikation

CEBUS    Consumer Electronic Bus

 

CEG      Continuous Edge Graphics

CEI      Conducted Electromagnetic Interference

CELP     Coded Excited Linear Prediction

CEMM     Compaq Expand Memory Manager

CEN      Comite Europeen de Normalisation

CENELEC  Comite Europeen de Normalisation ELECtrotechnique

CEP      Connetion End Point

CEPT     Confeerence Europeenne des administrations des Postes

         et des Teeleecommunications

CERN     Conseil Europeen pour la Rcherche Nucleaire

CERT     Computer Emergency Response Team

CES      Consumer Electronic Show

CETRA    China External Trade Development Council

CFDP     Coherent File Distribution Protocol

CFM      ConFiguration Management

CFRI     California Federation of Research Internets

CFV      Call For Votes

CGA      Color Graphics Adapter

CGE      Compagnie General d'Electricite

CGI      Computer Generated Images

         Computer Graphics Interface

CGW      Customer GateWay

CHAP     CHallenge Authentication Protocol

CHARM    CHARacter Mode

CHCK     CHannel ChecK

CHCP     CHange Code Page

CHFN     CHange Full Name

CHGRP    CHange GRouP

CHILL    CCITT HIgh Level Language

CHKDSK   CHecK DiSK

CHMOD    CHhange MODe

CHOP     Channel Operator

CHOWN    CHange OWNer

CHPC     Center for High Performance Computing

CIAC     Computer Incident Advisory Capability

CIB      Computer Integrated Bureaucracy

CICERO   1 Cicero = 4,5 Millimeter

CICS     Customer Information Control System

CID      Configuration, Installation and Distribution

CIDR     Classless Internet Domain Routing

CIE      Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage

CIEDS    Computer Integrated Electron Design Series

CIF      Common Intermediate Format

         Computer Integrated Facilities

CIL      Component Integration Laboratories

CIM      Compuserve Information Manager

         Computer Integrated Manufacturing

CIOCS    Communication Input/Output Control System

CIOS     Communication Institute for Online Scholarship

CIP      Command Interface Port

CIR      Committed Information Rate

CIS      Compuserve Information Service

         Computer Information Systems

CISC     Complex Instruction Set Computing

CISE     Computer and Information Science and Engineering directorate

CISPR    Comite International Special des Perturbations Radioelectriques

CIT      California Institute of Technology

         Company Integrated Telephony

         Computer Integrated Telephone

CIX      Compulink Information eXchange

CKD      Count Key Data

CKSM     CheCksuMme

CLAA     Carry Look Ahead Adder

CLAG     Carry Look Ahead Generator

CLAR     Channel Local Address Register

CLASS    Custom Local Area Signalling Service

CLC      Clear Carry Flag

CLD      Clear Direction Flag

CLDATA   Cutter Location DATA

CLEF     European Commercial Licensed Evalution Facilities

CLI      Call-Level Interface

         Command Line Interface

         CLear Interrupt enable flag

CLIST    Command LIST

CLNP     ConnectionLess Network Protocol

CLK      CLocK

CLLM     Consolidated Link Layer Management

CLNS     ConnectionLess mode Network Service

CLP      Cell Loss Payload

         Cell Loss Priority

         Constraint Logic Programming

CLS      CLear Screen

CLTS     CLear Task Switch flag

CLUT     Color Look-Up Table

CLV      Constant Linear Velocity

CM       Configuration Management

         Connection Machine

         Control Mark

         Corrective Maintenance

CMA      Concert Multi-thread Architecture

CMAR     Control Memory Address Register

CMC      Common Mail Call

         Communication Mangement Configuration

CMDF     C Memo Distribution Facility

CME      Center for Media Education

CMIP     Common Management Information Protocol

CMIS     Common Management Information System

CML      Current Mode Logic

CMMU     Cache/Memory Management Unit

CMOS     Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CMPS     CoMPare word String

CMS      Code Management System

         Compiler Monitor System

         Conversation Monitor System

CMT      Cellular Mobile Telephone

         Connection ManagemenT

CMY      Cyan-Magenta-Yellow

CMYK     Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black

CMW      Compartment Mode Workstation

CM/2     Communication Manager/2

CNA      Certified Netware Administrator

CNC      Computerized Numerical Control

CNE      Certified Netware Engineer

CNI      Certified Netware Instructor

         Coalition for Networked Information

CNIDR    Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval

CNN      Cable News Network

CNRI     Corporation for National Research Initiatives

CNSS     Core Nodal Switching Subsystem

CO       Central Office

         Command Output

         Convert Out

COBOL    Common Business Oriented Language

CODASYL  Conference On DAta SYstems Language

COEM     Commercial Original Equipment Manufacturer

COL      Computer Oriented Language

COM      Common Objekt Model

COMAL    COMmon Algorithmic Language

COMDEX   COMputer Dealers EXposition

COMSAT   COMmunications SATellite corporation

CORAN    Communication ORiented Application aNlysis

CORBA    Common Object Request Broker Architecture

COS      Compatible Operating System

         Corporation for Open Systems

COSE     Common Open Software Environment

COSMOS   COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS

CP       CoPy

         Copy Protected

CPA      Certified Public Accountant

CPE      Central Processing Element

         Customer Premise Equipment

         Customer Provided Equipment

CPG      Clock Pulse Generator

CPI      Characters Per Inch

         Clock Per Instruction

         Common Programming Interface

CPI-C    Common Programming Interface for Communications

CPL      Current Privilege Level

CP/M     Control Program for Microcomputers

CPS      Central Point Software

         Central Processing System

         Characters Per Second

         Cycles Per Second

CPT      Command Pass Through

CPU      Central Processing Unit

CP/M     Control Program for Microcomputers

CR       Carriage Return

CRC      Cyclic Redundancy Check

CREN     Computer Research Education Network

         Corporation for Research and Educational Networking

CROM     Control Read Only Memory

CRT      Cathode Ray Tube

CRTC     Cathode Ray Tube Controller

CS       Chip Select

         Clear to Send

         Code Segment

CSAR     Channel System Address Register

CSD      Corrective Service Diskette

CSDC     Code Segment Descriptor Cache

CSG      Constructive Solid Geometry

         Consulting Services Group

CSL      Computer Sensitive Language

CSMA/CD  Carrier Sense Multiple Access/with Collision Detection

CSNET    Computer Science NETwork

CSP      Commercial Subroutine Package

         Compucom Speed Protocol

CSS      Comparex Software Service

         Computer Shopper Show

CSTA     Computer-Supported Telephony Applications

CSU      Channel Service Unit

CSV      Comma-Separated Variables

CTOS     Computerized Tomography Operating System

CTPA     Coax-to-Twisted-Pair Adapter

CTRL     ConTRoL

CTS      Clear To Send

CUA      Common User Access

CUB      CUrsor Backward

CUD      CUrsor Down

CUE      Custom Updates and Extras

CUF      CUrsor Forward

CUI      Character User Interface

         Common User Interface

CUP      CUrsor Position

CUPID    Completely Universal Processor I/O Design

CUTCP    Clarkson University Transmission control protocol Communication

         Package

CUTE     Clarkston University Terminal Emulator

CUU      CUrsor Up

CVGA     Color Video Gaphics Array

CVIA     Computer Virus Industry Association

CVW      CodeView for Windows

CWD      Convert Word to Double word

CWIS     Campus Wind Information Systems

CYMK     Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-Black

C/D      Control Data

 

