General Acronyms.

The following is a list of Acronyms you may come across in general Day-to-Day (Computer) use.

Included in the list are also a few items that are not strictly Acronyms, but it was felt that they should be included to cover those that are Abbreviations or commonly-accepted names. eg Bit stands for (B)inary dig(it), whereas an Acronym for Binary Digit would be 'BD'.

Though we don't want to start nit-picking, do we?

Following some of the explanatory text may be a word enclosed in brackets (). This is to give a slightly better idea of context of such Acronyms, eg. MS - Multi-Sync (Monitor).

In other cases it may give the normal use of the word, where lower-case is used instead of the normal Acronym upper-case eg. PInG - Packet Internet Groper (Ping).

There are a number of other occasions when you will find another word enclosed in brackets, but these are self-explanatory.

There are 1 or 2 items that have no definite meaning yet. These are denoted by a '?' and will be updated as soon as possible.

The listing only contains the definition of each Acronym, and no additional information.

This is not a 100% complete listing as yet, however, more will be added as they are received/found. Thanks to everyone who has/will contribute(d).

This listing just gives a definition of the Acronym itself, with no explanatory text. For a full definition (if available) please see the Glossary.

Quick Jump Index.

From here you can jump to the relevant section in this document by clicking on the appropriate letter.

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A/V

Audio/Visual.

AA

Associative Arrays (PERL Programming).

AACT

Acorn Approved Centre of Technology.

AAUC

Arche ACORN User Club (Germany).

AAUG

Association of Acorn User Groups.

ABE

Acorn Banner Exchange (Web Group).

ADB

Apple Desktop Bus (Mac Hardware).

ADN Advanced Digital Network.

ACCU

Association of C and C++ Users (Club).

ACE

Acorn Computer Enterprises (Company) or

Advanced Computing Enviroment or

Filetype for Movie-file (RISC-OS).

ACG

Acorn Computer Group.

ACL

Auto Correct List (Filetype extension .ACL).

ACM

Audio Compression Manager (Software - Windows 95/98/NT).

ACPI

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface.

ADF

Automatic Document Feeder (Scanners).

ADFS

Advanced Disc Filing System.

ADO

Active/ActiveX Data Object (DataBase).

ADPCM

Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (Sound).

ADSL

Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line (Comms) or

Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Loop (Comms).

ADY

Abstract Data Type (OOP Class).

AGP

Accelerated/Advanced Graphics Port.

AI

Artificial Intelligence.

AIM

Another Image Manager.

AMAN

Advanced Modular Adaptive Network (Software).

AMBA

Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture.

AMD

Advanced Micro Devices (Company).

AMEL

Active Matrix Electro-Luminescent (Display Technology).

AMP

Attached Media Processor (MPEG Decoding).

ANS

Acorn News Service (Mailing List).

ANSI

American National Standards Institute.

ANT

Acorn Networking Technology? (Company).

AOF

Acorn Object Format (Data Storage).

AOL

America On-Line (ISP).

APCS

?

APDL

Archimedes Public Domain Library.

API

Application Program Interface (Programming).

APL

A Programming Language. Name for an Interpreted Programming Language.

APM

Advanced Power Management.

APS

Advanced Photo System (Digital Cameras).

ArcFS

Archive Filing System (RISC-OS (ArcFS2)).

ARM

Acorn RISC Machine or

Advanced Risc Machines Ltd. (The Company).

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol.

ARPANet

Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.

ART

Acorn RISC Technologies.

ASC

Auto Size & Centering (Monitors).

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

ASIC

Application Specific Integrated Circuit.

ASP

Association of Shareware Professionals (USA?).

ASPI

Advanced SCSI Programming Interface.

AT

Advanced Technology.

ATA

Advanced Technology Attachment.

ATAPI

Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface.

ATDT

ATtention Dial Tone dialing (Modem).

ATL

Active Template Library (DTP/Programming).

ATM

Applied Technologies Manufacturing (Company) or

Asynchronous Transfer Method/Mode (Comms).

ATMC

Asynchronous Transfer Mode Chip aka ATM Chip.

ATOMM

Advanced super-Thin layer and high Output Metal Media technology (Disc Technology).

AU

Acorn User (magazine).

AUCE

Advisory Unit for Computers in Education.

AUN

Acorn Universal Networking.

AUP

Acceptable Use Policy.

AV aka A/V

Audio Visual.

AVA

Audio Visual Aid.

AW

Archimedes World (magazine).

AWxx

Acorn World Computer Show. eg. AW97.

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BABT

British Approvals Board for Telecomunications.

BACC

British Association of Computer Clubs.

BARUG

Bristol Acorn Risc User Group.

BASH

Bourne Again SHell (Processing - LINUX).

BASIC

Beginner's All-purpose Symbol/Symbolic Instruction Code.

(B)AU

(BBC) Acorn User (magazine).

BAUG

Bottisham Acorn Users Group.

BBS

Bulletin Board Service/System.

BCC

Blind Carbon Copy (Email), or

British Computer Society.

BCD

Binary Coded Decimal.

BDB

British Digital Broadcasting (Company).

BDC

Backup Domain Controller (Data Backup).

BDE

Borland Database Engine (aka IDAPI).

BDS

Business Dial-up Service (Demon ISP).

BDT

BASIC Debugging Tool (RISC-OS Software).

BDU

Business Dial Up (Service).

BEDO

Burst Extended Data Out.

BETT

British Education Teaching Technology.

BHP

Brutal Horse Power (Game).

BIB

British Interactive Broadcasting (Digital TV).

BIOS

Basic Input/Output System.

Bit

(B)inary dig(it).

BITNet

Because It's Time Network (Bitnet).

BJ

Bubble-Jet (Printer).

BMP

Basic Multi-Lingual Plane (Character Encoding - Fonts).

BNC

Bayonet Network Connector/Connection.

BOW

Birds Of War (Game).

BPP

Bits Per Pixel (Bpp).

BPS

Bits Per Second (bps).

BRI

Basic Rate ISDN.

BSA

Business Software Alliance.

