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                         The Hackers Acronym Chart
                     Created for The Hacking Community
                                    By:

              THE INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL GUILD

             Compiled by:-=>The IIRG<=-   Input by: MERCENARY

                      Version Seven [02/06/1993]

               E-mail Mercenary At : [email protected]
                        or contact the IIRG at

                            Mercenary/IIRG
                         862 Farmington Avenue
                              Suite 306
                           Bristol,CT. 06010

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In no way do we feel this chart is totally complete,but we feel its a good
start for the novice or lazy hacker to quickly look up acronyms.

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              Member Sites                  Support Sites

      Dark Shadows  [WHQ]  [TMP DOWN]   Lightning Systems    [414]
      Wired World BBS      [Italy]      Sycamore Elite       [815]
      Cyberdyne Network    [Germany]    The Works            [617]
      Sanitariums          [817]        Piper's Pit          [2o3]
      Ware House           [2o3 East]   Dickinson Nightlight [713]
      Rune Stone           [Private]

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   A         Ampere
   AAA       Aces of Ansi Art
   AARNET    Australian Academic Resarch Network
   A&SG      Accessories and Supplies Group
   AB2       Anarchy Burger ][
   ABA       American Bankers Association
   ABA       American Bar Association
   ABBS      Apple Bulletin Board System
   ABU       Application Business Unit
   AC        Alternating Current
   ACARB     Australian Computer Abuse Research Bureau
   ACB       Automatic Call-Back
   ACCS      Automated Calling Card Service
   ACD       Automatic Call Distributor
   ACE       American Council on Education
   ACiD      ANSI Creators in Demand
   ACK       Acknowledge
   ACM       Association for Computing Machinery
   ACMS      Application Control Management System
   ACN       Area Code Number
   ACS       Application Control Services
   ACS       Australian Computer Society
   ACS       Automatic Clearing Houses
   ACT       Application Center for Technology
   ACTS      Automated  Coin  Toll  Service
   A/D       Analog/Digital
   AD        Authorized Dealers
   ADAPSO    Association of Data Processing Services Organizations
   ADAS      Advanced Directory Assistance System
   ADD       Authorized Digital Dealers
   ADG       Authorized Distributor Group
   ADM       Add-Drop MultiPlex
   ADTS      Automated Digital Terminal System
   ADU       Application Definition Utility
   AE        Ascii Express
   AEA       American Electronics Association
   AG/EEE    Above Ground Electronic Equipment Enclosures
   AI        Artificial Intelligence
   AIA       Application Integration Architecture
   AICPA     American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
   AIDS      Apple Infected Disk Syndrome
   AIOD      Automatic Identification of Outward Dialing
   AIS       Alarm Indication Signals
   AIS       Automatic Intercept System
   AITRC     Applied Information Technologies Research Center
   ALRU      Automatic Line Record Update
   ALU       Arithmetic Logic Unit
   AM        Amplitude Modulation
   AMA       Automatic Message Accounting
   AMAT      Automatic Message Accounting Transmitter
   AMATPS    Automatic Message Accounting Transmitter Teleprocessing System
   AMC       Area Management Center
   AMD       Advanced Micro Devices
   AMI       American Microsystems Incorporated
   AMIS      Atari Message and Information System
   AMM       Area Manufacturing Manager
   AMP       Ampere
   AMR       Automatic Meter Reading
   AMWI      Active Message Waiting Indicator
   AN        Aryan Nations
   AN        Associated Number
   ANE       Anarchy 'N' Explosives
   ANI       Automatic Number Identification
   ANIF      Automatic Number Identification Failure
   ANL       Argonne Mational Laboratory
   ANN       Announcement Date
   ANSI      American National Standards Institute
   AOA       Anarchists of America
   AOJ       Add one and do not Jump
   AOM       Area Operations Manager
   AOS       Add One and do not Skip
   AOT       Art of Technology
   AOV       Average Order Value
   APF       All PIN's Fail
   API       American Pirate Industries
   APL       A Programming Language
   APP       Application
   APPC      Advanced Peer to Peer Communication
   APPC      Advanced Program to Program Communication
   APPIX     Automated Part and Product Information Exchange
   APS       Automatic Protection Switching System
   APT       Advanced Pirate Technology
   APT       American Phone Terrorists
   AQS       Automatic Quote System
   ARB       Application Review Board
   ARC       Ames research Center
   ARM       Area Revenue Manager
   ARRL      American Radio Relay League
   ARP       Address Resolution Protocol
   ARPA      Advanced Research Projects Agency
   ARS       Automatic Route Selection
   ARSB      Automated Repair Service Bureau
   ARQ       Automatic Repeat Request
   ASC       Average System Cost or Average System Content
   ASCII     American Standard Code for Information Interchange
   ASD       Advanced Semiconductor Development
   ASIS      American Society for Industrial Security
   ASMP      Asymmetrical Multi-Processing
   ASR       Access Service Request
   ASV       Average System Value
   AT        Advanced Technology
   ATB       All Trunks Busy
   ATD       Authorized Terminal Distributor
   ATH       Abbreviated Trouble History
   ATI       Activist's Times Incorporated
   ATM       Automatic Teller Machine
   ATP       Available to Promise
   ATSE      Application Timesharing Software Engineering
   AT&T      American Telephone and Telegraph Company
   AVD       Alternate Voice Data
   AVT       Architecture Verification Test
   BAD       Broken As Designed
   BAI       Bank Administration Institute
   BAGS      Bristol's Anti-Gay Society
   BASC      Bad Austrian Swapping Crew
   BASIC     Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
   BB        Bad Brains
   BBA       Budget By Account
   BBS       Bulletin Board System
   BBU       Battery Back-Up
   BCC       Boys from Company C
   BCG       Business Center Group
   BCS       British Computer Society
   BDS       Black Dragon Society
   BDCS      Broadband Digital Cross-Connect System
   BEF       Band Elimination Filter
   BG/EEE    Below Ground Electronic Equipment Enclosures
   BHC       Busy Hour Calls
   BHS       Black Hand Society
   BI        Backplane Interconnect or Beginning Inventory
   BIM       Basic Industry Marketing
   BIND      Berkeley Internet Name Domain
   BIOS      Basic Input Output System
   BIT       Binary Digit
   BITNET    Because Its Time Network
   BITNIC    BITNET Network Information Center
   BIX       Byte Information Exchange
   BJS       Bureau of Justice Statistics
   B/L       Backlog
   BLAH      Big Long and Hairy
   BLV       Busy Line Verification
   BMC       Basic Monthly Charge
   BMEWS     Ballistic Missle Early Warning System
   BNF       Backus-Naur Form
   BNL       Brookhaven National Laboratory
   BNS       Billed Number Screening
   BOA       Bill of Aggregation or Blanket Order Agreement
   BOC       Bell Operating Company
   BOD       Board of Directors (Budget)
   BOIS      Business Office Information Systems
   BOM       Bill of Materials
   BOO       Bill of Organization
   BOR       Basic Output Report
   BORSCHT   Battery,Overvoltage,Ringing,Supervision,Coding,Hybrid,Test
   BOS       Business and Office Systems
   BOSE      Business and Office Systems Engineering
   BOTE      Brothers of the Eye
   BPI       Bits per Inch