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D/A      Digital to Analog

DAA      Data Access Arrangement

         Decimal Adjust for Addition

DAC      Data Acquisition and Control

         Digital to Analog Converter

         Distributed ACademic

DACT     DAta Compression Technology

DAL      Data Access Language

         Disk Access Logout

DAM      Data Acquisition and Monitoring

         Direct Access Method

DAP      Data Access Protocol

         Division Advisory Panel

DARI     Database Application Remote Interface

DARPA    Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency

DAS      Decimal Adjust for Subtraction

         Dual Attached Station

DASD     Direct Access Storage Device

DAT      Digital Audio Tape

         Disk Array Technology

DATACOM  DATA COMmunications

DATEL    DAta TELecommunication

DATEX    DATa EXchange

DB       Data Base

         Data Buffer

DBA      DataBase Agent

DBCS     Double-Byte Character Set

DBM      Data Base Manager

DBMS     Data Base Management System

DBS      Data Base Server

DC       Data Collection

         Data Communication

         Data Control

         Device Control

         Direct Current

DC       Display Context

DCA      Digital Communications Associates

         Distributed Communciations Architecture

         Document Content Architecture

DCAF     Distributed Console Access Facility

DCB      Disk Coprocessor Board

         Data Control Block

DCC      Data Country Code

         Digital Compact Cassette

         Display Combination Code

DCD      Data Carrier Detect

DCE      Data Circuit-terminating Equipment

         Data Communications Equipment

         Distributed Computing Environment

         Distributed Computing Equipment

DCF      Data Communication Facility

         Data Compression Facility

         Data Count Field

DCI      Display Control Interface

DCL      DeCLaration

         Dec Command Language

         Device CLear

         Digital Control Logic

         Digital Command Language

DCS      Data Collection System

         Data Control System

         Desktop Color Separation

         Diagnostic Communication System

DCT      Discrete Cosine Transform

DD       Digital Display

         Double Density

DDB      Device Dependent Bitmap

DDCMP    Digital Data Communications Message Protocol

DDD      Direct Distance Dialing

DDE      Direct Data Entry

         Dynamic Data Exchange

DDEML    Dynamic Data Exchange Manager Library

DDK      Device Driver Kit

DDL      Data Definition Language

         Data Description Language

DDM      Distributed Data Management

DDN      Defense Data Network

DDP      Distributed Data Processing

DDS      Dataphone Digital Service

         Design Data Sheet

         Digital Data Storage

         Disk Definition Structure

DDVT     Dynamic Dispatch Virtual Tables

         Dialog Data Validation

DDX      Dialog Data eXchange

DEBI     Direct memory access Extended Bus Interface

DEC      DECrement

         DEvice Clear

         Digital Equipment Corporation

DECMCC   DEC Management Control Center director

DEE      DatenEndEinrichtung

DEL      DELete

DELSTR   DELete STRing

DES      Data Encryption Standard

         Data Entry Sheet

DET      Device Execute Trigger

DF       Data Field

         Destination Field

         Device Flag

         Double Flag

DFC      Data Flow Control

DFS      Depth First Search

         Distributed File System

DFT      Design For Test

         Diagnostic Funtion Test

         Discrete Fourier Transform

         Distributed Function Terminal

DFU      Data File Utility

DFUE     DatenFernUEbertragung

DFV      DatenFernVerarbeitung

DGIS     Direct Graphics Interface Standard

DI       Data In

         Destination Index

         Decoder Identification

DIA      Document Interchange Architecture

DIB      Device Independent Bitmap

DIBOL    Dec Business Oriented Language

DID      Digital Image Design

         Direct Inward Dialing

DIFFSENS DIFFerential SENSe

DIIP     Direct Interrupt Identification Port

DIN      Deutsches Institut fuer Normen

DIO      Data Input Output

DIP      Dual Inline Package

         Dual Inline Pin

DIR      DIRectory

DIS      Draft International Standard

         Dynamic Impedance Stabilization

DISP     DISPlacement

DIV      DIgitale Vermittlungsstelle

         DIVide

DL       DownLoad

DL/1     Data Manipulation Language 1

DLC      Data Link Control

DLE      Data Link Escape

DLM      Dynamic Link Module

DLR      Dependent Lu Requester

         Dos Lan Requester

DM       Data Mode

         Disconnected Mode

         Distributed Monitor

DMA      Direct Memory Access

         Direct Memory Addressing

DMAC     DMA Controller

DME      Distributed Management Environment

DMI      Desktop Mangement Interface

         Digital Multiplex Interface

DML      Data Manipulation Language

DMM      Digital MultiMeter

DMMS     Dynamic Memory Management System

DMOS     Double-diffused Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

DMP      Dot Matrix Printer

DMQS     Display Mode Query and Set

DMS      Data Management Software

         Data Management System

DMSD     Digital Multistandard Decoding

DMTF     Desktop Management Task Force

DMY      Day Month Year

DN       Down

DNC      Direct Numerical Control

DNIS     Dialed Number Identification Service

DNS      Domain Name Scheme

DNS      Domain Name Server

         Domain Name Service

         Domain Name System

DO       Data Out

         Distributed Object

DOE      Distributed Objects Everywhere

DOL      Direct Object Linking

DOS      Disk Operating System

         Distributed Operating System

DOSEM    DOS EMulation

DOSS     Dedicated Office Systems and Services

DOW      Day Of Week

DP       Data Processing

DPA      Demand Protocol Architecture

DPAREN   Data PARity ENable

DPB      Drive Parameter Block

DPC      Direct Program Control

DPI      Dots Per Inch

DPL      Descriptor Privilege Level

DPM      Digital Panel Meter

DPMA     Data Processing Management Association

DPMI     Dos Protected Mode Interface

DPMS     Display Power Management Signalling

         DOS Protected Mode Service

DPO      Data Phase Optimization

DPSK     Differential Phase Shift Keying

DPT      Drive Parameter Table

DQDB     Distributed Queued Dual Bus

DQL      Dataease Query Language

DR       Data Received

         Digital Research

D/R      Direct or Reverse

DRAM     Dynamic Random Access Memory

DRAW     Direct Read After Write

DRDA     Distributed Relational Data Architecture

DRDW     Direct Read During Write

DRI      Defense Research Internet

         Digital Research Incorporated

DRO      Data Request Output

         Destructive Read-Out

DRV      DRiVe

DS       Data Segment

         Data Send

         Data Server

         Double Sided

DSA      Data Service Adapter

         Directory System Agent

DSDC     Data Segment Descriptor Chache

DSDD     Double Sided and Double Density

DSE      Data Storage Equipment

         Data Switching Exchange

DSEA     Display Station Emulation Adapter

DSECT    Dummy control SECTion

DSHD     Double Sided and High Density

DSI      Digital Speech Interpolation

DSIS     Distributed Support Information Standard

DSL      Dialogue Scripting Language

         Dynamic Simulation Language

DSOM     Distributed System Object Model

DSP      Digital Signal Processing

         Digital Signal Processor

DSQD     Double Sided, Quad Density

DSR      Data Set Ready

         Device Status Register

         Device Status Report

DSS      Decision Support System

DSTN     Double SuperTwisted Nematic

DSU      Digital Service Unit

DSW      Data Status Word

         Device Status Word

D2T2     Dye Diffusion Thermal Transfer (printing)

DTA      Disk Transfer Area

DTD      Document Type Definition

DTE      Data Terminal Equipment

         DatenTransferEinrichtung

         Dumb Terminal Emulator

DTL      Diode-Transistor Logic

DTMF     Dual Tone MultiFrequency

DTP      Desktop Publishing

DTR      Data Terminal Ready

         Data Transfer Rate

DTS      Direct To SOM

         Distributed Time Server

DU       Disk Usage

DUAT     Direct User Access Terminal

DV       DatenVerarbeitung

DVA      DatenVerarbeitungsAnlage

         Distance Vector Algorithm

DVI      Digital Video Interactive

         DeVice Independent

DWG      DraWinG

DX       Directory eXchange

DXC      Data Exchange Control

 

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EA       Extended Attribute

EAN-CODE Europaeischer Artikel-Nummern Code

EARN     European Academic Research Network

EAROM    Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory

EARS     Electronic Access to Reference Services

EATA     Enhanced AT Bus Attachment

EBC      EISA Bus Controller

EBCDIC   Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

EBI      Equivalent Background Input

         Extended Background Investigation

EBT      Electronic Benefits Transfer

EC       End Chain

         Exchange Carrier

         European Community

ECAL     Enjoy Computing And Learn

ECC      Error Check Code

         Error Checking and Correction

         Error Correction Code

ECD      Enhanced Color Display

ECL      Emitter Coupled Logic

ECMA     European Computer Manufacturers Association

ECP      Enhanced Capabilities Port

ECTL     Electronic Communal Temporal Lobe

ECTS     European Computer Trade Show

ED       Erase Display

EDA      Embedded Document Architecture

EDC      Enhanced Data Correction

         Error Detection and Correction

EDDC     Extended Distance Data Cable

EDI      Electronical Data Interchange

         Electronic Document Interchange

EDIFACT  Electronic Data Interchange For Administration Commerce and Transport

EDLC     Ethernet Data Link Control

EDLIN    Editor

EDOS     Enhanced DOS for Windows

EDP      Electronic Data Processing

EDPM     Electronic Data Processing Machine

EDSI     Enhanced Small Device Interface

EDV      Elektronische DatenVerarbeitung

EEC      Extended Error Correction

EEG      Electroencephalogram

EEM      Extended Memory Management

EEMS     Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification

EEP      Early Experience Program

EEPROM   Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

EFA      Extended File Attribute

EFF      Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFI      Electromechanical Frequency Interference

         Electronics For Imaging

EFL      Emitter Follower Logic

EFTS     Electronic Funds Transfer System

EGA      Enhanced Graphics Adapter

EIA      Electronic Industries Association

EIS      Executive Information System

EISA     Extended Industry Standard Architecture

EL       Electroluminescent

         Erase Line

ELAN     Education LANguage

         Elementary LANguage

ELF      Extremely Low Frequency

ELOD     Erasable Laser Optical Disk

ELS      Entry Level System

EM       End of Medium

         Electronic Mail

         Expanded Memory

EMA      Enterprise Management Architecture

E-MAIL   Electronic MAIL

EMB      Enhanced Master Burst

         Extended Memory Block

EMBARC   Electronic Mail Broadcast to a Roaming Computer

EMC      Electromagnetic Compatibility

         Extended Math Coprocessor

EMI      Electromagnetic Interference

         Electric & Musical Industrie

EMM      Enterprise Mail Manager

         Expanded Memory Manager

EMR      Electro-Magnetic Radiation

EMS      Electronic Mail System

         Electronic Message Service

         Expanded Memory Specification

         Expanded Memory System

ENDS     Ends Segment

ENIAC    Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer

ENQ      ENQuiry

ENSS     Exterior Nodal Switching Subsystem

EOA      End of Address

EOB      End of Block

EOC      End of Conversion

EOF      End of File

EOI      End or Identify

EOJ      End of Job

EOL      End of Line

         End of List

EOM      End of Message

EOR      Exclusive OR

EOS      End of String

EOT      End Of Table

         End of Tape

         End of Text

         End of Transmission

EPA      Environmental Protection Agency

EPL      Effective Privilege Level

EPLD     Electrically Programmable Logic Device

EPM      Enhanced Editor for Presentation Manager

EPP      Enhanced Parallel Port

EPROM    Electrically Programmable Read Only Memory

         Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EPS      Electronic Publishing Systems

         Encapsulated PostScript

EPSF     Encapsulated PostScript Files

ERAS     Electronic Routing and Approval System

ERLL     Enhanced Run-Length Limited

EROM     Erasable Read Only Memory

ERR      Error

ES       Elektronische Signatur

         Extra Segment

         Enhanced Security

         European Space Agency

ESC      Escape

ESCON    Enterprise System Connection

ESD      Electronic Software Distribution

         Electrostatic Discharge

ESDC     Extra Segment Descriptor Cache

ESDI     Enhanced Small Device Interface

ESI      Enhanced Serial Interface

ESP      Emulation Sensing Processor

         Enhanced Serial Port

ESS      Electronic Switching System

ESU      Electro-Static Unit

ETANN    Electrically Trainable Analog Neural Network

ETB      End of Transmission Block

ETPL     Endorsed Tempest Products List

ETS      Econometric Time Series

ETX      End of Text

EU       Execution Unit

EUID     Effective User IDentification

EVE      Exklusiver Verzeichnis-Eintrag

         Extensible Vax Editor

EVGA     Extended Video Graphics Array

         Extended Video Graphics Adapter

EWS      Employee Written Software

EXFCB    EXtended File Control Block

EXP      EXPonent

EXT      EXTernal

EXTRN    EXTernal RefereNce

 

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FABS     Fast Access Btree Structure

