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Full Name

Bibliographical Index

3DES

TRIPLE DES; Algorithm; Encryption technique for IPsec; Also see: DES;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

3GPP

3RD GENERATION PARTNERSHIP PROJECT

[WWW.NEC.CO.JP; 2002]

3R

REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE; EA = Product development + Manufacturing + 3R

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

AAL5

ATM ADAPTATION LAYER 5

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

ABF

APPLICATION BY FORM

Computer Associates' Ingres RDBMS

[WWW.CA.COM]

ABR

AREA BORDER ROUTER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AC

ALTERNATING CURRENT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ACAP

APPLICATION CONFIGURATION ACCESS PROTOCOL; Also see: IMAP;

[SECURITY COMPLETE; SYBEX; 2001]

ACE

ACCESS CONTROL ENTRIES

[MMC 2 V.5; MICROSOFT; 2004]

ACE

ACTION CLASSIFICATION ENGINES

Intel's IX Bus modular API

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, LINLEY GWENNAP & BOB WHEELER, MICRODESIGN, 2000]

acf

APPLICATION CONFIGURATION FILE

[MICROSOFT PLATFORM SDK, 2001]

ack

Acknowledge; ACK bit;

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

ACL

ACCESS CONTROL LIST

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ACPI

ADVANCED CONFIGURATION AND POWER INTERFACE

Also see: WDM; Phoenix BIOS C1 ~ C4 states;

[MACHINE.INF / WINDOWS 98]; [WWW.ACPI.INFO; 2002];

ACS

AIRESPACE CONTROL SYSTEM; Also see: ACS v.2

[EWEEK; JAN. 5, 2004]

AD

ACTIVE DIRECTORY;

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

ADAM

ACTIVE DIRECTORY APPLICATION MODE; In this mode, AD can be deployed as LDAP;

[EWEEK, JULY 7, 2003]

ADC

ADVANCED DATA CONNECTOR

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

ADC

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER; Also see: DAC

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

ADE

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

ADF

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK; JDeveloper;

[Oracle Magazine; August, 2004];

ADF

AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER

[Owner's Manual, MFC-3100C;  WWW.BROTHER.COM; 2002] [Owner's Manual, MFC 210C, 2004]

ADO

ACTIVEX DATA OBJECTS

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

ADS

AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT SERVICE; Tool for Win 2000, 2003 server deployment; v.1 in 2003;

[EWEEK, SEPT., 2003]

ADSI

ACTIVE DIRECTORY SERVICE INTERFACES

[MICROSOFT PLATFORM SDK, FEB., 2001]

ADSL

ASYMMETRIC DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

ADSL CAP

ADSL CARRIER-LESS AMPLITUDE PHASE

[MMC2 v5; Microsoft; 2004]

ADSL DMT

ADSL  DISCRETE MULTI-TONE

[MMC2 v5; Microsoft; 2004]

ADSU

ATM DATA SERVICE UNIT

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

ADTG

ADVANCED DATA TABLEGRAM

[PROGRAMMING MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 6, FRANCESCO BALENCA]

AES/OS

APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT SPECIFICATION / OPERATING SYSTEM

[Application Environment Specification / Operating System Programming Interfaces Volume; Prentice Hall; 1990]

AES

ADVANCED ENCRYPTION STANDARD

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING, BRYAN BERGERON, PRENTICE HALL, 2003]

AFC

ANTI-FERROMAGNETICALLY COUPLED

Media, also called pixie-dust; IBM's lower power consumption with higher stability of data

AFI

AUTHORITY AND FORMAT IDENTIFIER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AFIS

AUTOMATIC FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM

[WWW.NEC-CEBIT.COM/product_IntronNavi_eng.asp; 2005]

AFP

APPLETALK FILING PROTOCOL

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

AFS

AVNET FASTRAC SERVICES

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

AGP

ACCELERATED GRAPHICS PORT

Graphics data which is transferred on PCI bus

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

AH

Authentication Headers;  Part of IPSEC;

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

AI

ANALOG INPUT; Also see: AO

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

AI

Artificial Intelligence

AIIM

ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION AND IMAGE MANAGEMENT

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

AIM

ADVANCED INTEGRATION MODULE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AIM

ATM INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AIP

ATM INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AIS

ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

AIT

ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

[WWW.AIT.AC.TH]

ALE

APPLICATION LINK ENABLING; SAP usage; For example, in SAP R/3, use of flat files & pooled data to intercommunicate, thus less complexity;

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]; [IMPLEMENTING SAP R/3, BANCROFT; 1996] SAP provides IDOC by deploying ALE to do asynchronous-data-transfer between SAP-system and other-systems;

ALOM

ADVANCED LIGHTS OUT MANAGER; Also see: SUN

[EWEEK, SEPT., 2003]

ALSA

ADVANCED LINUX SOUND ARCHITECTURE

[LINUX: MANDRAKESOFT.COM; 2002]

ALU

ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNIT

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING, BRYAN BERGERON, PRENTICE HALL, 2003]

AM

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; at constant frequency, amplitude varies;

[NETWORK SECURITY ILLUSTRATED; McGraw-Hill; 2004]

AMB

ADVANCED MEMORY BUFFER

[NEC; 2005]

AMC

ADVANCED MICRO COMPUTERS = SIEMENS + amd

[WWW.AMD.COM;2003]

AMD

advanced micro devices, inc.

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

AML

ARC MACRO LANGUAGE; ArcInfo software, GIS

[WWW.ESRI.COM]

AMPS

ADVANCED MOBILE PHONE SYSTEM

[WWW.LABS.FUJITSU.COM/EN/THEME/ COMMDEV/SAW.HTML]

ANI

Automatic Number Identification

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

ANI/CLI

ANI / Calling line identification

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

ANSI

AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE; Also see: www.ansi.org

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

AO

ANALOG OUTPUT; Also see: AI

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

AO/DI

ALWAYS ON/DYNAMIC ISDN

[MILES IGNOTUS, BANGKOK POST, 9/5/01]

AOL

America Online

AON

AUTOMATED OPERATIONS NETWORK

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

AOP

ASPECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; also see: BSH;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; SEPT./OCT. 2004]

AP

Access Point; WLAN;

[185 Wireless Secrets; Wiley Publishing; 2004]

APCN2

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

APD

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE

[www.jaxa.jp/missions/projects/sat/ exploration/planet_c/index_e.html]

APE

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE EXPLORER

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

API

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

APM

ADVANCED POWER MANAGEMENT

[810E MOTHERBOARD SPECIFICATION, EMACHINES, 2001]

APPC

ADVANCED PROGRAM TO PROGRAM COMMUNICATION

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

APPN

ADVANCED PEER TO PEER NETWORK

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

APU

ADVANCED PRINT UTILITY;

[Infoprint Designer for iSeries v.1, r.1 & AS/400; WWW.IBM.COM; 2002]

AQ

ADVANCED QUEUING

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

ARA

APPLETALK REMOTE ACCESS

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

ARAP

AppleTalk Remote Access Protocol

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

ARC

ADVANCED RISC COMPUTING; ARC path = scsi(1)disk(2)rdisk(3)partition(4)\windowName

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]; Also see: ABCDEFG$_INI.HTM;

ARP

ADDRESS RESOLUTION PROTOCOL

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ARS

AUTOMATIC ROUTE SELECTION

A system / PC Console based super hybrid digital PABX

[PANASONIC SYSTEMS, 2001, www.panasonic-th.com , BANGKOK POST]

AS

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

ASCII

AMERICAN STANDARD CODE FOR INFORMATION INTERCHANGE; [pronounce As´ke ];

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ASD

AUTOMATIC SKIP DRIVER

[TRIER EXAMS; V.2.0; 1997]

www.trierexams.com

ASDI

ACTIVE DIRECTORY SERVICES INTERFACE; Also see: WSH;

[.NET MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

ASF

ADVANCED STREAMING FORMAT

PowerPoint presentation broadcasting

[MICROSOFT OFFICE XP]

ASF

APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION

[WWW.APACHE.ORG; 2003]

ASI

AGERE SYSTEM INTERFACE; Lucent;

[a guide to network processor, microdesign, 2000]

ASIC

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; In 2003, Adaptec's Gigabit Ethernet adapter with TOE/ASIC to lower latency by 40% and Red Hat Linux 7 & 8 support;

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL] [EWEEK, AUGUST, 2003]

ASIMO

Advanced Step in Innovative MObility;  HONDA

[Newsweek, 2001]

ASK

AMPLITUDE SHIFT KEYING; Modulation;

[WWW.NEC.CO.JP/PRESS/EN/ 0504/0101.HTML]

ASL

AGERE SYSTEM LANGUAGE; c based language for Payload Plus/Lucent;

[a guide to network processor, microdesign, 2000]

ASM

AUTOMATIC STORAGE MANAGEMENT

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, MAY/JuNE, 2004]

ASN

ABSTRACT SYNTAX NOTATION; ipRouteInfo in RFC1213

[ABDERAWARE, 2003]

ASP

APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDER

[Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Bangkok Post, 2001]

ASP

ACTIVE SERVER PAGES

For ASP implementation, see ACCHTML 4 tool; See: *.asp

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

ASPI

Advanced SCSI Programming Interface

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

ASR

AUTOMATED SYSTEM RECOVERY; A new feature of Windows Server 2003; While OS installation, F2; Also see: Backup Utility *.bkf;

[WINDOWS STORAGE MANAGEMENT, NELSON RUEST & DANIELLE RUEST, .NETMAGAZINE, 05/2003]

ASR

AUTOMATIC SERVER RESTART

www.sun.com

ASV

AUTOMATED SIGNATURE VERIFICATION

[WWW.NECTHAI.CO.TH; 2002]

ATA

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ATTACHMENT

Also known as IDE

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

ATCP

APPLETALK CONTROL PROTOCOL

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

ATE

AUTOMATED TEST EQUIPMENT

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

ATG

ADDRESS TRANSLATION GATEWAY

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

ATG

ART TECHNOLOGY GROUP

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

ATL

ACTIVE TEMPLATE LIBRARY

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

ATM

ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

ATM CES

ATM CIRCUIT EMULATION SERVICE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

ATN

ATTENTION; Interface management at pin-line level;

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

ATP

APPLETALK TRANSACTION PROTOCOL

[Security complete; sybex; 2001]

ATRAC3

ADAPTIVE TRANSFORM ACOUSTIC CODING 3

[sonicstage v.1.2, sony, 2002]

AUI

ATTACHMENT UNIT INTERFACE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

AURP

APPLETALK UPDATE BASED ROUTING PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

AVI

AUDIO VIDEO INTERLEAVED; Also see: VfW

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

AVS

ADDRESS VERIFICATION SERVICE

[/n Software, 2003]

AWG

AMERICAN WIRE GAUGE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

AWG

ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATOR

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

AWT

abstract Window Toolkit; AWT and Swing GUI are core of JFC;

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

B2B

BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]

BAN

BOUNDARY ACCESS NODE

Also see: BNN

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

BAP

BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION PROTOCOL

[MMC2 v5; Microsoft; 2004]

BAPI

BUSINESS APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]; SAP provides RFC function-call & BAPI

BASIC

BEGINNER'S ALL-PURPOSE SYMBOLIC INSTRUCTION CODE

Developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College, USA in 1960s.

