[WyreTheWolf]

Z

.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]
ZAK Zero Administration Kit [Microsoft]
ZAW Zero Administration for Windows [Microsoft]
ZBR Zone-Bit Recording [IBM]
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]
ZPV Zoomed Port Video [Toshiba]
ZSL Zero Slot LAN
@ At + Commercial At
~ Tilde
(_) Underscore
* Wildcard character (asterisk)
*.* Star-Dot-Star (represents
Any file name.Any file name extension)
.$$$ Temporary File (file name extension)
1GL First Generation Language (machine language)
24/7 Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Seven Days a Week
286 80286 (microprocessor)
2GL Second Generation Language (assembly language)
386 80386 (microprocessor)
3COM 3 Com Corporation (The 3 Coms are
Computer, Communications and Compatibility)
3GL Third Generation Language (programming language)
486 80486 (microprocessor)
4GL Fourth Generation Language (descriptive language)
6DOF Six Degrees Of Freedom

[WyreTheWolf]

COUNTRY DOMAIN NAMES


.ad Andorra
.ae United Arab Emirates
.ag Antigua and Barbuda
.ai Anguilla
.al Albania
.am Armenia
.ar Argentina
.at Austria
.au Australia
.aw Aruba
.ba Bosnia-Herzegovina
.be Belgium
.bg Bulgaria
.bh Bahrain
.bm Bermuda
.bn Brunei Darussalam
.bo Bolivia
.br Brazil
.bs Bahamas
.bw Botswana
.by Belarus
.bz Belize
.ca Canada
.cc Cocos (Keeling) Islands
.ch Switzerland
.ci Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
.cl Chile
.cn China
.co Colombia
.cr Costa Rica
.cu Cuba
.cy Cyprus
.cz Czech Republic
.de Germany
.dk Denmark
.dm Dominica
.do Dominican Republic
.ec Ecuador
.ee Estonia
.eg Egypt
.es Spain
.et Ethiopia
.fi Finland
.fj Fiji
.fm Micronesia
.fo Faroe Islands
.fr France
.gb Great Britain
.ge Georgia
.gi Gibraltar
.gl Greenland
.gp Guadeloupe (French)
.gr Greece
.gt Guatemala
.gu Guam
.gy Guyana
.hk Hong Kong
.hn Honduras
.hr Croatia
.hu Hungary
.id Indonesia
.ie Ireland
.il Israel
.in India
.ir Iran
.is Iceland
.it Italy
.jm Jamaica
.jo Jordan
.jp Japan
.ke Kenya
.kg Kyrgyzstan
.kr Korea (South)
.kw Kuwait
.kz Kazakhstan
.lb Lebanon
.lc Saint Lucia
.li Liechtenstein
.lk Sri Lanka
.lt Lithuania
.lu Luxembourg
.lv Latvia
.ma Morocco
.mc Monaco
.md Moldova
.mk Macedonia
.mn Mongolia
.mo Macau
.mt Malta
.mu Mauritius
.mv Maldives
.mx Mexico
.my Malaysia
.na Namibia
.nc New Caledonia (French)
.nf Norfolk Island
.ng Nigeria
.ni Nicaragua
.nl Netherlands
.no Norway
.np Nepal
.nu Niue
.nz New Zealand
.om Oman
.pa Panama
.pe Peru
.pf Polynesia (French)
.pg Papua New Guinea
.ph Philipines
.pk Pakistan
.pl Poland
.pt Portugal
.py Paraguay
.qa Qatar
.ro Romania
.ru Russian Federation
.sa Saudi Arabia
.se Sweden
.sg Singapore
.si Slovenia
.sk Slovak Republic
.su USSR (former)
.sv El Salvador
.th Thailand
.tn Tunisia
.to Tonga
.tr Turkey
.tt Trinidad and Tobago
.tw Taiwan
.tz Tanzania
.ug Uganda
.uk United Kingdom
.us United States
.uy Uruguay
.uz Uzbekistan
.va Vatican City State
.ve Venezuela
.vi Virgin Islands (USA)
.vn Vietnam
.ye Yemen
.yu Yugoslavia
.za South Africa
.zm Zambia
.zw Zimbabwe

[WyreTheWolf]

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[ToshiroOC]

<Standing Ovation> Wow... just... wow. Wyre wins!

[merry]

SPAM Spiced Ham (Hormel canned pork developed in 1937)
SPAM Search Pattern Assessment Model
SPAM Service Provisioning and Account Management
SPAM Service Provisioning and Number Management
SPAM Shelter, Portable, Air Mobile
SPAM Shelter, Protective, Aircraft Maintenance
SPAM Shoulder of Pork & Ham (Hormel canned pork developed in 1937)
SPAM Some Place Around Montana / Missouri / Massachusetts / Mississippi / Maine :-)
SPAM Space Planning and Management (University of Missouri - Columbia)
SPAM Strike Package and Associated Messages (Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System)

[The375Boy]

damn, now that wut i'm talkin bout! nice job

[BWX]

Originally posted by ToshiroOC
<Standing Ovation> Wow... just... wow. Wyre wins!