   BPM       Business Planning Manager or Base Product Marketing
   BPN       Comstar Business Plan
   BPS       Bits Per Second
   BQS       Berkeley Quality Software
   BRI       Basic Rate Interface
   BRS       Bibliographic Research Service
   BRS       Big Red Switch
   BSA       Business Software Association
   BSC       Binary Synchronous Communication
   BSD       Berkeley Software Distribution
   BSD       Berkely System Distribution
   BVAPP     Billing Verification and Authorization for Payment Process
   BWQ       Buzz Word Quotient
   C         Centigrade or Celsius
   CA        Cable
   CAA       Chaotic Ansi Artists
   CABS      Carrier Access Billing System
   CAD       Computer Aided Design
   CAD       Computer Aided Drafting
   CAEM      Computer Aided Engineering and Manufacturing
   CAFD      Controllers Automatic Message Accounting Format Description
   CAFM      Computer Aided Facilities Management
   CAM       Computer Aided Manufacturing
   CAMA      Centralized Automatic Message Accounting
   CAS       Column Address Strobe
   CAS       Customer Administrative Services
   CASE      Computer Aided Software Engineering
   CAT       Computer-aided Test
   CAU       Computer Anarchists Underground
   CBBS      Computerized Bulletin Board System
   CBC       Cipher Block Chaining
   CBS       Common Bom System
   CBI       Computer-based Instruction
   CBM       Commodore Business Machines
   CBX       Computerized Business Exchange
   CC        Calling Card
   CC        Credit Card
   CC        Cost Center
   CC        Carbon Copy
   CC        Courtesy Copy
   CCC       Chaos Computer Club
   CCC       Clear Channel Capability
   CCC       Community Computer Center
   CCD       Customer Configuration Document
   CCEP      Commercial Communications Endorsement Program
   CCI       Cyber Crime International
   CCIS      Common Channel Interoffice Signalling
   CCITT     Committee Consultative International Telegraph and Telephone
   CCITT     Committee Consultif Internationale Telegraphie
             et Telephonie
   CCM       Customer Control Management
   CCOO      Comprehensive Cost of Ownership
   CCS       Calling Card Service
   CCS       Common Channel Signaling
   CCSA      Common Central Switching Arrangement
   CCSS      Common Channel Signalling System
   CCT       Cumulative Cycle Time
   CCUTF     Corrupt Computer Underground Taskforce
   CD        Compact Disk
   CDA       Coin Detection and Announcement
   CDA       Compound Document Architecture
   CDA       Crash Dump Analyzer
   CDC       Clark Development Company
   CDC       Cult of the Dead Cow
   CDD       Common Data Dictionary
   CDO       Community Dial Office
   CDR       Compact Disk Reader
   CDS       Circuit Design System
   CDUGD     Computer Down Under Ground Digest
   CERT      Certified Order
   CERT      Computer Emergency Response Team
   CES       Computer Election Systems
   CEV       Control Environmental Vault
   CF        Coin First
   CFB       Cipher Feedback
   CFM       Cubic Feet per Minute
   CFO       Chief Financial Officer
   CGA       Color Graphics Adapter
   CHINA     Communist Hackers In North America
   CHIPS     Clearing House Interbank Payments System
   CI        Cluster Interconnect or Computer Interconnect
   CIA       Central Intelligence Agency
   CIC       Carrier Identification codes
   CIC       CSNET Information Center
   CIM       Computer Integrated Manufacturing
   CIMT      Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Technology
   CIR       Computer Intergrated Research
   CIRU      Computer Industry Research Unit
   CIS       Compuserve Information Service
   CIS       Commercial Instruction Set
   CISA      Certified Information Systems Auditor
   CISC      Complex Instruction Set Computing
   C&ISM     Consultant and Information Systems Marketing Group
   CISSD     Canadian International Society for Social Deviancy
   CIT       Computer Integrated Telephony
   CKS       Celestial Knights
   CLM       Career Limiting Move
   CLP       Country List Price
   CMAS      Central Massachusetts Administrative Services
   CMC       Carry-in Monthly Charge
   CMC       Cellular Mobile Carrier
   CMOS      Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor(Silicon)
   CMP       Cooperative Marketing Program or Partner
   CN/A      Customer Name & Address
   CO        Central Office
   COAM      Customer Owned and Maintained
   COBOL     Common Business Oriented Language
   COC       Corporate Operations Committee
   COCOT     Customer Owned Coin Operated Telephone
   COD       Career Opportunity Days
   COD       Cash on Delivery
   CODE      Crackers of Digital Equipment
   COE       Central Office Equipment
   COEM      Commercial Original Equipment Manufacturer
   COM       Computer Output MicroFilm
   COMSEC    Communications Security
   COMSTAR   Common System for Technical Analysis & Reporting
   CON       Central Office News
   COPIS     Corporate Planning Information System
   COS       Class Of Service
   CPA       Centralized/Bulk Power Architecture
   CPE       Customer Premises Equipment
   CPH       Cost Per Hour
   CPI       Characters Per Inch
   CPI       Corrupt Programming International
   CP/M      Control Program Master
   CP/M      Control Program for Microcomputers
   CPO       Corporate Product Operations
   CPP       Corporate Planning Process
   CPS       Characters Per Second
   CPSR      Computer Profressionals for Social Responsibility
   CPU       Central Processing Unit
   CRC       Customer Return Center
   CRC       Cyclic Redundancy Check
   CREN      Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
   CRG       Central Resource Group
   CRIS      Customer Record Information System
   CRSAB     Centralized Repair Service Answering Bureau
   CRT       Cathode Ray Tube
   CSC       Customer Support Center
   CSDC      Circuit Switched Digital Capability
   CSG       Corporate Systems Group
   CSO       Complimentary Solutions Organization
   CSP       Coin Sent Paid
   CSM       Computer Systems Manufacturing
   CSM       Corrupt Society Magazine
   CSMA/CD   Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collission Detection
   CSNET     Computer and Science Research Network
   CSR       Customer Service Records
   CSS       Computer Special Systems
   CSSE      Computer Services System Engine
   CSSG      Customer Service Solutions Group
   CSU       Channel Service Unit
   CT        Current Transformer
   CTO       Call Transfer Outside
   CTS       Clear to Send
   CTS       Configuration Technical Specialists
   CTSS      Compatible Time Sharing System
   CTY       Console TeleType
   CU        Computer Underground
   CU        Control Unit
   CUD       Celerity Utilities Division
   CUD       Computer Underground Digest
   CUNY      City University of New York
   CW        Cyber Warriors
   CWC       City Wide Centrex
   CWD       Call Waiting Deluxe
   D/A       Digital/Analog
   DA        Directory Assistance
   DACC      Directort Assistance Call Completion
   DACS      Digital Access Cross-Connect System
   DAG       Defense Agencies Group
   DAMP      Demand Analysis Manufacturing Planning
   DAO       Directory Assistance Operator
   DAP       Document Application Profile
   DARPA     Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
   DAS       Device Access Software
   DAS       Dual Attachment Station
   DASD      Direct Access Storage Device
   DASP      Digital Assisted Services Program
   DAT       Digital Audio Tape
   DB        Decibels
   DBA       Digital Business Architecture
   DBC       Digital Business Center
   DBMS      Data Base Management System
   DBOD      Distribution Board of Directors
   DC        Direct Current
   DCA       Defense Communications Agency
   DCASR     Defense Contract Administration Services Region
   DCC       Data Collection Computer