BUS

Broadcast and Unknown Server (Networking).

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CA

Certificate Authority (Body).

CAD

Computer Aided Design.

CAD/CAM

Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacturing process.

CAL

Client Access Licence (Networking), or

Computer Aided Learning.

CAP

Carrierless Amplitude Phase (Comms).

CASE

Computer Aided Software Engineering (Programming).

CAUCE

Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email.

CAUSE

Campaign Against Un-Solicited Email

CAUG

C Acorn Users Group.

CAUG

Christian Acorn User Group.

CAV

Constant Angular Velocity (CD-ROMs).

CBCP

Call Back Control Protocol.

CBF

Computer Based Fax (Hardware).

CBT

Computer Based Training.

CC

Carbon Copy (Email), or

Computer Concepts (Company).

CCA

Cable Communications Association.

CCD

Charge-Coupled Display (Display Technology).

CCP

Compression Control Protocol.

CCS

Creative Curriculum Software (Company).

CCTA

Central Computer Telecommunications Agency.

CCU

Computer Crime Unit.

CD

Compact Disc.

CD-DA

CD-Digital Audio (Red Book format).

CD-R

CD-Recordable.

CD-R FS

CD-Recordable File/Filing System.

CD-ROM

CD-Read Only Memory (Yellow Book Format).

CD-ROM XA

CD-ROM eXtended Architecture aka Yellow Book eXtended Architecture.

CD-RW

CD-ReWritable.

CDE

CD Extra (CD Format) aka Multi-Media CD's.

CDFS

CD Filing System.

CDMA

Code Devision Multiple Access (Comms).

CDP

CD Plus (CD Blue Book Standard) aka ECD.

CDSL

Consumer Digital Subscriber Line aka Consumer DSL (Rockwell Comms System).

CDT

Cambridge Display Technology (Company) or

Craft, Design and Technology.

CERT

Computer Emergency Response Team.

CES

Consumer Electronics Show (US Annual Show).

CF

Compact Flash (Digital Camera Memory Card).

CFI

Campaign for Freedom of Information (Internet).

CFS

Compression Filing System.

CFSFC

Campaign For Smaller Faster Code (Group).

CFSI

Change Floyd Steinberg Integer (RISC-OS ChangeFSI).

CGI

Common Gateway Interface (Networking).

CHAP

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (Comms).

CHM

Compiled HtMl (HTML Help-files).

CIRC

Cross Interleaved Reed-solomon Code.

CISC

Complex Instruction Set Computer/Chip.

CIX

Commercial Internet eXchange or

Compulink Information eXchange.

CK

Concept Keyboard.

CL

Command Line.

CLA

Copyright Licensing Association.

CLAIT

Computer Literacy And Information Technology (IT).

CLI

Call Line Identification aka Caller ID (Comms) or

Command Line Interpreter.

CM

Crop Mark(s)(Printing).

CMOS

Complimentary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor or

Configuration Memory Operating System.

CMS

Colour Management System (Printers).

CMYK

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (Printer Colours).

CNC

Computer Numeric Controlled (Control System).

CNN

Cable News Network (USA).

COAST

Cache On A STick.

COLT

City Of London Telecommunications.

COM

Common Object Modem.

CORE

Committee Of REgistration.

CoT

Centre of Technology.

CPAN

Comprehensive PERL Archive Network.

CPI

Characters Per Inch (cpi).

CPS

Characters Per Second (cps) or

Copyright Protection System or

Cycles Per Second (cps).

CPU

Central Processing Unit.

CRA

Credit Reference Agency (Purchasing).

CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check.

CRT

Cathode Ray Tube (Monitors).

CS

Cable Select (Drive Jumper) or

Certificate Server (Software)

CSD

Current Selected/Set Directory, or

Current Storage Device.

CSF

Computer Suppliers Federation.

CSH

Cambridgeshire Software House.

CSLIP

Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol.

CSMA/CD

Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection (Comms).

CSP

Commerce Solution Provider (Commercial Version of ISP) or

Communicating Sequential Processes (Programming).

CSS

Cascading Style Sheet (Web-page Authoring).

CSSA

Computing Services and Software Association.

CSV

Comma Separated Variables/Values.

CTA

Curriculum Training Associates (CTA Direct - Company).

CUA

Common User Access (Interface).

CVU

Corel-draw and Ventura Users (Club).

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DAB

Digital Audio Broadcasting (Comms).

DAC

Digital (to) Analog Convertor.

DAD

Digital Audio Disk (CD Type).

DAEMon

Disc And Execution Monitor.

DAM

Digital Audio and MIDI (Sequencer).

DAO

Data Access Objects (Data Storage).

DAP

Distributed Array Processor (Parallel Computer System).

DARC

Derbyshire Acorn RISC Club.

DART

Digital Audio Restoration Technology.

DAS

Distributed Application Server (Networking).

DAT

Digital Audio Tape aka R-DAT (Device).

DAVIC

Digital Audio VIsual Council (Geneva).

DAW

Digital Audio Workstation.

DB

Data-Base or

Daughter-Board or

Decibel aka db.

DBMS

DataBase Management System.

DCC

Digital Compact Cassette (Storage medium from Phillips).

DCE

Data Communication Equipment (Networking).

DCI

Driver Control Interface (Acorn's).

DCT

Discrete Cosine Transformation (MPEG Compression Technique).

DD

Disc-Drive or

Double Density (Floppy-disc).

DDE

Dynamic Data Exchange.

DDF

Document Description Format.

DDL

Direct Drive Laser (Printer).

DDT

Digital Data Transfer (Comms).

DEBI

DMA Extended Bus Interface.

DEC

Digital Equipment Corporation (Company).

DECT

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephony (Comms).

DEK

Data Encryption Key.

DELTT

Double Electron Layer Tunnelling Transistor (Chip Development).

DES

Data Encryption Standard.

DFP

Digital Flat Panel (Monitor Connector Type).

DHS

Dynamic Horizontal Scaling (Fonts RISC-OS).