FAC      File Access Code

FAMOS    Floating Gate Avalanche MOS

FAP      File Access Protocol

FAQ      Frequently Asked Question

FAT      File Allocation Table

FAX      FAKsimile

FBAS     Farbbildaustastsynchronsignal

FCB      File Control Block

FCC      Federal Communications Commission

FCI      Flux Changes per Inch

FD       Floppy Disk

         Full Duplex

FDC      Floppy Disk Controller

FDDI     Fiber Digital Device Interface

         Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FDISK    Fixed Disk

FDM      Frequency-Division Multiplexing

FDX      Full Duplex

FEFO     First-Ended, First-Out

FEP      Front End Processor

FESDK    Far East Software Development Kit

FET      Field Effect Transistor

FF       Flip-Flop

         Form Feed

         Formular Feed

FFT      Fast Fourier Transform

FIFO     First In and First Out

FILO     First In and Last Out

FIP      File Processor Buffering

FIR      Finite Impulse Response

FLC      Ferro-electric Liquid Crystal

FLD      Field

FLL      FoxPro Link Library

FLOP     FLoating Point Operating

FLOPS    Floating Point Operations Per Second

FM       Fault Management

FMS      FernMeldeSystem

         Forms Management System

FMT      Format

FO       FernmeldeOrdnung

FOC      Fiber Optic Cable

FOCUS    Forum of Control Data Users

FOG      First Osborne Group

FOIRL    Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link

FORTRAN  FORmula TRANslator

FOSE     Federal Office Systems Exposition

FOSSIL   Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer

FPGA     Field Programmable Gate-Array

FPLA     Field Programmable Logic-Array

FPP      Fast-Parallel-Port

         Fixed Path Protocol

         Floating Point Processor

FPS      Fast Packet Switching

         For Pay Server

         Frames Per Second

FPU      Floating Point Processor Unit

FQDN     Fully Qualified Domain Name

FRAG     Fragment

         Fragmentation

FRAM     Ferroelectric Random-Access Memory

FRED     Frame Editor

FRPI     Flux Reversals Per Inch

FS       File Separator

         Finite State

         File System

FSD      File System Driver

FSK      Frequency Shift Keying

F/T      Full Time

FTAM     File Transfer, Access and Management

         File Transfer and Access Method

FTP      File Transfer Protocol

         Foiled Twisted Pair

FTS      Federal Telecommunication System

FUI      File Update Information

FUNC     Function

FVT      Full Video Translation

FYI      For Your Information

 

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GA       General Availability

         Genetic Algorithm

GAAP     Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

GAL      Generic Array Logic

GB       GigaBit = 1,000 Megabits = 1 Billion Bits of Information

         GigaByte

GC       Garbage Collect

GCAD     Geographical Computer Aided Design System

GCR      Group Code Recording

GDA      Global Data Area

         Global Directory Agent

GDDM     Graphics Data Display Manager

GDI      Graphics Device Interface

GDOS     Graphics Device Operating System

GDS      Global Directory Service

GDT      Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing

         Global Descriptor Table

GDTRC    Lobal Descriptor Table Register Cache

GEM      Graphics Environment Manager

         Global Enterprise Management

GENIE    General Electric Network for Information Exchange

GEOS     Graphic Environment Operating System

GET      Get Execute Trigger

GIF      Graphic Interchange Format

GIGO     Garbage In Garbage Out

GIS      Geographical Information System

GIX      Global Internet eXchange

GKS      Graphical Kernal System

G/L      General Ledger

GL       Graphics Language

 

GLM      General Linear Models

GML      General Markup Language

GMS      Global Messaging Service

GMT      Greenwich Mean Time

GND      GrouND

GNI      GayNet International

GNU      Gnu's Not Unix

GOSIP    Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile

GP       Gas Plasma

         General Purpose

GPF      General Protection Fault

GPI      Graphics Programming Interface

GPIB     General Purpose Interface Bus

GPS      Global Positioning System

GRE      GRaphics Engine

GS       Gepruefte Sicherheit

         Group Separator

GSX      Graphics System eXtension

GUI      Graphical User Interface

GW-BASIC Gee Whiz BASIC

 

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HACMP    High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing

HAL      Hard Array Logic

         Hardware Abstraction Layer

         House Programmed Array Logic

HASP     Houston Automatic Spooling Priority

HBA      Host Bus Adapter

HCT      Hamburger ComputerTage

HD       Hard Disk

         High Density

HDA      Head Disk Assembly

HDCD     High Definition Compatible Digital

HDI      Head to Disk Interference

HDLC     High level Data Link Control

HDR      HeaDer Label

HDSC     High Density Signal Carrier

HDSL     High rate Digital Subscriber Link

HDTV     High Definition TeleVision

HDW      HarDWare

HDX      Half DupleX

HEPNET   High Energy Physics NETwork

HERC     HERCules

HEX      HEXadecimal

HGA      Hercules Graphics Adapter

         High Gain Antenna

HGC      Hercules Graphic Card

 

HGCP     Hercules Graphics Card Plus

HIFD     HIgh-density Floppy Disk

HIL      Human Interface Link

HLCO     High Low Close Open

HLL      High Level Language

HLLAPI   High Level Language Application Programming Interface

HLQ      High Level Qualifier

HLS      Hue, Luminance, Saturation

HLT      Halt

HMA      High Memory Area

         Hub Management Architecture

HMOS     High density Metal Oxide Semiconductor

         High speed Metal Oxide Semiconductor

HP       Hewlett Packard

HPCC     High Performance Computing and Communications

HPDJ     Hewlett Packard Desk Jet

HPF      High Performance Fortran

HPFS     High Performance File System

HPG      Hewlett Packard Graphics

HPGL     Hewlett Packard Graphics Language

HPIB     Hewlett Packard Interface Bus

HPLJ     Hewlett Packard Laser Jet

HPPA     Hewlett Packard Precision Architecture

HPPCL    Hewlett Packard Printer Control Language

HPPI     High Performance Parallel Interface

HRIS     Human Resource Information System

HRG      High Resolution Graphics

HRMS     Human Resource Management System

HS       High Speed

HSB      Hue Saturation Brightness

HSC      High Speed Channel

HSP      High Speed Printer

HSI      Hue, Saturation, Intensity

HST      High Speed Technology

HSV      Hue Saturation Value

HT       Horizontal Tab

HTML     HyperText Markup Language

HTTP     HyperText Transfer Protocol

HUT      Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope

H/V      Horizontal/Vertical

HVP      Horizontal & Vertical Position

H/W      Hardware

HWCP     HardWare Code Page

HWD      Height-Width-Depth

 

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IAB      Internet Activities Board

IANA     Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

IAT      Import Address Table

IBC      Instrument Bus Computer

IBM      International Business Machines

IBM-GL   IBM Graphics Language

IC       Input Circuit

         Integrated Circuit

         Interrupt Controller

ICA      Intra-application Communications Area

ICAS     Intel Communicating Applications Specifications

ICCP     Institute for the Certification of Computer Professionals

ICE      Inter Client Exchange

         In-Circuit Emulator

ICL      Interface CLear

ICMP     Internet Control Message Protocol

ICO      ICOn

ICONDA   the cib International CONstruction DAtabase

ICOMP    Intel COmparative MicroProcessor

ICP      Imput Control Procedure

         Integrated Channel Processor

ICR      Intelligent Character Recognition

ICS      Intuitive Command Structure

IDA      Integrated Digital Access

         Intelligent Disk Array

         Intelligent Drive Array

IDAPI    Integrated Database Application Programming Interface

IDE      Imbedded Drive Electronics

         Integrated Development Environment

         Integrated Drive Electronics

         Intelligent Drive Electronics

         Interactive Design and Engineering

         Interface Design Enhancement

IDF      Intermediate Distribution Frame

IDIV     Integer DIVide

IDL      Interface Definition Language

IDMS     Integrated Data base Management System

IDN      Integrated Digital Network

IDP      Integrated Data Processing

         Internet Datagram Protocol

IDT      Improved Definition Television

         Interrupt Descriptor Table

IDTRC    Interrupt Descriptor Table Register Cache

IEC      InterExchange Carrier

         International Electrotechnical Commission

IEEE     Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IEF      Information Engineering Facility

IETF     Internet Engineering Task Force

I/F      Interface

IFA      Internationale FunkAusstellung

IFD      Image File Directory

IFG      Incoming Fax Gateway

IFS      Internal Field Separator

         Installable File System

IGA      Integrated Graphics Array

IGC      Integrated Graphics Controller

IHMO     In My Humble Opinion

IIR      Immediate Impulse Response

IIT      Integrated Information Technology

IMDS     IMage Data Stream

IMP      Interface Message Processor

IMPA     Intelligent Multi-Port Adapter

IMS      Information Management System

         Intermediate Maintenance Standards

IMUL     Integer MULtiply

INM      Integrated Network Management

INS      INput String

INTA     INTerrupt Acknowledge

INTR     INTerrupt Request

I/O      Input/Output

IOC      Input-/Output-Controller

IOCS     Input/Output Control System

IOCTL    Input/Output ConTroL

IOPL     Input/Output Priviledge Level

IOSGA    Input/Output Support Gate Array

IP       Information Provider

         Instruction Pointer

         Internet Protocol

IPC      Instructions Per Clock

         InterProcess Communication

IPF      Information Presentation Facility

IPL      Initial Program Load

         Initial Program Loader

IPL      Information Programming Language

IPM      InterPersonal Message

IPS      Inch Per Second

IPSE     Integrated Project Support Environment

IPX      Internetwork Packet eXchange

IQL      Interactive Query Language

IRC      Internet Relay Chat

IRET     Interrupt RETurn

IRL      Interactive Reader Language

         Inter-Repeater Link

IRLED    InfraRed Light Emitting Diode

IRM      Information Resource Management

IRQ      Interrupt ReQuest

IRX      Information Retrieval eXperiment

IS       Information System

         Interrupt Status

ISA      Industry Standard Architecture

ISAM     Indexed Sequential-Access Management/Method

ISC      Instruction Set Computer

ISD      Image Section Descriptor

         Instructional Systems Design

ISDN     Integrated Services Digital Network

ISI      Internally Specified Index

ISIS     Integrated Systems and Information Services

ISL      Interactive System Language

ISO/OSI  International Standards Organization/Open Systems

         Interconnection

ISP      International Standardized Profile

         Internet Service Provider

         Interrupt Stack Pointer

         Interrupt Status Port

ISPF     Interactive System Programming Facility

ISR      Information Storage and Retrieval

         Interrupt Service Routine

ISV      Independent Software Vendor

IT       Information Technology

ITB      Information Technology Branch

         Intermediate Text Block

ITC      International Typeface Corporation

ITSEC    Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria

ITU      International Telecommunication Union

ITUG     International Telecommunications User Group

ITUTSS   International TelecommUnicaTions Standards Sector

ITV      Interactive TeleVision

ITX      Intermediate TeXt block

IVDLAN   Integrated Voice and Data Local Area Network

IVIS     Interactive Video Information System

IVP      Installation Verification Image

IVR      Interactive Voice Response

IVS      IBM-VerkabelungsSystem

         Interactive Videodisk System

         Interactive Visualization Systems

IVT      Interrupt Vector Table

IV&V     Independent Verification & Validation

 