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

BBOPS

Benchmark business operations per minute; Also see: Computing Measurement, UNIT.html;

[http://ecperf.theserverside.com/ecperf/; Software Development, www.sdmagazine.com; Vol.11, No.7, July, 2003]

BBS

BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

BC4J

BUSINESS COMPONENTS FOR JAVA; oRACLE 9I JDEVELOPER

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

BCD

BINARY CODED DECIMAL

[electronic engineering times; april 16, 2007]

BCM

BUSINESS COMMUNICATION MANAGER

[EWEEK, 9/2/2; NORTELNETWORKS.COM]

BCP

Bulk copy program

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

BDC

backup Domain controller

See PDC;

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

BDK

Beans development kit

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

BDL

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

BECN

BACKWARD EXPLICIT CONGESTION NOTIFICATION

Also see: FECN; Congestion protocol

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

BEL

BELL

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

BER

BASIC ENCODING RULE; ipRouteInfo in RFC1213

[ABDERAWARE, 2003]

BGA

BALL GRIP ARRAY; LSI; www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0602/ 2101.htm

[CMOS Digital integrated circuits; sung-mo kang; yusuf leblebici; 2005]; []

BGP

BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCOL

Communities

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

BI

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

BI-CMOS

BIPOLAR CMOS

[WWW.NECEL.COM; 2003]

BIA

BURNED IN ADDRESS

Manufacturer address

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

BIND

BERKELEY INTERNET NAME DOMAIN; Serve to DNS;

[EWEEK, JULY 7, 2003]

BIOS

BASIC INPUT/OUTPUT SYSTEM

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

BISDN

BROADBAND INTEGRATED SERVICES DIGITAL NETWORK

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

BIST

BUILT IN SELF TEST; Also see: JTAG

[WWW.NECEL.COM; 2003]

BIT

BINARY DIGIT

[MICORSOFT PRESS, 1997]

BITS

BACKGROUND INTELLIGENT TRANSFER SERVICE; In 2004, BITS becomes in v.2;

[MICROSOFT PLATFORM SDK, FEB., 2001]

BLAST

BASIC LOGICAL ALIGNMENT SEARCH TOOL; Also see: RLX blade servers;

[EWEEK, 2/2/2004]

BLIT

Block Image Transfer

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

BMAS

BORDERMANAGER AUTHENTICATION SERVICES

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

BMP

BEAN MANAGED PERSISTENCE; ALSO SEE: CMP

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

BMU

BUFFER MANAGEMENT UNIT

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

BNF

BACKUS-NAUR FORM

Fusion between computer and art by "Blaise" language, "meta-language" to develop compiler

[PING NA THALANG, DATABASE, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

BNN

BOUNDARY NETWORK NODE

Also see: BAN

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

BOD

BANDWIDTH ON DEMAND

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

BOX

BURIED OXIDE; Layer;

[www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/041213.html; 2004]

BPEL

BUSINESS PROCESS EXECUTION LANGUAGE; Web services;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; AUGUST, 2004]

BPS

BITS PER SECOND

BRI

BAsic rate interface

ISDN

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

BS

Backspace

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

BSC

backup site controller

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

BSD

BERKELEY SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

BSH

BEAN SHELL; AOP; Script;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; SEPT./OCT. 2004]

BTC

BLOCK TRANSFER CONTROLLER; DMA engine/Lexra;

[a guide to network processor, microdesign, 2000]

BTS

BASE TRANSCEIVER STATIONS

[WWW.NECEL.COM; INNOVATOR'S VOICE; 2004]

BUS

BROADCAST AND UNKNOWN SERVER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

BWA

BROADBAND WIRELESS ACCESS

[www.fujitsu.com/us/news/pr/ fma_20050421-1.html]

BYP/INP

Bypass/Inhibit Presentation

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

BYTE

BINARY TERM

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CA

Certificate authority; In Win 2003, PKI supports cross-certification to constraint subordinated CAs; More constraints mean better control over subordinate CAs;

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000] [.NET MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

CABARC

CABINET ARCHIVER

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

CACLS

COMMAND LINE ACCESS CONTROL LISTS

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

CAD

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

CAD

COMPUTER AIDED DRAFTING

[MICROSOFT EXCEL 2002]

CAE

CLIENT APPLICATION ENABLE; IBM DB2 UDB v.5

[WWW.IBM.COM; 2002]

CAL

client access licenses

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

CAM

content addressable memory

[www.hitachi.com; 2004]

CAN

Cancel

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

CAN

CONTROLLER AREA NETWORK

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

CAP

COMPETITIVE ACCESS PROVIDER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CAPICOM

CRYPTOAPI COM

[MICROSOFT PLATFORM SDK, FEB., 2001]

CAPS LOCK

CAPITAL LETTERS LOCK

[STANDARD KEYBOARD]

CAS

CODE ACCESS SECURITY

[EWEEK, JULY, 2003]

CASA

CONTINUOUS ACCESS STORAGE APPLIANCE; HP OPENVIEW SOFTWARE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

CASP

CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF TECHNIQUES FOR PROTEIN STRUCTURE PREDICTION

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING, BRYAN BERGERON, PRENTICE HALL, 2003]

CBO

COST BASED OPTIMIZER; Also see: RBO;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

CBT

COMPUTER BASED TRAINING

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

CC

CARBON COPIES

[Halvorson and Young, 1999]

CC

CLEAR CHANNEL

[MMC2 v5; Microsoft; 2004]

CCA

CLIENT CONFIGURATION ASSISTANT

$p$g\db2cca <enter>

IBM DB2 UDB GUI

[www.ibm.com]

CCD

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICE; image sensor;

[WWW.CANON.COM; 2004]

CCEP

COMMERCIAL COMSEC ENDORSEMENT PROGRAM

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

CCGA

CERAMIC COLUMN GRID ARRAY; IBM's Rainier;

[a guide to network processor, microdesign, 2000]

CCITT

SEE ITTCC

CCO

Cisco Connection Online

[http://www.cisco.com/univercd/ home/home.htm]

CD

CARRIER DETECT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CD

COMPACT DISC

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CDE

COMMON DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT; AIX Desktop Environment

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

CDFS

Compact Disc File System

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

CDIF

CASE DATA INTERCHANGE FORMAT

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

CDMA

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

CDO

COLLABORATION DATA OBJECT

CDO is COM

[MICROSOFT PLATFORM SDK, FEB., 2001]

CDP

CISCO DISCOVERY PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CDPD

CELLULAR DIGITAL PACKET DATA

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

CDT

CD BASED TRAINING

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

CD-ROM

COMPACT DISC READ ONLY MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CD-RW

Compact disc rewritable

[LG Advertisement, Pantip Plaza, 2001]

CEF

CISCO EXPRESS FORWARDING

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CERT

COMPUTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM;

[WWW.CNN.COM; News, 7/31/01]

CEU

CONTINUING EDUCATION UNIT

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

CF

COMPACT FLASH

Non-volatile memory device; Mostly used for digital camera; Sony has its own product/standard called memory stick;

CF

CFRAD

Also see: LF

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CFD

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

[WWW.FLUENT.COM]

CFML

COLDFUSION MARKUP LANGUAGE

See: *.cfm

[COLDFUSION STUDIO, ALLAIRE CORPORATION, 2000] www.allaire.com

CFS

CLUSTER FILE SYSTEM

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]

CFS

CRYPTOGRAPHIC FILE SYSTEM

[COMPLETE SECURITY; SYBEX; 2001]

CFX

????

[COLDFUSION STUDIO, ALLAIRE CORPORATION, 2000] www.allaire.com

CGA

COLOR GRAPHICS ADAPTER

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CGI

COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

CGS

COMPUTER GENERATED SOLUTIONS

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

CHAP

Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

CIC

CONTROLLER IN CHARGE

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

CICS IA

CICS INTERDEPENDENCY ANALYZER

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

CICS PA

CICS PERFORMANCE ANALYZER; V.1.2

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

CIFS

COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM

[REDUCE STORAGE WITH NAS AND SAN, TOM CLARK, .NETMAGAZINE, 5/2003]

CIP

CHANNEL INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CIP2

CHANNEL INTERFACE PROCESSOR 2

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CIPT

CISCO IP TELEPHONY

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

CIR

COMMITTED INFORMATION RATE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CIS

CONTENT INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM; Sun Microsystem's Sun Fire server product; 10 ~ 30 TB storage / dual processor; 30 ~ 60 TB storage / four way; SATA;

[EWEEK; VOL.22; NO.6; 2005];

CIS / NTFS; CIS / CIFS;

CIS

CUSTOMER INFORMATION SYSTEM

[AUSTIN BRIDGES, VOLUME 14, TDWI; 2002]

CISC

COMPLEX INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTING

Assembly level implementation to a processor; 8 bit , 16 bit, 32 bit, ... ;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

CJK

CHINESE JAPANESE KOREAN

[WWW.NJSTAR.COM]

CL

CONTROL LANGUAGE

IBM's OS/400 CL commands

[WWW.IBM.COM]

CL2

2-CLOCK CAS LATENCY; 0.13 macron 133 MHz SDRAM

[www.elpida.com; 2003]

CLB

CONFIGURABLE LOGIC BLOCK;

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; McGraw Hill; 2003]

CLI

Call Level Interface

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

CLI

CALLER LINE ICON; caller ID IN GRAPHICS;

[185 WIRELESS SECRETS; WILEY PUBLISHING; 2004]

CLI

COMMAND LINE INTERFACES

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

CLM

COLLABORATIVE LINKAGE MAP; aLSO SEE: DLL;

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

CLNP

CONNECTIONLESS NETWORK PROTOCOL

ISO 8473

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CLOB

Chracter Large Object; XML; There are 2 types of XML storage such as CLOB-storage, and Structure-storage[Object-relational-storage]

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, JULY/AUGUST, 2003]

CLR

COMMON LANGUAGE RUNTIME; Security rules;

[MSDN.MICROSOFT.COM]

CLS

COMMON LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION

[PROGRAMMING C#, JESSE LIBERTY, 2001, O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES]

CLSID

CLASS ID; A part of UUID;

[DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS WITH MICROSOFT VB6, MCSD TRAINING KIT, 1999]

CLUSDIAG

CLUSTER DIAGNOSTICS AND VERIFICATION TOOL

[WINDOWS CLUSTER ADMINISTRATION V.5; 2004]

CLUT

COLOR LOOKUP TABLE; Same as LUT;

[SAMS TEACH YOURSELF WEB PUBLISHING WITH HTML4 IN 21 DAYS PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE EDITION, 2ND EDITION; 2000]

CM

COMMUNICATION MANAGER

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

CMADS

MOBILE CURRENT MODE ADVANCED DIFFERENTIAL SIGNALING

[www.necel.com/en/channel/pv/ corner_top.html ; 2004]

CMIP

COMMON MANAGEMENT INTERFACE PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CMIS

COMMON MANAGEMENT INTERFACE SERVICE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CMM

CAPABILITY MATURITY MODEL

[WWW.BOEING.COM]

CMMS

COMPUTERIZED MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

CMNS

CONNECTION MODE NETWORK SERVICE

For X.25 / NSAP

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CMOS

COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CMOS RAM

COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CMP

CONTAINER MANAGED PERSISTENCE; Also see: bmp

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

cmrr

common mode rejection ratio

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

CMS

CONTENT MANAGEMENT SERVER

[TRENDS AND ANALYSIS, CRAIG ROTH, .NETMAGAZINE, 05/2003]

