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You just can't get far if you're not up on the lingo. You might squeak by in your
company of technological nonexperts, but even some of them will surprise you. These
days, technical acronyms quickly insinuate themselves into the vernacular.
Raphael Needleman
ARL: Adjusted Ring Length AS3AP: Ansi Sql Standard Scalable And Portable
Database benchmark (Databases)
ARLL: Advanced Run Length Limited
ASA: Active Server Application
ARM: Advanced Risc Machine (Network) (Microsoft)
ARM: Annotated Reference Manual ASA: Adaptive Security Appliance
ARM: Application Response Measurement (Hardware) (Cisco)
(Network) ASA: American Standards Association
ARM: Asynchronous Response Mode ASA: Architectures of Systems of Agents
HDLC data transfer mode (Network)
ASAI: Adjunct Switch Application Interface
ARMA: Association of Records Managers and (AT&T)
Administrators
ASAP: As Soon As Possible
ARMD: Atapi Removable Media Device (Net lingo)
ATAPI devices with removable media that can appear as either
a super-floppy or a hard drive to the operating system. These ASAP: Automatic Switching And Processing
can be supported as bootable devices by a BIOS complying
with the ATAPI Removable Media Device BIOS Specification
ASB: Advanced System Buffering
(Hardware) (Hardware) (Intel)
ARMS: Architecture for Reliable Managed Storage ASC: Accredited Standards Committee
AVSEQ: Audio Video SEQuence BAFUG: Bay Area Freebsd Users Group
(Organizations)
Multimedia file format, probably compatible with the MPEG-1
format BAI: Bank Administration Institute
AVT: Applied Voice Technology File / report format used in financial services industry
(Software)
AVT: Attribute Value Template
(Software)
BOCA: Borland Object Component Architecture BPEL4WS : Business Process Execution Language
For Web Services
BOCS: Business Object Component Set
(Software)
(Software)
BTL: Bell Telephone Laboratories BYORL: Bring Your Own Rocket Launcher
(Net lingo)
BTLB: Block Translation Look-aside Buffer
BZR: Bit Zone Recording
BTM: Benchmark Timing Methodology
In computer graphics, a method of measuring how long it
takes to run the purchaser's benchmark interchange format C
program.
C: C
BTO: Built To Order Programming language
BTOA: Binary TO Ascii C&T: Chips And Technologies
BTP: Batch Transfer Program C/D: Control Data
BTR: "Bet The Ranch" C/S: Client/Server
BTR: Bit Test and Reset C2D: Character To Decimal
BTS: Base Transceiver Station (IBM)
CDDA: Compact Disc Digital Audio CD-MO: Compact Disk Magneto Optical
Format of the audio CD files CD-MRW: Compact Disk-Mount rainier
CD-DA: Compact Disk Digital Audio ReWriteable
Standard that enables native OS support of data storage on CD-
CDDI: Copper Distributed Data Interface RW. This makes the technology far easier to use and allows the
CDDL: Common Development and Distribution replacement of the floppy. See http://www.mt-rainier.org/
(Hardware)
License
(Sun) CDN: Content Delivery Network
CDDLM: Configuration Description, Deployment, CDO: Collaboration Data Objects
and Lifecycle Management
CDONTS: Collaboration Data Objects for windows
Open Grid Forum (OGF) standard for the management,
New Technology Server
deployment and configuration of Grid Service lifecycles or inter-
organization resources (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
COPPA: Child Online Privacy Protection Act CP/M: Control Program for Microprocessors
(Operating systems)
COPS: Common Open Policy Service
An IETF proposed standard defining a simple protocol for CPA: Certified Public Accountant
provisioning QoS by outsourcing policy-based admission
CPA: Cost Per Action
control over requests for network resources (Network)
CPA: Crown Print Auditor
COR: Common Object Runtime
(Hardware) (QMS)
(Operating systems)
CPAN: Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
CORBA: Common Object Request Broker
Architecture CPC: Constant Point Calculation
COREN: COrporation for Research and Enterprise CPC: Cost Per Click
Network
CPCS: Check Processing Control System
COS: Camera Operating System (IBM)
(Operating systems)
CPML: Call Policy Markup Language CRDL: Character Repertoire Description Language
(Network) Describes a collection of characters defined in ISO/IEC 10646
or Unicode or default grapheme clusters defined in UAX#29
CPN: Compuserve Packet Network
CREN: Computer Research Education Network
CPO: Chief Privacy Officer
CREN: Corporation for Research and Education
CPP: C Plus Plus (C++) Networking
Object-oriented programming language based on C. Also,
filename extension. (Software) CRF: Cable Retransmission Facility
CPRM: Content Protection for Recordable Media CRF: Cross Reference File
CVT: ConVerT
(IBM) D
D3D: Direct 3D
CVW: CodeView for Windows
(Microsoft)
CW: Control Word DA: Data Administrator
CWA: Competitive Web Analysis DA: Desk Accessory
CWD: Change Working Directory (Software) (Apple)
DAM: Direct Access Mode DASH: Desktop and mobile Architecture for
System Hardware
DAM: Distributed Abstract Machine
Suite of specifications that takes full advantage of the
DAM: Distributed Associative Memory DMTF??s Web Services for Management (WS-Management)
(Hardware) specification ?? delivering standards-based Web services
management for desktop and mobile client systems
DAML: Darpa Agent Markup Language
DASH: Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over Http
Language, developed as an extension to XML and the Resource
Description Framework (RDF), designed to facilitate the (Network)
concept of the Semantic Web. See also http://www.daml.org/ DASL: DAv Searching & Locating
D DAML: Digital Added Main Line Application of HTTP/1.1 forming a lightweight search protocol
(Communication) to transport queries and result sets and allows clients to make
use of server-side search facilities
DAMPS: Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System
DASP: Drive Active, Slave Present
D-AMPS: Digital Advanced Mobile Phone System
DASP: Dynamic Adaptive Speculative
Second Generation (2G) mobile phone system once prevalent
in Americas. Now considered end-of-life and mostly replaced Preprocessor
by GSM/GPRS and CDMA2000. (Communication) (Hardware)
DBPSK: Differential Binary Phase Shift Keying DCC: Direct Client Connection
(Communication) DCC: Display Combination Code
dBr: DeciBel Relative DCCP: Datagram Congestion Control Protocol
Audio intensity measurement unit Implements reliable connection setup, teardown, Explicit
Congestion Notification (ECN), congestion control, and feature
DBR: Dos Boot Record negotiation
DBRAD: Data Base Relational Application DCCS: DisContiguous Shared Segments
Directory
DCD: Data Carrier Detect
DBRM: DataBase Request Module
DCD: Database Connector Descriptor
DBS: DataBase System (Databases) (Oracle)
(Databases)
DCD: Document Content Description
DBS: Direct Broadcast Satellite
(Communication) DCE: Data Circuit-terminating Equipment
DFDSS: Data Facility Data Set Services DHCF: Distributed Host Command Facility
D (Software) (IBM) DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
A system that assigns different IP addresses to devices each
DfE: Designed For Environment
time they connect to the network. DHCP can support a mix of
DFE: Desktop Functional Equivalent static and dynamic IP addresses (Network)
(Compaq) DHL: Dynamic Head Loading
DFHSM: Data Facility Hierarchical Storage DHP: Dr. Halo Picture
Manager File name extension
(IBM)
DHTML: Dynamic HyperText Markup Language
DFI: Digital Facility Interface
DI: Data In
DFM: Design For Manufacturability
(IBM) DI: Destination Index
Processor register (Hardware) (Intel)
DFM: Device Fault Manager
Provides real-time fault analysis for Cisco devices (Software) DIA: Document Interchange Architecture
(Cisco) DIANE: DIrect Access Network for Europe
DFN: Dedicated Frogans Network DIB: Device Independent Bitmap
See http://www.frogans.com/ (Software) File format for raster bitmaps (Microsoft)
DFN: Deutsches ForschungsNetz DIB: Directory Information Base
DFP: Data Facility Product DIB: Dual Independent Bus
DFP: Digital Flat Panel (Hardware)
(Hardware) DIBOL: DIgital Business Oriented Language
DFP: Distributed Functional Plane DIC: DICtionary
DFPI: Digital Flat Panel Initiative File name extension
DGC: Data General Corporation DILLIGAF: Does It Look Like I Give A F**ck
Data General produced minicomputers and was featured in the (Net lingo)
book "Soul of a New Machine" by Tracey Kidder (Organizations) DIME: Desktop Integrated Media Environment
DGC: Distributed Garbage Collection DIME: Direct Internet Message Encapsulation
(Software)
DGIS: Direct Graphics Interface Standard
DMD: Device Manager Driver DMSDK: Digital Media Software Development Kit
(Software) (SGI)
DMD: Digital Micromirror Device
(Hardware) (TI)
DMSS: Distributed Mass Storage System
DPMA: Data Processing Management Association DRAS: Dynamic Remote Access Service
(Organizations) (Microsoft)
DPMI: Dos Protected Mode Interface DRAW: Direct Read After Write
(Operating systems) DRB: Dram Row Boundary
DPMS: Display Power Management Signaling DRC: Design Rule Checks
(Hardware)
DRD: Data Reading Device
DPMS: Dos Protected Mode Services
DRD: Digital Ruggedized Display
DPNPH: Data Packet Network-Packet Handler (Hardware)
DPO: Data Phase Optimization DRDA: Distributed Relational Database
DPOF: Digital Print Order Format Architecture
(Databases)
DPP: Distributed Parallel Processing
DRDAAS: Distributed Relational Database
DPRAM: Dual-Ported Random Access Memory
Architecture Application Server
A type of random access memory that allows multiple reads or
writes to occur at the same time (Hardware) DR-DOS: Digital Research Disk Operating System
DPRG: Dallas Personal Robotics Group DRDRAM: Direct Rambus Dynamic Random
United States' oldest club involved in amateur robotics Access Memory
(Organizations) (Hardware)
DPROP: Data PROPagator DRDW: Direct Read During Write
(IBM)
DRE: Document Rendering Engine
DPS: Desktop Purchasing System Collection of Java classes that can be used to define an
Buy-side electronic commerce system which supports the abstract document and render it in PDF or HTML. A document
procurement process of indirect goods and services consists of a collection of elements such as text, lists (bulleted,
numbered, plain), tables, images, fonts, color, etc. (Software)
DPS: Digital Pixel Sensor (IBM)
(Hardware)
DREN: Defense Research and Engineering
DPS: Display PostScript Network
DPS: Document Processing System (Network)
DSO: Decision Support Object DSVD: Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data
(Communication)
DSO: Digital Storage Oscilloscope
An oscilloscope with a built-in memory used to store electronic
DSW: Data Status Word
waveforms (Hardware) DSW: Device Status Word
DSO: Dynamic Shared Object DSX: Digital Signals Cross-connect
(Software)
DT: Definition Term
DSOM: Distributed System Object Model HTML Tag
(Operating systems) (IBM)
DT4DTD: DataTypes For Document Type Definition
DSP: Development Service Provider
DTA: Direct Tape Access
DSP: Dictionary Server Protocol (Seagate)
(Network)
DTA: Disk Transfer Area
DTAP: Direct Transfer Application Part
EDODRAM: Extended Data Out Dynamic Random EES: Escrow Encryption Standard
Access Memory EESP: Enterprise Extended Services Portal
(Hardware)
EET: Eastern European Time