HUH????

(ISC)2: International Information System Security Certification Consortium
(Organizations)

µ (mu): Micro
Prefix for 10 power -6

1GL: First Generation Language
Machine language (Software)

24/7: 24 hours a day/7 days a week

2D: 2Dimensional

2D: Double Density
(Hardware)

2G: Second Generation
Mobile telecommunication network allowing 14.4 kbps transfer rates (Communication)

2GL: Second Generation Language
Assembler and other low-level languages (Software)

2HD: 2 sides, High Density
(Hardware)

2PC: 2-Phase Commit
Protocol to allow replicated data to be modified at multiple sites


2S: 2 Sides
(Hardware)

2S2D: 2 Sides, Double Density
(Hardware)

2SHD: 2 Sides, High Density
(Hardware)

3D: 3Dimensional

3DES: Triple Data Encryption Standard
(Security)

3G: Third Generation
Mobile telecommunication network allowing 300-400 kbps transfer rates (Communication)

3GIO: Third Generation Input Output
(Intel) (Hardware)

3GL: 3rd Generation Language
High level programming languages (Software)

3GPP: Third Generation Partners Project
See http://www.3gpp.org/ (Organizations)

4G: Fourth Generation
Mobile telecommunication network allowing 10Mbit/s transfer rates (Communication)


4GL: 4th Generation Language
Database access languages (Software)

4GT: 4 Gigabyte memory Tuning

5GL: Fifth Generation Language
Artificial intelligence languages (Software)

6DOF: Six Degrees Of Freedom

A: Ampere
Current measurement unit

a: atto
Prefix for 10 power -18

Ã…: Ã…ngstrom
Length measurement unit corresponding to 10 power -10 meters

A/D: Analog/Digital
(Hardware)

A/P: Accounts Payable

A/PC: Auto Personal Computer
(Hardware)

A/R: Accounts Receivable

A/UX: Apple UniX
(Apple) (Operating systems)

AA: Auto Answer

AA: Advertising Agent

AA: Anti-Aliasing
Method for removing jagged edges

AAA: Asp Application Aggregator

AAA: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
A term for a framework for intelligently controlling access to computer resources, enforcing policies, auditing usage, and providing the information necessary to bill for services. These combined processes are important for effective network management (Security)

AAB: All-to-All Broadcast

AAC: Advanced Audio Coding

AAF: Advanced Authoring Format

AAL: Atm Adaption Layer
Layer 3 of the ATM architecture. Adapts user traffic into/from ATM 48-byte payloads (Communication)

AAP: Applications Access Point
(DEC)

AARP: Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol
(Apple) (Network)

AAS: Auto Area Segmentation
Scanner technology which detects and optimizes text and graphics on the same page (Epson) (Hardware)

AAS: All-to-All Scatter

AASP: Ascii Asynchronous Support Package

AAT: Average Access Time

AATP: Authorized Academic Training Program
(Microsoft)

ABA: Address Book Archive
Filename extension

ABAP: Advanced Business Application Programming
Powerful programming language created specifically for developing SAP applications. ABAP Objects is the new object-oriented generation of this language, designed to respond to the needs of SAP's future strategies and environments (Software)

ABC: Atanasoff-Berry Computer
First digital calculating machine that used vacuum tubes

ABC: Activity-Based Costing

ABEL: Advanced Boolean Expression Language

ABEND: ABnormal END
(Software)

ABI: Application Binary Interface
Defines the binary system interface between compiled applications and the operating system on which they run.

ABIOS: Advanced Basic Input Output System

ABIST: Automatic Built-In Self-Test
(IBM)

ABLE: Adaptive Battery Life Extender

ABM: Asynchronous Balanced Mode
HDLC data transfer mode (Network)

ABNF: Augmented Backus Naur Form

ABR: Available Bit Rate
One of five ATM Forum defined service types. Supports variable bit rate data traffic with flow control, a minimum guaranteed data transmission rate and specified performance parameters (Communication)

ABRS: Automated Book Request System

ABS: Address Book Synchronization
(IBM)

ABS: ABSolute

ABS: Automatic Backup System

ABT: ABorT

ABTS: Ascii Block Terminal Services

AC: Alternate Current

AC: Audio Codec
(Hardware)

AC: AutoCheck

AC: Automatic Computer

AC: Authentication Center

AC: Access Customer
(Communication)

ACAP: Application Configuration Access Protocol

ACC: ACCumulator

ACC: Authorization Contract for Containers
Specification (JSR-115) that defines new java.security.Permission classes to satisfy the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) authorization model (Sun) (Software)

ACD: Automatic Call Distribution

ACDI: Asynchronous Communications Device Interface

ACE: Access Control Encryption

ACE: Automatic Computing Engine

ACE: Adverse Channel Enhancements

ACE: Advanced Computing Environment

ACE: Access Control Entry
An entry in an Access Control List (ACL). An ACE contains a set of access rights and a security identifier (SID) that identifies a trustee for whom the rights are allowed, denied, or audited (Operating systems)