DHTML

Dynamic Hyper Text Mark-up Language aka Dynamic HTML (Web Authoring).

DIB

Dual Independant Bus.

DIC

Data Integrity Check (Error checking).

DIL

Dual In Line.

DIM

Document Image Management (DTP).

DIMM

Dual In-line Memory Module.

DIP

Document Image Processing or

Dual In-line Package switch (aka Dip-switch).

DISL

Demon Information Services Ltd.

DL

Data-Link or

Down-Load.

DLC

Data Link Control (Serial Protocol).

DLL

Dynamic Link Library.

DLP

Digital Light Processing/Processor (Chip - Display Technology).

DMA

Data Management Area (Orange Book CDs) or

Direct Memory Access (Data Transfer).

DMD

Digital Micro-mirror Device/Display (Display Technology).

DME

Direct Memory Execute.

DMI

Desktop Management Interface (Networking).

DMT

Discrete Multi-Tone (Comms).

DNA

Digital Network Appliance.

DNS

Domain Name Server/System.

DOA

Dead On Arrival (Hardware).

DOCSIS

Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (Comms).

DOD

Drop on Demand (Printers).

DOM

Document Object Model (Web Authoring).

DOS

Disc Operating System.

DOSFS

DOS Filing System (Software).

DP

Dan Peripherals (Company).

DPA

Differential Power Analysis (Smart-Card Technology).

DPI

Dots Per Inch aka dpi (Printer).

DPMA

Dymamic Power Management Architecture.

DPMS

Display Power Management Signalling.

DPOB

Dual Processor Open Bus.

DPRAM

Dual Port RAM (aka VRAM).

DR-DOS

Digital Research - Disc Operating System.

DRAM

Dynamic Random Access Memory aka Dynamic RAM.

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line (Comms).

DSO

Data Source Object (Web page authoring).

DSP

Digital Signal Processor/Processing.

DT

Display Technology.

DTD

Document Type Definition (File-Type).

DTE

Data Terminal Equipment (Networking).

DTP

DeskTop Publishing.

DTMF

Dual Tone Multi Frequency (Comms).

DTT

Digital Terrestial Television.

DTV

? American DVD Standard.

DUN

Dial-Up Networking (Comms) aka NT DUN.

DVB

Digital Video Broadcasting (Card).

DVD

Digital Versatile Disc or

Digital Video Disc or

Digital Video Display.

DVD RAM

CD ReWritable (CD Type).

DVD-RW

Digital Versatile Disc-ReWritable (CD's).

DVE

Digital Video Effect (Video Editing).

DVI

DeVice Independant (Programming).

DW

Daisy-Wheel (Printer).

DWD

DrawWorks Designer (Software).

DXF

Drawing eXchange Format.

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E&OE

Errors & Omissions Excluded (Advertising disclaimer).

EASI

Extended Acorn System Inferface.

EAUG

Essex Acorn User Group.

EBCDIC

Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code.

ECC

Error Correction Codes (CD's).

ECD

Enhanced CD (CD Blue Book Standard) aka CDP.

ECMA

European Computer Manufacturers' Association (Standards Body).

ECP

Enhanced Capabilities Port (Comms) or

Error Correction Protocol (Modems).

ECS

Electronic Control Services (Company).

EDFL

Erbium Doped Fibre Lasers (Comms).

EDO RAM

Enhanced/Extended Data Out/Output RAM.

EDRAM

Enhanced DRAM.

EDS

Electronic Data Service (On-line purchasing).

EEPROM

Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory.

EFF

Electronic Font Foundry (Company) or

Electronic Frontier Foundation.

EFM

Eight to Fourteen Modulation aka 8/14M.

EGA

Enhanced Graphics Adaptor.

EIDE

Enhanced/Extended Integrated Drive Electronics.

EIO

Enhanced Input/Output (Printers).

EISA

Extended Industry Standard Architecture.

EISP

European Internet Service Provider.

ELS

Electronic Lodgement Service (Electronic Data Filing).

ELSPA

European Leisure Software Publishers Association.

EMACS

Editor MACroS.

EMM

Expanded Memory Manager (DOS).

EPIC

Explicitly Parallel Instruction-set Computing (64-bit compiler).

EPP

Enhanced Parallel Port.

EPROM

Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory.

EPS

Encapsulated PostScript.

ERU

Emergency Rescue Utility (Windows 95 Software).

ESC/P

Epson Standard Code for Printers.

ESD

Education Software and Devices (Company NZ).

ESDI

Enhanced Small Device Interface.

ESM

Electrical Systems Management Ltd (Company).

ESP

Expressive Software Projects (Company).

ETRI

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Korea).

ETRN

?

EULA

End User Licence Agreement.

EUNet

European UseNet.

EUV

Extreme Ultra-Violet (Processor Technology).

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions.

FAST

Federation Against Software Theft.

FAT

File Allocation Table (DOS) or

Free Action Technology (Interface).

Fax

Facsimile (abbr for Facs).

FC

Fibre Channel (Hard Disc Technology).

FD

Floppy Disc/Drive.

FDD

Floppy Disc Drive.

FDDI

Fibre Distributed Data Interface (Networking).

FE

Further Education.

FED

Field Emission Display (Display Technology).

FG(s)

Fantasy Game(s).

FIFO

First In First Out.

FIR

Fast Infra-Red (Device type).

FIT

Fingerprint Identification Technology (Security Device).

FLOPS

FLoating-point Operations Per Second (Processing Speed).

FMV

Full Motion Video.

FP

Floating Point or

Full Product (Software).

FPA

Floating Point Accelerator.

FPE

Floating Point Emulator.

FPGA

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (Hardware Chips).

FPM

Fast Page Mode.

FPN

Floating Point Numbers.

FPS

Frames Per Second (fps).

FPU

Floating Point Unit (aka FPA).

FQDN

Fully Qualified Domain Name.

FrAUG

French Acorn User Group.

FS

Filing system.

FSF

Free Software Federation/Foundation.

FST

Flat Screen Technology (Monitors) or

Flatter Squarer Tube (Monitors).

