List of
ACRONYMS..
Although this list is not complete, it should get you into the right ballpark. If an entry is blank, it means that I’ve come across the acronym before, but still haven't been able to find out what it means!
3G 3rd Generation
4G 4th Generation (WiMax?)
802.11 WiFi wireless standard
802.16 WiMax Standard protocols
802.16d WiMax Standard for fixed inst
802.16e WiMax Standard for Mobile inst.
- A
AAA Authentication, Authorisation and AccountingAAS Advanced Antenna Systems
ABIOS Advanced Basic Input Output System
ABR Area Border Router
ABR Auxilliary Bass Radiator
AC Alternating Current
ACATS Advisory Committee on Advanced TV Service
ACE Access Control Entry
ACIA Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter
ACL Access Control list
ACL Asynchronous ConnectionLess
ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
A/D Analogue to Digital
ADC Analogue to Digital Convertor
ADMD Administrative Management Domain
ADSC Asymetrical Digital Subscriber line ?
ADSI Active Directory Services Interfaces
ADSL Assymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AFC Automatic Frequency Control
AFSDB Andrew File System DataBase
AH Authentication Header
AGC Automatic Gain Control
AGP Accelerated Graphics Port
a.k.a. Also Known As
ALC Automatic Level Control
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone Service
API Application Programming Interface
APIPA Automatic Private IP Addressing
APM Advanced Power Management
ARC Advanced RISC Computing
ARIN American Registry for Internet Numbers
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ARQ Automatic Repeat Request
AS Authentication Server
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASDL Asynchronous Data Line ?
ASN Access Services Network
ASP Active Server Pages
ASP Application Service Provider
ATA Advanced Technology Attachment (=IDE)
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM Automatic Teller Machine
ATRN Authenticated TuRN
ATS Abstract Test Suite
ATSC Advanced Television Systems Committee (Digital TV USA)
ATV Advanced TV
ATX Advanced Technology Extended
AVR Automatic Voltage Regulator
AXFR Full Zone Transfer (DNS Zones)
- B -
B2B Business to Business
B2C Business to Client
BACP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol
BAP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol
BCP Best Common Practice
BDC Backup Domain Controller
BHP Brake Horse Power
BINL Boot Information Negotiation Layer
BMP BitMaP ( picture file format )
BNC British Navy Connector
BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol
BPS Bits Per Second
BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying
BSI British Standards Institute
BWA Broadband Wireless Access | spectrum
- C -
CA Certification Authority
CAD Computer Aided Design
CAL Client Access Licence
CAN Controller Area Network / Car Area Network
CAO Computer Account Objects
CAS Column Address Strobe
CAST (protocol)
CBCP Call Back Control Protocol
CCD Charge Coupled Device
CCK Complementary Coded Keying
CCIR International Radio Consultative Committee
CCITT Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique
CCP Compression Control Protocol
CCTV Closed Circuit TV
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access
CDO Collaboration Data Objects
CDP Cisco Discovery Protocol
CD-R Compact Disk Recordable
CD-RW Compact Disk Rewritable
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Router
CIFS Common Internet File System
CIR Committed Information Rate
CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
CLIP Classical IP over ATM
CLK Clock signal
CLNP ConnectionLess Network Protocol
CMC Common Mail Call
CMS Content Management System
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CNAME Canonical Name Records
CNR Communications and Network Riser (slot in PC)
COM Component Object Model
CPE Consumer/Customer Premise Equipment
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
CRL Certification Revocation List
CRS Certificate Request Syntax
CSA Canadian Standards Association.