ACE: Adobe Certified Expert
(Adobe)

ACF: Access Control Field

ACF: Advanced Communications Function

ACH: Automated Clearing House

ACIA: Asynchronous Communication Interface Adapter

ACIAS: Automated Calibration Interval Analysis System

ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability
(Software)

ACIS: American Committee for Interoperable Systems

ACK: ACKnowledge
A transmission control character transmitted by a station as an affirmative response to the station with which the connection has been set up. (Communication)

ACL: Access Control List
For granting or denying access to computer resources (security) (Operating systems)

ACL: Advanced Cmos Logic

ACL: Asynchronous ConnectionLess
(Communication)

ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
(Organizations)

ACM: Audio Compression Manager
(Microsoft)

ACM: Afp Conversion Module
(Software)

ACMS: Application Control Management System

ACNM: Application Centric Network Management
(Software)

ACO: Alternate Checksum Option
(Network)

ACP: Ancillary Control Program

ACP: Auxiliary Control Process

ACP: Active Code Page

ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
(Hardware)

ACR: Allowed Cell Rate

ACROSS: Automated Cargo Release and Operations Service System

ACS: Advanced Computer System
(IBM)

ACS: Access Control Set

ACS: Access Control System

ACS: Anti Curl System

ACS: Asynchronous Communication Server

ACS: Automatic Class Selection

ACS: Automatic Contrast Selection

ACS: Admission Control Service
(Microsoft) (Network)

ACS: Access Control Server

ACSE: Association Control Service Element
The method used in International Organization for Standardization's open systems interconnection (OSI) for establishing a call between two applications.

ACSI: American Customer Satisfaction Index

ACSM: Application Centric Storage Management
(Software)

ACSS: Aural Cascading Style Sheets

ACT: Application Compatibility Toolkit
(Microsoft) (Software)

ACTS: Advanced Communication Technology Satellite
(NASA) (Communication)

ACTS: Automated Computer Time Server

ACTT: Advanced Communication and Timekeeping Technology

ACU: Automatic Calling Unit

ACVC: Ada Compiler Validation Capacity

AD: Active Directory
(Operating systems)

ADA: Automatic Data Acquisitions

ADA: Adobe Developers Association
(Organizations)

ADA: ADA
Programming language named after Augusta Ada Lovelace

ADAPT: Architecture, Design, Analysis and Planning Tool

ADB: Apple Desktop Bus
Bus architecture (Apple) (Hardware)

ADBS: Advanced Data Broadcast System
(Communication)

ADC: Analog to Digital Converter
A device that translates analog signals to digital signals. Contrast with digital-to-analog converter (DAC). (Hardware)

ADC: Advanced Data Connector
(Microsoft) (Databases)

ADC: Application Delete Certificate

ADC: Adaptive Data Compression
(Hayes)

ADC: ADd with Carry

ADC: Active Directory Connector
(Operating systems)

ADC: Application Development Consultant

ADC: Apple Display Connector
(Apple) (Hardware)

ADCAP: ADvanced CAPability
Used to refer to advanced capability, cuttin edge technology, also in military applications (e.g. ADCAP missile)

ADCCP: Advanced Data Communication Control Procedures
(Communication)

ADD: Automatic Document Detection

ADD: Adapter Device Driver

ADF: Automatic Document Feeder
Scanner device (Hardware)

ADF: Automatically Defined Function

ADF: Adapter Description File
File name extension

ADI: AutoCad Device Interface
Driver

ADK: Appliance Development Kit
(Software)

ADL: Address Data Latch

ADL: Architecture Description Language
(Software)

ADLAT: ADaptive LATtice filter

ADLC: Asynchronous Data Link Control

ADM: Application Distribution and Management

ADMACS: Apple Document Management And Control System

ADMD: ADministrative Management Domain

ADML: Application Description Markup Language
(Software)

ADMS: Adstar Distributed Management System

ADO: Activex Data Object
(Microsoft) (Databases)

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ADODB: Activex Data Object DataBase
(Microsoft) (Databases)

ADP: Automatic Data Processing

ADP: Access Database Project
Filename extension (Microsoft) (Software)

ADP: Aol Dynamic Pages
(Software)

ADPCM: Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
Communication protocol (Communication)

ADR: ADdRess

ADR: Advanced Digital Recording
(Hardware)

ADR2: Advanced Digital Recording 2nd generation
(Hardware)

ADS: Application Development Solutions
(AT&T)

ADS: Application Development System

ADS: Automatic Distribution System

ADS: Advanced Digital System

ADS: Active Directory Service
Windows 2000 network objects database that stores each specific network item in a central database and that may be replicated (Microsoft) (Operating systems)

ADS/O: Application Development System / Online

ADSC: Adobe Document Structuring Conventions

ADSI: Active Directory Service Interface
(Network)

ADSI: Analog Display Services Interface

ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
Communication infrastructure (Communication)

