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100VG
     100 Voice Grade [technology]

10GE
     10 GigaBIT Ethernet (ethernet, BIT)

1D2B
     1 D-channel 2 B-channels (BRI, ISDN)

2B1D
     2 B-channels 1 D-channel (BRI, ISDN)

2S2D
     Double Sided - Double Density (FDD)

3DC
     3D Consortium (org., Sanyo, Sharp, Sony, ...), http://www.3dc.gr.jp

3DDDI
     3D Device Dependent Interface (MS), "3D DDI"

3DRAM
     3 Dimensional Random Access Memory (RAM)

3GIO
     Third Generation Input/Output (PCIe)

3GIP
     3rd Generation . Internet Protocol (org., IP, GPRS, WLAN,
     mobile-systems), "3G.IP"

3GL
     3rd Generation Language

3GPP
     Third Generation Partnerships Projects (org.)

3PCC
     Third Party Call Control (SIP, RFC 3725),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3725.txt

4GFC
     4th Generation Fibre Channel (FC), "4G FC"

4GL
     4th Generation Language

4GT
     4 GB [RAM] Tuning (RAM, GB)

4MV
     4 Motion Vector

5GL
     5th Generation Language

7E1
     7 [bits], Even [parity], 1 [stop bit] (MODEM, BIT)

80211HR
     802.11 High Rate (IEEE, WLAN), "802.11/HR"

8B10B
     8 bit / 10 bit [encoding] (IBM, FC, BIT), "8B/10B"

8N1
     8 [bits], No [parity bit], 1 [stop bit] (MODEM, BIT)

8PSK
     8 Phase Shift Keying (EDGE, mobile-systems)

8VSB
     8-Vestigial Side Band, "8-VSB"



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A2DP
     Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (Bluetooth)

A4C
     Authentication, Authorization, Accounting, Auditing and Charging

A4WP
     Alliance for Wireless Power (org.), http://www.a4wp.org/

AA
     Auto Answer (MODEM)

AAA
     Authentication, Authorization and Accounting [= Triple A]

AAAAA
     Anonym Association Against Acronym Abuse (slang)

AAAI
     American Association for Artificial Intelligence (org., AI, USA),
     http://www.aaai.org

AAAS
     American Association for the Advancement of Science (org., USA),
     http://www.aaas.org

AAC
     Advanced Audio Coding (IIS, MPEG, AT&T, Dolby, Sony, ...)

AAC
     Authorization and Access Control (IETF)

AACLC
     Advanced Audio Coding - Low Complexity [profile] (AAC), "AAC-LC"

AACLTP
     Advanced Audio Coding - Long Term Production (AAC), "AAC-LTP"

AAD
     Authorized AutoCAD Dealer (carCAD, CAD)

AADN
     American Association of Domain Names (org., USA, Internet),
     http://www.domains.org

AAE
     Allgemeine AnschaltErlaubnis (DTAG)

AAF
     Advanced Authoring Format (MS), http://www.microsoft.com/aaf

AAIM
     Association for Applied Interactive Multimedia (org.),
     http://www.aaim.org

AAIS
     Allied command europe ACCIS Implementation Strategy (ACCIS, NATO,
     mil.)

AAL
     ATM Adaption Layer (ATM)

AAL
     Authentication Assurance Level (CC)

AAM
     Automatic Acoustic Management (ATA, HDD)

AAMOF
     As A Matter Of Fact (slang, Usenet, IRC)

AAMSI
     American Association for Medical Systems Informatics (org., USA)

AAP
     Address Allocation Protocol (Multicast)

AAP
     Applications Access Point

AAP
     Association of American Publishers (org., USA)

AARP
     Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol (Apple, AppleTalk)

AASP
     ASCII Asynchronous Support Package (ASCII)

AAT
     Average Access Time

AATP
     Authorized Academic Training Program (MS, MCSD)

AAUI
     Apple Attachment Unit Interface (Apple, AppleTalk)

ABA
     American Bankers Association (org., USA, banking),
     http://www.aba.com

ABAP4
     Advanced Business Application Programming/4 (SAP, R/3, 4GL),
     "ABAP/4"

ABATS
     Automatic Bit Access Test System (BIT)

ABBS
     Apple Bulletin Board System (Apple)

ABC
     Atanasoff-Berry-Computer

ABCD
     Altavista Business Card Directory (WWW)

ABEL
     Advanced Boolean Expression Language

ABEND
     ABnormal END (Netware)

ABI
     Aktionsbuendnis fuer Barrierefreie Informaionstechnik Org.,
     Germany, http://www.wob11.de

ABI
     Application Binary Interface (POE)

ABIOS
     Advanced Basic Input Output System (IBM)

ABIST
     Automatic Built In Self Test (IBM)

ABM
     Asynchronous Balanced Mode

ABNF
     Augmented Backus-Naur Form (BNF, RFC 733/2234),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2234.txt

ABP
     Address Book Provider (Internet)

ABR
     Available Bit Rate (ATM, CBR, VBR, UBR, QOS, BIT)

ABS
     Albatron BIOS Security (BIOS)

ABS
     Apple Business Systems (Apple)

ABUI
     Association of Banyan Users International (org., Banyan, VINES,
     user group, predecessor, ENA)

AC
     Access Concentrator (PPPoE, ADSL)

AC
     Access Control (Token Ring, ...)

AC
     Amiga Club (org., user group, Amiga), http://www.amiga-club.de

AC
     Area Code

AC
     Automatic Computer

AC3
     [digital] Audio Compression - 3 (Dolby, DVD, Digital audio), "AC-3"

AC97
     Audio CODEC 97 (Intel, CODEC)

ACA
     Asynchronous Communications Adapter

ACAD
     AutoCAD (carCAD, CAD)

ACAS
     Application Control Architecture Services (DEC)

ACAU
     Automatic Calling and Answering Unit

ACC
     Adaptive Cruise Control (car)

ACC
     Area Communication Controller (MODACOM)

ACC
     Atari Competence Center

ACCIS
     Automated Command and Control Information System (mil., USA)

ACCM
     Asynchronous Character Control Map (PPP)

ACCS
     Army Command and Control System (mil., USA)

ACCU
     Association of C and C++ Users (org., UK)

ACD
     Automated Call Distribution (CTI)

ACDC
     Alternating Current/Direct Current, "AC/DC"

ACDI
     Asynchronous Communications Device Interface (IBM, CM/2)

ACE
     Access Control Entry (AD, ACL)

ACE
     Actuator Control Electronics (Airbus, A380)

ACE
     Adobe Color Engine (Adobe)

ACE
     Advanced Computing Environment (manufacturer)

ACE
     ASCII Compatible Encoding (ASCII, Internet)

ACE
     Autonomous Computer Engine (WD)

ACES
     APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation (org., Australia,
     China, Japan, USA)

ACF
     Access Control Field

ACF
     Advanced Communications Function (IBM)

ACF
     Apple Communications Framework (Apple)

ACFC
     Address and Control Field Compression (PPP)

ACFNCP
     Advanced Communication Function / Network Control Program (IBM,
     ACF), "ACF/NCP"

ACFTCAM
     Advanced Communication Function / Telecommunications Access Method
     (IBM, ACF), "ACF/TCAM"

ACFVTAM
     Advanced Communication Function / Virtual Telecommunications
     Access Method (IBM, ACF), "ACF/VTAM"

ACH
     Association for Computers and the Humanities (org., USA),
     http://ach.stg.brown.edu

ACIA
     Associacio Catalana d'Intelligencia Artificial (org., Spain, AI),
     http://www.iiia.csic.es/acia/acia.html

ACIA
     Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter

ACID
     Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (IDS, CERT),
     http://www.cert.org/kb/acid

ACID
     ANSI Creators in Demand (ANSI), "ACiD"

ACID
     Atomicity - Consistency - Isolation - Durability (DB, TP)

ACIS
     American Committee for Interoperable Systems (org., USA),
     http://www.sun.com/acis/facts.html

ACL
     [MS] Access Compatibility Layer (MS, DB)

ACL
     Access Control List (DCE, DFS, NDS, AD)

ACL
     Advanced CMOS Logic

ACL
     Agent Control Language (Agents)

ACL
     Association for Computational Linguistics (org., USA),
     http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl/home.html

ACL
     Asynchronous ConnectionLess (HCI, Bluetooth)

ACL
     Autodesk Campus License (cardesk)

ACLF
     Access Control List Facility (DCE)

ACM
     Address Complete Message (ATM)

ACM
     Association for Computing Machinery (org., USA),
     http://info.acm.org

ACMC
     Australian CEFACT Management Committee (Australia, org., CEFACT)

ACMDSD
     Architecture Centric Model Driven Software Development (MDSD),
     "AC-MDSD"

ACME
     A Company that Makes Everything (slang)

ACMS
     Application Control Management System

ACNS
     Application and Content Networking System (Cisco)

ACO
     AMP Communications Outlet

ACOPS
     Automatic CPU Overheating Prevention System (GigaByte), "A-COPS",
     http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/acops.html

ACOT
     Apple Classrooms Of Tomorrow (Apple)

ACP
     Active Configuration Profile (MODEM)

ACP
     Analog Content Protection (WPE)

ACP
     Auxillary Control Process

ACP
     Average CPU Power (CPU, TDP)

ACPA
     Audio Capture and Playback Adapter (IBM)

ACPC
     Apple Communications Protocol Card (Apple)

ACPI
     Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (Intel, MS, Toshiba,
     ACPI, OSPM, BIOS)

ACPICA
     Advanced Configuration and Power Interface - Component
     Architecture (ACPI, Intel), "ACPI-CA"

ACPT
     Automated Corporate Planning Tool

ACR
     Adobe Camera Raw

ACR
     Anonymous Call Rejection

ACR
     Artificial Content Recognition (Puresight, WWW, AI)

ACR
     Attenuation to Crosstalk Ratio (cable)

ACR
     Automatic Call Recording

ACRONYM
     Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning (slang)

ACRONYM
     Abbreviation by CROping Names that Yield Meaning (slang)

ACS
     Access Control System (DISA)

ACS
     Advanced Communications System

ACS
     Advanced Console Server (Cyclades)

ACS
     Alternate Character Set

ACS
     Architekten, Computer, Systeme (fair)

ACS
     Asynchronous Communication Server

ACS
     Australian Computer Science

ACS
     Australian Computer Society (org., Australia),
     http://www.acs.org.au

ACS
     Auto Configuration Server (ISP, DSL, CPE)

ACSAC
     Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

ACSE
     Association Control Service Element (OSI, ISO, DIS 8649)

ACSI
     Advanced/Atari Computer System Interface (Atari)

ACSMIB
     ATM Circuit Steering Management Information Base (ATM, MIB),
     "ACS-MIB"

ACSNET
     Academic Computing Services NETwork

ACSS
     Aural Cascading Style Sheets (CSS, HTML, WWW)

ACT
     Application Compatibility Toolkit (MS, Windows, Vista)

ACT
     Architecture Characterization Template (DISA)

ACTA
     America's Carriers Telecommunications Association (USA)

ACTEF
     ACcess TEchnologies Forum (org.), http://www.actef.org

ACTP
     Adobe Certified Training Provider (Adobe)

ACTPU
     ACTivate Physical Unit (SNA)

ACTS
     Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (Europe, ACTS)

ACU
     Automatic Calling Unit

ACU
     Automatic Client Update (Novell, Netware)

ACUTA
     Association of College and University Telecommunication
     Administrators (org., USA), http://www.acuta.org/homepage.html

ACUTE
     Airbus Cockpit Universal Thrust Emulator (Airbus, A380)

AD
     Active Directory (MS, Windows, AD, DS)

AD
     Analog-to-Digital (D/A), "A/D"

AD
     Authorized Distributor (DEC)

AD
     Autonomous Domain

ADA
     Automatic Data Acquisitions

ADAC
     Active Directory Administrative Center (AD)

ADAPSO
     Association of Data Processing Service Organisation (org., USA)

ADAPT
     Architecture Design, Analysis, and Planning Tool

ADATP
     Allied DATa processing Publication (mil., USA)

ADB
     A DeBugger (Unix)

ADB
     Apple Desktop Bus (Apple)

ADBA
     Active Directory Based Activation (AD, KMS)

ADBS
     Advanced Data Broadcasting System (DirecPC)

ADC
     Adaptive Data Compression (MODEM)

ADC
     Analog to Digital Converter

ADC
     Apple Display Connector (Apple)

ADC
     Apple Distribution Center (Apple)

ADC
     Automatic Data Capture

ADCCP
     Advanced Data Communications Control Procedure (ANSI)

ADD
     Adapter Device Driver (OS/2)

ADD
     AGP Digital Display [adapter] (AGP)

ADDC
     Automatic Data Direction Control (RS-485)

ADDDC
     Automatic Direct Distance Dialing System

ADDS
     Active Directory Domain Services (AD), "AD DS"

ADE
     Application Development Environment

ADE
     Aufforderung zur DatenEingabe (BTX)

ADEPT
     Administrative Data Entry for Processing Transmission (mil., USA)

ADES
     Automatic Digital Encoding System

ADEW
     Andrew Development Environment Workbench (ATK, Unix)

ADF
     Access control Decision Function (mil., USA)

ADF
     Automatic Document Feeder

ADFS
     Active Directory Federation Services (AD)

ADG
     [RAID] Advanced Data Guarding (RAID, HP)

ADI
     Autocad Device Interface (CAD, carCAD)

ADI
     AUTODIN-to-DISN Interface (AUTODIN, DISN, mil., USA)

ADIMM
     Asynchronous Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM, IC, Leadtek)

ADIRU
     Air Data Inertial Reference Unit (Airbus, A380, Honeywell)

ADK
     Additional Decryption Key (PGP)

ADL
     [international conference on the] Advances in Digital Libraries
     (IEEE)

ADL
     Adventure Description Language

ADLC
     Asynchronous Data Link Control

ADLDS
     Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (MS), "AD LDS"

ADM
     Add-Drop-Multiplexer

ADMA
     Area Division Multiple Access (mobile-systems)

ADMD
     ADministration Management Domain (X.400)

ADMF
     ADMinistration Function (UMTS)

ADMS
     Access Device Messaging Specification (banking, Visa)

ADMT
     Active Directory Migration Tool (MS, AD)

ADO
     ActiveX Data Objects (ASP, ODBC, MS, IIS)

ADODB
     ActiveX Data Objects DataBase [library] (ADO, PHP), "ADOdb"

ADONIS
     ADvanced On-Screen Information System, "AdonIS"

ADP
     Administrative Data Processing

ADP
     Advanced Data Processing

ADP
     Automatic Data Processing (ADP)

ADPCM
     Adaptive Delta Pulse Code Modulation

ADPE
     Automatic Data Processing Equipment (ADP)

ADPLO
     Automated Data Processing Liaison Office (ADP)

ADPS
     Automatic Data Processing System (ADP)

ADPT
     Automated Data Processing/Telecommunications (ADP), "ADP/T"

ADR
     Advanced Digital Recording (Streamer, Philips, OnStream)

ADR
     Automated Distance Regulation (car)

ADRT
     Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (OCR, Abbyy)

ADS
     Active Directory Services (MS)

ADS
     Advanced Digital System

ADS
     Application Development System

ADS
     Automated Deployment Service (MS, RIS)

ADS
     Automatic Distribution System

ADS
     Automatic Documenting System (LAN)

ADS
     Auxiliary Data System

ADSA
     Advanced Driver Software Architecture (C-Media, audio)

ADSI
     Active Directory Service Interface (MS, COM, AD)

ADSIA
     Allied Data Systems Interoperability Agency (org., NATO, mil.)

ADSL
     Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line [technology] (BELLCORE, AT&T,
     DSL, ADSL), http://www.adsl.com/

ADSL
     Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop [modulation]

ADSP
     Advanced Digital Signal Processor (DSP)

ADSP
     Appletalk Data Stream Protocol (Apple, AppleTalk)

ADSP
     Author Domain Signing Practices (DKIM),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc5617.txt

ADSR
     Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release [generator] (VCA, audio)

ADSU
     ATM Data Service Unit (ATM)

ADT
     Abstract Data Type

ADT
     Access Developer's Toolkit (MS, DB, Windows)

ADT
     Application Data Type

ADT
     Application Development Tools (IBM, AS/400)

ADT
     Atlantic Daylight Time [-0300] (TZ, AST)

ADU
     Automatic Dialing Unit

ADUA
     Administrative Directory User Agent

ADV
     Automatisierte DatenVerarbeitung

ADV
     staatliche Akademie fuer DatenVerarbeitung (org., Uni Boeblingen,
     Germany), http://www.adv-boeblingen.de

ADVS
     Automatisiertes DatenVerarbeitungsSystem

ADX
     Automatic Data eXchange

AE
     Apple Events (Apple)

AE
     Application Entity / Environment / Execution / Engineering (APE)

AEA
     American Electronics Association (org., USA), http://www.aeanet.org

AEA
     Asynchroner EmulationsAdapter (IBM)

AEB
     Analog Expansion Bus

AEC
     Advanced Error Correction (CD)

AECBF
     Acoustic Echo Cancellation / Beam Forming (audio), "AEC/BF"

AEF
     Access control Enforcement Function

AEGIS
     Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System

AEI
     Application Enabling Interface (IBM)

AEI
     Automatic Equipment Identification

AEIMP
     Apple Event Interprocess Messaging Protocol (Apple)

AEL
     Asterisk Extension Language (VoIP)

AEM
     Automatic Emulation Management (Brother)

AEOM
     Apple Events Object Model (Apple)

AEPIA
     Asociacion Espanola Para la Inteligencia Artificial (org., Spain,
     AI), http://aepia.dsic.upv.es:1080

AERO
     Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, Open (MS, Windows, Vista, GUI)

AES
     Advanced Encryption Standard (cryptography)

AES
     Application Environment Service / Specification (OSF)

AES
     Automatic Emulation Switching (Lexmark)

AESCCMP
     AES Counter mode CBC MAC Protocol (AES, CBC, MAC, cryptography,
     IEEE 802.11i, WLAN), "AES-CCMP"

AESEBU
     Auto Engineering Society/European Broadcasting Union (Digital
     audio), "AES/EBU"

AETE
     Apple Event Terminology Extension (Apple)

AETIC
     Asociacion de empresas de Electronica, Tecnologias de la
     Informacion y teleComunicaciones de espana (org., Spain),
     http://www.aniel.es

AEUT
     Apple Event User Terminology (Apple)

AF
     Anisotropic Filter

AF
     Auxiliary carry Flag (assembler)

AFA
     Association Fournisseur d'Access et service internet (org., ISP,
     France), http://www.afa-france.com

AFAIC
     As Far As I'm Concerned (slang, Usenet, IRC)

AFAICR
     As Far As I Can Recall (telecommunication, Usenet, IRC)

AFAICT
     As Far As I Can Tell (telecommunication, Usenet, IRC)

AFAIK
     As Far As I Know (slang, Usenet, IRC)

AFAIR
     As Far As I Recall / Remember (slang, Usenet, IRC)

AFAMPE
     [u.s.] Air Force Automated Message Processing Exchange (org., USA.
     mil.)

AFC
     Alkaline Fuel Cell

AFC
     AntiFerromagnetically Coupled [technology] (IBM, HDD)

AFC
     Application Foundation Classes (MS, GUI, Java)

AFC
     Automatic Font Change

AFCET
     Association Francaise pour la Cybernetique Economique et Technique
     (org., France)

AFD
     Automatic File Distribution

AFDX
     Avionics Full DupleX switched ethernet system (Airbus, A380,
     ethernet)

AFE
     Apple File Exchange (Apple)

AFEB
     AFrican EDIFACT Board (org., EDIFACT), "AF/EB"

AFF
     Antigen File Filtering (Sybari)

AFFS
     Advanced Fringe Field Switching (LCD, IPS), "A-FFS"

AFH
     Adaptive Frequency Hopping (Bluetooth)

AFI
     Authority and Format Indicator (NSAP, IDP)

AFI
     Authority Frame Identifier

AFII
     Association for Font Information Interchange (org., USA),
     http://www.isc.rit.edu/~afii

AFIN
     Air Force Information Network (network, USA, mil.)

AFIPS
     American Federation of Information Processing Societies (org.)

AFIS
     AutomatisiertesFingerabdruck-InformationsSystem (INPOL)

AFK
     Away from Keyboard (slang, Usenet, IRC)

AFM
     Atomic Force Microscopy [technology] (HDD, MEMS)

AFN
     Advanced Fiber Network

AFNET
     Air Force Network (network, USA, mil.)

AFP
     Advanced Function Presentation (IBM)

AFP
     Appletalk Filing Protocol (Apple, AppleTalk)

AFPA
     Advanced Function Printing Architecture (IBM)

AFPDS
     Advanced Function Printing Data Stream (IBM)

AFPL
     Aladdin Free Public License

AFPL
     Artifex Free Public License

AFR
     Annualized Failure Rate (Maxtor, HDD)

AFS
     Andrew File System (IBM, Unix)

AFT
     Authenticated Firewall Traversal (IETF)

AFTP
     Anonymous File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

AFUU
     Association Francaise des Utilisateurs d'Unix (org., France,
     Unix), http://www.afuu.fr

AGA
     Advanced Graphics Adapter

AGAST
     Adventure Game Authoring SysTem

AGC
     Automatic Gain Control (audio)

AGCH
     Access Grant CHannel (GSM, CCCH, mobile-systems)

AGE
     Adobe Graphics Engine (Adobe)

AGEP
     ArbeitsGemeinschaft Elektronisches Publizieren [e.v.] (org., DTP),
     "AgEP"

AGF
     Arbeitsgemeinschaft der GrossForschungseinrichtungen
     [deutschlands] (org.)

AGFMB
     ArbeitsGemeinschaft Freier MailBoxen (org.)

AGI
     Asterisk Gateway Interface (VoIP)

AGNS
     AT&T Global Network Services (AT&T)

AGNULA
     A GNU/Linux Audio distribution (GNU, Linux, Europe)

AGP
     Advanced / Accelerated Graphics Port (Intel, MMX, AGP),
     http://www.agpforum.org

AGPS
     Advanced / Assisted Global Positioning System (GPS), "A-GPS"

AH
     [IP] Authentication Header (IPSEC, IPV6, RFC 1826, VPN),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1826.txt

AHB
     Advanced High performance Bus (AMBA, ARM)

AHCI
     Advanced Host Controller Interface (SATA)

AHFG
     ATM-attached Host Functional Group (ATM, MPOA)

AHIMA
     American Health Information Management Association (org., USA),
     http://www.ahima.org

AHP
     Analytical Hierachy Process

AHPCRC
     Army High Performance Computing Research Center (org., USA, HPC),
     http://www.arc.umn.edu/html/ahpcrc.html

AI
     Adobe Illustrator (Adobe)

AI
     Artificial Intelligence

AIA
     Application Integration Architecture

AIAF
     Artificial Intelligence AutoFocus (AI, Canon)

AIBO
     Artificial Intelligence roBOt (Sony, AI),
     http://www.world.sony.com/robot/top.html

AIC
     [SRI] Artificial Intelligence Center (SRI, AI),
     http://www.ai.sri.com

AIC
     AIX windows Interface Composer (AIX, IBM)

AICA
     Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica ed il Calcolo Automatico
     (org., Italy), http://www.aicanet.it

AID
     Application IDentifier (APDU)

AID
     Attention Interrupt Device [key] (IBM)

AID
     AUTODIN Interface Device (AUTODIN, mil., USA)

AIDA
     Aktuelle Informationen in Deutsch zum Amiga (AC, Amiga)

AIDAT
     African Internet Development Action Team (org., Internet),
     http://www.africa.com/pages/aidat

AIDS
     Automatic Installation and Diagnostic Service

AIFF
     Audio Interchange File Format

AIFS
     Arbitrary InterFrame Space (MAC, PCF, IFS, WLAN)

AIGLX
     Accelerated Indirect OpenGL extension for the X window system
     (GLX, X-Windows)

AII
     Active Input Interface (UNI, PMD, FDDI)

AIIA
     Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale (org., Italy,
     AI), http://www.di.unito.it/aiia.html

AIIM
     Association for Information and Image Management (org., USA),
     http://www.aiim.org

AIK
     Attestation Identity Key (TCPA)

AIM
     Advanced Invar Mask (Display, ViewSonic)

AIM
     Alternate Input Method (OS/2)

AIM
     AOL Instant Messenger [protocol] (AOL, IM)

AIM
     Apple, IBM, Motorola [consortium] (Apple, IBM, Motorola, org.)

AIM
     Association of Imaging Manufacturers (org.)

AIM
     ATM / Ascend Inverse Multiplexing [protocol] (ATM)

AIM
     Automatic Interface Management (Brother)

AIMD
     Additive-Increase Multiplicative-Decrease (TCP)

AIMS
     Apple Internet Mail Server (Apple)

AIMSRCF
     Advanced Information Manager/Shared Resource Control Facility
     (Fujitsu), "AIM/SRCF"

AIN
     Advanced Intelligent Network (IN)

AIN
     Auto Insert Notification (CD-R)

AIO
     Asynchronous Input/Output

AIP
     Association of Internet Professionals (org., Internet),
     http://www.association.org

AIP
     Associazione Informatici Professionisti (org., Italy),
     http://www.a-i-p.it

AIP
     ATM Interface Processor (ATM)

AIR
     Adobe Intergrated Runtime (Adobe)

AIR
     Automatic Image Refinement (Canon), "A.I.R."

AIRTC
     [international symposium on] Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time
     Control (IFAC, IFIP, IMACS, conference)

AIS
     Account Information Security

AIS
     Alarm Indication Signal (UNI, ATM, OAM, DS3/E3)

AIS
     Application Information Service (MS, Windows, Vista)

AIS
     Applied Information Sciences (manufacturer)

AIS
     Applied Information Systems (manufacturer), http://www.ais.com

AIS
     Arbeitgeber-Informations-Service (WWW), http://www.arbeitsamt.de

AIS
     Automated Information System

AIS
     Autonomous Intelligent System

AISB
     Association of Imaging Service Bureaus (org.)

AISE
     Alarm Indication Signal-External (UNI, ATM), "AIS-E"

AISIG
     [south australian] Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group
     (org., Australia, AI),
     http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~peter/asig.html

AISM
     Asia International Symposium on Mechatronics (Konferenz)

AISP
     Association for Internet Service Providers (org., USA, ISP),
     http://www.aisp.org

AISP
     Association of Information Systems Professionals (org., USA)

AISSO
     Automated Information Systems Security Officer (mil., USA)

AIST
     Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (org., Japan),
     http://www.aist.go.jp:80/index_e.html

AIT
     Advanced Intelligent Tape (Sony, Streamer)

AIT
     Angewandte InformationsTechnik [verlags gmbh] (manufacturer)

AITEC
     [research institute for] Advanced Information TEChnology (org.,
     Japan)

AITO
     Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (org.),
     http://iamwww.unibe.ch/~www/www/ecoop/aito

AIUI
     As I Understand It (slang, Usenet, IRC)

AIW
     All In Wonder [graphic card] (ATI)

AIW
     APPN Implementers Workshop (org., APPN)

AIX
     Advanced Interactive eXecutive (IBM, Unix, OS)

AIXESA
     Advanced Interactive eXecutive/Enterprise Systems Architecture
     (IBM, AIX), "AIX/ESA"

AJAX
     Asynchronous Javascript And XML (XML, XHTML, CSS, XSLT)

AJBS
     Association of Japanese Business Studies (org., Japan)

AK
     Application Kit (NextStep, OpenStep, Apple, Rhapsody)

AKA
     Also Known As

AKI
     Arbeitsgemeinschaft der deutschen KI Institute (org., KI),
     http://www.cs.uni-bonn.de/~kinrw/aki.html

AKI
     Authority Key Identifier (X509v3, RFC 3280)

AKID
     Authority Key IDentifier (X509v3, RFC 3280)

AKNN
     Arbeitskreis fuer Numerierung und Netzzusammenschaltung (org.),
     http://www.aknn.de

AL
     Artificial Life

AL
     Assembly Language

ALAC
     Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (Apple, CODEC, audio)

ALAN
     Audio Local Area Network (audio), "A-LAN"

ALAP
     Appletalk Link Access Protocol (Apple, AppleTalk)

ALAP
     As Late As Possible (slang, Usenet)

ALAS
     Asociacion Latinoamericana de Seguridad (org.),
     http://www.alas-la.org

ALC
     Adaptation Layer Controller (ATM)

ALC
     Arithmetic and Logic Circuits (IC)

ALC
     Automatic Level Control

ALDC
     Adaptive Lossless Data Compression (IBM)

ALE
     Address Lifetime Expectation (org., IETF, IP)

ALE
     Application Link Enabling (R/3, SAP)

ALE
     Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts (org., Linux, user group),
     http://www.ale.org

ALE
     Atomic Layer Epitaxy (IC)

ALEC
     Authorized Linux Education Center (Linux, Caldera)

ALF
     Accelerator Library and Framework (IBM)

ALG
     Application Level Gateway (Balabit)

ALGOL
     ALGOrithmic Language

ALIWEB
     Archie Like Indexing in the WEB (WWW)

ALK
     Automatisierte LiegenschaftsKarte (ALTIS)

ALM
     Application / Appware Loadable Module (Novell, Netware)

ALM
     Application Lifecycle Management

ALM
     Asynchronous Line Module

ALM
     Asynchronous Line Multiplexer

ALOE
     Apple Library for Object Embedding (Apple, OpenDoc)

ALP
     Access Linux Platform (Linux, PDA, Palm)

ALP
     Assembly Language Processor (IBM)

ALPA
     Association de Lutte contre la Piraterie Audiovisuelle (org.,
     France), http://www.alpa.asso.fr

ALR
     Advanced Logic Research, inc (manufacturer), http://www.alr.com

ALS
     Adjacent Link Station (IBM)

ALSA
     Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (Linux, audio),
     http://www.alsa-project.org

ALSI
     Associazione nazionale Laureati in Scienze dell'informazione e
     Informatica (org., Italy), http://www.litta.lv

ALTEL
     Association of Long-distance TELephone companies (org., USA)

ALTERNIC
     ALTERnative Network Information Center (Internet, USA),
     http://www.alternic.net

ALTPSM
     ALTernating Phase Shift Mask [lithography]

ALTS
     Association for Local Telecommunications Services (org., USA),
     http://www.alts.org

ALU
     Arithmetic and Logic Unit (CPU)

AM
     Active Matrix (LCD)

AM
     Amplitude Modulation

AM
     Asynchronous Mode

AMA
     Automatic Message Accounting

AMACS
     AMA Collection System (AMA)

AMAP
     As Much As Possible (telecommunication, Usenet, IRC)

AMARC
     AMA Recording Center (AMA)

AMASE
     AMA Standard Entry (AMA)

AMAT
     AMA Transmitter (AMA)

AMATPS
     AMA TeleProcessing System (AMA)

AMB
     Advanced Memory Buffer (IC, RAM, FB-DIMM)

AMBA
     Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (ARM, AMBA)

AMBAAXI
     Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture -Advanced eXtensible
     Interface (AMBA), "AMBA AXI"

AMC
     Adaptive Modulation and Coding (UMTS, HSDPA, mobile-systems)

AMCD
     Active Matrix Color Display (AMD, LCD)

AMCD
     Activity Monitoring Completion Detection

AMD
     Active Matrix Display (LCD)

AMD
     Advanced MicroDevices [inc.] (manufacturer), http://www.amd.com

AMD
     AutoMounterDAEMON (Macintosh, Apple)

AME
     Advanced Metal Evaporated [tape] (Seagate, Streamer, Sony)

AME
     Advanced Modeling Extension (carCAD)

AMEL
     Active Matrix Electro Luminescent (AMD, LCD)

AMF
     Action Message Format (Macromedia, Flash)

AMH
     Automated Material Handling

AMHS
     Automated Message Handling System (MHS)

AMI
     Alternate Mark Inversion [encoding] (ISDN, T1)

AMI
     American Megatrends Incorporation (manufacturer),
     http://www.ami.com

AMI
     ATM Management Interface (ForeRunner)

AMIA
     American Medical Informatics Association (org., USA),
     http://www.amia.org

AMIA
     Australian Medical Informatics Association (org., Australia)

AMIC
     Apple Memory-mapped I/O Controller (Apple)

AMIC
     Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration (USA, org.), "AMI-C"

AMIGADE
     Amiga Digital Environment (Amiga), "AmigaDE"

AMIGOS
     Advanced Mobile Integration in General Operating Systems,
     http://www.diku.dk/research-groups/distlab/amigos

AMIS
     Adaptive Multimedia Information System (DAISY)

AMIS
     Audio Message Interface Standard

AML
     ACPI Machine Language (ACPI, ASL, BIOS)

AMLCD
     Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display (AMD, LCD)

AMMA
     Advanced Memory Management Architecture

AMME
     Automated Multi-Media Exchange

AMNET
     Allgemeines Mailbox NETzwerk (BBS, network)

AMOK
     A Modular Operating Kernel (OS, Cray)

AMOR
     Amusing Misuse of Resources (Linux, KDE)

AMOS
     Alpha Microsystems Operating System (OS)

AMP
     Airwave Management Platform (Linux)

AMP
     Asymmetric MultiProcessor [system] (SMP)

AMPE
     Automated Message Processing Exchange

AMPS
     Advanced Mobile Phone Service (mobile-systems, Motorola)

AMPSK
     Amplitude Modulation with Phase Shift Keying, "AM/PSK"

AMR
     Audio MODEM Riser [slot] (Intel)

AMS
     Advanced Monitor System (OS, DEC, PDP 9, PDP 15)

AMS
     American Mathematical Society (org., USA), http://e-math.ams.org

AMS
     Andrew Mail / Message System (Unix)

AMS
     Asymmetric Multiprocessing System

AMS
     AUTODIN Mail Server (AUTODIN, mil., USA)

AMSDOS
     AMStrad Disk Operating System (Amstrad, OS), "AMS-DOS"

AMT
     Active Management Technology (Intel)

AMT
     Active Matrix Technology (AMD, LDC)

AMT
     Apple Media Toolkit (Apple)

AMTC
     Advanced Mask Technology Center (org., EuropeVL, Infineon, AMD,
     ...)