FSU

Film Scanning Unit (Scanners).

FTP

File Transfer Protocol/Program.

FW

Free-Ware.

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GAG

German Archimedes Group.

Gb

Gigabyte (1024 Mb).

GBP

Great British Pounds (Usenet).

GDBM

Gnu Data Base Manager aka gdbm (PERL).

GDI

Graphics Device Interface.

GFLOPS

Giga (1000 million) FLoating-point Operations Per Second (Processing Speed).

GID

Group IDentification.

GIF

Graphics Image/Interchange Format.

GIMPS

Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (Internet Project).

GLV

Grating Light Value (Display Technology).

GM

General Midi.

GMR

Giant Magneto Resistive (Hard Drive Head Technology).

GNAT

GNU Ada Translator.

GNKSAU

Good NetKeeping Seal of Approval for Usenet.

GNU

Gnu's Not Unix.

GPF

General Protection Fault (Windows).

GPIB

General Purpose Interface Bus.

GPRS

General Packet Radio System (Comms).

GPS

Global Positioning System (Comms).

GRINS

GRaphical INterface for SMIL (SMIL Player and Authoring Enviroment - SPAE).

GROD

Graphically Rich Online Documents.

GSA

General Storage Area (Orange Book CDs).

GSSP

Global System Service Provider (Comms).

GTF

General Timing Format (Display Technology).

GUI

Graphical User Interface.

GZIP

Gnu Zip.

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HCCS

? (Company)

HCI

Human Computer Interaction (Interface).

HD

Hard Disc/Drive or

High Definition (Monitors) or

High Density (Floppy-discs).

HDD

Hard Disc Drive.

HDML

Handheld Device Markup Language (Web Authoring).

HDSL

High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line/Loop (Comms).

HDTV

High Definition TV.

HENSA

Higher Education National Software Archives.

HFC

Hybrid Fibre/Coaxial (Network cables).

HLL

High Level Language.

HMTC

Hampshire MicroTechnology Centre (Company).

HP

Hewlett Packard (Company).

HPA

High Performance Addressing (Programming).

HPC

Handheld PC.

HPIB

Hewlett Packard Interface Bus.

HSP

Host System Processing (Comms).

HSV

Hue Saturation Value.

HTML

Hyper-Text Markup Language.

HTTP

Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol, or

Hyper-Text Transport Protocol.

HW

HardWare.

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IA

Information Area (Orange Book CDs).

IAB

Internet Architecture Board (Internet Regulatory Body).

IAHC

International Ad-Hoc Committee.

IANA

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (Committee).

IBM

International Business Machines (Company).

ICA

Independant Computing Architecture previously Intelligent Console Architecture(Citrix Systems).

ICD

Installable Client Driver (3D Graphics).

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol.

ICSI

?

ICT

Information Communication Technology.

ICU

Intel Configuration Utility.

ID

IDentification or

Interactive Demo (Software).

IDC

Insulation Displacement Connector or

International Data Corporation.

IDE

Integrated Development Enviroment or

Integrated/Intelligent Drive Electronics.

IDEFS

IDE Filing System.

IE4

Internet Explorer 4.

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (USA).

IEEEI

IEEE Interface.

IESG

Internet Engineering Steering Body (Internet Regulatory Body).

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force aka IETFIP (Internet Regulatory Body).

IF

Input Focus, or

Interactive Fiction, or

InterFace (I/F).

IFEL

? (Company).

IFS

Installable File System.

II

Intelligent Interface.

IIC(I2C)

Intelligent Interface Controller ?

IIS

Internet Information Server/Service.

IJ

Ink-Jet (Printer).

IK

Inverse Kinematix (Animation).

IKHG

International Keyboard Handler Generator.

IL

Inter-Lace.

ILS

Integrated Learning System.

IMAP

Internet Mail Access Protocol.

IMC

Insight Management Console (Network Monitor).

IMF

International Monetary Fund (Development backing etc).

IMIS

Institute for the Management of Information Services.

IMS

Innovative Media Solutions (Company).

IMT 2000

International Mobile Telephony 2000.

IO

Input/Output (I/O).

IOC

Input/Output Controller (I/OC).

IOMD

Input/Output Memory Device.

ION

Integrated On-demand Network (Software).

IOP

Input/Output Podule/Port (I/O Podule/Port).

IP

Image Processing or

Information Provider or

Intellectual Property (Copyright Law) or

Internet Protocol or

Internet Provider.

IPA

Internet Provider Address.

IPCP

Internet Provider Control Protocol.

IPL

Internet Public Library.

IPS

Internet Protocol Suite.

IPTC

Internet Privider Telephony Carriers (Comms).

IPX/SPX

Internet Packet eXchange/Sequence-packed Protocol eXchange (Network communication Protocol).

IPXCP

Internet Provider X Control Protocol.

IRC

Internet Relay Chat.

IRCX

Internet Relay Chat eXtended (Comms).

IrDA

Infra-red Data Association (Comms).

IrDL

Infra-red Data Link (Networking).

IRQ

Interrupt ReQuest (Programming).

ISA

Industry Standard Architecture.

ISA Bus

Industry Standard Architecture Bus. (aka AT Bus)

ISAM

Indexed Sequential Access Method (DataBase Library).

ISCA

Information Society Creativity Award(s).

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network.

ISDN BRI

ISDN Basic Rate Interface (Comms)

ISDN PRI

ISDN Primary Rate Interface (Comms).

ISO

International Standards Organisation.

ISOC

Internet SOCiety (Internet Regulatory Body).

ISP

Internet Service Provider.

IST

Imperial Software Technology (Company).

ISV

Independant Software Vendor.

IT

Information Technology.

ITA

International Telegraph Alphabet.

ITNTO

Information Technology National Training Organisation.

ITU

International Telecommunications Union.

IWF

Internet Watch Foundation.

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JACL

Java Application Control Language.

JANet

Joint Academic Network (Janet).

JAR

Java ARchive (File-type).

JASPER

JAva SPectrum EmulatoR (Jasper).

JCL

JAVA Compiled Language.