   DCC       Digital Customer Center
   DCE       Data Circuit Terminal Equipment
   DCE       Data Communications Equipment
   DCL       Digital Command Language
   DCO-CS    Digital Central Office-Carrier Switch
   DCP       Demand for Critical Parts
   DCS       Digital Cross-Connect System
   DCSS      Digital Customized Support Services
   DCT       Digital Carrier Trunk
   DCTN      Defense Commercial Telecommunications Network
   DCTS      Dimension Custom Telephone Service
   DCU       Digital Credit Union
   DDA       Disk Drive Adaptor
   DDD       Direct Distance Dialing
   DDE       Dynamic Data Exchange
   DDH       Digital Distributed Hardware
   DDIF      Digital Document Interchange Format
   DDN       Defense Data Network
   DDOV      Digital Data Over Voice
   DDS       Dataphone Digital Service
   DDS       Digital Data Service
   DDS       Digital Data System
   DDS       Digital Distributed Software
   DDT       DEC Debugging Tape
   DEA       Drug Enforcement Agency
   DEC       Digital Equipment Corporation
   DECdtm    Digital Distributed Transaction Manager
   DECnms    Digital Network Measurement System
   DECtp     Digital Transaction Processing
   DECUS     Digital Equipment Corporation User's Society
   DEN       Digital Echo News
   DEPBA     Digital Exchange Pirate Board Alliance
   DES       Data Encryption Standard
   DF        Distributing Frame
   DFA       Design for Assembly
   DFP       Digital Free Press
   DFP       District Focus Person
   DFM       Design for Manufacturing
   DFT       Design for Test
   DIA       Defense Intelligence Agency
   DIAL      Digital Idle Asset Listing
   DIBOL     Digital Business Oriented Language
   DID       Direct Inward Dialing
   DIM       Demand Integration Meeting
   DIMA      Data Information Management Architecture
   DIN       Deutsche Ingineering Normilization
   DINS      Digital Information Network Service
   DIS       Digital Information Systems or Defense Investigative
             service
   DISER     Digital Information Systems External Resources
   DL        Direct Labor
   DLC       Digital Loop Carrier
   DLN       Digital Library Network
   DLOC      Dark Lords Of Chaos
   DLS       Dial Line Service
   DM        Dead Memory
   DM        Delta Modulation
   DMA       Direct Memory Access
   DMCL      Digital Modem Command Language
   DME       Digital Management Education
   DMM       Digital Multimeter
   DMM       District Manufacturing Manager
   DMS       Data Management Services
   DMS       Diskless Management Service
   DMSS      Distribution, Marketing, Sales and Service
   DMT       Design Maturity Test
   DN        Directory Numbers
   DNA       Defense Nuclear Agency
   DNA       Digital Named Accounts
   DNA       Digital Network Architecture
   DNA       Digital Noise Alliance
   DNR       Dialed Number Recorder
   DNS       Domain Name System
   DOA       Dead On Arrival
   DOA       Distributors of Anarchy
   DOD       Department of Defense
   DOE       Department of Energy
   DOJ       Department of Justice
   DOM       District Operations Manager
   DOS       Disk Operating System
   DOV       Data Over Voice
   DP        Data Processing
   DPA       Distributed Power Architecture
   DPI       Dots Per Inch
   DPMA      Data Processing Management Association
   DPP       District Partner Program
   DQT       Design Quality Test
   DRAM      Dynamic Random Access Memory
   DRC       Data Resource Center
   DRP       Distribution Resource Planning
   DSA       Digital Storage Architecture or Decimal Shift and Add Algorithm
   DSI       Data Subscriber Interface
   DSIN      Digital Software Information
   DSL       Digital Subscriber Line
   DSLA      Digital Software Licensing Architecture
   DSM       Distributed Systems Manufacturing
   DSMC      Digital Service Monthly Charge
   DSN       Digital Services Network
   DSTAR     Digital System Technical Architecture Research
   DS0       Digital Signal ZER0
   DSO       Days Sales Outstanding
   DSO       Digital Storage Oscilloscope
   DSM       Distributed Systems Manufacturing or District
             Sales Manager or Digital Standard MUMPS
   DSR       Data Send Ready
   DSR       Data Set Ready
   DSRI      Digital Standard Relational Interface
   DSSI      Digital Small Storage Interconnect
   DSU       Data Service Unit
   DSU       Digital Service Unit
   DSUWG     Data Systems Users Working Group
   DSX       Digital Signal Cross-Connect
   DT        Dial Tone
   DTE       Data Terminal Equipment
   DTF       Dial Tone First
   DTG       Direct Trunk Group
   DTI       Dark Towers International
   DTI       Digital Trunk Interface
   DTIF      Digital Tabular Interchange Format
   DTMF      Dual Tone Multi-Frequency
   DTN       Digital Telephone Network
   DTP       Desktop Publishing
   DTR       Data Terminal Ready
   DTS       Digital Termination System
   DTST      Dial Tone Speed Test
   DVI       Digital Video Interactive
   DVM       Data Voice Multiplexor
   DVN       Digital Video Network
   DVT       Design Verification Test
   DWCI      DecWindows Compiler Interface
   DWI       Doc Writers Incorporated
   DWIM      Do What I Mean
   EA        Electronic Arts
   EAAT      Equal Access Alternative Technologies
   EADAS     Engineering and Administrative Acquisition System
   EAP       Employee Assistance Program
   EAR       Export Administration Regulations
   EARN      European Academic Research Network
   EAROM     Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory
   EBCDIC    Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
   EBDI      Electronic Business Data Interchange
   EC        Exchange Carriers
   ECAD      Engineering Computer Aided Design
   ECC       East Coast Crackers
   ECC       Enter Cable Change
   ECC       Error Correction Code
   ECFA      Electronic Communications Forwarding Act
   ECL       Error Code Logging
   ECO       Engineering Change Order
   EDC       Error Detection Code or Error Detection and
             Correction or Engineering Data Center
   EDI       Electronic Document Interchange or Electronic Data Interchange
   EDP       Electronic Data Processing
   EDRS      Engineering Data Resources Services
   EDU       Education Computer Systems
   EDWG      ESnet DECnet Working Group
   EEC       Electronic Equipment
   EEE       Electronic Equipment Enclosures
   EFF       Electronic Frontier Foundation
   EFT       Electronic Fund Transfer
   EFTS      Electronic Funds Transfer System
   EGA       Enhanced Graphics Adapter
   EI        Ending Inventory
   EIA       Electronic Industries Association
   EIES      Electronic Information Exchange System
   EIS       Enterprise Integration Services
   EISA      Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture
   EIU       Extended Interface Unit
   EKTS      Electonic Key Telephone Service
   ELD       Electroluminescent Displays
   ELDS      Exchange Line Data Service
   ELF       Employee Locator Facility
   EMA       Electronic Mail Association
   EMA       Enterprise Management Architecture
   EMACS     Ediding Macros
   EMC       ElectroMagnetic Capability
   EMI       Electromagnetic Interference
   EMS       Expanded Memory Specification
   ENET      Ethernet
   ENG       Engineering
   ENQ       Enquire
   EO        End Office
   EOF       End Of File
   EOL       End Of Life
   EOTT      End of Toll Trunking
   EPA       Elite Programming Association
   EPG       External Products Group
   EPLS      Engineering Price List System
   EPP       Executive Partner Program
   EPROM     Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
   ERF       Emergency Restoration Facility
   ES        ElektroShok
   ESA       European Space Agency
   ESB       Emergency Service Bureau (911)
   ESB       Entry Systems Business
   ESD       Electronic Systems Development
   ESDI      Enhanced Small Device Interface