CMTS

CABLE MODEM TERMINATION SYSTEM; aLSO SEE: wIRELESS;

[185 WIRELESS SECRETS; WILEY PUBLISHING; 2004]

CN

connected network

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

CNAME

CANONICAL NAME

DNS;

[TRIER EXAMS © 1997 V.2.0]

www.trierexams.com

CNT

CARBON NANOTUBE

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

COB

CHIP ON BOARD

[WWW.NECEL.COM; INNOVATOR'S VOICE; 2004]

COBOL

COMMON BUSINESS ORIENTED LANGUAGE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CODASYL

CONFERENCE ON DATA SYSTEMS LANGUAGES

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CODECS

COMPRESSION DECOMPRESSION

[SAMS TEACH YOURSELF WEB PUBLISHING WITH HTML4 IN 21 DAYS PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE EDITION, 2ND EDITION]

CODEDOM

CODE DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL

[CASE STUDY, TRX, MICHELE LEROUX BUSTAMANTE, .NETMAGAZINE, 5/2003]

COF

CHIP ON FLEXIBLE FILM

[WWW.NECEL.COM; INNOVATOR'S VOICE; 2004]

COM

COMMON; Digital signal condition / relay channel; Also see: NO, NC

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

COM

COMMUNICATIONS PORT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

COM

COMPONENT OBJECT MODEL

(Add-ins);  For Internet: use CDO

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

CORBA

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CORBA COS

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE COMMON OBJECT SERVICES

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

COS

CLASS OF SERVICE; Also see: MPLS;

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

COT

COMMAND-TEXT

CP

CHANNEL PROCESSOR;

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

CP

CODE PAGE

[MICROSOFT EXCEL 2002]

CP

CONTROL PROGRAM

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

CP/M

CONTROL PROGRAM MONITOR

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CPA

CHANNEL PORT ADAPTER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CPE

CUSTOMER PREMISES EQUIPMENT; Also see: Motorola's C-5;

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

CPG

CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; HOAP;

[www.fujitsu.com/global/about/ rd/200506HOAPSeries.html]

CPG

COMPUTATIONAL PRODUCT GROUP

[WWW.AMD.COM; 2003]

CPI

Characters Per Inch

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

cpix

common programming interface

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

CPP

COMBINET PACKET PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CPP

CURRENT PERPENDICULAR-TO-PLANE

[http://pr.fujitsu.com/en/news/2002/05/15-1.html]

CPRI

COMMON PUBLIC RADIO INTERFACE

[www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0507/1502.html]

CPS

Characters Per Second

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

CPU

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

CR

Carriage Return

CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

CRL

CERTIFICATE REVOCATION LIST; PKI supports delta CRL management process;

[.NET MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

CRM

COMPENSATING RESOURCE MANAGER; COM+ feature by DTC to do dual-phase-commit- transaction;

[MMC 2, V.5, Microsoft; 2004]

CRM

INTERNET AND WIRELESS BASED CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

Computer Associates' software automation for web-browser and WAP equipments; launched in July, 2001

[IN BRIEF, BANGKOK POST, 2001] [WWW.NECTHAI.CO.TH; 2002]; Siebel eBusiness;

CRT

CATHODE RAY TUBE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CSC

CLOCK AND SCHEDULER CARD

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CSD

CAMBRIDEGE STRUCTURAL DATABASE

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING, BRYAN BERGERON, PRENTICE HALL, 2003]

CSID

CALLING STATION ID

[BITWARE, COMPUTER ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL, 2000]

CSIX

COMMON SWITCH INTERFACE; One of the 2 interfaces of switch fabric; Other one is Utopia;

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

CSLIP

COMPRESSED SLIP

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CSMA/CA

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS WITH COLLISION AVOIDANCE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

CSMA/CD

CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS WITH COLLISION DETECTION

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

CSNA

CIP SYSTEM NETWORK ARCHITECTURE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CSNW

Client Services for NetWare

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

CSP

Control Sequence Prefix

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CSP

CRYPTO GRAPHIC SECURITY PROVIDER

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

CSPFA

CISCO SECURE PIX FIREWALL ADVANCED

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

CSS

CASCADING STYLE SHEET

v.1.0 Formatting; v.2.0 Positioning; HTML App., developed by W3C; See: *.css

[MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE; 2002]

CSU/DSU

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

CT3IP

CHANNELIZED T3 INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

CTF

CONTINUOUS TIME FILTER

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

CTI

COMPUTER TELEPHONY INTEGRATION

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

CTS

CLEAR TO SEND

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CTS

CLOCK TREE SYNTHESIS;  Adders' clock skew <> ~V~ <> DPLL

[WWW.NECEL.COM; 2003]

CTS

COMMON TYPE SYSTEM; A specification;

[PROGRAMMING C#, JESSE LIBERTY, 2001, O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES]

CU1

Customer Use 1

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CU3

Customer use 3

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

CVP

CONTENT VECTORING PROTOCOL

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

CVSL

CASCADE VOLTAGE SWITCH LOGIC; Circuit;

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; McGraw Hill; 2003]

CWD

CHOI WILLIAM DISTRIBUTION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

CWI

CICS WEB INTERFACE

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

CWT

CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DAC

DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTER; Also see: ADC

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DACL

DISCRETIONARY ACCESS CONTROL LIST

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

DAFS

DIRECT ACCESS FILE SYSTEM

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]

DAK

DATA AUTOMATION KIT; PC ARC/INFOR and Data Automation Kit

[WWW.ESRI.COM]

DAO

DATA ACCESS OBJECT

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DAQ

DATA ACQUISITION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DAS

DIRECT ATTACHED STORAGE

[EWEEK, JUNE 23, 2003]

DAS

DUAL ATTACHMENT STATION

Also see: SAS; multi-mode FDDI

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DAT

Digital audio tape

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

DAV

DATA VALID; Handshake at pin-level level;

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DBA

Database administrator

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

DBCA

DATABASE CONFIGURATION ASSISTANT

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

DBO

DATABASE OPERATOR

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

DBO

Database Owner

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

DC

DIRECT CURRENT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DC

Domain controller

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

DC1

Device Control 1

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

DC2

Device Control 2

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

DC3

Device Control 3

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

DC4

Device Control 4

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

DCA

DATA CENTRIC ARCHITECTURE

[WINDOWS STORAGE MANAGEMENT, NELSON RUEST & DANIELLE RUEST, .NETMAGAZINE, 05/2003]

DCA

DOCUMENT CONTENT ARCHITECTURE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DCC

DATA COUNTRY CODE

Also see: ICD

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DCE

DATA COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT; Part of RS 232 specification;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

DCOM

DISTRIBUTED COM

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DCP

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION PROCESSOR; Also see: C-Port's C5;

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

DCP

DIGITAL COMPONENT PROCESSOR;

[http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/corp/ rd/news.html; 2004]

DCS

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEM

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DD

DUAL DAMASCENE, istructure, VLSI multilevel interconnect

[WWW.NEC.COM; 2004]

DDA

DIAL ON DEMAND ACCESS

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DDC

DISPLAY DATA CHANNEL

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DDE

DYNAMIC DATA EXCHANGE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DDK

DRIVER DEVELOPMENT KIT

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

ddl

DATA DEFINITION LANGUAGE

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

DDNS

DYNAMIC DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM; In 2005, DDNS serivce providers are DynDNS.org, TZO.com, ... ;

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

DDP

DATAGRAM DELIVERY PROTOCOL; Network layer;

[Security Complete; Sybex; 2001]

DDR

DIAL ON DEMAND ROUTING

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DDR

DOUBLE DATA RATE;

[Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Bangkok Post, 2001]; [www.amd.com]

DDS

DIRECT DIGITAL SYNTHESIS

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DDV

DIALOG DATA VALIDATION

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DDX

DIALOG DATA EXCHANGE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DE

DISCARD ELIGIBLE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DEA

DISK ARRAY ENCLOSURES

[WWW.UNISYS.COM; 2003]

DEC

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION

[THIRAVUDH KHOMAN, DATABASE, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

DEL

Delete

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

DEP

dependent client

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

DEQUE

DOUBLE ENDED QUEUE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DES

DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD; DES = 56bit; 3DES = (112bit || 168bit);

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]; [CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DFS

Distributed File System;

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

DFT

DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY

[http://www.snug-universal.org] (9/3/01);

DFU

DATA FILE UTILITY; ISERIES PROGRAMMING FACILITIES

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

DHCP

DYNAMIC HOST CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL;

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

DHTML

DYNAMIC HTML

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DIA

DOCUMENT INTERCHANGE ARCHITECTURE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DIB

DIRECTORY INFORMATION BASE

DIB is maintained by DSA in X500 system

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DIB

DEVICE INDEPENDENT BITMAP

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DIF

DATA INTERCHANGE FORMAT

[MICROSOFT EXCEL 2002]

DIMM

DUAL INLINE MEMORY MODULE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DIN

DEUTSCH INDUSTRIE NORM

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DIO

DIGITAL I/O

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DIP

DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING

[WWW.NECTHAI.CO.TH; 2002]

DIP

DUAL IN-LINE PACKAGE;

SWITCH

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DIX

DIGITAL INTEL XEROX CONNECTOR

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

DKIM

DOMAIN KEYS IDENTIFIED MAIL; Authentication;

[Anti-fraud spam tool; eWeek; Vol.22; No.25; 2005]

DLC

DATA LINK CONTROL PROTOCOL;

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

DLCI

DATA LINK CONNECTION INDENTIFIER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DLE

Data Length Escape

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

DLL

DYNAMIC LINK LIBRARY

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DLP

DIGITAL LIGHT PROCESSING

Compaq's MP1400, 2800 projectors

[IT CITY – COMPAQ AD., 2001]

DLSW+

DATA LINK SWITCHING PLUS

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DLT

DIGITAL LINEAR TAPE

[EWEEK, JUNE 23, 2003]

DMA

DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

DMCA

DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT

[STEVEN LEVY, NEWSWEEK, 8/27/01]

dml

dATA MANIPULATION LANGUAGE

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

DMM

DIGITAL MULTI METER

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DMS

DATABASE MANAGED SPACE

IBM DB2 UDB

[www.ibm.com; 2002]

DMT

DISCRETE MULTITONE; DSL upto 50~70 Mbps

[EWEEK, JUNE 2003]

dmvt

dynamic memory video technology

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DMZ

DEMILITARIZED ZONE; Setting not to filter by firewall;

[185 WIRELESS SECRETS; WILEY PUBLISHING; 2004]

DN

Distinguished Names

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

DNA

DIGITAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

DNIS

Dialed Number Identification Service

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

DNL

DIFFERENTIAL NON LINEARITY

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DNS

DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM; ; Also see: DDNS;

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

DNSIX

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITY FOR INFORMATION EXCHANGE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DNSSEC

DNS SECURITY; Protocol;

[SECURITY COMPLETE; SYBEX; 2001]

DOEACC

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC ACCREDIT COMPUTER COURSE

Indian government's IT certifications

[Sasiwimon Boonruang, Tokyo, Bangkok Post, 2001]

DOM

DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL; A language; Element of XML;

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU/ENG; 2002]

DOS

DISK OPERATING SYSTEM

See: MS-DOS

DOSD

DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

DPA

DESTINATION PREFERENCE ATTRIBUTE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DPA

DISTRIBUTED PASSWORD AUTHENTICATION

[MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE 2002]