AMTF
     Average Modulation Transfer Function

AMTFT
     Active Matrix Thin Film Transistor (AMD, LCD, TFT)

AMTPE
     Apple Media Tool Programming Environment (Apple), "AMT PE"

AMWG
     Architecture Methodology Working Group (org., DISA)

AN
     Access Node

AN
     Alternating Network

ANAIS
     Architecture Not Allowed In Source (Linux, Debian, slang)

ANAT
     Alternative Network Address Types

ANBU
     ANlagenBUchhaltung

ANCS
     AT&T Netware Connect Services (AT&T, Netware)

ANDF
     Architecture Neutral Distribution Format (OSF)

ANFSCD
     And Now For Something Completely Different (slang, Usenet, IRC)

ANHR
     Access Node Hub Router (AN)

ANI
     Automatic Number Identification

ANI
     Automatische Netzwerk Installation

ANIEL
     Asociacion Nacional de Industrias Electronicas y de
     teLecomunicaciones (org., Spain, AETIC, predecessor)

ANMA
     Apple Network Managers Association (org., Apple),
     http://www.hsas.washington.edu/anma/anma.html

ANMP
     Account Network Management Program

ANMP
     Ad hoc Network Management Protocol

ANN
     Artificial Neural Networks (NN)

ANO
     Advanced Network Option (CA)

ANR
     Access Node Router

ANS
     Advanced Network & Services Inc. (IBM, MCI. Merit, NFSnet)

ANS
     American National Standard (ANSI, ISO, USA)

ANSA
     Advanced Networked Systems Architecture (ISA)

ANSI
     American National Standard Institute (org., USA),
     http://www.ansi.org

ANSN
     Advertised Neighbor Sequence Number (OLSR)

ANSPAG
     Advanced Network System Performance and Application Group
     (RDN-CRC), http://www.anspag.monash.edu.au

ANT
     Another Neat Tool (Java)

ANTC
     Advanced Networking Test Center (org., USA, AMD, FDDI)

ANTLR
     ANother Tool for Language Recognition, "Antlr"

ANTS
     Advanced .NET Testing System (.NET, Red-Gate)

ANTS
     AT&T Novell Telephone Services (AT&T, Novell), "A/NTS"

ANUML
     Australian National University Meta Language, "ANU ML"

AO
     Arvutikasutaja Oskustunnistus (Org, Estonia), http://www.ao.ee/

AOA
     American Optometric Association (org., USA)

AOAC
     Always On, Always Connected (NBS)

AOCD
     Advice Of Charge, During the call

AOCE
     Advice Of Charge, at the End of the call

AOCE
     Apple Open Collaboration Environment (Apple)

AOCS
     Attitude and Orbit Control System (ESA, Venus-Express)

AOD
     Advanced Optical Disc (HD-DVD, predecessor)

AODI
     Always On / Dynamic ISDN (ISDN, ACTEF), "AO/DI"

AOE
     Application Operating Environment (AT&T)

AOI
     Active Output Interface (UNI, PMD, FDDI)

AOL
     Alert On LAN (LAN, Intel, IBM, BIOS), "AoL"

AOL
     America OnLine (network, AOL), http://www.aol.com

AOP
     Aspect Orientated Programming

AOS
     [LambdaRouter] All Optical Switch (Lucent, LambdaXtreme)

AOS
     Advanced Operating System (OS)

AOS
     Algebraic Operating System (IBM)

AOSS
     Airstation One-touch Secure System (WLAN)

AOTC
     Australian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation (org.,
     Australia)

AOU
     Arithmetic Output Unit

AOW
     Asia and Oceania Workshop (OSI)

AP
     Access Point (WLAN)

AP
     Access Provider (ETSI, ETSI 201 671)

AP
     Application Processor

AP
     Auto Precharge (SDRAM)

AP
     Automatic Pagination

APA
     Adaptive Packet Assembly

APA
     All Points Addressable

APA
     Arithmetic Processing Accelerator

APACI
     APache AutoConf-style Interface (HTTP, Apache)

APAR
     Authorized Program Analysis Report (IBM)

APB
     Advanced Peripheral Bus (AMBA, ARM)

APC
     American Power Conversion (manufacturer, UPS), http://www.apcc.com

APC
     ArbeitsPlatz Computer (SNI)

APC
     Association for Progressive Communications (org., network),
     http://www.apc.org

APCUG
     Association of Personal Computer User Groups (org.),
     http://www.apcug.org

APD
     Additional Product Documentation

APDA
     Apple Programmers and Developers Association (org., Apple)

APDPR
     Advanced PDF Password Recovery (PDF)

APDU
     Application Protocol Data Unit (OSI, PDU, OSI/RM, APDU, ICC)

APE
     Adaptable Persistence Engine (ZOPE)

APE
     APplication Engineering

APEL
     A Portable EMACS Library (EMACS, GNU)

APEX
     Advanced Packet EXchange

APF
     Advanced Printer Function (IBM, ADT)

API
     Application Program Interface (API)

API
     Associacao Portuguesa de Informatica (org., Portugal),
     http://www.api.pt

APIC
     Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (Intel, PIC)

APIPA
     Automatic Private IP Addressing (MS, IP), http://www.apipa.org

APIS
     Arbeitsdatei PIOS Innere Sicherheit (INPOL, PIOS)

APL
     A Perspicuous Language / Alles Parallel Loesbar (APL, slang)

APL
     A Programming Language (IBM)

APLSF
     A Programming Language with Shared Files (CMU, DEC)

APLSF
     A Programming Language with Shared Variables (IBM)

APLV
     Arbeitsdatei PIOS LandesVerrat (INPOL, PIOS)

APM
     Advanced Power Management

APM
     Application Programming Model (J2EE)

APM
     Automated Precision Manufacturing

APMS
     Automated Program Management information System

APN
     Access Point Name (GPRS, mobile-systems)

APNIC
     Asian Pacific Network Information Center (org., Internet),
     http://www.apnic.net

APO
     Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP, SCM)

APOC
     A Single Point Of Control (Sun, Linux)

APOK
     Arbeitsdatei PIOS Organisierte Kriminalitaet (INPOL, PIOS)

APOP
     Authenticated Post Office Protocol (Internet, POP, RFC 1734)

APP
     Accelerated Parallel Processing (AMD)

APP
     Application Portability Profile

APPC
     Advanced Peer-to-Peer Communications (IBM, SNA, LU 6.2)

APPC
     Advanced Program to Program Communication (IBM)

APPC
     Application Program to Program Converter (IBM)

APPCM
     Access Protection and Priority Control Mechanism (DQDB)

APPCP
     Advanced Program to Program Communications Protocol (APPC, IBM)

APPEL
     A P3P Preference Exchange Language (P3P)

APPI
     Advanced Peer to Peer Internetworking (Cisco)

APPN
     Advanced Peer to Peer Networking (IBM)

APPS
     Application Packaging Problems & Solutions (Cygwin)

APR
     Apache Portable Runtime (Apache)

APR
     Arbeitsdatei PIOS Rauschgift (INPOL, PIOS)

APS
     Active Pixel Sensor

APS
     Application Page Server

APS
     Application Service Provider (WAN)

APS
     Asynchronous Protocol Specification

APSE
     Ada Programming Support Environment

APSE
     Agfa Publishing Systems Environment (Agfa, DTP)

APSL
     Apple Public Source License (Apple),
     http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl

APT
     Address Pass Through

APT
     Advanced Package Tool (Linux, Debian)

APT
     Advanced Photoscale Technology (Brother)

APT
     Automatically Programmed Tools

APTC
     Advanced Processor Temperature Control (Chaintech)

APTM
     Application Program to Transaction Manager (TP)

APU
     Accelerated Processing Unit (AMD, CPU, GPU)

APU
     Auxiliary Processing Unit

APVE
     [Parhelia] Audio, Photo, Video, Express (Matrox), "APVe"

APW
     Arbeitsdatei PIOS Waffen (INPOL, PIOS)

APWG
     Anti-Pishing Working Group (org.), http://www.aintipishing.org

AQM
     Active Queue Management

AR
     Administrative Request [message] (LFAP)

AR
     Aperture Ratio (DVD)

AR
     Augmented Reality

ARA
     Administrative Request Acknowledge [message] (LFAP)

ARA
     Affiliate Registration Authority (RA, PKI, ITU)

ARA
     Apple[talk] Remote Access (Apple, AppleTalk)

ARAG
     AntiReflection AntiGlare (ViewSonic)

ARAP
     Apple Remote Access Protocol (Apple, AppleTalk)

ARAT
     Always Running APIC Timer (Intel, APIC)

ARB
     Architecture Review Board (OpenGL, manufacturer, org.),
     http://www.opengl.org/about/arb/

ARC
     Advanced RISC Computing [architecture] (ACE, RISC)

ARCA
     Advanced RISC Computing Architecture (ACE, RISC)

ARCNET
     Attached Resource Computer NETwork (Datapoint), "ARCnet"

ARD
     Apple Remote Desktop (Apple, Macintosh)

ARE
     All Routes Explorer (ATM)

AREXX
     Amiga Restructured EXtended eXecutor [language] (Amiga, Commodore,
     REXX)

ARIA
     Accessible Rich Internet Applications (W3C, WAI)

ARIN
     American Registry for Internet Numbers (org., Internet, USA),
     http://www.arin.net

ARKD
     Abuse Resistant Key Distribution (Arcade)

ARL
     Access Rights List (Banyan, VINES)

ARLL
     Advanced Run-Length Limited [encoding]

ARM
     Adobe Reader and acrobat Manager (Adobe)

ARM
     Advanced RISC Machines (manufacturer, Acorn, Apple, VLSI, RISC),
     http://www.arm.com

ARM
     Annotated [c++] Reference Manual

ARM
     Application Response Measurement [working group]

ARM
     Asynchronous Response Mode

ARMA
     Association of Records Managers and Administrators, inc. (org.),
     http://www.arma.org/hq/home.html

ARMS
     Architecture for Reliable Managed Storage (Cheyenne)

ARMS
     Automation Resources Management System

ARNS
     Appletalk Remote Network Server (Apple, AppleTalk)

ARO
     Affiliate Registration Organization (RA, PKI, ITU)

AROM
     Alterable Read Only Memory (ROM)

ARP
     Address Resolution Protocol (Internet, RFC 826),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc826.txt

ARPA
     Advanced Research Projects Agency (org., USA), http://www.arpa.mil

ARPANET
     Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork (USA, network),
     http://www.arpanet.net

ARPDP
     Association of Rehabilitation Programs in Data Processing (org.,
     USA)

ARPG
     Actionb Role Playing Game (RPG)

ARQ
     Automatic Re-transmission reQuest (MODEM)

ARQAPDU
     Associate ReQuest Application Protocol Data Unit (APDU)

ARRA
     Announced Retransmission Random Access (MAC)

ARS
     Action Request System

ARS
     Automatic Route Selection (PBX, LCR)

ART
     Adaptive Resonance Theory (NN)

ART
     Advanced Resolution Technology (Minolta)

ARTS
     Accelerated Ray-Tracing System (raytracing)

ARTS
     Action Real-Time Strategy [game] (RTS)

ARTS
     Asynchronous Remote Takeover Server

ARTT
     Asynchronous Remote Takeover Terminal

AS
     [Red Hat Enterprise Linux] Advanced Server (RedHat, Linux, RHEL)

AS
     Advanced Server (MS, Windows NT)

AS
     Authentication Service (DCE)

AS
     Autonomous System (IP, Internet, RFC 1930),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1930.txt

AS400
     Application System/400 (IBM), "AS/400"

ASA
     Adaptive Security Appliance (Cisco)

ASA
     Advanced SCSI Architecture (SCSI)

ASA
     American Standards Association (org., USA, ANSI, predecessor)

ASAP
     As Soon As Possible (slang, Usenet, IRC)

ASAP
     Automatic Switching And Processing

ASB
     Advanced System Bus (AMBA, ARM)

ASBR
     Autonomous System Border / Boundary Router (AS)

ASC
     Accredited Standards Committee (org., ANSI)

ASC
     Additional Sense Code

ASC
     American Society for Cybernetics (org., USA),
     http://www.gwu.edu/~asc

ASC
     Authorized Support Center

ASC
     Automatic Contrast Selection (FAX)

ASCC
     Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (IBM),
     http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/markI/markI_reference.html

ASCI
     Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative,
     http://www.llnl.gov/asci

ASCI
     Agent to Server Communication Interval (McAfee, ePolicy)

ASCII
     American Standard Code of Information Interchange

ASCSI
     Advanced Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI)

ASD
     Architecture Summary Design

ASDR
     Application Security Desk Reference (OWASP)

ASDSP
     Application-Specific Digital Signal Processor

ASE
     Active Storage Element (GigaB, IP-router)

ASE
     Aladdin Smartcard Environment (Fast, Aladdin)

ASE
     Amplified Spontaneous Emission (FO, EDFA)

ASE
     Application Service Element (ATM)

ASEB
     ASian EDIFACT Board (org., EDIFACT), "AS/EB"

ASEMH
     Army Standards Electronic Mail Host (mil., USA)

ASES
     Application Software Entity Security

ASES
     Australian Solid Earth Simulator (ACES),
     http://quakes.earth.uq.edu.au/ASES/

ASF
     Advanced Streaming Format (MS), http://www.microsoft.com/asf

ASF
     Apache Software Foundation (org., Apache)

ASH
     Almquist SHell (BSD, Unix, Shell), "ash"

ASHLI
     Advanced Shading Language Interface (ATI)

ASI
     Adapter Support Interface (IBM, LAN)

ASI
     Advanced Switching Interconnect

ASI
     Amorphous SIlicon drum (Kyocera), "aSI"

ASI
     Aquarius Systems International (manufacturer)

ASI
     Asynchronous SCSI Interface

ASI
     Automatic System Installation

ASIC
     Application Specific Integrated Circuit (IC, RL)

ASIM
     Arbeitskreis Simulation und Kuenstliche Intelligenz (org., GI)

ASIO
     Audio Stream Input/Output

ASIP
     Application Specific Instruction-set Processor (IC)

ASIS
     American Society for Information Science (org.)

ASISIG
     Advanced Switching Interconnect Special Interest Group (org.,
     SIG), "ASI SIG", http://www.asi-sig.org

ASK
     Akademische Software Kooperation (org., Karlsruhe, Germany),
     http://www.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de

ASK
     Amplitude Shift Keying

ASKSAM
     Access Stored Knowledge via Symbolic Access Method (DB), "askSam"

ASL
     ACPI Source Language (ACPI, AML)

ASL
     Adaptive Speed Levelling (US Robotics)

ASL
     Astaro Security Linux (Linux)

ASLR
     Address Space Layout Randomization

ASLT
     Advanced Solid Logic Technology (IC)

ASM
     Advanced Server Management (Acer)

ASM
     Association of Systems Management (org.)

ASM
     Automatic Storage Management (DB, Oracle)

ASMA
     Administratively Scoped IP Multicast (RFC 2365, Multicast),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2365.txt

ASMA
     Asus System Monitoring Agent (Asus, ASWM)

ASMO
     Advanced Storage Magneto Optical [disk] (Hitachi, Maxell,
     Matsushita, Fujitsu, Olympus, Philips, Sanyo, Sharp, Sony, LG
     Electronics)

ASMONIA
     Angriffsanalyse und Schutzkonzepte fuer MObilfunkbasierte
     Netzinfrastrukturen unterstuetzt durch kooperativen
     InformationsAustausch

ASMP
     ASymetric MultiProcessing [system]

ASMP
     ASymmetrisches MultiProzessor [system]

ASN1
     Abstract Syntax Notation One (OSI, ISO, IS 8824), "ASN.1"

ASNM
     AdvanceStack Network Management (HP)

ASO
     Address Supporting Organization (Internet)

ASP
     Abstract Service Primitive (OSI)

ASP
     Active Server Pages (HTTP, MS)

ASP
     Advanced Signal Processing / Processor

ASP
     Advanced Simple Profile

ASP
     Appletalk Session Protocol (Apple, AppleTalk)

ASP
     Application Service Provider / Providing (ISP, Internet)

ASP
     Association of Shareware Professionals (org., USA),
     http://www.asp-shareware.org

ASP
     Authorized Service Provider (Sun)

ASPEC
     Advanced SPectre Entropy Coding (MPEG, Digital audio)

ASPEN
     Automatic System for Performance Evaluation of the Network

ASPI
     Advanced SCSI Programming Interface (Adaptec, API, SCSI)

ASPIC
     Advanced SCSI Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC, SCSI)

ASPIK
     Algebraic Specifications and Implementations ??? (ISDV)

ASPL3
     Advanced Simple Profile @ Level 3 (MPEG, CIF), "ASP@L3"

ASPP
     Application Specific Programmable Product (ASIC, ASSP, FPGA, RL)

ASPS
     Advanced Signal Processing System

ASQ
     Automated Software Quality

ASQC
     American Society of Quality Control (org., USA),
     http://www.asqc.org

ASQF
     Arbeitskreis Software-Qualitaet Franken [e.V.] Org., Germany,
     http://asqf.de

ASR
     Automated System Recovery (MS, Windows, XP)

ASR
     Automatic Server Restart (HP)

ASR
     Automatic Speech Recognition

ASSERT
     ADEPT Subsystem for Scanning of Electronic Received Traffic
     (ADEPT, mil., USA)

ASSIST
     Automated Special Security Information System Terminal (mil., USA)

ASSP
     Application Specific Standard Product (RL)

ASSPA
     ASsociation Suisse pour l'Automatique (org., Switzerland)

ASSR
     Agreed Set of Security Rules (mil., USA)

ASSUME
     Association of Statistics Specialists Using Microsoft Excel (org.,
     user group)

AST
     Abstract Syntax Tree (GCC)

AST
     Atlantic Standard Time [-0400] (TZ, ADT)

ASTA
     Advanced Software Technology and Algorithms (HPCC)

ASTRAL
     Alliance fuer Strategic Token Ring Advancement and Leadership
     (manufacturer)

ASU
     Asynchron-Synchron Umsetzer

ASV
     Adobe SVG Viewer (Adobe, SVG)

ASV
     Advanced Super-View (LCD, Sharp, MVA)

ASVD
     Analog Simultaneous Voice and Data (MODEM)

ASWM
     Asus System Web-based Management (Asus, DMI, SNMP, ASMA)

AT
     Advanced Technology (IBM, PC)

ATA
     Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA, HDD)

ATA
     Analog Telephone Adaptor (VoIP)

ATAG
     Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (WAI)

ATAP
     ARM Technology Access Program (ARM)

ATAPI
     Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface (ATA)

ATASPI
     Advanced Technology Attachment Software Programming Interface (ATA)

ATC
     Address Translation Cache (CPU)

ATC
     Address Translation Controller (ATM)

ATC
     Advanced Thermo Concept (Cooler-Master)

ATC
     Authorized Testing Center (MS)

ATC
     Automatic Transmission Control

ATCA
     Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (Intel, PICMG)

ATCA
     Allied Tactical Communications Agency (org., NATO, mil.)

ATCP
     [PPP] AppleTalk Control Protocol (Apple, AppleTalk, PPP, NCP, RFC
     1378), ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1378.txt

ATD
     AntiTerrorDatei (INPOL)

ATD
     Asynchronous Time Division (ATM)

ATDM
     Asynchronous Time Division Multiplexer (ATD)

ATDMA
     Asynchronous Time Division Multiple Access (ATD)

ATDP
     ATtention Dial Pulse (MODEM)

ATDT
     ATtention Dial Tone (MODEM)

ATE
     Asynchronous Terminal Emulation (Banyan, VINES)

ATE
     ATM Terminating Equipment (SONET, ATM)

ATEC
     Authorized Training and Education Center (MS, MOCS, MCSD, ATEC),
     http://www.atec.de

ATES
     Advanced Techniques integration into Efficient scientific Software
     (ESPRIT, CASE)

ATF
     Automatic Track Finding (DDS)

ATH
     Absolute Threshold of Hearing (MP3)

ATH
     ATtention Hang up (MODEM)

ATI
     Advanced Telecomunications Institute (org., USA),
     http://www.ati.stevens-tech.edu

ATI
     Asociacion de Tecnicos de Informatica (org., Spain),
     http://www.ati.es

ATIP
     Absolute Time In Pregroove (CD)

ATIS
     Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (org., USA),
     http://www.atis.org

ATK
     Andrew ToolKit (Unix)

ATKIS
     Amtliches Topographisch-Kartographisches InformationsSystem

ATL
     Activex Template Library (MS, ActiceX, MSVC)

ATL
     Adaptive Threshold Learning (neural nets)

ATLAS
     Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (BLAS, API)

ATM
     Abstract Test Method (ISO 9646-1)

ATM
     Adobe Type Manager

ATM
     Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), http://www.atmforum.com

ATM
     At The Moment (slang, Usenet, IRC)

ATM
     Automatic Teller Machine

ATMARP
     ATM Address Resolution Protocol (ATM, ARP)

ATMP
     Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol (Ascend, RFC 2107),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2107.txt

ATMS
     Assumption based Truth Maintenance System (AI)

ATN
     Augmented Transition Network

ATOB
     ASCII TO Binary (ASCII)

ATOMM
     Advanced super Thinlayer and high-Output Metal Media (Fuji)

ATP
     [Macromedia] Authorized Training Program (Macromedia)

ATP
     Advanced Technology Partner

ATP
     Appletalk Transaction Protocol (Apple)

ATP
     Application Transaction Program (IBM, APPC)

ATP
     Available To Promise (SCM)

ATP2
     AppleTalk Phase 2 (Apple, AppleTalk)

ATPH
     Authorized Teamspeak Host Provider

ATPS
     AppleTalk Printing Services (AppleTalk, Apple)

ATR
     Advanced Telecommunications Research laboratory (org., Japan)

ATR
     Answer To Reset

ATR
     Automatic Terminal Recognition

ATRAC
     Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding (Sony, Digital audio, CODEC)

ATS
     Abstract Test Suite

ATS
     Adaptive Tape Speed (HP, Streamer, LTO)

ATS
     Administrative Terminal System

ATS
     Apple Terminal Services (Apple, AppleTalk)

ATSPI
     Assistive Technology - Service Provider Interface (GNOME), "AT-SPI"

ATSUI
     Apple Text Services for Unicode Imaging (Apple, Unicode)

ATT
     American Telephone and Telegraph, "AT&T" , http://www.att.com

ATUS
     A Toolkit for Usable Security (Uni Freiburg)

ATVEF
     Advanced TV Enhancement Forum (org.), http://www.atvef.com

ATX
     Advanced Technology eXtended [form factor]

AU
     Access Unit

AUAI
     Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (org., AI),
     http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/auai

AUC
     AUthentication Center (GSM, mobile-systems), "AuC"

AUDIT
     AUtomated Data Input Terminal

AUDIUS
     AUssenDIenstUnterstuetzungsSystem (CAS)

AUE
     Andrew User Environment (Unix)

AUGCE
     Autodesk User Group Central Europe (org., user group)

AUGE
     Apple User Group Europe (org., Apple, user group)

AUI
     Access Unit Interface

AUI
     Asociacion de Usuarios de Internet (Internet, user group, Spain,
     org.), http://www.aui.es

AUI
     Attachment Unit Interface (ethernet)

AUI
     Audible User Interface (UI)

AUIS
     Andrew User Interface System (Unix, UI)

AUP
     Acceptable Use Policy (NFSNet)

AURP
     Appletalk Update-based Routing Protocol (Apple, Appletalk, RFC
     1504), ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1504.txt

AUT
     Application Under Test

AUTODIN
     AUTOmatic DIgital Network (DMS, DISA)

AUTOKO
     AUTOmatisiertes KOrpsstammnetz (Bundeswehr)

AUTOSAR
     AUTomotive Open Systems Architecture [initiative] (org.)

AUTOSEVOCOM
     AUTOmated SEcure VOice COMmunications (predecessor, SVIP, mil.,
     USA)

AUTOVON
     AUTOmatic VOice Network (predecessor, DSN, DISA)

AUU
     ATM User-to-User (ATM)

AUX
     Apple UniX (Apple, Unix), "A/UX"

AUX
     Auxiliary Power Unit (Airbus, A380)

AV
     Audio/Video, "A/V"

AV
     AudioVisual [macintosh] (Apple)

AVA
     Audio-Visual Authoring

AVAS
     teile-Auftragserfassungs-, Verwaltungs- und AbrufSystem (MBAG)

AVATAR
     Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator (BBS)

AVC
     Access Vector Cache

AVC
     Advanced Video Coding (VCEG, video)

AVC
     Audio-Visual Connection

AVCD
     Audio-Visual Computer Display

AVD
     Advanced Video Disk [old term] (China, EVD)

AVD
     Alternation Voice/Data

AVDL
     Application Vulnerability Description Language (OASIS, XML),
     http://www.avdl.org

AVE
     AutoCAD Visualization Extension (carCAD)

AVERT
     Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team (McAfee)

AVGA
     Advanced Video Graphics Array (VGA)

AVI
     Audio Video Interleaved (MS)

AVIS
     AuftragsVerwaltungs- und InformationsSYstem (MBAG)

AVL
     Adelson, Veslkij and Laudis [tree]

AVM
     AudioVisuelles Marketing und computersysteme [gmbh]
     (manufacturer), http://www.avm.de

AVPD
     Anchor Volume Descriptor Pointer (CD-R, UDF, ISO 9660)

AVR
     Automatic Voice Recognition

AVR
     Automatic Voltage Regulation (USV)

AVS
     Address Verification System

AVS
     Adult Verification System (WWW)

AVX
     Advanced Vector eXtensions (CPU, Intel)

AWAC
     Audio Waveform Amplifier and Converter (Apple)

AWADO
     Automatischer Wechselschalter in der AnschlussDose

AWD
     Automatische Waehleinrichtung fuer Datenverbindungen

AWE
     Address Windowing Extensions (API, PAE)

AWE
     Autocad Windows Extension (carCAD)

AWG
     American Wire Gauge (cable)

AWK
     al Aho, peter Weinberger, brian Kernighan (Unix)

AWL
     AnWeisungsListe (DIN 19239)

AWOL
     Absent WithOut Leave (telecommunication, Usenet, IRC)

AWP
     Association of Web Professionals (org., WWW), http://www.a-w-p.org

AWS
     Amazon Web Services (XML, API)

AWS
     Apple Workgroup Server (Appletalk, Apple)

AWT
     Abstract Window Toolkit (Java, Sun)

AWTAPI
     Abstract Windows Toolkit-Application Programmer Interface (AWT,
     API, Java)

AXE
     Application eXecution Environment

AXIS
     Apache eXtensible Interaction System (Apache, SOAP)

AYS
     Are You Sure (slang, Usenet, IRC)

AZEB
     Australian/new Zealand EDIFACT Board (org., EDIFACT), "AZ/EB"



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B2B
     Business to Business

B2C
     Business to Customer

B2E
     Business to Employee

B8ZS
     Binary 8 Zero Suppression [encoding] (ISDN, T1)

BAARF
     Battle Against Any RAID Five (HDD, RAID)

BAC
     Basic Air Control (RFID)

BACNET
     Building Automation and Control NETwork, "BACnet"

BACP
     Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BAP, RFC 2125),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2125.txt

BAD
     Broken As Designed (slang)

BADW
     Bayerische Akademie Der Wissenschaften (org.), http://www.badw.de

BAGEL
     Bay Area GNU Enthusiasts League (GNU, org., user group)

BAI
     Basic Access Interface (ISDN)

BALUN
     BALanced-UNbalanced [adapter] (cable), "Balun"

BAM
     Bidirectional Associative Memory (neural nets)

BAM
     Block-Availability-Map

BAM
     Bundesanstalt fuer Materialpruefung (org., Berlin, Germany),
     http://www.bam.de

BAMP
     BSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP (BSD, Apache, PHP, DB)

BAP
     [PPP] Bandwidth Allocation Protocol (PPP, RFC 2125, BACP),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2125.txt

BAPC
     [PPP] Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (PPP, BAP, RFC 2125),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2125.txt

BAPCO
     Business Application Performance COrporation (benchmark, org.,
     Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM, MS, Lotus, Intel, ...), "BAPCo",
     http://www.bapco.com

BAPI
     Biometric Application Program Interface (API, MS, ...)

BAPI
     Business Application Programmer's Interface (SAP, R/3, API)

BAPT
     BundesAmt fuer Post und Telefon (org.), http://www.bapt.de

BAR
     Base Address Register (IC)

BARRNET
     Bay Area Regional Research NETwork (network), "BARRNet"

BART
     Basic Application RunTime (OS/2, IBM)

BARWAN
     Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network (network, USA)

BAS
     Basic Activity Subset

BASH
     Bourne-Again SHell (Unix, Shell)

BASIC
     Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BASIN
     Bundesweites Alternatives Studentisches InformationsNetzwerk (WWW,
     org.)

BAT
     Baby Advanced Technology [board] (AT)

BAT
     Bouquet Association Table (DVB)

BAT
     Browser-based Application Toolkit (IBM, WWW)

BATV
     Bounce Address Tag Validation (SMTP)

BAYSIS
     BAY networks' Switched Internetworking Services, "BaySIS"

BB
     BridgeBoard (Amiga, Commodore)

BBA
     Big Brother Awards (telecommunication, Internet),
     http://www.bigbrotherawards.org, http://www.bigbrotherawards.de

BBC
     Broadband Bearer Capability (B-ISDN)

BBIAB
     [I'll] Be Back In A Bit (telecommunication, Usenet, IRC)

BBIAM
     Be Back In A Minute (slang, Usenet, IRC)

BBIAS
     Bye, Back In A Second (slang, Usenet, IRC)

BBL
     Be Back Later (slang, Usenet, IRC)

BBN
     Bolt, Beranek and Newman (manufacturer), http://www.bbn.com

BBNS
     BroadBand Network Services

BBR
     Back Bone Ring

BBS
     Bulletin Board System (telecommunication)

BCAM
     Basic Communication Access Method

BCBDS
     Broadband Connectionless Data Bearer Service (B-ISDN)

BCC
     Base Communications-computer Center (mil., USA)

BCC
     Blind Carbon Copy (telecommunication)

BCC
     Block Check Character

BCCH
     Broadcast Control CHannel (GSM, mobile-systems)

BCD
     Binary Coded Decimal

BCDBS
     Broadband Connectionless Data Bearer Service (ATM)

BCDIC
     Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code

BCDMA
     Broadband Code Division Multiple Access (Interdigital, SNI,
     Samsung), "B-CDMA"

BCF
     Base station Control Function (BS, BTS, GSM, mobile-systems)

BCI
     Batibus Club International (org.)

BCI
     Brain Computer Interface

BCI
     ByteCode Interpreter (TrueType, OpenType)

BCM
     Basic Control Monitor (OS, Xerox, Xerox 530)

BCN
     Backbone Concentrator Node (Wellfleet)

BCOB
     Broadband Class of Bearer (B-ISDN)

BCP
     [Internet] Best Current Practice (Internet, RFC),
     http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/bcp/bcp-index.html

BCP
     [PPP] Bridging Control Protocol (PPP, RFC 1638),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1638.txt

BCP
     Basic Call Process (IN)

BCP
     Binary Communications Protocol

BCP
     Binary Control Protocol (Adobe, PS)

BCPL
     Basic / BBN Combined Programming Language (BBN)

BCRFS
     Bell System Reference Frequency Standard

BCS
     Banking Communication Standard (banking)

BCS
     Basic Combined Subset

BCS
     Basic Control System (OS, HP, HP 2100)

BCS
     Binary Compatibility Standard (Motorola)

BCS
     Block Check Sequenz (GPRS, GSM, mobile-systems)

BCS
     British Computer Society (org., UK), http://www.bcs.org.uk

BCSM
     Basic Call State Model (IN)

BCU
     Bus Controller Unit

BCV
     Business Continuance Volumes (EMC)

BD
     Blu-ray Disk (BD, Sony, Panasonic, TDK)

BDA
     BIOS Data Area (BIOS)

BDA
     Borland DAtabase (Borland, DB)

BDA
     BundesDatenAutobahn [e.v] (org., ISP), http://www.bda.de

BDAM
     Basic Direct Access Method (DAM)

BDB
     Berkely DataBase (DB)

BDC
     Backup Domain Controller (MS, Windows NT, PDC)

BDD
     Binary Decision Diagram

BDD
     Business Desktop Deployment (MS, Windows, Vista)

BDE
     BetriebsDatenErfassung

BDE
     Bit-lock Drive Encryption (MS, WPE)

BDE
     Borland Database Engine (Borland, Delphi, DB)

BDF
     Bitmap Description / Display Format (Adobe, Fonts)

BDJ
     Blu-ray Disc Java (BD, Java, J2ME), "BD-J"

BDK
     [java]Beans Development Kit (Java)

BDOS
     Basic Disk Operating System (CP/M)

BDPP
     Biometric Device Protection Profile (UK, CESG)

BDR
     Blu-ray Disk - Recordable (BD), "BD-R"

BDR
     Bus Device Request (SCSI)

BDRE
     Blu-ray Disk - REwritable (BD), "BD-RE"

BDROM
     Blu-ray Disk - Read Only Memory (BD), "BD-ROM"

BDSG
     BundesDatenSchutzGesetz Germany

BDSL
     Boundary Scan Description Language (JTAG, VHDL, IEEE 1149.1-2001)

BDTI
     Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. (manufacturer), "BDTi",
     http://www.bdti.com

BEAT
     Best Enhanced Advanced Technology (Trident, AT)

BEB
     Binary Exponential Backoff (CSMA/CD, LIB)

BEC
     Back-End-Chip (DVR)

BECEEP
     BErlin Continuing Engineering Education Program, "BeCEEP"

BECN
     Backward Explicit Congestion Notification (ATM)

BED
     Bookmark Exploring Dabbler (VRML)

BEDO
     Burst EDO [DRAM] (EDO, RAM, DRAM, IC, Micron)

BEDODRAM
     Burst Extended Data Out DRAM (RAM, DRAM, IC), "BEDO-DRAM"

BEEP
     Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (RFC 3080),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3080.txt

BEEV
     Bundesverband der Elektronik- und ElektroschrottVerwerter (org.)

BEF
     Brightness Enhancement Foile (LCD)

BELLCORE
     BELL COmmunications REsearch (org., USA), "Bellcore",
     http://www.bellcore.com

BEN
     BEstaetigungsNummer (banking)

BEOS
     Be Operating System (OS), "BeOS", http://www.be.com

BER
     Basic Encoding Rules [for ASN.1] (ASN.1, OSI, ISO, IS 8825)

BER
     Bit Error Rate (BIT)

BERKOM
     BERliner KOMmunikationssystem (network), http://www.berkom.de

BERT
     Bit Error Rate Test (BIT)

BES
     Block Ended by Symbol (IBM, assembler)

BES
     Bursty Errored Seconds (DS1/E1)

BEST
     Borland Enhanced Support and Training (Borland)

BEST
     Business Executive System for Timesharing (OS, Qantel)

BEVU
     Bundesvereinigung mittelstaendischer Elektro- und
     elektronikgeraete entsorgungs- und VerwertungsUnternehmen Org.,
     Germany

BEW
     Business Engineering Workbench (R/3, SAP)

BF
     Bus Fraction [pin] (Intel, Pentium, CPU)

BFD
     Binary File Descriptor (Unix)

BFN
     Bye For Now (slang, IRC, Usenet)

BFOC
     Bayonet Fiber Optic Connector

BFR
     Brominated Flame Retardant

BFT
     Binary File Transfer (telecommunication)

BGA
     Ball Grid Array (IC, CPU)

BGI
     Borland Graphics Interface (Borland)

BGP
     Border Gateway Protocol (RFC 1267/1771, IP),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1721.txt,
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1267.txt

BGT
     Broadcast and Group Translators

BHCA
     Busy Hour Call Attempts

BHLI
     Broadband High Layer Information, "B-HLI"

BHN
     Bayerisches Hochschulnetz (network), http://www.bhn.de

BHO
     Browser Helper Objects (MS, IE)

BHT
     Branch History Table (CPU)

BI
     Breidbart-Index (Usenet, ECP, EMP)

BIAB
     Back In A Bit (telecommunication, Usenet, IRC)

BIB
     Bild in Bild (PIP, video)

BIB
     Bus Interface Board

BIC
     Bank Identifier Code (banking)

BIC
     Bit Independence Criterion (cryptography, BIT)

BIC
     Bus Interface Chip (DVR)

BICI
     Broadband InterCarrier Interface (B-ISDN), "B-ICI"

BID
     Bugtraq IDentification (Securityfocus)

BIDCO
     BIDirectional COmmunication Standard, BidCoS

BIDI
     BIDirectional

BIDS
     Borland International Data Structures (Borland)

BIF
     Benchmark Interchange Format (PLB)

BIF
     Built In Function (REXX)

BIG
     Bionet Intelligent Gateway (BioData)

BIGFON
     Breitbandiges Integriertes Glasfaser-Fernmelde-OrtsNetz

BIGSTAF
     Breitbandiges Integriertes GefechtsSTAndFernmeldenetz (Bundeswehr)

BIICS
     Business Integration - Information Conformance Statements (XML),
     "BI-ICS"

BIK
     Barrierefrei Informieren und Kommunizieren (Internet),
     http://bik-online.info

BIKA
     Barrierefreie Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie fuer
     Alle (FIT)

BIKOS
     BueroInformations- und KOmmunikationsSysteme (org., GI)

BIM
     Broadband Interface Module

BIMA
     British Interactive Multimedia Association (org., UK),
     http://www.bima.co.uk

BIND
     Berkeley Internet Name Domain [software] (Unix)

BIOS
     Basic Input Output System / Support (PC)

BIP
     Bit Interleaved Parity (SONET, ..., BIT)

BIPV
     Bit Interleaved Parity Violation (BIT)

BIRA
     Belgian Institute for Automatic Control (org., Belgium)

BIS
     Business Information System

BISDN
     Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (ATM), "B-ISDN"

BISP
     Business Information System Program

BISSI
     Broadband Inter-Switching System Interface (B-ISDN), "B-ISSI"

BIST
     Built-In Self Test (Power4, IBM)

BISUP
     Broadband ISDN User's Part (B-ISDN), "B-ISUP"

BISYNC
     Binary SYNchronous Communications (IBM)

BIT
     Basic Interconnection Test (ISO 9646-1)

BIT
     Binary digIT

BITNET
     Because It's Time NETwork (network)

BITS
     Background Intelligent Transfer Service (MS, Windows)

BITV
     Barrierefreie InformationsTechnik Verordnung Germany, WCAG

BIU
     Bus Interface Unit

BIX
     Byte Information eXchange

BJT
     Bipolar Junction Transistor (IC)

BK
     Buero Kommunikation

BKS
     BenutzerKoordinatenSystem (CAD)

BL
     Blue Lightning [processor family] (Intel)

BLADE
     Basic Linear Algebra for Distributed Environments

BLAS
     Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines (Intel, API)

BLAST
     Bell Labs Layered Space Time

BLAST
     BLocked ASynchronous Transmission

BLER
     BLock Error Rate (CD)

BLERA
     BLock Error Rate After [recording] (DVD), "BLERa"

BLERB
     BLock Error Rate Before [recording] (DVD), "BLERb"

BLLI
     Broadband Low Layer Information (BISDN), "B-LLI"

BLM
     Bayerische Landeszentrale fuer neue Medien (org.),
     http://www.blm.de

BLMX
     Board-Level Multitasking eXecutive (OS)

BLOB
     Binary Large OBject

BLOROB
     BLOck based ROBot

BLSM
     Base Level System Modernization

BLT
     BLock Transfer

BLW
     Bus Locked Write (Intel, CPU)

BMBF
     BundesMinisterium fuer Bildung und Forschung (org.),
     http://www.bmbf.de

BMBW
     BundesMinisterium fuer Bildung und Wissenschaft (org.)