   ESDP      Educational Services Development and Publshing
   ESF       Extended SuperFrame Format
   ESG       Engineering Systems Group
   ESLF      Eastern Seaboard Liberation Front
   ESO       Engineering Support Operations
   ESOC      European Space Operations Center
   ESP       Enhanced Serial Port
   ESP       Enhanced Service Providers
   ESRIN     European Space Research Institute
   ESS       Electronic Switching System
   ESVN      Executive Secure Voice Network
   ET&Q      Engineering, Technology and Quality
   ETS       Electronic Translation System
   EU        End User
   EUPOT     End User-Point of Termination
   EUSR      End User
   EVGA      Expanded Video Graphics Array
   EXCOM     Executive Committee
   F         Fahrenheit
   F & A     Finance and Accounting or Finance and Administration
   FA&T      Final Assembly and Test
   FABS      Financial and Administration Business Systems
   FAST      Federation Against Software Theft
   FBI       Federal Bureau of Investigations
   FBOD      Finance Board of Directors
   FCC       Federal Communications Commission
   FCO       Field Change Order
   FCS       First Customer Ship
   FCST      Forecast
   FDI       Feeder/Distribution Interfaces
   FDDI      Fiber Distributed Data Interface
   FDM       Frequency Division Multiplexing
   FDX       Full Duplex
   F/G       Finished Goods
   4GL       Fourth Generation Language
   FIFO      First In First Out
   FIMG      Finance Industry Marketing Group
   FIPS      Federal Information Processing Standard
   FiRM      Five-O is Rigor Mortis
   FIRM      First In Releasing Most (Incorrect Acro)
   FISG      Financial Industries Systems Group
   Five-O    Cracking group, formerly the Imperial Warlords
   FLT       Fairlight
   FM        Frequency Modulation
   FMAP      Field Manufacturing Automated Process
   FMC       Financial Management Center
   FMEA      Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
   FMIC      Field Manufacturing Information Center
   FMMC      Field Manufacturing Management Committee
   FMP       Field Manufacturing Plan
   FNAL      Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
   FOA       Fiber Optic Adapter
   FOA       First Office Application
   FOAF      Friend Of A Friend
   FOD       Finger of Death
   FOE       Fucking Operator Error
   FOMC      Field Operations Management Committee
   FPA       Floating Point Adapter
   FPM       Feet Per Minute
   FPP       Floating Point Processor
   FRPS      Field Reliability Performance Studies
   FRS       First Revenue Ship
   FRU       Field Replaceable Unit
   FS        Field Service
   FS        Full Scale
   FSF       Free Software Foundation
   FSG       Financial Systems Group
   FSK       Frequency Shift Keying
   FSL       Field Service Logistics
   FT        Field Test
   FTG       Final Trunk Group
   FTP       File Transfer Protocol
   FTPD      File Transfer Protocol Daemon
   FTS       Federal Telecommunications service
   FUBAR     Failed UniBus Address Register
   FUD       Fear,Uncertainty,and Doubt
   FVC       First Volume Commit
   FY        Fiscal Year
   FZG       Folo Zone Gang
   GAO       Government Accounting Office
   GB        Gigabyte
   GCOS      Gods Chosen Operating System
   GECOS     General Electric Comprehensive Operating System
   GFCI      Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter
   GFR       Grim File Reaper
   GIA       General International Area
   GIGO      Garbage In,Garbage Out
   GIPS      Giga Instructions Per Second
   GKS       Graphics Kernal System
   GLIB      Gay and Lesbian Information Bureau
   GOSIP     Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile
   GOVT      Government
   GMG       Government Manufacturing Group
   GNU       GNU's Not Unix
   GOD       Givers of Destruction
   GOP       Grand Old Pirates
   GPD       Gas Plasma Display
   GPIB      General Purpose Interface Bus
   GPL       General Public License
   GPS       Global Positioning System
   GPV       General Public Virus
   GPX       Graphics Processor Accelerator
   GS        Games Society
   GSA       General Services Administration
   GSB       General Systems Business
   GSG       Government Systems Group
   GSFC      Goddard Space Flight Center
   GSIM      General Services Industry Marketing Group
   GSSP      General Systems Security Principles
   GTS       Gamma Transfer Service
   GURPS     Generic Universal Roleplaying Systems
   H/M       Hotel/Motel
   HALE      Hacker's Against Law Enforcement
   HBO       Home Box Office
   HCDS      High Capacity Digital Service
   HCF       Halt and Catch Fire
   HCIG      Health Care Industry Group
   HDA       Head Disk Assembly
   HDK       Hippy Dippy Klub
   HDSC      High-density Signal Carrier
   HDTV      High Definition Television
   HEPNET    High Energy Physics Network
   HIT       Hackers In Touch
   HLI       High-speed LAN Interconnect
   HLL       High Level Language
   HP        Hewlett Packard
   HPS       Hardware Product Services
   HPS       High Performance Systems
   HQ        Headquarters
   HRU       Hackers 'R' Us
   HSC       Hierarchical Storage Controller
   HST       High Speed Technology
   HUTG      High Usage Trunk Group
   HVM       High Volume Manufacturing
   HW        Hardware
   HZ        Hertz
   I/O       Input output
   IBM       Inferior But Marketable
   IBM       Insidious Black Magic
   IBM       International Business Machines
   IBM       Its Been Malfunctioning
   IBM       Its Better Manually
   IC        Inner Circle
   IC        InterExchange Carriers
   IC        Integrated Circuit
   ICE       Inner Circle Elite
   ICE       Insane Creator Enterprises
   ICE       Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics
   ICH       International Call Handling
   ICM       Integrated Call Management
   ICMP      Internet Control Message Protocol
   ICN       Interconnecting Network
   ICPOT     InterExchange Carrier-Point of Termination
   ICR       Inductance,Capacitance,Resistance
   ICS       Italian Cracking Service
   ICST      Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology
   ICUG      International Closed User Groups
   ICVT      InComing Verification Trunk
   IDA       Integrated Digital Access
   IDC       Information Distribution Companies
   IDI       Intergalactic Dismantiling Incorporated
   IDCI      Interim Defined Central Office Interface
   IDDD      International Direct Distance Dialing
   IDECUS    Internal Digital Equipment Corporation User's Society
   IDLC      Integrated Digital Loop Carrier
   IDN       Integrated Digital Networks
   IEC       International ElectroTechnical Commission
   IED       International Engineering Development
   IEEE      Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
   IEG       Internal Equipment Group
   IFIP      International Federation for Information Processing
   IHA       International Hackers Association
   IIRG      International Information Retrieval Guild
   IISF      International Information Security Foundation
   IL        Indirect Labor
   IMM       Idle Material Management
   IMS       Integrated Management Systems
   IMTS      Improved Mobile Telephone Service
   IM&T      Information and Technology Management
   IN        Inch
   IN/1      Intelligent Network/1
   INAP      Intelligent Network Access Point
   INC       International Network of Crackers
   INS       Information Network System
   INTT      Incoming No Test Trunks
   INV       Inventory
   INWATS    Inward Wide Area Telecommunications Service
   I/O       Input/Output
   IO        Independent Option or Input/Output
   IOCC      International Overseas Completion Center
   IOP       Input Output Processor
   IP        Intermediate Point
   IP        Internet Protocol
   IPDP      Industrial Peripheral Data Processing
   IPDS      Intelligent Printer Data Stream