ADSM: Advanced Data Storage Management
(IBM)

ADSM: Adstar Distributed Storage Manager
(IBM) (Databases)

ADSP: Appletalk DataStream Protocol
(Apple)

ADSR: Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release

ADT: Access Developer Toolkit
(Microsoft) (Software)

ADT: Abstract Data Type

ADT: Application Data Type

ADT: Atlantic Daylight Time
Timezone: GMT -4:00

ADT: Advanced Dram Technology
(Hardware)

ADTG: Advanced Data Table Gram
Proprietary binary format for storing database data (Microsoft) (Databases)

ADU: Automatic Dialing Unit

ADW: Advanced Docking Window
(Software)

ADW: Application Development Workbench
(Software)

AE: Above or Equal

AeA: America Electronics Association
(Organizations)

AEB: Analog Expansion Bus
(Dialogic)

AEC: Architecture, Engineering, Construction
A computer graphics market requiring specialized applications that facilitate efficient planning, design, drafting, and analysis.

AEGIS: Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System

AEI: Application Enabling Interface

AES: Advanced Encryption Standard

AESA: Atm End System Address
(Communication)

AF: Assured Forwarding
Using AF, a provider may offer different levels of service for IP packets received from a customer domain. Each AF class is allocated a specified amount of buffer space and bandwidth (Network)

AFA: Accelerated File Access

AFAIK: As Far As I Know
(Net lingo)

AFC: Automatic Frequency Control

AFC: Application Foundation Classes
(Microsoft) (Software)

AFC: Automatic Font Change

AFC: AntiFerromagnetically-Coupled
Multilayer coating expected to permit hard-disk drives to store 100 billion bits (gigabits) of data per square inch of disk area (IBM) (Hardware)

AFD: Automatic File Distribution

AFDW: Active Framework for Data Warehousing
(Microsoft)

AFFS: Amiga Fast File System
(Operating systems)

AFI: Authority and Format Identifier

AFII: Association for Font Information Interchange

AFIRM: Automated Fingerprint Image Reporting and Match

AFIS: Automated Fingerprint Identification System

AFK: Away From Keyboard
(Net lingo)

AFLCD: AntiFerroelectric Liquid Crystal Display

AFM: Atomic Force Microscope
(Hardware)

AFM: Adobe Font Metrics
File name extension (Adobe)

AFP: Appletalk Filing Protocol
(Apple) (Communication)

AFP: Advanced Function Presentation
(IBM)

AFP: Advanced Function Printing
Suite of electronic printing solutions to turn your invoices, letters, policies, statements and reports into high-quality, cost-effective documents (IBM) (Software)

AFPL: Alladin Free Public License

AFR: Annualized Failure Rate
(Hardware)

AFR: Alternate Frame Rendering
(Hardware)

AFS: Andrew File System

AFT: Adapter Fault Tolerance
(Intel)

AFTP: Anonymous File Transfer Protocol

AGA: Advanced Graphics Adapter

AGA: Advanced Graphics Architecture
Graphics architecture for Amiga computers

AGARAS: AntiGlare AntiReflective AntiStatic

AGC: Automatic Gain Control
(Hardware)

AGE: Amorphium Graphics Engine

AGLR: Anti-Glare, Low Reflection
(Hardware)

AGP: Accelerated Graphics Port
(Hardware)

AGU: Address Generation Unit

AH: Authentication Header
(Network)

Ah: Ampere Hour
Rechargable battery charge measurement unit (Hardware)

AHA: Adaptec Host Adapter
(Adaptec) (Hardware)

AHDL: Analog Hardware Description Language

AHDT: Alaska-Hawaii Daylight Time
Timezone: GMT -10:00

AHS: Abstract Handle Specification

AHST: Alaska-Hawaii Standard Time
Timezone: GMT -10:00

AI: Artificial Intelligence

AI: Analog Input

AIA: Applications Integration Architecture
(DEC)

AIC: Aixwindows Interface Composer
(IBM)

AID: Application IDentifier

AIFF: Audio Interchange File Format
(Apple)

AIIM: Association for Information and Image Management

AIM: Aol Instant Messenger

AIM: Application Integration Module

. AIM: Application Interface Module

AIN: Advanced Intelligent Network

AIP: Asp Infrastructure Provider

AIP: Application Infrastructure Provider

AIR: Architecture Implementation Review

AIS: Automated Information System

AIS: Alarm Indication Signal

AISB: Association of Imaging Service Bureaus

AISP: Association of Information Systems Professionals

AIT: Advanced Intelligent Tape
(Hardware)

AIX: Advanced Interactive eXecutive
IBM's Unix (IBM) (Operating systems)

AJDT: AspectJ Development Tools
Provides Eclipse platform based tool support for Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD) with AspectJ. See http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/ (Software)

aka: Also Known As
(Net lingo)

ALAT: Advanced Load Address Table

ALB: Advanced Load Balancing

ALC: Application Load Certificate

ALC: Automatic Level Control

ALC: Arithmetic and Logic Circuits

ALC: Airline Link Control
Service protocol (Network)