CSC Customer Support Centre
CSIR Consumer Standards Institute for Research
CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance
CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection = Ethernet
CSNW Client Services For Netware
CSP Cryptographic Service Provider
CSR Client Server Subsystem
CSS Cascading Style Sheet
CSV Comma Separated Values
CTD Charge Transfer Device
CTI Computer-Telephony Integration
CTL Certificate Trust Lists
CWG C Working Group
- D -
D/A Digital to Analogue
DACL Discretionary Access Control List
DAC Digital to Analogue Converter
DAP Directory Access Protocol
dB Decibel
dBm dB with reference to 1mW
dBu dB with reference to 1uV
DC Direct Current
DCC Digital Content Creation
DCD Data Carrier Detect
DCE Data Communications Equipment
DCE Data Circuit terminating Equipment
DCE Distributed Computing Environment
DCF Distributed Control Function
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model
DCS Digital Cellular System
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange
DDF Data Decryption Field
DDNS Dynamic Domain Name System
DDR Double Data Rate (SDRAM)
DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
DES Data/Digital Encryption Standard
DES-CBC Data Encryption Standard - Cipher Chaining
DESX Data Encryption Standard X
DFS Distributed File System
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIB Directory Information Base
DIL Dual In Line
DIMM Dual Inline Memory Module (RAM)
DIN German Standards Institute (Deutshe Instituut von Norme)
DIT Directory Infromation Tree
DivX Digital Video Express = MPEG4
DL Distribution List
DLC Data Link Control
DLL Dynamic Link Libraries
DMA Direct Memory Access
DN Distinguished Name
DNS Domain Name Service
DOD Dial On Demand
DPA Data Protection Act
DPA Differential Power Analysis
DPC Deferred Procedure Calls
DPDT Double Pole Double Throw (switch)
DPMS Display Power Management Signalling.
DPST Double Pole Single Throw
DRAM Dynamic Random Access memory
DRF Data Recovery Field
DS Directory Service
DSA Digital Structure Algorithm
DSA Directory System Agent
DSDM DDE Share Database Manager
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DSLAM Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer
DSMN Directory Service Manager for Netware
DSN Data Source Name
DSP Digital Signal Processor
DSR Data Set Ready
DSS Digital Signed Standard
DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
DTD Document Type Definition.
DTE Data Terminal Equipment
DTL Diode Transistor Logic
DTMF Dual Tone Multi Frequency
DTV Digital TV
\'----- SD Standard Definition
ED Enhanced definition
HD High Definition
DUN Dial Up Networking
DVB Digital Video Broadcasting (Europe std)
DVB-T Digital Video Broadcast Terrestrial
DVB-S Digital Video Broadcast Satellite
DVB-C Digital Video Broadcast Cable
DVB-H Digital Video Broadcast Handheld
DVD Digital Video Disk / Versatile Disk
DVI Digital Visual Interface
DXA Directory Synchronisation Agent
- E -
EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol
EAROM Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory
ECC Error Correction Code
ECL Emitter Coupled Logic
ECSA Engineering Council of South Africa
ED Enhanced Definition (Digital TV)
EDCA Enhanced Distributed Control Access
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
EDO Extended Data Out (RAM)
EDRP Encrypted Data Recovery Policy
ED-VO Enhanced Version - Data Only (Data Optimised)
EFD Exchange Forms Designer
EFP Exchange Forms Project
EFS Encrypting file system
EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol
EHT Extremely High Tension (voltage)
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EMF ElectroMotive Force (Voltage)
EPROM Erasable Programmable ROM
EPS Encapsulated Postscript
ERD Emergency Recovery Disk
EROM Erasable ROM
ERP Effective Radiated Power
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
ESE Extensible Storage Engine
ESMR Enhanced Specialised Mobile Radio
ESP Encapsulating Security Payload
ETRN Extended TuRN (~=SMTP) protocol
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
- F -
FCB File Control Block
FC Fibre Channel (Hard drives)
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FDD Frequency Division Duplexing
FDX Full Duplex
FEC Forward Error Correction
FEK File Encryption Key
FET Field Effect Transistor
FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
FM Frequency Modulation
FPNW File and Print Services for Netware
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name
FROG Fully Reliant On God
FRS File Replication Service
FSD Full Scale Deflection
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
FSMO Flexible Single Master Operations
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FWA Fixed Wireless Access
- G -
GAL Global Address List
GDI Graphics Device Interface
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
GINA Graphical Identification and Authentication
GPF General Protection Fault
GPO Group Policy Object
GPRS General Packet Radio Services
GPS Global Positioning System
GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation
GSM Global System for Mobile communication
GSNW Gateway Services For Netware
GUID Globally Unique Identifier
GWART GateWay Address Routing Table
- H -
HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer
HARQ Hybrid ARQ (Auto Repeat Request)
HCL Hardware Compatibility List