   IPG       Image Processing Group
   IPLS      InterLATA Private Line Services
   IPM       Interruptions Per Minute
   IPMO      Industry Program Management Office
   IPS       Inches Per Second
   IPSG      Internal Product Strategies Group
   IPT       Inventory Program Team
   IRC       Internet Relay Chat
   IRG       International Rogues Guild
   IRR       Internal Rate of Return
   IRQ       Interrupt Request
   IS        Information Systems
   ISA       Industry Standard Architecture
   ISBS      Information Systems Business Segment
   ISC       Inter-Nation Switching Center
   ISDN      Integrated Services Digital Network
   ISF       Information Security Foundation
   ISM       Installed Systems Marketing
   ISO       International Standards Organization
   ISPN      INFO Security Product News
   ISPS      Information System Production Systems
   ISS       Initial System Sale or Internal Special Systems
   ISSA      Information Systems Security Association
   ISSM      Information Systems Security Monitor
   ISSN      Integrated Special Services Network
   ISU       Integrated Service Unit
   ISWS      Internal Software Services
   IT        Information Technology
   ITAP      Information and Technology Architecture Plan
   ITAR      International Traffic in Arms Regulation
   ITS       Incompatible Time-Sharing System
   ITS       Internal Theft Syndicate
   IUD       INC Utilities Division
   IVIS      Interactive Video Interface System
   IVPC      International Virus Prevention Conference
   IW        Imperial Warlords
   JANET     Joint Academic Network
   JCL       Job Control Language
   JEC       Job Evaluation Classification
   JIS       Jurisdictional Interstate Services
   JIT       Just In Time
   JPL       Jet Propulsion Laboratory
   JSC       Johnson Space Center
   K         Kilo or Kilobyte
   KB        Kilobyte
   KBPS      Kilobits per second
   KKHPAC    Ku Klux Hackers Phreakers Anarchists of Connecticut
   KKX       Ku Klux Connecticut
   KKK       Ku Klux Klan
   KOS       Knights of Shadow
   KP        Key Pulse
   KPL       Kit Parts List
   KSR       Keyboard Send Receive
   LADS      Local Area Data Service
   LADT      Local Area Data Transport
   LAN       Local Area Network
   LANL      Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratories
   LAP       Link Access Protocol
   LAPB      Link Access Protocol Balanced
   LASS      Local Area Switching Service
   LAST      Local Area System Transport
   LAT       Local Area Transport
   LATA      Local Access Transport Area
   LAVC      Local Area Vax Cluster
   LAW       Lyrical Association of Writers
   LB        Pounds
   LBL       Lawrence Berkely Laboratory
   LBRV      Low Bit Rate Voice
   LCC       Leadless Chip Carrier
   LCD       Liquid Crystal Display
   LCDN      Last Call Directory Number
   LD        Long Distance
   LDM       Limited Distance Modem
   LDP       Laboratory Data Products
   LDS       Local Digital Switch
   LEBC      Low End Business Center
   LEC       Local Exchange Carrier
   LED       Light Emitting Diode
   LEDS      Low End Disk Systems
   LEEP      Large Expanse Extra Perspective
   LEGSS     Low End Graphics Sub-System
   LEN       Low End Networks
   LEST      Low End Systems and Technologies
   LIDB      Line Information Database
   LIFO      Last In First Out
   LLC       Logical Link Control
   LLI       Lunatic Labs Incorporated
   LMF       License Management Facility or Low Magnetic Field
   LMF       Low Magnetic Field
   LMI       Local Memory Interconnect
   LMOS      Loop Maintenance and Operations System
   LMOS      Loop Maintenence Operating System
   LOD       Legion of Doom
   LOD/H     Legion of Doom/Hackers
   LOL       Legion of Lucifer
   LOTSAB    Legion Opposed to Stupid Asshole Bottanists
   LPM       Lines Per Minute
   LRP       Long Range Plan
   LSD       Least Significant Digit
   LSE       Language Sensitive Editor
   LSI       Large Scale Integration
   LVM       Line Verification Module
   M2        Mondo 2000
   MA        Ma Bell
   MAC       Macintosh Computer
   MAC       Media Access Control
   MAC       Message Authentication
   MAC       Multi Access Computers
   MAN       Metropolitan Area Network
   MARCOM    Marketing Communications
   MAP       Manufacturing Automation Protocol
   MASS      Mid-Atlantic and Southern States
   MATAC     Material Acquisition
   MAU       Multistation Access Unit
   MB        Megabyte
   MBOD      Manufacturing Board of Directors
   MBPS      Mega-Bits Per Second
   MBU       Manufacturing Business Unit
   MCA       Micro Channel Architecture
   MCAM      Manufacturing Corporate Account Manager
   MCESS     Mechanical Component Engineering Support Service
   MCGA      Multi-Color Graphics Array or (Adaptor)
   MCP       Master Control Program
   MCS       Multinational Character Set
   MCT       Manufacturing Cycle Time
   MCU       Multi Chip Unit
   MDA       Monochrome Display Adapter
   MDDS      Media and Documentation Update Service
   MDR       Message Detail Record
   MDS       Message Design Systems
   ME        Mechanical Engineering
   MEM       Manufacturing Engineering and Marketing
   MF        MultiFrequency
   MFG       Manufacturing
   MFLOPS    Millions of Floating Point Operations Per Second
   MFM       Modified Frequency Modulation
   MHZ       Mega-Hertz
   MI        Machine Interface
   MIC       Management Information Center
   MIDAS     Master Integrated Distribution Subcontracting Agreement
   MIF       Master Item File
   MIMG      Media Industry Marketing Group
   MINX      Multimedia Information Network Exchange
   MIPS      Millions of Instructions Per Second
   MIR       Material Increase Request
   MIS       Management Information Systems
   MISG      Market Information Services Group
   MIT       Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy
   MJU       MultiPoint Junction Unit
   MLDS      Medium Large Disk Systems
   MLHG      Multiline Hunt Group
   MLP       Maynard List Price
   MLPC      Model Level planning Committee
   MLT       Mechanized Loop Testing
   MMC       Micky Mouse Club
   MNP       Microcom Networking Protocol
   MOB       Men of Business
   MoD       Master's of Destruction
   MoD       Master's of Disaster
   MOF       Master Order Form
   MOS       Metal Oxide Semiconductor or Material Order System
   MP        Multi-Processor
   MPME      Manufacturing Process and Material Engineering
   MPS       Master Production Schedule
   MPSC      Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems
   MRC       Manufacturing Resource Center or Management Response Center or
             Market Research Center
   MSD       Most Significant Digit
   MSFC      Marshall Space Flight Center
   MT        Mitel
   MTB       Magnetic Tape Billing
   MTBSI     Mean Time Between System Interruptions
   MTS       Message Transport Service
   MTS       Mobile Telephone Service
   MRAA      Meter Reading Access Arrangement
   MRP       Manufacturing Resource Planning
   MS        Milli-Seconds
   MSCP      Mass Storage Control Protocol
   MSB       Mid-Range Systems Business
   MSD       Micro Systems Development
   MSPM      Manufacturing System Program Manager
   MSSC      Marketing Sales Strategy Committee
   MTBF      Mean Time Between Failures
   MTS       Message Telephone Service
   MTTR      Mean Time to Repair
   MTU       Maintenence Termination Unit
   MUX       Multiplexer
   MVB       MicroVax Business
   MWI       Message Waiting Indicator
   NAC       Networks and Communications
   NAC       New Age Crackers
   NACM      Networks and Communications Marketing
   NAPE      National Pirate Exchange
   NAPLPS    North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax
   NAPPA     Northern American Phreakers/Piraters Association
   NARC      Nuclear Phreakers/Hackers/Carders
   NAS       Network Application Support