ALDC: Adaptive Lossless Data Compression
(IBM)

ALE: Address Latch Enable

ALE: Application Launch and Embedding
(Software)

ALE: Account Level Equivalence

ALEC: Alternative Local Exchange Carrier
(Communication)

ALEP: Advanced Language Engineering Platform

ALGOL: ALGOrithmic Language
Programming language (Software)

ALIBI: Adaptive Location of Internetworked Bases of Information

ALICE: Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity

ALINK: Active LINK

ALIWEB: Archie Like Indexing in the WEB

ALM: Asynchronous Line Multiplexer
A device that connects multiple terminals or other serial interface devices to Sun network file servers or workstations. Also known as "multiple terminal interface."

ALN: Asynchronous Learning Network

ALP: Apple List Price
Recommended retail price for Apple Macintosh equipment (Apple) (Hardware)

ALP: Automatic Language Processing

ALR: Advanced Logic Research

ALSA: Architectures of Large Systems of Agents

ALT: ALTernate

ALU: Arithmetic Logic Unit
Device in a CPU performing arithmetic operations (Hardware)

AM: Amplitude Modulation

AMA: Automatic Message Accounting

AMASS: Archival Management And Storage System
Manufacturer

AMD: Advanced Micro Devices
CPU Manufacturer (AMD)

AMD: Active Matrix Display

AME: Advanced Metal Evaporation
Recording media technology (Hardware)

AMG: All Music Guide

AMHA: Advanced Macro Heuristic Analysis
(Dr. Solomon)

AMI: American Megatrends, Inc.

AMI: Alternate Mark Inversion

AMI: Application Messaging Interface

AMLCD: Active-Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
(Hardware)

AMMA: Advanced Memory Management Architecture

AMP: Attached Media Processor
(Hardware)

AMP: Asymmetric MultiProcessing
System architecture that uses different types of processors in a multi-processor system (Hardware)

AMPS: Advanced Mobile Phone System
(Communication)

AMQRS: Audio Master Quality Recording System
(Hardware)

AMR: Audio Modem Riser
Slot for an internal modem (Hardware)

AMS: Advanced Microcomputer System
(Siemens-Nixdorf) (Hardware)

ANDF: Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format

ANI: ANImated cursor
File name extension (Microsoft)

ANI: Automatic Number Identification


ANN: ANNotations
File name extension (IBM)

ANN: Artificial Neural Network

ANS: American National Standard

ANSI: American National Standard Institute
An organization that reviews and approves product standards in the United States. (Organizations)

ANT: Another Neat Tool
Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without make's wrinkles. See http://jakarta.apache.org/ant (Software)

ANT: Advanced Network Tools

ANX: Automotive Network eXchange

AO: Analog Output

. AO/DI: Always On/Dynamic Isdn

AOCE: Apple Open Collaborative Environment
(Apple)

AOCN: Administrative Operating Company Number
(Communication)

AOE: Application Operating Environment
(AT&T)

AOL: America OnLine
(Network)

. AOL: Alert On Lan
(Network)

AOP: Association of Online Professionals
(Organizations)

. AOP: Aspect-Oriented Programming
(Software)

AOS: Add Or Subtract

AOSD: Aspect-Oriented Software Development
(Software)

AOT: Ahead Of Time
Programs compilation technique (Software)

AOW: Asia and Oceania Workshop
One of the three regional OSI implementors workshops.

AP: Application Processor

AP: Access Point
(Hardware)

AP: Access Provider
(Communication)

APA: Adaptive Packet Assembly

APA: All Points Addressable

APA: Arithmetic Processing Accelerator

APAR: Authorized Program Analysis Report
(IBM)

APC: American Power Conversion

APCUG: Association of Personal Computer User Groups

APCVG: Association of Personal Computer Users Group
(Organizations)


APDU: Application Protocol Data Unit

APF: Apple Filing Protocol
(Apple)

APF: Automated Purposing Framework
Collection of scripts and utilities that enable you to consistently and reliably prepare computer hardware (BIOS, mass storage) and install the Windows operating system and layered products on one or more build computers (Microsoft)

API: Application Programming Interface
A set of calling conventions defining how a service is invoked through a software package. (Software)

APIC: Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
(Hardware)

APIPA: Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing
(Network)

APIS: Advanced Passenger Information System

APL: A Programming Language
(Software)

APL: Applied Physics Laboratory
Advanced research facility in Skaggsville, MD.

