QA Quality Assurance QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation QBE Query By Example QBF Query by Form QC Quality Control QDOS Quick and Dirty Operating System .QDI Dictionary (file name extension) [Quicken] .QDT Data (file name extension) [Quicken] QEMM Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager [Quarterdeck Corp.] QFA Quick File Access QFP Quad Flat Pack QIC Quality Information Using Cycle Time [Hewlett-Packard] + Quarter-Inch Cartridge .QIF Quicken Import File/Interchange Format (file name extension) .QMT Memorized List (file name extension) [Quicken] .QNX Indexes to Data (file name extension) [Quicken] QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
RA Return Authorization
RACF Resource Access Control Facility
RAD Rapid Application Development
RAG Row Address Generator
RAID Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks +
Redundant Arrays of Independent Drives +
Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
RAIS Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Systems
RALU Register Arithmetic Logic Unit
RAM Random Access Memory
RAMDAC Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog
Converter [Sierra]
RAMP Remote Access Maintenance Protocol [Internet]
RAND Random
RAP Rapid Application Prototyping
RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
RAS Random Access Storage +
Reader Admission System [British Library] +
Reliability, Availability and Serviceability +
Remote Access Service + Row Address Select
RASAPI Remote Access Service Application Programming
Interface [Microsoft]
RB Right Button (of 2 or 3 button Mouse)
RBBS Remote Bulletin Board System
RBCS Remote Bar Code System
RCL Rotate Carry Left
RCP Remote Control Panel + Remote Copy [Internet] +
Restore Cursor Position
RCR Rotate Carry Right
RCS Records Communications Switching System +
Revision Control System [Unix]
RD Receive Data + Remove Directory
R&D Research and Development
RDA Remote Database Access
RDB Receive Data Buffer + Relational Database
RDBMS Relational Database Mangement System
RDCLK Received Timing Clock
RDP Reliable Datagram Protocol
RDRAM Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
RDSR Receiver Data Service Request
RDTO Receive Data Transfer Offset [IBM]
.REC Recorder (file name extension)
REC. Recreation [USENET Newsgroup Category]
.REF Reference (file name extension)
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 + Reset + Resolution
.RES Resource (file name extension)
RET Resolution Enhancement Technology [HP] +
Return
REX Relocatable Executable
REXEC Remote Execution
REXX Restructured Extended Executor (language) [IBM]
RF Radio Frequency
RFC Request For Comments [Internet]
RFD Request for Discussion [Internet]
RFI Radio Frequency Interference
RFP Request for Proposal
RFQ Request for Quotation
RFS Remote File Sharing + Remote File System
RFT Revisable Form Text + Rich Text Format
RFU Reserved For Future Use
RGB Red-Green-Blue (color model)
RI Referential Integrity + Ring Indicate
RIFF Resource Interschange File Format [Microsoft]
RIM Remote Installation and Maintenance [Microsoft]
RIME RelayNet International Message Exchange
RIP Raster Image Processor +
Remote Imaging Protocol +
Routing Information Protocol [Novell]
RIPEM Riordan's Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RJE Remote Job Entry
RLE Run Length Encoded
RLL Run Length Limited
RLN Remote LAN Node [DCA]
RLOGIN Remote Login
RLSD Received Line Signal Detected
RLSI * Ridiculously Large-Scale Integration
RM Reset Mode
RMA Return Material Authorization +
Return to Manufacturer Authorization
RMB Right Mouse Button
RMDIR Remove Directory
RMON Remote Monitor/Monitoring
RMP Remote Maintenance Processor [IBM]
RMS Record Management Services + Root Mean Square
RMW Read-Modify-Write
RN Read News [Internet]
RND Random
RNG Random Number Generator
RNP Regional Network Provider
R-O Read Only
ROB Reorder Buffer [Intel]
ROL Rotate Left
ROM Read Only Memory
ROOM Real-Time Object-Oriented Modeling
ROP Raster Operation + RISC Operation
ROR Rotate Right
ROS Read-Only Storage [IBM]
ROT Running Object Table
RPC Real Procedure Call + Remote Procedure Call
RPG Report Program Generator (Programming Language)
RPL Resident Programming Language +
Requested Privilege Level
RPN Real Page Number
RPRINTER Remote Printer [NetWare]
RPPROM Reprogrammable PROM
RPT Repeat
RPQ Request for Price Quotation
RQBE Relational Query By Example [Fox Pro]
RR Real Reality
RS Radio Shack +
Recommended Standard (as in RS-232) [EIA] +
Record Separator + Request to Send
RSA129 (129 digit cryptographic security number named after
its inventors: Drs. Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir and