BMC
     Baseboard Management Controller (IPMI)

BMDP
     Bio-Medical Data Package

BMECAT
     Bundesverband Materialwirtschaft, Einkauf und Logistik CATalog
     data exchange format (XML), "BMEcat", http://www.bmecat.org

BMFT
     BundesMinisterium fuer Forschung und Technik (org.)

BML
     Bean Markup Language (Java)

BML
     Business Management Layer (TMN)

BMOS
     Bipolar Metal Oxide Semiconductor (IC)

BMP
     Basic Multilingual Plane (UCS)

BMP
     Bean Managed Persistence (Java, EJB, CMP)

BMS
     Basic Mapping Support (CICS)

BMS
     Basic Monitor System (OS, DEC, PDP 9, PDP 15)

BMS
     Broadcast Message Server (PCTE)

BMT
     Biel Mean Time (TZ, Internet)

BMTA
     Backbone Message Transfer Agent (MTA)

BMUG
     Berkeley Macintosh User Group (org., Apple, USA, user group),
     http://www.bmug.org

BMWI
     BundesMinisterium fuer WIssenschaft und technologie (org.)

BN
     Bridge Number

BNC
     Baby N Connector (slang)

BNC
     Bayonet Neill Concelman [connector]

BNC
     Bayonet Nipple Connector (slang)

BNC
     Bayonet Nut Coupling

BNC
     British National Connector

BNC
     British Naval Connector

BND
     BundesNachrichtenDienst

BNEP
     Bluetooth Network Encapsulation Protocol (Bluetooth)

BNF
     Backus-Naur Form (TTCN, ...)

BNP
     Broadband Network Premises

BNT
     Broadband Network Termination (B-ISDN), "B-NT"

BNU
     Basic Networking Utilities (AT&T)

BO
     Back Orifice (CDC)

BOA
     Basic Object Adapter

BOCA
     Borland Object Component Architecture (Borland)

BOCA
     Business Object Component Architecture (CORBA, OMG)

BOD
     Business Object Documents (OAG)

BOF
     Birds Of a Feather (Usenix)

BOFH
     Bastard Operator From Hell (slang)

BOINC
     Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

BOM
     Beginning of Message

BOM
     Byte Order Mark (Unicode)

BONDING
     Bandwidth ON Demand INteroperability Group (org., manufacturer,
     AIM)

BOOTP
     BOOTstrap Protocol (RFC 951),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc951.txt

BOPS
     Billion Operations Per Second

BORE
     Break Once Run Everywhere

BORSCHT
     Battery, Overvoltage, Ringing, Signalling, Coding, Hybrid, Testing
     [functions] (PBX)

BOS
     Basic Operating System (AIX, IBM)

BOS
     Basic Overseer Server (AFS)

BOS
     Batch Operating System (OS, Honeywell)

BOS360
     Basic Operating System / 360 (OS, S/360, IBM), "BOS/360"

BOS5
     Business Operating Software /5 (OS), "BOS/5"

BOSH
     Bytestreams Over Synchronous HTTP (HTTP)

BOSS
     Basic OS Software for BASIC (OS, BASIC)

BOSS
     BSI OSS Security Suite (BSI, OSS)

BOSS
     Bus Owner/Supervisor/Selector (FireWire)

BOT
     Back On Topic (slang, Usenet, IRC)

BOT
     Beginning Of Tape

BOT
     Broadcast Online TV

BOT
     Build, Operate and Transfer (networke)

BP
     Base Pointer [register] (CPU, Intel, assembler)

     BP;DR        Behind Paywall; Didn't Read (slang, Usenet, IRC)

BPB
     BIOS Parameter Block (BIOS, DOS, HDD, FDD)

BPC
     Broadcast Personal Computer (PC)

BPD
     BankParameterDaten (DDBAC)

BPDU
     Bridge Protocol Data Unit (PDU)

BPEL
     Business Process Execution Language

BPEL4WS
     Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (XML, XSD,
     SOAP, WSDL, OASIS)

BPF
     Berkeley Packet Filter (BSD, Unix)

BPI
     Bits Per Inch (HDD, BIT)

BPIP
     Best Play for Imperfect Player (NEC)

BPL
     Business Process Language

BPL
     Bytes Per Line

BPMN
     Business Process Modeling Notation

BPN
     Back-Propagation Net (NN)

BPP
     Bits Per Pixel (BIT)

BPP
     Bridge Port Pair

BPS
     Bits Per Second (MODEM, BIT)

BPSK
     Bi-Phase Shift Keying [modulation] (HiperLAN/2, , 802.11a)

BPSS
     Business Process Specification Schema (ebXML, XML)

BPU
     Branch Prediction Unit (CPU, MMX, Intel)

BPU
     Branch Processing Unit (CPU)

BPV
     BiPolar Violation [error event] (DS1/E1, DS3/E3)

BR
     Boundary Representation (CAD, CAM)

BRAIN
     Berlin Research Area Information Network (network)

BRAIN
     Broadband Radio Access for IP-based Networks

BRAM
     Broadcast Recognition Access Method (MAC)

BRAN
     Broadband Radio Access Network (ETSI, WLAN)

BRAP
     Broadcast Recognition with Alternating Priorities (MAC)

BRAS
     Broadband Remote Acess Server (ISP, DSL)

BRB
     Be Right Back (slang, Usenet, IRC)

BREW
     Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (CDMA, Oualcomm)

BRF
     Benchmark Reporting Format (PLB)

BRI
     Basic Rate Interface (ISDN)

BRI
     Bridge Router Interface ??? (Banyan, VINES)

BRIEF
     Basic Reconfigurable Interactive Editing Facility

BRIL
     Bus Read Invalidate Line (Intel, CPU, BWIL)

BRIM
     Bridge/Router Interface Module

BRL
     Bus Read Line (Intel, CPU, BWL)

BRMS
     Backup Recovery and Media Services (IBM)

BRS
     Big Red Switch

BRT
     Browser Response Time (WWW)

BRTB
     Berlin Regional TestBed (WIN)

BS
     BackSpace

BS
     BackSpace one record (IBM, VM/ESA, CP)

BS
     Banded Signaling

BS
     Base Station (LA, GSM, mobile-systems)

BS
     BetriebsSystem

BS2000
     BetriebsSystem 2000 (SNI, OS)

BSA
     Backbone Service Area

BSA
     Business Software Alliance (org., manufacturer),
     http://www.bsa.org, http://www.bsa.de

BSAM
     Basic Sequential Access Method (IBM, MVS, SAM)

BSC
     Balanced ScoreCard

BSC
     Base Station Controller (BS, BTS, GSM, GPRS, UMTS, mobile-systems)

BSC
     Binary Synchronous Coded

BSC
     Binary Synchronous Communications [protocol] (IBM)

BSCM
     Binary Synchronous Communications Module

BSD
     Berkeley System / Software Distribution (manufacturer, Unix, OS),
     http://www.bsd.org

BSD
     Blind Spot Detection (car)

BSDI
     Berkeley Software Design Incorporated (manufacturer),
     http://www.bsdi.com

BSDL
     Berkeley/San Diego License

BSI
     Bentley Systems, Incorporated (manufacturer)

BSI
     British Standards Institute (org., UK)

BSI
     Bundesamt fuer Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik Org.,
     Germany, http://www.bsi.de

BSIC
     Base Station Identification Code (BS, BCCH, GSM, mobile-systems)

BSMTP
     Batched Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

BSP
     BetriebsSystemProzessor (Windows NT, SMP)

BSP
     Binary Space Partitioning [tree]

BSP
     Bug Squashing Party (Linux, Debian)

BSR
     BootStrap Router (PIM, RP, Multicast)

BSR
     Boundary-Scan-Register (JTAG, TAP, IC)

BSS
     Base Station System / Subsystem (GPRS, BSC, BTS)

BSS
     Basic Service Set (WLAN)

BSS
     Basic Synchronized Subset

BSS
     Block Started by Symbol (IBM, assembler, Unix)

BSS
     Block Storage Segment

BSS
     Broadband Switching System

BSSMAP
     Base Station System Management Application Part (RR, BS, MTP, GSM,
     mobile-systems)

BST
     Bering Strait Time [-1100] (TZ)

BST
     Brazil Standard Time [-0300] (TZ)

BST
     British Summer Time [+0100] (TZ, UK)

BSVC
     Broadcast Switched Virtual Connections (ATM)

BT
     Baghdad Time [+0200] (TZ)

BT
     Bering Time [-1100] (TZ)

BT
     BlueTooth

BT
     British Telecom (org.)

BT
     Burst Tolerance

BT
     Bus Terminator

BTAM
     Basic Tape Access Method (BS2000)

BTAM
     Basic Telecommunications Access Method (IBM)

BTB
     Branch Target Buffer (CPU)

BTC
     Biting The Carpet (slang, Usenet)

BTC
     Block Turbo Codes (WIMAX, 802.16e)

BTDT
     Been There, Done That (slang, Linux, Kernel)

BTE
     Broadband Terminal Equipment (B-ISDN), "B-TE"

BTH
     Base Transport Header (Infiniband)

BTL
     Bell Telephone Laboratories

BTLB
     Block Translation Look-aside Buffer (CPU)

BTM
     Batch Time-sharing Monitor (OS)

BTM
     Benchmark Timing Methodology (PLB)

BTNS
     Better-Than-Nothing Security (IETF, WG)

BTO
     Build-To-Order

BTOA
     Binary TO ASCII (ASCII)

BTP
     Business Transaction Protocol (OASIS)

BTRON
     Business TRON (TRON)

BTS
     Base Transceiver Station entities (BCF, BS, GSM, GPRS, UMTS,
     mobile-systems)

BTS
     Branch Tree Store (Intel, CPU)

BTS
     Bug Tracking System

BTU
     Basic Transmission Unit (IBM, SNA)

BTW
     By The Way (slang, Usenet, IRC)

BTX
     Balanced Technology eXtended [form factor] (AT, ATX)

BTX
     BildschirmTeXt (network, Datex-J, DTAG), "Btx"

BTXVST
     BildschirmTeXt-VermittlungsSTelle (BTX), "Btx-VSt"

BUGLAS
     BUndesverband GLASfaseranschluss e.v. (org.), http://www.buglas.de/

BUI
     Bus Interface Unit (DEC)

BUP
     Buffer Underrun Protection (DVD, CD)

BUS
     Broadcast and Unknown Server (ATM, LANE)

BV
     BildVerarbeitung

BVB
     Besondere VertragsBedingungen

BVB
     BundesVerband fuer Buero- und informationssysteme [e.v.] (org.),
     http://www.bvb.de

BVCP
     [PPP] Banyan VINES Control Protocol (RFC 1763, Banyan, VINES,
     PPP), ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1763.txt

BVIT
     BundesVerband InformationsTechnologien [e.v.] (org.)

BVSI
     Berufsverband de Selbststaendigen in der Informatik [e.V.] Org.,
     Germany, http://www.bvsi.de

BW
     Business Warehouse (DWH)

BWAM
     Because We Are Mean (slang, Cygwin)

BWBM
     Bandwidth Balancing Mechanism (DQDB)

BWCC
     Borland Windows Custom Controls (Borland, DLL)

BWF
     Broadcast Wave Format (DCI)

BWIL
     Bus Write Invalidate Line (Intel, CPU, BRIL)

BWL
     Bus Write Line (IIntel, CPU, BRL)

BZR
     BefehlsZaehlRegister (IC)

BZR
     Bit Zone Recording (ROD, BIT)

BZR
     BundesZentralRegister (IC)

BZT
     Bundesamt fuer Zulassungen in der Telekommunikation (org., DTAG)

BZUE
     Beleglose ZahlscheinUEberweisung (banking)



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C128
     Commodore 128 [computer] (Commodore)

C2IS
     Command and Control Information Systems (mil., USA)

C3I
     Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (mil., USA)

C3IIS
     Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Information
     Systems (mil., USA), "C3I/IS"

C4
     Command, Control, Communications and Computers (mil., USA)

C4I
     Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence
     (mil., USA)

C64
     Commodore 64 [computer] (Commodore)

CA
     Cell Arrival (ATM)

CA
     Certification Authority (cryptography, PKI)

CA
     Channel Adapter (Infiniband)

CA
     Computer Animation

CA
     Computer Associates (manufacturer), http://www.cai.com

CAAD
     Computer Aided Architectural Design

CABAC
     Context Based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (AVC)

CABS
     Carrier Access Billing System

CABS
     Computer Aided Business Simulation

CAC
     Cantilver Array Chip (IBM, HDD, MEMS)

CAC
     Channel Access Code (Bluetooth)

CAC
     Computer Aided Crime

CAC
     Connection Admission Control (UNI, ATM)

CACEAS
     Computer-Assisted Circuit Engineering and Allocating System

CACTIS
     Community Automated Counter-Terrorism Intelligence System (mil.,
     USA)

CAD
     Computer Aided Design (CIM)

CAD
     Computer Aided Dispatch / Drafting

CADE
     Computer Aided Document Engineering (Microstar)

CADR
     Client Authenticated DNS Request (DNS, Internet)

CADS
     Computer-Assisted Display System

CAE
     Client Application Enabler (IBM, DB)

CAE
     Common Application Environment (X/Open)

CAE
     Computer Aided Education

CAE
     Computer Aided Engineering (CIM)

CAI
     Computer Aided Inspection (CIM)

CAI
     Computer Aided Instruction

CAIP
     Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (Konferenz)

CAIS
     Common APSE Interface Specification (APSE, API)

CAIT
     Center for the Application of Information Technology (org., USA),
     http://www.cait.wustl.edu/cait

CAIT
     Central Academy of Information Technology (org., MITI)

CAL
     Client Access License (Lotus, MS)

CAL
     Computer Aided Logistics

CAL
     Computer Assisted Learning

CALEA
     Communications Assistance Law Enforcement Act (USA)

CALS
     Computer aided Acquisition and Logistics Support

CALS
     Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support

CAM
     Common Access Method (SCSI)

CAM
     Computer Aided Manufacturing

CAM
     Conditional Access Modul (DVB, CI)

CAM
     Content Addressable Memory (ethernet, Switch, IC)

CAMAC
     Computer Automated Measurement And Control

CAMEL
     Customized Applications for Mobile network Enhanced Logic (UMTS)

CAML
     Categorical Abstract Machine Language (INRIA), "Caml"

CAML
     Collaborative Application Markup Language (MS, XML)

CAMM
     Computer Assisted Material Management

CAMP
     Cygwin Apache MySQL PHP (Cygwin, Apache, SQL, PHP)

CAN
     Complete Area Networks (SNI)

CAN
     Controller Area Network [bus] (CAN)

CAO
     Client Activated Object (SAO)

CAO
     Computer Aided Office

CAO
     Control Area Operator (EMS)

CAP
     Carrierless Amplitude Phase [modulation] (ADSL, AT&T)

CAP
     Common Alerting Protocol (XML, OASIS)

CAP
     Communications-electronics Accommodation Program

CAP
     Component Approval Process

CAP
     Computer Aided Planning (CIM)

CAP
     Computer Aided Publishing

CAP
     Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance

CAPE
     Computer Applications in Production and Engineering (conference,
     IFIP)

CAPEC
     Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification,
     http://capec.mitre.org/

CAPI
     Communication Application Program Interface (ISDN, API)

CAPI
     Cryptography Application Programming Interface (cryptography, API)

CAPP
     Computer Aided Process Planning

CAPPEAL
     Controlled Access Protection Profile / Evaluation Assurance Level,
     "CAPP/EAL"

CAPSL
     CAnnon Printing System Language (Canon), "CaPSL"

CAPT
     Cannon Advanced Printing Technology

CAPTCHA
     Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers from
     Humans Apart (AI)

CAPWAP
     Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (WAP)

CAQ
     Computer Aided Quality [control]

CAR
     Central Access Routing (RND)

CAR
     Computer Aided Retrieval

CAR
     Computer Assisted Radiology

CAR
     Contents of the Address Register (IBM, ELISP, CDR)

CARCAS
     Computer Aided aRchiving and Change Accounting System

CARD
     Candidate Access Router Discovery (RFC 4066),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4066.txt

CARDS
     Central Archive for Reusable Defense Software (mil., USA)

CARDVM
     Card Virtual Machine (Java, Sun), "CardVM"

CARE
     Computer Assistance Resource Exchange

CARLOS
     Computer Aided Real Language Orthographic System

CARP
     Common Address Redundancy Protocol (BSD)

CAS
     Code Access Security (VSTO, .NET, MS)

CAS
     Column Address Strobe (IC, DRAM)

CAS
     Communicating Applications Specification (FAX, Intel, DCA)

CAS
     Computer Aided Selling

CAS
     Computer Aided Styling

CAS
     Computer Algebra System

CAS
     Computerized Autodial System

CAS
     Content Addressed Storage (EMC)

CASE
     Common Application Service Element (ISO, OSI)

CASE
     Computer Aided Software Engineering

CASH
     Computer Aided Service Handling (Ashton-Tate), "C.A.S.H."

CASID
     Condition Access System IDentification (DVB, CAT)

CAST
     Carlisle Adams and Stafford Tavares (cryptography)

CAST
     Computer Aided Software Testing

CAT
     Central Alaska Time [-1000] (TZ)

CAT
     Common Authentication Technology (IETF, RFC 1511),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1511.txt

CAT
     Computer Aided Technology (fair)

CAT
     Computer Aided Telephony

CAT
     Computer Aided Testing

CAT
     Condition Access Table (DVB)

CATI
     Computer Aided Telephone Interviewing

CATIS
     Computer-Assisted Tactical Information System (mil., USA)

CATNIP
     Common ArchiTecture for Next generation Internet Protocol (IPNG,
     RFC 1707), ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1707.txt

CATOSL
     Computer Associates - Trusted Open Source License (CA), "CA-TOSL"

CATS
     CodeWarrior Analysis Tools

CAUCE
     Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (org., Internet,
     spam, UCE), http://www.cauce.org

CAV
     Constant Angular Velocity (CD, HDD, MOD)

CAVE
     Cave for Automated Virtual Environment (VR)

CAVLC
     Context-Adaptive Variable Length Coding (AVC)

CAVO
     Computer Associates - Visual Objects (CA, DB), "CA-VO"

CBASIC
     Commercial Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC)

CBC
     Cipher Block Chaining [mode] (DES, DESE, RC5, cryptography)

CBCMAC
     Cipher Block Chaining of Message Authentication Code (CBC, MAC,
     cryptography, WLAN), "CBC-MAC"

CBCP
     CallBack Control Protocol

CBCS
     Computer Based Conversation System (BBS)

CBDF
     Character Bitmap Distribution Format (Adobe)

CBDS
     Connectionless Broadband Data Service (Europe)

CBDTPA
     Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (USA, DRM)

CBE
     Certified Banyan Engineer (Banyan, VINES)

CBEFF
     Common Biometric Exchange Format Framework (NIST, ISO 19785)

CBEMA
     Computer & Business Equipment Manufacturers Association (org.)

CBF
     Code Behind Form (MS, Access, DB)

CBGA
     Ceramic Ball and Grid Array (IC, CPU)

CBIOS
     Compatibility Basic Input Output System (IBM, BIOS)

CBMS
     Connectionless Broadband Data Service

CBQ
     Class Based Queueing

CBR
     Constant Bit Rate (ATM, VBR, ABR, UBR, QOS, BIT)

CBS
     Certified Banyan Specialist (Banyan, VINES)

CBS
     Component Based Setup (MS, Windows)

CBSR
     Candidate BootStrap Router (PIM, BSR, Multicast), "C-BSR"

CBT
     Canon Buffer Transmission (Fax)

CBT
     Computer-Based Training

CBT
     Core Based Tree [multicast protocol] (IP, RFC 1949/2189, ST,
     Multicast), ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2189.txt,
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1949.txt

CBT
     Cursor Backward Tabulation (CFT)

CBU
     Capacity BackUp (IBM, zSeries)

CBX
     Computerized Branch eXchange (PBX)

CC
     Carbon Copy

CC
     Common Criteria [for IT Security Evaluation] (CC)

CC
     Continuity Cell (ATM)

CC
     Country Code (MS-ISDN, GSM, mobile-systems)

CC
     Cross Connector

CCA
     Cisco Clean Access (Cisco)

CCA
     Clear Channel Assessment (WLAN)

CCAF
     Call Control Agent Function (IN)

CCAP
     Converged Cable Access Platform (DOCSIS)

CCC
     Cablelabs Client Configuration (DHCP)

CCC
     Catalyst Control Center (ATI, Windows)

CCC
     Chaos Computer Club (org.), http://www.ccc.de

CCC
     Computer Control Center

CCC
     Cube Connected Cycles (MP)

CCCA
     Campus Computer Communication Association (org., USA)

CCCH
     Common Control CHannel (GSM, mobile-systems)

CCCI
     Center for Cyber Communities Initiative (org., Japan),
     http://www.ccci.or.jp

CCD
     Charge Coupled Device

CCDCOE
     Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (org., NATO),
     http://ccdcoe.org/

CCE
     [visual basic] Control Creation Edition (VB, ActiveX, MS)

CCE
     Connection Control Entity

CCETT
     Centre Commun d'Etudes de Telediffusion et Telecommunications
     (org., France), http://www.ccett.fr

CCF
     Campus Computing Facilities (org.)

CCF
     Capsulated Color Filter (NEC)

CCF
     Central Computer Facility

CCF
     Connection Control Function (IN)

CCF
     Controller Configuration Facility

CCFL
     Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (LCD)

CCFT
     Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube (LCD, Display)

CCI
     Cache Coherent Interconnect

CCIA
     Computer & Communication Industry Association (org.),
     http://www.ccianet.org/

CCIRN
     Coordinating Committee of International Networks (org.)

CCIS
     Common Channel Interoffice Signaling (AT&T)

CCITT
     Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique
     (org., ITU, predecessor)

CCL
     Cerberus Central Limited (manufacturer), http://www.cdj.co.uk

CCM
     Change and Configuration Management

CCM
     CORBA Component Model (CORBA)

CCM
     Counter with CBC-MAC (cryptography, CBC, MAC, RFC 3610),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3610.txt

CCMDB
     Change and Configuration Management DataBase (IBM, Tivoli)

CCMP
     Counter mode CBC MAC Protocol (CBC, MAC, cryptography, WLAN)

CCNC
     Common Channel Network Controller

CCNC
     Computer / Communications Network Center

CCNUMA
     Cache-Coherent Non Uniform Memory Access (SMP, NUMA), "cc-NUMA"

CCP
     [PPP] Compression Control Protocol (PPP, RFC 1962),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1962.txt

CCP
     Command Console Processor (CP/M)

CCP
     Communications Control Program (OS, IBM)

CCP
     Compact Communication Products (TPS)

CCPP
     Composite Capability / Preference Profiles (W3C, RDF), "CC/PP"

CCR
     Commitment, Concurrency and Recovery (OSI)

CCR
     Current Cell Rate (ATM)

CCRA
     Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement (CC)

CCRMA
     Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (org.,
     Stanford, UK)

CCS
     [Conference on] Computer and Communications Security

CCS
     Cambridge Cybernetic Society (org.), http://www.pangaro.com/ccs

CCS
     Cluster Configuration System (GFS)

CCS
     Coded Character Set (CCS, Unicode)

CCS
     Common Channel Signaling (IN)

CCS
     Common Command Set (SCSI)

CCS
     Common Communications Support (IBM, SAA)

CCS
     Communications-Computer Systems, "C-CS"

CCS
     Computerized Charging System

CCS
     Cyprus Computer Society (Org, Zypern),
     http://www.cyprus2000.com/ccs

CCS7
     Common Channel signaling System 7 (IN, DTAG, CCITT)

CCSID
     Coded Character Set IDentification (IBM)

CCSY
     Cooperative Computing System Program (HP)

CCT
     China Coast Time [+0800] (TZ)

CCTA
     Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (org., UK,
     predecessor, OGC)

CCTLD
     Country Code Top Level Domain (Internet, ICANN), "ccTLD"

CCU
     Cache Control Unit (Wyse)

CCU
     Customer Control Unit

CCV
     C-bit Coding Violation [error event] (DS3/E3, BIT)

CCW
     COM Callable Wrapper (MS, COM, Java)

CD
     Carrier Detect (MODEM, RS-232)

CD
     Change Directory (DOS, Unix, OS/2)

CD
     Committee Draft (ISO)

CD
     Compact Disk (CD)

CDA
     Combined dynamic Data Authentication (EMV, cryptography)

CDA
     Communications Decency Act (Internet, USA)

CDA
     Compound Document Architecture (DEC)

CDATA
     Character DATA (DTD, PCDATA)

CDB
     Command Descriptor Block

CDBS
     Connectionless Data Bearer Service

CDBX
     Computerized Digital Branch eXchange (PBX)

CDC
     Connected Device Configuration (JVM)

CDC
     Control Data Corporation (manufacturer), http://www.cdc.com

CDC
     Cult of the Dead Cow (org.), "cDc", http://www.cultdeadcow.com

CDD
     Component Design Document

CDDA
     Compact Disk - Digital Audio (CD, Digital audio), "CD-DA"

CDDI
     Copper Distributed Data Interface (FDDI, UTP)

CDE
     Certified Directory Engineer (Novell, Netware),
     http://www.novell.com/education/cde/

CDE
     Common Desktop Environment (Unix)

CDE
     Compact Disk - Erasable (CD), "CD-E"

CDE
     Cooperative Development Environment (Oracle)

CDEF
     Control DEfinition Functions (Apple, MDEF)

CDF
     Channel Definition Format (MS, Internet, XML)

CDF
     Compound Document Framework (IBM, OLE)

CDFS
     Compact Disk File System (CD, OS/2, IBM)

CDG
     Compact Disk + Graphics (CD), "CD+G"

CDI
     Compact Disk - Interactive (CD), "CD-I"

CDIF
     CASE Data Interchange Format (CASE)

CDK
     Control Development Toolkit (MS, VB)

CDM
     Compressed Data Mode

CDM
     Conceptional Data Model (DB, PDM, Powerdesigner)

CDMA
     Code Division Multiple Access (telecommunication, mobile-systems)

CDMIDI
     Compact Disk + Musical Instruments Digital Interface (CD, MIDI),
     "CD+MIDI"

CDMO
     Compact Disk - Magneto Optical (CD), "CD-MO"

CDMRW
     Compact Disk - Mount Rainier Washington (CD-RW, CD), "CD-MRW"

CDMS
     Command and Data Management System (ESA, Venus-Express)

CDMS
     Communication Driver Maintenance System (ISDN, HST)

CDMU
     Command and Data Management Unit (ESA, Venus-Express, CDMS)

CDNC
     Chinese Domain Name Consortium (org., Internet)

CDO
     Collaboration Data Objects (WSH, MS)

CDO
     Common Data Objects (MS, ASP)

CDPC
     Cellular Digital Packet Data

CDPD
     Cellular Digital Packet Data (mobile-systems)

CDPN
     Context Dependent Path Names (CDSL, NFS, GFS)

CDR
     Compact Disk - Recordable (CD), "CD-R"

CDR
     Contents of the Decrement Register (IBM, ELISP, CAR)

CDRA
     Character Data Representation Architecture

CDRAM
     Cached Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM, DRAM, IC)

CDRM
     Cross Domain Resource Manager (VTAM, SSCP, IBM)

CDROM
     Compact Disk - Read Only Memory (CD, ROM), "CD-ROM"

CDROMXA
     Compact Disk - ROM / eXtended Architecture (CD, MPC, ROM),
     "CD-ROM/XA"

CDRW
     Compact Disk - ReWritable (CD), "CD-RW"

CDS
     Cell Directory Service (DCE)

CDS
     Class Data Sharing (Java)

CDS
     Current Directory Structure (BIOS. DOS)

CDSA
     Common Data Security Architecture (HP, cryptography)

CDSG
     Cultural Diversity Steering Group (ISSS)

CDSL
     Context Dependent Symbolic Links (CDPN, NFS, GFS)

CDSS
     Creative Decision Stimulation Systems (AI, DSS)

CDT
     Cambridge Display Technology (manufacturer),
     http://www.cdtltd.co.uk

CDT
     Cell Delay Tolerance (ATN)

CDT
     Central Daylight Time [-0500] (TZ, CST, USA)

CDT
     Compressed Domain Transcoder (DVD)

CDTV
     Commodore Dynamic Total Vision (Commodore)

CDV
     Cell Delay Variation (UNI, ATM, QOS)

CDVT
     Cell Delay Variation Tolerance (UNI, ATM, CDV)

CDWO
     Compact Disk - Write Once (CD), "CD-WO"

CE
     Communaute / Comunique Europeenne (Europe)

CE
     Communications-Electronics, "C-E"

CE
     Compact Edition (MS, Windows)

CE
     Connection Endpoint (UNI)

CEARCH
     Cisco Educational ARCHive (Cisco, WWW),
     http://sunsite.unc.edu/cisco/cisco-home.html

CEBIT
     welt CEntrum Buero Information Telekommunikation (fair), "CeBIT",
     http://www.messe.de

CEC
     Consumer Electronics Control [protocol]

CECI
     CICS Enhanced Command Interpreter (IBM, CICS)

CECMG
     Central Europe Computer Measurement Group (org., Europe), "cecmg"

CEDA
     CICS Enhanced resource Definition online Application (CICS, IBM)

CEDF
     CICS Execution Diagnostic Facility (CICS, IBM)

CEDR
     [Microsoft Windows] Compact Edition Driver Repository (MS,
     Windows, CE)

CEE
     [Linux] Consumer Electronics Edition (MontaVista, Linux, PDA)

CEECEB
     Central and Eastern European Countries EDIFACT Board (org.,
     EDIFACT), "CEEC/EB"

CEFACT
     CEntre for Facilitation of procedures and practices in
     Administration, Commerce and Transport

CEG
     Continuous Edge Graphics (Grafik, IC)

CEI
     Connection Endpoint Identifier (UNI)

CELL
     CIP/Ethernet Library for Linux (Linux, ethernet, CIP, PLC)

CELP
     Card Edge Low Profile [socket]

CELP
     Code Excited Linear Prediction

CEM
     Common [IT Security] Evaluation Methodology (CC)

CEM
     Contract Equipment Manufacturer

CEMT
     CICS Enhanced Master Terminal transaction (CICS, IBM)

CEN
     Comite Europeen de Normalisation (org., Europe, Brussels),
     http://www.cenorm.be

CENELEC
     Comite Europeen de Normalisation ELECtrotechnique (org., CEN,
     Europe)

CENTR
     Council of European National Top level Domain Registries (org.,
     TLD)

CEPAC
     CMOS-Ein-Platinen-Allzweck-Computer (IC, CMOS, C'T)

CEPIS
     Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (org.,
     Europe), http://www.cepis.org

CEPT
     Conference of European Postal and Telecommunications
     administrations (org., CCITT, conference, Europe)

CER
     Cell Error Ratio (ATM)

CERFNET
     California Educational and Research Federation NETwork (network),
     "CERFNet"

CERN
     Conseil Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire (org., Europe,
     Geneva), http://www.cern.ch

CERT
     Computer Emergency Response Team (DARPA, CMU, Internet),
     http://www.cert.org

CES
     C-bit Errored Seconds (DS3/E3, BIT)

CES
     Character Encoding Scheme (CSS, Unicode)

CES
     Circuit Emulation Service

CES
     Consumer Electronics Show (fair, USA)

CESAR
     Central Employment Search And Retrieval (WWW), http://www.cesar.de

CESG
     Communications-Electronics Security Group (org., UK, GCHQ),
     http://www.cesg.gov.uk

CET
     Central European Time [+0100] (TZ, MET)

CET
     Centro de Estudes de Telecomunicoes (org., Portugal),
     http://www.cet.pt

CF
     Carry Flag (assembler)

CF
     Compact Flash [card]

CF
     Compact Framework (MS, .NET, PocketPC)

CFA
     Center for Architecture (org., JIEO, DISA)

CFA
     Code Fields Address (Forth)

CFB
     Cipher FeedBack [mode] (cryptography, DES)

CFC
     ColdFusion Component (WWW, HTTPD)

CFD
     Call For Discussion (Internet)

CFD
     Computational Fluid Dynamics [applications]

CFE
     Center for Engineering (org., JIEO, DISA)

CFF
     Compact Font Format (Adobe)

CFI
     CAD Framework Initiative (org., CAD), http://www.cfi.org

CFM
     Clock From Master (CTM, Rambus)

CFM
     Code Fragment Manager (Apple)

CFM
     ConFiguration Management (FDDI, SMT)

CFMC
     Committee to Fight Microsoft Corporation (org., MS)

CFML
     Cold Fusion Markup Language

CFP
     Call For Papers

CFP
     Computers, Freedom & Privacy [conference]

CFP
     Contention Free Period (PCF, MAC)

CFQ
     Complete Fair Queueing (Linux)

CFS
     Center for Standards (org., JIEO, DISA), http://www.itsi.disa.mil

CFS
     Cryptographic FileSystem (Linux, cryptography)

CFT
     Call For Testers

CFT
     Cusor Forward Tabulation (CBT)

CFV
     Call For Vote (Internet, Usenet), "CfV"

CFWS
     Comments / Folding White Space (RFC 1822),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1822.txt

CG
     C for Graphics (Nvidia, MS), "Cg"

CGA
     Colour Graphics Adapter

CGA
     Graphics Communications Association (org.)

CGARI
     Graphics Communications Association Research Institute (org., CGA)

CGATS
     Committee for Graphics Arts Technologies Standards (org., ANSI)

CGDC
     Computer (???) Game Developers' Conference

CGE
     Carrier Grade Edition (Linux, MontaVista, CGL)

CGEMM
     Complex single precision GEneral Matrix Multiply (GEMM, BLAS)

CGH
     Computer Generated Holography

CGI
     Common Gateway Interface (WWW)

CGI
     Computer Generated Imagery

CGI
     Computer Graphics Interface

CGI
     Computer Graphics International (Konferenz)

CGL
     Carrier Grade Linux (Linux, OSDL)

CGM
     Computer Graphics Metafile (ISO 8632)

CGMS
     Copy Generation Management System (CD)

CGMSA
     Content Generation Management System - Analog (WPE), "CGMS-A"

CGRM
     Computer Graphics Reference Model (ISO, IEC, ISO/IEC 11072)

CGS
     Continuous Grain Silicon [technology] (Sharp, LCD)

CGVDI
     Computer Graphic Virtual Device Interface, "CG-VDI"

CHAID
     CHisquard Automatic Interaction Detector / Detection (SPSS)

CHAP
     [PPP] Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (PPP, RFC
     1334/1994), ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1994.txt,
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1334.txt

CHCP
     CHange Code Page (DOS)

CHDL
     Computer Hardware Description Language (HDL)

CHES
     Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems [conference]

CHEST
     Computers in Higher Education Software Team (org., UK),
     http://www.niss.ac.uk/chest

CHILL
     CCITT HIgh Level programming Language (CCITT)

CHRP
     Common Hardware Reference Platform (AIM)

CHS
     Cylinder Head Sectors (HDD, BIOS)

CHSM
     C Hardware Specific Module (NEST, MLID, Novell)

CHV
     Card Holder Value [aka PIN] (ICC, PIN)

CI
     Check In (RCS)

CI
     Coded Information

CI
     Common Interface (DVB)

CI
     Component Interface (DMI)

CI
     Configuration Item (CM)

CI
     Congestion Indicator

CIA
     CAN In Automation (org., CAN), "CiA", http://www.can-cia.de

CIAC
     Computer Incident Advisory Capability (org., LLNL, Internet),
     http://ciac.llnl.gov

CIB
     Collective Intelligent Brick (IBM, HDD)

CIB
     Computer Integrated Business

CIC
     Carrier Identification Code

CIC
     Certified IT Consultant (BVSI)

CIC
     Coordination and Information Center (CSNET)

CICA
     Center of Innovative Computer Applications (org.)

CICS
     Customer Information Control System (IBM, CICS, Z/OS, OS/390,
     VSE/ESA)

CICSESA
     Customer Information Control System/Enterprise Systems
     Architecture (IBM, CICS), "CICS/ESA"

CICSTS
     Customer Information Control System / Transaction Server (IBM,
     VSE/ESA), "CICS/TS"

CICSVS
     Customer Information Control System / Virtual Storage (IBM, CICS),
     "CICS/VS"

CID
     Configuration - Installation - Distribution (IBM)

CIDF
     Common Intrusion Detection Framework (CIDF, IDS)

CIDR
     Classless Internet Domain Routing [protocol] (RFC 1519),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1519.txt

CIDS
     Cabin Intercommunication Data System (Airbus, A380, TCP/IP)

CIE
     Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (org.),
     http://www.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/ikeda/CIE/home.html

CIF
     Common Intermediate Format [352x288] (video)

CIFS
     Common Internet File System (TCP/IP)

CIIRC
     China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center (China, org.),
     http://ciirc.china.cn

CIL
     Common Intermediation Language (CLI)

CIL
     Computer Integration Laboratories (org., Apple, IBM, Novell, Sun,
     ...)