DPI

DOT PER INCH

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997] [Infoprint Designer for iSeries v.1, r.1 & AS/400]

DPLL

DIGITAL PHASE LOCKED LOOP; Also see: CTS

[WWW.NECEL.COM/GATEARRAY; 2003]

DPMS

DISPLAY POWER MANAGEMENT SIGNALING

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DPPU

DYNAMIC PROTOCOL PROCESSOR UNIT, or DYADIC PROTOCOL PROCESSOR UNIT;

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, LINLEY GWENNAP & BOB WHEELER, MICRODESIGN, 2000]

DRAM

DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DRI

DECLARATIVE REFERENTIAL INTEGRITY

[PROGRAMMING C#, JESSE LIBERTY, 2001, O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES]

DRM

DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT;

[EWEEK; 2003]

DRM

DISTRIBUTED RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

[http://www.sun.com; 9/3/01]

DRM

DOMAIN REFERENCE MODEL

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

DRSL

DIFFERENTIAL RAMBUS SIGNAL LEVEL

[WWW.SAMSUNG.COM; 2005]

DS

Digit select

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DSA

DIRECTORY SERVICES/SERVER/SYSTEM  AGENT; DSA, on one AD DC in Windows;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997] [Security Complete; Sybex; 2001]

DSA

DYNAMIC SIGNAL ACQUISITION & ANALYSIS

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DSC

DATA LOGGING AND SUPERVISORY CONTROL

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line;  Also see: ADSL;

[EWEEK, SEPT., 2003]

DSLAM

Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer

Network management system with broadband access (Internet network-host Û Public Telephone Network)

[DATABASE, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

DSN

Data Source Names

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

DSOM

DISTRIBUTED SOM

[PLATINUM EDITION; USING VISUAL BASIC 6; QUE; 2000]

DSP

DEVELOPER SERVICE PROVIDER

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

DSP

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DSPU

DOWNSTREAM PHYSICAL UNIT

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DSR

DATA SET READY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DSRC

DEDICATED SHORT RANGE COMMUNICATION

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

DSS

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; Also see: OLAP & SQL;

[EWEEK, JAN. 12, 2004]

DSS

DIGITAL SIGNATURE STANDARD

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DSSS

DIRECT SEQUENCE SPREAD SPECTRUM

[Network Security Illustrated; McGraw-Hill; 2004]

DSTP

DATA SOCKET TRANSFER PROTOCOL

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DT

DATA TYPE

DTC

Distributed Transaction Coordinator, See: MS DTC; Can install DTC on cluster, but (IIS, SMTP, NNTP) instances cannot be installed on 2003 cluster-platforms;

[Microsoft Cluster Administrator v.5; 2004]

DTD

DOCUMENT TYPE DEFINITION

[COLDFUSION STUDIO, ALLAIRE CORPORATION, 2000] www.allaire.com

DTE

DATA TERMINAL EQUIPMENT; Part of RS 232 specification;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

DTR

DATA TERMINAL READY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

DTS

DATA TRANSFORMATION SERVICES

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

DUAL

DIFFUSING UPDATE ALGORITHM

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

DUN

DIAL UP NETWORKING

See: RAS; Modem and telephone-connection are needed

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

DVD

DIGITAL VIDEO DISC

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

DVD ROM

Digital Video Disc Read Only Memory

DVM

DIGITAL VOLT METER

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

DVMA

DIRECT VIRTUAL MEMORY ACCESS; Sun SPARC Sbus;

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DW

DATA WAREHOUSE

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

DWDM

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

DWDM

Dense Wave Division Multiplexing

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002][singtel.com; 2004]

DWH

DATA WAREHOUSE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

DWI

DEPENDENCY WALKER IMAGE;   *.dwi can be read by Dependency Walker; Also see: DLL

[DEPENDENCY WALKER FOR WIN32; STEVE P. MILLER; MICROSOFT; 2000]

DWP

DEPENDENCY WALKER PATH

[Dependency Walker Win32 Intel x86 v.2; STEVE MILLER, MICROSOFT; 2000]

DWT

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

DXI

DATA EXCHANGE INTERFACE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

EA

ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

EAI

ENTERPRISE APPLICATION INTEGRATION

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

EAL

EVALUATION ASSURANCE LEVEL

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

EAM

ENTERPRISE ASSET MANAGEMENT

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

EAP

Extensible authentication protocol

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

EAP-TLS

EXTENSIBLE AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL - TRANSPORT LAYER SECURITY; wlan

[WWW.FUNK.COM; 2002]

EAP-TTLS

EXTENSIBLE AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL - TUNNELED TRANSPORT LAYER SECURITY; wlan

[WWW.FUNK.COM; 2002]

EAR

ENTERPRISE APPLICATION ARCHIVE; ALSO SEE: WAR

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

EAROM

Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

EBCDIC

EXTENDED BINARY CODED DECIMAL INTERCHANGE CODE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EBI

EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

ECLIPS

ENTERPRISE CLASS IP SOLUTION

[WWW.AVAYA.COM/YES; 2002]

ECM

ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]

ECM

ERROR CORRECTION MODE

[WWW.BROTHER.COM; 2002]

ECMA

EUROPEAN COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ECO

ENTERPRISE CORE OBJECT; BOLAND model driven framework;

[.Net magazine, August, 2003]

ECS

ENHANCED CATALOG SHARING; (MODE) Z/OS CATALOG MANAGEMENT

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM]

EDA

ELECTRIC DESIGN AUTOMATION

[WWW.NEC.CO.JP; 2002]

EDGE

ENHANCED DATA FOR GLOBAL EVOLUTION

[WIRELESS AND DEVICES, TOM ZACIOS, .NETMAGAZINE, 05/2003]

EDGE

ENHANCED DATA FOR GSM EVOLUTION; AT&T WIRELESS

[EWEEK; JAN. 12, 2004]

EDGE

ENHANCED DATA RATES FOR GLOBAL EVOLUTION; Enhanced GSM;

[185 WIRELESS SECRETS; WILEY PUBLISHING; 2004]

EDI

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

EDM

EMC DATA MANAGER

[WWW.EMC.COM; 2003]

EDO DRAM

EXTENDED DATA OUT DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EDO RAM

EXTENDED DATA OUT RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EDTLIBL

EDIT LIBRARY LIST; COMMAND

[Infoprint Designer for iSeries v.1, r.1 & AS/400; WWW.IBM.COM]

EEE

ENTERPRISE EXTENDED EDITION

[DB2 UDB; WWW.IBM.COM; 2002]

EEMS

ENHANCED EXPANDED MEMORY SPECIFICATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EEPROM

ELECTRICALLY ERASABLE PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EFS

ENCRYPTION FILE SYSTEM

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

EGA

ENHANCED GRAPHICS ADAPTER

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EGP

EXTERIOR GATEWAY PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

EIA

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EIDE

ENHANCED INTEGRATED DRIVE ELECTRONIC

Data transfer rate, up to 13.3 M Byte per second with ATA-2

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EIGRP

ENHANCED INTERIOR GATEWAY ROUTING PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

EIP

ETHERNET INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

EISA

EXTENDED INDUSTRY STANDARD ARCHITECTURE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EJB

ENTERPRISE JAVA BEANS

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

EL

EXPRESSION LANGUAGE; Also see: JSTL

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

ELAN

EMULATED LAN

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

EM

End of Medium

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

EM

ENGINEER MONTH; In computer hardware engineering design;

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; McGraw Hill; 2003]

EMC

ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]

EMD

ELECTRONIC MUSIC DISTRIBUTION

[sonicstage v.1.2, sony, 2002]

EMS

ENHANCED MESSAGING SERVICE

[185 Wireless Secrets; Wiley Publishing ; 2004]

EMS

EXPANDED MEMORY SPECIFICATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ENQ

Enquiry

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

EO

Eight ones

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

EOI

END OF IDENTITY; Interface management at pin-line level;

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

eos

end of string

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

EOT

End of Transmission

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

EPC

ELECTRONIC PRODUCT CODE; Also see: UPC, RFID;

[WWW.RFIDJOURNAL.COM; 2003]

EPIC

ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTRE

[JAY DOUGHERTY, WASHINGTON, DPA, BANGKOK POST, 9/12/01]

EPIC

EXPLICITLY PARALLEL INSTRUCTION COMPUTING; By Itanium2, 6 instructions can be executed simultaneously;

[EWEEK, JULY, 2003]

EPROM

ERASABLE PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ERD

Emergency Repair Disk

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

ERD

ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

ERP

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING

[Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures: MCSD Training Kit / Microsoft Corporation, 1999] [WWW.NECTHAI.CO.TH; 2002]

ESC

Escape

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

ESDI

ENHANCED SMALL DEVICE INTERFACE

Data transfer rate, up to 10 Mbps

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

ESE

Extensible Storage Engine; WINS DB;

[Microsoft Windows Server 2003; MMC2 v.5; 2004]

ESI

END SYSTEM IDENTIFIER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

ESIS

END SYSTEM TO INTERMEDIATE SYSTEM

ISO 9542

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

ESMTP

EXTENDED SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL

[NET.MEDIC / VITALSIGNS SOFTWARE]

ESN

ELECTRONIC SERIAL NUMBER

[185 Wireless Secrets; Jack McCullough; Wiley Publishing; 2004]

ESP

ENCAPSULATING SECURITY PAYLOAD

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

ESS

ENTERPRISE STORAGE SERVER

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

ETB

End of transmission block

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

ETL

EXTRACT, TRANSFORM, AND LOAD

[WWW.HUMMINGBIRD.COM]

ETX

End of Text

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

EULA

END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

[MICROSOFT]

EUVL

Extreme Ultra-Violet Lithography

EV-DO

EVOLUTION DATA OPTIMIZED

[EWEEK; JAN. 12, 2004]

FAN

FAN-OUT-ORIENTED TEST GENERATION

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; 2003]

FAQ

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

[MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE 2002]

FAS

FABRIC ATTACHED STORAGE; Storage system;

[www.netapp.com; 2004]; In 2005, 16TB iSCSI;

FAT

FILE ALLOCATION TABLE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

FBGA

FINE pitch BALL GRID ARRAY; QDR II SRAM; AFD;

[WWW.SAMSUNG.COM; 2004]

FC

FIBRE CHANNEL;

ISCSC, NAS, SAN

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

FC-AL

FIBRE CHANNEL ARBITRATED LOOP;  FC standard, 100Mbps, full-duplex; SCSI can be replaced by FC-AL;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, SEPT./OCT., 2003]

FCC

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

US Standard

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

FCFC

FIRST CHARACTER FORMS CONTROL; ANSI

[Infoprint Designer for iSeries v.1, r.1 & AS/400; WWW.IBM.COM]

FCL

FRAMEWORK CLASS LIBRARY; 5000+ classes in 2001;

[PROGRAMMING C#, JESSE LIBERTY, 2001, O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES]

FCRAM

FAST CYCLE RAM

[WWW.TOSHIBA.COM; 2004]

FCS

FRAME CHECK SEQUENCE; Can be checked by CRC;

[SECURITY COMPLETE; SYBEX; 2001]

FDB

FLUID DYNAMIC BEARING; FDB provides less vibration, less dB [<5 Bels], lower acoustic rating;

[www.hitachi.com; 2005]

FDDI

FIBER DISTRIBUTED DATA INTERFACE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

FEC

FORWARDING EQUIVALENCE CLASS

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCE, 2000]