APL: Average Picture Level
Monitor quality parameter (Hardware)

APLSF: A Programming Language with Shared Files

APM: Advanced Power Management

APM: Application Performance Management

APN: Access Point Name
Used on GPRS as access information (Communication)

APNIC: Asia-Pacific Network Information Center

APOP: Authenticated Post Office Protocol

APP: APPlication
File name extension

APPC: Advanced Program to Program Communication

APPCM: Access Protection and Priority Control Mechanism

APPEL: A P3p Preference Exchange Language


APPI: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking
(Network)

APPN: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking
(IBM) (Network)

APR: Apache Portable Runtime
Its mission is to provide a free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system portability layer to as many operating systems as possible, including Unices, MS Win32, BeOS and OS/2 (Software)

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APR: Advanced Port Replicator
(Hardware)

APRP: Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing

APS: Analog Protection System

APS: Advanced Printing Service
(IBM)

. APS: Advanced Photo System

APS: Asynchronous Protocol Specification

APS: Automatic Protection Switching
A mean for automatically detecting and signalling a transmission link failure (Communication)

APS: Active Pixel Sensor

APSE: Ada Programming Support Environment
(Software)

APSL: Apple Public Source License
Software license (Apple)

APSO: Audio Precision System One
(Hardware)

APT: Address Pass Through

APT: Advanced Parallel Technology

APT: Automatically Programmed Tools

APT: Advanced Package Tool
Software download/installation tool for Debian GNU/Linux (Operating systems)

APTC: Authorized Prometric Testing Center
Sylvan Prometric is a division of Sylvan Learning Systems. It is the global leader in computer-based testing for academic assessment, professional licensure, and certification.

APTM: Application Program to Transaction Manager

APU: Audio Processing Unit
(Hardware)

AQ: Advanced Queueing
(Oracle) (Databases)

AR: Application Requester
(IBM)

AR: Access Rate
The data rate of the user access channel. The rate (maximum) at which access devices can offer data to the frame relay network (Communication)

ARA: Appletalk Remote Access
(Apple) (Communication)

ARAG: AntiReflective, AntiGlare

ARAP: Appletalk Remote Access Protocol

ARAS: AntiReflective, AntiStatic

ARB: Architecture Review Board

ARC: ARChive
File name extension

ARC: Advanced Risc Computer
(Hardware)

ARCA: Advanced Risc Computing Architecture

ARCnet: Attached Resource Computer NETwork

AREQIPA: Application REQuested Internet Protocol over Atm
(Network)

ARIN: American Registry for Internet Numbers
(Organizations)

ARIS: Architecture of Integrated Information Systems

ARIS: Attack Registry & Intelligence Service
(Security)

ARL: Adjusted Ring Length

ARL: Access Rights List

ARLL: Advanced Run Length Limited

ARM: Advanced Risc Machine

ARM: Asynchronous Response Mode
HDLC data transfer mode (Network)

ARM: Annotated Reference Manual

ARM: Application Response Measurement
(Network)

ARMA: Association of Records Managers and Administrators

ARMS: Architecture for Reliable Managed Storage

ARO: Adaptec Raidport Option
(Adaptec) (Hardware)

AROM: Alterable Read Only Memory

ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
The Internet protocol used to dynamically map Internet addresses to physical (hardware) addresses on local area networks. Limited to networks that support hardware broadcast. (Network)

ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency
Now called Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. government agency that funded the ARPANET. (Organizations)

ARPANET: Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork
A packet switched network developed in the early 1970s. The "grandfather" of today's Internet. ARPANET was decommissioned in June 1990.

ARPL: Adjust Requested Privilege Level

ARQ: Automatic Repeat reQuest
(Communication)

ARS: Activity Reporting System

ART: Average Response Time

ART: Adaptive Resonance Theory

ARTA: Apple Real Time Architecture

ARTIC: A Real-Time Interface Coprocessor
(IBM)

ARTS: Asynchronous Remote Takeover Server

ARTT: Asynchronous Remote Takeover Terminal

ARU: Audio Response Unit


ARX: Autocad Runtime eXtensions
(Autodesk) (Software)

AS: Application Server
(IBM)

AS: Autonomous System
A self-connected set of networks that are generally operated within the same administrative domain (Network)

AS: Authentication Service

AS: Advanced Server

AS/400: Application System/400
(IBM)

AS/U: Advanced Server for Unix

AS3AP: Ansi Sql Standard Scalable And Portable

ASA: Active Server Application
(Microsoft) (Network)

ASA: American Standards Association

ASA: Architectures of Systems of Agents

ASAI: Adjunct Switch Application Interface
(AT&T)

ASAP: As Soon As Possible
(Net lingo)

ASAP: Automatic Switching And Processing

ASB: Advanced System Buffering
(Intel) (Hardware)

ASC: ASCii text
File name extension

ASC: Authorized Support Centers

ASC: Accredited Standards Committee

ASC: Autonomous System Confederation
(Network)

ASCC: Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
(IBM)

ASCI: Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative

ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange
The standard binary encoding of alphabetical characters, numbers, and other keyboard symbols (7 bit character code.)

ASD: Automatic Skip Driver
(Microsoft) (Operating systems)

ASD: Application Structure Database
(Microsoft)

ASDSP: Application-Specific Digital Signal Processor

ASE: Alladin Smartcard Environment

ASE: Adaptive Server Enterprise
(Sybase) (Databases)

ASE: Active Storage Element

ASET: Automated Security Enhancement Tool
A tool that allows a user to specify an overall system security level (low, medium, or high) and automatically maintain systems at those levels.