   NASA      National Aeronautics and Space Administration
   NASM      Named Account Sales Manager
   NAS       Network Application Support
   NBS       National Bureau of Standards
   NC        Network Channel
   NCC       Norweigan Cracking Company
   NCI       Network Channel Interface
   NCIC      National Crime Information Center
   NCS       Network Computing System
   NCP       Network Control Program
   NCSA      National Computer Security Association
   NCSC      National Computer Security Center
   NCTE      Network Channel Terminating Equipment
   NDA       Network Delivery Access
   NDC       Network Data Collection
   NDIS      Network Device Interface Specification
   NDN       National Distribution Network
   NDS       Network Data System
   NDU       Network Device Utility
   NE        Network Element
   NEAS      Northeast Atlantic States
   NEBS      Network Equipment Building System
   NEC       Nippon Electronic Company
   NES       Net Equipment Sales
   NESC      National Electric Safety Code
   NEUA      National Elite Underground Alliance
   NFS       Network File System
   NFSP      National Federation of Software Pirates
   NFT       Network File Transfer
   NH        Nazi Hackers
   NHAS      New Hampshire Administrative Services
   NHTSA     National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
   NI        Network Interconnect
   NI        Network Interface
   NIA       Network Information Access
   NIC       Network Information Center
   NIDL      Network Interface Definition Language
   NIH       National Institutes of Health
   NIST      National Institute of Standards and Technology
   NJE       Network Job Entry
   NLM       Netware Loadable Modules
   NMI       Nautilus Memory Interconnect
   NMR       Normal Mode Rejection
   NOAA      National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
   NOF       Network Operations Forum
   NOR       Net Operating Revenue
   NOT!      Nation Of Thieves
   NPA       National Phreaker's Alliance
   NPA       Northern Phreaker's Alliance
   NPA       Number Planning Area
   NPC       Northern Phun Company
   NPIP      New Product Integration Process
   NPO       New Product Operations
   NPSU      New Product Start Up
   NPSS      NASA Packet Switching System
   NRC       National Research Council
   NRCS      National Replacement Character Set
   NRZ       Non Return to Zero
   NS        Nano-Seconds
   NSA       National Security Agency
   NSA       National Security Anarchists
   NSC       National Security Council
   NSDD      National Security Decision Directive
   NSF       National Science Foundation
   NT        New Technology
   NTA       Nokturnal Trading Alliance
   NTE       Network Terminal Equipment
   NTIA      National Telecommunications and Information Administration
   NTISSC    National Telecommunications and Information Systems
             Steering Committee
   NUA       Network User Address
   NUI       Network User ID
   NVN       National Videtex Network
   NWSS      Networks & Site Services
   NYC       New York Crackers
   NYSHII    New York Safehouse II
   OA        Order Administration or Office Automation
   OAGEE     Official Airlines Guide Electronic Edition
   OBU       Option Business Unit
   OCRC      Option Change Review Committee
   ODA       Office Document Architecture
   ODI       Open Data Interface
   OEM       Original Equipment Manufacturer
   OFG       Originally Funny Guys
   OGVT      OutGoing Verification Trunk
   OIP       Opportunity Investment Planning
   OIS       Office and Information Systems
   OLTP      On-Line Transaction Processing
   OMC       Office of Munitions Control
   ONI       Operator Number Identification
   OOD       Office of Development (Central Engineering)
   OOFNet    Our Own Fucking Net
   OP        Option
   OPAL      On-line Presentation Access Library
   OPCR      Operator Actions Program
   OPEN      Open Protocol Enhanced Networks
   OPM       Outage Performance Monitoring
   OPOM      Organizational Program Office Manager
   OPS       Operations
   O/S       Operating System
   OSF       Open Software Foundation
   OSI       Open System Interconnection
   OSP       Office of Sales Programs
   OSS       Operator Services System
   OST       Originating Station Treatment
   OTA       Office of Technology Assessment
   OTC       Operating Telephone Company
   OTD       Off the Dock
   OTDR      Optical Time Domain Reflectometers
   OTP       Order Transaction Processing
   OTR       Operational Trouble Report
   OTS       Off The Shelf
   OUTWATS   Outward Wide Area Telecommunications Service
   PABX      Private Automatic Branch Exchange
   PAC       Pricing and Announcement Committee
   PAD       Packet Assembler/Dissasembler
   PADSX     Partially Automated Digital Signal Cross-Connect
   PAG       Phreak's Against Geeks
   PAL       Programmable Array Logic
   PAM       Pulse Amplitude Modulation
   PAPAG     Phreak's Against Phreak's Against Geeks
   PASI      Production, Availability, Shipments, Inventory
   PAW       Pirates Analyze Warez
   PAX       Private Automatic Exchange
   PB        Pacific Brigade
   PBM       Product Business Manager
   PBT       Profit Before Tax
   PBU       Product Business Unit
   PBX       Personal Branch Exchange
   PBX       Private Branch Exchange
   PBX       Product Branch Exchange
   PC        Personal Computer
   PC        Primary Center
   PC        Production Control
   PCB       Printed Circuit Board
   PCM       Plug Compatible Manufacturer
   PCM       Profit Contribution Margin
   PCM       Product Capacity Manager
   PCM       Pulse Code Modulation
   PCP       PC Pursuit
   PCP       Pyscho Corporate Productions
   PCR       Personal Computer Rats
   PCR       Post Call Ratio
   PCSA      Personal Computing System Architecture
   PCSG      Personal Computing Systems Group
   PD        Public Domain
   PDP       Peripheral Data Processing
   PE        Public Enemy
   PEP       Performance Enhancement Package or Personal Enrichment
             Program
   PFM       Pulse Frequency Modulation
   PGA       Pin Grid Array
   P/H/A     Phreaker's/Hacker's/Anarchist's
   PHACT     Phreakers/Hackers/Anarchists/Cyberpunks/Technologists
   PHANTSY   Phantasy Magazine
   PhD       Phreak/Hacker Destroyers
   PHUCK     Phone Hackers Untided Crash Kill
   PHUN      Phreaker Hackers Underground Network
   PI        Physical Inventory
   PI        Pirate Incorporated
   PIC       Polyolefin Insulated Cables
   PID       Proprietary Information Disclosure
   PIN       Personal Identification Number
   PITS      Pie In The Sky
   P&L       Profit and Loss
   PLA       Programmed Logic Array
   PLCC      Plastic Leadless Chip Carrier
   PLD       Programmable Logic Device
   PLS       Programmable Logic Sequencer
   PMG       Product Marketing Group
   PMI       Private Memory Interconnect
   PMR       Poor Mans Routing
   PMS       Paranoid Media Scrutizination
   PMS       Peoples Message Service
   PMT       Planning Methodology Team
   PO        Purchase Order
   POC       Point of Contact
   POD       Piece of Data
   POM       Point of Manufacturing
   POP       Point of Presence
   POOR      Protector's Of Our Rights
   POT       Point of Termination
   POTS      Plain Old Telephone Service
   PP        Post-Pay
   PP&E      Production, Planning, and Execution
   PPD       Product Phase Down
   PPL       Periodic Payment License
   PPM       Pages Per Minute
   PPM       Parts Per Million
   PPN       Project Program Number
   PPP       Point to Point Protocol
   PPS       Public Packet Switching
   PPS       Pulses Per Second
   PPSN      Public Packet Switched Network
   PPSU      Personal Printer Spooling Utility
   PRE       Prefix
   PROFS     Professional Office Systems
   PROM      Programmable Read Only Memory
   PROMIS    Prosecutors Management Information Systems