FECN

FORWARD EXPLICIT CONGESTION NOTIFICATION

Also see: BECN; Congestion protocol

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

FEIP

FAST ETHERNET INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

FEIP2

FAST ETHERNET INTERFACE PROCESSOR 2

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

FERAM

FERROELECTRIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

[WWW.NECEL.COM; 2003]

FF

Form feed

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

FFC

FEMUR FORCE CRITERION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

FFT

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

FG

FUNCTION GENERATOR

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

FGDC

FEDERAL GEOGRAPHIC DATA COMMITTEE; usa

[WWW.ESRI.COM]

FHSS

FREQUENCY HOPPING SPREAD SPECTRUM

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

FHT

INVERSE FAST HARTLEY TRANSFORM

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

FIFO

FIRST IN, FIRST OUT

[PROGRAMMING C#, JESSE LIBERTY, 2001, O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES]

FIP

FDDI INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

FIR

FAST INFRARED

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

FIR

FINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE; Also see: IIR

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

FIS

FACTORY INSTALLATION SERVICE

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

FLOPS

FLOATING-POINT OPERATION PER SECOND

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

FM

FREQUENCY MODULATION; At constant amplitude, frequency varies;

[NETWORK SECURITY ILLUSTRATED; McGraw-Hill; 2004]

FMF

FEDERATED MINING FRAMEWORK

FMS

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; Also see: PeopleSoft

[EWEEK, SEPT., 2003]

FN

FIELD NAME

FOMA

FREEDOM OF MULTIMEDIA ACCESS; Wireless;

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

FORMDEF

FORM DEFINITION

[Infoprint Designer for iSeries v.1, r.1 & AS/400; WWW.IBM.COM]

FOV

FIELD OF VIEW

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

FP

FABRIC PROCESSOR

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

FPC

flexible printed circuit; Also see: PCB;

[ www.sei.co.jp/iv_e/annual/04/an2004.pdf ]

fpd

flat panel display

[CEATEC; 2004]

FPGA

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; McGraw Hill; 2003]

FPNW

File and Print Services for NetWare

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

FPP

Fast pattern processor

[a guide to network processor, microdesign, 2000]

FQDN

FULLY QUALIFY DOMAIN NAME

[WS_Ping Pro, IPSWITCH 2000]

FQDN

FULLY QUALIFIED DOMAIN NAME

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

FR

FRAMER; Also see: ATM, IP; High-end; SAR;

FRAM

FERRO MANGETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

FRAS

FRAME RELAY ACCESS SUPPORT

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

FRC

FUNCTIONAL REDUNDANCY CHECKING

[INTEL, PENTIUM]

FRS

FILE REPLICATION SERVICE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

FRS

FILE REPLICATION SYSTEM; FRS is to facilitate disaster recovery; Also see: Windows Servers 2003

[WINDOWS STORAGE MANAGEMENT, NELSON RUEST & DANIELLE RUEST, .NETMAGAZINE, 05/2003]

FS

Field Separator

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

FS

File Separator

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

FSIP

FAST SERIAL INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

FSM

FINITE STATE MACHINE; Automata theory must be learnt before building action-table and state-table to build FSM;

[ADVANCED MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 6.0, THE MANDELBROT SET, 1998]

FTP

FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL; ; GridFTP;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

FTTH

FIBER TO THE HOME; Broadband;

[www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/041008.html; 2004]

FWH

FIRMWARE HUB

[810E MOTHERBOARD SPECIFICATION, EMACHINES, 2001]

G/A

GATE ARRAYS

[WWW.NECEL.COM; 2003]

GAA

GALLIUM ARSENIDE TRANSISTOR

[WWW.NEC.COM; 2002]

GAC

GLOBAL ASSEMBLY CACHE

[PROGRAMMING C#, JESSE LIBERTY, 2001, O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES]

GAN

GLOBAL AREA NETWORK

[BUSINESS.SINGTEL.COM; 2004]

GASS

GLOBAL ACCESS TO SECONDARY  STORAGE; OGSA;

[NEC; 2003]

GbE

Gigabit Ethernet

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, LINLEY GWENNAP & BOB WHEELER, MICRODESIGN, 2000]

GDDM

GRAPHICAL DATA DISPLAY MANAGER

[http://www-4.ibm.com] (9/3/01);

GDI

GRAPHICS DEVICE INTERFACE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

GDS

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

[CASE STUDY, TRX, MICHELE LEROUX BUSTAMANTE, .NETMAGAZINE, 5/2003]

GDSC

GEOGRAPHICALLY DISPERSED SERVER CLUSTERS; A new feature of Windows Server 2003; Disaster recovery and redundancy in single implementation

GE

Graphic escape

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

GEO

GEOSTATIONARY EARTH ORBIT

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING, BRYAN BERGERON, PRENTICE HALL, 2003]

GEML

GENE EXPRESSION MARKUP LANGUAGE

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING, BRYAN BERGERON, PRENTICE HALL, 2003]

gemss

grid enabled medical simulation services

[NEC; 2003]

GFS

GLOBAL FILE SYSTEM

[WWW.NEC.CO.JP/PRESS/EN/ 0410/2001.HTML; 2004]

GGF

GLOBAL GRID FORUM

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 2003]

ggg

great global grid

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING; BRYAN BERGERON, PRENTICE HALL, 2003]

ggi

generic gigabit interface; AMCC

[a guide to network processor, microdesign, 2000]

GIF

Graphics interchange format

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

GIMP

GNU IMAGE MANIPULATION PROGRAM; Also see: www.gnu.org ;

[EWEEK, SEPT., 2003]

GIS

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM

[Sasiwimon Boonruang, Tokyo, Bangkok Post, 2001]

GMR

GIANT MAGNETO RESISTIVE

[http://pr.fujitsu.com/en/news/2002/05/15-1.html]

GMT

GREENWICH MEAN TIME

[LINUX: MANDRAKESOFT.COM; 2002]

GNAT

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

GNOME

GNU NETWORK OBJECT MODEL ENVIRONMENT; A part of Sun Solaris 9 OS; GNOME version 2.0 in 2002; v.2.4 with KDE in 2003;

[HENRY BALTAZAR, EWEEK, 06/17/2002]

GNU

Gnu's not unix

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

GOS

Gadolinium oxide sulfur

[WWW.CANON.COM/TECHNOLOGY/ INTERVIEW /XRAY/XRAY_P4.HTML; 2001]

GP

GENERAL PURPOSE

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

GPCTR

Counter / timer

GPIB

GENERAL PURPOSE INTERFACE BUS; IEEE 488; Bus for automation

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

GPL

GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE; gnu uNIX;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]; [EWEEK MAGAZINE, AUGUST 11, 2003]

GPMC

GROUP POLICY MANAGEMENT CONSOLE

[.NET MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

GPO

GROUP POLICY OBJECT

[MMC 2 V.5; MICROSOFT; 2004]

gprs

general packet radio service

[Chamlernlert, Bangkok Post, 2001]

GPS

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

GRAM

GLOBUS RESOURCE ALLOCATION MANAGER; OGSA;

[NEC; 2003]

GRE

GENERIC ROUTING ENCAPSULATION

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

GRP

GIGABIT ROUTE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

GS

Group Separator

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

gsi

GRID SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE; OGSA;

[NEC; 2003]

GSM

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION; computer software application <> OS <> Computer hardware application <> GSM modem <> SMS message <> Cellular handset

[EWEEK, JULY 7, 2003]

GSNW

Gateway Services for NetWare

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

GUI

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

GUID

Global Unique identifier

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

GXA

GLOBAL XML WEB SERVICES ARCHITECTURE

[.NET AND SOA; DARYL PLUMMER; .NETMAGAZINE; APRIL, 2003]

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Full Name

Bibliographical Index

hal

hardware abstraction layer

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

HARD

HARDWARE ASSISTED RESILIENT DATA

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

HAS

HIGH SYSTEM AVAILABILITY

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

HBA

HOST BUS ADAPTER;

ISCSC, NAS, SAN, fIBRE CHANNEL

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

HCA

HOST CHANNEL ADAPTER; Infiniband / hca; also see: tca; Grid vs others.htm;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 2003]

HCD

HEAD CONTACT DURATION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

HCI

Human Computer Interface

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

HCL

Hardware Compatibility List; See: hcl.txt in Operating System CD ROM

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

HCM

HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

[CASE STUDY; LEE THE, .NETMAGAZINE; APRIL, 2003]

HDBMS

HIERARCHICAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

HDLC

HIGH LEVEL DATA LINK CONTROL; ISO/OSI model's layer 2; Also see: DLC;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

HDLC CC

HDLC CLEAR CHANNEL

[MMC2 v5; Microsoft; 2004]

HDML

HANDHELD DEVICE MARKUP LANGUAGE

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

HDTV

HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

HEMT

HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS

[WWW.FUJITSU.COM; 2004]

HF

HIGH FREQUENCY

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

HFC

HYBRID FIBER COAX; Fiber cable to neighborhood, coax cable to DUN clients; Also see: Wireless;

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSORS; MICRODESIGN RESOURCES; 2000]

HFS

HIERARCHICAL FILE SYSTEM

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

HHI

HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUT; Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunication;

[http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives /month/2005/20050121-01.html]

HIC

HEAD INJURY CRITERION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

HIL

HARDWARE IN THE LOOP

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

HIP

HIGH SPEED INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

HKCR

HKEY CLASSES ROOT

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

HKEY

HANDLE KEY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

HL7

HEALTH LEVEL 7

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

HMC

HARDWARE MANAGEMENT CONSOLE

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

HMI

HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

HMM

HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; Also known as Markov Chain;

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING; PRENTICE HALL; 2003]

HMP

HYPER MESSAGING PROTOCOL

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]

HOAP

HUMANOID FOR OPEN ARCHITECTURE PLATFORM

[www.fujitsu.com/global/about/ rd/200506HOAPSeries.html]

HP

HEWLETT PACKARD

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

HPC

HEAD PERFORMANCE CRITERION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

HPC

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

[http://www.sun.com]

HPFS

HIGH PERFORMANCE FILE SYSTEM

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

HR

HIGH RESOLUTION

[WWW.FUJIFILM.COM; 2004]

HREF

HYPERTEXT REFERENCE

[SAM TEACH YOURSELF WEB PUBLISHING WITH HTML4 IN 21 DAYS PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE EDITION, 2ND EDITION; 2000]

hsb

HUE, SATURATION, AND BRIGHTNESS; Human being perceives HSB color model; Also see: RGB

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

HSCSD

HIGH SPEED CIRCUIT SWITCHED DATA; GSM Extension;

[185 Wireless Secrets; Wiley Publishing; 2004]

HSDPA

HIGH SPEED DOWNLINK PACKET ACCESS; 3G wireless; End-to-end communication; Also see: HSUPA;

[www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0507/1502.html]

hsl

hue, saturation, & luminance; image-plane

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

HSRP

HOT STANDBY ROUTER PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

HSSI

HIGH SPEED SERIAL INTERFACE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

HSSI

HIGH SPEED SERIAL INTERFACE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

HSUPA

HIGH SPEED UPLINK PACKET ACCESS; 3G wireless; End-to-end communication; Also see: HSDPA;

[www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0507/1502.html]

HT

Horizontal Tab

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

HT

HYPER THREADING;

[WWW.INTEL.COM]

HTML

HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE

ASCII text only

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997] [PC TECH HINT] In XP, HTML help system must be fixed by Q323255.