CILABS
     Component Integration LABoratorieS (org.,, OpenDoc, Apple, IBM,
     Adobe, ...), CILabs

CIM
     Cisco Interactive Mentor (Cisco)

CIM
     Common Information Model (DMTF, XML, DMI, SAN, WBEM)

CIM
     Computer Integrated Manufacturing

CIMOM
     CIM Object Model (CIM, WBEM)

CIMOS
     CIncinnati Milacron Operating System (OS), "CiMOS"

CIO
     Cisco Information Online (Cisco, WWW), http://www.cisco.com

CIP
     Carrier Identification Parameter

CIP
     Classical IP over ATM (IP, ATM, IETF)

CIP
     Common Industrial Protocol (ODVA)

CIP
     Common ISDN Profile (Bluetooth, CAPI, ISDN)

CIP
     Computer Integrated Processing

CIP
     Computer-Investitions-Programm

CIPA
     Camera & Imaging Products Association (org.),
     http://www.cipa.jp/english/

CIPA
     Children's Internet Protection Act (Internet, USA, COPA)

CIQ
     Customer Information Quality (OASIS, TC)

CIR
     Committed Information Rate (ATM)

CIRAS
     (Conference on] Computational Intelligence, Robotics and
     Autonomous Systems

CIRC
     Cross Interleaved Reed-solomon Code (CD)

CIRCIT
     Centre for International Research on Communication and Information
     Technology (org., Australia), http://teloz.latrobe.edu.au/circit

CIS
     Card Information Structure / Space (PCMCIA)

CIS
     Command Information System (mil., USA)

CIS
     Compuserve Information Systems (network), http://www.compuserve.com

CIS
     Contact Image Sensor

CISA
     Certified Information Systems Auditor (ISACA)

CISC
     Complex Instruction Set Computer (CPU)

CISE
     Computer and Information Science Directorate (org., NSF)

CISKA
     [3D] Campus-InformationsSystem KArlsruhe (Uni Karlsruhe, Germany,
     VRML)

CISM
     Certified Information Security Manager (ISACA)

CISO
     Certified Information Security Officer (ISTA)

CISPR
     Comite International Special des Perturbations Radioelectriques
     (org.)

CISRAM
     Cybernetics & Intelligent Systems - Robotics, Automation &
     Mechatronics (IEEE, conference), "CIS-RAM", http://www.cis-ram.org

CISRT
     Chinese Internet Security Response Team (org., China)

CISS
     Center for Information Systems Security (org., JIEO, DISA, mil.,
     USA)

CISS
     Confirmation Interactive Site Server [technology]

CISSP
     Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC2)

CIT
     Computer Integrated Telephony

CIT
     Computer Intergrated Tooling

CITED
     Copyright In Transmitted Electronic Documents (ESPRIT)

CIU
     Core Interface Unit (Power4, IBM, IC)

CIU
     Customer Initiated Upgrade (IBM, zSeries)

CIU
     Customer-Initiated Upgrade [switch] ??? (IBM)

CIVIC
     Cyclone Integrated Video Interfaces Controller (Apple)

CIX
     Commercial Internet eXchange (ISP), http://www.cix.org

CJK
     Chinese - Japanese - Korean [encoding]

CKOA
     Cygwin Keeper of Acronyms (Cygwin, OLOCA)

CKRM
     Class-based Kernel Resource Manager / Management

CL
     Column Address Strobe Latency (CAS, IC)

CL
     ConnectionLess (CO)

CL
     Control Language (IBM, OS/400)

CL
     Conversion Layer (HiperLAN/2, UMTS)

CLASS
     Centralized Local Area Selective Signaling

CLASS
     Custom Local Area Signaling Service

CLDC
     Connected Limited Device Configuration (KVM, CDC, Java, JSR-139)

CLE
     Certified Linux Engineer (Novell, Linux)

CLE
     Certified Lotus Engineer (Lotus)

CLEC
     Competitive Local Exchange Carrier

CLI
     Call Level Interface (DB, SAG, X/Open, Oracle, Informix, MS, ...)

CLI
     Class LIbrary (CLI)

CLI
     CLear Interrupt (assembler)

CLI
     Clearly Less Intimidating (slang, Cygwin)

CLI
     Command Line Interpreter / Interface (OS)

CLI
     Common Language Infrastructure (MS, .NET, ECMA, CLI)

CLIC
     Chemnitzer LInux Cluster (Linux, Chemnitz), "CLiC"

CLIC
     Computer Liability Insurance Coverage

CLID
     Calling Line IDentification

CLIM
     Common LISP Interface Manager (CLOS, LISP)

CLIW
     Configurable Long Instruction Word (IC, CPU)

CLL
     ConnectionLess Layer (UNI, NNI, ATM)

CLNAP
     Connectionless Network Access Protocol (UNI, NNI, ATM)

CLNP
     ConnectionLess Network Protocol (OSI, ISO 8473)

CLNS
     ConnectionLess Network Service

CLOS
     Common LISP Object System (LISP)

CLP
     Cell Loss Priority (UNI, ATM, CLR)

CLP
     Cumulative Licensing Program (Adobe)

CLR
     Cell Loss Ratio (UNI, ATM, QOS)

CLR
     Common Language Runtime (MS, CLI, .NET)

CLS
     Card Loading Signal

CLS
     Common Language Specification (OOP, CLR, MS, .NET, CLS)

CLSF
     ConnectionLess Service Function

CLSID
     CLasS IDentifier (COM)

CLTP
     ConnectionLess Transport Protocol (OSI)

CLUG
     Chemnitzer Linux User Group (Chemnitz, user group, Linux),
     http://www.clug.in-chemnitz.de

CLUT
     Color LookUp Table (VGA)

CLV
     Constant Linear Velocity (CD, MOD)

CLX
     Class Library for cross platform (Delphi, Windows, Linux)

CM
     Compatibility Mode (PARISC, NM)

CM
     Configuration Management

CM
     Configuration Manager (BIOS, PNP)

CM
     Connection Management (RR, MM, GSM, mobile-systems)

CM2
     Communication Manager /2 (IBM), "CM/2"

CM5
     Connection Machine 5 (TMC)

CMAS
     Cambridge Multiple Access System (OS)

CMC
     Common Messaging Calls [interface] (XAPIA)

CMC
     Complement Carry Flag (assembler)

CMC
     Computer Mediated Communications [studies centre] (org., USA),
     http://www.rpi.ede/~decemi/cmc/center.html

CMDS
     Cambridge Model Distributed System (OS)

CME
     Component Management Entity

CME
     Core Managed Environment (Phoenix, MBR), "cME"

CMGA
     Community of Massive Gaming Agents Internet, Germany, DTAG

CMGS
     Cyan Magenta Gelb Schwarz (color system, DTP)

CMI
     Coded Mark Inversion

CMI
     Connection Manager Interface (IBM, SNA)

CMIA
     China Medical Informatics Association (org., China)

CMIIW
     Correct Me If I'm Wrong (slang, Usenet, IRC)

CMIP
     Common Management Information Protocol (OSI, ISO, DP 9506, X.700)

CMIS
     Common Management Information Service (OSI)

CMISE
     Common Management Information Service Element (CMIS)

CMM
     Color Management Method (DTP, ICM)

CMMI
     Capability Maturity Model Integration

CMMU
     Cache/Memory Management Unit

CMO
     Chi Mei Optoelectronic (manufacturer)

CMOL
     CMIP Over LLC (OSI, LLC)

CMOS
     Complementary-symmetry Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (IC)

CMOT
     CMIP Over TCP (OSI, RFC 1189, CMIP, TCP),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1189.txt

CMP
     Chip MultiProcessing (IBM, HP, Sun)

CMP
     Container-Managed Persistence (Java, EJB, BMP)

CMP
     Cooperative Marketing Partner (DEC)

CMR
     Cell Misinsertion Rate (ATM)

CMS
     [Cambridge] / Conversational Monitor System (IBM, OS, VM, VME,
     VM/ESA, Z/VM)

CMS
     Chip Multiprocessor System

CMS
     Code Management System (DEC, CM)

CMS
     Color Management System

CMS
     Content Management Software / System

CMS
     Cryptographic Message Syntax (cryptography, RFC 2630),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2630.txt

CMSS
     ???

CMT
     Connection ManagemenT (FDDI)

CMTS
     Cable MODEM Termination System (DOCSIS, MODEM)

CMU
     Carnegie-Mellon-University (org.), http://www.cs.cmu.edu,
     http://www.cmu.edu

CMX
     Communications Manager uniX (Unix)

CMY
     Cyan Magenta Yellow (color system, DTP)

CMYK
     Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK (color system, DTP)

CN
     Communications Network

CN
     Connection Management (mobile-systems)

CN
     Coordination Message (ISO 9646-3, TTCN)

CN
     Copy Network

CN
     Corporate Network

CNA
     Certified Novell Administrator (Novell, Netware),
     http://www.novell.com/education/cna/

CNA
     Communication Network Architecture (SEL)

CNA
     Communications Network Application

CNA
     CVE Numbering Authorities (CVE)

CNBC
     Center for Neural Basis of Cognition (org., CMU, AI),
     http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs/project/cnbc/cnbc.html

CNC
     Communications Network Control

CNC
     Computerized Numerical Control

CND
     Caldera Network Desktop (Linux)

CND
     Caller Number Delivery (MODEM)

CNE
     Certified Netware Engineer (Novell, Netware),
     http://www.novell.com/education/cne/

CNE
     Corporate Network Edition (eBlaster)

CNEPA
     Certified Netware Engineers Professional Association (org.,
     Netware)

CNET
     Centre Nationale d'Etudes des Telecommunications (org., France),
     http://www.cnet.fr

CNI
     Certified Netware Instructor (Novell, Netware),
     http://www.novell.com/education/cni/

CNI
     Coalition for Networked Information (org.), http://www.cni.org

CNI
     Common Network Interface

CNIDIR
     Coalition for Networked Information DIRectories (Internet)

CNIL
     Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (org.,
     France), http://www.cnil.fr

CNM
     Communications Network Management

CNM
     Customer Network Management

CNMA
     Communications Network for Manufacturing Applications

CNMS
     Cylink Network Management System

CNNIC
     China interNet Network Information Center (org., Internet, China),
     http://www.cnnic.net.cn

CNP
     Corporate Network Products (TPS)

CNPS
     Computer Noise Prevention System

CNR
     Communications and Network Riser

CNRCVUUCP
     Compressed News ReCeive Via UUCP

CNS
     Certified Novell Salesperson (Novell, Netware),
     http://www.novell.com/education/powersell/

CNS
     Complimentary Network Service

CNS
     Compuserve Network Services (CIS)

CNTFET
     Carbon Nano-Tube Field Effect Transistor

CO
     Check Out (RCS)

CO
     Connection Oriented (CL)

COA
     Certificate of Authenticity (MS, Windows, XP)

COACH
     Component based Open source ArCHitecture for distributed systems
     (CORBA)

COAS
     Caldera Open Administration System (Linux)

COAST
     Cache On A STick (Intel)

COAST
     Computer Operations, Audit and Security Technology (org.),
     http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast/coast.html

COBOL
     COmmon Business Orientated Language

COBRA
     COmmunication technology: Basic Research and Applications (org.,
     Netherlands), http://www.cobra.tue.nl

COBRA
     COmmunication technology: Basic Research and Applications

COBWEB
     COntent-Based image retrieval on the WEB (WWW, ESPRIT)

COCA
     Cost Of Cracking Adjustment (cryptography)

COCOT
     Customer Owned Coin Operated Telephone

COD
     Capacity On Demand (IBM, zSeries), "CoD"

COD
     Connection Oriented Data

CODASYSL
     Conference On DAta Systems Languages (Konferenz)

CODCF
     Central Office Data Connecting Facility

CODE
     Client/server Open Development Environment (Powersoft)

CODE
     COlor Depth Enhancement (ATI)

CODEC
     COder - DECoder

COE
     Central Office Equipment

COE
     Common Operating Environment [certification] (DISA, mil.)

COEES
     COE Engineering System (COE)

COFDM
     Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (Digital audio,
     DAB)

COFEE
     Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (MS)

COFF
     Common Object File Format (Unix)

COICA
     Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act

COIPX
     Connection Orientated Internet Packet eXchange (Novell, Netware,
     IPX), "CO-IPX"

COL
     Caldera Open Linux (Caldera, Linux)

COLD
     Computer Output on LaserDisk

COLIBRI
     COprozessor fuer LISP auf der Basis von RISC (RISC)

COLLADA
     COLLAborative Design Activity (XML, 3D), http://collada.org/

COM
     Component Object Model (OLE, OLE2, OCX, ActiveX, MS)

COM
     Computer Output on Microfilm

COM
     Continuation of Message

COMA
     Cache Only Memory Architecture (SMP)

COMAL
     COMmon Algorithmic Language

COMDEX
     COMputer Dealer's EXposition (fair)

COMIC
     COnversational Multimodal Interaction with Computers [project]
     (Europe)

COMPARTS
     COMputergestuetztes PARtner-TeilebestandsSystem (MBAG)

COMPTIA
     COMPuting Technology Industry Association (org.),
     http://www.comptia.de

COMTECH
     COMputer TECHnologies (fair)

CONCERT
     Communications for North Carolina Education, Research and
     Technology (network)

CONCISE
     COSINE Network's Central Information Service for Europe (COSINE,
     network)

CONLAN
     CONsensus LANguage (HDL)

CONS
     Connection Oriented Networking Service

CONTAC
     Central Office NeTwork ACcess

COOL
     COBOL Object Orientated Language (OOP, COBOL)

COOP
     Concurrent Object Orientated Programming (OOP)

COP
     Character-Oriented Protocol

COPA
     Child Online Protection Act (Internet, USA, CIPA)

COPP
     Certified Output Protection Protocol (MS, RSA, WPE)

COPS
     Common Open Policy Service protocol (RFC 2748),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2748.txt

COPS
     Computer Oracle and Password System (Unix)

COPSPR
     Common Open Policy Service for Policy Provisioning (COPS, RFC
     3084), "COPS-PR", ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3084.txt

CORAN
     Communication ORiented Application aNalysis

CORBA
     Common Object Request Broker Architecture (OMG),
     http://www.omg.org/news/witepprz.htm, http://www.acl.lanl.gov/CORBA

CORDIS
     COmmunity Research and Development Information Service (Europe),
     http://www.cordis.lu

COS
     Card Operating System (OS, ICC)

COS
     Cassette Operating System (OS)

COS
     Class of Service

COS
     Clip On Socket (CPU)

COS
     Commercial Operating System (OS, DEC, PDP 11)

COS
     Concurrent Operating System (OS, UNIVAC 9200, UNIVAC 9300)

COS
     Corporation for Open Systems (org., OSI, user group)

COS
     Cray Operating System (OS, Cray)

COSA
     COmputerunterstuetzte SAchbearbeitung

COSA
     COmputing in der Sozialen Arbeit (Org, Koeln, Germany)

COSE
     Common Open Software Environment (HP, Sun, IBM, SCO, USL, Univel)

COSINE
     Cooperation for OSI Networking in Europe (org.)

COSMOS
     COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS

COSS
     Common Object Services Specification

COST
     COpenhagen SGML Tool (SGML), "CoST"

COT
     Central Office Terminal

COTP
     Connection-Oriented Transport Protocol (OSI, ISO 8073)

COTS
     Commercial Off The Shelf (CC)

COTS
     Connection-Oriented Transport [layer] Service

COW
     Character Orientated Windows (MS, SAA, UI)

COW
     Chrome Object Wrapper (Mozilla)

COW
     Copy On Write

CP
     Connection Processor

CP
     Contention Period (DCF, MAC)

CP
     Control Point (IBM, SNA)

CP
     Control Program (IBM, OS, VM/ESA, VM)

CP
     Coordination Point (ISO 9646-3, TTCN)

CPA
     Collaboration Partner Agreement (CPPA, ebXML)

CPA
     Collaboration Protocol Agreements (ebXML)

CPAN
     Comprehensive PERL Archive Network (PERL), http://www.cpan.org

CPC
     Central Processing Complex

CPC
     Cost Per Copy

CPCI
     Compact Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), "cPCI"

CPCM
     Content Protection Copyright Management (DVB, CPTWG)

CPCS
     Common Part Convergence Sublayer (ATM)

CPDP
     Cellular Digital Packet Data

CPE
     Common Platform Enumeration (URI, NIST)

CPE
     Continuing Professional Education

CPE
     Customer Premises Equipment (ACS)

CPF
     Control Program Facility (OS, IBM, S/38)

CPGA
     Ceramic Pin Grid Array (IC, CPU)

CPH
     Cost Per Hour

CPI
     Characters Per Inch

CPI
     Common Part Indicator (ATM)

CPI
     Common Programming Interface (IBM, SAA)

CPI
     Computer Private branch exchange Interface

CPI
     Cost Per Instruction

CPIC
     Common Programming Interface for Communications (IBM, SAA, API),
     "CPI/C"

CPIO
     CoPy In/Out (Unix)

CPIRR
     Common Programming Interface Resource Recovery (IBM, SAA)

CPL
     Combined Programming Language (DEC, PL/1)

CPL
     Common Public License (IBM, IPL)

CPL
     Control Panel Applet (MS, Windows, XP)

CPL
     Conversational Programming Language (DEC)

CPLB
     Cache Protection Lookaside Buffer (Blackfin)

CPLD
     Complex Programmable Logic Device (PLD, IC, RL)

CPM
     Communication Processor Module (Motorola)

CPM
     Control Program for Microcomputers (OS, DR), "CP/M"

CPM
     Cost Per Minute

CPM
     Critical Path Method

CPMS
     Central Point Management Services (Central Point)

CPN
     Calling Party Number

CPN
     Compuserve Packet Network (network)

CPN
     Customer Premises Network

CPNET
     Control Program / NETwork (CP/M, OS), "CP/NET"

CPNOS
     Control Program / ??? (CP/NET, CP/M, OS), "CP/NOS"

CPODA
     Contention Priority Orientated Demand Assignment (MAC, PODA)

CPOL
     Code Project Open License

CPP
     Collaboration Partner Profile (CPPA, ebXML)

CPP
     Collaboration Protocol Profiles (ebXML)

CPPA
     Collaboration Partner Profile and Agreement (ebXML, XML)

CPPM
     Content Protection for Pre-recorded Media (CPRM)

CPPS
     Card / Paper tape Programming System (OS, IBM)

CPR
     CPU Parameter Recall (Asus), "C.P.R."

CPRM
     Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPPM)

CPS
     Central Processing System

CPS
     Characters Per Second

CPS
     Cyber-Physical System

CPSI
     Configurable PostScript Interpreter

CPSR
     Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (org., USA)

CPTWG
     Copyright Protection Technical Working Group (DVB, WG)

CPU
     Central Processing Unit

CPUID
     Central Processing Unit IDentifier (CPU)

CPW
     Cross-Platform Windowing [library] (OpenGL)

CQL
     Cassandra Query Language

CR
     Carriage Return (ASCII)

CR
     Challenge-Response (SPAM)

CRAFT
     Cray Research Adaptive FORTRAN (Cray, MPP, FORTRAN)

CRAM
     Cache RAM (RAM)

CRAM
     Card Random Access Memory (RAM, IC)

CRAS
     Cable Repair Administrative System

CRC
     Cyclic Redundancy Check[sum]

CRCG
     [Fraunhofer] Center for Research in Computer Graphics (org., USA)

CRCG
     Common Routing Connection Group

CRD
     Color Rendering Dictionary (PS)

CREN
     Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (network),
     http://www.cren.net

CRET
     Color - Resolution Enhancement Technology (HP), "C-REt"

CRFVC
     Connection Related Function Virtual Channel (UPC, UNI), "CRF(VC)"

CRFVP
     Connection Related Function Virtual Path (UPC, UNI), "CRF(VP)"

CRI
     Cray Research, Inc. (manufacturer), http://www.cray.com

CRIMM
     Continuity Rambus Inline Memory Module (RIMM, IC, Rambus)

CRIN
     Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy (org., France)

CRISC
     Complex-Reduced Instruction Set Computer

CRISP
     Complex-Reduced Instruction Set Processor

CRISP
     Cross Registry Internet Service Protocol (Internet, RFC 3707),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3707.txt

CRJE
     Conversational Remote Job Entry (RJE)

CRL
     Certificate Revocation List (cryptography)

CRL
     Compile-time Reconfigurable Logic (RL)

CRLF
     Carriage Return - Line Feed (ASCII, DOS)

CRM
     Customer Relationship Management

CRML
     Customer Relationships Markup Language (xCRL, predecessor)

CRP
     Candidate Rendezvous Point (PIM, RP, Multicast), "C-RP"

CRP
     Common Reference Platform (PowerPC)

CRPC
     Center for Research on Parallel Computation (STC)

CRS
     Cell Relay Service (UNI, ATM)

CRS
     CMOS Reload Switch (CMOS, Gigabyte), "C.R.S."

CRT
     Cathode Ray Tube

CRT
     Computer Technology Research [corporation] (provider),
     http://www.ctrcorp.com

CRTC
     Cathode Ray Tube Controller (EGA, VGA, MCGA)

CRTM
     Core Root of Trust for Management (TCPA)

CS
     Carrier Selection

CS
     Chip Select (IC)

CS
     Client/Server, "C/S"

CS
     Code Segment [register] (CPU, Intel, assembler)

CS
     Coding Scheme (GPRS, mobile-systems)

CS
     Computer Science

CS
     Controlled Slip [error event] (DS1/E1)

CS
     Convergence Sublayer (ATM)

CS1
     Capability Set 1 (IN), "CS-1"

CS2
     Capability Set 2 (IN)

CSA
     Callpath Service Architecture (IBM, CTI)

CSA
     Client Service Agent

CSA
     Communication Streaming Architecture (Intel, MCH, DNB)

CSA
     Configuration Status Accounting

CSAPI
     Common Speller Application Program Interface (API)

CSC
     Computer Sciences Corporation (provider)

CSCC
     Concurrent SuperComputing Consortium (org.)

CSCD
     Caldera Systems Curriculum Developers (Caldera)

CSCSI
     Canadian Society for the Computational Studies of Intelligence
     (org., Canada, AI), http://ai.iit.nrc.ca/cscsi_point.org

CSCW
     Computer Supported Cooperative Work

CSD
     Certified Scrum Developer (Scrum)

CSD
     Control flow Specification Diagram (CASE)

CSD
     Corrective Service Diskettes (IBM)

CSD
     Customer Specific Dictionaries

CSDC
     Circuit Switched Digital Capability

CSDC
     Code Segment Descriptor Cache [register] (CS, Intel, CPU)

CSE
     Client-Server Environment

CSEIA
     [conference on] Computer Support for Environmental Impact
     Assessment (IFIP, conference)

CSEL
     Cable SELect (EIDE, HD)

CSELT
     Centro Studi E Laboratori Telecomunicazioni [s.p.a.] (org.,
     Italy), http://www.cselt.it

CSEM
     Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtecnique (org.,
     Switzerland)

CSES
     C-bit Severely Errored Seconds (DS3/E3, BIT)

CSG
     Constructive Solid Geometry (CAD, CAM)

CSH
     C SHell (Unix, BSD, Shell)

CSH
     Complementary Software House (DEC)

CSI
     Code Sequence Identification [technology] (Lavasoft, Ad-Aware)

CSI
     Common Secure Interoperability (CORBA)

CSI
     Common System Interface (Intel, Xeon)

CSI
     CompuServe Incorporated (ISP), http://www.compuserve.com

CSI
     Convergence Sublayer Indication (ATM)

CSIC
     Customer Specific Integrated Circuit (IC, RL)

CSID
     Caller Station IDentification (Fax)

CSIDS
     Central command/Southern command Integrated Data System (mil., USA)

CSII
     Center for Systems Interoperability and Integration (org., ???)

CSIP
     Chipset Stable Image Program

CSIP
     Commercial Stable Image Platform (AMD)

CSIRO
     Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
     (org., UK)

CSIS
     Central Schengen Information Systen (SIS, Europe, Strasbourg)

CSKI
     Ceska Spolecnost pro Kybernetiku a Informatiku (org., Tschechien),
     http://www.ecdl.cz

CSL
     Callable Services Library (IBM, VM/ESA, CMS)

CSL
     Computer SoLutions [software gmbh] (Haendler)

CSLIP
     Compressed [headers] Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP, IP)

CSM
     Certified Scrum Master (Scrum)

CSM
     Cluster System Management (IBM)

CSM
     Compatibility Support Module (UEFI)

CSMA
     Carrier Sense Multiple Access

CSMACA
     Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance, "CSMA/CA"

CSMACD
     Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (IEEE
     802.3, ethernet, CSMA/CD), "CSMA/CD"

CSMS
     C Specific Media Support (NEST, MLID, Novell)

CSMUX
     Circuit Switching MUltipleXer (FDDI), "CS-MUX"

CSN
     Card Select Number (PNP)

CSNET
     Computer + Science NETwork (USA, network, BITNET)

CSP
     Centro Supercacolo Piemonte (org., Italy, HPC),
     http://services.csp.it/welcome.html

CSP
     Chip Scale Package (IC)

CSP
     Communicating Sequential Processes

CSP
     Content Security Policy (Mozilla, Firefox)

CSP
     Cross System Product (IBM)

CSPDN
     Circuit Switched Public Data Network (IN)

CSPDU
     Convergence Sublayer Protocol Data Unit (ATM, PDU), "CS PDU"

CSPO
     Certified Scrum Product Owner (Scrum)

CSPP
     Computer Systems Policy Project [group] (org., USA. manufacturer),
     http://www.cspp.org

CSR
     Cell misSequenced Ratio (ATM)

CSR
     Cell Switch Router (Toshiba)

CSR
     Certificate Signing Request (SSL)

CSRAM
     Clock Synchronous Random Access Memory (RAM, IC)

CSRC
     Computing Science Research Center (org., Berkeley, BSD)

CSRF
     Cross Site Request Forgery (WWW, Internet)

CSRG
     Computer Systems Research Group (org., Unix, BSD)

CSS
     Cascading Style Sheets (HTML, XML, WWW, JavaScript)

CSS
     Computer Sub System

CSS
     Content Scrambling System (DVD, Matsushita, IBM)

CSS
     Controlled Slip Seconds (DS1/E1)

CSS
     Customer Switching System

CST
     Central Standard Time [-0600] (TZ, CDT, USA)

CSTA
     Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (ECMA, CTI)

CSTB
     Computer Science and Technology Board (org., NRC)

CSTC
     Computer Security Technology Center (org., CIAC),
     http://ciac.llnl.gov/cstc/cstchome.html

CSTO
     Computing Systems Technology Office (org., ARPA),
     http://www.arpa.mil/csto/welcome.html

CSTR
     Centre for Speech Technology Research

CSTS
     Computer Supported Telecommunications Standard

CSU
     Channel Service Unit (ATM)

CSUNET
     California State University NETwork (network, USA)

CSV
     Client SMTP Validation (SMTP, SPAM)

CSV
     Comma Separated Values

CT
     [magazin fuer] Computer Technik, "c't" , http://www.heise.de/

CT
     Chipcard Terminal (ICC, CT)

CT
     Chips & Technologies (manufacturer), "C&T", http://www.chips.com

CT
     Clackamas Technology (Intel, Pentium, CPU)

CTAN
     Comprehensive Tex Archive Network (TeX, FTP), http://www.ctan.org

CTAPI
     Chipcard Terminal Application Program Interface (ICC, CT, API),
     "CT-API"

CTB
     Communication ToolBox (Apple)

CTC
     Convolutional Turbo Coding (WIMAX, 802.16e)

CTCA
     Channel To Channel Adapter (IBM, System/370)

CTCP
     Client To Client Protocol (IRC)

CTCPEC
     Canadian Trusted Computer Product Evaluation Criteria (Canada)

CTD
     Cell Transfer Delay (UNI, ATM, QOS)

CTDW
     Cygwin Technical Documentation Writer (Cygwin)

CTE
     Compliance Test and Evaluation, "CT & E"

CTEA
     Copyright Term Extension Act (USA, DRM)

CTEC
     Certified Technical Education Center (MS)

CTERM
     Command TERMinal (DEC)

CTI
     Computer Telephony Integration

CTM
     Clock To Master (CFM, Rambus)

CTM
     Close To Metal (AMD, 3D)

CTM
     Communication Trunk of Medium range Mil., Germany

CTOS
     Cassette Tape Operating System (OS, Datapoint)

CTP
     Community Technology Preview

CTP
     Cordless Telephony Profile (Bluetooth)

CTR
     [columbia university] Center for Telecommunications Research
     (org., USA), http://www.ctr.columbia,edu

CTR
     Common Technical Regulations (Europe)

CTRON
     Central TRON (TRON)

CTS
     Cipher Text Stealing [mode] (cryptography)

CTS
     Clear To Send (MODEM, RS-232)

CTS
     Common Type System (OOP, CLR, MS, .NET, CLS)

CTS
     Compatibility Test Suite (Sun, J2EE)

CTS
     Conformance Testing Service (OSTC)

CTS
     Cut-Through-Switch (FC, PMC-Sierra)

CTSM
     C Topology Specific Module (NEST, MLID, Novell)

CTSS
     Compatible Time Sharing System (Unix, predecessor, OS, MIT)

CTSS
     Cray TimeSharing System (OS, Cray, LLNL)

CTT
     Cartridge Tape Transport

CTT
     Character Translation Table

CTTC
     Cartridge Tape Transport Controller

CTV
     Cell Tolerance Variation (ATM)

CTY
     Console teleTYpe

CU
     Call Up (Unix)

CU
     see you (slang, Usenet, IRC)

CUA
     Common User Application

CUCUG
     Champaign-Urbana Computer Users Group (org., user group),
     http://www.cucug.org

CUD
     Color Universal Design (Eizo, LCD)

CUDA
     Compute Unified Device Architecture (Nvidia, 3D)

CUI
     Character User Interface (UI)

CUI
     Common User Interface (AMS, UI)

CUL
     Computer Und Lernen (org.), http://www.computerundlernen.de

CUL
     see you Later (slang, Usenet, IRC)

CUP
     Competitive UPgrade (MS)

CUPS
     Common Unix Printing System (Unix, printing)

CUSI
     Configurable Unified Search Interface (WWW)

CUSP
     Commonly Used System Program (DEC)

CUT
     Control Unit Terminal

CUU
     ComputerUnterstuetzte Unterweisung

CVD
     Chemical Vapor Deposition

CVE
     Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, http://cve.mitre.org

CVF
     Compressed Volume File (DOS)

CVIA
     Computer Virus Industry Association (org., USA)

CVN
     CounterVandalism Network (Wikia, VSTF)

CVS
     Computer Vision Syndrome

CVS
     Concurrent Versions System (Unix), http://www.cvshome.org

CVSD
     Continuous Variable Delta Modulation (telecommunication)

CVSELP
     Codex Vector Sum Excited Linear Prediction [algorithm] (Motorola,
     VOFR)

CVSS
     Common Vulnerability Scoring System (NIAC),
     http://www.first.org/cvss/

CVW
     MITRE Collaborative Virtual Workspace license

CWE
     Common Weakness Enumeration, http://cwe.mitre.org/

CWI
     Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (org., Netherlands),
     http://www.cwi.nl

CWIS
     Campus Wide Information System

CWMI
     Common Warehousing Metadata Interchange (DB, DWH)

CWP
     Current Workspace Pointer (SPARC, CPU)

CWT
     Character Width Table

CXFS
     Clustered eXtended File System (SGI, RAID, XFS)

CXI
     Common X-windows Interface (Unix)

CXML
     Commerce eXtensible Markup Language (XML), "cXML",
     http://www.cxml.org

CXTP
     ConteXt Transfer Protocol (RFC 4067),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4067.txt

CYBOX
     CYBer Observable eXpression, "CybOX", http://cybox.mitre.org/

CYMK
     Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, blacK (color system)



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D2B
     Domestic Digital Bus

D2D2T
     Disk To Disk To Tape (Streamer, LTO)

D3D
     Direct3D (DirectX, MS)

D3DRM
     Direct3D Retained Mode (DirectX, MS)

DA
     Data Area (CD-MRW, SA)

DA
     Destination [MAC] Address (SNA, Token Ring, ATM, FDDI, ...)

DA
     Digital-to-Analog (D/A), "D/A"

DA11
     DatenAustauschphase 11 [allgemeine bauabrechnung] (GAEB)

DA81
     DatenAustauschphase 81 [leistungsverzeichnis] (GAEB)

DA82
     DatenAustauschphase 82 [kostenanschlag] (GAEB)

DA83
     DatenAustauschphase 83 [angebotsanforderung] (GAEB)

DA84
     DatenAustauschphase 84 [angebotsabgabe] (GAEB)

DA85
     DatenAustauschphase 85 [nebenangebot] (GAEB)

DA86
     DatenAustauschphase 86 [zuschlag/auftragserteilung] (GAEB)

DAA
     Device Access Architecture (Vireo)

DAA
     Digest Access Authentication (HTTP),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2617.txt

DAAP
     Digital Audio Access Protocol (DMAP, Apple)

DAB
     Digital Audio Broadcasting, http://www.worlddab.org

DAC
     Digital to Analog Converter

DAC
     Discretionary Access Control (Unix, Linux, MAC)

DAC
     Dual Address Cycle (PCI)

DAC
     Dual Attached Concentrator (FDDI)

DACAPO
     ??? [hardware description language] (HDL)

DACL
     Discretionary Access Control List (ACL)

DACNOS
     Distributed Academic Computing Network Operating System (OS,
     HECTOR)

DACS
     Digital Access Control System (ISDN, DES, cryptography)

DACS
     Distributed Access Control System (Apache)

DACT
     DAta Compression Technology

DAD
     Desktop Application Director (WordPerfect)

DAD
     Duplicate Address Detection (NDP, IPv6)

DADIU
     Danske Akademi for Digital Interaktiv Underholdning (org.,
     Denmark), http://dadiu.dk/

DAE
     Digital Audio Extraction (CD, audio)

DAEMON
     Disk And Execution MONitor (Unix)

DAF
     Distributed Application Framework (CCITT)

DAG
     DatenAnschaltGeraet

DAG
     Directed Acyclic Graph (NVSG)

DAI
     ??? (Sun)

DAI
     Device Application Interface (Novell, Netware, SMS)

DAI
     Distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI)

DAIDALOS
     Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and
     Administration of Location independent, Optimized personal
     Services (Europe)

DAINET
     Deutsches AgrarInformationsNETz (WWW, org.), http://www.zadi.de

DAIS
     Database Access and Integration Services (GGF, WG, grid, OGSA)

DAIS
     Distributed Application Integration System (ORB)

DAISGR
     Database Access and Integration Service Group Registry (DAIS, grid)

DAISY
     Digital Accessible Information System, http://www.daisy.org

DAL
     Data Access Language (Apple)

DALI
     Distributed Artificial LIfe (AI), "DALi"

DAM
     Debian Account Manager (Linux, Debian)

DAM
     Digital Asset Management

DAM
     Direct Access Method / Mode (DAM, SAM)

DAM
     Distributed Abstract Machine

DAM
     Draft AMendment (ISO)

DAMLOIL
     DARPA Agent Markup Language and Ontology Inference Layer (DARPA,
     RDF, KM), "DAML+OIL", http://www.daml.org

DAMQAM
     Dynamically Adaptive Multicarrier Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

DANA
     De.Admin.News.Announce (Usenet), "D.A.N.A."