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JA       Jump Address

         Jump if Above

JAD      Joint Application Design

JAE      Jump if Above or Equal

JANET    Joint Academic Network

JBE      Jump if Below or Equal

JC       Jump if Carry set

JCL      Job Control Language

JE       Jump if Equal

JEDEC    Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council

JEIDA    Japanese Electronics Industry Development Association

JES      Job Entry System

JFET     Junction Field Effect Transistor

JG       Jump if Greater

JGE      Jump if Greater or Equal

JL       Jump if Less

JLE      Jump if Less than or Equal to

JMP      Jump

JNA      Jump if Not Above

JNAE     Jump if Not Above or Equal

JNB      Jump if Not Below

JNBE     Jump if Not Below or Equal

JNG      Jump if Not Greater

JNGE     Jump if Not Greater or Equal

JNK      JuNK

JNLE     Jump if Not Less or Equal

JNO      Jump if No Overflow

JNP      Jump if No Parity

JNS      Jump if No Sign

JNZ      Jump if Not Zero

JPE      Jump if Parity Even

JPEG     Joint Photographic Experts Group

JPL      Jet Propulsion Laboratory

JPO      Jump if Parity Odd

JS       Jump if Sign

JVC      Victory Company of Japan

JZ       Jump if Zero

 

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KB       KeyBoard

         KiloByte = 1024 Bytes

KBD      KeyBoarD

KBIT     KiloBIT

KBPS     Kilo-Bytes Per Second

KDT      Key Definition Table

KEYBBE   foreign language KEYBoard program - BElgium

KEYBBR   foreign language KEYBoard program - BRazil

KEYBCF   foreign language KEYBoard program - Canadian-French

KEYBDF   foreign language KEYBoard program - Denmark

KEYBFR   foreign language KEYBoard program - FRance

KEYBGR   foreign language KEYBoard program - GeRmany

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

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

KI       Kuenstliche Intelligenz

KIPS     Kilo Instructions Per Second

KIS      Knowbot Information Service

KSH      Korn SHell

KSR      Keyboard Send Receive

KRS      Knowledge Retrieval System

 

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LADDR    LAyered Device Driver Architecture

LALL     Longest Allowed Lobe Length

LAN      Local Area Network

LAP      Link Access Protocol

LAPB     Link Access Procedure Balanced

LAPD     Link Access Procedure Direct

LAPM     Link Access Procedure for Modems

LAPS     Local area network Adpater Protocol Support program

LAR      Load Access Rights

LASER    Light Amplification by Stimulated Emmision of Radiation

LASTport Local Area Storage TransPORT

LAT      Local Area Transport

LAWN     Local Area Wireless Network

LB       Left Button

LBL      LaBeL

LBR      LiBRarian

LBT      Listen Before Talk

         Local Bus Target

LCC      Leadless Chip Carrier

LCD      Liquid Crystal Display

LCF      Local area network File System

LCK      Library Construction Kit

LCP      Link Control Protocol

LCU      Last Cluster Used

LDA      Logical Device Address

LDC      Lotus Development Corporation

LDM      Long Distance Modem

LDT      Local Descriptor Table

LDTR     Load Descriptor Table Register

LDTRC    Local Descriptor Table Register Cache

LE       Less or Equal

LEA      Load Effective Address

LED      Light Emitting Diode

LEM      Language Extension Module

LEN      Low Entry Networking

LEX      LEXicon

LF       Line Feed

LFI      Last File Indicator

LFU      Least Frequently Used

LGDT     Load Global Descriptor Table

LICS     Lotus International Character Set

LIDT     Load Interrupt Descriptor Table

LIEP     Large Internet Exchange Packet

LIF      Low Insertion Force

LIFO     Last In and First Out

LILO     Last In and Last Out

LIM      Lotus/Intel/Microsoft

LIMA     Lotus/Intel/Microsoft/Ast

LIMS     Library Information Management System

LINMOS   Laser INtensity MOdulation

LIPS     Logical Inferences Per Second

LISP     LISt Processing

LL       Local Loopback

LLC      Logical Link Control

LLDT     Load Local Descriptor Table

LMBCS    Lotus MultiByte Character Set

LMI      Local Management Interface

LMSW     Load Machine Status Word

LM/X     LAN Manager for Unix

LN       LiNk

LN       Logarithm

LNDI     Lotus Notes Document Imaging

LOC      Lines Of Code

         Loop On-line Control

LOCIS    Library Of Congress Information System

LODSB    LOaD String Byte

LOG      LOGarithm

LOOPE    LOOP while Equal

LOOPNE   LOOP while Not Equal

LOOPNZ   LOOP while Not Zero

LOOPZ    LOOP while Zero

LORE     Line ORiented Editor

LP       Lineprinter

         Logical Partition

LPD      LandesPostDirektion

         Line Printer Daemon

LPI      Lines Per Inch

LPL      Lotus Programming Language

LPM      Lines Per Minute

LPN      Logical Page Number

LPS      Lines Per Second

         Low-Power Schottky

LQ       Letter Quality

LQM      Link Quality Monitoring

LRC      Local Register Cache

         Longitudinal Redundancy Check

LRI      Least Recently Loaded

LRS      Language ReSource

LRU      Least Recently Used

         Lowest Replaceable Unit

LSA      Line Sharing Adapter

         Link State Algorithm

LSB      Least Significant Bit

LSC      Least Significant Character

LSD      Least Significant Digit

LSI      Large Scale Integration

LSL      Load Segment Limit

LTR      Load Task Register

LU       Logical Unit

LUT      LookUp Table

LVM      Logical Volume Manager

LZW      Lempel-Ziv-Walsh

 

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MAC      Media/Medium Access Control

MAC      MacPaint

MACH     Multilayer ACtuator Head

MAI      MAIl

MAN      MANual

         Metropolitan Area Network

MAP      Maintenance Analysis Procedures

         Manufacturing Automation Protocol

         Memory Allocation Map

MAPI     Mail/Messaging Applications Programming

         Interface

MAPICS   Manufacturing, Accounting and Production

         Information Control System

MASM     Macro ASseMbler

MASS     Maximum Availability and Support

         Subsystem

MAU      Media Access Unit

         Medium Attachment Unit

         Multistation Access Unit

MAVDM    Multiple Application VDM

MB       MegaByte

         Middle Button

MBASIC   Microsoft BASIC

MBE      Molecular-Beam-Epitaxy

MBPS     MegaBytes Per Second

MBR      Master Boot Record

MBX      Mailbox

MCA      Micro Channel Architecture

MCA      Mission Critical Applications

MCB      Memory Control Block

MCGA     MultiColor Graphics Array

MCI      Media Control Interface

MCL      Microsoft Compatibility Labs

MCP      Master Control Program

MCU      Micro Control Unit

         Multi-Chip Unit

MD       Make Directory

         Monochrome Display

MDA      Monochrome Display Adapter

MDBS     Micro Data Base System

         Mobile Data Base Station

MDI      Medium Dependant Interface

         Multiple Document Interface

MDIC     Manchester Decoder and Interface Chip

MDK      Multimedia Developers Kit

MDR      Minimum Design Requirement

ME       Mutation Engine

MEB      Memory Expansion Board

MESI     Modified Exclusive Shared and Invalid

MFC      Microsoft Foundation Classes

         Multifunktionale Chipkarte

MFFS     Microsoft Flash File System

MFLOPS   Million Floating Point Operations Per Second

MFM      Modified Frequency Modulation

MFP      MultiFunction Peripheral

MFS      Magnetic tape Field Search

         Modified Filing System

MFT      Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks

MGA      Monochrome Graphics Adapter

MGE      Modular Gis Environment

MH       Modified Huffman

MHS      Message Handling Service

         Message Handling System

MIB      Management Information Base

MICS     Macro Interpretive CommandS

MIDI     Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MIF      Management Information Format

MII      Microsoft/IBM/Intel

MIL      Machine Interface Layer

MIM      Metal-Insulator-Metal

MIMD     Multiple Instruction Multiple Data stream

MIME     Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension

MIPS     Million Instructions Per Second

MIS      Management Information System

MISC     MISCellaneous

MIT      Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIX      Member Information Exchange

MKDIR    MaKe DIRectory

ML       Machine Language

MM       Maschinenlesbares Merkmal

MMA      Microcomputer Managers Association

MMC      Matched Memory Cycle

         Microcomputer Marketing Council

MMIS     Materials Manager Information System

MMPM     Multi Media Presentation Manager

MMU      Memory Management Unit

MNOS     Metal Nitride Oxide Semiconductor

MNP      Microcom Networking Protocol

         Multiple Networking Protocol

MO       Magneto-Optical

MOD      MODem

         MODulus

MODEM    MOdulator DEModulator

MOP      Maintenance Operations Protocol

MOS      Metal Oxide Semiconductor

MOSFET   Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor

MOV      MOVe

MOVS     MOVe String

MP       Multiple Processors

MPC      Multimedia Personal Computer

MPCS     Mission Planning and Control Station

MPEG     Motion Picture Experts Group

MPI      Message Passing Interface

MPP      Massively Parallel Processing

         Message Processing Program

MPR      MultiPart Repeater

MPTN     Multi Protocol Transport Network

MPU      MicroProcessor Unit

MR       Modem Ready

MRCF     Microsoft Realtime Compression Format

MRCI     Microsoft Realtime Compression Interface

MRI      Magnetic Resonance Imaging

MRO      Multi-Region Operation

MRP      Materials Requirement Planning

MRPL     Main Ring Path Length

MRT      Mean Repair Time

MS       Memory System

         Message Store

         MicroSecond

         MicroSoft corporation

         MilliSecond

MSAV     MicroSoft Anti Virus

MSB      Most Significant Bit

MSCDEX   MicroSoft CD EXtensions

MSD      Mass Storage Device

         Most Significant Digit

MS-DOS   MicroSoft - Disk Operating System

MSDR     Multiplexed Streaming Data Request

MSDS     MicroSoft Developer Support

MSG      MeSsaGe

MSG      program MeSsaGe

MSI      Medium Scale Integration

MSL      Map Specification Library

         Mirrored Server Link

MSP      MicroSoft Paint

MSW      Machine Status Word

MTA      Message Transfer Agent

         Multiple Terminal Access

MTBB     Mean Time Between Breakdowns

MTBF     Mean Time Before Failure

         Mean Time Between Failures

MTBJ     Mean Time Between Jams

MTS      Message Transfer Service/System

         Multichannel Television Sound

MTTF     Mean Time To Failure

MTTR     Mean Time To Repair

MUD      Multi User Dungeon/Dimension/Dialog

MUL      MULtiply

MUMPS    Massachusetts general hospital Utility Multi-Programming System

MUX      MUltipleXer

MV       MoVe

MVB      Multimedia Viewer Book

MVC      Multimedia Viewer Compiler

MVDM     Multiple Virtual Dos Machines

MVGA     Monochrome Video Graphics Array

MVP      Multimedia for ps/Value Point pc

MVS      Multiple Virtual Storage

MVT      Multiprogramming with a Variable number of Tasks

MX       Mail eXchanger

 