Leonard M. Adelman)
RSCS Remote Spooling Communications System
RSH Remote Shell
RSL Request-and-Status Link
RSP Required Space Character
RST Reset + Restart
RSTS Resource Sharing Time Sharing [Digital]
RSX Real Time Resource Sharing Executive
RT Real Time + RISC Technology + Run Time
R/T Receive/Transmit
RTAM Remote Terminal Access Method
RTC Real-Time Clock
RTDM Real-Time Data Migration
RTEL Reverse Telnet [Internet]
RTF Rich Text Format
RTL Register Transfer Language/Level +
Resistor Transistor Logic + Right-To-Left +
Run Time Library
RTM Response Time Monitor + Runtime Manager [Borland]
RTMP Routing Table Maintenance Protocol
RTOS Real-Time Operating System
RTP Rapid Transport Protocol + Real-Time Protocol
RTS Remote Takeover System + Request To Send
RTTI Runtime Type Information
RTTY Radio Teletypewriter (Communications)
RTV Real Time Video
RVA Relative Virtual Address
RVI Reverse Interrupt
R/W Read/Write
RWM Read-Write Memory
RX Receiver
RXD Receive Data
SAA Systems Application Architecture [IBM]
SADL Synchronous Data Link Control [Racal-Vadic]
SAINT * Symbolic Automatic Integrator
SAL Shift Arithmetic Left
SAM Serial Access Memory + Sequential Access Method +
Single Application Mode [Microsoft]
SANE Standare Apple Numeric Environment
SAP Second Audio Program + Service Access
Point [DEC] + Service Advertising Protocol
SAP * Symbolic Assembly Program
SAR Shift Arithmetic Right +
Successive Approximation Register
SAS Sales Accounting System + Single Attached Station +
Single Audio System + Statistical Analysis System
SASI Shugert Associates System Interface (SCSI originated
from SASI)
SATAN Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks
.SAV Saved (file name extension)
SAVDM Single Application VDM
SB Sound Board
SBA Scene Balance Algorithms [Kodak]
SBB Subtract With Borrow
SBC Single-Board Computer
SBCS Single-Byte Character Set
SBI Sound Blaster Instrument
.SC Script (file name extension)
SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Aquisition
SCAM SCSI Configuration Automatically
SCAS Scan String
SCB Subsystem Control Block [IBM]
SCC Serial Communications Controllers +
Serial Controller Chip +
Synchronous Channel Check [IBM]
SCCS Source Code Control System
SCD Standard Color Display
SCF System Control Facility
SCI. Science [USENET Newsgroup Category]
SCLM Softwre Configuration and Library Management [IBM]
SCM Software Configuration Management +
Station Class Mark
SCO Santa Cruz Operation (Software Company)
SCOPE Simple Communications Programming Enironment
[Hayes]
SCP Save Cursor Position + Subsystem Control Port +
System Control Program
SCR Silicon Controlled Rectifier
.SCR Script (file name extension)
SCRN Screen (video display)
SCRS Scalable Cluster of RISC Systems
SCSA Signal Computing System Architecture [Dialogic]
SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface
SD Send Data
SDA Software Disk Array + Source Data Automation +
System Display Architecture [Digital]
SDB Symbolic Debugger [Unix]
SDD Software Description Database [Internet]
SDF Space Delimited File + Space Delimited Format
.SDF Standard Data Format (file name extension)
SDI Selective Dissemination of Information +
Single Document Interface
Software Development Interface [Mosaic]
SDK Software Developer's Kit [Microsoft]
SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control (protocol)
SDM System Development Multitasking
SDMS SCSI Device Management System [NCR]
SDN Software Defined Network [AT&T]
SDNS Secure Data Network Service
SDR Streaming Data Request
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDS Sysops Distribution System
SD_STB Streaming Data Strobe [IBM]
SDV Switched Digital Video [AT&T]
SEA Standard Extended Attribute [OS/2]
.SEA Self Extracting Archive (file name extension) [Macintosh]
SEAC * Name of first computer to use transistors, built by
(National Bureau of) Standards Eastern Automatic
Calculator (Also see SWAC)
SEAL Segmentation and Reassembly Layer (protocol) +
Screening External Access Link [Digital-DEC]
SEC Single Error Correction
SECAM Sequentiel Couleur Avec Memoire
(Sequential Color With Memory)
SED Stream Editor + Stream-Oriented Editor
SEG Segment
SEH Structured Exception Handling
SEL Select
SEM Scanning Electron Microscope +
Standard Electronic Module
SER Serial
SET Softwave Engineering Technology
.SET Driver Set (file name extension) [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC] +
Image Settings (file name extension) [Paradox]
SETEXT Structure Enhanced Text [Internet]
SEU Smallest Executable Unit
SF Sign Flag
SFQL Structured Full-text Query Language
SFS System File Server
SFT System Fault Tolerance
SFX Sound Effect(s)