DANTE
     Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe (org., Europe),
     http://www.dante.net

DANTE
     Deutschsprachige ANwendervereinigung TEx [e.v.] (TeX, user group,
     org.), http://www.dante.de

DAO
     Data Access Objects (DB)

DAO
     Destination Address Omitted [flag] (CATNIP)

DAO
     Disk At Once (CD-R, SAO)

DAP
     Data Access Protocol (DEC, DNA)

DAP
     Developers Assistance Program (IBM)

DAP
     Directory Access Protocol (X.500, DS)

DAP
     Directory Application Protocol (IN)

DAP
     Document Application Profile (JTC1, ODIF, ODA)

DAPE
     Distributed Application Programming Environment (ORB)

DAPHNE
     Document Application Processing in a Heterogeneous Network
     Environment

DAPIE
     Developer API Extensions (IBM, OS/2, API)

DARI
     Database Application Remote Interface (IBM, DB)

DARMP
     Defense Automation Resources Management Program (mil., USA)

DARPA
     Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (org., USA),
     http://www.arpa.mil

DART
     Dynamic Advertising Reporting & Targeting [technology] (WWW,
     Doubleclick)

DAS
     Database Access Service (MS, MOM)

DAS
     Direct Attached Storage

DAS
     Directory Assistance Service [protocol] (RFC 1202),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1202.txt

DAS
     Disk Array Subsystem (Unix, HP-UX)

DAS
     Dual Attached Station (FDDI)

DAS
     Dual Attachment Station (FDDI, Schneider & Koch)

DAS
     Dynamic Allocation Scheme [protocol]

DASD
     Direct Access Storage Device

DASI
     Dial Access Signaling Interface

DASP
     Disk Anti Shock Protection (Acer)

DASP
     Drive Active, Slave Present (IDE)

DASS
     Digital Access Signaling System

DASS
     Distributed Authentication Security Service (RFC 1507),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1507.txt

DAT
     Digital Audio Tape (Digital audio)

DATEV
     DATEnVerarbeitungszentrale der steuerberatenden Berufe (org.,
     Nuernberg, Germany), http://www.datev.de

DATEX
     DATa EXchange

DATEXJ
     DATa EXchange - Jedermann (DTAG), "DATEX-J"

DATEXL
     DATa EXchange - Leitungsvermittlung

DATEXM
     DATa EXchange - Multimegabit (DTAG, SMDS, BIT), "DATEX-M"

DATEXP
     DATa EXchange - Packetized / Packetvermittlung (DTAG, X.25),
     "DATEX-P"

DAU
     Duemmster Anzunehmender User (slang, Usenet, IRC)

DAV
     [WWW] Distributed Authoring Versioning (WWW, HTTP)

DAV
     Digital Audio Video (Apple, Digital audio)

DAVIC
     Digital Audio Visual Interoperatibility Council (org., Digital
     audio), http://www.davic.org/

DAVID
     Digital Audio Video Interactive Decoder (Digital audio)

DAVIS
     DAimler-Benz Vertragspartner-InformationsSystem (MBAG)

DAW
     Digital Audio Workstation

DAWAK
     DAta WArehousing and Knowledge discovery

DAWN
     Defense Attache Worldwide Network (network, mil.)

DAX
     Developer API eXtension (OS/2, IBM, API)

DB
     DataBase

DB2
     DataBase 2 (IBM, DB)

DB2CS
     DataBase 2 Client/Server (IBM, DB2, DB), "DB2 C/S"

DB2SDK
     DataBase 2 Software Development Toolkit (DB2, IBM, DB), "DB2 SDK"

DBA
     DataBase Administrator (DB)

DBA
     Drei Buchstaben Akronym

DBAC
     DataBase Administration Center (DB)

DBAS
     DataBase Administration System (DB)

DBC
     Design By Contract

DBC
     Device Bay Controller

DBCS
     Double-Byte Character Set

DBD
     DataBase Description (IBM, DB)

DBDMA
     Descriptor Based Direct Memory Access (Apple, DMA)

DBEF
     Dual Brightness Enhancement Foile (LCD)

DBI
     DataBase Interface (DB)

DBL
     DataBase Language (DB)

DBLO
     Dual Beam Landing Optimizer

DBLT
     Dynamic Back Link Technology (WWW)

DBM
     DataBase Manager (DB)

DBME
     DataBase Management Environment (DB)

DBMS
     DataBase Management System (DB)

DBOS
     Disk/Drum Based Operating System (OS)

DBP
     DataBase Publishing (DB)

DBP
     Delay Bandwidth Product

DBRAD
     Data Base Relational Application Directory (DB)

DBRM
     Data Base Request Module (DB)

DBS
     Demand-Based Switching (Intel, Xeon)

DBS
     Deutscher Bildungs-Server (DFN, WWW), http://www.schule.de

DBS
     Duplex Bus Selector

DBSC
     Dynamic Beam Spot Control (Eizo)

DBTG
     Data Base Task Group (CODASYL, DB)

DBVS
     DatenBankVerwaltungsSystem (DB)

DC
     Data Cartridge

DC
     Data-to-Clock [jitter] (DVD)

DC
     Device Context

DC
     Dublin Core [meta data], http://purl.org/DC

DCA
     Data Center Automation

DCA
     Defense Communications Agency (org., USA, mil., predecessor, DISA)

DCA
     Digital Communication Associates

DCA
     Digital Controlled Amplifier (VCA)

DCA
     Distributed Communication Architecture (Sperry Univac)

DCA
     Document Center Architecture

DCA
     Document Content Architecture (IBM, CCS)

DCA2
     Dynamic Cache Architecture [level] 2

DCAF
     Distributed Console Access Facility

DCAP
     Data link switching Client Access Protocol (DLSW, RFC 2114),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2114.txt

DCB
     Data Control Block

DCB
     Disk Coprocessor Board (Novell, SCSI, HBA)

DCC
     Data Communications Computer

DCC
     Data Country Code (ATM)

DCC
     Desktop Control Center (Intel)

DCC
     Digital Content Creation

DCC
     Direct Client to Client (IRC)

DCC
     Display Combination Code

DCC
     DOS Command Center

DCCA
     Dependable Computing for Critical Applications (Konferenz)

DCCA
     Distributed Component Computing Architecture (Star, C/S)

DCCH
     Dedicated Control CHannel (GSM, mobile-systems)

DCCP
     Datagram Congestion Control Protocol

DCCS
     DisContiguous Shared Segments

DCD
     Data Carrier Detect (MODEM, RS-232)

DCDB
     Domain Control DataBase (Domain)

DCE
     [picture publisher] Digital Camera Edition (Micrografx)

DCE
     Data Circuit terminating Equipment (X.25, CCITT, IBM, HP, DEC,
     Tandem, Sun)

DCE
     Data Communications Equipment

DCE
     Distributed Computing Environment (OSF)

DCERPC
     Distributed Computing Environment / Remote Procedure Call (DCE,
     RPC), "DCE/RPC" , "DCE RPC"

DCF
     Design rule for Camera File system (JEIDA, photo)

DCF
     Distributed Coordination Function (MAC, 802.11a, WLAN)

DCHSDPA
     Dual Cell High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA,
     mobile-systems), DC-HSDPA

DCI
     Data Capture Interface (UMA)

DCI
     Device Control Interface

DCI
     Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI, org.)

DCI
     Display Control Interface (MS, Windows, Intel)

DCL
     Data Center Linux (Linux, OSDL)

DCL
     Data Control Language

DCL
     DEC Control Language (DEC)

DCL
     Digital Command [scripting] Language (DEC, VMS)

DCLU
     Digital Carrier Line Unit

DCLZ
     Data Compression Lempel-Ziv

DCM
     Digital Carrier Module

DCM
     Domain Controller Master (Debian, Univention)

DCM
     Dual Chip Modul

DCM
     Dual Core Modul (IBM, QCM)

DCME
     Digital Circuit Multiplication Equipment

DCNA
     Data Communication Network Architecture

DCO
     Device Configuration Overlay (ATA)

DCO
     Digital Controlled Oscillator

DCOF
     Digital Print Order Format

DCOM
     Distributed Component Object Model (COM, MS, OLE, ActiveX)

DCOP
     Desktop COmmunication Protocol (Linux, KDE)

DCP
     Data Compression Protocol (Motorola)

DCP
     Digital Cinema Package (DCI)

DCPS
     Data Communications Protocol Standards

DCR
     Design Change Request (AIX, IBM)

DCRC
     Digital Cellular Radio Conference (GSM, conference, mobile-systems)

DCS
     Damage Cleanup Service (Firewall, TrendMicro)

DCS
     Data sharing Control System (NEC)

DCS
     Defense Communications System (mil., USA)

DCS
     Desktop Color Separation

DCS
     Digital Cellular System (mobile-systems)

DCS
     Digital Colour System (Adobe, Photoshop)

DCS
     Digital Control System (NEC)

DCS
     Digital Cross-connect System (DEC)

DCS
     Distributed Control System

DCS
     Dogital Camera System

DCSDFS
     Dynamic Channel Selection/Dynamic Frequency Selection (HiperLAN/2,
     WLAN), "DCS/DFS"

DCT
     Data Collection Terminator (BTX)

DCT
     Defect-and-Change-Management (CICS, IBM)

DCT
     Discrete Cosine Transformation (MPEG, JPEG)

DCTN
     Defense Commercial Telephone Network (mil., USA, network)

DCU
     Data Cache Unit (CPU, POWER)

DCUO
     DC Universe Online (MMORPG)

DD
     Dansk Dataforening (org., Denmark), http://www.ddf.dk

DD
     Data Dictionary (SA, CASE, DB)

DD
     Depacketization Delay

DD
     Double Density [disks] (FDD)

DDA
     Domain Defined Attribute (Domain)

DDA
     Dynamic Data Authentication (EMV, cryptography)

DDBAC
     Data-Design HBCI Banking Application Components (HBCI)

DDBMS
     Distributed DataBase Management System (DBMS, DB)

DDC
     Device Color Characterization (XCMS)

DDC
     Display Data Channel (VESA)

DDC2B
     Device Data Channel [standard], level 2B (DDC)

DDCD
     Double Density Compact Disk (CD, Sony)

DDCDR
     Double Density Compact Disk - Read (Sony, CD), "DDCD-R"

DDCDRW
     Double Density Compact Disk - Read Write (Sony, CD), "DDCD-RW"

DDCMP
     Digital Data Communication Message Protocol

DDCS2
     Distributed Database Connection Services /2 (IBM, DB, DRDA),
     "DDCS/2"

DDD
     Data Display Debugger (GNU)

DDD
     Domain Driven Design (MDA)

DDDS
     Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (ENUM, RFC
     3401/3402/3403/3404/3405),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3401.txt,
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3402.txt,
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3403.txt,
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3404.txt,
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3405.txt

DDE
     DatenenDEinrichtung

DDE
     Dynamic Data Exchange

DDEP
     Dynamic Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

DDES
     Digital Data Exchange System (ANSI)

DDF
     Data Decryption Field (cryptography)

DDI
     Device Dependent Interface

DDI
     Device Driver Interface

DDIMM
     Dual [RAS] Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM, RAS), "D-DIMM"

DDK
     Device Development / Driver Kit (MS)

DDL
     Data Definition Language

DDL
     Document Description Language

DDM
     Distributed Data Management (IBM, CCS)

DDML
     Display Driver Management Layer

DDN
     Defense Data Network (USA, network, mil.)

DDNS
     Distributed Domain Naming Service (TCP/IP)

DDNS
     Dynamic Domain Name Service (OS/2, IBM)

DDO
     Dynamic Drive Overlay (HDD, Ontrack)

DDOS
     Distributed Denial Of Service [attack], "DDoS"

DDP
     Datagram Delivery Protocol (AppleTalk)

DDP
     Distributed Data Processing

DDR
     Double Data Rate (SDR, QDR, ODR)

DDR
     Dynamic Desktop Router (Cogent)

DDRAID
     Distributed Data RAID (GFS, RAID, HDD), "DDRaid"

DDRS
     Defense Data Repository System (mil., USA)

DDRSDRAM
     Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM,
     RAM, IC), "DDR-SDRAM"

DDRSRAM
     Double Data Rate Static Random Access Memory (RAM, IC)

DDS
     Digital Data Service / System

DDS
     Digital Data Storage (Sony, HP, DAT, ISO, ANSI, ECMA, Streamer)

DDS
     Direct Digital Sampling (CD-RW, SCSI)

DDS
     Distributed Directory Service (DCE)

DDSA
     Digital Data Service Adapter

DDSDC
     Digital Data Storage - Data Compression (DDS, DCLZ), "DDS-DC"

DDSS
     Double Dynamic Suspension System (Asus, CD-ROM)

DDT
     Dynamic Debugging Tool (DEC, CP/M)

DDU
     Dialog Data Unit (BTX)

DDV
     DatenDirektVerbindung (DTAG)

DDV
     DES-DES-Verfahren (cryptography, HBCI)

DDV
     Dialog Data Validation

DDVS
     Daimler-benz DatenVerbundSystem (MBAG)

DDVT
     Dynamic Dispatch Virtual Tables

DDWG
     Digital Display Working Group (org., LCD)

DDX
     Distributed Data eXchange

DE
     DatenElement (HBCI)

DEA
     Deterministischer Endlicher Automat

DEBI
     DMA Extended Bus Interface (Acorn, DMA)

DEC
     Digital Equipment Corporation (manufacturer), http://www.dec.com,
     http://www.digital.de

DECIX
     DEutscher Commercial Internet eXchange (Internet), "DE-CIX",
     http://www.eco.de/de-cix.htm

DECNET
     Digital Equipment Corporation NETwork (DEC)

DECS
     Domino Enterprise Connection Services (Lotus)

DECT
     Digital European Cordless Telecommunications (telecommunication)

DECUS
     Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (org., DEC, user group),
     http://www.decus.org

DEE
     DatenEndEinrichtung

DEG
     DatenElementGruppen (HBCI)

DELNI
     Digital Ethernet Local Network Interconnect (ethernet)

DELQA
     Digital Ethernet Lowpower Q-bus network Adapter (ethernet)

DELTA
     Developing European Learning through Technology Advance

DELUA
     Digital Ethernet Lowpower Unibus network Adapter (ethernet)

DELUG
     DEutsche Linux User Group (org., user group, Linux)

DEMARC
     Distributed Enterprise Management ARChitecture (Banyan, VINES),
     "DeMarc"

DEMPR
     Digital Ethernet Multi-Port Repeater (ethernet)

DEMUDI
     DEbian MUltimedia DIstribution (Debian, Linux), "DeMuDi"

DEN
     Directory Enabled Networking (MS)

DEN
     Document Enabled Networking (Novell, Xerox)

DENIC
     DEutsches Network Information Center, (org., Internet), "DE-NIC",
     http://www.nic.de

DENIM
     Directory-Enabled Net Infrastructure Model (Novell)

DEP
     Data Execution Prevention (MS, Windows, XP, SP2)

DEPCA
     Digital Ethernet Personal Computer-bus Adapter (ethernet)

DEQNA
     Digital Ethernet Q-bus Network Adapter (ethernet)

DER
     Distinguished Encoding Rules

DERAT
     Data cache Effective to Real Address Translation [table] (Power4,
     IBM, CPU, ERAT)

DEREP
     Digital Ethernet REPeater (ethernet)

DES
     Data Encryption Standard (cryptography, NIST, IBM)

DES
     Destination End System

DESCBC
     Data Encryption Standard/Cipher Block Chaining (DES), "DES/CBC"

DESE
     [PPP] Data Encryption Standard Encryption protocol (PPP, RFC
     1969), ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1969.txt

DESIRE
     DEsign by Simulation and REndering om parallel architectures
     [project] (ESPRIT)

DESP
     Data Element Standardization Program

DESPR
     Digital Ethernet Single Port Repeater (ethernet)

DESRT
     DEStek [group] Real Time (OS, Destek Group), "DES RT"

DESTA
     Digital Ethernet thin-wire STation Adapter (ethernet)

DESX
     Data Encryption Standard eXtended (DES, cryptography)

DET
     Directory Entry Table (Novell, Netware)

DETEBERKOM
     DEutsche TElekom BERliner KOMmunikationssystem, "DeTeBerkom"

DEUNA
     Digital Ethernet Unibus Network Adapter (ethernet)

DEVFS
     DEVice File System (Linux, DRI), "DevFS"

DEVIL
     Developer's Image Library (OpenIL), "DevIL",
     http://openil.sourceforge.net/

DEXA
     [conference on] Database and EXpert systems Applications

DF
     Direction Flag (assembler)

DF
     Disk Free (Unix)

DFCL
     Debian Free Content License (Debian, Linux)

DFD
     Data Flow Diagram / DatenFlussDiagramm (CASE, SA)

DFD
     Deutsches FernerkundungsDatenzentrum (org.)

DFDSM
     Data Facility Distributed Storage Management (IBM)

DFG
     Deutsche ForschungsGemeinschaft (org.)

DFI
     Digital Facility Interface

DFKI
     Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz (org.,
     KI, AI), http://www.dfki.de

DFM
     Dynamic Frequency Management (PDA)

DFN
     Deutsches ForschungsNetz [e.V.] (org., ISP), http://www.dfn.de

DFNCERT
     Deutsches ForschungsNetz Computer Emergency Response Team (DFN,
     Internet), "DFN CERT", http://www.cert.dfn.de

DFP
     Data Facility Product

DFP
     Digital Flat Panel [group / port] (LCD, org., Compaq, Acer,
     Fujitsu, ATI, Matrox, Samsung, ...), http://www.dfp-group.org

DFP
     Distributed Functional Plane (IN)

DFPP
     Digital Flat Panel Port (LCD, DFP)

DFS
     Deniable File System (FS)

DFS
     Direct File System (Novell, Oracle)

DFS
     Distributed File System (DCE)

DFS
     Dynamic Frequency Selection (WLAN)

DFS
     Dynamic Frequency Selection (WLAN)

DFSA
     Direct File System Access

DFSG
     Debian Free Software Guidelines (Linux, Debian)

DFT
     Discrete Fourier Transformation

DFT
     Distributed Function Terminal (IBM)

DFT
     Drive Fitness Test (IBM, IDE, HDD)

DFU
     Data File Utility (IBM, ADT)

DFUE
     DatenFernUEbertragung

DFV
     DatenFernVerarbeitung

DGA
     Direct Graphics Access (XAA, X-Windows)

DGCC
     DISA Global Control Center (DISA)

DGD
     Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Dokumentation [e.v.] (org.)

DGEMM
     Double precision GEneral Matrix Multiply (GEMM, BLAS)

DGIS
     Direct Graphics Interface Standard

DGP
     Dissimilar Gateway Protocol

DGPS
     Differential Global Positioning System (GPS)

DGS
     Display GhostScript (GNU, GNUStep, PS)

DGSA
     Defense Goal Security Architecture (mil., USA)

DGUX
     Data General / UniX (Unix), "DG/UX"

DHCF
     Distributed Host Command Facility (IBM, CCS)

DHCP
     Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (TCP/IP, IETF, RFC 2131),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2131.txt

DHES
     Direct Heat Exhaust System

DHIS
     Distributed Heterogeneous Information Systems

DHT
     Distribution Hash Table (P2P)

DHTML
     Dynamic HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

DHWG
     Digital Home Working Group (org.), http://dhwg.org

DI
     Destination Index [register] (CPU, Intel, assembler)

DIA
     Deutsche Informatik Akademie (org.)

DIA
     Document Interchange Architecture (IBM, CCS)

DIACAP
     Department of defense Information Assurance Certification and
     Accreditation Process

DIAMOND
     Development and Integration of Accurate Mathematical Operations in
     Numerical Data-processing (ESPRIT)

DIANE
     DIrect Access Network for Europe

DIAS
     Digital Information Archiving System (IBM, Netherlands)

DIB
     Defense Information Base (mil., USA)

DIB
     Device Independent Bitmap (MS, Windows)

DIB
     Director Interface Board (Airbus, A380, CIDS)

DIB
     Directory Information Base (X.500, DS)

DIB
     DOS Info Block (BIOS, DOS)

DIB
     Dual Independent Bus [architecture] (PC)

DIBL
     Drain Induced Barrier Lowering (IC, MOSFET)

DIC
     Digital Interface Controller

DICE
     Delivering Information in a Cellular Environment (SNI, Internet)

DICF
     Dictionary InterChange Format (DICT)

DICOM
     Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine

DID
     Digital Image Design

DIESEL
     Dumb Interpretatively Evaluated String Expression Language (carCAD)

DIF
     Directory Interoperability Forum (org., IBM, Lotus, Novell,
     Oracle, ...)

DIF
     Document Interchange Format

DIFMOS
     Double Injection Floating Gate MOS

DIFS
     Distributed Coordination Function - InterFrame Space (MAC,
     802.11a, DCF, IFS)

DIGI
     Deutsche InteressenGemeinschaft Internet [e.v.] (org., ISP),
     http://www.digi.de

DII
     Defense Information Infrastructure (mil., USA, DISA)

DII
     Dynamic Invocation Interface

DIICC
     Defense Information Infrastructure Control Concept (mil., USA)

DIICOE
     Defense Info Infrastructure Common Operating Environment (DISA,
     mil., USA), "DII COE", http://spider.osfl.disa.mil/dii

DIL
     Dual InLine

DILA
     Digital Direct Drive Image Light Amplifier (JVC, CMOS, LCOS,
     HDTV), "D-ILA"

DIME
     Desktop Integrated Media Environment (COSE)

DIME
     DIrect Memory Execute (AGP)

DIMM
     Dual Inline Memory Module (IC)

DIMSS
     DSN Integrated Management Support System (DSN, mil., USA)

DIN
     Deutsches Institut fuer Normung (org.), http://www.din.de

DINAH
     Desktop INterface to AUTODIN Host (carDIN, mil., USA)

DINI
     Deutsche Initiative fuer Netzwerkinformation Org., Germany,
     http://www.dini.de

DINO
     Deutsches InterNet Organisationssystem (WWW, Uni Goettingen,
     Germany), http://www.dino-online.de

DIO
     Direct Input Output (I/O, HDD, SCSI)

DIP
     Dial-up Internet Protocol (Linux)

DIP
     Dual In-line Package (IC, DRAM)

DIPM
     Device Initiated Power Management

DIRMU
     DIstributed and Reconfigurable MUltiprocessor (MP)

DIS
     Defense Information System (mil., USA)

DIS
     Digital Identification Signal (HDLC)

DIS
     Draft International Standard (ISO)

DISA
     Data Interchange Standards Association (org.), http://www.disa.org

DISA
     Defense Information Systems Agency (org., mil., USA),
     http://www.disa.mil

DISAIS
     DISA Information System (mil., USA), "DISA-IS"

DISANET
     DISA Information Network (mil., USA, DISA, network), "DISANet"

DISC
     Defense Information System Council (mil., USA)

DISK
     Deutschsprachige Internationale SAS-benutzer Konferenz

DISN
     Defense Information Systems Network (mil., USA),
     http://www.disa.mil/DISN/disnhome.html

DISNET
     Defense Integrated Secure Network (network, mil., USA,
     predecessor, DSNET)

DISNNT
     Defense Information Systems Network - Near Term (DISN, mil., USA),
     "DISN-NT"

DISOSS
     DIStributed Office Support System (IBM, MVS)

DISP
     Directory Information Shadowing Protocol

DISP
     Draft International Standardized Profiles (ISO)

DISP
     Dutch Independent Shareware Programmer (org., Netherlands),
     "D.I.S.P."

DISSP
     Defense Information System Security Program (mil., USA)

DIT
     Directory Information Tree (X.500, LDAP)

DITA
     Darwin Information Typing Architecture (XML, IBM, OASIS)

DITCO
     Defense Information Technology Contracting Office (org., mil.,
     DISA, USA)

DITSCAP
     Department of defense Information Technology Security
     Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP)

DITU
     Data Interception Technology Unit

DIU
     Digital Interface Unit

DIVE
     Direct Interface Video Extensions (IBM, MMPM/2)

DIVX
     DIgital Video eXpress (DVD), "Divx"

DIX
     DEC, Intel, Xerox (ethernet, DEC, Intel, Xerox)

DJGCC
     DJ's GNU C Compiler (GNU, DOS, GCC)

DJGPP
     DJ's GNU Programming Platform (GNU, DOS, GPP)

DKE
     Deutsche Kommission Elektrotechnik, elektronik,
     informationstechnik (org., DIN, VDE), http://www.dke.de

DKIM
     Domain Keys Identified Mail (Domain),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4871.txt

DKRZ
     Deutsches KlimaRechenZentrum (org.), http://www.dkrz.de

DL
     Distribution List

DL
     Dual / Double Layer (DVD)

DLC
     Data Link Control

DLCI
     Data Link Connection Identifier (ATM)

DLD
     Deutsche Linux Distribution (Linux)

DLE
     Data Link Escape

DLG
     Digital Line Graph

DLHP
     Deutsche Linux Howto Project (Linux)

DLJ
     Distro License for Java (JRE, Linux)

DLKL
     ??? (DB)

DLL
     Delay / Digitally Locked Loop (GDR-SDRAM)

DLL
     Dynamic Link Library

DLL
     Dynamic Link Loader (BS2000)

DLM
     Distributed Lock Manager (Linux, RedHat, GFS)

DLMZB
     Determine Left Most Zero Byte (IBM, PowerPC)

DLNA
     Digital Living Network Alliance (org.), http://www.dlna.org/

DLP
     Digital Light Processing (TI)

DLP
     Discrete Logarithmic Problem

DLPI
     Data Link Provider Interface (X/Open)

DLR
     Dynamic Language Runtime (MS)

DLR
     Dynamic Link Routine

DLS
     DOS LAN Services (IBM, LAN Server)

DLS
     DownLoadable Sounds

DLSW
     Data Link SWitching (APPN, MPTN, RFC 1795, SNA, NETBIOS), "DLSw",
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1795.txt

DLT
     Digital Line Tape (DEC, Streamer)

DM
     Delta Modulation

DM
     DeMilitarisierte zone (Firewall)

DM
     Development Machine (Corel)

DM
     Device Mapper (Linux)

DM
     Disconnect Mode (LAPB)

DMA
     Direct Memory Access (DMA)

DMAC
     Direct Memory Access Controller

DMAP
     DECT Multimeda Access Protocol (DECT)

DMAP
     Digital Media Access Protocol (Apple)

DMB
     Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DTAG, Blaupunkt, DAB, MPEG)

DMC
     Desktop Multimedia Conferencing

DMCA
     Digital Millennium Copyright Act (USA, DRM)

DMD
     Device Manager Driver (OS/2)

DMD
     Differential Mode Delay (Gigabit-, ethernet)

DMD
     Digital Mars D [compiler]

DMD
     Digital Micromirror Device (IC, DLP, TI)

DMD
     Digital Multilayer Disk

DMD
     Directory Management Domain (OSI, DS)

DMDAC
     Dual MAC Dual Attached Concentrator (FDDI, DAC)

DMDD
     Distributed Multiplexing Distributed Demultiplexing

DMDF
     Distributed Management Data Facility (DCE, DME)

DME
     Direct Memory Execution

DME
     Distributed Management Environment (OSF)

DMERT
     Duplex Multiple Environment, Real Time (OS, MERT)

DMF
     Digest Message Format (Internet, RFC 1153),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1153.txt

DMF
     Distribution Media Format [diskette] (FDD)

DMFC
     Direct Methanol Fuel Cell

DMI
     Definition of Management Information (OSI)

DMI
     Desktop Management Interface (DTMF, DMI, BIOS)

DMI
     Digital Multiplexed Interface

DML
     Data Manipulation Language

DML
     Data Manipulation Logic

DML
     Distributed Mode Loudspeaker (audio)

DMMV
     Deutscher MultiMedia Verband (org.), http://www.dmmv.de

DMOS
     Diffusion Metal Oxide Semiconductor (IC)

DMP
     Designated Mailers Protocol (SPAM)

DMP
     Dot Matrix Printer

DMS
     Data Management System

DMS
     Data Management System (ESA, Venus-Express)

DMS
     Defense Message System (mil., USA), http://www.disa.mil/D2/dms

DMS
     Digital Multiplexed System

DMS
     Disk Monitor System (OS, IBM)

DMS
     Distributed Media Services (COSE)

DMS
     Document Management System

DMS
     Document Management System (CMS)

DMSC
     Drive Motor Speed Control

DMSCMS
     Display Management System/Conversional Monitor System, "DMS/CMS"

DMSIG
     Defense Message System Implementation Group (org., DMS, mil., USA)

DMSP
     Distributed Mail System Protocol (Internet)

DMSTWG
     Defense Message System Transition Working Group (org., DMS, mil.,
     USA)

DMT
     Discrete Monitor Timings (VESA)

DMT
     Discrete Multitone Technology (ADSL, Amati Communications, ANSI)

DMTF
     Desktop Management Task Force

DMTF
     Distributed Management Task Force, http://www.dmtf.org

DMTU
     Default Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU), "D-MTU"

DMU
     Data Management Unit (ZFS)

DMU
     Data Manipulation Unit

DMU
     Digital Mock-Up

DMV
     Daten- und MedienVerlag

DMV
     Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (org.),
     http://www_dmv.math.tu-berlin.de

DMX
     Distributed Multihead X (X-Windows)

DMZ
     DeMilitarized Zone (LAN, Internet)

DN
     Distinguished Name (X.500, LDAP)

DN
     Distribution Network

DNA
     Digital Network Architecture (DEC)

DNA
     Direct Network Attach (Xyratex, RAID)

DNA
     Distributed Network Architecture (NCR)

DNAE
     DatenNetz-AnschlussEinrichtung (DTAG)

DNAT
     Dynamic Network Address Translation

DNB
     Dedicated Network Bus (Intel, MCH, CSA)

DNC
     Direct Numerical Control (CNC)

DNC
     Dynamic Network Controller

DNCMPE
     Direct Numerical Control / ??? (CNC), "DNC/MPE"

DNCP
     [PPP] DECNet phase iv Control Protocol (RFC 1762, DECNET, PPP),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1762.txt

DNCRI
     Division of Networking and Communication Research and
     Infrastructure

DND
     Den Norske Dataforening (org., Norway), http://www.dnd.no

DNHR
     Dynamic Non Hierarchical Routing

DNI
     De.Newusers.Info (Usenet)

DNI
     DECnet Network Interface

DNIC
     Data Network Identification Code (X.121)

DNP
     Distributed Network Protocol, http://www.dnp.org

DNQ
     De.Newusers.Questions (Usenet)

DNR
     Digital Noise Reduction

DNS
     Domain Name System (Internet, RFC 1034/1035, DNS),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1034.txt,
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1035.txt

DNSO
     Defense Network Systems Organization (org., USA, mil.)

DNSO
     Domain Name Supporting Organization (org., ICANN),
     http://www.dnso.org

DNSRR
     Domain Name Service Round Robbing (DNS)

DNSTAN
     Digitale NebenSTellenANlagen (DTAG), "DNStAn"

DNUG
     Deutsche Notes User Group [e.v.] (org., user group, Lotus),
     http://www.dnug.de

DNX
     Departmental Network eXchange [bridging router] (SNA, SDLC,
     Proteon)

DO
     Distributed Objects (NeXT)

DOAG
     Deutsche Oracle AnwenderGruppe [e.V.] (Oracle, user group, org.)

DOAM
     Distributed Office Applications Model (ISO, IEC, DIS 10031-1 f.)

DOAP
     Description of a Project (XML)

DOC
     De.Org.CCC (Usenet, CCC)

DOCC
     DISA Operations Control Complex (DISA, mil., USA)

DOCSIS
     Data Over Cable System Interface Specification (DOCSIS)

DOCSISOSS
     DOCSIS Operations Suport Services (DOCSIS), "DOCSIS-OSS"

DODISS
     Department Of Defense Index of Specifications and Standards (mil.,
     USA)

DOE
     Depends On Experience

DOE
     Distributed Objects Everywhere (Sun)

DOI
     Digital Object Identifier (IDF), http://www.doi.org

DOM
     Disk On Module

DOM
     Document Object Model (MS, Java)

DOM
     Document Object Module (HTML, XML, API)

DOMAIN
     Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network (Apollo,
     DOMAIN)

DOME
     Distributed Object Management Environment (ORB)

DOMF
     Distributed Object Management Facility (Sun)

DOOM
     Decentralised Object Orientated Machine

DOP
     Directory Operational binding management Protocol

DOS
     Denial Of Service [attack], "DoS"

DOS
     Disk Operating System (OS, IBM, MS, ..., PC, Apple, RCA Spectra 70)

DOS15
     Disk Operating System - 15 (OS, DEC, PDP 15), "DOS-15"

DOS360
     Disk ??? Operating System / 360 (OS, IBM S/360), "DOS/360"

DOSS
     Dedicated Office Systems and Services

DOSVS
     Disk Operating System / Virtual Storage (OS, IBM S/370), "DOS/VS"

DOSVSE
     Disk ??? Operating System / Virtual Storage Extended (OS, IBM
     43XX, DOS/VS, VSE), "DOS/VSE"

DOT
     Digital Only Token

DOT
     Dynamic Overclocking Technology (FSB, MCI), "D.O.T."

DOT
     Dynamic Overclocking Tool (graphic, MSI), "D.O.T."

DOV
     Data Over Voice [MODEM]

DOW
     Direct OverWrite (MO, ...)

DP
     [RAID] Double Parity (RAID, Network Appliance, HP)

DP
     Data Processing

DP
     Detection Point (IN)

DP
     Draft Proposal (ISO)

DPA
     Distributed Password Authentication

DPB
     Drive Parameter Block (DOS, BIOS, FDD, HDD)

DPC
     Database Promotion Center (org., Japan, DB)

DPC
     Deferred Procedure Call (MS, Windows)

DPC
     Dots Per Centimeter (DPI)

DPCL
     [Linux] Dynamic Probe Class Library (Linux)

DPCM
     Differential Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)

DPCX
     Distributed Processing Control eXecutive (IBM)

DPD
     Dead Peer Detection (Internet, Firewall)

DPD
     Differential Phase Detection

DPE
     Distributed Processing Environment (IN)

DPF
     Discrete Packet Format (Exabyte, VXA, Streamer)

DPG
     Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (org.),
     http://www.dpg-physik.de/

DPI
     [SNMP] Distributed Program Interface (SNMP, RFC 1228),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1228.txt

DPI
     [SNMP] Distributed Protocol Interface (SNMP, RFC 1592),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1592.txt

DPI
     Data Processing Installation

DPI
     Dots Per Inch (DPC)

DPL
     Debian Project Leader (Linux, Debian)

DPL
     Descriptor Privilege Level (OS/2, NT)

DPM
     Defects Per Million

DPM
     Dynamic Power Management (AMD, GPU)

DPMA
     Data Processing Management Association (org.)

DPMA
     Demand Priority Access Method

DPMI
     DOS Protected Mode Interface (DOS, MS, Intel)

DPMS
     Display Power Management Signalling [standard] (VESA)

DPMS
     DOS Protected Mode Services (Novell, DOS)

DPN
     Data Packet Network (Nortel)

DPN
     Data Processing Node (MODEM)

DPN
     Deutsches Provider Network (ISP), http://www.dpn.de

DPNPH
     Data Packet Network-Packet Handler, "DPN-PH"

DPNSS
     Digital Private Network Signaling System (British Telecom)

DPOE
     DOCSIS Provisioning Over EPON (DOCSIS, EPON), "DPoE"

DPOF
     Digital / Direct Print Order Format (printing)

DPP
     Data Parallel Processor (ATI)

DPP
     Distributed Parallel Processing

DPQ
     Data Processing Quality

DPRL
     Digital Property Rights Language (Xerox)

DPS
     Display PostScript (NeXT, GUI, NextStep, DPS)

DPS
     Distributed Path Selection (FC)

DPS
     Dual Power System (Gigabyte)

DPSE
     Display PostScript Engine (DPS, NextStep, OpenStep, Apple,
     Rhapsody)

DPSK
     Differential Phase Shift Keying (telecommunication)

DPT
     Distributed Processing Technology (manufacturer),
     http://www.dpt.com

DPT
     Drive Parameter Table

DPT
     Dynamic Packet Transport (Cisco)

DPV
     DatenPaketVermittlung[srechner]

DPV
     Delegated Path Validation (cryptography)

DPWS
     Devices Profile for Web Services (WWW)

DQDB
     Distributed Queue Dual Bus (ISO, IEC, IS 8802/6, IEEE 802.6)

DQL
     Database Query Language (DB)

DQP
     Distributed Query Processing (OGSA-DAI, grid)

DQP
     Distributed Queueing Protocol

DQS
     Distributed Queueing System (Cluster)

DR
     Designated Router (PIM, Multicast)

DR
     Developer Release (Linux, Apple, ...)

DR
     Digital Research (manufacturer)

DR
     Dynamic Reconfiguration (Solaris, Sun)

DRACO
     DECT Radio Communications Controller (DECT, Hagenuk, University of
     Manchester)

DRAM
     Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM, IC)

DRB
     Distributed RuBy (Ruby), "DRb"

DRB
     DRAM Row Boundary [register] (DRAM, PCI)

DRC
     Design Rule Check (CAD, LVS)

DRCS
     Distributed Revision Control System (DVCS)

DRD
     Data Reading Device

DRDA
     Distributed Relational Database Architecture (IBM, DB)

DRDAAS
     Distributed Relational Database Architecture Application Server
     (IBM, DB), "DRDA AS"

DRDOS
     Digital Research Disk Operating System (DR, OS), "DR-DOS"

DRE
     Direct Recording Electronic

DRE
     Distributed Real-time and Embedded [systems]

DREN
     Defense Research and Engineering Network (network)

DRF
     Data Recovery Field (cryptography)

DRG
     Developer Relations Group (MS)

DRI
     Defense Research Internet (ARPANET, successorr, network)

DRI
     Direct Rendering Infrastructure (XFree86)

DRIM
     DResden Identity Management

DRIP
     Designated Relays Inquiry Protocol (SPAM)

DRL
     Document Revocation List (TCPA)

DRL
     Dynamically Reconfigurable Logic (RL)

DRM
     Destination Release Mechanism (DQDB)

DRM
     Digital Radio Mondiale

DRM
     Digital Rights Management (MS, DRM)

DRMU
     Digital Remote Measurement Unit

DRP
     DECnet Routing Protocol (DEC)

DRP
     Dynamic Resource Pool (Solaris, Sun)

DRPM
     Dynamic Rotations Per Minute (HDD)

DRS
     Data Retrieval and Storage

DRS
     Development Requirement Specification

DRS
     Double-Ring-with-Star [topology]

DRSN
     Defense Red Switch Network [hopefully no traffic ever] (network,
     mil. USA)

DS
     [Netweaver] Developer Studio

DS
     Data Segment [register] (CPU, Intel, assembler)

DS
     Data Structure (Typo3)

DS
     Deutschsprachige Shareware (org.)