HD High Definition (Digital TV)
HDCD High Definition Compatible Digital
HDCP High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection
HDLC High Level Data Link Control
HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface 1.0 - 1.3b
HDTV High Definition TV
HINFO Host INFOrmation record
HIPERMAN High Performance Metropolitan Area Network
HMAC Hash Message Authentication Code
HMP Host Monitoring Protocol
HPFS High Performance File System
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS Secure HTTP
HUMAN High Speed Unlicenced Metropolitan Area Network
Hz Hertz (Cycles per second)
- I -
IAB Internet Activities Board
IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
IAS Internet Authentication Service
IC Integrated Circuit
ICM Intergrated Colour Management
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
ICS Internet Connection Sharing
ICV Integrity Check Value
IDC Internet Database Connector
iDEN Integrated Digital Enhanced Network
IDP Information Device Profile
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IETF Internet engineering Task Force
IF Intermediate Frequency
IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol
IIL Integrated Injection Logic
IIS Internet Information Server
IKE ISAKMP/Oakley Key Management System
ILEC Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier
ILS Internet Locator Server
IMAP4 Internet Message Access Protocol 4
IMS Internet Mail Service
INS Internet News Service
IOCTL Input/Output Control for devices
IP Internet Protocol
IPC Interprocess Control/ Communication
IPCP Internet Protocol Control Protocol
IPM Interpersonal Messaging
IPSec Internet Protocol Security
IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IrDA Internal Infrared Data Association
IS Information Store
IS Interim Standard
ISAKMP Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol
ISAM Indexed Sequential Access Method
ISAPI Internet Server Application Programming Interface
ISDB (Japanese Digital TV standard)
ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network
ISM Internet Service Manager
ISM Industrial, Scientific and Medical
ISO International Standards Organisation
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISV Independent Software Vendors
ITU International Telegraph/Telecommunications Union
IXFR Incremental Zone Transfer (DNS Zones)
- J -
JBIG Joint Bi-Level Image Experts Group
JDK Java Development Kit
JEDEC Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council
JFET Junction Field Effect Transistor
JPEG Joint Picture Experts Group
JVM Java Virtual Machine
- K -
KCC Knowledge Consistency Checker
KD Kernel Debugger
KDC Key Distribution Centres
KKDC Kerberos Key Distribution Centre
KM Key Management
KMS Knowledge Management System
KYFC Keep Your Fingers Crossed!
- L -
L2TP Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
LAN Local Area Network
LCP Link Control Protocol
LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LED Light Emitting Diode
LFN Long File Name
LIPS Logical Inferences Per Second
LKG Last Known Good
LMDS Local Multipoint Distribution Service
LPC Local Proceedure Call
LPD Line Printer Daemon
LPR Line Printer Remote
LR Location Register
LS Least Squares
LSA Local Security Authority
LSI Large Scale Integration
LU Logical Unit
- M -
MAC Media Access Control
MADMAN Mail And Directory MANagement
MAN Metropolitan Area Network
MAPI Messaging Application Programming Interface
MBR Multiple Bit Rate
MBS Multicast Broadcast Service
MCI Media Control Interface
MCIS Memebership System Authentication Option
MCIS Microsoft Commercial Internet Server
MDBEF Microsoft Database Exchange Format
MHS Message Handling System
MHz Mega Hertz
MIB Management Information Base
MIC Microsoft Internet Chat
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIMO Multiple Input - Multiple Output
MMC Microsoft Management Console
MMDS Multi Channel Multipoint Distribution Service
MMS Multimedia Messaging Service
MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOST Media Oriented Systems Transport
MP Multilink Point to Point Protocol (PPP)
MPDU MAC Protocol Data Unit
MPEG 1-4 Moving Picture Experts Group (see DivX)
MPPE Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption
MPR Multi Protocol Routing
MPU Microprocessor Unit
MPX MultiPleX
MRTG Multi-Router Traffic Grapher
MS Microsoft
MS Mobile Station
MS-CHAP Microsoft CHAP
MSV1-0 (Type of authentication package)
MTA Message Transfer Agent
MTS Microsoft Transaction Server
MX Mail Exchanger
- N -
NAB National Association of Broadcasters
NAMPS Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone System
NAS Network Access Server
NAT Network Address Translation
NBFP NetBIOS Frame Protocol
NCP Network Control Protocol
NCQ Native Command Queuing
NDA Non Destructive Arbitration
NDIS Network Device Interface Specification
NDR Non Delivery Report
NDS Netware Directory Services
NetBIOS Network basic Input Output System
NetBT NetBIOS over TCP (I think)
NIC Network Interface Card
NiCad Nickel- Cadmium
NICAM Near Instantaneous Companded Audio Multiplex (TV stereo audio)
NIS Network Information Service
NJE Network Job Entry
NLM Netware Loadable Module
NLOS Non Line-Of-Sight
NMS Network Management Station
NMOS Negative Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor
NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol
NOS Network Operating System
nrtPS QoS??