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NACD     National Association of Computer Dealers

NACS     National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors

NAE      Not Above or Equal

NAK      Negative AcKnowledgment

NAPLPS   North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax

NAS      Network Application Services

         Network Application Support

NASA     National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASI     Netware Asynchronous Services Interface

NAU      Network Addressable Unit

NBE      Not Below or Equal

NBI      Nothing But Initials

NBS      National Bureau of Standards

NC       Newcastle Connection

         No Carry

         Numerical Control

NCA      Network Communications Adapter

NCC      Network Control Center

NCD      Norton Change Directory

NCGA     National Computer Graphics Association

NCIC     National Crime Information Center

NCP      NetWare Core Protocol

         Network Control Processor

         Network Control Program

         Not Copy Protected

NCR      National Cash Register

NCSA     National Computer Security Association

NCSI     Network Communications Services Interface

NDEF     Not to be DEFined

NDIS     Network Driver Interface Specification

NDP      Numeric Data Processor

NDRO     Non-Destructive Read Out

NDS      Netware Directory Service

NDX      INDeX

NE       Network Element

NEC      Nippon Electric Company

NEG      NEGative

         NEGate

NETBIOS  NETwork Basic Input/Output System

NETBEUI  NETBios ExtEnded User Interface

NETSP    NETwork Security Program

NEW      NEW information

NEWS     Netware Early Warning System

NFF      No Fault Found

NFS      Network File System

NG       No Good

NGE      Not Greater or Equal

NHC      National Hurricane Center

NIC      Network Information Center

         Network Interface Card

         Numeric Intensive Computing

NICAD    Nickel CADmium

NID      New Interactive Display

         Next ID

NIMH     NIckel-Metal Hydride

NIPS     Network I/o Per Second

NISO     National Information Standards Organization

NIST     National Institute for Standards and Technology

NITC     National Information Technology Center

NJE      Network Job Entry

NL       New Line

NLE      Not Less or Equal

NLM      Netware Loadable Module

NLQ      Near Letter Quality

NLS      National Language Support

NMA      Network Management Architecture

NMI      Non-Maskable Interrupt

NMM      Netware Management Map

NMOS     Negative channel Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

NMS      Network Management System

NNTP     Network News Transfer Protocol

NOC      Network Operations Center

NOP      NO Operation

NOR      NOt oR

NOS      Network Operating System

NPA      Network Performance Analyzer

         Network Printer Alliance

NPI      Network Printer Interface

NPL      NonProcedural Language

NPU      Natural Processing Unit

NPX      Numeric Processor eXtension

NREN     National Research and Education Network

NRZ      Not Return to Zero

NRZI     Non Return to Zero Inverted

NS       NanoSecond

         Network Supervisor

         Non Stop

NSA      National Security Agency

NSA POLY National Security Agency POLYgraph

NSF      National Science Foundation

NSTL     National Software Testing Labs

NT       Network Termination

         New Technology

NTF      No Trouble Found

NTFS     New Technology File System

NTP      Network Termination Point

         Network Time Protocol

NTSC     National Television Standards Committee

NTS/2    Network Transport Services/2

NUA      Network User Address

NUI      Network User Identification

         Network User Interface

         Notebook User Interface

NV       No oVerflow

NVM      Non-Volatile Memory

NVP      Nominal Velocity of Propagation

NVR      Non Volatile RAM

NVRAM    Non-Volatile Random Access Memory

 

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OAG      Official Airline Guide

         Online Air Guide

OAI      Open Applications Interface

OASIS    Online Application System Interactive Software

OBEX     OBject EXchange

OCE      Open Collaborative Environment

OCL      Operation Control Language

         Operator Control Language

OCR      Optical Character Recognition

OD       Oktal Dump

ODA      Office Document Architecture

         Open Document Architecture

ODAPI    Open Database Application Programming Interface

ODBC     Open DataBase Connectivity

ODBMS    Object-oriented Database Management System

ODI      Open Datalink Interface

         Open Device Interconnect

ODS      Open Data Services

OEM      Odd Even Merge

         Original Equipment Manufacturer

OF       Overflow Flag

OFMT     Output ForMaT for numbers

OFS      Object File System

         Output Field Separator

OH       Off Hook

OHP      OverHead-Projektor

OIS      Office Information Systems

OLE      Object Linking and Embedding

OLI      Optical phone Line Interface

OLMC     Output Logic MacroCell

 

OLTP     On-Line Transaction Processing

OM       Object Manager

OMF      Object Module Format

OMG      Object Management Group

OMI      Open Messaging Interface

OMN      Open Network Management

OMNS     Open Network Management System

OMR      Optical Mark Recognition

ONC      Open Network Computing

OOA      Object-Oriented Analysis

OOD      Object-Oriented Design

OODB     Object-Oriented DataBase

OODMS    Object-Oriented Database Management System

OOL      Object-Oriented Language

OOP      Object Oriented Programming

OOPL     Object-Oriented Programming Language

OOPS     Object Oriented Programming and Systems

OOS      Object-Oriented Systems

         Off-line Operating Simulator

OP       OPeration

         OPerator

         OPtical

         OutPut

OPAC     Online Public Access Catlog

OPC      Optical PhotoConductor

OP CODE  OPerational CODE

OPD      OberPostDirektion

         OPeranD

         Original Point of Distribution

OPI      Open Prepress Interface

OPM      Operations Per Minute

OPS      OPerationS

OPT      Open Protocol Technology

OPUS     Octal Program Updating System

ORB      Object Request Broker

OROM     Optical Read Only Memory

ORS      Output Record Separator

OS       Operating System

OSA      Open System Architecture

OS/E     Operating System/Environment

OSF      Open Software Foundation

OSI      Open Systems Interconnection

OSM      Off-Screen Model

OSPF     Open Shortest Path First

OSQL     Object Structured Query Language

OT       Object Technology

OTF      Open Token Foundation

OTP      One-Time Programmable

OUTS     OUTput String

OV       OVerflow

OWL      Object Windows Library

         Open Windows Library

 

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PABX     Private Automatic Branch eXchange

PAD      Packet Assembler/Disassembler

PADS     Pen Application Development System

PAL      Paradox Applications Language

         Phase Alternate Line

         Programmed Array Logic

         Programming Assembly Language

PALC     Plasma-Addressed Liquid Crystal

PALS     Principles of the Alphabet Literacy System

PAP      Password Authentication Protocol

         Printer Access Protocol

PAR      PARallel

PARA     PARAgraph

PARC     Palo Alto Research Center

PBE      Prompt By Example

PBM      Project Bridge Modeller

PBX      Private Branch eXchange

PC       Personal Computer

         Printed Circuit

         Program Counter

PC-AT    Personal Computer - Advanced Technology

PCB      Printed Circuit Board

         Program Control Block

PC-DOS   Personal Computer - Disk Operating System

PCI      Peripheral Component Interconnect

         Protocol Control Information

PC-I/O   Program Controlled I/O

PCL      Printer Command Language

         Process Control Language

PCM      Personal Computer Manufacturer

         Pulse Code Modulation

PCMCIA   Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PCMIA    PC Memory-card International Association

PCNFS    Personal Computer Network File System

PCS      Patchable Control Store

         Personal Communication Services

         Planning Control Sheet

         Print Contrast Signal

         Process Control Systems

         Program Counter Store

         Project Control System

PC-XT    Personal Computer - eXtended Technology

PD       Public Domain

PDA      Personal Digital Assistant

PDD      Physical Device Driver

PDF      Portable Document Format

         Processor Defined Function

         Program Development Facility

PDIAL    Public Dialup Internet Access List

PDL      Page Description Language

         Program Description Language

         Program Design Language

PDN      Public Data Network

PDP      Progammable Data Processor

PDS      Packet Driver Specification

         Partitioned Data Set

PDSS     Post Development and Software Support

PDT      Programmable Drive Table

PE       Parity Even

         Phase Encoded

         Protect Enable

PEA      Pocket Ethernet Adapter

PEARL    Process and Experiment Automation Realtime Language

PEL      Picture ELement

PEN SDK  PEN Computing Software Development Kit

PEP      Packetized Ensemble Protocol

PERT     Program Evaluation and Review Technique

PES      Positioning Error Signal

         Processor Enhancement Socket

PET      Print Enhancement Technology

PFR      Power-Fail Restart

PGA      Pin Grid Array

         Professional Graphics Adapter

PGDN     PaGe DowN

PGP      ProGram Parameter

PGUP     PaGe UP

PHIGS    Programmers' Hierarchial Interactive Graphics Standards

PI       Program Interruption

PIA      Peripheral Interface Adapter

PIC      Priority Interrupt Controller

         Program Interrupt Controller

PID      Process IDdetification (Number)