DS
     Digital Services [level]

DS
     Directory Service (OSI, ISO, DP 9594)

DS
     Distribution Services (SNA)

DS
     Distribution System (WLAN)

DS
     Double Sided [disks] (FDD)

DS0
     Digital Signal level 0 (ISDN, T1), "DS-0"

DS1
     Digital Signal level 1 (ISDN, T1), "DS-1"

DS1E1
     Digital Signal level 1/European 1 (RFC 1406), "DS1/E1",
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1406.txt

DS2
     Digital Signal level 2, "DS-2"

DS3
     Digital Signal level 3 (T3), "DS-3"

DS3E3
     Digital Signal level 3/European 3 (RFC 1407), "DS3/E3",
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1407.txt

DSA
     Data Service Adapter

DSA
     Debian Security Announcement (Linux, Debian)

DSA
     Debian System Administration (Linux, Debian)

DSA
     Digital Signature Algorithm (cryptography, NIST)

DSA
     Digital Storage Architecture

DSA
     Directory System Agent (X.500, DSA)

DSA
     Distributed Systems Architecture (Bull)

DSA
     Dynamic Scalable Architecture (DB, Informix)

DSAG
     Deutsche SAP AnwenderGruppe (SAP, user group)

DSAP
     Destination link Service Access Point (SAP, LLC)

DSAT
     Deep Shit Alert Table (Apple, MACOS)

DSBAM
     Double-SideBand Amplitude Module

DSBL
     Distributed Server Boycott List (SPAM), http://www.dsbl.org

DSC
     DECT Standard Cipher (DECT, cryptography)

DSC
     Desired State Configuration (MS, Windows)

DSC
     Document Structuring Conventions (Adobe)

DSCQS
     Double Stimulus Continuous Quality Scale (ITU-R BT.500-7)

DSD
     Data Structure Diagram (CASE)

DSD
     Direct Stream Digital (Sony, Philips)

DSDC
     Data Segment Descriptor Cache [register] (DS, Intel, CPU)

DSDL
     Document Schema Definition Language (DB)

DSDT
     Differentiated System Description Table (ACPI)

DSE
     Data Switching Equipment (X.25, CCITT)

DSE
     Distributed Systems Environment (Honeywell, Bull)

DSEA
     DataStation Emulation Adapter (IBM, AS/400, ...)

DSEE
     DOMAIN Software Engineering Environment (Apollo, CM, DOMAIN)

DSH
     Desperately Seeking Help (slang, Usenet)

DSI
     Defense Simulation Internet (network, mil., USA)

DSI
     Dial Services Interface [API] (API, IBM)

DSI
     Digital Speech Interpolation (VOFR)

DSI
     Dynamic Skeleton Interface (CORBA, ORB, OA)

DSI
     Dynamic Systems Initiative (MS, MCF)

DSID
     Destination Signaling IDentifier

DSIMM
     Dual [RAS] Single Inline Memory Module (IC), "D-SIMM"

DSL
     Dataset and Snapshot Layer (ZFS)

DSL
     Dialogue Scripting Language (DCE, UIL)

DSL
     Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)

DSL
     Digital system Specification Language (HDL)

DSL
     Distributed Service Logic (IN)

DSL
     Domain Specific Language

DSLAM
     Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSL, ADSL)

DSLCP
     Dynamically Switched Link Control Protocol (RFC 1307),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1307.txt

DSM
     [TWAIN] Data Source Manager (MS, Windows)

DSM
     Domain Specific Modeling

DSM
     Dynamic Spectrum Management

DSMCC
     Digital Media Storage - Command and Control (DVB), "DSM-CC"

DSML
     Directory Services Markup Language (OASIS)

DSMN
     Directory Service Manager for Netware (MS, Windows NT, FPNW)

DSN
     Data Source Names (ODBC, DB)

DSN
     Defense Switched Network (mil., USA)

DSN
     Delivery Status Notification

DSN
     Developer Support News (IBM, OS/2)

DSN
     Distributed Systems Network (HP)

DSNET
     Defense Secure NETwork (mil., USA)

DSO
     Dynamic Shared Object

DSOM
     Distributed System Object Model (IBM)

DSP
     Digital Signal Processing / Processor (audio, video, RL, DSP)

DSP
     Direct Socket Protocol (Infiniband)

DSP
     Directory System Protocol (X.500, DS)

DSP
     Document Services for Printing (Xerox), "DS/P"

DSP
     Domain Specific Part (NSAP, IDL. Domain)

DSR
     Data Set Ready (MODEM, RS-232)

DSR
     Device Status Report

DSR
     Digital Signal Richtfunk Mil., Germany

DSRI
     Digital Standard Relational Interface

DSRS
     Defense Software Repository System (mil., USA)

DSS
     Decision Support System (IM)

DSS
     Defense Switched Services (mil., USA)

DSS
     Digital Signature Standard (NIST, cryptography)

DSS
     Directory and Security Services (DCE, IBM, LAN)

DSS
     Distributed Security Service (DCE)

DSS2
     [setup] Digital Subscriber Signaling #2

DSSCS
     Defense Special Security Communications System (mil., USA)

DSSI
     Digital Storage Systems Interconnect (VAX, DEC)

DSSS
     Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (WLAN)

DSSSL
     [standard] Document Style Semantics and Specification Language
     (DTD, ISO, IEC, DIS 10179)

DST
     Daylight Saving Time (TZ)

DSTN
     Double SuperTwisted Nematic (LCD)

DSU
     Data Secure Unix (Unix, OS, UCLA)

DSU
     Digital Service Unit (ATM)

DSU
     Digital Storage Unit

DSU
     Distribution Service Unit (IBM, SNADS)

DSV
     Digital Signal Verbindung Mil., Germany

DSVD
     Digital Simultaneous Voice and Data (MODEM)

DT
     Display Terminal

DT
     Distributed graphical user interface Toolkit (IBM, GUI, VM/ESA)

DTA
     Direct Tape Access (Seagate)

DTA
     Disk Transfer Area (DOS)

DTAG
     Deutsche Telekom AG Germany, ISP

DTAM
     Document Transfer, Access and Manipulation (CCITT, T.400, ODIF)

DTAP
     Direct Transfer Application Part (MS, MM, MTP)

DTAZV
     DatenTraegeraustausch, belegloser AuslandsZahlungsVerkehr (banking)

DTC
     Design Time Controls (MS)

DTC
     DeskTop Conferencing

DTC
     Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS, SQL Server, DB)

DTCSA
     Digital Transition Content Security Act (USA)

DTD
     Document Type Definition (SGML, XML. HTML, DTD)

DTE
     Data Terminal Equipment (X.25, CCITT)

DTE
     DatenTransferEinrichtung

DTE
     Domain and Type Enforcement (TE)

DTH
     DialogTestHilfe (BS2000)

DTI
     Digital Technology International, http://www.dtint.com

DTI
     Document Technologies, Inc. (company, USA),
     http://www.dtiglobal.com

DTK
     Deception ToolKit

DTLB
     Dual Translation Lookaside Buffer (CPU)

DTLS
     Datagram Transport Layer Security (UDP)

DTMF
     DeskTop Management task Force (Intel)

DTMF
     Dual Tone Multi Frequency

DTML
     Document Template Markup Language (ZOPE)

DTMP
     DCPS Management Panel (DCPS)

DTMS
     Document Transfer and Manipulation Services (CCITT, T.400)

DTOS
     Distributed Trusted Operating System (OS, DTE)

DTP
     DeskTop Publishing

DTP
     Distributed Transaction Processing (X/Open, OLTP)

DTP
     Document Transfer Profile (SPAC, ODA, DAP, predecessor)

DTR
     Data Terminal Ready (MODEM, RS-232)

DTR
     DeskTop Replacement [notebook]

DTR
     DeskTop Reproduction (DTP)

DTR
     Document Filing and Retrieval (DOAM, ISO, IEC, DIS 10166-1 f.)

DTR
     Draft Technical Report

DTRT
     Do The Right Thing (slang, Usenet, IRC)

DTS
     Digital Theatre Sound (audio)

DTS
     Digital Thermal Sensor (Intel, IC, CPU)

DTS
     Direct To SOM

DTS
     Distributed Time Server

DTS
     Distributed Time Service (DCE)

DTSES
     Digital Theatre Sound - Extended Surround (audio), "DTS-ES"

DTSS
     Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (OS)

DTT
     Dual Transformer Technology (Tangan)

DTU
     Demand Transmission Unit

DU
     Disk Used (Unix)

DU
     Distribution Unit (MS, MSIE)

DUA
     Directory User Agent (X.500, DS)

DUEE
     DatenUEbertragungsEinrichtung (DTAG)

DUEE
     DatenUEbertragungsEinrichtung

DUMP
     Dial-Up Network Profile (Bluetooth, SPP, DUN)

DUN
     Dial Up Networking (Bluetooth, ...)

DUNDI
     Distributed Universal Number DIscovery (VoiP), "DUNDi"

DUOW
     Distributed Unit Of Work (DRDA, IBM), "DUoW"

DUP
     Distribution Unit Profile (MS, OSD, DU, MSIE)

DV
     DatenVerarbeitung

DV
     Digital Video

DVA
     Data Virtual Address (ZFS)

DVA
     DatenVerarbeitungsAnlage

DVA
     Dynamic Vibration Absorber (CD, DVD, Samsung)

DVB
     Digital Video Broadcasting (Europe, DVB), http://www.dvb.org

DVBC
     Digital Video Broadcasting - Cable (DVB), "DVB-C"

DVBH
     Digital Video Broadcasting - Handheld (DVB), "DVB-H"

DVBNIP
     Digital Video Broadcasting - ? (DVB), "DVB-NIP"

DVBRC
     Digital Video Broadcasting - ? (DVB), "DVB-RC"

DVBRCGSM
     Digital Video Broadcasting - ? (DVB), "DVB-RCGSM"

DVBRCT
     Digital Video Broadcasting - ? (DVB), "DVB-RCT"

DVBS
     Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite (DVB), "DVB-S"

DVBT
     Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestic (DVB), "DVB-T"

DVC
     Digital Video Compression (video)

DVCS
     Distributed / Decentralized Version Control System (DRCS)

DVD
     Deutsche Vereinigung fuer Datenschutz [e.V.] (org.),
     http://www.aktiv.org/DVD/

DVD
     Digital Versatile Disk (CD, MPEG, DVD)

DVD
     Digital Video Disk [old term] (DVD)

DVDCCA
     DVD Copy Control Association (DVD, org.), "DVD CCA"

DVDMRW
     Digital Versatile Disk + Mount rainier ReWritable (DVD, DVD+RW,
     MS), "DVD+MRW"

DVDR
     Digital Versatile Disk - Recordable (DVD), "DVD-R"

DVDR
     Digital Versatile Disk + Recordable (DVD), "DVD+R"

DVDRA
     Digital Versatile Disk - Read (Authoring) (DVD-R, DVD), "DVD-R(A)"

DVDRAM
     Digital Versatile Disk Random Access Memory (DVD), "DVD-RAM"

DVDRG
     Digital Versatile Disk - Read (General use) (DVD-R, DVD),
     "DVD-R(G)"

DVDROM
     Digital Versatile Disk Read Only Memory (DVD, ROM), "DVD-ROM"

DVDRW
     Digital Versatile Disk - ReWritable (DVD), "DVD-RW"

DVDRW
     Digital Versatile Disk + ReWritable (PC-RW, DVD, Sony, Philips,
     HP, Mitsubishi, Ricoh, Yamaha), "DVD+RW"

DVI
     DeVice Independent

DVI
     Digital Video Interactive [old term] (LCD, Intel, IBM, Lotus, HP,
     Compaq, ...)

DVI
     Digital Visual Interface (DVD, video)

DVID
     Digital Video Interactive - Digital (LCD), "DVI-D"

DVID
     Digital Video Interactive - Integrated (LCD), "DVI-I"

DVID
     Dynamic - Voltage IDentification (Intel, CPU), "D-VID"

DVL
     Digital Video Link

DVM
     Dynamic Visual Mode (NEC, Mitsubishi, LCD)

DVM
     Dynamic Voltage Management (PDA)

DVMA
     Direct Virtual Memory Access

DVMRP
     Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (IP, Multicast)

DVMT
     Dynamic Video Memory Technology (Intel)

DVPT
     Deutscher Verbandes fuer Post und Telekommunikation (org.)

DVR
     ??? (DTP, Truevision)

DVS
     DatenVerwaltungsSystem (BS2000)

DVS
     Digital Video Systems (manufacturer), http://www.dvsystems.com

DVST
     DatenVermittlungsSTelle (DTAG)

DVSTP
     DatenVermittlungsSTelle mit Paketvermittlung (DTAG), "DVST-P"

DVT
     Deutscher Verband Technisch-wissenschaftlicher vereine (org.)

DVX
     Digital Voice eXchange

DWANGO
     Dialup Wide-Area Network Game Organization (IVS Corporation)

DWDM
     Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing [protocol]

DWF
     Drawing Web Format (carCAD)

DWH
     Data WareHouse (DB)

DWH
     DISA Western Hemisphere (DISA, mil., USA)

DWIM
     Do What I Mean (telecommunication, Usenet, IRC)

DWM
     Diskless Workstation Management (AIX, IBM)

DWMT
     Discrete Wavelet MultiTone [modulation]

DWS
     Delphi Web Script (Delphi, Borland, WWW)

DWS
     Digital World Services (ISP)

DWT
     Discrete Wavelet Transformation

DXA
     Directory eXchange Agent

DXI
     Data eXchange Interface

DXJ
     Datex J (DTAG), "DxJ"

DXJVST
     Datex J VermittlungsSTelle (DTAG), "DxJ VSt

DXL
     Domino XML Language (XML, Lotus, DTD)

DXS
     Directory eXchange Server

DXVA
     DirectX Video Acceleration (MS, Windows)



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E1
     European digital transmission format 1 [2.048 Mbps]

E2
     European digital transmission format 2 [8.448 Mbps]

E2E
     End To End

E3
     End-to-End Encryption (cryptography)

E3
     European digital transmission format 3 [34.368 Mbps]

E4
     European digital transmission format 4 [139.264 Mbps]

E4X
     Ecmascript for XML (ECMA, XML)

E5
     European digital transmission format 5 [565.148 Mbps]

EA
     [Visio for] Enterprise Architects (MS, .NET)

EA
     Effective Address (Power4, IBM, CPU)

EA
     Eingabe/Ausgabe, "E/A"

EA
     Enterprise Agreement (Adobe)

EA
     Enterprise Agreement (MS)

EA
     Escrowed Authenticator (cryptography, EES)

EA
     Extended Attribute (OS/2, Apple)

EAB
     Enterprise Access Builder (IBM, Java)

EAC
     Enhanced Audio CODEC (EVD, CODEC)

EACEM
     European Association of Consumer Electronics Manufacturers (org.,
     Europe)

EAD
     Encoded Archival Description (SGML)

EADAS
     Engineering and Administrative Data Acquisition System (EADAS)

EADASNM
     EADAS/Network Management (EADAS), "EADAS/NM"

EADF
     Elliptical Aperture with Dynamic Focus

EAF
     Export address table Access Filtering

EAI
     Enterprise Application Integration

EAI
     External Authoring Interface (VRML)

EAL
     Evaluation Assurance Level (CC)

EAM
     Evanescent Access Method (BS2000)

EAN
     European Article Numbering [system]

EANTC
     European Advanced Networking Test Center (org., Berlin, Germany,
     ANTC, FDDI)

EAP
     Extensible Authentication Protocol (Cisco, cryptography, RADIUS,
     WPA)

EAPAKA
     Extensible Authentication Protocol method for 3rd generation
     Authentication and Key Management (EAP, RFC 4187), "EAP-AKA",
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4187.txt

EAPD
     External Amplifier Power Down

EAPMD5
     Extensible Authentication Protocol - Message Digest 5 (EAP,
     cryptography), "EAP-MD5"

EAPOL
     Extensible Authentication Protocol Over LAN (EAP, LAN,
     cryptography), "EAPoL"

EAPOW
     Extensible Authentication Protocol Over Wireless (EAP, WLAN,
     cryptography), "EAPoW"

EAPS
     Ethernet Automatic Protection Switching (LAN, MAN, RFC 3619),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3619.txt

EAPTLS
     TLS over EAP (TLS, EAP, WLAN), "EAP-TLS"

EAPTTLS
     Extensible Authentication Protocol - Tunneled Transport Layer
     Security (EAP, cryptography), "EAP-TTLS"

EAPTTSL
     Tunneled Transport Layer Security EAP (TTSL, EAP, cryptography,
     WLAN), "EAP-TTSL"

EAR
     Enterprise ARchive (IBM, WBISF)

EARN
     European Academic Research Network (network)

EAROM
     Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory (ROM, IC)

EAS
     Enterprise Access System (Dynatech)

EAS
     Enterprise Agreement Subscription (MS, OSL)

EASE
     Easy Access System Europe (Novell, FTP), ftp://ftp.novell.de

EASEL
     	Emergent Algorithm Simulator and Evaluation Language

EASEL
     Educator Access to Services in the Electronic Landscape (CORDIS)

EASI
     Enhanced Asynchronous SCSI Interface

EASY
     ErmittlungsAbhaengiges SYstem (Bavaria)

EATA
     Enhanced AT Bus Attachment

EATCS
     European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (org.,
     Europe)

EATX
     Extended Advanced Technology eXtended [form factor] (ATX), "E-ATX"

EAX
     Environmental Audio eXtension (audio, Creative Labs),
     http://eax.creative.com

EAZ
     EndgeraeteAuswahlZiffer (ISDN)

EB
     Electronic Banking (banking)

EBA
     Electronic Business Assurance, "eBA"

EBAM
     Electronic Beam-Addressable Memory (IC)

EBAS
     Elektronisches teile-BestellAbwicklungsSystem (MBAG)

EBC
     EISA Bus Controller (Wyse)

EBCDIC
     Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code

EBCOT
     Embedded Block Coding with Optimal Truncation (JPEG)

EBCS
     European Committee for Banking Standards (org., Europe, banking)

EBGA
     Enhanced Ball Grid Array (BGA, CPU, IC)

EBGP
     External Border Gateway Protocol (BGP, iBGP), "eBGP"

EBMS
     ebXML Message Service (ebXML, XML), "ebMS"

EBNF
     Extended Backus-Naur-Form

EBR
     Enterprise Backup and Restore (ENS, Banyan, VINES)

EBR
     Extended Boot Record (MBR)

EBR
     External Backup Restore (IDS, Informix, DB)

EBROM
     Electronic Book - Read Only Memory (ROM), "EB-ROM"

EBU
     European Broadcasting Union (org., Europe)

EBUS
     Elektronisches teile-BUchungsSystem (MBAG)

EBV
     Elektronische BildVerarbeitung

EBXML
     Electronic Business eXtensible Markup Language (XML, OASIS,
     UN/CEFACT, B2B), "ebXML", http://www.ebxml.org

EC
     Electronic Commerce

EC
     Error Correction (MODEM)

EC
     Evolutionary Computation

ECAI
     European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (conference, AI,
     ECCAI, Europe)

ECAL
     European Conference on Artificail Life (Europe, AI)

ECASO
     Enhanced Cooling After System Off

ECB
     Electronic CodeBook [mode] (cryptography, DES)

ECB
     Event Control Block (IPX)

ECC
     Electrical Connectivity Checks (CAD)

ECC
     Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem (Certicom, cryptography)

ECC
     Error Checking and Correction

ECC
     Error Correction Circuit (CPU, POWER)

ECC
     Error Correction Code (CD, EDC)

ECCAI
     European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (org.,
     AI, Europe), http://www.eccai.org

ECCO
     Execute with Correct Checksum Only

ECCRAM
     Error Checking and Correction ??? Random Access Memory (RAM)

ECD
     Energy Conversion Devices (manufacturer, OUM)

ECDC
     Electronic Commerce for Developing Countries (ITU)

ECDL
     European Computer Driving License, http://www.ecdl.com

ECDSA
     Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (cryptography)

ECEDI
     Electronic Commerce/Electronic Data Interchange (EC, EDI), "EC/EDI"

ECF
     Enhanced Connectivity Facilities (IBM)

ECHO
     European Community Host Organisation (org., Europe),
     http://www.echo.lu/echo/en/menuecho.html

ECHT
     European Conference on Hypermedia Technology (INRIA, conference)

ECI
     Efficient Channel Integration (ADC, EDI)

ECI
     European Color Initiative (org., Europe, DTP), http://www.eci.org

ECIS
     European Committee for Interoperable Systems (org.),
     http://www.e-c-i-s.org

ECIX
     European Commercial Internet eXchange (company), http://www.ecix.de

ECL
     EClectic Language (Harvard, TOPS)

ECL
     Emitter Coupled Logic

ECM
     Enterprise Content Management

ECM
     Entity Coordination Management (FDDI, SMT)

ECM
     Error Correction / Correcting Mode (FAX, HDLC)

ECMA
     European Computer Manufacturers Association (org., Europe),
     http://www.ecma-international.org/

ECMP
     Electroning Commerce Modeling Language (RFC 4112),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4112.txt

ECMS
     Enterprise Content Management System (CMS)

ECN
     European Counter Network

ECN
     Explicit Congestion Notification (IP, RFC 2481),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2481.txt

ECNE
     Enterprise Certified Novell Engineer (Novell, Netware)

ECOC
     European Conference on Optical Communications (Konferenz)

ECOM
     Electronic Computer Originated Mail, "E-COM"

ECOOP
     European Conference on Object Orientated Programming (OOP,
     conference)

ECP
     [PPP] Encryption Control Protocol (PPP, RFC 1968),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1968.txt

ECP
     Enhanced Capability Port (MS)

ECP
     Enhanced Communication Port / Protocol

ECP
     Excessive CrossPosting (Usenet, EMP, spam)

ECPA
     Electronic Communications Privacy Act (USA)

ECR
     Engineering Change Request (PCI)

ECRC
     [cable & wireless] European Computer industry Research Centre
     [gmbh] (ISP, org.), http://www.ecrc.de

ECRM
     Electronic Customer Relationship Management (Internet), "eCRM"

ECS
     EComStation (OS/2), "eCS"

ECS
     Elitegroup Computer Systems (manufacturer, Taiwan),
     http://www.ecs.com.tw

ECS
     Enhanced Chip Set (Amiga, Commodore)

ECSA
     Exchange Carriers Standards Association (org.)

ECSC
     European Customer Support Centre (HP)

ECSD
     Enhanced Circuit Switched Data (8-PSK, mobile-systems)

ECTS
     European Computer Trade Show (fair, London)

ECU
     EISA Configuration Utility (EISA)

ED
     End Delimiter (FDDI, Token Ring)

ED
     Enhanced Density

EDA
     Electronic Design Automation (RL, IC)

EDAC
     Electromechanical Digital Adapter Circuit

EDAC
     European Conference on Design Automation (IEEE-CS, conference)

EDBS
     Einheitliche DatenBank-Schnittstelle (DB)

EDC
     Error Detection Code (CD, ECC)

EDCF
     Enhanced Distributed Coordination Function (MAC, 802.11a, DCF, QOS)

EDD
     Enhanced Disk Device [polling] (BIOS, Linux)

EDD
     Enterprise Data Distribution (ENS, Banyan, VINES)

EDFA
     Erbuim Doped Fiber Amplifier (FO)

EDGAR
     Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval [system] (DB,
     Internet)

EDGE
     Enhanced Data rate for GSM / Global Evolution (GSM, mobile-systems)

EDI
     Electronic Data Interchange (GOSIP)

EDID
     Extended Display Identification Data [standard] (VESA, DDC)

EDIF
     Electronic Design Interchange Format, http://www.edif.org

EDIFACT
     Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and
     Transport

EDL
     Edit Decision List (video)

EDLC
     Ethernet Data Link Control (ethernet)

EDM
     Engineering Data Management

EDM
     Extended Data Message

EDMCC
     European Distributed Memory Computing Conference (GI, ITG, IFIP,
     conference)

EDMS
     Engineering Document Management System

EDO
     Extended Data Out [RAM] (RAM, DRAM, IC)

EDODRAM
     Extended Data Out Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM), "EDO-DRAM"

EDORAM
     Extended Data Out Random Access Memory (RAM, IC), "EDO-RAM"

EDOS
     Elektronisches DateiOrganisationsSystem (MBAG)

EDP
     Electronic Data Processing

EDP
     Electronic Data Processing

EDP
     Enhanced Dot Pitch (Hitachi)

EDPS
     Electronic Data Processing System

EDPS
     European Data Protection Supervisor, http://www.edps.eu.int

EDR
     External Developer Release

EDRAM
     Enhanced Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM, DRAM, IC)

EDRI
     European Digital RIghts (org., Europe), "EDRi",
     http://www.edri.org/

EDS
     Electronic Data Systems [corporation] (provider, USA)

EDSAC
     Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator

EDSRA
     Earth Data System Reference Application (ISH, USA)

EDT
     Eastern Daylight Time [-0400] (TZ, EST, USA)

EDV
     Elektronische DatenVerarbeitung

EDVAC
     Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer

EDX
     Event-Driven eXecutive (OS, IBM)

EE
     Emotion Engine (Sony, Playstation)

EE
     Energy Efficient (AMD, TDP)

EEAG
     Elektro- und ElektronikAltGeraete

EEE
     [UDB] Enterprise Extended Edition (IBM, DB2, DB, UDB)

EEE
     Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE)

EEI
     Equipment to Equipment Interface

EEI
     External Environment Interface (mil., USA)

EELS
     Engineering Electronic Library, Sweden (org., WWW, Sweden),
     http://www.ub2.lu.se/eel/eelhome.html

EEM
     External Expansion Module (Sun)

EEMS
     Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification

EEP
     Early Experience Program (Borland)

EEP
     Entry Exit Procedure (R:Base, DB)

EEPROM
     Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (ROM, IC, RL,
     EPROM)

EES
     Escrowed Encryption Standard (cryptography, NSA)

EESA
     Enterprise Extensions SMART Accessed (WD, ATA)

EESC
     European EDIF Steering Committee (org., EDIF, Europe)

EESSI
     European Electronic Signature Standardization Initiative (org.,
     ETSI), http://www.ict.etsi.fr/eessi/EESSI-homepage.htm

EET
     Eastern European Time [+0200] (TZ)

EET
     Edge Enhancement Technology (Seikosha, Itoh)

EFAKS
     Elektronisches FAKturierungs- und abrechnungsSystem (MBAG)

EFB
     Electronic Flight Bag (Airbus, A380)

EFCI
     Explicit Forward Congestion Indication (ATM)

EFF
     Electronic Frontier Foundation (Internet, org.), http://www.eff.org

EFI
     Electronics For Imaging (manufacturer), http://www.efi.com

EFI
     Extended Firmware Interface (Intel, MS)

EFI
     Extensible Firmware Interface [old term] (Intel, Itanium, MS)

EFL
     Eiffel Forum License (Eiffel)

EFL
     Emitter Follower Logic (IC)

EFL
     Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (GUI)

EFM
     Eight-to-Fourteen-Modulation (CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD)

EFNET
     Eris Free NETwork (Network, IRC), "EFnet"

EFS
     Encrypting File System (cryptography, Windows, MS, DESX)

EFSM
     Extended Finite State Machine (TTCN, ...)

EFT
     Electronic Funds Transfer

EFT
     Euro-FileTransfer (ISDN, ETS 300 075)

EFTPOS
     Electronic Funds Transfer at the Point-Of-Sale (EFT, banking),
     "EFT-POS"

EFTS
     Electronic Funds Transfer System

EFUE
     EmmissionsdatenFernUEbertragung (telecommunication)

EG
     Evil Grin (slang, Usenet, IRC)

EGA
     Enhanced Graphics Adapter (predecessor, VGA)

EGA
     Enterprsie Grid Alliance (org., grid, EMC, FSC, HP, Intel, Oracle,
     ...)

EGB
     Elektrostatisch gefaehrdete Bauelemente

EGD
     Entropy Gathering Daemon (Unix, GNU, GnuPG)

EGD
     Ethernet Global Data

EGEE
     Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (Europe, Europe)

EGG
     Elektronischer Geschaeftsverkehr-Gesetz Germany

EGMS
     E-Government Metadata Standard (RSS, UK)

EGO
     Enterprsie Grid Orchestrator

EGOV
     Electronic GOVernment

EGP
     Exterior Gateway Protocol (RFC 904),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc904.txt

EGPA
     Erlangen General Purpose Array (MP)

EGPRS
     Enhanced General Packet Radio Service (8-PSK, mobile-systems)

EGREP
     Extended Global Regular Expression Print (Unix, GREP)

EGS
     Enhanced Graphics System (Commodore)

EHCI
     Enhanced Host Controller Interface (USB, Intel)

EHDI
     Environmental Human Interface Devices

EHF
     Encoding Header Field (Internet, RFC 1154),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1154.txt

EHKP
     Einheitliche Hoehere KommunikationsProtokolle (BTX, ER, DTAG)

EHLLAPI
     Emulator High Level Language API (IBM, 3270, API)

EHS
     European Home Systems [concept]

EHSA
     European Home Systems Association (org., Europe)

EHW
     Evolvable HardWare

EIA
     Electronics Industry Association (USA, org.), http://www.eia.org

EIB
     Element Interconnect Bus (IBM, Cell)

EIB
     European Installation Bus

EIBA
     European Installation Bus Association (org., Europe)

EICAVR
     European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research (org., Europe)

EICL
     European Informatics Continuous Learning (CEPIS)

EICTA
     European Information & Communications Technology Industry
     Association [old term] (org., Europe), http://www.eicta.org

EIDA
     European Integrated Data Archive

EIDE
     Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (HDD, IDE), "E-IDE"

EIEIO
     Enforce In-order Execution of Input/Output (PowerPC, I/O, CPU)

EIF
     Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (MS)

EIFS
     Extended InterFrame Space (MAC, PCF, IFS, WLAN)

EIGRP
     Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP)

EINE
     EINE Is Not EMACS (EMACS, LISP)

EIO
     Enhanced Input/Output [architecture] (HP)

EIP
     Extended Instruction Pointer [register] (CPU, Intel, assembler)

EIP
     Extended Internet Protocol (Internet, RFC 1385),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1385.txt

EIRP
     Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (Bluetooth)

EIS
     Electronic Information Systems (manufacturer)

EIS
     Enterprise Information System

EIS
     European Information System (Europe)

EIS
     Executive Information System (IM)

EISA
     Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture (ISA)

EISA
     European Imaging and Sound Association (org., Europe)

EISB
     Electronic Imaging Standards Board (org.)

EISS
     Europaeisches Institut fuer SystemSicherheit (org., Karlsruhe,
     Germany, Europe), http://avalon.ira.uka.de

EIST
     Enhanced Intel Speedstep Technology (Intel, Pentium)

EIT
     Encoded Information Type

EIT
     Event Information Table (DVB, EPG)

EITO
     European Information Technology Observatory (org.),
     http://www.eito.com

EITS
     Eesti InfoTehnoloogia Seltsi (org., Estland), http://www.eits.ee

EJB
     Enterprise Java Beans (Java, Sun, CORBA)

EJC
     Electronic Journal of Communication

EKMS
     Electronic Key Management System (cryptography)

EKO
     Every Known Optimization [compiler] (PathScale)

EKOS
     Elektronisches KOmmunikationsSystem (MBAG)

EL
     Electro Luminescent [display]

EL1
     Extensible Language one (ECLogic)

ELAN
     Education LANguage

ELAN
     Emulated Local Area Network (ATM, LANE)

ELAP
     Embedded Linux Applications Platform (Linux, PDA), "e-LAP"

ELAP
     Ethernet Link Access Protocol (LAP, ethernet)

ELF
     Executable and Linkable Format (Unix, OS/2)

ELH
     Entity Life History (DB)

ELI
     Embedded LISP Interpreter (Andrew mail system)

ELK
     Extension Language Kit (Scheme)

ELLIS
     EuLisp LInda System (LISP)

ELM
     ELectronic Mailer (Unix)

ELO
     Elektronischer Leitz Ordner (OA), http://www.leitz.de/elo

ELOD
     Erasable Laser Optical Disk (OD)

ELP
     Equational Logic Programming [language]

ELRAD
     [magazin fuer] ELektronik und technische RechnerAnwenDungen

ELS
     Entry Level Solution (Novell, Netware)

EM
     Extensions Manager (Apple)

EM64T
     Extended Memory [64] Technology (Intel)

EMA
     Electronic Messaging Association (org., USA), http://www.ema.org

EMA
     Enterprise Management Architecture (DEC)

EMA
     Extended Mercury Autocode

EMACS
     Editing MACroS (GNU)

EMACS
     Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping (slang, EMACS)

EMAS
     Edinburgh Multi-Access System (OS, ICL 4-75)

EMB
     Enhanced Master Burst (EISA)

EMBI
     Excuse My Butting In (slang, Usenet, IRC)

EMC
     [Richard J.] Egan [Roger] Marino Company [unconfirmed] (EMC,
     manufacturer), http://www.emc.com

EMC
     ElectroMagnetic Compatibility

EMEA
     [IBM] Europe, Middle East, Africa (IBM)

EMET
     Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (MS)

EMF
     Eclipse Modelling Framework (Eclipse)

EMI
     ElectroMagnetic Interference

EMI
     External Machine Interface [protocol] (SMS)

EMISA
     EntwicklungsMethoden fuer InformationsSysteme und deren Anwendung
     (org., GI)

EML
     Element Management Layer (TMN)

EMM
     Expanded Memory Manager

EMMA
     European MultiMedia Award

EMP
     Excessive Multiple Posting (Usenet, ECP, spam)

EMR
     Electro-Magnetic Radiation

EMRL
     EMbedded RAID Logic (Adaptec, RAID)

EMS
     Energy Management System

EMS
     Enhanced Messaging Service (mobile-systems)

EMS
     European Mathematical Society (org.), http://www.emis.de

EMS
     Expanded Memory Specification (DOS, Intel)

EMSC
     Electronic Mail Standards Committee (org.)

EMU
     EAP Method Update (EAP)

EMV
     ElektroMagnetische Vertraeglichkeit (EN 55022, DIN, VDE 0878)

EMV
     Europay, MasterCard and VISA (org., banking)

EMX
     Enterprise Messaging eXchange [switch]

EN
     Europa Norm (Europe)

ENA
     Electronic Networking Association (org., Internet)

ENA
     Enterprise Networking Association (Banyan, VINES, user group,
     org.), http://www.abui.org

ENA
     European Networking Associates (org., Europe), http://www.ena.net

ENA
     Extended Network Addressing (IBM, SNA)

ENDC
     European Network Design Center (3COM)

ENDIVE
     Enhanced Direct Interface Video Extensions (OS/2, MMPM/2, IBM),
     "EnDIVE"

ENF
     Embedded NAS Firmware (RAID, NAS, ArtStor)

ENIAC
     Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer

ENISA
     European Network and Information Security Agency (org.),
     http://www.enisa.europa.eu/

ENP
     Embedded NPrinter (NEST, Novell)

ENS
     Enterprise Network Services (Banyan, VINES)

ENSA
     Enterprise Network Storage Architecture (HP)

ENSIQ
     ENS - Information Query (Banyan, VINES, ENS), "ENS IQ"

ENSMT
     ENS - Management Tool (ENS, Banyan, VINES), "ENS-MT"

ENUM
     tElephone NUmber Mapping (VoiP)

EO
     Europe Online (network)

EOA
     End Of Address

EOB
     End Of Block

EOCB
     Electrical Optical Circuit Board [project] (Bosch, Siemens, IZM,
     ...)

EOD
     End Of Discussion (slang, Usenet, IRC)

EOD
     Erasable Optical Disk (OD)

EOF
     End Of File

EOF
     End Of Frame (S-ATA)

EOF
     Enterprise Objects Framework (NeXT)

EOI
     End Of Input

EOI
     End Of Interrupt

EOI
     End Or Identify (GPIB)

EOJ
     End Of Job

EOL
     End Of Line

EOLAS
     Embedded Objects Linked Across Systems (manufacturer, USA)

EOM
     End Of Message

EON
     Enhanced Other Networks (RDS)

EOP
     End Of Procedure (Fax)

EOS
     Electrical OverStress

EOS
     Extended Operating System (OS)

EOSL
     End Of Service Life

EOT
     End Of Text

EOT
     End Of Thread (slang, Usenet, IRC)

EOT
     End Of Transmission

EOTD
     Enhanced Observed Time Difference (LBS, GPS), "E-OTS"

EOUG
     European Oracle User Group (org., DB, Oracle, user group, Europe)

EOWG
     [WAI] Education and Outreach Working Group (WAI)

EP
     Enterprise Portal (SAP)

EP3
     [the] Extensible PERL PreProcessor (PERL)

EPA
     Enhanced Performance Architecture

EPA
     Environmental Protection Agency (USA, org.)