   PS        Personal System
   PSAP      Public Safety Answering Point (911)
   PSDS      Public Switched Digital Service
   PSG       Peripheral and Supplies Group or Product Shipping Guide
   PSS       Professional Software Services
   PSU       Portable Storage Unit
   PTC       Part Time Crackers
   PTE       Packet Transport Equipment
   PTG       Physical Technology Group
   PTL       Pirates That Live
   PTL       Praise the Lord
   PTS       Position and Trunk Scanner
   PTT       Postal Telephone Telegraph
   PVN       Private Virtual Network
   QBOD      Quality Board of Directors
   QC        Quality Control
   QDSS      Q-Bus Dragon Sub-System
   QPA       Quality Program Analysis
   QSO       QWK Support Option
   QSS       Quality Solution Systems
   QVSS      Q-Bus Viper Sub-System
   RABID     Rebellion Against Big Irrepressible Dweebs
   RAM       Random Access Memory
   RAMP      Reliability, Availability, Maintainability Program
   RAO       Revenue Accounting Office
   RBG       Realtime Business Group
   RBOC      Regional Bell Operating Company
   RC        Reduced Cost
   RC        Regional Center
   RCC       Radio Comnmon Carrier
   RDB       Relational Database
   RDSN      Region Digital Switched Network
   RDT       Restricted Data Transmissions
   RDT       Remote Digital Terminal
   REV       Revenue or Revision
   RF        Radio Frequency
   RFC       Request For Comments
   RFI       Radio Frequency Interference or Request for Information
   RFP       Request for Proposal
   RGB       Red Green Blue
   RH        Relative Humidity
   RIP       Routing Information Protocol
   RIS       Remote Installation Service
   RISC      Reduced Instruction Set Computer
   RISD      Reference Information Systems Development
   RJE       Remote Job Entry
   RLL       Run Lenght Limited
   RMS       Root Mean Squared
   RO        Read Only
   ROA       Return On Assets
   ROI       Return On Investment
   ROM       Read Only Memory
   ROT       Reign of Terror
   ROTL      Remote Office Test Lines
   RPC       Remote Procedure Call
   RPE       Remote Peripheral Equipment
   RPM       Reduced Parts menu
   RPM       Relentless Pursuit of Magnificience
   RPM       Revolution Per Minute or Rotations Per Minute
   RPV       Remotely Piloted Vehicle
   RQS       The Rate Quote System
   RQT       Reliability Quality Test
   RSA       Reference System Architecture
   RSAT      Reliability and System Architecture Testing
   RSE       Removable Storage Elements
   RSL       Remote Ship List
   RSS       Remote Switching System
   RSTS/E    Resource System Time Sharing/Environment
   RSTS/E    Resource Sharing Time Sharing/Extended
   RSU       Remote Switching Unit
   RSVP      Rdb Solutions Vendor Program
   RT        Real Time
   RTA       Real-Time Accelerator
   RTA       Remote Trunk Arrangement
   RTBG      Real Time Business Group
   RTD       Resistance Temperature Detector
   RTE       Remote Terminal Emulation
   RTS       Request to Send
   RX        Recieve Data
   SxS       Step-by-Step
   SxS       Strowger Switch
   S-Box     Skunk Box
   SA        Storage Array
   SABB      Storage Array Building Block
   SAC       Special Area Code
   SAFE      Security Awareness From Education
   SAIL      Stanfords Artificial Intelligence Lab
   SAM       Secure Access Multiport
   SARTS     Switched Access Remote Test System
   SAS       Switched Access Services
   SAS       Single Attachment System
   SASE      Self Addressed Stamped Envelope
   SASE      System and Support Engineering
   SBA       Shipping and Billing Authorization
   SBB       System Building Block
   SBC       Single Board Computer
   SBDN      Southern Bell Data Network
   SBI       Storage Bus Interconnect
   SBR       Storage Business Review
   SBT       Software Business Technologies
   SC        Sectional Center
   SCA       Strategic Capital Acquisitions
   SCA       Swiss Cracking Association
   SCC       Specialized Common Carriers
   SCC       Switching Control Center
   SCCP      Signaling Connection Control Part
   SCCS      Switching Control Center System
   SCD       Software Chronical Digest
   SCF       Selective Call Forwarding
   SCI       Strategic Computing Initiative
   SCIT      Semi-Conductor and Interconnect Technologies
   SCMP      System Cooperative Marketing Program
   SCO       Semiconductor Operations
   SCP       Service Control Point
   SCR       Selective Call Rejection
   SCSI      Small Computer Storage Interface
   SCSI      Small Computer Systems Interface
   SDA       Silicon Dream Artists
   SDA       Software Design Automation
   SDC       Software Distribution Center
   SDI       Strategic Defense Initiative
   SDI       Standard Disk Interconnect
   SDI       Standard Drive Interface
   SDLC      Synchronous Data Link Control
   SDNS      Secure Data System Network
   SDS       Sales and Distribution Systems
   SE        Society Elite
   SEA       System Enhancement Associates
   SEE       Systems Equipment Engineering
   SEG       Semiconductor Engineering Organization
   SF        Single Frequency
   SF        Supervision Control Frequency
   SFE       Secure Front End
   SFI       Society for the Freedom of Information
   SGA       Sysops Guild Association
   SHA       Swedish Hackers Association
   SHIBNI    Shipped But Not Invoiced
   SIA       Semiconductor Industry Association
   SID       Satanic Incarnate of Doom
   SIG       Special Interest Group
   SIM       Service Industry Marketing
   SIMM      Single Inline Memory Module
   SIT       Special Information Tones
   SKISM     Smart Kids Into Sick Methods
   SLA       Service Level Agreement
   SLAC      Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory
   SLC       Service Level Contract or Software License Configurator
   SLE       Screen List Editing
   SLIC      Subscriber Line Interface Card
   SLIP      Serial Line Internet Protocol
   SLS       Storage Library System
   SLU       Serial Line Unit
   SMDI      Storage Module Disk Interconnect
   SMDS      Switched Multi-Megabit Data Service
   SME       Society of Manufacturing Engineering
   SMI       System Management Interrupt
   SMP       Symmetrical Multi-Processing
   SMS       Self-maintenance Services
   SMS       Station Management System
   SMU       Strategic Marketing Unit
   SNA       System Network Architecture
   SNMP      Simple Network Management Protocol
   SNPC      Software New Products Committee
   SO        System Option
   SOC       Systems and Option Catalog
   SOCC      Standard Optical Cable Code
   SOE       Standards of Excellence
   SOE       Standrard Operating Environment
   SONDS     Small Office Network Data System
   SONET     Synchronous Optical Network
   SOP       Standard Operating Procedure
   SOP       Sum of the Pieces
   SOST      Special Operator Service Treatment
   SoT       The Sea of Tranquility
   SPA       Software Publishers Association
   SPAN      Space Physics Analysis Network
   SPC       Stored Program Control
   SPCSS     Stored Program Control Switching System
   SPD       Software Product Description
   SPDA      Supplier Data Program
   SPG       Software Product Group
   SPI       Safeguarding Proprietary Information
   SPI       Self-Paced Instruction
   SPM       Software Performance Montior
   SPP       Ship Plan
   SPS       Self Preservation Society
   SPS       Software Product Services
   SQL       Structural Query Language
   SQM       Software Quality Mangement
   SRC       System Resource Center
   SRG       Strategic Relations Group
   SRTC      Service Right-to-Copy
   SS        Secret Service
   SS        Signaling System
   SS        Special Service
   SS        Standard System
   SSAN      Social Security Account Number
   SSAS      Station Signaling and Announcement System
   SSB       Software Supply Business