EDOS: Enhanced Disk Operating System Timezone: GMT +1:00
Mmeory manufacturing technology
EF: Expedited Forwarding
EDP: Electronic Data Processing A Per-Hop Behavior in the Differentiated Service standard,
EDP: Extended Dos Partition used to create a virtual leased line service (Network)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) EFA: Extended File Attribute
EDPM: Electronic Data Processing Machine EFCI: Explicit Forward Congestion Indication
EDPS: Electronic Data Processing System EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation
EDPT: Enhanced fixed Disk Parameter Table EFI: Electromechanical Frequency Interference
(Hardware)
EFI: Electronics For Imaging
EDR: External Developer Release
EFI: Extensible Firmware Interface
EDRAM: Extended Dynamic Random Access Specification that defines a new model for the interface
Memory between operating systems and platform firmware
(Hardware) EFI: External Functional Interface
EDS: Electronic Data Systems EFIGS: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish
EDSAC: Electronic Delay Storage Automatic EFL: Emitter Follower Logic
Computer
(Hardware)
EIM: Electronic Image Management ELSNET: European Language and Speech NETwork
EPM: Enhanced editor for Presentation Manager ERIN: Environmental Resources Information
(IBM)
Network
FARNET: Federation of American Research FCCSET: Federal Coordinating Council for Science,
NETworks Engineering and Technology
(Organizations) FC-EL: Fiber Channel - Enhanced Loop
FASIC: Function and Algorithm-Specific (Hardware)
Integrated Circuit FCFS: First Come, First Served
FASMI: False Analysis of Shared Multidimensional Process or thread scheduling (Operating systems)
Information
FCHBA: Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter FDDI: Fiber Digital Device Interface
Host bus adapter over optical fibers (Hardware) (Hardware)
FCI: Fibre Channel Interface FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface
An emerging high-speed networking standard. The underlying
FCI: File Classification Infrastructure
medium is fiber optics, and the topology is a dual-attached,
Provides insight into your data to help you manage your data counter-rotating token ring (Hardware)
more effectively, reduce costs and mitigate risks by providing
a built-in solution for file classification (Operating systems) FDDITPPMD: Fiber Distributed Data Interface
(Microsoft) Twisted Pair-Physical layer, Medium Dependent
FCI: Flow Control Indicator FDE: Full Disk Encryption
FCI: Flux Changes per Inch (Security)
Integrated circuit (IC) packaging that uses small flat contacts FOD: Fax On Demand
versus pins (Hardware)
FOD: Flexible Optical Disk
FLL: Foxpro Link Library FOG: First Osborne Group
(Microsoft)
FOIP: Fax Over Internet Protocol
FLOPS: FLoating-point Operations Per Second
A measure of the speed at which a computer can operate. FOIRL: Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link
(Hardware) FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing
FLTK: Fast Light Toolkit FOLED: Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode
Pronounced "fulltick", is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for
(Hardware)
UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows and MacOS X. FLTK
provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat and FOMAU: Fiber Optic Media Access Unit
supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT
emulation (Software) FON: Fiber Optics Network
FM: Fault Management FON: FONt
A series of information flows at the physical and ATM layer File name extension
designed to identify the location and cause of a fault within the
FOOBAR: Ftp Operation Over Big Address Records
network (Communication)
FOOT: Forum for Object Oriented Technology
FM: Frequency Modulation
FOP: Formatting Objects Processor
FMA: Fused Multiply-Add
Output-independent print formatter driven by XSL formatting
CPU instruction type
objects. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object
FMD: Fluorescent Multilayer Disk tree and then renders the resulting pages to a specified output.
(Hardware) See http://xml.apache.org/fop/ (Software)
FMRI: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging FOSE: Federal Office Systems Exposition
FPNW: File and Print services for NetWare FRS: File Record Segment
(Operating systems) FRS: File Replication Service
FPO: Frame Pointer Omission (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Technique that gives a debugger enough information to find FRS: Flexible Route Selection
the next function information on the stack without using frame
pointers (Software) FRSM: Frame Relay Service Module
(Network) (Cisco)
FPP: Fixed Path Protocol
FRU: Field-Replaceable Unit
FPP: Floating Point Processor
An assembly replaced in its entirety when any one of its
FPR: Floating-Point Register components fails. (Hardware)
FPS: Fast Packet Switching FRUNI: Frame Relay User Network Interface
(Network)
FPS: Favorite Picture Selection
FPS: First Person Shooter FS: File Separator
Game genre (Games) FS: File System
fps: Frames Per Second FS: Frame Status
Motion images reproduction speed
FS: Free Software
FPSE: FrontPage Server Extensions (Software)
(Software) (Microsoft)
FSA: Fluidic Self-Assembly
FPT: Forced Perfect Termination LCD manufacturing technology (Hardware)
FPU: Floating-Point Unit FSAA: Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing
(Hardware) (Hardware)
FPX: FlashPiX FSAG: Free Software Association of Germany
Filename extension (Kodak)
FSAM: Federated Storage Area Management
FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name A naturally scalable environment of pooled, federated (i.e.,
(Network) available when needed), modular, multivendor storage
resources (HP)
FRAD: Frame Relay Access Device
FSB: Front Side Bus
FRAD: Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler The bus within a microprocessor that connects the CPU with
FRAG: FRAGment main memory (Hardware)
GAAP: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GCOS: General Comprehensive Operating System
GMRAE: Geometric Mean Relative Absolute Error GPR: General Purpose Register
(Hardware)
GMRP: Garp Multicast Registration Protocol
It allows a device to declare membership of a Layer 2 multicast GPRC: Glass Passivated Rectifier Chip
group GPRS: General Packet Radio Service
GMS: Global Management System (Communication)
GSI: Grid Security Infrastructure GUIDE: Graphical User Interface Design Editor
GSM: Global System for Mobile communications GVPN: Global Virtual Private Network
(Communication) (Network)
HAL: Hardware Abstraction Layer HD-DVD: High Definition Digital Video (or
Versatile) Disk
HAL: Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic (Hardware)
Computer
HDF: Hierarchical Data Format
HAL: Home Automated Living
HDH: Hdlc Distant Host
HAL: House-programmed Array Logic
HDI: Head to Disk Interference
HALO: High Altitude Long Operation
Communication aircraft (Communication) HDI: Hoops Device Interface
HOLAP: Hybrid On-Line OnLine Analytical HPOFS: High Performance Optical File System
Processing HPOM: Home Page Object Model
HOOPS: Hierachical Object Orientated Picture (Microsoft)
System HPPA: Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture
HOPS: Hierarchical Object Orientated Picture HPPCL: Hewlett-Packard Printer Control Language
System
HPPE: High Performance Processing Element
HOSED: Hardware Or Software Error Detected (Hardware)
General error not yet diagnosed. If ignored, progressed to
SNAFU and then FUBAR (Net lingo) HPPI: High-Performance Peripheral Interface
HOTT: Hot Off The Tree HPPN: Hewlett-Packard Proactive Notification
Electronic newsletter (HP)
HOTW: Hot Off The Wire HPSA: High Parallel System Architecture
(Hardware)
HOV: High Occupancy Vehicle
HPSB: High-Performance Serial Bus
HP: Hewlett-Packard
Also known as FireWire (Hardware)
HRAA: High Resolution Anti Aliasing HSSI: High Speed Serial Interface
Technology found in the nVidia GeForce3 Chip (Hardware) HST: Hawaii Standard Time
(nVidia) Timezone: GMT -10:00
HRAD: Hosted Rapid Application Development HST: High Speed Technology
IBM-GL: International Business Machines ICCF: Interactive Computing and Control Facility
Graphics Language Program development and testing environment (Software)
(IBM)
IBN: Integrated Business Network
ICCP: Institute for the Certification of Computing
IBOC: In-Band, On-Channel Professionals
IBTL: In Before The Lock ICCS: Integrated Communications Cabling System
A cry made prior to an on-line moderator locking an
inapproprate topic on in an on-line discussion forum (Net lingo) ICD: Installable Client Driver
IMACS: Image Management and Communication IMSI: International Mobile Subscriber Identity
System A unique number within the SIM card that identifies the
subscriber to the system (Communication)
IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol
(Network)
IMSO: Integrated Micro Systems Operation
INL: Inter Node Link IONL: Internal Organization of the Network Layer
The ISO/OSI standard for the architecture of the network
INM: Integrated Network Management layer. The IONL divides the network layer into subnetworks
INM: International Neural Machines interconnected by convergence protocols (internetworking
protocols), resulting in a catenet or internet (Organizations)
INN: Inter Node Network
IOP: Input/Output Parity
INN: InterNet News (Hardware)
(Network)
IOP: Input/Output Processor
INND: InterNet News Daemon (Hardware)
(Network)
IOPL: Input/Output Privilege Level
INOC: Internet Network Operations Center
IOQD: In-Order Queue Depth
INP: Instant Network Presence (Hardware) (Intel)
(Network)
IOR: Interoperable Object Reference
INRIA: Institut National de Recherche en
IORDY: Input/Output channel ReaDY
Informatique et Automatique
(Hardware)
INS: INput String
IOREQ: Input/Output REQuest
INS: Integrated Network Server Microprocessor signal used in I/O addressing (Hardware)
INT: INTeger IORQ: Input/Output ReQuest
INT: INTernal Microprocessor signal used in I/O addressing (Hardware)
IPFC: Internet Protocol over Fibre Channel IPR: Intellectual Property Rights
(Network) IPR: Interactive Photorealistic Rendering
IPI: Intelligent Peripheral Interface Used in 3D Modelling (Autodesk)
A device-generic interface used for large-capacity, high- ips: Inches Per Second
performance disks. The IPI supports disk transfer rates at
(Hardware)
3Mbyte/sec and above (Hardware)
IPI: Internet Policy Institute IPS: Information Processing Standards
A device-generic interface used for large-capacity, high- IPS: In-Plane Switching
performance disks. The IPI supports disk transfer rates at (Hardware)
3MB/sec and above (Organizations)
ISACA: Information Systems Audit and Control ISL: Inter Switch Link
Association (Hardware) (Cisco)
See http://www.isaca.org/ (Organizations)
ISL: Interactive System Language
ISAKMP: Internet Security Association Key
ISLM: Integrated Services Line Module
Management Protocol
(Network) ISLN: Integrated Services Local Network
ISAM: Indexed Sequential Access Method ISLU: Integrated Services Line Unit
ISAPI: Internet Server Application Programming ISM: Industrial, Scientific, Medical
Interface Radio frequency band (Communication)
(Software) (Microsoft) ISM: Integrated Service Module
ISBN: International Standard Book Number (Hardware)