ASF: Active Streaming Format
(Microsoft)

ASF: Advanced Streaming Format

ASF: Applied Science Fiction
Manufacturer (ASF)

ASF: Apache Software Foundation
(Organizations)

ASI: Automatic System Installation

ASI: Asynchronous Scsi Interface

ASIC: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
A gate array or other non-standard chip design for proprietary use. (Hardware)

ASID: Address Space IDentifier

ASIT: Advanced Security and Identification Technology

ASK: Amplitude Shift Keying

ASL: Adaptive Speed Leveling


ASL: Age? Sex? Location?
Used to get to know people better (Net lingo)

ASLB: Accelerated Server Load Balancing

ASLM: Apple Shared Library Manager
(Apple)

ASLT: Advanced Solid Logic Technology

ASM: Advanced Server Manager
(Acer) (Operating systems)

ASM: Advanced System Management
(IBM)

ASM: ASseMbler
File name extension

ASMP: ASymmetric MultiProcessing
System architecture that uses different types of processors in a multi-processor system (Hardware)

ASN: Abstract Syntax Notation
The International Organization for Standardization's open systems interconnection (OSI) language for describing abstract syntax.

ASN: Autonomous System Number


ASO: Automated Systems Operations

ASOG: Access Service Ordering Guideline

ASP: Association of Shareware Professionals
(Organizations)

ASP: Active Server Pages
Dynamic Web pages engine (Microsoft) (Network)

ASP: Advanced Signal Processing

ASP: Authorized Service Provider

ASP: Application Service Provider
(Software)

ASP: Appletalk Session Protocol

ASP: Auxiliary Storage Pool
(IBM)

ASPEN: Automatic System for Performance Evaluation of the Network

ASPI: Advanced Scsi Programming Interface

ASPN: ActiveState Programmer Network
(Software)

ASPS: Advanced Signal Processing System

ASR: Automatic Server Recovery
(Operating systems)

ASR: Automatic Send-Receive
(Communication)

ASR: Automatic Speech Recognition

ASR: Address Space Register

ASR: Access Service Request

AST: Atlantic Standard Time
Timezone: GMT -4:00

AST: AST research, inc.
Company named from first initials of the founders: Albert Wong, Safi Qureshey, Thomas Yuen


ASTRAL: Alliance for Strategic Token Ring Advancement and Leadership

ASV: Advanced Super View
LCD display technology (Hardware)

ASVD: Analog Simultaneous Voice & Data
(Communication)

. ASX: Asf Stream Redirector
File format (Microsoft)

ASYNC: ASYNchronous Communication
Communication protocol (Communication)

AT: Advanced Technology
an IBM personal computer. Also a motherboard's form factor (IBM)

AT: ATtention
Modem command prefix. Defined by the modem command set developed by the Hayes company for use on its modems and now used on most modems (Communication)

AT: Azores Time
Timezone: GMT -2:00

AT&T: American Telephone And Telegraph

ATA: Advanced Technology Attachment
Peripheral bus architecture (Hardware)

ATAPI: Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
(Hardware)

ATC: Address Translation Controller

ATC: Advanced Transfer Cache
(Hardware)

ATDM: Asynchronous Time Division Multiplexer

ATDNet: Advanced Technology Demonstration NETwork
(Network)

ATE: Automatic Test Equipment

ATE: Asynchronous Terminal Emulation

ATE: Atm Terminating Equipment

ATEC: Authorized Technical Education Center
(Microsoft)

ATF: Automated Test Facility

ATG: Advanced Technology Group

ATI: Allied Telesyn International
Networking hardware manufacturer (Hardware)

ATIP: Absolute Time In Pregroove

ATIS: Alliance for Telecommunication Industry Solutions
Sett http://www.atis.org/ (Organizations)

ATL: Active Template Library
(Microsoft)
ATL: Adaptive Threshold Learning

ATL: Automated Tape Library
(Hardware)

ATLAS: Authorization Token Layer Acquisition Service
Describes the service needed to acquire authorization tokens to access a target system using the CSIv2 protocol. This design defines a single interface with which a client acquires an authorization token

ATM: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
A standard for switching and routing all types of digital information, including video, voice, and data. With ATM, digital information is broken up into standard-sized packets, each with the "address" of its final destination. (Communication)

ATM: Adobe Type Manager
(Adobe) (Software)

ATM: Automatic Teller Machine

ATM: Air Traffic Management

ATMS: Assumption based Truth Maintenance System

ATN: Australian Technology Network

ATOB: Ascii TO Binary

ATOMM: Advanced super Thinlayer and high-Output Metal Media

ATP: Appletalk Transaction Protocol
(Apple) (Communication)

ATP: Application Transaction Program

ATP: Available To Promise

ATP2: AppleTalk Phase 2

ATPS: AppleTalk Printing Services
(Apple)