EPAC
     Ein-Platinen-Allzweck-Computer (IC, C'T)

EPAC
     Electronic Packaging and Assembly Concept

EPAL
     Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language (W3C)

EPBR
     Extended Partition Boot Record (PowerQuest)

EPC
     Electronic Product Code (RFID)

EPCC
     Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (org., UK, HPC),
     http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk

EPDF
     Embedded Portable Document Format (Adobe, PDF, HTML)

EPEL
     Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (Linux, RHEL, Fedora)

EPG
     Electronic Program Guide (DVB)

EPH
     Electronic Payment Handling (banking)

EPHOS
     European Procurement Handbook for Open Systems

EPIA
     Embedded Platform Innovative Architecture [motherboard] (VIA)

EPIC
     Eclipse PERL Integration Project (Eclipse, PERL)

EPIC
     Electronic Privacy Information Center (cryptography),
     http://www.EPIC.org

EPIC
     Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing

EPIC
     European Public sector Information systems Conference

EPIC
     Explicit Parallelism Instruction Computing (Intel, CPU, VLIW)

EPIM
     Ethernet Port Interface Module (ethernet)

EPIX
     Enhanced Performance unIX (Unix), "EP/IX"

EPK
     Ereignisgesteuerte ProzessKette

EPL
     Elektronenstrahl-ProjektionsLithographie

EPLD
     Erasable Programmable Logic Device

EPN
     Electronic-highway Platform Netherlands (ISP, Netherlands),
     http://www.epn.net

EPOC
     [not an acronym] (Psion, OS, PDA), http://www.ew.software.psion.com

EPOC
     EPON Over Coax (DOCSIS, EPON), "EPoC"

EPON
     Ethernet Passive Optical Network (DOCSIS, IEEE 802.3)

EPP
     Easy PhotoPrint (Canon)

EPP
     Education Purchase Plan (Adobe)

EPP
     Enhanced Parallel Port / Protocol (Intel, Zenith, Xircom, IEEE
     1284)

EPP
     Enhanced Performance Profiles (Nvidia)

EPP
     Extensible Provisioning Protocol (RFC
     3730/3731/3732/3733/3734/3735),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3730.txt,
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3731.txt

EPROM
     Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (ROM, IC, RL, EPROM)

EPS
     Electronic Publishing Systems

EPS
     Embedded PServer (NEST, Novell)

EPS
     Enterprise Protection Strategy (TrendMicro)

EPSA
     Early Page Space Allocation (AIX, IBM)

EPSI
     Encapsulated PostScript Interchange

EPSIG
     Electronic Publishing Special Interest Group (org.)

EPSS
     Experimental Packet-Switching System (UK)

EQAM
     Edge QAM (QAM)

ER
     Enterprise Replication (IDS, Informix, DB)

ER
     Externer Rechner (T-Online)

ERAT
     Effective to Real Address Translation [table] (Power4, IBM, CPU,
     EA, RA)

ERC
     European Radiocommunications Committee (WLAN)

ERCIM
     European Research Consortium for Information and Mathematics
     (org., GMD, INRIA, CWI, RAL, ..., Europe),
     http://www-ercim.inria.fr

ERD
     Entity-Relationship Diagram

ERIN
     Environmental Resources Information Network (Australia, network)

ERL
     Electronic Research Lab (Volkswagen, USA)

ERM
     Enterprise Resource Management

ERM
     Entity Relationship Model (DB)

ERO
     European Radiocommunications Office (org., Europe, CEPT),
     http://www.ero.dk

EROM
     Erasable Read Only Memory (ROM, IC)

ERP
     Enterprise Resource Planning [software]

ERS
     Enterprise Resource Sharing (ENS, Banyan, VINES)

ERS
     Error Report Suppression [flag] (CATNIP)

ES
     [Red Hat Enterprise Linux] Enterprise Server (RedHat, Linux, RHEL)

ES
     Embedded Systems

ES
     End System (ATM)

ES
     Errored Seconds (DS1/E1)

ES
     European Standard (ETSI)

ES
     Extended Services (OS/2)

ES
     Extra Segment [register] (CPU, Intel, assembler)

ES1
     EliteSwitch/1 (SMC, FDDI), "ES/1"

ESA
     Enterprise Systems Architecture (IBM, MVS/XA, VM, CMS)

ESA
     Entertainment Software Association (org., USA),
     http://www.theesa.com

ESANN
     European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (conference, NN),
     http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/neural-nets/esann/esann.html

ESAXA
     Enterprise Systems Architecture / eXtended Architecture (IBM, ESA,
     XC), "ESA/XA"

ESAXC
     Enterprise Systems Architecture / eXtended Configuration (IBM,
     ESA, XA), "ESA/XC"

ESB
     Enterprise Service Bus (Iona, OSS, IBM, SOA)

ESCD
     Extended System Configuration Data (BIOS, PNP)

ESCO
     Extended Synchronous Connection Orientated (Bluetooth), eSCO

ESCON
     Enterprise Systems CONnect(ion) (IBM, I/O)

ESCP2
     Epson Specific/Standard Code / Protocol 2 (printing), "ESC/P2"

ESD
     Electronic Software Distribution

ESD
     ElectroStatic Discharge

ESDC
     Extra Segment Descriptor Cache [register] (ES, Intel, CPU)

ESDI
     Enhanced Standard Device Interface

ESDS
     Entry Sequenced Data Set (VSAM)

ESE
     Extensible Storage Engine (AD, MS)

ESEC
     European Software Engineering Conference (GI, BCS, AFCET, AICA,
     OEGI, SI, conference)

ESER
     Einheitliches System dEr Rechentechnik (GDR)

ESF
     Extended Super Frame (ISDN, T1)

ESI
     End System IDentifier (ATM)

ESIOP
     Environment Specific Inter-ORB Protocol (OMG, CORBA, ORB, DCE)

ESIS
     Element Structure Information Set (SGML)

ESIS
     End System to Intermediate System [protocol / routing] (OSI),
     "ES-IS"

ESK
     [Fraunhofer] Einrichtung Systeme der Kommunikationstechnik (org.),
     http://www.esk.fraunhofer.de

ESM
     External Storage Module (Sun)

ESMD
     Embedded Storage Module Disk

ESMD
     Enhanced Storage Module Device

ESMTP
     Extended Simple Message Transport Protocol (SMTP, RFC 1425/1869),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1869.txt,
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1425.txt

ESN
     Electronic Serial Number

ESN
     Electronic Switched Network

ESNET
     Energy Sciences NETwork (network, USA, Internet)

ESORICS
     European Symposium On Research In Computer Security (Konferenz)

ESP
     [IP] Encapsulating Security Payload (IPSEC, IP, RFC
     1825/1827/2406, VPN), ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2406.txt

ESP
     Easy Software Products (manufacturer, CUPS)

ESP
     EFI System Partition (EFI)

ESP
     Electronic Stability Program (car)

ESP
     Emulation Sensing Processor (QMS)

ESP
     Ethernet Serial Port (ethernet)

ESP
     Extreme Support through Personalization (IBM)

ESPCM
     Electronic Speech systems Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)

ESPRIT
     European Strategic Program of Research and Development in
     Information Technology (Europe)

ESR
     Event Service Routine (IPX)

ESR
     Extended Support Release

ESRAM
     ??? Static Random Access Memory (RAM, IC, RL), "eSRAM"

ESRB
     Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESA)

ESS
     Embedded Security System (IBM, TPM)

ESS
     Extended Service Set (WLAN)

ESSBASE
     Extended Spread Sheet dataBASE (MDBMS, DB)

ESSI
     European Software and Systems Initiative

ESSID
     Extended Service Set IDentification (SSID, WLAN)

EST
     Eastern Standard Time [-0500] (TZ, EDT, USA)

ESTO
     Electronic Systems Technology Office (org., ARPA),
     http://esto.sysplan.com/esto

ETA
     Estimated Time of Arrival (SCP)

ETAI
     Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

ETANN
     Electrically Trainable Analog Neural Network (NN)

ETAS
     Elektronisches Teile-AuskunftsSystem (MBAG)

ETB
     Elektronisches TelefonBuch (T-Online)

ETB
     End of Transmission Blank / Block

ETC
     European Test Conference (VDE, IEEE-CS, conference)

ETE
     End-To-End

ETG
     Enterprise Transaction Gateway (EDI, NT)

ETH
     Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule

ETHZ
     Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (org., Switzerland),
     http://www-ir.inf.ethz.ch

ETK
     Embedded ToolKit [for Windows CE] (MS, Windows, CE)

ETL
     Extraction, Transformation and Loading

ETLA
     Extended Three Letter Acronym

ETNO
     European Telecommunications Network Operators Association (org.,
     ISP), http://www.etno.be

ETO
     Essentials - Tools - Objects (Apple), "E.T.O."

ETR
     Early Token Release (Token Ring)

ETR
     Evaluation Technical Report (CC)

ETS
     Embedded ToolSuite (Phar Lap)

ETS
     Emergency Telecommunication Service (RFC 3689),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3689.txt

ETS
     European Telecommunication Standard (ETSI)

ETS
     Executable Test Suite (ISO 9646-1)

ETSI
     European Telecommunication Standards Institute (org., Europe,
     ETSI), http://www.etsi.org

ETX
     End of Transmission teXt

EU
     Execution Unit (CPU)

EUC
     Extended Unix Code (Unix, AT&T)

EUD
     End User Development

EUDC
     EMACS Unified Directory Client (EMACS)

EULA
     End User License Agreement (MS, DRM)

EUNET
     European Unix NETwork (network, Internet, ISP, Unix),
     http://www.eu.net

EURID
     European Registry of Internet Domain names (org., Internet,
     Europe), http://www.eurid.org

EUROISPA
     EUROpean Internet Service Provider Association (org., ISP),
     "EuroISPA", http://www.euroispa.org

EUS
     EntscheidungsUnterstuetzende Systeme

EUSES
     End Users Shaping Effective Software [initiative] (USA)

EUSIDIC
     ??? [European Association of Information Services] (org., Europe),
     http://www.eusidic.org

EUSUVP
     EntscheidungsUnterstuetzendes System
     UmweltVertraeglichkeitsPruefung (EuropeS, XPS, Uni Hamburg,
     Germany)

EUUG
     European Unix User Group (org., user group, Unix, Europe)

EUV
     Extreme UltraViolet

EUVL
     Extreme UltraViolet Lithography

EV
     EtagenVerteiler (cable, EN 50 173)

EVA
     [StorageWorks] Enterprise Virtual Array (HP, HDD)

EVBIT
     Ergaenzende VertragsBedingugen - InformationsTechnik, "EVB-IT"

EVC
     Enhanced Video Connector (VESA)

EVD
     Enhanced Versatile Disk (China)

EVDO
     Enhanced Voice-Data Optimized / Only (mobile-systems, Qualcomm,
     ITU), "EV-DO"

EVE
     Extended Virtual Environment

EVMS
     Enterprise Volume Management System (OSS, IBM)

EVN
     EinzelVerbindungsNachweis (DTAG)

EVP
     Enhanced Virus Protection (AMD, CPU)

EWAS
     Elektronisches WareneingangsAbwicklungsSystem (MBAG)

EWD
     Engine and Warming Display (Airbus, A380), "E/WD"

EWIKO
     [verein zur foerderung] Elektronischer WIssenschaftsKOmmunikation
     (org.)

EWOS
     European Workshop for Open Systems (OSI, ODA), http://www.ewos.be

EWS
     Employee Written Software (IBM)

EWS
     European Workshop on SGML (org., SGML)

EXBI
     EXaBInary [(2^10)^6] (IEC)

EXCA
     EXchangeable Card Architecture, "ExCA"

EXFAT
     Extended File Allocation Table (FAT), "exFAT"

EXFCB
     EXtended File Control Block

EXIF
     Exchangeable Image File Format (DCF, photo, CIPA),
     http://www.exif.org

EXSLT
     Enhanced eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSL, XML,
     XSLT)

EXTRA
     EXecutionTRace Analyser (IBM, OS/2)

EXUG
     European X Users Group (org., user group, Europe),
     http://www.nads.de/exug/exug.html

EXZ
     EXcessive Zeros [error event] (DS1/E1, DS3/E3)

EZ
     EchtZeit (fair)



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F2C
     FORTRAN to C [converter]

F2F
     Frequency - Double Frequency

F2FS
     Flash-Friendly File System (Linux, Samsung, FS), "F2fs"

FA
     FernmeldeAmt (DTAG)

FAA
     Flow Admission Acknowledge [message] (LFAP)

FABS
     Fast Access Btree Structure

FAC
     Final Assembly Code (IMEI, GSM, mobile-systems)

FACCH
     Fast Associated Control CHannel (GSM, DCCH, mobile-systems)

FACE
     Framed Access Command Environment (Unix, SVR4)

FACS
     Firmware ACPI Control Structure (ACPI)

FADOS
     Fast Amsterdam Distributed (???) Operating System (OS, FAMP)

FADT
     Fixed ACPI Description Table (ACPI)

FADU
     File Access Data Unit (FTAM)

FAE
     Field Application Engineer

FAG
     FernmeldeAnlagenGesetz telecommunication, Germany

FAI
     Fully Automatic Installation

FAID
     Flash Authority Identification Data (EEPROM)

FAIS
     Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society (org., Finland, AI),
     http://www.uwasa.fi/stes/eindex.html

FAL
     File Access Listener (DEC, DNA)

FAME
     FORMEX Applied to Multilingualism in Europe (SGML, Europe)

FAMOS
     Floating gate Avalanche injection Metal Oxide Semiconductor (IC)

FAMP
     Fast Amsterdam MultiProcessor

FANP
     Flow Attribute Notification Protocol (Toshiba, RFC 2129),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2129.txt

FAP
     Flight Attendant Panel (Airbus, A380, CIDS, LCD)

FAPI
     Family Application Programmer Interface (DOS, VDM, API)

FAQ
     Frequently Asked Questions (slang, Usenet)

FAR
     False Acception Rate

FAR
     Fixed Alternative Routing (SNI)

FAR
     Flow Admission Request [message] (LFAP)

FARE
     Film Automatic Retouching and Enhancement (Canon, Scanner)

FARNET
     Federation of American Research NETworks (network)

FAS
     Flow Admission Service

FASMI
     Fast Analysis of Shared Multidimensional Information (OLAP)

FAST
     Fast ARM Solutions Toolkit (ARM, Palm, PDA)

FAST
     First Application System Test

FAST
     Forschungsinstitut fuer Angewandte Software-Technologie [e.v.]
     (org.), http:/www.fast.de

FAT
     File Allocation Table (DOS)

FATA
     Fibre-Attached Technology Adapted (HP, SATA, HDD)

FAU
     Flow Admission Update [message] (LFAP)

FAU
     Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet (org., Erlangen, Germany,
     Nuernberg, Germany), http://www.uni-erlangen.de

FAW
     Forschungsinstitut fuer Anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung
     (org., KI, Ulm), http://merlin.faw.uni-ulm.de/faw

FAXP
     FAX Profile (Bluetooth, SPP), "FaxP"

FB
     Fiber optic Backbone

FBAS
     FarbBild-AustastSystem / Farb-Bild-Austast-Synchron-signal (video)

FBDIMM
     Fully Buffered Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM, IC, RAM), "FB-DIMM"

FBL
     Frame Burst error Length (CD)

FBM
     Flexible Buffer Management (QMS)

FBPP
     Federal Biometeric Protection Profile (NIAP)

FBS
     Flexible Bandwidth Service (ATM, SDH)

FC
     Federal Criteria [for information technology security] (NIST, USA)

FC
     Feedback Control

FC
     Fibre Channel (FC)

FC
     Frame Control (FDDI, Token Ring)

FCA
     Flow Control Ack (DLSW)

FCAL
     Fibre Channel - Arbitrated Loop, "FC-AL"

FCAPS
     Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security
     [management areas]

FCB
     File Control Block (DOS)

FCBS
     File Control BlockS (DOS)

FCC
     Fast Communication Controller (SCC, MCC)

FCC
     Federal Communications Commission (org., USA), http://www.fcc.gov

FCC
     Forward Carbon Copy (telecommunication)

FCCH
     Frequency Correction CHannel (GSM, mobile-systems)

FCCN
     Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional (org., Portugal),
     http://www.fccn.pt

FCD
     Floating Car Data

FCDAE
     Fibre Channel Disk Array Enclosure (FC), "FC-DAE"

FCFS
     First Come, First Served

FCGC
     Flight Control and Guidance Computer (Airbus, A380)

FCGS4
     Fibre Channel Generic Service 4 (FC, SAN, ANSI), "FC-GS-4"

FCH
     Frame Control Channel (HiperLAN/2)

FCI
     Fibre Channel Interface

FCI
     Flow Control Indicator (DLSW)

FCI
     Forward Cache Identifier (CATNIP)

FCIA
     Fibre Channel Industry Association (org.), http://fibrechannel.org/

FCIP
     Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (SAN, FC, IP)

FCL
     Framework Class Library (MS, .NET)

FCMI
     Fibre Channel Methodology for Interconnects (FC, SAN, ANSI),
     "FC-MI"

FCO
     Flow Control Operator Bits (DLSW, BIT)

FCOS
     Flip Chip on Substrate

FCP
     [SCSI-3] Fibre Channel Protocol (SAM)

FCPGA
     Flip Chip Pin Grid Array (IC, CPU), "FC-PGA"

FCPH
     Fibre Channel PHysical and signaling interface (SAM), "FC-PH"

FCR
     Flow Change Request [message] (LFAP)

FCS
     Fast Circuit Switching

FCS
     First Customer Ship (IBM)

FCS
     Frame Check Sequence (FDDI, Token Ring)

FCS
     Frame Check Sum (MODEM)

FCSAN
     Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (FC, SAN)

FCSC
     Flight Control Secondary Computer (Airbus, A380)

FDA
     FORTRAN Design Aid (FORTRAN)

FDAD
     Functional Data ADministrator

FDC
     Floppy Disk Controller (FDD)

FDCC
     Federal Desktop Core Configuration (NVD, SCAP)

FDCT
     Fast Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT)

FDD
     Floppy Disk Drive

FDD
     Frequency Division Duplex (mobile-systems)

FDDI
     Fiber Distributed Data Interface (ANSI, ISO 8314)

FDDITPPMD
     FDDI Twisted Pair-Physical layer, Medium Dependent, "FDDI TP-PMD"

FDE
     Full Duplex Ethernet (ethernet)

FDES
     Full Duplex EtherSwitch (Kalpana)

FDI
     [fachverband der ] Fuehrungskraefte der Druckindustrie und
     Informationsverarbeitung (org.)

FDIS
     Final Draft International Standard (MPEG)

FDL
     File Definition Language

FDL
     Free Documentation License (GNU)

FDM
     Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM)

FDMA
     Frequency Division Multiple Access (mobile-systems)

FDMI
     Flat Display Mounting Interface (VESA, MIS)

FDO
     Functional Device Object

FDSN
     Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks (org.),
     http://www.fdsn.org/

FDT
     Formal Description Technique

FDTDMA
     Frequency Division/Time Division Multiple Access (mobile-systems,
     GSM), "FD/TDMA"

FDX
     Full DupleX

FE
     Focus Error (DVD)

FE
     Forschung und Entwicklung, "F&E"

FE
     Functional Entity (IN)

FEA
     Functional Entity Action (IN, UNI)

FEAL
     Fast Data Encipherment Algorithm (DES, cryptography)

FEAST
     Fast Data Enciphering Algorithm (cryptography)

FEBE
     Far End Block Error (SONET)

FEC
     Forward Error Correction (GSM, mobile-systems)

FECN
     Forward Explicit Congestion Notification (ATM)

FEDRAMP
     FEDeral Risk and Authorization Management Program (USA), "FedRAMP"

FEFCO
     ???

FEIT
     Fujitsu Enhanced Imaging Technology (Fujitsu)

FEK
     File Encryption Key (cryptography)

FEM
     Finite Elemente Methode

FEN
     Free-net Erlangen/Nuernberg

FEP
     Firewall Enhancement Protocol (RFC 3093),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3093.txt

FEP
     Flight Envelope Protection (Airbus, A380)

FEP
     Front End Processor

FER
     Forward Error Correction (satellite)

FERF
     Far End Receive Failure (UNI, ATM, SONET, OAM)

FESI
     Federacion Espanola de Sociedades de Informatica (org., Spain),
     http://www.fesi.fi.upm.es/

FET
     Field Effect Transistor

FF
     Form(ular) Feed

FFAPI
     File Format API (MS, API)

FFC
     Fully Formed Character [printer]

FFDC
     First Failure Data Capture

FFDT
     FDDI Full Duplexing Technology (FDDI)

FFFS
     Failsafe Flash File System (FS, Flash), "F3S"

FFII
     Foerderverein fuer Freie Informationelle Infrastruktur (org.)

FFOL
     FDDI Follow-On-LAN

FFS
     Fallback Fault-tolerant Server (IBM, OS/2)

FFS
     Fast File System (Unix, Amiga, Commodore)

FFS
     Fast Filing System (BSD, Unix)

FFS
     Flexible Fertigungs-Systeme

FFST2
     First Failure Support Technology /2 (IBM), "FFST/2"

FFT
     Final Form Text

FGA
     Future Graphics Adapter (Spea)

FGCS
     Fifth Generation Computer Systems [project] (ICOT)

FGPP
     Fine Grained Password Policy (AD)

FGREP
     Fixed Global Regular Expression Print (Unix, GREP)

FHGS
     FreeHand Graphics Studio (Macromedia, DTP)

FHS
     File system Hierarchy Standard (Linux, LSB)

FHSS
     Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (WLAN)

FIA
     Fiberoptic Industry Association (org.),
     http://www.netwales.co.uk/fia/welcome.htm

FIB
     Forwarding Information Base (router, LAN, Internet)

FIBU
     FInanzBUchhaltung

FIC
     First International Computer [inc.] (manufacturer),
     http://www.fic.com.tw

FICS
     Free Internet Chess Server

FID
     File IDentifier (APDU)

FID
     File Identifier Descriptor (UDF, CD-R)

FIDO
     Fast IDentity Online (org.), http://fidoalliance.org/

FIDO
     FIlter Device Object, "FiDO"

FIF
     Fractal Interchange Format

FIFF
     Forum Informatikerinnen Fuer den Frieden (org.)

FIFO
     First In First Out (CPU)

FIG
     Forth Interest Group (org., Forth)

FIGLET
     Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters (ASCII, fonts)

FILE
     Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia (WWW, DICT),
     http://www.dict.org/file.html

FILO
     First In Last Out

FIMAS
     Financial Institution Message Authentication Standard (banking,
     ANSI)

FINTS
     FINancial Transaction Services (banking, HBCI), "FinTS"

FIOC
     Frame Input/Output Controller

FIP
     Facility Interface Processor

FIP
     Factory Instrumentation Protocol

FIP
     Fluorescent Indicator Panel

FIPA
     Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (org., Agents)

FIPS
     Federal Information Processing Standard (NIST, USA)

FIQ
     Fast Interrupt reQuest (ARM, RISC)

FIR
     Fast IRDA (IRDA)

FIR
     Finite Impulse Response (DSP)

FIRE
     Flexible Intelligent Routing Engine (3Com)

FIRE
     Future Internet Research and Experimentation (Europe, CORDIS)

FIRMR
     Federal Information Resources Management Regulations (USA)

FIRP
     Federal Internet Requirements Panel (Internet, USA)

FIRS
     Federated Internet Registry Service (LDAP, Internet)

FIRST
     ForschungsInstitut fuer Rechnerarchitektur und SoftwareTechnik
     (org., GMD, Berlin, Germany),
     http://www.gmd.de/first/firsthome.html

FIRST
     Forum of Incident Response and SecuriTy (org., NIST),
     http://first.org

FIS
     FachInformationsSystem

FIS
     FuehrungsInformationsSysteme

FISH
     FIle transfer with a SHell, "FiSH"

FISMA
     Federal Information Security Management Act (USA)

FIT
     Failures In Time

FIT
     Fraunhofer institut fuer angewandte InformationsTechnik (org.)

FITS
     Functional Interpolating Transformation System

FITUG
     Foerderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft [e.V.] (org.),
     http://www.fitug.de

FIU
     Fingerprint Identification Unit (Sony)

FIZ
     FachInformationsZentrum karlsruhe Org., Germany,
     http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de

FK
     Foundation Kit (NextStep, OpenStep, Apple, Rhapsody)

FKS
     Fernmelde-Klein-Steckverbindung (Westernstecker)

FL
     Fiber optic Link

FLAC
     Free Lossless Audio CODEC (CODEC, audio)

FLACC
     Full Level Algol Checkout Compiler

FLAME
     FLexible API for Module-based Environments (RL, API)

FLASK
     FLux Advanced Security Kernel (DTOS)

FLC
     Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal

FLEA
     Four Letter Extended Acronym

FLEXIP
     FLEXible Internet Protocol (Novell, Netware), "FLeX/IP"

FLIM
     Faithful Library about Internet Message (EMACS, GNU)

FLOPS
     FLoating-point Operations Per Second (CPU)

FLOWR
     For, Let, Order by, Where, Return [principle] (DB, XML)

FLP
     Fast Link Pulse (ethernet, LAN, NLP)

FLS
     ???

FM
     Frequenz-Modulation

FMA
     Federated Management Architecture (Java)

FMA
     Fused Multiply Add [operation]

FMB
     Flexible MotherBoard [design]

FMM
     Flash Memory Manager (Intel)

FMO
     Flexible Macroblock Ordering (AVC, video)

FMS
     FernMeldeSystem

FMS
     FORTRAN Monitor System (OS, IBM 709)

FMSB
     Flip Mount Super Back-plate (Scythe), F.M.S.B.

FMTEYEWTK
     Far More Than Everything You Ever Wanted To Know (slang, PERL)

FNC
     Federal Networking Council (org., USA)

FNI
     FachNormenausschuss Informationsverarbeitung [1962-1987] (DIN, NI,
     predecessor)

FO
     Fiber Optic

FOA
     Fiber Optic Association (org.), http://www.std.com/fotec/foa.htm

FOAF
     Friend Of A Friend [vocabulary] (RDF), http://www.foaf-project.org/

FOC
     Fiber Optic Cable / Communications

FOCS
     [symposium on] Foundations Of Computer Science (Konferenz)

FOD
     Flexible Optical Disk (OD)

FODA
     Formal specification of ODA document structures (ODA, ISO)

FODO
     [international conference on] Foundations Of Data Organization and
     algorithms (conference, INRIA)

FOEBUD
     [verein zur] Foerderung des OEffentlichen Bewegten und Unbewegten
     Datenverkehrs [e.v.] (org.), "FoeBuD", http://www.foebud.org

FOIRL
     Fiber Optic InterRepeater Link (OWG)

FOKUS
     Forschungszentrum fuer Offene KommUnikationsSysteme (org., GMD,
     Berlin, Germany), http://www.fokus.gmd.de

FOLDOC
     Free OnLine Dictionary Of Computing (WWW, UK),
     http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk

FOLED
     Flexible Organic Light Emitting Display (OLED)

FOMA
     Freedom Of Multimedia Access (Japan, mobile-systems)

FOMAU
     Fiber Optic MAU (ethernet, MAU)

FON
     Fiber Optics Network

FOO
     Friends Of O'reilly [meeting]

FOOBAR
     FTP Operation Over Big Address Records (RFC 1639, FTP),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1639.txt

FOOT
     Forum for Object Oriented Technology (CERN, OOP)

FOP
     Feature Orientated Programming

FOP
     Formatting Object Processor (Apache, XSL-FO),
     http://xml.apache.org/fop/

FORMEX
     FORMalised EXchange of electronic publications (SGML, Europe)

FORML
     Formal Object Role Modelling Language

FORTRAN
     FORmula TRANslation

FORTWIHR
     FORschungsverbund fuer Technisch-WIssenschaftliches
     HochleistungsRechnen (org., Bavaria),
     http://www5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/forschung/fortwihr

FORWISS
     bayerisches FORschungszentrum fuer WISsensbasierte Systeme (org.,
     KI), http://www.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de,
     http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/forwiss/uebersicht.html

FOSI
     Format Output Specification Instance (SGML, CALS)

FOSS
     Free and Open Source Software

FOSSFA
     Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (org.,
     Africa), http://www.fossfa.net/

FOSSIL
     Fido Opus Seadog Standard Interface Layer

FOT
     Fiber Optic Transceiver

FOTA
     Firmware Over The Air

FOTE
     Follow-on Operational Test and Evaluation, "FOT & E"

FOUC
     Flash Of Unstyled Content (CSS)

FOURCC
     FOUR Character Code (RIFF, TIFF, VFW, DivX)

FOV
     Field Of View (VRML)

FOX
     Field Operational X.500

FPA
     Fast Packet Adaption (FPS, FPR)

FPA
     Floating Point Accelerator

FPAA
     Field Programmable ALU Array (IC, ALU, RL)

FPBGA
     Fine Pitch Ball Grid Array (IC, CPU)

FPC
     Floating Point Coprocessor

FPD
     Flat Panel Display

FPDI
     Flat Panel Display Interface (VESA)

FPDU
     FTAM Protocol Data Unit (PDU)

FPE
     Floating Point Engine

FPFA
     Field Programmable Function Array

FPGA
     Field Programmable Gate Array (RL),
     http://www.mrc.uidaho.edu/fpga/fpga.html

FPI
     Flux Changes per Inch (HDD)

FPI
     Formal Public Identifier (DTD, SGML, SI)

FPI
     Functional Process Improvement

FPK
     Fast Packet Keying (WLAN, WEP, RSA, cryptography)

FPLA
     Field Programmable Logic Array

FPLMTS
     Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunications System (IN,
     mobile-systems)

FPM
     Fast Page Mode [DRAM] (RAM, DRAM)

FPM
     Fast Page Mode [ram] (RAM, DRAM, IC)

FPMDRAM
     Fast Page Mode DRAM (RAM, DRAM, IC), "FPM-DRAM"

FPMPMI
     Flat Panel Monitor Physical Mounting Interface [standard] [old
     term] (LCD, VESA, FDMI)

FPNW
     File and Print service for NetWare (MS, Windows NT, DSMN)

FPODA
     Fixed Priority Orientated Demand Assignment (MAC, PODA)

FPP
     Fast-Parallel-Port

FPP
     Floating Point Processor

FPP
     FORTRAN Pre-Processor (FORTRAN)

FPP
     Full Packaged Product (MS)

FPR
     Fast Packet Relay (FPS, FPA)

FPR
     Film Patterned Retarder (LCD)

FPR
     Floating Point Register (FPU)

FPS
     Fast Packet Switching (X.25, Datex-J)

FPS
     First Person Shooter [game]

FPS
     Frames Per Second

FPSE
     Free PlayStation Emulator, "FPSe"

FPSE
     FrontPage Server Extensions (Microsoft, IIS)

FPU
     Floating Point Unit (CPU)

FQDN
     Fully Qualified Domain Name (Internet)

FRAD
     Frame Relay Access Device

FRAM
     Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (RAM, IC)

FRC
     Frame Rate Control (PDP)

FRD
     Functional Requirements Description

FRF
     Floatingpoint Register File (DEC, Alpha, CPU)

FRICC
     Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee (org.)

FRL
     Frame Representation Language (AI)

FRMR
     FRaMe Reject (HDLC, LAPB, SDLC)

FROM
     Factory Read Only Memory (ROM)

FRR
     False Rejection Rate

FRR
     Functional Recovery Routine

FRS
     Flexible Route Selection

FRS
     Frame Relay Service (ATM, UNI)

FS
     File System (LVM)

FS
     Frame Status (FDDI, Token Ring)

FSAG
     Free Software Association of Germany (org.)

FSB
     For Small Business (Novell)

FSB
     Front Side Bus

FSC
     Fujitsu Siemens Computer (manufacturer)

FSCK
     File System Consistency checK (Unix)

FSD
     File System Driver

FSF
     Free Software Foundation (org., GNU), http://www.gnu.org

FSFE
     Free Software Foundation Europe (org., FSF),
     http://www.fsfeurope.org

FSG
     Free Standards Group (org.), http://www.freestandards.org

FSH
     File System Hierarchy (Linux, LSB)

FSIP
     Full Scale InPut (FSOP)

FSK
     Frequency Shift Keying (telecommunication)

FSM
     Finite State Machine (TTCN, ...)

FSM
     Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia Org., Germany

FSMGDOS
     Font Scaling Manager - Graphics Device Operating System (OS,
     Atari), "FSM-GDOS"

FSMO
     Flexible Single Master Operations (AD)

FSO
     [scripting runtime library] File System Objects (MS, WSH)

FSOP
     Full Scale OutPut (FSIP)

FSOS
     Free Standing Operating System (OS)

FSP
     File Slurping Protocol

FSRM
     File Server Resource Manager (AD)

FSRTL
     File System RunTime Library

FSS
     Fair Share Scheduler (Solaris, Sun)

FSS
     Fast System Switch (Unix)

FSSUTF
     FileSystem Safe UCS Transformation Format (UCS, Unicode), "FSS-UTF"

FST
     Flat Square Technology (Hitachi)

FSTN
     Film SuperTwisted Nematic (LCD)

FSTP
     Foiled Shielded Twisted Pair [cable] (STP, TP), "F/STP"

FSU
     Free Software Union (org.)

FSV
     Flexible Sender Validation (SPAM)

FSVO
     For Some Value Of (slang, Usenet, IRC)

FT1
     Fractional T1 (ISDN, T1, DS-0, DS-1)

FTA
     Floptical Technology Association (3M u.a.)

FTAM
     File Transfer, Access and Management (GOSIP, ISO 8571/8572)

FTBFS
     Fails To Build From Source (Linux, Debian, slang)

FTC
     Federal Trade Commission (org., USA)

FTE
     [DCOM] For The Enterprise (DCOM, SAG)

FTL
     Flash Translation Layer

FTM
     File Transfer Manager (PDA, Casio)

FTN
     Fido Technology Network (FidoNet)

FTNA
     File Transfer Access and Management

FTNEA
     File Transfer NEtwork Architecure (SNI)

FTOS
     File Transfer Open Systems

FTOS
     File Transfer OSI Support

FTP
     File Transfer Protocol (Internet, RFC 959),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc959.txt

FTP
     Foiled Twisted Pair [cable] (UTP, TP)

FTPD
     File Transfer Protocol DAEMON (FTP)

FTR
     Full Text Retrieval

FTS
     Fidonet Technical Standard

FTS2000
     Federal Telecommunications Services - 2000 (USA), "FTS-2000"

FTSC
     Federal Telecommunications Standards Committee (org., USA)

FTSC
     Fidonet Technical Standard Conference (Konferenz)

FTTC
     Fiber To The Curb

FTTH
     Fibre To The Home (FTTN)

FTTLA
     Fiber To The Last Amplifier

FTTN
     Fibre To The Node (FTTH)

FTZ
     FernmeldeTechnische Zentralamt / Zulassung (DTAG, ZZF, predecessor)

FUA
     Flow Update Acknowledge [message] (LFAP)

FUB
     Freie Universitaet Berlin (org.), http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de

FUBAB
     Fouled / Fucked Up Beyond All Belief (slang, Usenet, IRC)

FUBAR
     Failed UniBus Address Register (VAX)

FUBAR
     Fouled / Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition / Repair (slang, Usenet,
     IRC)

FUD
     Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt (slang, IBM)

FUN
     Flow Update Notification [message] (LFAP)

FUNI
     Frame User Network Interface

FUSE
     Filesystem in USErspace (Linux)

FUSSP
     Final Ultimate Solution to the SPAM Problem (SPAM)

FUEV
     Fernmeldeanlagen-UEberwachungsVerordnung

FVD
     Forward Versatile Disc (China, WMV)

FWH
     FirmWare Hub (BIOS, Intel)

FWIW
     For What It's Worth (slang, Usenet, IRC)

FWS
     Folding White Space (RFC 1822),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1822.txt

FWT
     Fast Wavelet Transformation

FXO
     Foreign eXchange Office (FXS)

FXS
     Foreign Exchange System / Subscriber (FXO)

FXU
     FiXed point Unit (POWER, CPU)

FYI
     For Your Information (slang, Usenet, IRC)

FZA
     ??? [compression]

FZI
     ForschungsZentrum Informatik (org., Uni Karlsruhe, Germany),
     http://www.fzi.de



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GA
     General Availability (OS/2)

GA
     Genetic Algorithm(s)

GAA
     General Application Area (CD-MRW)

GABELN
     Gruppe Area Brett Echo Liste Newsgroup (slang, Usenet, BBS)

GABRIEL
     GAteway and BRIdge to Europe's national Libraries,
     http://www.ddb.de/gabriel

GAC
     Global Assembly Cache (MS, .NET)

GAC
     Government Advisory Council (ICANN)

GADK
     Global Application Developers Kit (Sun)

GAE
     Generic Application Environment

GAEB
     Gemeinsamer Ausschuss fuer Elektronik im Bauwesen (org.)