ISSLL: Integrated Services over Specific Link ITN: Identification Tasking and Networking
Layers ITN: Internet Travel Network
(Network)
ITOT: Iso Transport service On top of Tcp
ISSLOW: Integrated Services System for LOW (Network)
bitrate lines
(Network)
ITP: Information Technology Practice
JAX-WS: Java Api for Xml Web Services JDBC: Java DataBase Connectivity
(Software) (Databases)
JBCL: Java Beans Component Library JDC: Java Developer Connection
(Software) (Sun)
JBE: Jump if Below or Equal JDE: Java Development Environment
JBI: Java Business Integration JDEE: Java Development Environment for Emacs
(Software) (Sun)
JDF: Job Description Format
JBIG: Joint Bi-level Image experts Group JDI: Java Debug Interface
This was (and is) a group of experts nominated by national
(Software) (Sun)
standards bodies and major companies to work to produce
standards for bi-level image coding. See also JDIC: Java Desktop Integration Components
http://www.jbig.org/ (Organizations) Project that aims to make Java technology-based applications
JBOD: Just a Bunch Of Disks first-class citizens of current desktop platforms without
sacrificing platform independence. Its mission is to enable
A storage subsystems using multiple independent disk drives,
seamless desktop/Java integration (Software)
as opposed to one form of RAID or another (Hardware)
JDJ: Java Developer's Journal
JBPC: Java-Based Pipeline Configurator
JDK: Java Development Kit
JC: Jump if Carry set
(Software) (Sun)
JCA: Java Card Assembly
JDMK: Java Dynamic Management Kit
(Software) (Sun)
Is the foundation for building and distributing network
JCA: Java Connector Architecture management intelligence into applications, networks and
(Software) devices. It is the first compatible implementation of the JMX
JSPA: Java Specification Participation Agreement JVMTI: Java Virtual Machine Tool Interface
(Sun) JVS: Java Validation Suite
JSPC: JavaServer Pages Compiler (Software)
(Software)
K KiB: KibIByte
K Unit of measurement, introduced by the International
k: Kilo Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), correspondig to 1024 bytes
Prefix for 10 power 3 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 10)
KIF: Knowledge Interchange Format
K&R: Kernighan And Ritchie
KIPS: Kilo Instruction Per Second
"Traditional" or "classic" C language specification, named after
its authors, Brian Kerninghan and Dennis Ritchie (Software) Processing speed
LBA: Logical Block Addressing LCSAJ: Linear Code Sequence and Jump
Analysis of linear sequences of executable code. The test cases
LBL: LaBeL
are based on control flow jumps (Software)
LBM: Local Bus Master
LCSD: Laminate Chip Signal Diode
LBOT: Logical Beginning of Tape
LCT: Last Compliance Time
(Hardware)
LCU: Last Cluster Used
LBR: LiBraRian
LD: Laser Disc
LBT: Listen Before Talk
(Hardware)
LBT: Local Bus Targets
LD: Link Dead
LBX: Local Bus Accelerator When a link between two points goes dead (disconnects) (Net
lingo)
LBX: Low-Band with X
LD: LoaD
LC: Liquid Crystal
Same as MOV (move). The Zilog Z80, for instance, used LD as
(Hardware) the assembler opcode for what Intel called MOV (move)
LCA: Life-Cycle Assessment because of copyright issues (machine code was the same)
(Software)
LCA: Logic Cell Array
LDA: Local Delivery Agent
LCA: Lotus Communications Architecture Program that a mail server uses to deliver mail messages to
(Lotus) the mailboxes of users. This program is also known as local
mailer (Software)
LCC: Leadless Chip Carrier
(Hardware) LDA: Logical Device Address
LITHP: LInk Type description language for LMS: Learning Management System
HyperText Processing LMS: Library Management System
LIU: Lan Interface Unit LMS: Lotus Messaging Switch
LIW: Long Instruction Word (Lotus)
(Hardware) LMSW: Load Machine Status Word
LK: LocK LMU: Lan Management Utilities
Lock file (Operating systems) (IBM)
LKG: Last Known Good LMU: Lan Manager for Unix
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
LN: Load Number
LLB: Local Location Broker
LN: Logarithm Natural
LLC: Logical Link Control Base e
Token Ring link protocol (IEEE 802.2) (Network)
LN:DI: Lotus Notes:Document Imaging
LLDP: Link Layer Discovery Protocol
LNBF: Low-Noise Block receiving horns with
A vendor-neutral Layer 2 protocol that allows a network device
to advertise its identity and capabilities on the local network integrated Feeds
(Network) (Communication)
MDR: Minimum Design Requirement MESI: Modified, Exclusive, Shared and Invalid
MDRAM: Multi-bank Dynamic Random Access MEST: Middle European Summer Time
Memory Timezone: GMT +1:00
(Hardware) MET: Memory Enhancement Technology
MDRC: Manufacturing Design Rule Checker (HP)
MMRPG: Massive Multiplayer Role Playing Game MOLAP: Multidimensional On-Line Analytical
(Games) Processing
MMS: Maximum Message Size MOM: Manufacturing Operations Management
MMS: Merchant Management System MOM: Message-Oriented Middleware
(Software)
MMS: Microsoft Media Server
Streaming protocol used by the Microsoft Media Server. Used MOM: Microsoft Operations Manager
to access unicast content from a Windows Media Server to a Provides manageability as part of the design and
Windows Media Player (Network) (Microsoft) implementation of Windows Server System technologies
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
MMS: Multimedia Messaging Service
MOMA: Message-Oriented Middleware Association
MMSH: Microsoft Media Server over Http
(Organizations)
(Network) (Microsoft)
MONET: Multiwavelength Optical NETwork
MMST: Microsoft Media Server over Tcp
(Network)
(Network) (Microsoft)
MOO: Mud, Object Oriented
MMU: Memory Management Unit
A client used to connect to a MUD
(Hardware)
MOP: Maintenance Operations Protocol
MMVF: MultiMedia Video FIle
(Network)
(NEC)
MOP: Meta Object Protocol
MMX: Matrix Manipulation eXtensions
A reflective facility of an object-oriented language (Software)
(Intel)
MOPA: MultiProtocol Over Atm
MMX: MultiMedia eXtensions
(Communication)
(Intel)
MOPS: Million Operations Per Second
MNG: Multiple-image Network Graphics
A Portable Network Graphics (PNG)-like image format MO-ROD: Magneto Optical-Rewriteable Optical
supporting multiple, animated, transparent and compressed Disk
images (Hardware)
MNN: My Netscape Network MOS: Magneto-Optic Storage
MNOS: Metal Nitride Oxide Semiconductor MOS: Mean Opinion Score
MNP: Microcom Networking Protocol
M
MOS: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
(Network) Semiconductor manufacturing technology (Hardware)
MO: Magneto-Optical MOS: Microsoft Office Specialist
(Hardware) (Microsoft)
MO: Managment Object MOSES: Massive Open Systems Environment
MO:DCA: Mixed Object Document Content Standard
Architecture MOSFET: Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect
MOB: Memory-Order Buffer Transistor
(Hardware)
MOC: Microsoft Official Curriculum
(Microsoft) MOSPF: Multicast Open Shortest Path First
(Communication)
MOCA: Microsoft Online Crash Analysis
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) MOSS: Microsoft Office Server System
(Software) (Microsoft)
MOD: Magneto-Optical Disk
MOSS: Mime Objects Security Services
MOD: Microsoft Office 2000 Developer
(Software) (Microsoft) MOSTL: Microsoft Office Smart Tag List
Tool that makes it easy for Office developers to build and
MOD: MODulus update XML lists of terms to recognize (Software) (Microsoft)
Reminder of the integer division
MOT: Multimedia Object Transfer
MODEM: MOdulator/DEModulator
MOTD: Message Of The Day
MOF: Managed Object Format
MOTIS: Message-Oriented Text Interchange
(Microsoft)
Systems
MOF: Meta-Object Facility
MOTO: Master Of The Obvious
Standard interfaces that can be used to define and manipulate
a set of interoperable metamodels and their corresponding (Net lingo)
models MOTOS: Member Of The Other Sex
MOF: Microsoft Operations Framework (Net lingo)
Provides technical guidance that enables organizations to MOTSS: Member Of The Same Sex
achieve mission-critical system reliability, availability,
(Net lingo)
supportability, and manageability of Microsoft products and
technologies (Microsoft) MOU: Memorandum of Understanding
MOG: Multiplayer Online Game MOUS: Micorsoft Office User Specialist
MOHLL: Machine Oriented High Level Language (Microsoft)
MOV: Metal Oxide Varistor
(Hardware)
MROC: Miniature Ruggedized Optical Correlator MSCM: Multiple Slots on Continuation Mechanism
(Hardware) MSCP: Mass Storage Control Protocol
MRP: Manufacturing Resource Planning MSCS: MicroSoft Cluster Server
MRP: Material Requirement Planning MSCT: MicroSoft Certified Trainer
MRPL: Main Ring Path Length (Microsoft)
MSFC: Multilayer Switch Feature Card MSRP: Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price
(Network) MSS: Managed Security Service
MSFP: Management Service Focal Point MSS: Mass Storage Subsystem
MSFR: Minimum Security Function Requirements An early version of the Sun pedestal disk storage system
(Hardware) (Sun)
(IBM)
MSS: Multiprotocol Switched Server
MSG: MeSsaGe
(Hardware) (IBM)
File name extension
MSSP: Managed Security Service Provider
MSI: Medium-Scale Integration
The process of placing from 100 to 3,000 transistors on a chip MST: Mountain Standard Time
(Hardware) Timezone: GMT -7:00
MSI: MicroSoft Installer MSTS: MicroSoft Terminal Server
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Operating systems)
MSIE: MicroSoft Internet Explorer MSU: Mass Storage Unit
(Software) (Microsoft) (Hardware)
MSIL: MicroSoft Intermediate Language MSU: Media Server Unit
(Software) (Microsoft)
MSU: Millions of Service Units
MSIMN: MicroSoft Internet Mail and News
MSU: Modem Sharing Unit
(Microsoft)
(Hardware)
MSISDN: Mobile Station Integrated Services
MSVC: MicroSoft Visual C
Digital Network
The number used to call a mobile subscriber. An MSISDN MSW: Machine Status Word
consists of a country code, a national destination code and a
MT: Machine Translation
subscriber number (Communication)
MS-ISDN: Mobile Station Integrated Services MT: Management Team
Digital Network number MTA: Message Transfer Agent
MSJ: Microsoft Systems Journal An ISO/OSI application process that stores and forwards
messages in the X.400 message handling system. Compare
Microsoft magazine (Microsoft)
with Internet mail agent
MSK: Minimum-Shift Keying MTA: Message Transfer Architecture
MSKB: MicroSoft Knowledge Base (Software)
(Microsoft) MTA: Multimedia Terminal Adapter
MSL: Map Specification Library MTA: Multiple Terminal Access
MTBF: Mean Time Between Failures MTTFF: Mean Time To First Failure
The average time a component can operate without a failure. MTTR: Mean Time To Repair
The MTBF is the number of failures divided by the number of
The average time required to bring an array storage subsystem
hours the component has operated (Hardware)
back to full fault tolerance. (Hardware)
MTBJ: Mean Time Between Jams
MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit
MTBRP: Mean Time Between Parts Replacement
MUA: Mail User Agent
MTC: Midi Time Code
MUD: Multi-User Dialogue
MTD: Memory Technology Drivers
MUD: Multi-User Dimensions
MTD: Month To Date Formerly, Multi-User Dungeon
Time series function
MUD: Multi-User Dungeon
MTDA: Mean Time between Data Access Multi-user interactive role-playing games on the Internet
The average time before non-redundant components fail,
causing data inaccessibility without loss or corruption.