HTS

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING MOTOR; OFC bismuth based high-temp super-conduct wiring;

[Sumitomo; 2005; ] Old concept: large capacity motor requires high magnetic field;

HTTP

HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

HTTPD

HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL DAEMON; HTTPD supports MIME

[SAMS TEACH YOURSELF WEB PUBLISHING WITH HTML4 IN 21 DAYS PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE EDITION, 2ND EDITION; 2000]

HTTPS

HTTP over Secure Sockets layer

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

HVAB

HIGH VOLTAGE ANALOG BUS

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

I/O

INPUT/OUTPUT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

For Monbusho level engineers only: define precisely between I/O and PLL;

IAB

Internet Architecture Board

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

IAD

INTEGRATED ACCESS DEVICES; Also see: Lexra's NetVortex

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSORS, MICRODESIGN, 2000]

IANA

INTERNET ASSIGNED NUMBERS AUTHORITY; Also see: Keyword to Port Number;

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN; SYBEX; 2002]

IAS

INTERNET AUTHENTICATION SERVER; Default RADIUS authentication & accounting port numbers are 1812, 1645; and 1813, 1646;

[.NET MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

IAS

Internet Authentication Service

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

IBM

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES

[http://www.ibm.com]

IC

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

[www.hitachi.com]

IC

ISOLATED COMMON; Relay

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

ICANN

INTERNET CORPORATION FOR ASSIGNED NAMES AND NUMBERS

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN; SYBEX; 2002]

ICD

INTERNATIONAL CODE DESIGNATOR; Also see: DCC

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

ICE

IN-CIRCUIT EMULATION; RISC's MIPS LX8000 hard/soft core, Lexra;

[a guide to network processor, microdesign, 2000]

ICE

INTERNET COMMERCE ENABLED; Computer Associates' Ingres ICE

[WWW.CA.COM]

ICF

INTEGRATED CATALOG FACILITY; z/OS Catalog Management

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM]

ICF

INTERNET CONNECTION FIREWALL

[EWEEK, JULY, 2003]

ICH

I/O CONTROLLER HUB

[810E MOTHERBOARD SPECIFICATION, EMACHINES, 2001]

ICMP

INTERNET CONTROL MESSAGE PROTOCOL;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

ICP

INTERNET CONTENT PROVIDER

[SINGTEL.COM; 2004]

ICQ

Internet software, developed by Mirabilis

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

ICS

INTERNET CONNECTION SHARING

[185 Wireless Secrets; Wiley Publishing; 2004]

ICTI

INTERNET COMPUTER TELEPHONY INTEGRATION

[SVOA, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

ICUG

INTERNATIONAL CADENCE USER GROUP

[http://mysun.sun.com] (9/3/01);

ICW

INTERNET CONNECTION WIZARD

[WIN 98 REGISTRY]

IDC

INTERNET DATA CENTRE

[Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Bangkok Post, 2001]

IDC

INTERNATIONAL DATA CORPORATION

[SUN MICROSYSTEMS, DATABASE, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

IDCAMS

IDC ACCESS METHOD SERVICE; (MODE) Z/OS CATALOG MANAGEMENT

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM]

IDDE

Integrated Development and Debugging Environment

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

IDE

Integrated Development Environment

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

IDE

INTEGRATED DEVICE ELECTRONICS

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000] [PC TECH HINT] In XP, if CMOS is set - IDE cache enable, IDE drives' mounting volume must be fixed by Q315403.]

IDEA

INTERNATIONAL DATA ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN; SYBEX; 2002]

IDEF

INTEGRATION DEFINITION METHOD

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

IDL

Interface Definition Language

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

IDRP

INTER DOMAIN ROUTING PROTOCOL

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN; SYBEX; 2002]

IDS

INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM

[www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0505/1601.html]

IDSL

ISDN DSL

IDUG

International db2 users group

[www.idug.org]

IE

Microsoft Internet Explorer

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES] [PC TECH HINT] Have you fixed Q324929 in IE6 yet?

IE

INTERNET EXPLORER

Generally, bigger the cipher-bit numbers, faster the explorer; Netscape offers 128 bit IE up to 2001

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

IE-FLASH

Inverse-Gate-Electrode Flash

[http://www.hqrd.hitachi.co.jp/global/ publicationlist.cfm]

IEC

INTERNATIONAL ELECTRO-TECHNICAL COMMISSION, OR INTERNATIONAL ELECTRO-TECHNIC COMMITTEE

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

IETF

INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE

[WS_Ping Pro, IPSWITCH 2000]

IF

INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

IFC

INDUSTRY FOUNDATION CLASSES

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

IFC

INTERFACE CLEAR; Interface management at pin-line level;

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

IFD

INTERFACE DEVICE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

IFL

Integrated facility for linux

[www.ibm.com]

IFS

Interchange File Separator

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

IGMP

INTERNET GROUP MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

IGRP

INTERIOR GATEWAY ROUTING PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

IGS

Interchange Group Seperator

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

IHPC

INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

[WWW.IME.A-STAR.EDU.SG; 2004]

IHV

INDEPENDENT HARDWARE VENDOR

[WINDOWS CLUSTER ADMINISTRATION V.5; 2004]

IID

INTERFACE IDENTIFIER

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

IIR

INFINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE; Also see: FIR

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

IIS

INTERNET INFORMATION SERVER; IIS

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]; [.Net Magazine, August, 2003]

IIS WPG

IIS WORKER PROCESS GROUP

[MMC2 V5; MICROSOFT; 2004]

IKE

INTERNET KEY EXCHANGE

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN; SYBEX; 2002]

ILMI

INTERIM LOCAL MANAGEMENT INTERFACE

ATM

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

IM

INSTANT MESSAGING; MICROSOFT EXCHANGE SERVICE

[KEVIN FEATHERLY, WASHINGTON, DC, NEWSBYTES; BANGKOK POST, 2001]

IMAP

INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL; IMAP4, is IMAP version 4; Unlike POP3, IMAP creates directory in server machine; Also see: ACAP;

[MICROSOFT OUTLOOK; 2002]

IMC

IBM MOBILE CONNECT

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

IMDB

IN MEMORY DATABASE; COM+

[Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures: MCSD Training Kit / Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

IME

INPUT METHOD EDITORS

[MICROSOFT OFFICE XP]

IMPE

INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING

[WWW.IME.A-STAR.EDU.SG; 2004]

IMS

INTERNET MAP SERVER; RouteMAP IMS, Internet Location Services software

[WWW.ESRI.COM]

IMS

IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM

[WWW.NEC.CO.JP/PRESS/EN/ 0502/1401.HTML]

INARP

INVERSE ARP

ATM

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

IND

independent client

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

Intel ISEF

Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

[SUKPHISIT, BANGKOK POST, 05/12/2001]

INTERNIC

INTERNET NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER

See: http://internic.net; Coordinator for DNS registration

[WS_Ping Pro, IPSWITCH 2000]

IOS

INTEGRATED OPERATING SYSTEM

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

IOS

INTERNETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM; RPC goes through ...

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

IOS

INTERNETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM

CISCO system

[GEOFF LONG, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

IOUG

INTERNATIONAL ORACLE USERS GROUP

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]

IP

INTERNET PROTOCOL;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

IPP

INTERNET PRINTING PROTOCOL

[JetLAN; TigerDirect.com; 2004]

IPS

in plane switching; mode;

[PANASONIC.CO.JP; 2004]

IPSEC

Internet Protocol Security; ah;

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

IPSO

IP SECURITY OPTION

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

IPX

INTER-NETWORK PACKET EXCHANGE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

IPXCP

INTER-NETWORK PACKET EXCHANGE CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

IR

Index Return

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

IRB

INTEGRATED ROUTING AND BRIDGING

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

IRC

INTERNET RELAY CHAT; Protocol;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

IRD

INTELLIGENT RESOURCE DIRECTOR

zSeries mainframe server by z/OS; able to process Internet transaction: 3850 records per second in 2001

WWW.IBM.COM

IrDA

INFRARED DATA ASSOCIATION

[Oracle Magazine; August, 2004]

IRF

INHERITED RIGHTS FILTER; NetWare file system security; Formally known as IRM;

[Security Complete; Sybex; 2001]

IRM

INHERITED RIGHTS MASK; NetWare file system security;

[Security Complete; Sybex; 2001]

IRQ

INTERRUPT REQUEST

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

IRS

Interchange Record Seperator

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ISA

INDUSTRY STANDARD ARCHITECTURE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ISA

INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ATMOSPHERE

[CASIO Module No. 2471]

ISA

MICROSOFT INTERNET SECURITY ACCELERATION SERVER

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

ISAM

INDEXED SEQUENTIAL ACCESS METHOD

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ISAPI

INTERNET SERVER API

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

ISCII

INDIAN SCRIPT CODE FOR INFORMATION INTERCHANGE

[MICROSOFT WORD 2002]

ISCP

INTEGRATED SERVICE CONTROL POINT; Interlligent Network Services Solution

[www.ibm.com]

ISCSI

INTERNET SMALL COMPUTER SYSTEM INTERFACE;

SAN <> Ethernet

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

ISDN

INTEGRATED SERVICES DIGITAL NETWORK

128 Kbps connection

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

ISI

INTER SYMBOL INTERFERENCE

[WWW.NEC.CO.JP/PRESS/EN/ 0502/2501.HTML; 2005]

ISIS

INTERMEDIATE SYSTEM TO INTERMEDIATE SYSTEM

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

ISM

INTEGRATED SERVICE MANAGEMENT

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]

ISMS

INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

[singtel.com; 2004]

ISO

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ISP

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ISPSD

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES & ICs

[WWW.NECEL.COM; INNOVATOR'S VOICE; 2004]

ISR

INTERRUPT SERVICE ROUTINE; Each IRQ has its own associated ISR

[ADVANCED MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 6.0, THE MANDELBROT SET, 1998]

iss

INSTRUCTION SET SIMULATOR; Also see: Lexra's RISC MIPS;

[a guide to network processor, microdesign, 2000]

IST

INTERRUPT SERVICE THREAD; ISR is called by Kernel when interrupt occurs, and ISR returns ID of IST. ID of IST is also known as thread ID.