   SSD       Solid State Disk
   SSG       Software Systems Group
   SSG       Strategic Studies Group
   SSG       Suburban Survival Guide
   SSL       Standard Security Label
   SSN       Social Security Number
   SSODB     Secret Society of Dark Birds
   SSP       Switching Service Points
   SSS       Software Support Services
   SSS       Strowger Switching System
   STAR      Systems and Technology Applications Requirements
   STD       Subscriber Trunk Dialing
   STG       Strategic Technologies Group
   STP       Signal Transfer Point
   STS       Synchronous Transport Signal
   SUFF      Suffix
   SUNet     Stanford University Network
   SVGA      Super Video Graphics Array
   SWG       Sub Working Group
   SWIFT     Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications
   SWM       Semiconductor Worldwide Management
   SWS       Software Services
   SYS       System
   TAC       Terminal Access Circuit
   TAMU      Texas A&M University
   TAN       Telecomm and Networks
   TANJ      There Ain't No Justice
   TAP       Technological Assistance Party
   TAP       Trans-Atlantic Project
   TAS       Telephone Answering Service
   TAS       The Apostle Syndicate
   TASI      Time Assignment Speech Interpolation
   TBBS      The Bread Board System
   TBG       Telecomm Business Group
   TBU       Terminals Business Unit
   TC        Toll Center
   TC        Transfer Cost
   T's & C's Terms and Conditions
   T&C       Time and Charge
   TCAP      Transaction Capabilities ApplicationPart
   TCAP      Telecommunications Alarm Surveillance
   TCC       Technical Consulting Center
   TCIF      Telecommunications Industry Forum
   TCP       Transmission Control Protocol
   TCS       The Criminal Syndicate (The Crime Syndicate)
   TDAS      Traffic Data Administration System
   TDCC      Transport Data Coordinating Committee
   TDM       Time Division Multiplexing
   TDMS      Terminal Data Management System
   TDT       The Dream Team
   TFT       Thin Film Transistor
   TGITM     The Ghost In The Machine
   TGL       Third Generation Language (3GL)
   TH        Trouble History
   THC       The Hellfire Club
   THENET    Texas Higher Education Network
   THG       The Humble Guys
   THP       The Hill People
   TIDE      Traffic Information Distributor & Editor
   TIS       Technical Information Systems
   TLB       TransLAN Bridge
   TMC       Telemarketing Communications
   TMC       The Movie Channel
   TMSCP     Tape Mass Storage Control Protocol
   TNDS      Total Network Data System
   TNS       Tolmes News Service
   TOAO      The One and Only
   TOEM      Technical Original Equipment Manufacturer
   TOP       Technical Office Protocol or Technology and Organizational
             Performance
   TOPS      Tapes and Optical Products
   TP        Toll Point
   TP        Transaction Processing
   TPC       Transaction Processiong Performance Council
   TPC       The Phoney Coders
   TPC       Two Phase Commit
   TPI       Tracks Per Inch
   TPL       Traditional Product Line
   TPS       Transactions Per Second
   TQC       Total Quality Control
   TREAT     Trouble Report Evaluation and Analysis Tool
   TRI       The Remote Informer
   TRS       The RapeWare Syndicate
   TRSI      The Red Sector Inc
   TRWS      The Rape Ware Syndicate
   TS        Toxic Shock
   TSAN      The Sysops Association Network
   TSAN      The Sysop's Area Network
   TSAN      Tri-State Area Sysop's Network
   TSC       Telecommunications Security Council
   TSG       Telecommunications Systems Group
   TSG       Timing Signal Generator
   TSN       Terminal Switching Network
   TSO       Technical Services Organization
   TSP       Technology Strategy and Planning
   TSPS      Traffic Service Position System
   TSR       The Syndicate Report
   TTAP      Trust Technology Assessment Program
   TTL       Transistor-to-Transistor Logic
   TTM       Time to Market
   TUFF      The Underground Fone Foundation
   TUGOS     The United Guild Of Sysops
   TUIMG     Telecom/Utilities Industry Marketing Group
   TV-H      TV Line
   TV-V      TV Frame
   TWA       The Warez Alliance
   TWCB      The Whacko Cracko Brothers
   TWX       Telex II
   TX        Transmit Data
   UAA       United Amarchists of America
   UAE       Unrecoverable Application Error
   UART      Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter
   UCF       Underground Computing Foundation
   UCF       Untouchable Cracking Force
   UCS       Uniform Communication Standard
   UDC       Universal Digital Channel
   UDP       User Datagram Protocol
   UDVM      Universal Data Voice Multiplexer
   UFD       User Friendly Diagnostics
   UIF       United Ignorance Front
   ULTRA     Underground Legion of Terroristic Research Activists
   UN        United Nations
   UOF       Unusual Order Form
   UPC       Utility Port Conditioner
   UPI       United Phreaker's Incorporated
   UPS       Uninterruptible Power Supply
   UPS       Uninterruptible Power System
   UPS       United Pirate Syndicate
   URN       Underground Rip-Off Network
   USA       United Software Association
   USA/FLT   United Software Association/Fairlight
   USA       United States Alliance (Amiga Group)
   USC       User Steering Committee
   USCIC     U.S. Country Information Center
   USDN      United States Digital Network
   USFDC     U.S. Financial Data Center
   USIBC     U.S. Integrated Business Center
   USMP      U.S. Manufacturing Planning
   USPL      U.S. Price List
   USR       USRobotics
   UTG       United Traders of Germany
   UUCP      Unix to Unix Copy Program
   UUT       User to User Signaling
   UVC       Universal Voice Channel
   UXU       Underground Experts United
   VAN       Value Added Network
   VAR       Value Added Reseller
   VAX       Virtual Address Extension
   VAXft     VAX Fault Tolerant
   VDT       Visual Display Terminal
   VDU       Visual Display Unit
   VESA      Video Electronics Standards Association
   VFP       Vertical Forms Printing
   VFU       Vertical Forms Unit
   VG        Voice Grade
   VGA       Video Graphics Array
   VGB       Voice Grade Budget
   VIA       Vax Information Architecture
   VIPS      Video Image Printer Systems
   VIS       Video Information System
   VLSI      Very Large Scale Integration
   VMB       Voice Mail Box
   VMS       Voice Message System
   VMS       Virtual Memory System
   VOLM      Volume
   VOM       Volt Ohm Meter
   VPA       VAX Performance Advisor
   VPL       Visual Programming Language
   VPS       Voice Processing System
   VR        Virtual Reality
   VRAM      Video Random Access Memory
   VT        Video Terminal
   VTX       Videotex
   VUIT      Visual User Interface Tool
   VUP       Vax Unit of Processsing
   WACS      Western and Central States
   WAN       Wide Area Network
   WASP      Warriors Against Software Protection
   WATS      Wide Area Telecommunications Service
   WATS      Wide Area Telephone Service
   WCU       Water Cooling Unit
   WDCS      Wideband Digital Cross-Connect System
   WDM       Wavelength Division MultiPlexing
   WES       Western Electronics Switching
   WINS      Warehouse Information Network Standards
   WIP       Work In Process
   WIP       Workcenter Information Package
   WIPO      World Intellectual Property Organization
   WORM      Write Once Read Many
   WPE       World Pirate Echo
   WPS       Word Processing Software
   WVIEW     World View Magazine
   WW        Worldwide
   WYSIWYG   What You See Is What You Get
   XBAR      CrossBar
   XBT       Crossbar Tandem
   XCOST     Transfer Cost
   XFMC      Cross Functional Management Committee
   XGA       Extended Graphics Array
   XNS       Xerox Network Systems
   XSV       Transfer Cost System Value
   XTC       Extended Test Controller
   YAM       Youngster's Against McAfee
   YAM       Youths Against McAfee

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