MUG: Multi-User Game
(Hardware) MUI: Multilanguage User Interface
MTDL: Mean time to Data Loss (Operating systems)
The average time before the failure of an array component MUI: Multimedia User Interface
causes data to be lost or corrupted. (Hardware)
MUL: MULtiply
MTDT: Moscow Time Daylight Time
Timezone: GMT +3:00 MULDEM: MULtiplexer-DEMultiplexer
NFI: Near Field Imaging NICE: Network Information and Control Exchange
Touch screen where the screen itself is the sensor. NFI uses a
NICE: Novell Internet Connection Expert
sophisticated sensing circuit that can detect a conductive
object - a finger or conductive stylus - through a layer of glass, (Network) (Novell)
as well as through gloves or other potential barriers (Hardware) NICOLAS: Network Information Center OnLine
NFI: No F***ing Idea Aid System
(Net lingo) (NASA)
NIAM: Natural language Information Analysis NIPS: Network Intrusion Prevention System
Method (Security)
NREN: National Research and Education Network NSN: Nasa Science Network
NTIS: National Technical Information Service NURMS: Non Uniform Rational MeshSmooth
Method of tesselation used by 3D Studio MAX (Software)
NTK: Newton ToolKit
NUUG: Norwegian Unix User Group
NTLDR: New Technology LoaDeR (Organizations)
Bootstrap loader for Microsoft Windows NT-based operating
systems (Operating systems) (Microsoft) NV: No oVerflow
A curve definition method based on the B-spline curve, which
NTLM: New Technology Lan Manager offers additional flexibility through knots along the spline.
(Operating systems) (Microsoft) Some knots can have more weight added (like a magnet) to
pull the curve toward those knots
NTO: Network Terminal Operator
(Network) NVDL: Namespace-based Validation Dispatching
Language
NTONC: National Transparent Optical Network
Allows specifying sections of XML documents to be validated
Consortium
against different schemas thus enabling the creation of
(Organizations) complex documents containing multiple languages
NVDM/2: NetView Distribution Manager 2
ODTUG: Oracle Development Tools User Group OGSA: Open Grid Services Architecture
Describes an architecture for a service-oriented grid computing
OE: Operating Environment
environment for business and scientific use. OGSA is based on
OE: Outlook Express several other Web service technologies, notably WSDL and
(Software) (Microsoft) SOAP, but it aims to be largely agnostic (Software)
O-LTM: Optical Line Terminating Multiplexer ONDS: Open Network Distribution Services
(IBM)
OLTP: OnLine Transaction Processing
ONE: Open Network Environment
OM: Object Manager (Sun)
OM: Object Model ONI: Operator Number Identification
(Software)
ONL: ONLine
OMA: Object Management Architecture (Net lingo)
(Microsoft)
ONMS: Open Network Management System
OMA: Outlook Mobile Access
(Software) (Microsoft) ONS: Open Networking System
OMAC: One-key cipher block chaining Message ONU: Optical Network Unit
Authentication Code OO: Object Oriented
(Security)
OOA: Object-Oriented Analysis
OMAP: Open Multimedia Applications Platform
OOAD: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
OMCA: OpenManage Client Administrator
OOB: Out Of Band
(Dell)
Technical term with different uses in communications and
OMCI: OpenManage Client Instrumentation telecommunication. It refers to communications which occur
outside of a previously established communications method or
OME: Open Messaging Environment channel (Communication)
Protocol
OOBE: Object-Oriented Business Engineering
OMF: Object Management Framework
OOBE: Out-Of-Box Experience
OMF: Object Module Format What happens when you first open the box containing your
(Microsoft) new computer
OMF: Observation Markup Format OOCASE: Object Oriented Computer Aided
Is an application of XML used to encode weather observation Software Engineering
reports
OOCTG: Object-Oriented Cobol Task Group
O OMF: Open Media Framework
OOD: Object-Oriented Design
OMF: Open Message Format
OODB: Object-Oriented DataBase
OMFG: Oh My F***ing God
OODBMS: Object-Oriented DataBase Management
(Net lingo)
System
OMFI: Open Media Framework Interchange
OODL: Object-Oriented Dynamic Language
OMG: Object Management Group
OODS: Object-Oriented Data Source
(Organizations)
OOF: Out Of Frame
OMG: Oh My God (or Gosh)
State that occurs when several consecutive Synchronous
(Net lingo)
Digital Hierarchy (SDH) frames are received with invalid
OMI: Open Management Interface (errored) framing patterns (Communication)
OSDS: Operating System for Distributed Switching OSR: Oem Service Release
OTML: Offline Tagging Markup Language OWSM: Oracle Web Services Manager
Product for web-services security. Part of the SOA suite
OTN: Oracle Technology Network
(Oracle)
(Oracle)
OWT: Open source Windowing Toolkit
OTOH: On The Other Hand
(Net lingo) OXC: Optical Cross Connect
(Communication)
OTP: One-Time Password authentication
(Security)
P
OTP: One-Time Programmable
P: Paragraph
OTP: Open Trading Protocol HTML tag
The Internet Open Trading Protocol (OTP) provides an
interoperable framework for Internet commerce. It is payment P: Peta
system independent and encapsulates payment systems such Prefix for 10 power 15 (or, in IT parlance, 2 power 50)
as SET, Mondex, CyberCash, DigiCash, GeldKarte, etc.