JDK

Java Development Kit.

JEDEC

Joint European ?

JFC

Java Foundation Classes (Programming).

JNDI

JAVA Naming and Directory Interface (JAVA Programming).

JNI

Java Native Interface.

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group.

JRE

Java Runtime Enviroment.

JS

Java Script (Language) or

JoyStick.

JUGGL

JAVA User Group in Greater London (Club).

JVM

Java Virtual Machine.

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KA9Q

Another name for !TCPIP.

Kb

Kilobyte (1024 bytes).

Kbd

Keyboard.

KDE

K Desktop Enviroment (Linux).

KNI

KATMAI New Instructions (Programming).

KS1,KS2

Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, etc.

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LAN

Local Area Network.

LANE

LAN Emulation (Networking).

LAUC

Liverpool Acorn Users Club.

LAUG

Liverpool Acorn Users Group.

LBA

Logical Block Access (PC BIOS Mode).

LBM

Letter-Box Mode(s).

LC

Lower-Case (letters).

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display (Monitors/Screens).

LCP

Link Control Protocol.

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (Networking))

LDR

Light Dependant Resistor.

LDT

Local Descriptor Table (Application Segments - Windows 95).

LEA

Local Education Authority.

LECC

Layered Error Correction Code (CDs).

LECS

LAN Emulation Configuration Server (Networking).

LED

Light Emitting Diode.

LEG

Liverpool (Acorn) Enthusiasts Group.

LEO

Low Earth Orbit (Sattelites/Comms)

LEP

Light Emitting Polymers (Display Technology).

LES

LAN Emulation Server (Networking).

LFAU

Large File Allocation Unit.

Li

Lithium-ion (Battery Type).

LINX

London INternet eXchange.

LJ

Laser-Jet (Printer).

LL

Leased Line.

LLL

Low-Level Language.

LP

Limited Product (Software).

LPI

lines per inch aka lpi (Scanning).

LRU

Least Recently Used (Windows Memory Segment).

LSF

Line Screen Frequency (Scanning).

LSI

Large-Scale Integration (Chips).

LTO

Linear Tape Open (Tape Standard).

LUI

Language User Interface (Speech Recognition).

LUT

Look-Up Table.

LUTDAC

Look-Up Table Digital - Analogue Converter (Graphics Display)

LVDS

Low Voltage Differential Signalling (Digital Data Transfer).

LZW

Lempel-Ziv-Welch (Data Compression Technique).

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MAD

Microsoft's Active Directory.

MAME

Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

MAPI

Mail Application Programming Interface (MS Mail), or

Messaging Application Programming Interface (Networking).

MAPS

Mail Abuse Protection Scheme.

MAUG

Manchester Acorn User Group.

MAW

Microsoft At Work.

Mb

Megabyte (1024 Kb).

MB

Mother-Board.

MBC

Micro Business Computers Ltd (Company).

Mbit/s

Megabits/sec.

MBR

Master Boot Record (Windows NT).

MCD

Mini Client Driver (3D Graphics).

MCIS

Microsoft Commercial Internet System.

MCN

Micro Cellular Network (Comms).

MCNS

Multimedia Cable Network Systems (Comms).

MCP

Microsoft Certified Professional (Qualification).

MCSD

Microsoft Certified System Developer (Certificate).

MD

Mini-Disc.

MDA

Message Digest Algorithm.

MDF

Monitor Definition File (RISC-OS).

MDFS

Multi/Multiple Disc Filing System ?

MDI

Multi Document Interface (DTP).

MDT

Micron Display Technology (Display Technology).

ME

Memory Express (Company) or

Message Express (Software).

MEM

Micro-Electrical Mechanical (Device Type).

MEMC

MEMory Controller.

MEMS

Micro Electro-Mechanical System.

MESS

Multi Emulator Super System (Games Emulator).

MEU

Multimedia Expansion Unit.

MFLOPS

Million FLoating-point Operations Per Second (Processing Speed).

MFM

Modified Frequency Modulation (Comms).

MFP

Multi Function Peripheral (Device).

MFT

Master File Table (Data storage).

MHz

MegaHertz (Millions of cycles per second).

MIDI

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (Midi).

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.

MIPS

Million Instructions Per Second.

MIRC

Microsoft Internet Relay Chat (Software).

MJPEG

Motion JPEG (Video).

MKAUG

Milton Keynes Acorn User Group.

MM

Mail-Merge or

Mixed Mode (CD Format) or

Multi-Media.

MMC

Microsoft Management Console (Networking Software).

MMO

Mobile Module Option (Notebook Processor Hardware).

MMU

Memory Management Unit.

MNP

Microcom Network Protocol.

MO

Magneto-Optical (CD Drive Technology).

Modem

Mo(dulator)dem(odulator).

MOPier

Multiple Original Printer.

MPC

Multimedia Personal Computer.

MPEG

Motion Picture Experts Group.

MR

Magneto Resistive (Hard-Disk Head Technology).

MRT

Magnetic Resonance Tomography (Digital Imaging).

MRX

Magneto Resistive eXtended (Hard Drive Technology).

MS

Micro-Soft or

Multi-Sync (Monitor).

Ms

Milliseconds.

MS-DOS

Micro-Soft Disc Operating System.

MSDF

Multi Step Dynamic Focus (Display Technology).

MSIE

Micro-Soft Internet Explorer.

MSN

MicroSoft Network (Comms).

MT

Multi-Tasking.

MTBF

Mean Time Between Failure.

MTD

Memory Technology Driver.

MTS

Microsoft Transaction Server (Networking).

MUD

Multi-User Dimension or

Multi User Dungeons (and Dragons).

MUG

Multi-user Game.

MUSE

Multi-User Simulated Environment.

MVL

Multiple Virtual Line (Comms).

MYOB

Mind Your Own Business (PC Software).

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NA

Net Accelerator (Internet Software).

NAACE

National Association of Advisors for Computers in Education.

NAC

Network Adapter Card.

NAL

Novell Application Launcher.

NAP

Network Access Port.

NASB

New American Standard Bible (Software).