SGEN Signal Generator + System Generator
SGDT Store Global Descriptor Table
SGM Shaded Graphics Modeling
SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language
SGR Set Graphics Rendition
S/H Sample and Hold
SHA Secure Hash Algorithm [NSA]
SHAR Shell Archive
SHG Segmented Hypergraphics
SHL Shift Logical Left
SHR Shift Logical Right
S-HTTP Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
.SHW Show (file name extension)
SI Shift-In + Source Index + System Information
SIC Standard Industrial Code
SID Serial Input Data + Station Identification [AT&T] +
Symbolic Interactive Debugger
SIDF System Independent Data Format
SIDH System Identification for Home Systems
SIDT Store Interrupt Descriptor Table
SIFT Stanford Information Filtering Tool
SIG Special Interest Group
SIGCAT Special Interest Group on CD-ROM Applications
and Technology
SIM Simulator
SIMD Single Instruction Multiple Data Stream (processor)
SIMM Single In-line Memory Module
SIMTEL Simulation and Teleprocessing
SIMULA Simulation (language)
SIO Serial Input/Output (communications driver)
SIP Single In-line Package
SIPO Serial In, Parallel Out
SIPP Single In-line Pin Package
SIR Serial Infrared [Hewlett-Packard]
SIRDS Single-Image Random Dot Stereogram
SI/SO Serial In/Serial Out + Shift In/Shift Out
SIT Special Information Tones
.SIT Stuff-It (compressed file name extension) [Macintosh]
SLDT Store Local Descriptor Table
SLED Single Large Expensive Disk
SLIP Serial Line Interface Protocol
SLMR Silly Little Modem Reader
SLOSH Sea, Lake and Overland Surge from Hurricane (program)
SLSI Super Large-Scale Integration
SLSS Systems Library Subscription Service [IBM]
SM Set Mode + Shared Memory
SMART Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology
SMB Server Message Block (protocol) [MII]
SMD Surface Mounted Device
SMDS Switched Multimedia/Multi-Megabit Data Service
SMF System Manager Facility [Compaq]
SMI System Management Interrupt [Intel]
SMIF Standard Mechanical Interface
SMIT System Management Interface Tool [IBM]
SMK Software Migration Kit [Microsoft]
SML Standard Meta Language
SMM System Mangement Mode [Intel]
SMP Simple Management Protocol + Symbolic Manipulation Program +
Symmetrical Multi-Processing + Symmetric Multiprocessor
.SMP Sample (file name extension)
SMPC Shared Memory Parallel Computer
SMPS Switching Mode Power Supply
SMRAM System Management Random Access Memory
SMS Storage Management Services [NetWare] +
Storage Management Subsystem/System +
Systems Management Server [Microsoft]
SMSW Store Machine Status Word
SMT Station Management (protocol) +
Surface-Mount Technology
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SMU System Management Utility
SN Serial Number
S/N Signal-to-Noise (Ratio)
SNA Systems Network Architecture [IBM]
SND Sound
SNEWS Secure News Server [Internet]
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SNOBOL String Oriented Symbolic Language (Progamming Language)
SNP Serial Number/Password [Omen Technology]
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SOA Start Of Authority
SOC System On a Chip
SOC. Social Issues [USENET Newsgroup Category]
SOCKS Socket Secure (server) [Internet]
SOE Standard Operating Environment
SOH Start of Header
SOHO Small Office/Home Office
SOL Simulation Oriented Language
SOM Start of Message + System Object Model [IBM]
SONET Synchronous Optical Network
SOP Standard Operating Procedures
SOS Silicon On Sapphire + Sophisticated Operating System +
Standards and Open Systems
SOTA State Of The Art
SOX Sound Exchange
SP Service Pack [IBM] + Stack Pointer + System Product
SPA Software Publishers Association
SPAN Space Physics Analysis Network
SPARC Scalable Processor Architecture
SPC Small Peripheral Controller + Statistical Process Control
SPCL Spectrum Cellular Corporation
SPEC Systems Performance Evaluation Cooperative
SPF Shortest Path First + System Programming Facility
SPI Service Provider Interface + SCSI Parallel Interface
SPID Service Profile Identifier
SPIKE Science Planning Intelligent Knowledge-Based
Environment [STScI]
SPIRES Stanford Public Information Retrieval System
[Stanford University]
SPL Spooler + System Programming Language [HP]
.SPL Spell Checker (file name extension)
SPM System Performance Monitor [IBM]
SPOOL Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line
SPOT Shared Product Object Tree [IBM]
SPP Sequenced Packet Protocol
SPPS Scalable Power Parallel System [IBM]
SPR Special Purpose Register + Statistical Pattern Recognition
SPS Standby Power System
SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
SPT Sectors Per Track
SPX Sequenced Packet Exchange [Novell]
SQ Squeezed (files)