p: Pico
OTPROM: One-Time Programmable Read Only Prefix for 10 power -12
Memory
P&D: Plug & Display
OTS: Object Transaction Service (Hardware)
OU: Organizational Unit P&M: Personalization & Membership
OUCL: Oxford University Computing Laboratory (Microsoft)
PEAR: Php Extension and Application Repository PET: Print Enhancement Technology
See http://pear.php.net (Software) (Compaq)
PEARL: Process and Experiment Automation PET: Progressive Educational Technology
Realtime Language
PEU: Pci Expansion Unit
PEBCAC: Problem Exists Between Chair and (Hardware)
Computer
PEX: Phigs Extension to X
Tech support types sometimes use this to explain to each other
that the user is incompetent (Net lingo) A protocol for 3-D graphics in a network window system that
supports both PHIGS and PHIGS PLUS features
PEBCAK: Problem Exists Between Chair And
PFA: Predictive Failure Analysis
Keyboard
Describes the location of many computer glitches (Net lingo) PFB: Printer Font Binary
File name extension
PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And
Chair PFC: Power Factor Correction
An answer to problems with inexperienced computer users Feature included in some power supply boxes that reduces the
(Net lingo) amount of reactive power generated (Hardware)
PEC: Program Execution Control PFC: Powerbuilder Foundation Class
PECL: Php Extension Community Library (Software) (Sybase)
See http://pecl.php.net (Software) PFE: Programmer's File Editor
PEEK: Partners Early Experience Kit PFM: Printer Font Metrics
File name extension
PEEL: Programmable Electrically Erasable Logic
(Hardware) PFN: Page Frame Number
PEL: Picture ELement PFPU: Processor Frame Power Unit
(IBM)
PFR: Portable Font Resource
PEM: Port Expander Module
PFR: Power Fail Restart
PEM: Privacy-enhanced Electronic Mail
PFS: Page Free Space
(Security)
(Databases)
PEOT: Physical End Of Tape
PFS: Parallel File System
(Hardware)
(Operating systems)
PEP: Packet Exchange Protocol
PFX: Personal inFormation eXchange
PEP: Packetized Ensemble Protocol (Microsoft)
PEP: Point-Edge-Polygon PFY: Pimple Faced Youth
Type of graphics editor (Software) Young assistant to Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH) (Net
lingo)
PEP: Policy Enforcement Point
A port on a network device where the policy decisions are PGA: Pin Grid Array P
actually enforced (Network) IC pins organization (Hardware)
PERC: Portable Environment for Real-time Control PGA: Professional Graphics Adapter
(Operating systems) (IBM)
PERC: PowerEdge Raid Controller PGA: Program Global Area
(Hardware) (Dell) Private memory area for program use (Oracle)
PERL: Practical Extraction Report Language PGA: Programmable Gate Array
A flexible programming language especially designed for (Hardware)
processing text (Software)
PGC: Program Group Control
PERM: Pre-Embossed Rigid Magnetic (Microsoft)
(Hardware)
PGD: Planar Gas Discharge
PEROM: Programmable Erasable Read Only Display technology (Hardware)
Memory
PGDN: PaGe DowN
PERT: Program Evaluation and Review Technique
PGL: Professional Graphics Language
PES: Packetized Elementary Stream
PGM: Portable GrayMap
(Communication)
File format for images (Software)
PES: Positioning Error Signal
PGM: Pragmatic General Multicast
PES: Processor Enhancement Socket Reliable multicast transport protocol for applications that
PES: Proposed Encryption Standard require ordered, duplicate-free, multicast data delivery from
multiple sources to multiple receivers (Network)
PET: Personal Electronic Transactor
PGM: ProGraM
Commodore's first personal computer (Hardware)
PGML: Precision Graphics Markup Language
PET: Platform Event Trap
(Adobe)
Provides advance warning of possible system failures;
generated by systems with Alert Standard Format (ASF) or an PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
IPMI baseboard management controller (Hardware) Encryption program (Software)
PLOS: Parent Looking Over Shoulder PMMU: Paged Memory Management Unit
(Net lingo) (Hardware)
PL-OU: PhotoLuminescent Liquid Crystal Display PMOS: Positive Channel Metal Oxide
Semiconductor
PLS: PhysicaL Signaling
PMP: Performance Management Pack
PLS: PLeaSe
(Operating systems) (HP)
(Net lingo)
PMP: Point to MultiPoint
PLS: Primary Link Station
PMP: Portable Music Player
PLU: Primary Logical Unit
(Hardware)
PLV: Production Level Video PMP: Preventive Maintenance Package
PM: Performance Monitoring PMPL: Pi**ing My Pants Laughing
PM: Peripheral Module (Net lingo)
PM: Phase Modulation PMR: Perpendicular Magnetic Recording
How a hard drive records data: magnetic elements are aligned
PM: Power Management
vertically, as opposed to longitudinally on older drives
(Hardware) (Hardware)
PM: Presentation Manager PMR: Problem Management Report
PM: Preventative Maintenance (IBM)
POWER: Performance Optimization With PPPoE: Point to Point Protocol Over Ethernet
Enhanced Risc (Network)
(IBM)
PPPoI: Point to Point Protocol Over Isdn
PowerPC: Performance Optimization With (Network)
Enhanced Risc Performance Computing
PPPPPP: Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor
PP: Parallel Port Performance
PP: Physical Partition To plan ahead (Net lingo)
RAMP: Risk Analysis and Management Program RCA: Radio Corporation of America
(Organizations)
RAN: Radio Access Network
RCA: Readers' Choice Award
RAND: RANDom
RCC: Remote Cluster Controller
RAND: Rural Area Network Design
RCF: Reader's Comment Form
RAP: Rapid Application Prototyping
RCI: Rectal Cranial Inversion
RAPI: Remote access Application Programming
Interface When someone has things a** backward (Net lingo)
(Software) (Microsoft) RCL: Rotate Carry Left
RAPI: Rsvp Application Programming Interface RCP: Remote Control Panel
An RSVP-specific API that enables applications to interface
RCP: Remote CoPy
explicitly with an RSVP process (Network)
RAPS: Real Application on Parallel Systems RCP: Restore Cursor Position
RH: Request (or Response) Header RIPES: Reconnaissance Imagery Processing &
Exploitation System
RHCE: Red Hat Certified Engineer
RIPL: Remote Initial Program Load
Mid to advanced level certification for IT professionals who are
able to install and configure Red Hat Linux, understand RIPS: Raster Image Processing System
limitations of hardware and configure basic networking and file
systems RIPv2: Routing Information Protocol Version 2
Extension of the Routing Information Protocol (RIP). Its
RHCT: Red Hat Certified Technician purpose is to expand the amount of useful information in the
RIP packets and to add security elements (Network)
RHD: Removable Hard Drive
(Hardware)
R
RIR: Regional Internet Registry
RHEL: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Network)
(Operating systems) RIS: Remote Intallation Service
RHSBL: Right Hand Side Blacklist (Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Similar to a DNSBL but it lists domain names rather than IP RISC: Reduced Instruction Set Computer
addresses. The term comes from the "right-hand side" of an A computer architecture that uses fewer and less complex
email address - the part after the @ sign - which clients look instructions than complex instruction set computing (CISC).
up in the RHSBL Some complex instructions performed by hardware in CISC
RI: Reference Implementation computers are done by software in RISC computers (Hardware)
(Software) RISLU: Remote Integrated Services Line Unit
RI: Referential Integrity RIT: Raw Input Thread
(Databases) (Microsoft)
RI: Ring Indicator RITA: Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting
(Hardware) Agent
RIA: Rich Internet Application (Network)
Evolution of the web development and deployment model RJ: Registered Jack
(Software) Connector for phone and network cables (Hardware)
RIAA: Recording Industry Association of America RJE: Remote Job Entry
(Organizations) (Network)
RK: Resource Kit
(Operating systems)
RKRM: Rom Kernel Reference Manual
RMD: Required Markup Declaration ROFLMAO: Rolling On Floor Laughing My A** Off
(Net lingo)
RMDIR: ReMove DIRectory
ROFLMAOWTIME: Rolling On Floor Laughing My
RMI: Remote Messaging Interface A** Off With Tears In My Eyes
RMI: Remote Method Invocation (Net lingo)
(Software) ROFLMFAO: Rolling On Floor Laughing My
RMID: Resource Manager IDentifier F***ing A** Off
(Net lingo)
RMM: Ring Management Module
ROFLMHO: Rolling On Floor Laughing My Head Off
RMON: Remote MONitoring
(Net lingo)
RMON: Resident MONitor
ROFLOL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud
RMP: Remote Maintenance Processor (Net lingo)
(IBM)
ROFLOLBAG: Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out
RMPC: Remote Management Control Protocol Loud Busting A Gut
R RMS: Reason Maintenance System (Net lingo)
ROPES: Rapid Object-oriented Process for rpm: Rounds (or Revolutions) Per Minute
Embedded Systems (Hardware)
(Operating systems)
RPM: Route Processor Module
ROR: ROtate Right (Network) (Cisco)
ROS: Read-Only Storage RPN: Real Page Number
(IBM)
RPN: Reverse Polish Notation
ROS: Return on Service
RPPROM: ReProgrammable Programmable Read
ROSCOE: Remote Operating System Only Memory
Conversational Online Environment
RPQ: Request for Price Quotation
ROSE: Remote Operations Service Element
RPR: Relative Performance Rating
A lightweight RPC protocol used in ISO/OSI message handling,
directory, and network management application protocols RPSL: Routing Policy Specification Language
ROT: Rule Of Thumb RPT: RePeaT
ROT: Running Object Table RQBE: Relational Query By Example
(Software) (Microsoft)
ROTFL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing RQN: Real-Quick Newsletter
(Net lingo) FreeBSD newsletter (Operating systems)
ROTFLMAO: Rolling On The Floor Laughing My RR: Radio Resource
A** Off
RR: Real Reality
(Net lingo)
RR: Register to Register
ROTFLMAOASTC: Rolling On The Floor Laughing
The class of CPU instructions (and assembler codes that go
My A** Off And Scaring The Cat
with them) relating to only registers, not main memory (e.g."
(Net lingo) Add the contents of register A with register B, putting the
result in register A") (Hardware)
ROTFLMAOWTIME: Rolling On The Floor Laughing
My A** Off With Tears In My Eyes RR: Resource Record
(Net lingo) (Network)
ROTFLOL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud RR: Round Robin
(Net lingo) Process or thread scheduling (Operating systems)
ROTFLPMP: Rolling On The Floor Laughing, RRAS: Routing Remote Access Service
Peeing My Pants (Network)
(Net lingo)
RRCM: Reservation Request Control Mechanism
ROV: Real Option Valuation
RRDF: Remote Recovery Data Facility
ROX: Risc Os on X
RRDS: Relative Record Data Set
RISC-OS desktop environment clone for Unix/X-window
(Operating systems) RRIP: Rock Ridge Interchange Protocol
RP: Relay Party RRN: Relative Record Number
RPC: Remote Procedure Call RRP: Recommended Retail Price
Interprocess communication mechanism (Software)
RPCL: Remote Procedure Call Language
RRSHB: Resource Representation Soap Header
Block
R
RPCS: Refined Printing Command Stream RS: Radio Shack
(Hardware) (Ricoh)
RS: Recommended Standard
RPF: Reverse Path Forwarding
RS: Record Separator
Enables routers to correctly forward multicast traffic down the
distribution tree. It makes use of the existing unicast routing RS: Reed-Solomon
table to determine the upstream and downstream neighbors Reed-Solomon codes are block-based error correcting codes