NS Name DNS record
NTDS NT Directory Service
NTFS NT File System
NTLM Windows NT Challenge/Response Authentication
NWG Network Working Group
- O -
O/R ADDRESS Originator/Recipient Address
OAB Offline Address Book
OCR Optical Character Recognition
ODBC Open Database Connectivity
ODMR On Demand Mail Relay
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OFDM Orthoganal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OID Object IDentifier
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OpenGL Open Graphics Language
OS Operating System
OS Open Source
OSF Open Software Foundation
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
OSI Open Sysytems Interconnection
OST Offline Storage Folder
OTAP Over The Air Programming
OU Organisational Unit
OUI Organisationally Unique Identifier
- P -
PAB Personal Address Book
PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange
PAC Privelege Attribute Certificates
PAD Packet Assembler/Dissassembler
PAL Phase Alternation, Line
PAM Pulse Amplitude Modulation
PAP Password Authentication Protocol
PATA Parallel ATA (Hard drives)
PCB Printed Circuit Board
PCF Point Control Function
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCIA Personal Communications Industry Association
PCM Pulse Code Modulation
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PCS Personal Communications Services
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PDC Primary Domain Controller
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PHS Personal Handyphone System
PHY Physical Data Layer
PICS Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement
PIF Programme Information File
PIM Personal Information Manager
PIN Personal Identification Number
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
PKCS Public Key Cryptography Server
PKCS Public Key Cryptography Standards
PLA Programmable Logic Array
PLL Phase Lock Loop
PLM Product Lifecycle Management
PMP ?? to do with wireless access
PMOS Positive Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PoP Point of Presence
POP3 Post Office Protocol
POSIX Portable Operating System Interface
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
PPM Peak Programme Meter
PPP Point to Point Protocol
PPTP Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
PRMD Private Management Domain
PRF Pulse Repitition Frequency
PROFS Professional Office System
PROM Programmable ROM
PSP Play Station Portable.
PSS Packet Switch Stream
PST Personal Storage Folder
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
PSU Power Supply Unit
PTFE PolyTetraFlouroEthelene
PU Physical Unit
PUJT Progammable UniJunction Transistor
PVR Personal Video Recorder.
PWS Peer Web Services
PXE Pre-boot Execution Environment
- Q -
x-QAM x-level Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
QoS Quality of Service
QED Quite Easily Done
QPSK Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
- R -
R&D Research and Development
RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
RADSL Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line
RAM Random Access Memory
RAP Remote Access Policy
RAS Remote Access Service
RC4 Ron.s Code 4
RDN Relative Distinguished Names
RDP Reliable Datagram Protocol
RDP Remote Desktop Protocol
RDR Windows NT Redirector
RDRAM Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory.
REXEC Remote Execution (UNIX)
RF Radio Frequency
RFC Request For Comments
rfc Radio Frequency Choke
RGB Red Green Blue (Video signals)
RID Relative IDentifier
RIMM Rambus Inline Memory Module
RIP Routing Information Protocol
RIS Remote Installation Services
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing
RMS Root Mean Square
ROM Read Only Memory
RPC Remote Proceedure Call
RRAS Routing and Remote Access Service
RRD Round Robin Database
RSA Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (algorithm)
RSH Remote Shell (UNIX)
RSL Registry Size Limit
RSM Removable Storage Management
RSVP Resource Reservation Setup Protocol
RTF Rich Text Format
rtPS QoS ??
RTL Resistor Transistor Logic
RVD MIT Remote Virtual Disk
R/W Read/ Write
RX Receiver
- S -
SA System Attendant
SACL System Access Control List
SAM Security Accounts Manager
SAP Service Advertising Protocol / Service Access Point
SASL Simple Authentication and Security Layer
SCO Synchronous Connection Oriented
SCR Silicone Controlled Rectifier
SCSI Small Computer System Interface
SD Secure Digital (digital camera memory card)
SD Standard Definition (Digital TV)
SDP Software Distribution Point
SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDU Service Data Units
SFM Services For MacIntosh
SGC Server Gated Cryptography
SGML Standard Generalised Markup Language
SHF Super High Frequency
SI International System of Units
SID Security ID
SIM Subscriber Identity Module
SIMM Single Inline Memory Module.