SQL/DS Structured Query Language/Data System [IBM]
SQRT Square Root
SR Shift Register
SRAM Shadow Random Access Memory +
Static Random Access Memory
SRB Source-Route Bridge
.SRC Source (file name extension)
SRD Screen Reader System
SRM Security Reference Monitor
SRO Sharable and Read Only
SRPI Server-Requester Programming Interface
SRQ Service Request
SRR Serially Reusable Resource
SS Stack Segment + Single Sided + Seconds
SSA Serial Storage Architecture
SSAP Source Service Access Point
SSD Solid State Disk
SSEC * Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator [IBM]
SSGA System Suppport Gate Array
SSI Single System Image + Small Scale Integration
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
SST Spread-Spectrum Technology +
Systems Services and Technology
STA Spanning Tree Algorithm
STB Strobe
STC Set Carry Flag
STD Set Direction Flag + Standard
STDA StreetTalk Directory Assistance [Banyan]
STDAUX Standard Auxillary
STDERR Standard Error
STDIN Standard Input
STDIO.H Standard Input/Output Header [C Programming Language]
STDM Statistical Time Division Multiplexer
STDOUT Standard Output
STDPRN Standard Printer
.STF Structured File (file name extension) [Lotus Agenda]
STI Set Interrupt Flag
S/TK Sectors Per Track
STN Super-Twist Nematic
STOS Store String
STP Secure Transfer Protocol + Shielded Twisted Pair (cable) +
Signal Transfer Point + Synchronized Transaction Processing
STR Store Task Register + Synchronous Transmitter Receiver
STRESS Structural Engineering System Solver (Programming
Language)
STRUDL Structural Design Language (Programming Language)
STScI Space Telescope Science Institute
STT Secure Transaction Technology [Microsoft]
STX Start of Text
.STY Style (file name extension) [Ventura, Word, WordPerfect]
SUB Subroutine + Substitute + Subtract
SUN Sun Microsystems, Inc.
.SUP Supplemental Dictionary (file name extension)
[WordPerfect]
SVC Switched Virtual Circuit
SVGA Super Video Graphics Array
S-VHS Super VHS
SVM System Virtual Machine [Microsoft]
SVR Server
SVR# System V Release Number [AT&T]
S/W Software
SWAC * Mobile version of SEAC, built for deployment to White Sands,
and named Standards Western Automatic Calculator
SWAIS Simple Wide Area Information Server [Internet]
SWISH Simple Web Indexing System for Humans
.SWP Swap (file name extension)
.SYL Syllabus (file name extension)
SYLK Symbolic Link
.SYM Symbols (file name extension)
.SYN Synonym (file name extension)
SYNC Synchronous
SYS System
.SYS System Configuration (file name extension) +
System Device Driver (file name extension)
SYSGEN System Generator
SYSLOG System Log
SYSMOD System Modification
SYSOP System Operator
SYSREQ System Request
SZ Send ZModem [Unix]
TAD Telephone Answering Device
TAP Telelocator Alphanumeric Protoco
TAPCIS The Access Program for the CompuServe
Information Service
TAPI Telephony Applications Programming Interface
.tar Tape Archive (archived file name extension) [Unix]
.tar.Z Compressed Archived files (file name extension) [Unix]
TAS Telephone Access Server
TASM Turbo Assembler [Borland]
TAXI Transparent Asynchronous Tranceiver/Receiver Interface
TB Terabyte (1,000 gigabytes)
T/B Top and Bottom
TBBS The Bread Board System (BBS)
TBGA Tape Ball Grid Array
.TBK Toolbook (file name extension)
TBU Tape Backup Unit
TC Test Control + Transmission Control
TCL Tool Command Language
TCM Trellis-Coded Modulation
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TD Transmit Data
TDD Telecommunications Device for the Deaf
TDtoDP Tablet Coordinates to Display Coordinates
(converting)
TDE Terminal Display Editor
.TDF Trace Definition File (file name extension) [OS/2] +
Typeface Definition File (file name extension)
TDI Transport Device Interface
TDM Technical Document Management +
Time Division Multiplexing
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TDMS Terminal Display Management System
TDP Telelocator Data Protocol
TDSR Transmitter Data Service Request
TDR Time Domain Reflectometry
TE/2 Terminal Emulator/2 [Oberon]
TEB Thread Environment Block
TEC Tokyo Electronics Corporation
TED Tiny Editor
TEML Turbo Editor Macro Language [Borland]
TEMP Temporary
TER Thermal Eclipse Reading [Sony]
TERMPWR Terminator Power
TFDD Text File Device Driver
TFEL Thin-Film Electroluminescent
.TFM Tagged Font Metric (file name extension)
TFT Thin-Film Transistor (screens)
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
THD Total Harmonic Distortion
.THD Thread (file name extension)
THOMAS The (U.S.) House (of Representatives) Open Multimedia
Access System
THOR Tandy High-Performance Optical Recording
THR Transmit Holding Register
.THS Thesaurus (file name extension)
TI Texas Instruments, Inc.