GAFCON
     German AirForce Communication Network Mil., Germany, Netzwerk

GAFDIN
     German AirForce Digital Network Mil., Germany, Netzwerk

GAIA
     GUI Application Interoperability Architecture (OSF)

GAIN
     Gator Advertising and Information Network

GAIN
     German Advanced Integrated Network (IBM)

GAK
     Governmental Accessed Keys (cryptography)

GAL
     Generic Array celL / Logic

GAL
     Global Address List (MS, Windows, Exchange)

GAN
     Global Area Network

GAN
     GrenzAktenNachweis (INPOL)

GAP
     Generic Access Profile (DECT, Europe, Bluetooth)

GAP
     Generic Address Parameter

GARP
     Gratious Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), "gARP"

GART
     Graphics Address Remapping Table (AGP)

GASH
     Group Admin SHell (Unix, Shell)

GATOR
     GATeway OrientierungsRatgeber (Internet)

GAWK
     GNU AWK (GNU, AWK)

GB
     GigaByte

GB
     GuoBao [codepage]

GBA
     GameBoy Advance (Nintendo)

GBASP
     GameBoy Advance Special Project (Nintendo), "GBA SP"

GBIC
     GigaBIT Interface Converter

GBIT
     Giga BIT (BIT), "GBit"

GBM
     Generalised Bitmap Module (DLL, Windows, Linux, OS/2)

GBPS
     GigaBits Per Second (BIT)

GC
     Global Catalog (MS, AD)

GC
     Graphic Context (X-Windows)

GCA
     General Communications Architecture (Ingres)

GCAD
     Geographical Computer Aided Design System

GCATT
     Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (org.,
     USA), http://www.gcatt.gatech.edu

GCC
     GNU C Compiler / GNU Compiler Collection (GNU)

GCCS
     Global Command and Control System (DISA, mil.)

GCCS
     Government Code and Cipher School (UK, mil.), "GC&CS"

GCF
     Generic Connection Framework (Java, J2ME)

GCFW
     GIAC Certified FireWall analyst (GIAC, GSE)

GCHQ
     Government Communications HeadQuarters (mil., UK),
     http://www.gchq.gov.uk

GCIA
     GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GIAC, GSE)

GCID
     Global Call IDentifier

GCIDIE
     Global Call IDentifier- Information Element (GCID), "GCID-IE"

GCIH
     GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GIAC, GSE)

GCJ
     GNU Compiler for Java (GNU, Java)

GCL
     GNU Common LISP (GNU, LISP)

GCL
     Graphics Command Language

GCM
     Galois/Counter Mode

GCN
     Graphics Core Next (AMD)

GCOS
     General Comprehensive Operating System (Honeywell, OS, Honeywell
     Series 60, Honeywell Series 6000)

GCR
     Gray Component Replacement (RGB, CYMK, DTP)

GCR
     Group Coded Recording

GCRA
     Generic Cell Rate Algorithm (UNI, ATM)

GCS
     Greek Computer Society (org., Griechenland), http://www.epy.gr

GCS
     Group Control System (IBM, VM, VME, VM/ESA)

GCT
     Group Completion Table (Power4, IBM, CPU)

GCUX
     GIAC Certified UniX security administrator (GIAC, GSE)

GCWN
     GIAC Certified WiNdows security administrator (GIAC, GSE)

GCWS
     [ServerWorks] Grand Champion WorksStation [chipset], "GC-WS"

GDA
     Global Directory Agent (DCE)

GDAP
     Government Document Application Profile

GDB
     GNU DeBugger (GNU)

GDBM
     GNU Data Base Manager (DB, GNU)

GDC
     GCC D Compiler (GCC)

GDD
     Gesellschaft fuer Datenschutz und Datensicherung (org.)

GDDM
     Graphical Data Display Manager (IBM)

GDDR2
     Graphics Double Data Rate 2 (SDRAM, IC, Samsung)

GDF
     Gnutella Developer Forum (GNU, Internet)

GDH
     Grid Data Handle (grid)

GDI
     Graphical Device / Display Interface

GDL
     Geometric Description Language

GDM
     Grid Data Management (Grid)

GDMI
     Generic Definition of Management Information

GDMO
     Guidelines for the Definition of Managed Objects (OSI)

GDOP
     Geometrical Dilution Of Precision (GPS)

GDOS
     Graphics Device Operating System (OS, Atari)

GDOUG
     Greater Detroit OS/2 User Group (org., user group, OS/2, USA)

GDPDU
     Grundsaetze zum Datenzugriff und zur Pruefbarkeit Digitaler
     Unterlagen (BMF), "GDPdU"

GDPS
     Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex

GDQS
     Grid Distributed Query Service (DQP, OGSA-DAI, grid)

GDR
     General Distribution Release

GDR
     Grid Data Reference (grid)

GDROM
     GigaDisk Read Only Memory (Sega, ROM), "GD-ROM"

GDS
     Generalized Data Stream (IBM, APPC)

GDS
     Global Directory Service (DCE)

GDS
     Grid Data Service (grid)

GDSF
     Grid Data Service Factory (GDS, grid)

GDT
     Global Descriptor Table

GDT
     Grid Data Transport (grid)

GDTD
     Grid Data Transport Depot (GDT, grid)

GDTRC
     Global Descriptor Table Register Cache (GDT, Intel, CPU)

GDTS
     Grid Data Translation / Transformation Service (grid)

GE
     General Electric (manufacturer, GE)

GE
     GigaBIT Ethernet (ethernet, BIT)

GEAM
     GEAM Encrypts All Mails (cryptography)

GECOS
     General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor / System (OS,
     GE, GCOS, predecessor, Honeywell)

GEDCOM
     GEnealogical Data COMmunication [format], "GeDCom"

GEF
     Graphical Editing Framework (Java, SWT, WTP)

GEGL
     GEneric Graphic Library (GIMP)

GEI
     Gesellschaft fuer Elektronische Informationsverarbeitung [mbh]
     (manufacturer, Aachen)

GEIST
     German Encyclopedic Internet Service Terminal (org.),
     http://www.geist.spacenet.de

GEM
     Generalized Executive for realtime Multiprocessor applications (OS)

GEM
     Graphics Environment Manager (DR, PC)

GEMM
     GEneral Matrix Multiply (BLAS)

GENA
     General Event Notification Architecture (UPnP)

GENI
     Global Environment for Network Innovations (NSF), http://geni.net

GENIE
     General Electric Network for Information Exchange (network, GE),
     http://www.genie.com

GEOS
     Graphic Environment Operating System (OS)

GEPON
     Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON, IEEE 802.3ah)

GERAN
     GSM EDGE Radio Access Network (GSM, EDGE, mobile-systems)

GESIP
     GESellschaft fuer Informatik in der Pharmazie [e.v.] (org.)

GETS
     Government Emergency Telecommunications System (USA)

GEVN
     GEOFON Virtual Network (GEOFON)

GFC
     Generic Flow Control (ATM)

GFC
     Going For Coffee (slang, Usenet, IRC)

GFDL
     GNU Free Documentation License (GNU)

GFLOPS
     Giga FLoating-point Operations Per Second (CPU)

GFP
     Global Functional Plane (IN)

GFS
     Global File System (GFS, Unix)

GFSK
     Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying (telecommunication)

GGF
     Global Grid Forum (org., grid, EMC, FSC, HP, Intel, Oracle, ...),
     http://www.gridforum.org

GGI
     General Graphics Interface

GGP
     Gateway to Gateway Protocol (RFC 823),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc823.txt

GGS
     GueteGemeinschaft Software [e.v.] (org.)

GGSN
     Gateway GPRS Support Node (GPRS, mobile-systems)

GHOST
     Goal Hierarchy and Objectives Structuring Technique (TUB)

GHTSTN
     Guest Host Technique SuperTwisted Nematic (LCD), "GHT-STN"

GI
     Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (org.), http://www.gi-ev.de

GIAC
     Global Information Assurance Certification (org.),
     http://www.giac.org

GIBI
     GIgaBInary [(2^10)^3] (IEC)

GIC
     Generic Interrupt Controller

GID
     Group ID

GIDAS
     Grafisch-Interaktives DatenAnalyseSystem

GIDEI
     General Input Device Emulation Interface

GIDF
     Google Ist Dein Freund (telecommunication, Usenet, IRC)

GIDO
     General Intrusion Detection Object (CIDF)

GIFT
     GNU Image Finding Tool (GNU)

GIGO
     Garbage In Garbage Out

GII
     General Input Interface

GIL
     Gesellschaft fuer Informatik in der Land-, forst- und
     ernaehrungswirtschaft [e.v.] (org.)

GIM
     Gesellschaft fuer informationstechnik und InformationsManagement
     [mbh] (ISC, Bremen), http://www.gim.de

GIMP
     General / GNU Image Manipulation Program (Linux, graphics, GNU),
     http://www.gimp.org

GIMPS
     Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (Internet),
     http://www.mersenne.org

GINA
     Generische INteraktive Anwendung (GMD)

GINA
     Graphic Identification and Authentication

GIOP
     General Inter-ORB Protocol (OMG, CORBA, ORB, IIOP)

GIPS
     Giga Instructions Per Second (CPU)

GIRL
     Generalized Information Retrieval Language

GIS
     Geographic Information System

GISF
     GIAC Information Security Fundamentals (GIAC)

GIT
     GNU Interactive Tools (GNU)

GITS
     Government Information Technology Service (USA)

GIUA
     German Ingres User Association (org., user group, DBMS, DB)

GJSP
     GNU Java Server Pages (GNU, Java, JSP)

GKDC
     Group Key Distribution Centre (KDC, CBT)

GKHI
     Generalized Kernel Hook Infrastructure (Linux, IBM)

GKMP
     Group Key Management Protocol

GKS
     Graphic Kernel System

GLDV
     Gesellschaft fuer Linguistische DatenVerarbeitung (org.)

GLF
     Group Looking For (MMORPG, slang, LFG)

GLGPL
     GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU)

GLI
     Graphics Link Interface

GLM
     Generalized Markup Language

GLOCOM
     [center for] GLObal COMmunications (org., Japan),
     http://www.glocom.ac.jp

GLONASS
     Globalnaja Nawigazionnaja Sputnikowaja Sistema

GLSL
     openGL Shading Language (OpenGL)

GLT
     openGL c++ Toolkit (OpenGL)

GLTSD
     Global Logging Target Save Disabled (HDD, SCSI)

GLU
     openGL Utility Library (OpenGL, GLU)

GLUT
     openGL Utility library Toolkit (OpenGL, GLU)

GLX
     openGL extension for the X window system (OpenGL, X-WIndows)

GM
     General MIDI [standard] (MIDI)

GMA
     Gesellschaft fuer Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik (org., VDI)

GMC
     Global Motion Compensation (DivX, video)

GMCH
     Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (Intel, ICH)

GMD
     Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (org., St.
     Augustin), http://www.gmd.de

GMDS
     deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Medizinische Dokumentation, informatik
     und Statistik [e.v.] (org.)

GME
     Gesellschaft MikroElektronik (org., VDE, VDI)

GMGPL
     GNAT Modified GNU Public License (GNAT, GNU, GPL)

GMI
     Generic Management Information (OSI)

GMK
     Group Master Key (RSN, cryptography)

GML
     GameMaker Language

GML
     General Markup Language

GML
     Geography Markup Language (XML, OGC)

GML
     Graph Modeling Language

GMOEOR
     Gesellschaft ??? (org.)

GMP
     GNU Multi-Precision [library] (GNU)

GMPLS
     Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switching

GMR
     Giant Magneto-Resistive [heads] (HDD, IBM, Toshiba)

GMSC
     Gateway Mobile services Switching Center (mobile-systems)

GMSK
     Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying

GMT
     Greenwich Mean Time [+0000] (TZ, UTC, UK)

GNA
     Global Network Academy (Internet)

GNAT
     GNU Ada Translator (GNU)

GNBD
     Global Network Block Device (GFS)

GNFS
     General Number Field Sieve (cryptography)

GNI
     GayNet International (network)

GNIUS
     GSM Network for Improved access to Universal Services (GSM, Europe)

GNMP
     Government Network Management Profile (USA)

GNN
     Global Network Navigator (Internet, WWW)

GNOME
     GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNU, GNOME, GUI),
     http://www.gnome.org

GNU
     GNU's Not Unix (recursive!, Unix, GNU, OS), http://www.gnu.org

GNUPG
     GNU Privacy Guard (GNU, cryptography), "GnuPG",
     http://www.gnupg.org

GNV
     GNU is Not VMS (HP, VMS, GNU)

GNX400
     Gateway Network eXchange 400 (Proteon, SNA, SDLC), "GNX 400"

GOBS
     Grundsaetze Ordnungsmaessiger DVgestuetzter BuchfuehrungsSysteme
     (DV), "GoBS"

GOCA
     Graphic Object Content Architecture (IBM, MO:DCA)

GOD
     Global OutDial

GOD
     Grundsaetze ordnungsmaessiger Datenverarbeitung, "GoD"

GOEP
     Generic Object Exchange Profile (Bluetooth, SPP)

GOK
     GNOME On-screen Keyboard (GNOME)

GOMS
     Goals, Operators, Methods, Selection [theory]

GOP
     Group Of Pictures (video, VOBU, DVD)

GOPS
     Giga Operations Per Second

GOSIP
     Government Open Systems Interconnections Profile (USA, UK)

GOT
     Global Offset Table

GP
     Generative Programming

GPA
     GNU Privacy Assistant (GNU, GnuPG)

GPC
     General-Purpose Computation

GPC
     GNU Pascal Compiler (GNU)

GPC
     Graphics Performance Characterization [committee] (org., HP, IBM,
     DEC, SGI, Sun,...)

GPC
     Graphics Performance Council (SPEC)

GPC
     Group Policy Container (AD, GPO)

GPCI
     Graphics Processor Command Interface

GPF
     General Protection Fault (Windows)

GPFS
     General Parallel File System (IBM)

GPG
     GNU Privacy Guard (GNU)

GPGPU
     General Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units (GPU),
     http://www.gpgpu.org

GPI
     Graphics Programming Interface

GPIB
     General Purpose Interface Bus (IEEE 488)

GPIB
     General-Purpose Interface Bus (IEEE 488, GPIB)

GPIO
     General Purpose Input Output

GPL
     General Public Licence (GNU)

GPL
     Graphics Programming Language

GPM
     Gesellschaft fuer ProjektManagement [e.v.] (org.)

GPMC
     Group Policy Management Console (MS, Windows, XP, .NET)

GPO
     Group Policy Objects (AD, GPO)

GPON
     Gigabit Passive Optical Network (EPON)

GPOS
     General Purpose Operation System

GPP
     [SCSI-3] Generic Packetized Protocol (SAM)

GPP
     GNU [C] Plus Plus [compiler] (GNU)

GPR
     General Purpose Register (CPU)

GPRS
     General Packet Radio Service / System (ETSI, GSM, TCP/IP, GPRS,
     mobile-systems)

GPS
     Global Positioning System (GPS)

GPSI
     Graphics Processor Software Interface

GPSID
     GPS Intermediate Driver (Windows, Mobile)

GPT
     Group Policy Template (AD, GPO)

GPT
     GUID Partition Table (EFI, GUID)

GPU
     Graphics Processing Unit

GPV
     General Public Virus

GQES
     Grid Query Evaluation Service (DQP, OGSA-DAI, grid)

GRADD
     GRaphics Adapter Device Driver (OS/2, IBM)

GRAPHML
     GRAPH Markup Language

GRAPHXML
     GRAPH eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

GRASP
     Graphic Animation System for Professionals

GRAW
     Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

GRC
     Generic Reference Configuration

GRDDL
     Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (W3C,
     XML, RDF)

GRE
     Generic Routing Encapsulation (RFC 1701, VPN),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1701.txt

GREP
     Global Regular Expression Print (Unix)

GRH
     Global Route Header (Infiniband)

GRIB
     GRIdded Binary [format]

GRIC
     Global Research Internet Connection (org., ISP),
     http://www.gric.com

GRINS
     GRaphical iNterface to SMIL (SMIL, Oratix), "GRiNS"

GRPS
     General Packet Radio Service (GSM, mobile-systems)

GRS
     	Global Resource Serialization (IBM)

GRS
     Generalized Reed-Solomon [code]

GRUB
     GRand Unified Bootloader (GNU)

GS
     General Standard (MIDI)

GS
     Gepruefte Sicherheit

GS
     Graphic Synthesizer (Sony, Playstation)

GSA
     Global mobile Suppliers Association (org., mobile-systems)

GSDK
     Game Software Development Kit (Linux, GGI, OpenGL)

GSDS
     Genealogy Software Distribution System

GSE
     GIAC Security Expert (GIAC)

GSEC
     GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GIAC)

GSER
     Generic String Encoding Rules (ASN1, RFC 3641/342),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3641.txt,
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3642.txt

GSH
     Grid Service Handle (OGSI, grid)

GSIF
     Global Signaling and Inter-working Forum (org.),
     http://www.gsif.info

GSL
     Graphics Software Labs (AT&T)

GSLC
     GIAC Certified Security Leadership (GIAC)

GSM
     Global System for Mobile communications

GSM
     Groupe Speciale Mobile (org. , CEPT)

GSMP
     General Switch Management Protocol (DEC, Sprint)

GSNA
     GIAC Systems and Network Auditor

GSNW
     Gateway Service for NetWare (MS, Windows NT)

GSP
     GNU Server Pages (GNU, Java, JSP)

GSR
     Grid Service Reference (OGSI, grid)

GSRC
     GigaScale Systems Research Center (org.), http://www.gigascale.org

GSS
     Generic Security Service (IETF, GSS-API)

GSS
     Group Support System

GSSAPI
     Generic Security Service API (RFC 2078, API), "GSS-API",
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2078.txt

GST
     Guam Standard Time [+1000] (TZ)

GSUG
     German Smalltalk Users Group (user group, Smalltalk, org.)

GSX
     Graphics System eXtension

GTC
     GPU Technology Conference (Nvidia, GPU), http://www.nvidia.com/gtc

GTDM
     Group Time Division Multiplexing [protocol]

GTF
     Generalized Timing Format (VESA)

GTF
     GPL'ed TLA FAQ (GPL, TLA, FAQ)

GTFO
     Get The Fuck Out (slang, Usenet, IRC)

GTG
     Good To Go (slang, Cygwin)

GTK
     [GNU] GIMP ToolKit (GNU, GUI), http://www.gtk.org

GTK
     Group Transient Key (RSN, cryptography, WLAN)

GTL
     Gunning Tranceiver Logic+ [bus] (Intel, SMP), "GTL+"

GTLD
     Generic Top Level Domain (Internet, ICANN), "gTLD"

GTP
     GPRS Tunnel Protocol (GPRS, mobile-systems)

GTS
     GigaTexel Shading

GTS
     Global Telecommunication System

GTSC
     Global Technical Support Centre (MS)

GTSM
     Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (TTL, RFC 3682),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3682.txt

GUI
     Graphical User Interface (UI)

GUID
     Global[ly] Unique IDentifier (COM)

GUIDE
     Graphical User Interface Design Editor (Sun)

GUILE
     GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension (GNU)

GULM
     Global Universal Lock Manager / Grand Unified Lock Manager (GFS)

GUMO
     General User Model Ontology (DFKI)

GURPS
     Generic Universal RolePlaying System

GUS
     Guide to the Use of Standards (SPAG)

GUUG
     German Unix User Group (org., user group, Unix), http://www.guug.de

GV
     GebaeudeVerteiler (cable, EN 50 173)

GVBA
     Global Village Business Association (org., USA),
     http://www.gvba.org

GVC
     GNU Volunteer Coordinators (GNU)

GVRP
     GARP VLAN Registration Protocol (GARP, VLAN)

GVV
     German Volunteer Votetakers (Usenet, DANA)

GWAI
     German Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (conference, AI)

GWBASIC
     Graphics and Windows Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction
     Code (BASIC, MS-DOS), "GW-Basic"

GWDG
     Gesellschaft fuer Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Goettingen
     [mbH] (org.), http://www.gwdg.de

GWS
     Gesellschaft fuer Wirtschafts- und Sozialkybernetik (org., Uni
     Marburg)

GWS
     Graphics WorkShop

GWT
     Google Web Toolkit (Google, WWW, Java, AJAX)

GXA
     Global XML Architecture (MS, IBM, Verisign, cryptography)

GYVE
     GNU Yellow Vector Editor (GNU)



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H2U
     Higher capacity to UMTS (UMTS, WLAN)

H4P
     High Performance Parallel Processing Project (ICI)

HAAPI
     Human Authentication Application Program Interface (API), "HA-API"

HACL
     Host Access Class Library (HOD, API)

HACMP
     High Availability Clustered Multi Processing (IBM, RS/6000, Bull),
     "HA/CMP"

HADR
     High Availability Disaster Recovery (Informix, DB2, DB)

HAL
     Hackers At Large (org.)

HAL
     Hard Array Logic

HAL
     Hardware Abstraction Layer (Windows NT)

HAL
     Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer (2001)

HALPC
     Houston Area League of PC-Users, "HAL-PC"

HAMPS
     Host AUTODIN Message Processing System (AUTODIN, mil.)

HAND
     Have A Nice Day (slang, Usenet, IRC)

HANFS
     Highly Available Network File System

HAP
     Host Access Protocol (RFC 907/1221),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1221.txt,
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc907.txt

HARQ
     Hybrid Automatic Re-transmission reQuest (WIMAX)

HAS
     High Availability Subsystem (Bull)

HAT
     Hashed Address Table

HAT
     Help Authoring Tool

HAV
     High AVailability

HAVI
     Home Audio Video Interoperability (org., Grundig, Hitachi,
     Matsushita, Philips, Sharp, Sony, Thomson, Toshiba),
     http://www.havi.org

HBA
     Host Bus Adapter (SCSI)

HBAO
     Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)

HBCI
     HomeBanking Computer Interface [old term] Internet, banking,
     Germany, HBCI, http://www.hbci.de

HBT
     Hetero Bipolar Transistor (IBM, IC)

HC
     Handler Compiler (SAX, XML)

HCA
     Host Channel Adapter (Infiniband)

HCF
     Hybrid Coordination Function (MAC, 802.11a)

HCI
     Host Controller Interface (Bluetooth, Linux)

HCI
     Human Computer Interaction (BCS, conference)

HCID
     Handwear Computer Input Device

HCL
     Hardware Certification List (TCPA)

HCL
     Hardware Compatibility List (MS, Windows)

HCL
     Host Control Links

HCSDS
     High Capacity Satellite Digital Service

HCSS
     High Capacity Storage System (Novell, Netware)

HCT
     Hamburger ComputerTage (fair)

HCT
     High-speed CMOS [logic] with TTT-compatible [logic] levels (IC,
     MOS)

HCTDS
     High-Capacity Terrestrial Digital Service

HD
     High Density

HDA
     High Definition Audio (Intel, audio)

HDAM
     Hierarchical Direct Access Method (DAM)

HDB
     HoneyDanBer [standard] (Unix)

HDB3
     High Density Bipolar 3

HDBMS
     Hierarchical DataBase Management System (DBMS, DB)

HDC
     Hard Disk Controller

HDCD
     High Density Compact Disk (CD, Sony, Phillips)

HDCP
     High-bandwidth Digital Copy Protection (DRM, HDMI, cryptography)

HDD
     Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

HDD
     Highly Doped Drain (IC, MOSFET)

HDDV
     High Definition Digital Video (video)

HDDVD
     High Density Digital Versatile Disk (DVD, NEC, Toshiba), "HD-DVD"

HDF
     Hierarchical Data Format (NCSA)

HDH
     HDLC Distant Host

HDI
     HOOPS Device Interface (VAGI)

HDIT
     High Bandwidth Differential Interconnect Technology [bus] (VIA)

HDL
     Hardware Description Language (ASIC)

HDLC
     High-level Data Link Control (ISO)

HDM
     Hardware Device Module (I2O)

HDMI
     High Definition Multimedia Interface (DVI, HDTV)

HDML
     Handheld Device Markup Language (mobile-systems, HDTP)

HDN
     Hochgeschwindigkeits-DatenNetz

HDOP
     Horizontal Dilution Of Precision (GPS)

HDOS
     Heath Disk Operating System (OS, Heath)

HDR
     High availability Data Replication (Informix, DB)

HDR
     High Dynamic Range

HDS
     Hitachi Data Systems (manufacturer), http://www.hds.com

HDSL
     High data / bit rate Digital Subscriber Line (BELLCORE, AT&T, DSL,
     BIT)

HDSL
     High-level Data Specification Language

HDSP
     High Definition Sound Performance

HDTP
     Handheld Device Transport Protocol (mobile-systems)

HDTV
     High Definition TeleVision

HDX
     Half DupleX

HE
     HoehenEinheit [1HE = 19"]

HEA
     Hyundai Electronics of America (manufacturer), http://www.hea.com/

HEC
     Header Error Check

HEC
     Header Error Control (ATM)

HECTOR
     HEterogeneous Computer TOgetheR (IBM, Uni Karlsruhe, Germany)

HEL
     Hardware Emulation Layer

HEL
     Header Extension Length

HEMT
     High Electron Mobility Transistor

HEPNET
     High Energy Physics NETwork (network)

HERMES
     Heuristic Emergency Response Management Expert System (XPS)

HERODE
     Handling the Electronic Representation of mixed text - image
     Office Documents based on ECMA standard 101 (ESPRIT, SNI, TITN,
     ECMA, ODA)

HEROS
     HEeresfuehrungsinformationssystem fuer die Rechnergestuetze
     Operationsfuehrung in Staeben (Bundeswehr)

HES
     Home Electronic System (SNI)

HES
     Honeywell Executive System (OS, Honeywell 800)

HEVC
     High Efficiency Video Coding (MPEG)

HF
     Have Fun (slang, Usenet, IRC)

HFC
     Hybrid Fiber Coax [network] (DOCSIS)

HFD
     Hauptanschluss fuer Direktruf / Datenleitung (DTAG), "HfD"

HFDS
     Highly Functional Distributed System (MTRON)

HFP
     Hands Free Profile (Bluetooth, SPP)

HFS
     Hierachical File System (Apple, CD, MACOS)

HFT
     High Function Terminal (AIX, IBM)

HGA
     Hercules Graphics Adapter

HGC
     Hercules Graphics Card

HHI
     Heinrich Hertz Institut Org., Germany, http://www.hhi.de

HI
     Hochschulverband Informationswissenschaften (org.)

HI1
     Handover Interface 1 (ETSI, ES 201671)

HI2
     Handover Interface 2 (ETSI, ES 201671)

HI3
     Handover Interface 3 (ETSI, ES 201671)

HIC
     Human Interaction Component

HIC
     Hybrid Integrated Circuit

HID
     Human Interface Device (MS)

HIDAM
     Hierarchical Indexed Direct Access Method (DAM)

HIFD
     HIgh capacity Floppy Disk (Sony, Fuji), "HiFD"

HIFI
     Hypertext Interface For Information (ESPRIT)

HIFIVE
     HIgh Fidelity Interactive Visual Environment (DEC), "Hi-FIVE"

HIFT
     Hardware Implemented Fault Tolerance (SIFT)

HIGGENS
     Human Interface Graphical GENeration System (Uni Colorado)

HINT
     Hierarchical INTegration [benchmark]

HIPERLAN
     HIgh PErformance Radio Local Area Network (LAN, ETSI, EN 300 652),
     http://www.hiperlan.com

HIPPI
     HIgh Performance Parallel Interface

HIPPI
     High Performance Peripheral Interface

HIRD
     HURD of Interfaces Representing Depth (GNU, HURD)

HIS
     HerstellerInitiative Software Org., Germany

HISAM
     Hierarchical Indexed Sequential Access Method (SAM)

HISP
     HIgh SPeed channel connector (Cray, I/O)

HKS
     Horowitz Key Server (PGP, GPG, PKS, SKS)

HLL
     High Level Language

HLLAPI
     High Level Language Application Programming Interface (IBM, API)

HLP
     High Latency Profile (video, AVC)

HLPI
     Higher Layer Protocol Identifier

HLR
     Home Location Register (LR, GSM, GPRS, mobile-systems)

HLRB
     HoechstLeistungsRechenzentrum Bayern (org.)

HLS
     Hue, Luminance, Saturation (color system, DTP)

HLSL
     High Level Shader Language (DirectX)

HM
     HyperMemory (graphics)

HMA
     High Memory Area

HMAC
     keyed-Hashing for Message AuthentiCation (cryptography, RFC 2104),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2104.txt

HMC
     Hardware Management Console (IBM, Linux)

HMC
     Highspeed Memory Controller (Apple)

HMD
     Head Mounted Display (VR)

HMI
     Human-Machine Interface

HMMP
     HyperMedia Management Protocol (MS, Intel, Cisco, WWW, HMMS)

HMMS
     HyperMedia Management Schema (MS, Intel, Cisco, WWW)

HMOS
     High performance Metal Oxide Semiconductor (IC)

HMP
     Host Monitoring Protocol (RFC 869),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc869.txt

HMUX
     Hybrid MUltipleXer (FDDI), "H-MUX"

HNA
     Host and Network Association [message] (OLSR)

HNF
     Heinz Nixdorf Museumsforum (org., Paderborn, Germany)

HNI
     Heinz Nixdorf Institut (org., ZIT), http://hni.uni-paderborn.de

HOD
     Host On Demand (IBM, HOD)

HOL
     Head Of Line

HOLAP
     Hybrid OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP, DB)

HOMERF
     Home Radio Frequency (WLAN), "HomeRF"

HOOPS
     Hierarchical Object Orientated Picture System (Ithaca, cardesk,
     OOP)

HOP
     Homecast Open Protocol (WLAN, Alation Systems)

HOPP
     Half Object Plus Protocol

HOS
     High Order Surfaces (3D)

HP
     Hewlett Packard (manufacturer), http://www.hp.com,
     http://www.hewlett-packard.de

HPA
     High Performance Architecture (HP)

HPBIDS
     Hewlett Packard Broadband Internet Delivery System (HP, Internet),
     "HP BIDS"

HPC
     Handheld Personal Computer (PC), "H/PC"

HPC
     High Performance Computing

HPCC
     High Performance Computing and Communication

HPCS
     High Performance Communication Server (Tobit, NLM, Netware)

HPCS
     High Productivity Computing System (DARPA, Cray, IBM, Sun, ...)

HPET
     High Precision Event Timer (IC, Intel, MS)

HPF
     High Performance FORTRAN (FORTRAN)

HPFS
     High Performance FileSystem (OS/2)

HPGL
     Hewlett Packard Graphics Language (CAD, CAM, HP)

HPIB
     Hewlett Packard Interface Bus (GPIB)

HPLIP
     Hewlett Packard Linux Imaging and Printing (HP, Linux)

HPM
     Hyper Page Mode

HPMI
     Hewlett Packard Model Interface (CAD, HP), "HP-MI"

HPNA
     ???

HPOFS
     High Performance Optical File System (IBM, OS/2, MOD)

HPPA
     Hewlett Packard Precision Architecture (HP, RISC)

HPPCL
     Hewlett Packard Printer Control Language

HPPRM
     Hewlett Packard Process Resource Manager (HP), "HP PRM"

HPR
     High Performance Routing

HPR
     High Priority Request (VUMA)

HPRILOE
     ??? - Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition, "HP-RILOE"

HPS
     Hardware Product Services

HPS
     High Performance Switch (IBM)

HPTS
     High Performance Transaction Systems

HPUX
     Hewlett Packard / UniX (Unix), "HP/UX"

HPVEE
     Hewlett-Packard Visual Engineering Environment (HP, GUI), "HP VEE"

HPVUE
     Hewlett Packard - Visual User Environment (HP, GUI), "HP-VUE"

HQL
     Hibernate Query Language

HR
     High Rate (IEEE 802.11)

HRC
     Hybrid Ring Control (FDDI)

HRFWG
     Home Radio Frequency Working Group (WLAN, HOMERF),
     http://www.homerf.org

HRMS
     Human Resource Management System (Peoplesoft)

HRTF
     Head Related Transfer Function

HS
     High Speed (MODEM)

HSA
     Heterogenous Systems Architecture (AMD)

HSA
     High Speed Access

HSB
     Hue Saturation Brightness (DTP)

HSC
     Hierarchical Storage Controller

HSC
     HTML Sucks Completely (HTML, Amiga)

HSCDS
     High Speed Cable Data Services

HSCSD
     High Speed Circuit Switched Data (GSM, mobile-systems)

HSD
     Host Storage Domain (HDS)

HSDPA
     High Speed Downlink Packet Access (UMTS, HSUPA, mobile-systems)

HSDRAM
     High-speed Synchronous Random Access Memory (RAM, DRAM, IC)

HSFS
     High Sierra File System

HSI
     High Speed Interconnect (Nvidia, AGP, PCIe)

HSI
     High Speed Interface

HSI
     Hue, Saturation, Intensity (DTP)

HSIE
     Homeland Security Information Exchange (Expertelligence, Grid),
     "HS/IE"

HSIS
     ??? High Speed Interface / SNA, "HSI/S"

HSLAN
     High Speed Local Area Network, "HS-LAN"

HSLFX
     Hierarchical Specification Language - Function Extension (HDL,
     NTT, LSI), "HSL-FX"

HSLN
     High Speed Local Network

HSM
     Hardware Security Module (banking)

HSM
     Hardware Specific Module (ODI)

HSM
     Hierarchical Storage Management

HSM
     Hierarchisches SpeicherManagement

HSMD
     High Speed Mobile Data HSCSD, Germany, E-Plus

HSP
     [UUNet] HighSpeed Peering

HSP
     Host Signal Processing (telecommunication, WinModem)

HSR
     Hidden Surface Removal (3D)

HSRP
     Hot Standby Router Protocol (Cisco, IOS)

HSSDS
     High-Speed Switched Digital Service

HSSI
     High Speed Serial Interface

HSSM
     Hicommand Storage Services Manager (HDS)

HSSN
     HighSpeed Switching Network (Cray, ATM)

HST
     Hawaiian Standard Time [-1030] (TZ)

HST
     High Soft Tech (manufacturer, ISDN)

HST
     High Speed Technology (US Robotics)

HSUPA
     High Speed Uplink Packet Access (UMTS, HSDPA)

HSV
     	Hue Saturation Value (color system, DTP)

HT
     Horizontal Tab

HT
     Hyper-Threading (Intel, Pentium, SMT, CPU)

HTA
     HTML Applications (MS, HTML)

HTB
     Hierarchical Token Bucket

HTC
     Hardware Thermal Controller (AMD, IC, CPU)

HTC
     HTML Components (MS, OWA, WWW, HTML)

HTCPCP
     Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

HTDM
     Hybrid Time Division Multiplexing [protocol]

HTF
     Hyper-g Text Format (Hyper-G)

HTH
     Hope This Helps (slang)

HTML
     HyperText Markup Language (Internet, WWW, SGML, RFC 1866/1942,
     HTML), ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1942.txt,
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1866.txt,
     http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

HTPC
     Home Theater Personal Computer (PC)

HTPS
     High Temperature PolySilicon

HTSI
     Host Transport Service Interface (ICC, CT-API)

HTTP
     HyperText Transfer Protocol (WWW, RFC 2068/2616),
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2068.txt,
     ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2616.txt

HTTPD
     HyperText Transfer Protocol DAEMON (WWW, HTTP)

HTTPNG
     HyperText Transfer Protocol - Next Generation (WWW), "HTTP-NG"

HTTPR
     HyperText Transfer Protocol - Reliable (HTTP, IBM)

HTTPS
     HyperText Transfer Protocol [SSL] Secured (HTTP, SSL, WWW)

HUD
     Head-Up Display (AG)

HUGO
     Holland User Group for OS/2 (org., user group, OS/2, Netherlands)

HUMA
     Heterogenous Uniform Memory Access (PS4), "hUMA"

HUMAINE
     HUman-MAchine Interaction Network on Emotion [project] (Europe)

HURD
     HIRD of Unix-Replacing DAEMONs (GNU, HIRD)

HVC
     Holografic Versatile Card

HVC
     Hue-Value-Chroma [model] (Tektronic, DTP)

HVD
     High Voltage Differential [technology] (SCSI)

HVD
     Holografic Versatile Disc

HVD
     Hosted Virtual Desktop

HVM
     Hardware Virtual Machine

HWMC
     HardWare Motion Compensation

HYCH
     Hope You Can Help (slang, Usenet, IRC)

HYTEA
     HYperText Environment for Authoring (ESPRIT)

HYTIME
     Hypermedia/Time-based structuring language (SGML, ISO, IEC, IS
     10744), "HyTime"

HYTM
     HyTime Topic Map (SGML, KM), "HyTM"