(Network) with a wide range of applications in digital communications
and storage. Reed-Solomon codes are used to correct errors in
RPG: Report Program Generator
many systems (Communication)
Programming language (Software)
RS: Register Select
RPL: Remote Program Link
(Hardware)
RPL: Remote Program Load
RS: Registry Service
Bootable network device protocol, developed and used mostly
by IBM RS: Remote Scripting
Allows code in a client page to call functions in an ASP page
RPL: Requested Privilege Level
running on the server (Microsoft)
RPL: Resident Programming Language
RSA: Random Scheduling Algorithm
RPM: Radio Packet Modem
RSA: Remote Supervisor Adapter
RPM: Red-hat Package Manager PCI adapter which simplifies remote system management by
(Operating systems) providing around-the-clock remote access to the server. The
RSA monitors the server and sends out alerts to designated
RPM: Remote Printer Management recipients via LAN, pager, email or SNMP if a failure is
(Network) (Novell) detected (Hardware) (IBM)
RSA: Rivest-Shamir-Adleman
RTMPT: Real Time Messaging Protocol over hTtp RUW: Remote Unit of Work
RTMP encapsulated within HTTP requests to traverse firewalls. (IBM)
The encapsulated session may carry plain RTMP, RTMPS, or
RTMPE packets within RVA: Ramac Virtual Array
RTOS: Real Time Operating System RVLC: Reversible Variable Length Code
(Operating systems) MPEG-4 Audio Error Resilience (ER) technique that reduces
error propagation within scale factor data
RTP: Rapid Transport Protocol
RVRAD: RendezVous Relay Agent Deamon
RTP: Real-time Transport Protocol (Network)
(Communication)
RVRD: RendezVous Routing Daemon
RTR: Real Time Replicator (Network)
(Network)
RVSA: Remote Variant Selection Algorithm
RTRR: Real-Time Remote Replication
RW: Read Write
Provides real-time or scheduled data replication between the
local NAS and a remote NAS, an FTP server, or an external Device capability to read and write its media (Hardware)
drive (Hardware) RWM: Read-Write Memory
RTS: Real-Time Strategy RWP: Remote Write Protocol
Type of game (Network)
RTS: Real-Time System RWU: Remote Wake Up
RTS: Remote Takeover System (Network)
SAFE: Security And Freedom through Encryption SAP: Symbolic Assembly Program
SCADA: Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition SCE: Service Creation Environment
Systems used in industry to monitor and control plant status
SCE: Sniffer Certified Expert
and provide logging facilities
Certification for network professionals who can demonstrate an
SCAF: Service Control Agent Function in-depth understanding of Sniffer Technologies software
SCAM: Scsi Configured AutoMatically SCE: Structure Chart Editor
SCAN: Single Client Access Name SCEA: Sun Certified Enterprise Architect
New Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11g Release 2 (Software) (Sun)
feature that provides a single name for clients to access an
Oracle Database running in a cluster. The benefit is clients SCEF: Service Creation Environment Function
using SCAN do not need to change if you add or remove nodes SCF: Sequential Character Filemanager
in the cluster (Databases) (Oracle)
SCF: Service Control Function
SCART: Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appareils
Radiorcepteurs et Tlviseurs SCF: System Control Facility
A socket standard used in Europe, named after its creator SCI: Scalable Coherent Interface
company, to connect many kinds of audiovisual equipment -
sometimes also called the Peritel or Euro connector (Hardware) SCI: Serial Communication Interface
SCAS: SCAn String (Hardware)
SCDJWS: Sun Certified Developer for Java Web SCO: Second Class Object
Services (Software)
(Software) (Sun) SCO: Synchronous Connection-Oriented
SCDMA: Synchronous Code-Division Multiple
Access
SCE: Security Configuration Editor
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
SCOM: System Center Operation Manager SCSP: Server Cache Synchronization Protocol
End-to-end service-management product that is the best choice (Network)
for Windows because it works seamlessly with Microsoft
software and applications, helping organizations increase SCTP: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
efficiency while enabling greater control of the IT environment SCU: System Control Unit
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
SCVP: Simple Certificate Validation Protocol
SCOOPS: SCheme Object Oriented Programming
System SCW: Setup Computer Wizard
(Microsoft)
SCOPE: Simple COmmunications Programming
Environment SCWCD: Sun Certified Web Component Developer
(Hayes) (Software) (Sun)
SCOS: Single Object Copy Store SCX: Specialized Communications eXchange
(Software) (Lotus)
SD: Secure Digital
SCP: Save Cursor Position (Hardware)
SCP: Secure CoPy SD: Send Data
SCP: Service Control Point SD: Serial Digital
(Communication)
SCP: Session Control Properties
(Network) SD: Single Density
(Hardware)
SCP: Sniffer Certified Professional
SD: Structured Design
SCP: Subsystem Control Port
SD: Super Density
SCP: Sun Certified Programmer
(Hardware)
(Sun)
SD: Symbolic Debugger
SCP: Sunlink Communications Processor
(Software)
A printed circuit board that enables multi-vendor connection
with either synchronous or asynchronous operation. The SCP SDA: Screen Design Aid
works with SNA 3270 and X.25 SunLink software products
(Hardware) (Sun) SDA: Self-Decrypting Archive
(Security)
SCP: System Control Program
SDA: Software Delivery Agent
SCPC: Single Channel Per Carrier
SDA: Software Disk Array
SCQL: Structured Card Query Language
(Databases) SDA: Source Data Automation
SCR: SCRipt SDA: System Display Architecture
File name extension (DEC)
SCSL: Sun's Community Source Licensing SDFI: Secure Digital Forensic Imaging
(Sun) Asynchronous method of telemedicine. It denotes a specific
process that ensures the fast, safe and secure capture, storage
and instant delivery of digital forensic evidence
SDKJ: Software Development Kit for Java SDR: Sensor Data Records
(Hardware)
SDL: Service Description Language
SDR: Single Data Rate
SDL: Specification and Description Language
Memory access architecture (Hardware)
SDL: System Design Language
SDR: Store Data Register
SDL/GR: Specification and Description
SDR: Streaming Data Request
Language/Graphical Representation,
SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic Random Access
SDLC: Software Development Life Cycle
Memory
(Software)
(Hardware)
SDLC: Sun DownLoad Center
SD-ROM: Super Density Read Only Memory
(Software) (Sun)
SDS: Short Data Service
SDLC: Synchronous Data Link Control
Data message in mobile TETRA network. Similar to Short
A link-level communications protocol used in an IBM SNA Message Service (SMS) in GSM (Communication)
network that manages synchronous, code-transparent, serial
information transfer over a link connection (Communication) SDS: Sudden Death Syndrome
Used in digital photography when your camera dies a sudden
SDLP: Standard Device Level Protocol
death (Hardware)
SDLT: Super Digital Linear Tape
SDS: Sun Directory Services
(Hardware)
(Operating systems) (Sun)
S-DLT: Super Digital Linear Tape
SDS: Switched Data Service
(Hardware)
SDS: Synchronous Data Set
SDM: Semantic Data Model
SDS: Sysops Distribution System
SDM: Sun Download Manager
S Small (less than 300 KB), 100% Java application that insures a SDSC: Synchronous Data Set Controller
successful download experience (Software) (Sun) SDSCnet: San Diego Supercomputer Center
SDM: System Data Mover NETwork
SDM: System Development Methodology SDSL: Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line
(Communication)
SDM: System Development Multitasking
S-DSMA: Slotted Digital Sense Multiple Access
SDMC: Systems Director Management Console
Supposedly going to replace IBM Hardware Management SDTV: StanDard Definition Television
Console (HMC) (Software) (IBM)
SDU: Service Data Unit
SDMF: Single Data Message Format
SDU: Software Distribution Utilities
Format used to send Caller ID information (Communication)
SDV: Switched Digital Video
SDMI: Secure Digital Music Initiative
(AT&T)
SDML: Signed Document Markup Language
SDX: Storage Data Acceleration
SDMM: Security Domain Membership Management
SDXF: Structured Data eXchange Format
Specifies the interfaces supporting the elements within a
SDMM architecture which interact via SDMM mechanisms SE: Second Edition
SDMMC: Secure Digital MultiMedia Card (Software)
SHOE: Simple Html Ontology Extension SIFT: Stanford Information Filtering Tool
SHP: Super High Pressure SIG: SIGnature
Projector's lamp type (Hardware)
SIGGRAPH: Special Interest Group for GRAPHics SIPO: Serial In, Parallel Out
A group sponsored by the Association for Computing SIPP: Simple Internet Protocol Plus
Machinery. SIGGRAPH holds an annual conference on graphics
that includes vendor product displays, lectures, and graphics SIPP: SImple Polygon Processor
technology courses (Organizations)
SIPP: Single In line Pin Package
SIGIR: Special Interest Group on Information (Hardware)
Retireval
(Organizations) SIPR: Secure Internet Protocol Router
(Network)
SIGPLAN: Special Interest Group on
Programming LANguages SIR: Save Instruction Recognition
SLDRAM: Synchronous Link Dynamic Random SLSI: Super Large Scale of Integration
Access Memory The process of placing from 50,000 to 100,000 circuit
(Hardware) components. Also, the quality of their connections (Hardware)
SLDT: Store Local Descriptor Table SLSS: Systems Library Subscription Service
(IBM)
SLED: Single Large Expensive Disk
Refers to older mainframe hard disks that were used as a basis SLU: Secondary Logical Unit
for comparison during the initial UC Berkeley RAID studies. SLU: Spoken Language Understanding
(Hardware)
SLU: Subscriber line Unit
SLEE: Service Logic Execution Environment
(Hardware)
SLF4J: Simple Logging Facade For Java
SLU: Subscriber line Usage
Intended to serve as a simple facade for various logging APIs
(Communication)
allowing to the end-user to plug in the desired implementation
at deployment time. See http://www.slf4j.org/ (Software) SM: Set Mode
SLG: Service Level Guarantee SM: Shared Memory
(Network)
SM: Smart Media
SLI: Scalable Link Interface (Hardware)
Brand name for a multi-GPU solution developed by Nvidia for
linking two or more video cards together to produce a single SM: System Management
output. The name SLI was first used by 3dfx under the full SMA: Software Migration Assistant
name Scan-Line Interleave (Hardware) (nVidia)
SMAE: System Management Application Entity
SLI: Scan Line Interleave
Method for linking two (or more) video cards or chips together SMAF: Service Management Agent Function
to produce a single output. It is an application of parallel
SMAP: System Management Application Process
processing for computer graphics, meant to increase the
processing power available for graphics (Hardware) SMAPI: Speech Manager Application
SLIC: Serial Link and Interrupt Controller Programming Interface
(Software)
SLIC: Session Layer Interface Card
(Hardware) SMART: Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology
SLIC: Subscriber Line Interface Card Drives equipped with this feature report predicted failures
Interface between home phone lines and Central Office (CO) based on threshold values determined by the manufacturer.