TIA Telecommunications Industry Association +
The Internet Adapter [Internet]
TID Target ID
TIES Time Independent Escape Sequence
.TIF Tagged Image File (filename extension)
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
TIGA Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture
TIGER Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding
and Referencing
TIIAP Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure
Assistance Program [NII]
TIP Terminal Interface Processor
TK/TK Track to Track
TLA Three-Letter Acronym
TLB Translation Lookaside Buffer
TLI Transport Layer Interface
TLU Table Lookup
.TLX Telex (file name extension)
TM Trademark
TMP Temporary
TN Twisted Nematic
TNC Terminal Node Controller
ToC Table Of Contents
TOD Time Of Day
TOP Technical and Office Protocol
TPC Transaction Processing Performance Council
TPI Tracks Per Inch
TPL Table Producing Language
TPM Transactions Per Minute
TPORT Twisted Pair Port Transceiver [AT&T]
TPS Transactions Per Second +
Transaction Processing System
TPW Turbo Pascal for Windows
TQFP Thin Quad Flat Pack
TQM Total Quality Management
TR Terminal Ready
T/R Transmit/Receive
TRADIC * Transistorized Airborne Digital Computer
(Name of first computer to be entirely
transistorized)
.TRM Terminal (file name extension)
TRN Threaded Read News [Internet] + Token Ring Network
TRON The Real-Time Operating System Nucleus
TS Top Secret
TSA Technical Support Alliance
TSAPI Telephony Services Application Program
Interface [AT&T + Novell]
TSB Termination Status Block
TSO Time Sharing Option
TSR Terminate and Stay Resident
TSS Task State Segment + Time Sharing System
TS/SI Top Secret/Sensitive Information
.TST Test (file name extension)
TSTN Triple Supertwisted Nematic
TSV Tab Separated Values
TT Typewriter Text
TTCN Tree and Tabular Combined Notation
.TTF TrueType Font (file name extension)
TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic
TTP Thermal-Transfer Printing
TTS Text-To-Speech + Transaction Tracking System
TTY Teletype
TUI Text-Based User Interface [WordPerfect]
TUMS Table Update and Management System [Stanford University]
.TUT Tutorial (file name extension)
TVF Table of contents Verbosely from File [UNIX]
TVI Television Interference
TWX Teletypewriter Exchange Service
TXD Transmit Data
.TXF Tax Exchange Format (file name extension)
TXT Text
TXT2STF Text To Structured File [Lotus Agenda]
UA User Agent + User Area UAE Unrecoverable Application Error UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter .UC2 Compressed File (file name extension) [UltraCompressor] UCL Universal Communications Language UCS Unicode Conversion Support + Universal Character Set UCT Universal Coordinated Time UDC User Defined Commands UDE Universal Data Exchange UDF User Defined Functions UDP User Datagram Protocol UDT Uniform Data Transfer UFS Unix File System UG User Group UI Unix International + User Interface UID User Identifier UIMS User Interface Management System UL Underwriters Laboratories + Unordered List + Upload ULA Uncommitted Logic Array ULN Universal Link Negotiation ULSI Ultra Large Scale Integration UMA Unified Memory Architecture UMB Upper Memory Block [LIM/AST] UNC Universal Naming Convention + Uuencoded Netnews Collator [Unix] UNCOL Universal Computed Oriented Language UNI User-Network Interface UNICOM Universal Integrated Communication (System) UNICOS Universal Compiler FORTRAN compatible UNIVAC Universal Automatic Computer UNIX (AT&T Bell Laboratories Operating System) UNMA Unified Network Management Architecture UP Uniprocessor UPC Universal Product Code UPG Upgrade UPL User Program Language UPM Unix Programmer's Manual + User Profile Management [IBM] UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply + Uninterruptible Power System URC Uniform Resource Characteristics + Uniform Resource Citation UREP Unix RSCS Emulation Protocol (protocol) URI Uniform Resource Identifier URL Uniform Resource Locator URN Uniform Resource Name/Number US Unit Separator USART Universal Synchronous-Asynchronous Reciever/Transmitter USB Universal Serial Bus [Intel] USENET User's Network [Internet] USERID User Identification USQ Unsqueezed (files) USR US Robotics (corporation) USRT Universal Synchronous Receiver/Transmitter USSA User Supported Software Association (United Kingdom) UT User Terminal UTC Coordinated Universal Time UTI Universal Text Interchange/Interface UTP Unshielded Twisted-Pair (cable) UU Uuencode/Uudecode UUCP Unix-To-Unix Copy Program UUD UUDecoding [Unix] UUE UUEncoding [Unix] UUI User-To-User Information [AT&T] UV Ultraviolet