NAT

Network Address Translation (Networking).

NBCP

Net BEUI Control Protocol.

NC

Network Computer.

NCC

National Computing Centre.

NCD

Network Computing Devices (Company).

NCET

National Council for Education Technology.

NCI

Network Computer Incorporated (Oracle).

NCI EMEA

NCI Europe, Middle East, Africa affiliate.

NCP

Netware Control Protocol (Networking).

NCSA

National Computer Security Association (USA).

NDA

Non-Disclosure Agreement.

NDPS

Netware Distributed Print Services (Networking Printers).

NDS

Netware/Network Directory Services (Comms) aka MS NDS or

Novell Directory Service (Networking).

NetBEUI

Net BIOS Extended User Interface (Networking - WFW).

NFC

Network Facility Centre.

NFS

Network Filing System.

NG

NewsGroup (ng).

NGFL

National Grid For Learning (Education) aka NGL.

NGL

National Grid for Learning (IT) aka NGFL.

NIC

Network Information Center or

Network Interface Card aka Adapter (Networking).

NiCad

Nickel Cadmium (Battery type).

NIE

Newspapers in Education.

NiMH

Nickel Metal Hydride (Battery-type).

NLM

Netware Loadable Modules (Networking).

NLQ

Near Letter Quality.

NMBC

Nihon Mobile Broadcasting Company.

NNTP

Network News Transfer Protocol.

NorTel

Northern Telecom (Nortel).

NOS

Network Operating System (Software).

NRC

Norwich Computer Services.

NS

Name Server or

Network Series (Seagate Travan Technology) or

NetScape.

NSA

National Security Agency.

NSF

National Science Foundation.

NT

New Technology (As in Windows NT).

NTI

Network Terminating Interface (Hardware).

NTL

National Transcommunications Limited (Company).

NTP

Network Time Protocol.

NWLCC

North West London Computer Club.

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OAW

Optically Assisted Winchester (Data storage technology).

OCR

Optical Character Recognition.

ODB

Open Digital Broadcast (Comms-Intel).

ODBC

Open DataBase Connectivity (Data Storage).

OEM

Original Equipment Manufacturer.

OHP

OverHead Projector (Display Technology).

OHP Tablet

OverHead Projector Tablet.

OLAP

On-Line Analytical Processing.

OLE

Object Linking and Embedding.

OLED

Organic Light Emitting Diode (Display Technology).

OLEDB

Object Linking and Embedding DataBase aka OLE DataBase (Data Storage).

OLR

Off-Line Reader.

OM

Online Media.

OMR

Optical Mark Reader.

OO

Object Orientation (Programming Languages).

OOL

Object Orientated Language.

OOP

Object Oriented Programming.

OPI

Open Pre-press Interface (DTP).

ORB

Object Request Block (Networking Software).

ORL

Olivetti Research Labs.

OS

Operating System.

OSCLI

Operating System Command Line Interpreter.

OSD

On-Screen Display (Monitors).

OT

Ordering Tables (Programming).

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P&D

Plug & Display (Graphics Cards/Monitors).

P&P

Plug & Play (Hardware).

P-POP

Plain-Paper Optimised Printing (Printers).

PAP

Password Authentication Protocol.

PAS

Publicly Available Specification.

PBII

PocketBook 2.

PBM

Portable Bit-Map (Files).

PC

Personal Computer.

PCA

Personal Computer Association or

Plug-in Compliant Application or

Power-Check Area ? (Orange Book CDs)

PCB

Printed Circuit Board.

PCCard

PC Emulator(2nd Processor) Card (Hardware).

PCECard

PC Expansion Card (Hardware).

PCEm

PC Emulator (Software).

PCI

Peripheral Component Interconnect.

PCM

Pulse Code Modulation (Sound-File format).

PCMCIA

? (Notebook expansion Card).

PD

Playable Demo (Software) or

Public Domain (Software).

PDA

Personal Digital Assistant (Palmtops etc).

PDF

Portable Document Format (DTP Filetype).

PDP

Plasma Display Panel (Display Technology).

PEM

Privacy Enhanced Mail.

PERL

Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister or

Practical Extraction and Report Language.

PET

Positron Emission Tomography (Digital Imaging).

PFUNS

Public Facing Unsupported News Server (Internet).

PGP

Pretty Good Privacy.

PGY

Post Graduate Year (PGY-1, PGY-2 etc).

PIC

Programmable Integrated Circuit (Hardware).

PICS

Platform for Internet Content Selection (W3 Net Monitoring Program).

PIE

Pocket Internet Explorer (Comms).

PIF

Program Information File (Windows).

PIM

Personal Information Manager/Management (eg Electronic notebook).

PInG

Packet Internet Groper (Ping).

PIO

Programmed Input Output (Data Transfer).

PIOM

Programmed Input Output Mode aka PIO Mode.

PKC

Public Key Cryptography.

PM

Post-Master.

PMC

Personal Mobile Communicator.

PNG

Portable Network Graphics (File-Type).

PNS

Public News Server.

POC

Policy Oversight Committee.

PoP

Point of Presence.

POP/POP3

Post Office Protocol.

POST

Power-On Self Test (BIOS Routine).

POTS

Plain Old Telephony Service (The telephone).

PP

Parallel Port or

Parallel Processor.

PPP(P3)

Point to Point Protocol aka P3.

PRAM

Parameter RAM.

PRI

Primary Rate ISDN.

PRM

Programmers Reference Manual(s).

PRML

Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (Hard Drive Technology).

PS

Post-Script (Printer).

PSF

Point Spread Function (Graphics).

PSK

Phase Shift Keying.

PSU

Power Supply Unit.

PTO

Patent and Trademark Office (US Govt).

PUA

Private Use Area.

PVC

Permanent Virtual Circuits (Networking).

PW

PassWord (pw).

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QoS

Quality of Service.

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R&D

Research & Development.

RA

Real Audio.

RAD

Rapid Application Development (Programming).

RAID

Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Discs (Data backup system).

RAM

Random Access Memory.