[ADVANCED MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC 6.0, THE MANDELBROT SET, 1998]

ISV

INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE VENDOR

[WINDOWS CLUSTER ADMINISTRATION V.5; 2004]

IT

Indent Tab

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

IT

Information Technology

[MICROSOFT EXCEL 2002]

ITS

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT/TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

ITSO

INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

ITTCC

INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ITU

INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

ITU-R

INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION, RADIO SECTOR

[WWW.NEC.CO.JP; 2002]

ITUT

INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION TELECOMMUNICATION

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

IUS/ITB

Interchange Unit Seperator/Intermediate Transmission Block

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

IV

initialization vector;

[file encryption, Microsoft SDK, 2001]

IVI

INTERCHANGEABLE VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

ixa

internet exchange architecture; Also see: Level One's low-end interface chips;

[www.intel.com; 2002]

IXS

INTERNODE CROSSBAR SWITCH

[WWW.NEC.CO.JP/PRESS/EN/0410/ 2001.HTML; 2004]

J2ME

JAVA 2 MICRO EDITION

[ANALYSTINSIGHT, THOMAS MURPHY, .NETMAGAZINE, 05/2003]

J2SE

JAVA 2 STANDARD EDITION

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

JAAS

JAVA AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION SERVICE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

JAERI

JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

JAMSTEC

JAPAN MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

JAR

Java archive

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

JAXB

JAVA TO XML BINDING; JAVA API FOR XML BINDING; J2EE API

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

JAXM

JAVA TO XML MESSAGING; J2EE API

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

JAXP

JAVA TO XML PARSING; jAVA API FOR xml PROCESSING; J2EE API

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

JCA

J2EE CONNECTOR ARCHITECTURE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

JCE

JAVA CRYPTOGRAPHY EXTENSION

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

JCL

JOB CONTROL LANGUAGE

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

JCP

JAVA COMMUNITY PROCESS

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

JCW

JASMINE CYBERWORKS

[Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Bangkok Post, 2001]

JDBC

Java Database Connectivity

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

JDK

Java Developers Kit

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

JECF

Java Electronic Commerce Framework

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

jeida

japan electronic industry development association

[sonicstage v.1.2, sony, 2002]

JFC

Java foundation classes

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

JFS

JOURNAL FILE SYSTEM

[LINUX: MANDRAKESOFT.COM; 2002]

JIT

Just in time

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

JMS

JAVA MESSAGE SERVICE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

JMX

JAVA MANAGEMENT EXTENSION

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; AUGUST, 2004]

JNDI

Java Naming and Directory Interface

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

JPDK

JAVA PORTAL DEVELOPER KIT

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]

JPEG

JOINT PHOTO-GRAPHICS EXPERTS GROUP

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

JPEG

Joint Photography Engineering Group

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

JRE

Java runtime environment

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

JRMP

JAVA REMOTE METHOD PROTOCOL

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

JSC

JOINT SERVICE CENTER; JSC = ORACLE + EMC;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 2003]

JSCRIPT

JAVASCRIPT

SSI tool: see AccHTML 4 Pro

[MICROSOFT ACCESS 2002]

JSDK

Java servlet development kit

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

JSP

JAVA SERVER PAGE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

JSR

JAVA SPECIFICATION REQUEST; Also see: JSR 198 API specification;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]

JSSE

JAVA SECURE SOCKET EXTENSION;

To replace Java HTTPS callouts

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

JSTL

JAVA SERVER PAGES STANDARD TAG LIBRARY

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

JTA

JAVA TRANSACTION API

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

JTAG

Boundary scan test, ieee 1149.1

[WWW.NECEL.COM; 2003]

JTFA

JOINT TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

JVM

Java virtual machine

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

KDC

KEY DISTRIBUTION CENTER; KDC produces TGS;

[MMC 2 V.5; MICROSOFT; 2004]

KDE

K DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT

[LINUX: MANDRAKESOFT.COM; 2002]

KM

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

L2F

Layer 2 forwarding

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

L2TP

Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

LAA

LOCALLY ADMINISTERED ADDRESS

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

LAC

LIGHTNING AND AIRGLOW CAMERA

[www.jaxa.jp/missions/projects/sat/ exploration/planet_c/index_e.html]

LAN

LOCAL AREA NETWORK

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

LANE

LAN EMULATION

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

LANE

LAN EMULATION

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

LAPB

LINK ACCESS PROCEDURE BALANCED

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

LAS

LINK ACTIVE SCHEDULER

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

LASER

LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION

[WWW.CANON.COM; 2004]

LAT

LOCAL AREA TRANSPORT

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

LAT

LOCAL AREA TRANSPORT

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

LBA

Logical Block Addressing

LBS

LOCATION BASED SERVICES

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

LCA

LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

LCC

LINE CARD CONTROL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

LCD

Liquid crystal display

[SHARP AD., NEWSWEEK 9/3/01]

LCG

LINEAR CONGRUENTIAL GENERATOR; For generating pseudorandom numbers;

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING, BRYAN BERGERON, PRENTICE HALL, 2003]

LCID

LOCALE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER

For language specific character-mapped files; but no LCID number for Myanmar yet;

[MICROSOFT OFFICE XP]

LCP

LINK CONTROL PROTOCOL

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

LCR

LOGICAL CHANGE RECORD

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; NOVEMBER/DECEMBER; 2004]

LDAP

LIGHTWEIGHT DIRECTORY ACCESS PROTOCOL; Also see: LDAP.htm

[Address Book © 1981-1999, Microsoft Corp.; IPSWITCH 2000;]

LDAR

LARGE DEPLOYABLE ANTENNA REFLECTOR

[www.jaxa.jp/index_e.html]

LDIF

LIGHTWEIGHT DIRECTORY INTERCHANGE FORMAT

[Address Book, Microsoft Corp., 1999]

LEARP

LAN EMULATION ADDRESS RESOLUTION PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

LEC

LAN EMULATION CLIENT

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

LECS

LAN EMULATION CONFIGURATION SERVER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

LED

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

LEED

LOW ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; Also see: InAs

[WWW.SEAS.UCLA.EDU; 2003]

LEO

LOW EARTH ORBIT

Satellites

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

LES

LAN EMULATION SERVER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

LF

LAN FRAD

Also see: CF

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

LF

Line Feed

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

LGA

LAND GRID ARRAY; LSI

[www.ceatec.com; 2004]

LIFO

LAST IN, FIRST OUT

[PROGRAMMING C#, JESSE LIBERTY, 2001, O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES]

LIM EMS

LOTUS INTEL MICROSOFT EXPANDED MEMORY SPECIFICATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

LIO

LOGICAL I/O; Also see: PIO

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, JULY/AUGUST, 2003]

LIS

LOGICAL IP SUBNET

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

LISP

LISP PROCESSING

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING, BRYAN BERGERON; 2003]

LLC

LOGICAL LINK CONTROL

Sub layer / NT networking

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

LLC2

LOGICAL LINK CONTROL 2

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

LMS

LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

AICC compliant by Macromedia

[MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER, 2000]

LOB

LARGE OBJECT

MS SQL Server à Database à Table à Column(Attribute) à data

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

LOCOS

LOCAL OXIDATION OF SILICON

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; McGraw Hill; 2004]

LOM

LIGHTS OUT MANAGEMENT

Netra 20 AC server

www.sun.com

LOS

LINE OF SIGHT; Also see: NLOS;

[185 WIRELESS SECRETS; WILEY PUBLISHING; 2004]

LPAR

LOGICAL PARTITION

IBM usage on disk

WWW.IBM.COM

LPD

Line Printer Daemon

LPD service on UNIX provides its print device to be shared to NT; TCP/IP printing service

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

LPI

LINUX PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

LPT

LINE PRINT TERMINAL

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

LQ

Letter Quality

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

LRPC

Local Remote Procedure Calls

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

LSA

LOCAL SECURITY AUTHORITY

[MMC 2 V.5; MICROSOFT; 2004]; [ADMINISTERING ACTIVE DIRECTORY; MCGRAW-HILL; 2001]

LSB

LEAST SIGNIFICANT BIT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

LSI

LARGE SCALE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

[www.canon.com/technology/ interview/pixus/index.html ; 2004]

LSP

LINK STATE PROTOCOL

[Security Complete; Sybex; 2001]

LSSD

LEVEL SENSITIVE SCAN DESIGN; LSSD = Scan path by shift registers AND sensitive level;

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; McGraw Hill; 2004]

LTM

LOCAL TEST MANAGER

[MICROSOFT LTM; UNICODE OS]; Right, Left, Menu test;

LTM

LONG TERM MEMORY; AI usage;

Human beings natural memory; Also see: STM;

LTO

LINEAR TAPE OPEN; LTO/IBM

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

LUN

LOGICAL UNIT NUMBER; In SAN, disk-array is divided into LUNs

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

LUT

LOOK UP TABLE; Also see: CLUT;

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

LVDS

LOW VOLTAGE DIFFERENTIAL SIGNALING

[WWW.NECEL.COM; INNOVATOR'S VOICE; 2004]

LVDT

LINEAR VARIABLE DIFFERENTIAL TRANSFORMER; Also see: RVDT

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

LVM

LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGER; AIX's feature

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

LWAPP

LIGHT WEIGHT ACCESS POINT PROTOCOL

[EWEEK; JAN. 5, 2004]

LZW

LEMPEL, ZIV, AND WELCH; Lossless compression;

[SAMS TEACH YOURSELF WEB PUBLISHING WITH HTML4 IN 21 DAYS PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE EDITION, 2ND EDITION; 2000]

M I/O

MULTI-PATH INPUT/OUTPUT; Maximun 32 paths with interoperability to deploy load-balance and multi-path in Windows Server 2003 environment

MAC

MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

MAC

MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL

MAC Address = NIC's hard-coded address

MAC Address = Hard-coded address on network adapter

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

MAC OS

MACINTOSH OPERATING SYSTEM

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

MAML

MICROARRAY MARKUP LANGUAGE;

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING; PRENTICE HALL; 2003]

MAN

METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORK

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

MAPI

MESSAGE APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

MAU

MULTISTATION ACCESS UNIT

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

MAX

MEASUREMENT & AUTOMATION EXPLORER

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

MBR

Master Boot Record; %Recovery Console% chkdsk /f /r <enter>; fixmbr <enter>; fixboot <enter>;

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

[SMARTCOMPUTING, NOV., 2006]

MCDBA

MICROSOFT CERTIFIED DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]

MCGA

MULTI COLOR GRAPHICS ARRAY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

MCH

MEMORY CONTROLLER HUB; A part of chipset

[810E MOTHERBOARD SPECIFICATION, EMACHINES, 2001]

MCM

MULTI-CHIP MODULE; Boundary scan test can be deployed for testing PCB, and MCM;

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; McGraw Hill; 2004]

MCM

MULTI-CONTEXT MAP

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

MCNS

MANAGING CISCO NETWORK SECURITY

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

MCP

MICRO CHANNEL PLATE

[www.jaxa.jp/missions/projects/sat/ exploration/planet_c/index_e.html]

MCP

MICROSOFT CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL

[Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures: MCSD Training Kit / Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

MCS

MEDIA CONVERGENCE SERVER; Cisco 7700, 8000 series run CallManager on MCS; VOIP; In 2003, CallManager software can manage 24~48 Cisco IP Telephony phones;

[EWEEK MAGAZINE, AUGUST 11, 2003]

MCSD

MICROSOFT CERTIFIED SOLUTION DEVELOPER

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

MCSE

MICROSOFT CERTIFIED SYSTEMS ENGINEER

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

MCT

MICROSOFT CERTIFIED TRAINER

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

MD5

MESSAGE DIGEST 5

Encryption algorithm

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

MD5

Message Digest 5

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

MDA

MONOCHROME DISPLAY ADAPTER

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

MDAC

MICROSOFT DATA ACCESS COMPONENT; It was called MDAC SDK, MICROSOFT DATA ACCESS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT;

[MICROSOFT PLATFORM SDK, FEB., 2001]

MDDI

MOBILE DISPLAY DIGITAL INTERFACE; 3G CDMA;

[http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/040831.html ; 2004]

MDI

MULTIPLE DOCUMENT INTERFACE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

MDIS

METADATA INTERCHANGE SPECIFICATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

MDL

MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

MDS

MONITORING AND DISCOVERY SERVICE; OGSA;

[NEC; 2003]

ME

MILLENNIUM EDITION

Windows Operating System

[http://www.microsoft.com]