VA Virtual Address
VAD Value Added Dealer
VADD Value Added Disk Driver
VAL Value + Voice Application Language
.VAL Validity Checks (file name extension) [Paradox]
VAM Virtual Access Method
VAN Value Added Network
VAP Value Added Process
VAR Value Added Reseller + Value Added Retailer + Variable
VAST Variable Array Storage Technology
VAX/VMS Virtual Address Extension/Virtual Memory System [DEC]
VB Variable Block + Visual Basic [Microsoft]
VBA Visual Basic for Applications [Microsoft]
VBE/AI Vesa Bios Extension/Audio Interface
vBNS Very High Speed Backbone Network Service [MCI + NSF]
VBR Variable Bit Rate
VBRUN Visual Basic Runtime
.VBX Visual Basic Extension (file name extension)
VCD Virtual Communications Driver
VCL Visual Component Library
VCOS Visual Caching Operating System [AT&T]
VCPI Virtual Control Program Interface
VCR Video Cassette Recorder
VDD Virtual Device Driver
VDDM Virtual Device Driver Manager
VDE Video Display Editor + Visual Development Environment
VDISK Virtual Disk
VDM Virtual DOS Machine [IBM]
VDMAD Virtual Direct Memory Access Device [Microsoft]
VDS Virtual DMA Services
VDT Video Dial Tone + Video Display Terminal
VDU Video Display Unit + Visual Display Unit
VEGA Video-7 Enhanced Graphics Adapter [Video-7, Inc.]
VEMM Virtual Expanded Memory Manager
VER Verify + Version
VERONICA Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-Wide Index to
Computer Archives [Internet]
VERR Verify Read Access
VERW Verify Write Access
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association
VF Virtual Floppy
VFAT Virtual File Allocation Table [Microsoft]
V.FC Version.First Class (communications standard)
VFD Vacuum Fluorescent Display
VGA Video Graphics Array
VGC Video Graphics Controller
VHDL VHSIC Hardware Description Language
VHS Very High Speed + Video Home System +
Virtual Host Storage
VHSIC Very High Speed Integrated Circuit
VI Visual Interactive (editor) [UNIX]
VIE Virtual Information Environment
VIF Virtual Interface + Virtual Interrupt Flag
VIM Vendor Independent Mail +
Vendor Independent Messaging + Video Interface Module
VIO Video Input/Output + Virtual Input/Output
VINES Virtual Networking System [Banyan]
ViP Visual Programming [Lotus]
VIP Variable Information Processing +
Video Information Provider +
Virtual Interrupt Pending
VIPER Verifiable Integrated Processor for
Enhanced Reliability
VIS Video Information System [Tandy] +
Voice Information System
VJ HEADER Van Jacobsen Header (compression) [Unix]
VL-BUS Vesa Local-Bus [VESA]
VLF Very Low Frequency
VLIW Very Large Instruction Word
VLM Virtual Loadable Module
VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
VLSIPS Very Large Scale Immobilized Polymer Synthesis
VLT Variable List Table
VM Virtual Machine + Virtual Memory
VMA Virtual Memory Address
VMB Virtual Machine Boot
VME Virtual Memory Environment
VMM Virtual Machine/Memory Manager
VMOS Vertical MOS
VMS Virtual Memory System + Voice Message System
VMT Virtual Memory Technique
VNA Virtual Network Architecture
VOC Creative Voice (format) [Sound Blaster]
VOD Video On Demand
VOL Volume
VOM Volt-Ohm-Milliammeter
VOS Verbal Operating System
VPD Virtual Printer Device + Vital Product Data [IBM]
VPDN Virtual Private Data Network
VPDS Virtual Private Data Service [MCI]
VPE Visual Programming Environment
VPL Virtual Programming Language
VPN Virtual Page Number + Virtual Private Network
VPS Voice Processing System
VPSC Vault, Process, Structure, Configuration
VPT Virtual Print Technology [Dataproducts]
VR Virtual Reality + Voltage Regulated/Regulator
VRAM Video Random Access Memory
VRE Voltage Regulated Extended
VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language
(originally named Virtual Reality Markup Language)
VROOMM Virtual Real-time Object Oriented
Memory Manager [Borland]
.VRS WordPerfect Graphics Driver (file name extension)
VRT Voltage Regulation Technology [Intel]
VRU Voice Response Unit
VS Virtual Storage
VSAM Virtual Storage Access Method
VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal
VSE Virtual Storage Extended
VSF Vertical Scanning Frequency
VSIO Virtual Serial Input Output
VSLI Very Large Scale Integration
VSM Virtual Shared Memory + Virtual Storage Management +
Visual System Management [IBM]
VSN Volume Serial Number
VSOS Virtual Storage Operating System
VSYNC Vertical Sync
VT Vertical Tab
VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method [IBM]
VUI Video User Interface