RAMDAC

Random Access Memory Digital to Anolog Converter.

RAMDACC

RAMDAC Chip (Monitors)

RAMFS

RAM Filing System.

RARP

Reverse Address Resolution Protocol.

RAS

Remote Access Server (Networking).

RBL

Realtime Blackhole List.

RCFoC

Rapidly Changing Face of Computing (Journal).

RCI

R-Comp Interactive (Company).

RCS

Revision Control System (Software).

RD

Rolling Demo (Software).

RDBMS

Relational DataBase Management System.

RDO

Remote Data Objects (Data Storage).

RDP

Remote Desktop Protocol (Networking).

RDRAM

Rambus DRAM.

RDSL

Regitech Data Systems Ltd (Company).

REt

Resolution Enhancement technology (Printers). also Photo REt.

RF

Radio Frequency.

RFC

Rules For Communication.

RGB

Red-Green-Blue.

RGSC

Really Good Software Company.

RIFF

Resource Information File Format (Sound-Files).

RIP

Raster Image Processor.

RISC

Reduced Instruction Set Compiler/Computer.

RISC-OS

RISC Operating System.

RLL

Run Length Limit (Data Storage).

RM

Research Machines.

RMA

Relocatable Module Area.

RMS

Reflective MEMS System (Display Technology).

ROM

Read Only Memory.

RPC

Risc PC or

Remote Procedure Call (Networking).

RPG(s)

Role-Playing Game(s).

RRP

Recommended Retail Price.

RSI

Repetitive Strain Injury.

RSS

Repetitive Strain Syndrome.

RSVP

ReSource reserVation Protocol (Networking).

RT

Receive/Transmit.

RTC

Real Time Clock.

RTOS

Real Time Operating System.

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S5

Psion Series 5 Palmtop Computer.

S/N

Signal to Noise.

S/PDIF

Sony/Panasonic Digital Interface Format (Sound Card).

SA

Strong-Arm or

System Administrator.

SACD

Super Audio CD).

SARPC

Strong-Arm Risc PC.

SARC

Suffolk Acorn Risc Club.

SASAUG

Surrey And Sussex Acorn Users Group.

SAUG

Southampton Acorn Users Group.

SBC

Single Board Computer (Computer System).

SBE

Small Business Edition.

SBFM

Small Business Financial Manager (Software).

SBS

Small Business Server (Microsoft Comms).

SC

Small Case (as in letters DTP).

SCART

Syndicat des Constructeurs d'Appariels de Radio et de Television.

SCC

Selective Computer Services (Company).

SCMS

Serial Copy Management System (Copyright Protection System).

SCSI

Small Computer Systems Interface. SCSI, SCSI2, SCSI3.

SCSIFS

SCSI Filing System.

SCTE

Society of Cable and Telecommunication Engineers.

SDK

Software Development Kit (Microsoft).

SDRAM

Synchronised/Synchronous DRAM.

SDT

Security Dynamics Technologies (Company).

SDU

Standard Dial-Up (Internet Service).

SE

Search Engine.

SECA

Special Extra Curricular Activity.

SED

Surface Emission Display (Display Technology).

SER

Soft Error Rate (Data Storage/Retrieval)

SET

Secure Electronic Transactions (USA Internet Credit-Card Security).

SF3000

Star Fighter 3000 (Game).

SFAS

Secure File Aliasing System.

SGML

Standard General/Generalised Mark-up Language.

SGRAM

Synchronised Graphics RAM.

SGT

Second Generation Technology.

SIFT

Secure Internet Filtering Technology (Web Access Monitoring).

SIMD

Single Instruction Multi/Multiple Data (Floating-point processing/operation).

SIMM

Single In-line Memory Module.

SIR

Serial Infra-Red (Device type).

SLA

Scanned Linear Array (Display Technology).

SLCC

South London Computer Club.

SLDRAM

Synchronous L? DRAM. Faster version of SDRAM.

SLI

Scan Line Interweaving (Graphics).

SLIP

Serial Line Interface/Internet Protocol.

SLM

Silicon Light Machine (Company).

SM

System Manager.

SMART

Self Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology (Hard Drives).

SMD

Surface Mount Device.

SME

Small to Medium-sized Enterprises.

SMIL

Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language (Multimedia Authoring).

SMP

Symetrical Multi Processing and clustering system (Processor Technology).

SMPTE

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.

SMS

Short Message Service (Comms).

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

SNMP

Simple Network Monitor Protocol.

SNR

Signal-to-Noise Ratio.

SOHO

Small Office Home Office.

SOLED

Stacked Organic Light Emitting Diode aka Stacked OLED (Display Technology).

SP

Service Provider (Comms).

SPAE

SMIL Player and Authoring Enviroment.

SPAP

Shiva Proprietary Authentication Protocol.

SPDIF

Sony/Philips Digital InterFace.

SPS

Shock Protection System (Hard Drive Technology).

SPU

Sound Processing Unit.

SQL

Structured Query Language.

SRAM

Static RAM.

SSA

Serial Storage Architecture.

SSD

Solid State Drive.

SSERC

Scottish Schools Equipment Research Centre.

SSF

Structured Storage Format.

SSI

Small-Scale Integration (Chip) or

System Service Infrastructure (Standards for Servers).

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer (Comms Data Security).

SSP

System Service Provider (Comms).

SSS

Serious Statistical Software (Company).

ST

Shugard Technologies as in ST-502/506 HD.

STAC

?

STB

Set Top Box.

STD

Stuart Tyrrell Developments (Company).

STE

Space Time Editor (Software).

STFT

Super Thin Film Transistor aka Super TFT (Display Technology).

STP

Shielded Twisted Pair (Network Cable-type).

SUA

System Use Area (Orange Book CDs).

SVC

Switched Virtual Circuit (Networking).

SVD

Simultaneous Voice and Data (Modems).

SVGA

Super Video Graphics Array (Monitor Type).

SVW

SerVer Workstation (Pentium II) aka Pentium II SVW.

SW

Share-Ware, or

Shovel-Ware.