PILOT    Programmed Inquiry Learning Or Teaching

PIM      Personal Information Manager

PIN      Personal Identification Number

PIO      Parallel Input/Output

         Processor Input/Output

         Programmed Input/Output

PIP      Picture In Picture

         Programmable Interconnect Point

PIPO     Parallel In Parallel Out

PIT      Programmable Interval Timer

PL       Physical Layer

         Presentation Layer

         Programming Language

PL/1     Programming Language One

PLA      Programmable Logic-Array

PLATO    Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations

PLC      Programmable Logic Controller

PLCC     Plastic Leadless Chip Carrier

PLD      Programmable Logic Device

PLL      Phase Locked Loop

         PreLinked Library

PL/M     Programming Language for Micros

PLV      Production Level Video

PM       Performance Management

         Presentation Manager

         Preventative Maintenance

PMMU     Paged Memory Management Unit

PMOS     Positive channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor

PMW      Project Manager Workbench

PO       Paper Out

         Parity Odd

POL      Problem Oriented Language

POP      Point Of Presence

         POP from Stack

         Post Office Protocol

POPA     POP All registers

POPF     POP Flags

POS      Point Of Sale

         POSitive

         Programmable Object Select

POST     Power-On Self Test

POSTNET  POSTtal Numeric Encoding Technique

POWER    Performance Optimized With Enhanced Risc

PP       Physical Partition

         Portable Part

PPDS     Personal Printer Data Stream

PPID     Parent PID

PPM      Pages Per Minute

PPP      Point-to-Point Protocol

PQET     Print Quality Enhancement Technology

PRD      PRinter Driver

PRF      PReFerences

PRG      PRoGram

PRMD     PRivate Mangement Domain

PROC     PROCedure

PROFS    PRofessional OFfice System

PROLOG   PROgramming in LOGic

PROM     Programmable Read Only Memory

PRN      PRiNter

PRS      Printer

PRTSC    Print Screen

PS       Personal System

         Proportional Spacing

         PostScript

PS/2     Programming System 2

PSC      Product Service Center

         Phase Shift Keying

PSP      Program Segment Prefix

P-SRAM   Pseudo-Static Random Access Memory

PSW      Program Status Word

PT       Page Table

P/T      Part Time

PTD      Parallel Transfer Disk Drive

PUS      Processor Upgrade Socket

PVC      PolyVinyl Chloride

PVM      Pass-through Virtual Machine

PWB      Printed Wire Board

         Programmer's WorkBench

PWD      Print Working Directory

 

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QA       Quality Assurance

QAM      Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QBE      Query By Example

QBF      Query by Form

QC       Quality Control

QDOS     Quick and Dirty Operating System

QFA      Quick File Access

QIC      Quality Information using Cycle time

         Quarter-Inch Cartridge

QIF      Quicken Interchange Format

QPSK     Quadrature Phase Shift Keying

 

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RA       Return Authorization

RACF     Resource Access Control Facility

RAG      Row Address Generator

RAID     Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks

         Redundant Arrays of Independent Drives

         Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks

RALU     Register Arithmetic Logic Unit

RAM      Random Access Memory

RAMDAC   Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter

RAP      Rapid Application Prototyping

RAS      Random Access Storage

         Reliability, Availability and Serviceability

         Row Address Select

RB       Right Button

RBBS     Remote Bulletin Board System

RCL      Rotate Carry Left

RCP      Restore Cursor Position

RCR      Rotate Carry Right

RCS      Records Communications Switching System

         Resource Construction Set

RD       Receive Data

         Recursive Design

         Remove Directory

         Request Disconnect

R&D      Research and Development

RDA      Remote Database Access

RDB      Receive Data Buffer

         Relational DataBase

RDBMS    Relational DataBase Mangement System

RDD      Replaceable Database Drivers

RDSR     Receiver Data Service Request

REG      REGister

REGAL    Rigid Epoxy Glass Acrylic Laminate

RELSECT  RELative SECTor

REM      REMark

         REMote

         Ring Error Monitor

REN      REName

REP      REPeat

REPE     REPeat while Equal

REPNE    REPeat while Not Equal

REPNZ    REPeat while Not Zero

REPZ     REPeat while Zero

REQ      REQuest

RES      Remote Execution Service

RET      Resolution Enhancement Technology

         RETurn

REX      Relocatable eXecutable

REXX     Restructured eXtended eXecutor

RF       Radio Frequency

RFC      Request For Comments

RFD      Request For Discussion

RFI      Radio Frequency Interference

RFP      Request for Proposal

RFS      Remote File System

RFT      Revisable Form Text

RFU      Reserved for Future Use

RGB      Red, Green, Blue

RI       Referential Integrity

RIFF     Resource Interschange File Format

RIM      Remote Installation and Maintenance

RIME     Relaynet International Message Exchange

RIP      Raster Image Processor

         Remote Image Protocol

         Routing Information Protocol

RISC     Reduced Instruction Set Computer

RJE      Remote Job Entry

RLE      Run Length Encoded

RLL      Run Length Limited

RLN      Remote Lan Node

RLSD     Received Line Signal Detected

RM       Reset Mode

RMA      Return Material Authorization

         Return to Manufacturer Authorization

RMDIR    ReMove DIRectory

RMON     Remote MONitor/MONitoring

RMS      Record Management Services

         Root Mean Square

RND      RaNDom

R-O      Read Only

ROL      ROtate Left

ROM      Read Only Memory

ROR      ROtate Right

ROS      Resident Operating System

ROTFL    Rolling Over The Floor Laughing

RPC      Real Procedure Call

         Remote Procedure Call

RPG      Report Program Generator

RPL      Resident Programming Language

         Requested Privilege Level

RPPROM   ReProgrammable PROM

RPT      RePeaT

RPQ      Request for Price Quotation

RQBE     Relational Query By Example

RR       Real Reality

RS       Radio Shack

         Request to Send

         Recommended Standard

RSCS     Remote Spooling Communications System

RSIS     Relocateable Screen Interface Specification

RSL      Request-and-Status Link

RSP      Required Space Character

RST      ReSeT

         ReSTart

RSTS     Resource Sharing Time Sharing

RSX      Real Time Resource Sharing Executive

RT       Real Time

         Risc Technology

         Run Time

R/T      Receive/Transmit

RTAM     Remote Terminal Access Method

RTC      Real Time Clock

RTK      Real Time Kernel

RTL      Register Transfer Language

         Resistor Transistor Logic

         Run Time Library

RTM      Response Time Monitor

RTOS     Real Time Operating System

RTS      Real Time System

         Request To Send

RTTI     RunTime Type Information

RTTY     Radio Tele TYpe

RTV      Real Time Video

R/W      Read/Write

RWM      Read-Write Memory

 

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SA       Structured Analysis

SAA      Systems Application Architecture

SAL      Shift Arithmetic Left

         Semware Applications Language

SAM      Serial Access Memory

         Sequential Access Method

SAP      Second Audio Program

         Service Access Point

         Service Advertising Protocol

SAR      Shift Arithmetic Right

         Successive Approximation Register

SAS      Sales Accounting System

         Single Audio System

SASI     Shugart Associates System Interface

SAVDM    Single Application VDM

SB       Sound Blaster

         Sound Board

SBC      Single-Board Computer

SBCS     Single-Byte Character Set

SCAS     SCAn String

SCB      Subsystem Control Block

SCC      Serial Communications Controllers

         Serial Controller Chip

         Synchronous Channel Check

SCD      Standard Color Display

SCF      System Control Facility

SCM      Software Configuration Management

SCO      Santa Cruz Operation

SCP      Save Cursor Position

         Subsystem Control Port

         System Control Program

SCR      Silicon Controlled Rectifier

SCRN     SCReeN

SCSI     Small Computer Systems Interface

SD       Send Data

         Single Density

         Structured Design

SDA      Software Disk Array

         Source Data Automation

         System Display Architecture

SDF      Standard Data Format

         System Data Format

SDI      Single Document Interface

         Strategic Defense Initiative

SDK      Software Developer's Kit

SDLC     Synchronous Data Link Control

SDMS     SCSI Device Management System

SDN      Software Defined Network

SDNS     Secure Data Network Service

SDR      Streaming Data Request

SDS      Sysops Distribution System

SD_STB   Streaming Data STroBe

SEA      Standard Extended Attribute

SEC      Single Error Correction

SECAM    SEquential Color And Memory

SECAN    military committy communications SECurity and evaluation AgeNcy

SED      Stream EDitor

SEG      SEGment

SEL      SELect

SEM      Scanning Electron Microscope

         Server Enhancement Module

         Standard Electronic Module

SER      SERial

SET      Softwave Engineering Technology

SEU      Smallest Executable Unit

SF       Sign Flag

SFQL     Structured Full-text Query Language

SFT      System Fault Tolerance

         System File Table

SGEN     Signal GENerator

         System GENerator

SGDT     Store Global Descriptor Table

SGI      Silicon Graphics Inc.

SGML     Standard Generalized Markup Language

SGR      Set Graphics Rendition

S/H      Sample and Hold

SHAR     SHell ARchive

SHL      SHift logical Left

SHR      Shift Logical Right

SI       Shift In

         Source Index

         System Information

         System International

SID      Station IDentification

         Symbolic Interactive Debugger

SIDT     Store Interrupt Descriptor Table

         Special Interest Group

SIGCAT   Special Interest Group on Cd-rom Applications and Technology

SIM      SIMulator

SIMD     Single Instruction Multiple Data stream

SIMM     Single in-line Memory Module

SIMULA   SIMULAtion

SIO      Serial Input/Output

SIP      Single In-line Package

SIPO     Serial In Parallel Out

         Single In-line Pin Package

SIT      Special Information Tones

SISO     Serial In, Serial Out

SLDT     Store Local Descriptor Table

SLIP     Serial Line Interface Protocol

SLMR     Silly Little Modem Reader

SLOSH    Sea, Lake and Overland Surge from Hurricane

SLSI     Super Large-Scale Integration

SM       Security Management

         Set Mode

SMB      Server Message Block

SMBP     Sever Message Block-Protocol

SMC      Standard MiCrosystems

SMD      Surface Mounted Device

SMDS     Switched multi-Megabit Data Service

SMF      System Manager Facility

SMI      System Management Interrupts

SMIF     Standard Mechanical InterFace

SMIT     System Management Interface Tool

SMK      Software Migration Kit

SMM      System Mangement Mode

SMP      Symbolic Manipulation Program

         Symmetrical MultiProcessor

SMPS     Switching Mode Power Supply

SMPTE    Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

SMRAM    System Management Random Access Memory

SMSW     Store Machine Status Word

SMT      Surface-Mount Technology

SMTP     Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SMU      System Management Utility