VUP VAX Unit of Performance
VMS Virtual Memory System + Voice Message System
VWB Visual WorkBench [Microsoft]
VxD Virtual Extended Driver [Microsoft]
.VXD Virtual Device (file name extension) [Microsoft]
W/ With W3 (see WWW) W3A World Wide Web Applets W4 What-Works-With-What WABI Windows Application Binary Interface [SunSoft] WAIS Wide Area Information Server WAITS Wide Area Information Transfer System WAN Wide Area Network WATS Wide Area Telecommunications Service .WAV Waveform Audio (file name extension) WC Word Count WDL Windows Driver Library [Microsoft] WDRAM Windows Dynamic Random Access Memory WELL Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (BBS) WFW Windows For Workgroups [Microsoft] WGS Work Group System WHAM Waveform Hold and Modify [Microsoft] WHC Workstation Host Connection WINE Windows Emulator WINForum Wireless Information Networks Forum WINS Windows-Internet Naming Service [Microsoft] WINSOCK Windows Open Systems Architecture [Microsoft] + Windows Sockets WINWORD Word For Windows [Microsoft] WISE WordPerfect Information System Environment WIT Web Interactive Talk [Internet] .WKB Workbook (file name extension) [WordPerfect] .WKE Worksheet (file name extension) [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC] .WKQ Spreadsheet (file name extension) [BORQU] .WKS Worksheet (file name extension) [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC] .WKZ Compressed Spreadsheet (file name extension) [BORQU] .WK1 Worksheet (file name extension) [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC] WMC Workflow Management Coalition .WMF Windows Metafile Format (file name extension) [Microsoft] WNIC Wide-Area Network Interface Co-Processor WNIM Wide-Area Network Interface Module W/O Without WORM Write Once, Read Many WOS Workstation Operating System WOSA Windows Open Services/Systems Architecture [Microsoft] WP WordPerfect + Word Processing + Write Protected .WPG WordPerfect Graphics (file name extension) WPHD Write-Protect Hard Disk .WPK Keyboard (file name extension) [WordPerfect] WPM Words Per Minute .WPM Macro (file name extension) [WordPerfect] WPOS Workplace Operating System WPS Windows Printing System [Microsoft] + Workplace Shell [OS2] .WQ1 Spreadsheet (file name extension) [BORPQU] .WQ! Compressed Spreadsheet (file name extension) [BORPQU] WRAM Windows Random Access Memory .WRI Write (file name extension) WS WordStar + Workstation WT Write Through WWIS World Wide Information System [Internet] WWW World-Wide Web [Internet] WYSBYGI What You See Before You Get It WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
XA Extended Architecture + Extended Attribute XAPIA X.400 Application Program Interface Association X2B Hexadecimal to Binary [REXX] XBM X Windows Bitmap X2C Hexadecimal to Character [REXX] XCHG Exchange XCMD External Command XCOPY Extended Copy X2D Hexadecimal to Decimal [REXX] XDF Extended Density Format [IBM] XDR Extended/External Data Representation XFCN External Function XGA Extended Graphics Array [IBM] XID Exchange Identifier XIOS Extended Input/Output System XLAT Translate XLM Excel Macro Language [Microsoft] XMIT Transmit XMM Extended Memory Manager [LIM/AST] XMS Extended Memory Specification [LIM/AST] XNS Xerox Network System (protocol) [Xerox] XOFF Transmitter Off XON Transmitter On XOR Exclusive OR (Also EOR) XPRM Xerox Print Resources Manager [Xerox] XRT Extensions for Real-Time XSMD Extended Storage Module Drive (interface) XTAL Crystal XTCLK External Transmit Clock
YAM Yet Another Modem [Omen Technology] YAHOO Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle [Internet]
.z Packed file (file name extension - using Pack/Unpack program)..lower case z..[Unix] .Z Compressed file (file name extension - using Compress/Uncompress program)..upper case Z..[Unix] ZBR Zone Bit Recording Z-CAV Zoned Constant Angular Velocity ZDL Zero Delay Lockout ZDS Zenith Data Systems ZIF Zero-Insertion Force (socket) ZIP Zigzag In-Line Package + Zone Improvement Plan (ZIPcode) .ZIP Compressed File (file name extension) [PKWare] .ZOO Compressed File (file name extension) [Dhesi] ZSL Zero Slot LAN ~ Tilde * Wildcard character (asterisk) *.* Star-Dot-Star (represents Any file name.Any file name extension) .$$$ Temporary File (file name extension) 3COM 3 Com Corporation (The 3 Coms are Computer, Communications and Compatability) 3GL Third Generation Language (procedural language) 4GL Fourth Generation Language (procedural language) 6DOF Six Degrees Of Freedom