SWI

SoftWare Interrupt.

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T-FOLED

Transparent-Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (Display Technology).

TA

Terminal Adaptor (Networking).

Tb

Terra-byte. 1000 Giga-bytes (Gb).

TBAFS

To Be Announced ? Filing System.

TCC

The Computability Centre (Charity).

TCI

Tele-Communications Incorporated (USA Cable Company).

TCL

Tool Command Language (Programming).

TCO

Total Cost of Ownership.

TCP

Transmission/Transfer Control Protocol.

TCP/IP

Transmission/Transfer Control Protocol/Interface(/net) Protocol.

TE

Terminal Emulator.

TECS

Todd Education Computer Services (Company).

TFI

Thin Film Inductive (Hard-Disk Technology).

TFLOPS

Tera (1 million million) FLoating-point Operations Per Second (Processing Speed).

TFT

Thin Film Transistor (Display Technology).

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format.

TLB

Translation Look-Aside Buffer.

TLD

Top Level Domain (Internet).

TOC

Table Of Contents (CD Directory))

TOLED

Transparent Organic Light Emitting Diode aka Transparent OLED (Display Technology).

TPI

Tracks Per Inch aka tpi.

TPoP

Traditional Point of Presence.

TRG

Technology Research Group (Company).

TRM

Technical Reference Manual(s).

TS

Technical Support.

TSR

Terminate and Stay Resident(Programming).

TSV

Tab Separated Values.

TT

True Type (Fonts).

TTFN

The Thread Following Newsreader (RISC-OS Software).

TVC

The Virtual Chamber. Virtual Business World.

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UADSL

Universal Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line aka Universal ADSL (US Comms System).

UAE

Unix Amiga Emulator (SoftWare).

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (Comms).

UAWG

Universal ADSL Working Group (Comms).

UC

Upper-Case (Capital Letters).

UCE

Unsolicited Commercial Email.

UDC

Universal Display Corporation (Company) or

Usenet Death Penalty (Internet).

UDP

User Datagram Protocol.

UG

Up-Grade.

UID

User-IDentification.

UKIUG

UK Internet User Group.

UL

Up-Load.

UML

Unified Modelling Language.

UNG

Usenet News Groups aka News.

UPS

Uninterruptable Power Supply.

URD

User Root Directory.

URL

Uniform Resource Locator.

USB

Universal Serial Bus (Hardware).

USDARPA

U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

UTP

Unshielded Twisted Pair (Network Cable-type).

UTRA

UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (Comms).

UUCP

Unix to Unix Copy Program.

UW

Ultra-Wide (Hard-Disc type).

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V90

Version 90 ? Latest 56k modem standard.

VA

Virtual Access (Company).

VAIO

Video Audio Integrated Operation (Multi-Media).

VAV

Variable Angular Velocity (CD-ROMs).

VB

Visual Basic (MS Prog Language).

VBA

Visual Basic Objects (Data Storage).

VC

Virtual Community (Internet).

VCC

Virtual Channel Connection (Networking).

VDSL

Very high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line (Comms).

VDU

Visual Display Unit.

VERONICA

Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Netwide Index to Computerised Archives aka Veronica.

VESA

Video Electronics Standards Association.

VESAEVC

VESA Enhanced Video Connector.

VGA

Video Graphics Adaptor/Array.

VIDC

VIDeo Controller.

VLIW

Very Long Instruction Word.

VLSI

Very Large Scale Integration (Chip).

VM

Virtual Memory.

VMM

Virtual Memory Manager (Windows 95).

VMP

Virtual Manuscript Paper (DTP for Music).

VNC

Virtual Network Computer (Software).

VOTI

Visions Of The Impossible (Software Company).

VP

Virtual Path (Networking).

VPN

Virtual Private Network (Comms).

VPoP

Virtual Point of Presence (vPoP).

VPS

Video Projection System (Display Technology).

VRAM

Video RAM aka Dual Port RAM aka DPRAM.

VRML

Virtual Reality Modelling Language.

VSC

Video Standards Council.

VTi

? (Company).

VW

Vapour-Ware.

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W3C

World Wide Web Consortium aka WWW3C (Internet Regulatory Body).

WACC

Wellington Acorn Computer Club (NZ).

WACG

Wakefield Acorn Computer Group.

WAIS

Wide Area Information System.

WAN

Wide Area Network.

WB

Write-Back.

WBT

Windows Based Terminals (Networking).

WCA

Western Commercial Art (Company).

WCDMA

Wideband CDMA (Comms).

WCE

Windows Consumer Electronics aka Windows CE (Software).

WDM

Win32 Driver Model.

WFC

Windows Foundation Classes (Programming Development).

WFWG

Windows For WorkGroups.

WHCC

Welwyn Hatfield Computer Club.

WIMP

Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointer (RISC OS).

WIPO

World Intellectual Property Organisation (Company).

WLL

Wireless Local Loop (Comms).

WM

Workstation Manager (Novell Networking).

WMF

Windows MetaFiles (PC Vector Drawing Files).

WMRM

Write Many Read Many (Times).

WORM

Write Once Read Many (Times).

WP

Word Processing.

WRAM

Windows RAM.

WSOD

WorkSpace On Demand.

WUG

Wakefield User Group.

WWW

World Wide Web aka W3.

WWWC

World Wide Web Consortium aka W3C.

WYSIWYG

What You See Is What You Get.

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XAR

eXtended Attribute Record (CD Format).

XC

X-Computer (Internet Device).

XG

?

XGA

eXtended Graphics Adaptor.

XHL

eXtensible Hyperlinking Language.

XML

eXtensible Mark-up Language (Web-page authoring).

XMS

eXtended Memory System (DOS).

XSL

eXtensible Style Language (Web-page authoring).

XT

eXtended Technology.

 

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YES

Yellowstone Electronic Solutions (Company).

YVOML

Your Very Own Mark-up Language.

ZA

Zero Administration (Networking).

ZEN

Zero Effort Networking (Novell).

ZFC

?

ZIF

Zero Insertion Force.

ZV

Zoomed Video.

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