| ANSI | = | American National Standards Institute
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| BLOB | = | Binary Large Object
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| CISC | = | Complex Instruction Set Computer, such as VAX or original HP 3000
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| CRT | = | Cathode Ray Tube, generally any display terminal
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| CRC | = | Cyclic Redundancy Check, detect/correct transmission errors
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| DBA | = | Data Base Administrator
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| DCE | = | Distributed Computing Environment (OSF)
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| DSP | = | Digital Signal Processing
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| EDI | = | Electronic Data Interchange
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| FUD | = | Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
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| GUI | = | Graphical User Interface
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| IDE | = | Integrated Development Environment or Integrated Drive Electronics
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| IEEE | = | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, creators of 802.x standards
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| IPC | = | Inter-Process Communication
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| ISO | = | International Standards Organization
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| ISV | = | Independent Software Vendor
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| LCD | = | Liquid Crystal Display
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| PCL | = | Printer Control Language
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| RISC | = | Reduced Instruction Set Computer, as in Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC
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| RTFM | = | Read The Fine Manual
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| SCSI | = | Small Computer System Interface
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| SMP | = | Symmetric Multiprocessor
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| SQL | = | Structured Query Language, as in relational database
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| TLA | = | Three Letter Acronym |
| ACD | = | Access Control Definition, like UNIX ACL
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| AIF | = | Architected Interface Facility
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| CCTL | = | Carriage Control
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| CM | = | Compatiblity Mode
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| JCW | = | Job Control Word
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| MR | = | Multiple RIN or Multi-Record (as in NOBUF/MR)
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| NM | = | Native Mode
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| MPE | = | Multi-Programming Executive, as in MPE/iX, MPE/V, MPE/XL
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| NS/VT | = | Network Services/Virtual Terminal, HP 802.3 protocol
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| OCT | = | Object Code Translator
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| PID | = | Protection ID
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| PM | = | Privileged Mode capability
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| RIN | = | Resource Identification Number, used for locking
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| SD | = | Self-Describing, as in SD-file
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| TLB | = | Translation Lookaside Buffer
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| TPI | = | Third-Party Indexing, database interface to Omnidex and Superdex
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| UDC | = | User Defined Command
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| WUD | = | What's Up, DOCumentation?, newsletter from Robelle |
| ATM | = | Asyncronous Transfer Mode, or Automated Teller Machine
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| AUI | = | Attached Unit Interface
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| BNC | = | Bayonet-Neill-Concelman, connector for coaxial LAN cables
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| BPS | = | Bits Per Second
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| CCITT | = | Consultative Committee for International Telephony and Telegraphy
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| CSMA/CD | = | Carrier Sense, Multiple Access with Collision Detection, i.e., Ethernet
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| IPX | = | Internetwork Packet Exchange, low-level protocol of Novell Netware, on top of SPX
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| LAN | = | Local Area Network
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| LSL | = | Link Support Layer, Novell spec for multiple stacks
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| NDIS | = | Network Driver Interface Specification, interface between NIC and transport protocol
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| NIC | = | Network Interface Card
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| NOS | = | Network Operating System
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| ODI | = | Open Datalink Interface, Novell protocol-to-driver interface
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| OSI | = | Open Systems Interconnection, 7-layer model of ISO
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| RPC | = | Remote Procedure Call
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| SPX | = | Sequenced Packet Exchange, Novell proprietary protocol
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| UART | = | Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
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| WAN | = | Wide Area Network, like the Internet |
| ARPANet | = | Advanced Research Project Agency Network, precursor to Internet
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| CGI | = | Common Gateway Interface
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| DARPA | = | Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, creators of ARPANET
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| DNS | = | Domain Name System
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| FAQ | = | Frequently Asked Questions
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| HTML | = | HyperText Markup Language, used to create Web pages
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| ICCM | = | Inter-client Communications Conventions Manual, for X-clients
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| IMHO | = | In My Humble Opinion
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| ISP | = | Internet Service Provider
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| MIME | = | Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
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| NIC | = | Network Information Center, as in Internic
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| NIS | = | Network Information Service, aka Yellow Pages
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| POP | = | Point of Presence, also Post Office Protocol
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| PGP | = | Pretty Good Privacy
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| RFC | = | Request For Comments, like a specification
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| RPC | = | Remote Procedure Call
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| TIA | = | Thanks In Advance
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| URL | = | Universal Resource Locator, a way to find anything on WWW
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| WAIS | = | Wide Area Information Services
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| WWW | = | World Wide Web, hypertext access to the Internet |
| ARP | = | Address Resolution Protocol, maps Ethernet to TCP/IP
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| BOOTP | = | BOOT Protocol
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| FTP | = | File Transfer Protocol
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| IP | = | Internet Protocal, often seen in TCP/IP
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| HTTP | = | HyperText Transport Protocol, used in the World Wide Web
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| ICMP | = | Internet Control Message Protocol, low-level of TCP/IP
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| NNTP | = | Network News Transport Protocol
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| NTP | = | Network Time Protocol
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| POP | = | Post Office Protocol, also Point of Presence
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| PPP | = | Point-to-Point Protocol
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| RARP | = | Reverse ARP, find IP address from physical
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| SLIP | = | Serial Line Internet Protocol
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| SMTP | = | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
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| SNAP | = | SubNetwork Access Protocol, use of IP datagrams and ARP on IEEE networks
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| SNMP | = | Simple Network Management Protocol
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| TCP | = | Transmission Control Protocol
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| TELNET | = | Remote Terminal Protocol
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| TFTP | = | Trivial File Transfer Protocol
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| UDP | = | User Datagram Protocol |
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