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UU UU UU BABEL: A GLOSSARY OF UU UU COMPUTER ORIENTED ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS UU UU UU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Version 96A UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Copyright (C) 1989-1996 Irving Kind All Rights Reserved c/o K & D, One Church Lane, Baltimore, MD 21208 Jan 1996 version = BABEL96A Jan 1997 version = BABEL97A May 1996 version = BABEL96B May 1997 version = BABEL97B Sep 1996 version = BABEL96C Sep 1997 version = BABEL97C
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OBTAINING BABEL FROM THE INTERNET
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Method 1 - WWW
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To get the babelxxx.html file via World Wide Web, use this URL:
http://www.access.digex.net/~ikind/babel96a.html
Method 2 - GOPHER
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To get the babelxxx.txt file via Gopher:
If you have access to a Gopher client, gopher directly to:
gopher.temple.edu
From the Main Menu, select "Temple University Computer
Resources and Information" and then "Internet & Bitnet
Information (Help-Net)". Then select "Glossary of Computer
Abbreviations and Acronyms (BABEL96A.TXT)".
Method 3 - FTP
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To get the babelxxx.txt file, if you have ftp access via The
Internet, type these commands in lower case text:
ftp ftp.temple.edu
At Login : anonymous
At Password: your email address
cd /pub/info/help-net
get babel96a.txt
Method 4 - LISTSERV
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To get the babelxxx.txt file via Listserv if on The Internet:
Send e-mail to: listserv@vm.temple.edu
Subject line should be left blank. In body of the message, type:
GET BABEL96A TXT HELP-NET
Method 5 - BITNET
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To get the babelxxx.txt file via Listserv for Bitnet users:
Send e-mail to: listserv@templevm
Subject line should be left blank. In body of the message, type:
GET BABEL96A TXT HELP-NET
NOTE for all methods:
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After Jan 1, 1996 request BABEL96A
After May 1, 1996 request BABEL96B
After Sep 1, 1996 request BABEL96C
The following examples are included to serve as a brief
introduction to what may be found when reading email and news
groups and when using IRC on the Internet.
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In email and news, "smiley faces", rather than words, are used
to express the writer's feelings. Turn your head to the side to
read them.
:-) Smile :-D Laughing
:-] Smirk :-( Frown
;-) Wink :-X Close-mouthed
8-) Wide-eyed :-O Open-mouthed
also
<jk> Just kidding <g> Grin
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In email and during on-line conversations, a variety of letter
groups are used to abbreviate the writer's comments, such as:
BRB Be right back IMHO In my humble opinion
BTW By the way ROFL Rolling on the floor laughing
FOAF Friend of a friend TIA Thanks in advance
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COUNTRY DOMAIN NAMES
At the present time there are over 200 recognized Country Domain
names. Two-letter abbreviations that represent the country names are
used in addresses seen on the Internet. The following names (68 to date)
represent the country of origin where someone has downloaded BABEL. This
list should be useful when checking the origin of your own mail.
.ae United Arab Emirates
.am Armenia
.ar Argentina
.at Austria
.au Australia
.be Belgium
.bg Bulgaria
.bh Bahrain
.br Brazil
.ca Canada
.ch Switzerland
.cl Chile
.cn China
.co Columbia
.cr Costa Rica
.cy Cyprus
.cz Czech Republic
.de Germany
.dk Denmark
.do Dominican Republic
.ec Ecuador
.ee Estonia
.eg Egypt
.es Spain
.fi Finland
.fr France
.gb Great Britian (UK)
.gl Greenland
.gr Greece
.hk Hong Kong
.hr Croatia
.hu Hungary
.id Indonesia
.ie Ireland
.il Israel
.in India
.is Iceland
.it Italy
.jp Japan
.kr Korea (South)
.kw Kuwait
.li Liechtenstein
.lu Luxembourg
.lv Latvia
.mo Macau
.my Malaysia
.mx Mexico
.nl Netherlands
.no Norway
.nz New Zealand
.pe Peru
.ph Phillipines
.pl Poland
.pt Portugal
.ro Romania
.ru Russian Federation
.se Sweden
.sg Singapore
.si Slovenia
.sk Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
.th Thailand
.tr Turkey
.tt Trinidad and Tobago
.tw Taiwan
.us United States
.uy Uruguay
.ve Venezuela
.za South Africa
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