(Hardware) This allows the network manager to replace a drive before it
fails. (Hardware)
SLIC: System Level Integration Circuit
SMASE: System Management Application Service
SLIC: System Licensed Internal Code
Element
(IBM)
SMASH: Simple, Many And Self-Healing
SLIM: Structured Language for Internet Markup
Supercomputing architecture (Hardware) (IBM)
SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMASH: Systems Management Architecture for
An Internet protocol used to run IP over serial lines such as
Server Hardware
telephone circuits or RS-232 cables interconnecting two
S systems. SLIP is now being replaced by PPP (Communication) Suite of specifications that deliver architectural semantics,
industry standard protocols and profiles to unify the
SLM: Service Level Management management of the data center
SLM: Spatial Light Modulator SMAU: Smart Multistation Access Unit
(Hardware) (Network)
SLMR: Silly Little Mail Reader SMB: Server Message Block
SLO: Service Level Objective A common format for sharing files, directories and devices in
Microsoft's operating systems (Operating systems)
(Network)
SMB: Small-Medium Business
SLOSH: Sea, Lake and Overland Surge from
Hurricane SMBIOS: System Management Basic
Input/Output System
SLOT: Scanned Laser Output Terminal
Specification that addresses how motherboard and system
SLP: Service Location Protocol vendors present management information about their products
(Network) in a standard format by extending the BIOS interface on x86
architecture systems
SLP: Service Logic Program
SMBus: System Management BUS
SLPD: Service Location Protocol Domain
SMC: Scsi-3 Medium changer Command
(Network)
SMC: Solaris Management Console
SLR: Single-Lens Reflex
(Operating systems) (Sun)
(Hardware)
SMC: Standard Microsystems Corporation
(Organizations)
SNAM: Server Net Access Manager SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
(Network) (Software)
SNAP: Sub-Network Access Protocol SOB: Start Of Block
(Communication)
SNAP: SubNetwork Attachment Point
SOC: Separation Of Concerns
SNAP: System and Network Administration
Program Software development technique used in aspect-oriented
programming (AOP) (Software)
SNAPI: Structured N-dimensional Application
SOC: System On a Chip
Programming Interface
(Hardware)
(Oracle)
SOCKS: SOCKet Secure
SNAT: Secure Network Address Translation
Provides a secure mechanism for translating internal, SODIMM: Small Outline Dual In-line Memory
nonroutable addresses into routable addresses. As traffic flows Module
out of a data center, the gateway and source address of IP (Hardware)
packets are translated and switched to the appropriate
upstream gateway router (Network) SO-DIMM: Small Outline Dual In line Memory
Module
SNCA: Solaris Network Cache and Accelerator
(Sun) SOE: Standard Operating Environment
SNCP: Single Node Control Point SOEP: Secondary Operand Execution Pipeline
SND: SouND SOG: Service Order Gateway
File Format for music SOH: Start Of Header
SNEWS: Secure NEWs Server (Communication)
SPL: SPelL checker SPSS: Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
File name extension (Software)
SRP: Security Rollup Package SSCCE: Short, Self Contained, Compilable and
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
Executable
Example program that demonstrates a bug or to submit to
SRP: Session Request Protocol forums when asking for help (Software)
(Hardware)
SSCE: Site Server Commerce Edition
SRP: Source Routing Protocol (Microsoft)
SRP: Suggested Retail Price SSCF: Service Specific Coordination Function
SRPI: Server-Requester Programming Interface SSCOP: Service Specific Connection Orientated
(IBM) Protocol
SRQ: Service ReQuest SSCP: Service Switching Control Point
SRR: Serially Reusable Resource SSCP: System Services Control Point
SRS: Screen Reader System SSCP: Systems Security Certified Practitioner
SRS: Shared Registration System SSCS: Service Specific Convergence Sublayer
(Network)
SSCS: Solid-State Circuits Society
SRS: Sound Retrieval System (Organizations)
SSD: Solid State Disk
SUNVIEW: SUN's Visual Integrated Environment SWALK: Sealed With A Loving Kiss
for Workstations (Net lingo)
SUP: Superscript SWAN: Sun Wide Area Network
HTML Tag
SWAP: Shared Wireless Access Protocol
SUR: Shell Update Release (Communication)
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
SWAP: Simple Workflow Access Protocol
SURAnet: Southeastern Universities Research
SWAP: Stewart Warner Array Program
Association NETwork
SWAR: Simd Within A Register
SUS: Software Update Services
A form of parallelism used in most microprocessors. Examples
Software update management solution (Operating systems) include MMX, SSE, SSE2, and 3DNow instructions (Hardware)
(Microsoft)
SWBPD: Semantic Web Best Practices and
SUSP: System Use Sharing Protocol
Deployment
SUT: Socket Under Test
SWDP: Sun Web Developer Pack
SUTT: Single User Test Tools Helps to leverage emerging web technologies and techniques
to create interactive and dynamic web applications for the
SVC: Switched Virtual Circuit enterprise (Software) (Sun)
Virtual connection set up only for the duration of a single
communications session. In contrast, a permanent virtual SWF: ShockWave Format
circuit remains available at all times (Network) File format
SVCD: Super Video Compact Disc SWI: SoftWare Interrupts
(Hardware)
SWIFT: Society for Worldwide Interbank
SVF: Schema Validation Framework Financial Telecommunication
(Software) (Sun)
SWIG: Simplified Wrapper and Interface
SVF: Simple Vector Format Generator
SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics SWIM: System Wide Information Management
(Network)
SVGA: Super Video Graphics Array
Video specification for a resolution of 800 X 600 pixels in 256 SWISH: Simple Web Indexing System for Humans
colors (Hardware)
SWMBO: She Who Must Be Obeyed
S-VHS: Super Video Home System (Net lingo)
SVI: Switched Virtual Interface SWOP: Specifications for Web Offset Publications
Represents a VLAN of switch ports as one interface to the These specifications standardize the submission of materials
routing or bridging function in the system (Network) supplied to web offset publications, and areas of responsibility
for each of the involved industry segments. See
SVID: System V Interface Definition
http://www.swop.org/ (Organizations)
Applies to the Unix OS (Operating systems)
SWP: Simple Web Printing
SVM: System Virtual Machine
(Microsoft) SWP: SWaP
File name extension
SVM: System Volume Mangement
SWRL: Semantic Web Rule Language
SVN: Switched Virtual Network
Intended to be the rule language of the Semantic Web
(IBM)
SWS: Sun Web Server
SVP: SchemaView Plus
(Sun)
S Filename extension for SchemaView Plus, a program for
drawing database schemas SWS: Symantec Web Security
(Symantec)
SVR: SerVeR
SWT: Standard Widget Toolkit
SVR4: System V Release 4
(Software)
SVRn: System V Release n
SWT: Swedish Winter Time
Applies to the Unix OS (Operating systems)
Timezone: GMT +1:00
SVS: Symmetric Virtual Servers
SWTX: Server Workstation Technology eXtended
SW: SoftWare A size and form factor specification for motherboards
(Hardware)
SW: Status Word
SX: SimpleX
Sw/A: Soap with Attachments
(Communication)
(Software)
SXGA: Super eXtended Graphics Array
SWAC: Standards Western Automatic Calculator
Video specification for a resolution of 1280 X 1024 pixel
SWAG: Scientific (or Silly) Wild A** Guess (Hardware)
A term used by technical teams when establishing high level
SXGA+: Super eXtended Graphics Array Plus
sizings for large projects (Net lingo)
Video specification for a resolution of 1400 X 1050 pixels
SWAIS: Simple Wide Area Information Server (Hardware)
SWAK: Sealed With A Kiss SXI: StarOffice Impress
Saying goodbye (Net lingo) Star/Open Office presentation file extension (Software)
SXQL: Simple Xml Query Language
TOMS: Transactions On Mathematical Software TP-PMD: Twisted Pair Physical layer Medium
Dependent
TOOIS: Transactions On Office Information
Systems TPR: Third-Party Relay
TOPICS: Total Online Program and Information TPS: Transactions Per Second
Control System TPT: Twisted Pair Transceiver
TOPLAS: Transactions On Programming TPTP: Test & Performance Tools Platform
Languages And Systems Provides powerful frameworks and services for an open
platform upon which developers build unique test and
tops: Theoretical Operations Per Second
performance toolsboth open source and commercialthat
Processing power (Hardware) easily integrate with Eclipse (Software)
TOPS: Timesharing OPerating System TPW: Turbo Pascal for Windows
TOS: Terms Of Service TPx: Transport Protocol class x
TQFP: Thin Quad Flat Pack TSDU: Transport Service Data Unit
(Hardware) The amount of user data whose identity is preserved from one
end of a transport connection to the other
TQM: Total Quality Management
TSE: Technical Support Engineer
TR: Table Row
HTML tag TSE: Terminal Server Edition
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
TR: Technical Report
TSE: The Semware Editor
TR: Terminal Ready
TSF: Text Services Framework
TR: TRavan
Simple and scalable framework that enables advanced text
Tape medium type (TR-3, TR-4) (Hardware) input and natural language technologies for applications
TRADIC: TRansistorized Airborne DIgital (Software) (Microsoft)
Computer TSI: Time Slot Interchanger
Name of first computer to be entirely transistorized
TSI: Transmission Subscriber Identification
TRAM: TRAnsputer Module
TSI: Transport Security Initiative
(Hardware)
Works in conjunction with the sysadmin and vendor
TrAX: TRansformation Api for Xml communities to develop the knowledge and tools to combat
the junk email problem. See http://mail-abuse.org/tsi/
TREX: Tree Regular Expressions for Xml
A means of expressing validation criteria by describing a TSID: Transmitting Subscriber IDentifier
pattern for the structure and content of an XML document (Communication)
TRIB: Transfer Rate of Information Bits TSLM: Terminal Services License Manager
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
TRIP: Telephony Routing over Internet Protocol
Discovery and exchange of IP telephony gateway routing tables TSM: Tivoli Storage Manager
between providers Protects data from hardware failures and other errors by
storing backup and archive copies of data on offline storage
TRIPS: Trade Related aspects of Intellectual
(IBM)
Property rightS
TSM: Topology Specific Module
TRM: TeRMinal
(Novell)
File name extension
TSM: Transaction Services Manager
TRN: Threaded Read News
TSMP: True Symmetric MultiProcessor
TRN: Token Ring Network
(Network) TSN: Task Sequence Number
TRO: Total Return on Ownership TSO: Time Sharing Option
Multitasking system for IBM MVS operating system (Operating
TROLI: Token Ring Optimized Link Interface systems) (IBM)
TRON: The Realtime Operating system Nucleus TSO/CMS: Time Sharing Option/Conversational
TROSN: The Real-time Operating System Nucleus Monitor System
TTDS: Trusted Time Date Stamping TWAIN: Toolkit Without An Important Name
Improperly expanded as shown, this term comes from Kipling's
TTF: TrueType Font "The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the twain shall
File format for fonts meet...", reflecting the difficulty of connecting digital imaging
devices (like scanners) to personal computers
TTFN: Ta Ta For Now
That's all for now (Net lingo) TWIP: TWentIeth of a Point
Equal to 1/1440th of an inch.