ATR: Advanced Telecommunication Research
(Organizations)

ATR: Automatic Terminal Recognition

ATR: Answer To Reset

ATS: Administrative Terminal System



ATS: Apple Terminal Services

ATS: Abstract Test Suite
(Communication)

ATTN: ATTeNtion

ATVEF: Advanced TeleVision Enhancement Forum
(Organizations)

ATX: Advanced Technology eXtended
Motherboard format (Intel) (Hardware)

AU: AUdio
File name extension

AUC: AUthentication Center

AUDIT: AUtomated Data Input Terminal

AUI: Attachment Unit Interface

AUI: Audible User Interface


AUP: Acceptable User Policy

AUT: Application Under Test

AUTODIN: AUTOmatic DIgital Network

AUTOVON: AUTOmatic VOice Network

AUX: AUXiliary

AUX: Apple UniX

AV: Audio Video

AV: Anti Virus

AV: Authenticity Verification

AV: Access Violation
(Software)

AVA: Audio Visual Authoring
(IBM)

AVATAR: Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator

AVC: Audio Visual Connection
(IBM)

AVC: Advanced Visual Computing
(SGI)

AVD: Alternating Voice and Data

AVE: Autocad Visualization Extension

AVG: AVeraGe

AVGA: Advanced Video Graphic Array

AVI: Audio Video Interleaved
File Format

AVP: Attribute-Value Pair

AVR: Automatic Voltage Regulation
(Hardware)

AVR: Automatic Voice Recognition

AVS: Adult Verification Service

AVT: Applied Voice Technology

AVTK: Anti Virus ToolKit
(Software)

AVVID: Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data
(Cisco) (Communication)

AWAC: Audio Waveform Amplifier and Converter

AWC: Advanced Web Creations

AWD: Access Workflow Designer
Organize and track information (Microsoft)

AWDE: Artus Wireless Data Enhancer
(Nokia) (Communication)

AWE: Advanced Wave Effects
(Creative Labs)

AWE: Address Windowing Extensions
(Microsoft) (Operating systems)

AWG: American Wire Gauge

AWK: Aho, Weinberger and Kernighan
Unix language named after its authors: Al Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan

AWS: Advanced Workstations and Systems
(IBM)

AWT: Abstract Windows Toolkit
(Sun) (Software)

AX: Architecture eXtended

AXI: American eXpress Interactive

Shall I proceed to "B"??

Quote: Wow... just... wow. Wyre wins!

Hmmm, Didn't know this was a competition? Anyone can cut and paste, as I said----

.......I was trying to make a list that wasn't cluttered with every obscure technical acronym on the planet.....
Oh well. too late for that

[BWX]

Originally posted by ToshiroOC
DAMMIT ALL TO HELL! DVD stands for DVD! http://www.emedialive.com/EM1998/standard2.html

No, it USED to just stand for DVD- now it is an acronym.

[BWX]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by The375Boy
[B]ok i wanna gather a lil dictionary of like abreaviations relating to computers n such of words that may be useful to "noobies" i'll start it off

Here you go- here is a good website that deals with JUST computer related acronyms-- Have fun

here it is

[Asuka]

cn - China: This is pretty new... before they used 'xh', because China is called "Xian Ho" or something similar in Chinese.
ge - Georgia: Huh? But Georgia is a state in the US, with Atlanta as its capital...

[ToshiroOC]

Georgia is a country in Europe, too I think it's in that Armenia/Turkey/Russia area, not sure though... definitely near that end of Russia, though.

[Vampyromaniac]

Originally posted by Asuka
ge - Georgia: Huh? But Georgia is a state in the US, with Atlanta as its capital...

"Hold on . . . There's a new Mexico??"

[tigerarmyAFI]

Originally posted by Merry
SPAM Spiced Ham (Hormel canned pork developed in 1937)

It's actually Specially Processed American Meat

[Jeff]

Originally posted by BWX232
here it is

That site has PHP listed wrong:

PHP: Personal Home Pages
Now is Perl Hypertext Preprocessor

It's a recursive Acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

(It did used to be Personal Home Pages though).

[BWX]

Originally posted by Cyborg
That site has PHP listed wrong:



It's a recursive Acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

(It did used to be Personal Home Pages though).

This is what the results were on thaT site.


2 acronyms found. Shown 1 to 2.

1. PHP: Php: Hypertext Preprocessor
Open-source general-purpose server-side scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. See also http://www.php.net/ (Software)

2. PHP: Personal Home Pages
Now is Perl Hypertext Preprocessor

[merry]

Originally posted by Merry
SPAM Spiced Ham (Hormel canned pork developed in 1937)

Originally posted by tigerarmyAFI
It's actually Specially Processed American Meat

Thanks, I actually took that from an online source... (google on "acronyms", the first result should be it).

Webster.com comes with this:

Etymology: from a skit on the British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus in which chanting of the word Spam (trademark for a canned meat product) overrides the other dialogue

Now I happen to be a big Monty Python fan, but I didn't understand that sketch...