SN       Serial Number

S/N      Signal-to-Noise

SNA      Systems Network Architecture

SNAP     SubNet Access Protocol

SND      SouND

SNM      SuN Manager

SNMP     Simple Network Management Protocol

SNOBOL   StriNg Oriented symBOlic Language

SNP      Serial Number/Password

SNR      Signal-to-Noise Ratio

SOB      Start Of Block

SOC      System On a Chip

SOE      Standard Operating Environment

SOH      Start Of Heading

SOL      Simulation Oriented Language

SOM      Start Of Message

         System Object Model

SOP      Standard Operating Procedures

SOS      Silicon On Sapphire

         Standards and Open Systems

SOTA     State Of The Art

SOX      SOund eXchange

SP       Service Pack

         Stack Pointer

         System Product

SPA      Software Publishers' Association

SPARC    Scalable Processor ARChitecture

SPC      Small Peripheral Controller

         Statistical Process Control

SPCL     SPectrum CeLlular corporation

SPF      Shortest Path First

         System Programming Facility

SPI      Service Provider Interface

SPI      Software Products International

SPIKE    Science Planning Intelligent Knowledge-base Environment

SPM/2    System Performance Monitor

SPOOL    Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line

         Standby Power System

SPSS     Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

SPT      Sectors Per Track

SPX      Sequenced Packet eXchange

SQ       SQueezed

SQL      Structured Query Language

SQRT     Square RooT

SR       Shift Register

SRAM     Shadow Random Access Memory

         Static Random Access Memory

SRD      Screen Reader System

SRO      Sharable and Read Only

SRQ      Service ReQuest

         Serially Reusable Resource

         SecondS

         Stack Segment

         Single Sided

         Solid State Disk

SSDC     Stack Segment Descriptor Cache

SSGA     System Suppport Gate Array

SSI      Small Scale Integration

SST      Spread-Spectrum Technology

STA      Spanning Tree Algorithm

STB      STroBe

STC      Set Carry Flag

STD      SeT Direction flag

STDA     StreetTalk Directory Assistance

STDAUX   STanDard AUXillary

STDERR   STanDard ERRor

STDIN    STanDard INput

STDOUT   STanDard OUTput

STDPRN   STanDard PRiNter

STI      Set Interrupt Flag

         Sparc Technology Business

         Super Twisted Nematic

STOS     STOre String

STP      Shielded Twisted Pair

         Signal Transfer Point

STR      Store Task Register

         Synchronous Transmitter Receiver

STRESS   STRuctural Engineering System Solver

STRUDL   STRUctural Design Language

STSCI    Space Telescope SCience Institute

STX      Start of TeXt

SUB      SUBroutine

         SUBstitute

         SUBtract

SVGA     Super Video Graphics Array

S-VHS    Super VHS

SYLK     SYmbolic LinK

SYNC     SYNChronous

SYSGEN   SYStem GENerator

SYSLOG   SYStem LOG

SYSMOD   SYStem MODification

SYSOP    SYStem OPerator

SYSREQ   SYStem REQuest

 

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TAD      Telephone Answering Device

TAN      TransAktionsNummer

TAPCIS   The Access Program for the Compuserve Information Service

TASM     Turbo ASseMbler

TB       TeraByte

T/B      Top and Bottom

TBBS     The Bread Board System

TBK      ToolBooK

TCI      TeleCommunications Inc.

TCM      Trellis-Coded Modulation

TCP/IP   Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TD       Transmit Data

TDE      Terminal Display Editor

TDM      Time Division Multiplexing

TDMS     Terminal Display Management System

TDSR     Transmitter Data Service Request

TDR      Time Domain Reflectometry

TE/2     Terminal Emulator/2

TEC      Tokyo Electronics Corporation

TEML     Turbo Editor Macro Language

TER      Thermal Eclipse Reading

TERMPWR  TERMinator PoWeR

TFDD     Text File Device Driver

TFEL     Thin Film ElectroLuminescent

TFT      Thin Film Transistor

THM      TuHMbnail

THOR     Tandy High-performance Optical Recording

TI       Texas Instruments, Inc.

TID      Target ID

TIES     Time Independent Escape Sequence

TIFF     Tagged Image File Format

TIGA     Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture

TIGER    Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing

TIP      Terminal Interface Processor

TLB      Translation Lookaside Buffer

TLI      Transport Layer Interface

TLU      Table LookUp

TM       TradeMark

TMC      Thinking Machines Corporation

TN       TelNet

         Twisted Nematic

TNC      Terminal Node Controller

TOP      Technical and Office Protocol

TOS      Tramiel Operating System

TP       Turbo Pascal

TPA      Transient Program Area

TPC      Transaction Processing performance Council

TPI      Tracks Per Inch

TPL      Table Producing Language

TPM      Transactions Per Minute

TPORT    Twisted pair PORT transceiver

TPS      Transactions Per Second

         Transaction Processing System

TPW      Turbo Pascal for Windows

TQM      Total Quality Management

TR       Task Register

TR       Terminal Ready

T/R      Transmit/Receive

TRON     The Real-time Operating system Nucleus

TS       Top Secret

TSA      Technical Support Alliance

TSB      Termination Status Block

TSO      Time Sharing Option

TSR      Terminate and Stay Resident

TSS      Task State Segment

         Time Sharing System

TSSDC    Task State Segment Descriptor Cache

TS/SI    Top Secret/Sensitive Information

TSTN     Triple SuperTwisted Nematic

TSW      TeleSoftWare

TTF      TrueType Font

TTL      Transistor-Transistor Logic

TTS      Transaction Tracking System

TTX      TeleTeX

TTY      TeleTYpe

TUI      Text-based User Interface

TVI      TeleVision Interference

TW       TeleWare

TWX      TeletypeWriter eXchange service

 

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UA       User Agent

         User Area

UAE      Unrecoverable Application Error

UART     Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter

UCB      University of California, Berkley

UCL      Universal Communications Language

UCSD     University of California at San Diego

UDC      User Defined Commands

UDF      User Defined Functions

UDP      User Datagram Protocol

UEV      User End of Volume

UFDT     User File Descriptor Table

UG       User Group

UHF      Ultra High Frequency

UHL      User Head Label

UI       Unix International

         User Interface

UID      User IDentifier

UL       Underwriters' Laboratories

         UpLoad

ULA      Uncommitted Logic Array

ULN      Universal Link Negotiation

ULSI     Ultra Large Scale Integration

UMB      Upper Memory Block

         Universal Naming Convention

         University of North Carolina (at chapel hill)

UNCOL    UNiversal Computed Oriented Language

UNICOM   UNiversal Integrated COMmunication

UNIVAC   UNIVersal Automatic Computer

UNMA     Unified Network Management Architecture

         Universal Product Code

UPL      User Program Language

UPM      User Profile Management

UPN      Umgekehrte Polnische Notation

UPS      Uninterruptible Power Supply

         Uninterruptible Power System

UREP     Unix Rscs Emulation Protocol

URHG     URHeberrechtsGesetz

URL      Universal Resource protocoL

USART    Universal Synchronous-Asynchronous Reciever/Transmitter

USERID   USER IDentification

USQ      UnSQueezed

USR      US Robotics

USRT     Universal Synchronous Receiver Transmitter

USSA     User Supported Software Association

USV      Unterbrechungsfreie StromVersorgung

UT       User Terminal

UTI      Universal Text Interchange

UTP      Unshielded Twisted-Pair

UU       Uuencode/Uudecode

UUCP     Unix to Unix CoPy

UUI      User to User Information

UV       Ultraviolet

UVL      User Volume Label

 

 

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VA       Virtual Address

VAD      Value Added Dealer

VADD     Value Added Disk Driver

VAL      VALue

         Voice Application Language

         Virtual Access Method

VAN      Value Added Network

VAP      Value Added Processes

VAPI     Voyetra Applications Program Interface

VAR      Value Added Reseller

         Value Added Retailer

         Variable

VAX/VMS  Virtual Address eXtension/Virtual Memory System

VB       Variable Block

         Visual Basic

VBA      Visual Basic for Applications

VCD      Virtual Communications Driver

VCPI     Virtual Control Program Interface

VCR      Video Cassette Recorder

VDD      Virtual Device Driver

VDDM     Virtual Device Driver Manager

VDE      Video Display Editor

VDI      Video Display Interface

         Virtual Device Interface

VDISK    Virtual DISK

VDM      Virtual Dos Machine

VDS      Virtual Dma Services

VDT      Video Display Terminal

VDU      Video Display Unit

         Visual Display Unit

VEGA     Video-7 Enhanced Graphics Adapter

VEMM     Virtual Expanded Memory Manager

VER      Verify

VERONICA Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives

VERW     VERify Write access

VESA     Video Electronics Standards Association

VFD      Vacuum Fluorescent Display

VFW      Video For Windows

VGA      Video Graphics Adapter

VGC      Video Graphics Controller

VHS      Very High Speed

         Virtual Host Storage

VHSIC    Very High Speed Integrated Circuit

VI       Visual edItor

VIM      Vendor Independent Messaging

VINES    VIrtual NEtwork operating System

VIP      Variable Information Processing

VIPER    Verifiable Integrated Processor for Enhanced Reliability

VIS      Video Information System

         Voice Information System

VL-BUS   Vesa Local-BUS

VLF      Very Low Frequency

VLIW     Very Long Instruction Word

VLSI     Very Large Scale Integration

VLSIPS   Very Large Scale Immobilized Polymer Synthesis

VLT      Variable List Table

VM       Virtual Machine

VMA      Virtual Memory Address

VMB      Virtual Machine Boot

VMM      Virtual Memory Manager

VMOS     Vertical MOS

VMS      Virtual Memory System

         Voice Message System

VMT      Virtual Memory Technique

VO       Visual Objects

VOL      VOLume

VOM      Volt Ohm Meter

VOS      Verbal Operating System

VPD      Virtual Printer Device

VPDS     Virtual Private Data Service

VR       Virtual Reality

         Voltage Regulator

VRAM     Video Random Access Memory

VRC      Vertical Redundancy Check

VROOMM   Virtual Real-time Object Oriented Memory Manager

VRU      Voice Response Unit

VS       Virtual Storage

VSA      Virtual Stroage Access

VSAM     Virtual Storage Access Method

 

VSAT     Very Small Aperture Terminal

VSE      Virtual Storage Extended

VSF      Vertical Scanning Frequency

VSI      Verband der SoftwareIndustrie deutschlands e.v.