SIS Single Instance Store
SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMB Server Message Block
SME Small to Medium Enterprize
SMP Symmetric MultiProcessing
SMR Specialised Mobile Radio
SMS Short Messaging Service
SMS Systems Management Server
SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol
S/N Signal to Noise ratio
SNA System Network Architecture
SNADS Systems Network Architecture Distribution Services
SNAP SubNetwork Access Protocol
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol
SOA Start Of Authority
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SOHO Small Office Home Office
SONET Synchronous Optical Network Interface
SPAP Shiva Password Authentication Protocol
SPL Sound Pressure Level
SPDT Single Pole Double Throw (switch)
SPST Single Pole Single Throw (switch)
SPX Sequenced Packet Exchange
SQL Structured Query Language
SS7 Signalling System 7
SSI Server Side Includes
SSI Small Scale Integration
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
SSPI Security Support Provider Interface
SWG Standard Wire Gauge
SWR Standing Wave ratio
- T -
T&L Transform, Clipping and Lighting (graphics)
TAPI Telephone Application Programming Interface
TCO Total Cost of Ownership
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TDD Time Division Duplexing
TDI Transport Driver Interface
TDM Time Division Multiplex
TDMA Time Division Multiple Access
TelCo Telephone Company
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TGS Ticket Granting Service
TGT Ticket Granting Ticket
THD Total Harmonic Distortion
TID Transient Intermodulation Distortion
TIF Tagged Image File
TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
TLS Transport Layer Security
TMDS Transistion Minimised Differential Signaling
TP Transport Protocol
TSP TAPI Service Providers
TTCAN Time Triggered Controller Area Network
TTL Transistor Transistor Logic
TTL Time To Live
TTY Teletype Unit
TVI TV Interface
- U -
UAM User Authentication Module
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
UDF Uniqueness Database File
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UGS QoS??
UHF Ultra High Frequency
UJT Unijunction Transistor
ULA Uncommitted Logic Array
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
UNC Universal Naming Convention
U-NII Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure
UPN User Principal Name
URI Universal Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
USAT Ultra Small Aperture Terminal
USB Universal Serial Bus (Human Interface )
USN Update Sequence Number
USN Unique Sequence Number
UTF-8 Unicode Translation Format 8
UTP Un TWISTED PAIR
UUENCODE Unix to Unix Encode
UUID Universally Unique Identifier
- V -
VADS Value Added Data Service
VAN Value Added Network
VANS Value Added Network Service
VCA Voltage Controlled Amplifier
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator
VCT Voltage to Current Transactor
VDD Virtual Device Driver
VDM Virtual DOS Machine
VDU Visual Display Unit
VHF Very High Frequency (88-216MHz)
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
VLF Very Low Frequency
VLOG Video Blog web site.
VM Virtual Machine
VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
VoWLAN Voice over Wireless LAN
VPN Virtual Private Network
VRC Vertical Redundancy Check
VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal
VSB Vestigal SideBand
VTP Virtual Terminal Protocol
- W -
W3C World Wide Consortium
WAIS Wide Area Information Server
WAN Wide Area Network
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
WARC World Administrative Radio Conference
WCDMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WebDAV Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy
W/F Wow and Flutter
WF Wait Flag
WHQL Windows Hardware Quality Labs
WiFi Wireless Fidelity (Network - see WLAN)
WiMAX Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access.
WINS Windows Internet Name Service
WISP Wireless Internet Service Provider
WKS Well Known Services (DNS)
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WLL Wireless Local Loop
WMAN Wireless Metropolitan Area Network
WME Wi-Fi Multimedia Extensions
WMI Windows Management Instrumentation
WOSA Windows Open Services Architecture
WOW Win16 On Win32
WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access
WPDA Wireless Partnership for Donor Awareness
WRAN Wireless Regional Area Network
WSH Windows Script Host (IIS)
WSM Wi-Fi Scheduled Multimedia
WWJD What Would Jesus Do
WWW World Wide Web
- X -
XAPIA X.400 Applications Programming Interface Association
xDSL Digital Subscriber Line (2 way)
XML eXtensible Markup Language
XNS-IDP Xerox NS IDP
x-QAM x-level Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
Xtal Crystal
- Y -
Y2K Year 2000 (Year 2 kilo)
- Z -
ZF Zero Forcing
ZIF Zero Insertion Force (socket)
ZIL Zork Implementation Language
ZZZZ I Am Asleep
Compiled by DP Kelly 29th April 2004
Updated: Continually up to 20th March 2008
File: ACRONYMS4.txt