TTI: Two-Task Interface
Network interface to specific server-side functionality (Oracle) TWP: Technical Working Procedure
TTL: Time To Live TWT: Travelling Wave Tube
(Network) (Hardware)
UAPDU: User Agent Protocol Data Unit UCSPI: Unix Client-Server Program Interface
See http://cr.yp.to/proto/ucspi.txt (Software)
UAProf: User Agent PROFile
UCT: Universal Coordinated Time
UART: Universal Asynchronous
Receiver/Transmitter UDA: Universal Data Access
(Hardware) (Databases)
UDT: Uniform Data Transfer ULANA: Unified Local Area Network Architecture
UTOPIA: Universal Test and Operation Physical V&V: Verification And Validation
Interface for Atm V.FC: Version First Class
Physical layer specification for local connectivity between ATM Communications standard
devices (Communication)
V/F: Voltage to Frequency converter
UTP: Unshielded Twisted Pair
(Hardware)
(Hardware)
V/IP: Voice over Internet Protocol
UTRA: Umts Terrestrial Radio Air interface
(Communication)
(Communication)
VA: Virtual Address
UTRAN: Umts Terestrial Radio Access Network
(Communication) VA: Visual Age
(IBM)
UTS: Unicode Technical Standard
VA: Volt-Ampere
UTS: User Too Stupid
Electric power measurement unit (Hardware)
Dumb user with an error caused by himself (Net lingo)
VAC: Volts Alternating Current
UUCP: Unix to Unix Copy Program
A program that uses the UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Protocol VACM: View-based Access Control Model
(Network)
UUCP: Unix to Unix Copy Protocol
A protocol for communication between consenting UNIX VACS: Vector-based Asynchronous
systems (Network) Communication System U
UUD: Unix-To-Unix Decoding VAD: Value Added Dealer
Obtained with UUDecode, a Unix utility that decodes data from
7-bit ASCII
VAD: Voice Activity Detection V
When enabled on voice port or a dial peer, silence is not
UUE: Unix-To-Unix Encoding transmitted over the network, only audible speech. The sound
Obtained with UUEncode, a Unix utility that encodes data into quality is slightly degraded, but the connection uses much less
7-bit ASCII bandwidth
VBA: Visual Basic for Applications VCOS: Virtual Computer Operating System
(Software) (Microsoft) (Operating systems)
VBE/AI: Vesa Bios Extension/Audio Interface VCOS: Visual Caching Operating System
VDWQT: Vertical Deferred Write Queue Threshold VHF: Very High Frequency
(Databases) VHG: Virtual HyperGlossary
VEGA: Video7 Enhanced Graphics Adapter VHM: Voice Health Monitor
VEMM: Virtual Expanded Memory Manager Helps system administrators and network managers determine
and maintain the stability of the Voice over IP (VoIP) network
VEMMI: VErsatile MultiMedia Interface within their enterprise by using a series of availability and
health checks (Software) (Cisco)
VENUS: Very Extensive Non-Unicast Service
VHS: Very High Speed
VEP: Vertical Enterprise Portal
VHS: Video Home System
VER: VERify
VHS: Virtual Host Storage
VER: VERsion
VHSIC: Very High Speed Integrated Circuit
VERONICA: Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide
(Hardware)
Index to Computerized Archives
VI: Vertical Interval
VERP: Variable Envelope Return Paths
The raster lines that are precluded by a video signal standard
V
VERR: VERify Read access from containing a picture
VERW: VERify Write access VI: Video Input
(Hardware)
VES: Video Encoding Standard
(Oracle) VI: Virtual Interface
(Hardware)
VESA: Video Electronics Standard Association
(Organizations) VI: Visual Interactive
VF: Virtual Floppy VIA: Vendors Isdn Association
(Organizations)
VF: Voice Frequency
VIA: Virtual Interface Architecture
VFAT: Virtual File Allocation Table
(Network)
(Microsoft)
VIC: Very Inexpensive Computer
VFC: Virtual FIle Cabinet
(Hardware)
(Software)
VoATM: Voice Over Asynchronous Transfer Mode VPM: Vulnerability and Patch Management
Enables a router to carry voice traffic over an ATM network (Operating systems) (HP)
(Network) VPN: Virtual Page Number
VOB: Version Object Base VPN: Virtual Private Network
VOC: VOiCe A network that functions as if it were private, though it exists
File format for audio on public wires. Data is protected through encryption and other
security mechanisms (Network)
VOD: Video On Demand
VPO: Virtual Protected Output
VoD: Voice Over Data
VPS: Virtual Private Server
VoDSL: Voice Over Digital Subscriber Line
VPS: Voice Processing System
(Communication)
VPSC: Vault, Process, Structure, Configuration
VoFR: Voice Over Frame Relay
Enables a router to carry voice traffic over an Frame Relay VPT: Virtual Print Technology
network (Network)
VPT: Virtual Project Team
VoIP: Voice Over Internet Protocol
VPU: Visual Processing Unit V
A technology for transporting integrated digital voice, video,
and data over IP networks (Network) Graphics coprocessor (Hardware)
VRAM: Video Random Access Memory VSIA: Virtual Socket Interface Alliance
A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) used in high-speed graphics (Organizations)
frame buffers, providing separate buses for the CPU and the
frame buffer logic (Hardware) VSIMM: Video Single In line Memory Module
A small printed circuit card that contains memory chips for
V-RATE: Vendor Risk Assessment and Threat storing video images (Hardware)
Evaluation
VSIO: Virtual Serial Input Output
(Security)
VRC: Vertical Redundancy Check VSM: Virtual Shared Memory
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium WARP: Web service Aggregation, Rely and
(Organizations) Propagation
W4: What-Works-With-What
(Software) (Microsoft) V
WASP: Wireless Application Service Provider
WAAS: Wide Area Augmentation System (Software) W
WAB: Windows Address Book WAST: West Australian Standard Time
Filename extension (Software) (Microsoft)
Timezone: GMT +7:00
WABI: Windows Application Binary Interface WAT: West Africa Time
WAC: Web Authorization Control Timezone: GMT -1:00
WADL: Web Application Description Language WATS: Wide Area Telephone Service
XML-based file format that provides a machine-readable WAV: WAVeform
description of HTTP-based web applications. These applications
are typically REST web services (Software) File format for audio streams
WCSS: Wap Cascading Style Sheets WEFT: Web Embedding Fonts Tool
(Software) (Microsoft)
WCTL: Web Crossing Template Language
WELL: Whole Earth eLectronic Link
WD: Western Digital
(Hardware) WEMA: Western Electronics Manufacturers
Association
WD: Working Draft (Organizations)
WDA: Web-Disabled Application WEO: World Economic Outlook
WDATAM: What Do All The Acronyms Mean WEP: Watchguard Event Processor
(Net lingo)
W WDDX: Web Distributed Data eXchange
WEP: Windows Entertainment Pack
(Software) (Microsoft)
XML-based technology that enables the exchange of complex
data between Web programming languages, creating what WEP: Windows Entry Point
some refer to as 'Web syndicate networks' (Software)
WDF: Windows Driver Foundation WEP: Wired Equivalent Privacy
Strategy for the next generation of Windows drivers. WDF Lower level data encryption for wireless security (Network)
defines a single driver model that supports the creation of
object-oriented, event-driven drivers for either kernel mode or WEP: Wireless Encryption Protocol
user mode (Operating systems) (Microsoft) (Network)
WIDL: Web Interface Definition Language WLBS: Windows Load Balancing Service
(Operating systems) (Microsoft)
WIF: Wavelet Image File
File format for images WLE: WebLogic Enterprise
WLG: dr. Watson LoG
Filename extension (Microsoft)
WOLF: Web Objects for Legacy Functions WPS: Windows Printing System
(Software) (Microsoft)
WRUD: What aRe yoU Doing? WSML: Web Services Markup Language
(Net lingo) WSP: Web Standards Project
WS: Web Services Collective effort of web developers and end users whose
mission is to stop the fragmentation of the web, by persuading
Web-based enterprise applications that use open, XML-based
the browser makers that common standards are in everyone's
standards and transport protocols to exchange data with calling
best interest
clients. Also used to prefix web services interoperability
applications or standards (Software) WSP: Wireless Session Protocol
WS: WordStar WSRM: Web Services Reliable Messaging
WS: WorkSpace Provides a standard, interoperable way to guarantee message
delivery to applications or Web services (Software)
WS: WorkStation
WS-RM: Web Services Reliable Messaging
WSA: Web Services Addressing (Software)
Provides transport-neutral mechanisms to address Web
services and messages WSRP: Web Services for Remote Portlets
Standard that will allow for the "plug-n-play" of portals, other
WSAD: Websphere Studio Application Developer intermediary web applications that aggregate content, and
(Software) (IBM) applications from disparate sources (Software)
WSAM: Windows Secure Application Manager WSRP4J: Web Services for Remote Portlets For
Java
WSAPI: Web Site Application Programming
Apache's java implementation of WSRP. See also
Interface
http://ws.apache.org/wsrp4j/ (Software)
(O'Reilly & Associates)
WSS: WebServices Security
WSC: Windows Script Component
OASIS standard (Software)
(Software) (Microsoft)
WSS: Windows Sharepoint Services
WS-CDL: Web Services Choreography Description
Windows 2003 integrated portfolio of collaboration and
Language communication services designed to connect people,
XML-based language that describes peer-to-peer collaborations information, processes, and systems both within and beyond
of Web Services participants by defining their common and
complementary observable behavior; where ordered message
the organizational firewall (Software) (Microsoft) W
exchanges result in accomplishing a common business goal WS-SC: Web Services Secure Conversations
(Software)
WSDD: Web Service Deployment Descriptor
(Software) WST: Web Standard Tools
Extension to the Eclipse platform with support for building
WSDL: Web Service Description Language multi-tier Web applications. (Software)
An XML format for describing network services as a set of
endpoints operating on messages containing either document- WSTK: Web Services ToolKit
oriented or procedure-oriented information (Software) (IBM)
WSDP: Web Services Developer Pack WSUI: Web Service User Interface
The Java Web Services Developer Pack is an all-in-one
download containing key technologies to simplify building of
web services using the Java 2 Platform (Software) (Sun)
Z
ZAC: Zero Administration Client
ZAI: Zero Administration Initiative
ZAK: Zero Administration Kit
(Microsoft)
ZAW: Zero Administration for Windows
(Microsoft)
ZB: ZetaByte
1024 exabytes
ZBR: Zero Bug Release
Point in the software development at which all features are
correctly implemented and have no bugs logged against them
(Software)
ZBR: Zone-Bit Recording
ZCAV: Zone Constant Angular Velocity
(Hardware)
Z-CAV: Zoned Constant Angular Velocity
ZD: Ziff-Davis
ZDBOp: Ziff-Davis Benchmark OPeration
ZDL: Zero Delay Lockout
ZDMI: Ziff-Davis Market Intelligence
ZDS: Zenith Data Systems
ZDTV: Ziff-Davis TeleVision
ZEN: Zero Effort Networking
(Novell)
ZIF: Zero Insertion Force
(Hardware)
ZIP: Zigzag Inline Package
(Hardware)
ZIP: Zone Improvement Plan
Postal code
ZLR: Zoom Lens Reflex
(Hardware)
ZNA: Zero Network Administration
(Network)
ZOPE: Z Object Publishing Environment
ZPV: Zoomed Port Video
ZSL: Zero Slot Lan
ZV: Zoomed Video
Y
Z