VSLI     Very Large scaLe Integration

VSM      Virtual Storage Management

VSOS     Virtual Storage Operating System

VSYNC    Vertical SYNC

VTAM     Virtual Telecommunications Access Method

VTOC     Volume Table of Contents

VUI      Video User Interface

VUP      Vax Unit of Performance

VMM      Virtual Machine Manager

VMS      Virtual Memory System

         Voice Message System

 

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W/       With

WABI     Windows Application Binary Interface

WAIS     Wide Area Information Server/Service

WAITS    Wide Area Information Transfer System

WAN      Wide Area Network

WATS     Wide Area Telecommunications Service

WC       Word Count

WD       Western Digital

WELL     Whole Earth Lectronic Link

WFW      Windows For Workgroups

WGS      Work Group System

WIMP     Windows-Icons-Mouse-Pointer

WNIC     Wide area Network Interface Coprocessor

WNIM     Wide area Network Interface Module

WORM     Write Once Read Many

WOSA     Windows Open Services Architecture

WP       WordPerfect

         Word Processing

         Word Processor

         Write Protected

WPHD     Write-Protect Hard Disk

WPM      Words Per Minute

WPS      Windows Printing System

         Workplace Shell

WS       WordStar

         WorkStation

WT       Write Through

WWW      World Wide Web (W3)

WYSBYGI  What You See Before You Get It

WYSIWYG  What You See Is What You Get

 

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XA       eXtended Architecture

         eXtended Attribute

XAPIA    X.400 Application Program Interface Association

X2B      Hexadecimal to Binary

X2C      Hexadecimal to Character

XCHG     eXCHanGe

XCMD     external CoMmanD

XCOPY    eXtended COPY

X2D      Hexadecimal to Decimal

XDR      eXternal Data Representation

XFCN     eXternal FunCtioN

XGA      eXtended Graphics Array

XID      eXchange IDentifier

XIOS     eXtended Input/Output System

XMM      eXtended Memory Manager

XMS      eXtended Memory Specification

XNS      Xerox Network System

XOR      eXclusive OR

XPG      X/open Portability Guide

XSMD     eXtended Storage Module Drive

XT       eXtended Technology

 

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YACC     Yet Another Compiler-Compiler

YAM      Yet Another Modem

 

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ZBR      Zone Bit Recording

Z-CAV    Zoned Constant Angular Velocity

ZDS      Zenith Data Systems

ZIF      Zero-Insertion Force

ZIP      Zigzag In-line Package

         Zone Improvement Plan

 

 

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.adf      Adapter Description File (IBM)

.adn      Add In Utility (Lotus)

.afm      Adobe Font Metrics (Adobe)

.ans      ANSI-Grafik

.app      Application (RBase, NeXT)

.arc      Archiv, mit Arc oder Pkpak komprimiert

.arj      Archiv, mit Arj komprimiert

.asc      ASCII-Textfile

.asm      Assembler-Quelle

.au       Sound-File (Sun, NeXT)

.aux      TeX Hilfsfile, mit Bezuegen

.bak      Backup-File

.bas      BASIC-File

.bat      Batchfile unter MS-DOS, entsprechend Shellscript

.bbl      BIBTeX Literaturverzeichnis

.bfx      Bitfax-File

.bgi      Borland Graphic Interface

.bib      Bibliographie

.bif      Binary Image File

.bin      binaeres File

.bit      TeX Ausgabe des Druckertreibers

.bk       Backup-File (WordPerfect)

.bld      BASIC Bload Graphics

.bmp      Bitmap Graphics (Windows, OS/2)

.bsc      Boyan Script-File

.bsv      BASIC Bsave Graphics

.btm      Batchfile unter 4DOS

.c        C-Quelle

          C++-Quelle

.cap      Capture-File (Telix)

.cat      Catalogue, Verzeichnis

.cbl      COBOL-Quelle

.cc       C++-Quelle

.cco      Btx-Grafik

.cdf      Comma delimited format

.cdr      Corel Draw Vektorgrafik

.cdx      Compund index (FoxPro)

.cfg      Konfigurations-File

.cgm      Computer Graphics Metafile (Harvard Graphics, Lotus)

.chk      von chkdsk erzeugtes File (MS-DOS)

.clp      Clipboard (Windows), Clip Art

.cmd      Command, Skript, Batchfile unter OS/2

.cnc      CNC-Programme

.cnf      Konfigurations-File

.cob      COBOL-Quelle

.cod      Codeliste

.com      Kommando-File (MS-DOS), ausfuehrbares Programm

.cpi      Code Page Information (MS-DOS)

.cpp      C++-Quelle

.cpt      Compact Pro (Kompressor Macintosh)

.crf      Cross Reference File

.crd      Cardfile

.csv      Comma Separated Values

.ctx      Signaturfile (PGP)

.cut      Dr. Halo Bitmap

.cvf      Compressed Volume File

.cxx      C++-Quelle

.dat      Daten

.db       Datenbank (Paradox)

.dbf      Datenbank (dBase)

.dcf      Driver Configuration File

.dct      Dictionary

.dcx      Fax-File

.dd       Disk Doubler

.def      Definitionen, Defaultwerte

.dem      Demonstration

.des      Description

.dhp      Dr. Halo PIC

.dic      Dictionary

.dif      Data Interchange Format

.dir      Directory, Verzeichnis

.dll      Dynamically Linked Library (OS/2, Windows)

.doc      Dokument, Textfile

.dok      Dokument, Textfile

.drs      Driver Resource (WordPerfect)

.drv      Device Driver

.drw      Drawing

.dta      Daten

.dv       Desqview Scriptfile

.dvi      Metafile von TeX, geraeteunabhaengig

.dvr      Device Driver

.dxb      Drawing Interchange Binary (AutoCAD)

.dxf      Data Exchange Format (Autocad)

          Drawing Interchange Format

.ega      EGA-Grafik

.el       Emacs Lisp

.elc      Emacs Lisp compiled

.eml      Electronic Mail

.enc      encoded

.eps      Encapsulated Postscript

.err      Error, Fehlerprotokoll

.etx      Setext File

.exe      executable, ausfuehrbares Programm  (MS-DOS)

.f        FORTRAN-Quelle

.fax      Fax-File

.fif      Fractal Image Format

.fli      EmTeX Fontlibrary

.fnt      Fontfile

.for      FORTRAN-Quelle

.fxs      Fax-File (Winfax)

.gem      GEM Metadateien

.gif      GIF File (Graphic)

.glo      TeX Glossar

.gz       mit GNU komprimiert

.h        Header-File , include-File

.hex      Hexdump

.hpp      Header-File C++

.hqx      Macintosh BinHex encoded

.idx      Index

.iff      Interchange File Format (Amiga, Autodesk Animator)

.img      GEM Paint, Rastergrafik/Bitmap

.inf      Information

.ini      Konfigurationsfile (Initialisierung)

.jif      JPEG Interchange Format

.lib      Library, Bibliothek

.lof      TeX Bildverzeichnis (list of figures)

.log      Protokollfile, TeX Meldungen waehrend der Uebersetzung

.lot      TeX Tabellenverzeichnis (list of tables)

.lst      Liste

.lzh      Archiv, mit Lharc komprimiert

.map      Map-Files (Quick C)

.mak      Make-File

.mdf      Menu Definition File

.mid      Midi Sound Ffile

.mif      Maker Interchange Format (FrameMaker)

.mod      MODULA-Quelle, Amiga-Modul (Sound)

.msp      Windows Paint

.o        Objekt-Code

.obj      Objekt-Code

.old      Kopie eines Files vor "Uberschreiben

.ovl      Overlay-File

.ovr      Overlay-File

.p        PASCAL-Quelle

.pak      Archiv, mit \verb+pkpak+ komprimiert

.pas      PASCAL-Quelle

.pcx      Paintbrush, Rastergrafik

.pic      Lotus Picture File

.pif      Program Information File

.pit      PackIt file (Kompressor Macintosh)

.prn      Druckerfile

.ps       Postscript-File

.psf      Permanent Swap File

.qfx      Fax-File (Quicklink)

.r        Rational-FORTRAN-Quelle

.ras      SUN Raster Grafik

.rtf      Rich Text Format

.s        Assembler-Quelle

.sdf      Space Delimited File

.sea      Self Extracting Archive (Macintosh)

.sh       Bourne-Shell-Script

.shr      Shell-Archiv

.sit      Macintosh StuffIt Archive

.src      Program Source Code

.stf      StrucTured File

.sys      Treiber unter MS-DOS

.tar      tar-Archiv

.tdf      Trace Definition File

          Typeface Definition File

.tex      TeX- oder LaTeX-Quelltext

.tfm      TeX-Font-Metrics

.tga      TARGA-Bildfile

.tgz      tar-Archiv, GNUzip komprimiert

.tif      Tag Image File Format (Scanner)

.tmp      temponaeres File

.toc      Hilfsfile von TeX (table of contents)

.tpu      Turbo Pascal Unit

.ttf      TrueType Font

.txt      Textfile, lesbar

.uu       uuencoded File, ASCII, aber nicht lesbar

.uud      uuencoded File, ASCII, aber nicht lesbar

.uue      uuencoded File, ASCII, aber nicht lesbar

.voc      Creative Labs Sound File

.wav      Windows Sound File

.web      WEB-Quelle

.wfx      Fax-File (Winfax)

.wmf      Windows Metafile Format

.wpg      WordPerfect

.wri      Windows Textfile

.wps      MS Works Textfile

.x        SuperDisk self-extracting archive

.xwd      X Window Dump

.z        mit GNU komprimiert (veraltet, besser gz)

.zip      mit Pkzip komprimiert

.zoo      mit Zoo komprimiert

 

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                                kleingedrucktes:

      es ist zu beachten, dass in dieser liste  namen  und  bezeichnungen

      verwendet wurden, welche unter copyright stehen.

      der autor uebernimmt keinerlei haftung oder garantie auf die  wahr-

      heit  und  richtigkeit  der  in  dieser  liste  gemachten  angaben!

      aenderungen, in absprache mit dem verfasser.

 

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