MED

MULTI EXIT DISCRIMINATOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

MEME

MULTIPLE EM FOR MOTIF ELICITATION; Also see: Software Collection;

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING, BRYAN BERGERON, PRENTICE HALL, 2003]

MEMS

MICRO ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEM

[CIO INSIGHT, ZIFF DAVIS; JUNE, 2003]

MEO

MEDIUM EARTH ORBIT

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING, BRYAN BERGERON, PRENTICE HALL, 2003]

MES

MANUFACTURING EXECUTION SYSTEM

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

MFA

Modify Field Attribute

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

MFC

MICROSOFT FOUNDATION CLASSES

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

MFC

MULTI FUNCTION CENTER

[Owner's Manual, MFC-3100C; WWW.BROTHER.COM; 2002]

MFS

MACINTOSH FILE SYSTEM

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

MG

MAGICGATE MEMORY STICK

[sonicstage v.1.2, sony, 2002]

MHD

MAGNETO HYDRODYNAMIC; Simulation; Geomagnetic-disturbance by Solar wind;

[http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/ 0407/2901.html]

MHS

MANAGED HOSTING SERVICES

[http://business.singtel.com/sme/ products/managed_hosting/ expan/expan_overview _about_us.asp; 2004]

MHTML

MIME ENCAPSULATED AGGREGATE HTML DOCUMENT

Web Archive

[MICROSOFT WORD 2002; ACCESS 2002]

MIB

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION BASE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

MICROSOFT CTEC

MICROSOFT CERTIFIED TECHNICAL EDUCATION CENTER

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

MIDI

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT DIGITAL INTERFACE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

MIDL

MICROSOFT INTERFACE DEFINITION LANGUAGE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

MIDP

MOBILE INFORMATION DEVICE PROFILE

[ANALYSTINSIGHT, THOMAS MURPHY, .NETMAGAZINE, 05/2003]

MII

MEDIA INDEPENDENT INTERFACE; (MAC to PHY) interface by Ethernet 10/100; Also see: SMII

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

MIIS

MICROSOFT IDENTITY INTEGRATION SERVER

[EWEEK, JULY 7, 2003]

MIIS

Microsoft Internet Information Server

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

MIM

METAL INSULATED METAL; Low temperature capacitor by NEC;

[WWW.NEC.COM]

MIM

MOBILE INSTANT MESSAGING; 3G GSM WITH W-CDMA;

[185 WIRELESS SECRETS; WILEY PUBLISHING; 2004]

MIMD

MULTIPLE INSTRUCTION – MULTIPLE DATA

Not SIMD alike

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

MIME

MULTIPURPOSE INTERNET MAIL EXTENSIONS;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997] [PC TECH HINT] To solve S/MIME parsing, fix Q328676 in Outlook Express 6. ;[.Net magazine, August, 2003];

MIMO

MULTIPLE INPUT, MULTIPLE OUTPUT; Also see: Bell labs; Airgo;

[EWEEK, SEPT, 2003]

MIMS

MOBILE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVER

[EWEEK, JUNE, 2003]

MIN

MOBILE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER

[185 Wireless Secrets; Jack McCullough; Wiley Publishing; 2004]

MIP

MULTICHANNEL INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

MIPS

MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

MIPV6

MOBILE INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION 6

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

MIS

MARKETING INFORMATION SYSTEM

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

MIT

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

[WWW.MIT.EDU]

MMC

MICROSOFT MANAGEMENT CONSOLE

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

MMC

MULTIMEDIA MEMORY CARD

[WWW.SAMSUNG.COM; 2004]

MMDB

MOLECULAR MODELING DATABASE;

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING, BRYAN BERGERON, PRENTICE HALL, 2003]

MMIC

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; McGraw Hill; 2003]

MMP

MULTICHASIS MULTILINK PPP

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

MMS

MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

MMS

MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING SERVICE; Cell phone with camera, video player, ...

[EWEEK; JAN. 12, 2004]

MMU

MAIN MEMORY UNIT

[WWW.NEC.CO.JP/PRESS/EN/0410/ 2001.HTML; 2004]

MMU

MEMORY MANAGEMENT UNIT

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]

MNF

MULTI NETWORK FIREWALL

[LINUX: MANDRAKESOFT.COM; 2002]

MNP

MICROCOM NETWORK PROTOCOL

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

MO

MAGNETO OPTICAL – MO DISC

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

MODEM

MODULATOR/DEMODULATOR

MOLE

MILITARY OVERLAY EDITOR; Military-geographic application software

[WWW.ESRI.COM]

MON

MODULAR OBJECT NUMBER

MONET

MULTI-WAVELENGTH OPTICAL NETWORKING

[WWW.BELL-LABS-COM; 2003]

MOS

METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

MP3

MPEG Audio Layer-3

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

MPC

MULTIPROTOCOL CLIENT

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

MPL

MAPLEX LABEL

[WWW.ESRI.COM]

MPLS

MULTIPROTOCOL LABEL SWITCHING; Broadband IX5000 Series;

[NEC; 2002; http://www.nec.co.jp/techrep/en/r_and_d/]

MPP

MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSOR

[WWW.IBM.COM; 2002]

MPPP

MULTI-LINK POINT-TO-POINT PROTOCOL

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

MPR

MULTIPLE PROTOCOL ROUTER

See: RIP

[TRIER EXAMS, V.2.0, 1997]

www.trierexams.com

MPS

MULTIPROTOCOL SERVER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

MRAM

MAGNETIC RAM; Also see: IBM, and Infineon's chip development;

[EWEEK, 6/16/2003]

MS CHAP

Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

MS DTC

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator

MS Transaction Server v.2.0 Release Notes; MS SQL Server 2005;

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

MSAP

MULTI-SERVICE ACCESS PLATFORM

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSORS; MICRODESIGN RESOURCES; 2000]

MSAU

MULTISTATION ACCESS UNIT

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

MSB

MOST SIGNIFICANT BIT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

MSC

MOBILE SERVICE SWITCHING CENTER

[WWW.NECEL.COM; INNOVATOR'S VOICE; 2004]

MSCA

MICROSOFT CERTIFIED SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

MSCS

Microsoft Cluster Server

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

MSDE

MICROSOFT DATABASE ENGINE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0; MCSD Training Kit; Microsoft; 1999]

MSDE

MICROSOFT SQL SERVER DESKTOP ENGINE (FORMERLY)

[ACCESS 2002] [WINDOWS CLUSTER ADMINISTRATION V.5; 2004]

MSDN

MICROSOFT DEVELOPERS NETWORK; MSDN Magazine;

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0; MCSD Training Kit; Microsoft; 1999]

MSDTC

MICROSOFT DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION COORDINATOR

[.Net magazine, August, 2003]

MSF

MICROSOFT SOLUTIONS FRAMEWORK; Distributed application development

[Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures; MCSD Training Kit; Microsoft; 1999]

MSF

MICROSOFT SOLUTIONS FRAMEWORK

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0;  MCSD Training Kit; Microsoft; 1999]

MSIL

MICROSOFT INTERMEDIATE LANGUAGE

[PROGRAMMING C#, JESSE LIBERTY, 2001, O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES]

MSMQ

MICROSOFT MESSAGE QUEUE SERVER

[MICROSOFT MESSAGE QUEUE SERVER, V.1, RELEASE NOTES]

MSN

MICROSOFT NETWORK

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

MSR

MIME Speech Recognition;

[WWW.NTTDOCOMO.COM; 2004]

MSXML

MICROSOFT EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE

[MICROSOFT OFFICE XP] [PC TECH HINT] In XP, MSXML 2.6; Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-008 must be fixed.

MTA

MULTI-THREADED APARTMENT

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

MTBF

MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURES; Also see: MTTR

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

MTS

MICROSOFT TRANSACTION SERVER

See: Microsoft Transaction Server v.2.0 Released Notes

[Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures: MCSD Training Kit / Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

MTS

MOBILE TELE SYSTEM

[www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0505/1301.html]

MTSO

MOBILE TELEPHONE SWITCHING OFFICE;

[185 Wireless Secrets; Jack McCullough; Wiley Publishing; 2004]

MTTR

MEAN TIME TO RECOVER

[ORACLE 8I SIMULATOR; www.oracle.com ; 1998]

MTTR

MEAN TIME TO REPAIR; Also see: MTBF

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

MTU

MAXIMUM TRANSMISSION UNIT

Amount of data to send or to receive through TCP/IP; Larger the MTU, bigger the packet, but the packet-bottleneck depends on ISP's packet

[MODEM BOOSTER V.2.2] [www.linksys.com; 2005]

MUI

MULTILINGUAL USER INTERFACE

[MICROSOFT OFFICE XP]

MUX

MULTIPLEXER

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

MVC

MODEL VIEW CONTROLLER

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002] [DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

MVP

MICROSOFT MOST VALUABLE PROFESSIONALS

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

MVP

MODEL VIEW PRESENTER

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

MX

Mail Exchanger

SMTP mailer / server

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]; [WS_Ping pro, ipswitch, 2000]

NACK

Negative acknowledge

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

NAK

Negative Acknowledge

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

NAQC

NETWORK ACCESS QUARANTINE CONTROL; To logon, admin script must validate PC's configuration;

[.NET MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

NAS

NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE

IBM usage

[SVOA, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

[WWW.IBM.COM]

NAS

NETWORK ACCESS SERVER

Microsoft usage

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

NASDA

NATIONAL SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF JAPAN

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

NASI

NOVELL ASYNCHRONOUS SERVICES INTERFACE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NAT

NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION

[CSM PROXY PLUS]

NBFCP

NETBIOS FRAMES CONTROL PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NBMA

NON BROADCAST MULTIACCESS

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NBNS

Netbios name server

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

NBP

NAME BINDING PROTOCOL; Transport layer by AppleTalk;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

NBS

Numeric Backspace

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

NBT

NetBIOS over TCP/IP

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

NC

NAME CONTEXT;

NAMING CONTEXT;

[ADMINISTERING ACTIVE DIRECTORY; MCGRAW-HILL; 2001]

NC

NORMALLY CLOSE; Also see: NO, COM;

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

NCB

NETWORK CONTROL BLOCK

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

NCD

NETWORK COMPUTING DEVICE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NCIA

NATIVE CLIENT INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NCP

NETWORK CONTROL PROGRAM

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NCP

NETWORK CONTROL PROTOCOL

NetBEUI over PPP

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NCP

NETWARE CORE PROTOCOL; IPX's connectionless transport layer;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000] [WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

NCQ

NATIVE COMMAND QUEUING;

[www.fujitsu.com/us/news/pr/ fcpa_20050531-01.html]

ndac

not data accepted; Handshake at pin-line level

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

NDIS

NETWORK Device INTERFACE SPECIFICATION

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

NDS

NATIVE DYNAMIC SQL

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; NOVEMBER/DECEMBER; 2004]

NEBS

NETWORK EQUIPMENT BUILDING SYSTEM

[EWEEK, JUNE, 2003]

NEMIP

NEC MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION PLATFORM

[WWW.NEC.CO.JP/PRESS/EN/0504/0501.HTML]

NEMS

NANO-METER SCALE ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEM

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

NEON

NEC'S ENTERPRISE OPEN NETWORK-EMBODIES

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

NETBEUI

NETBIOS [Network binary input/output system] EXTENDED USER INTERFACE;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

NETBT

NETBIOS OVER TCP/IP

[WINDOWS CLUSTER ADMINISTRATION V.5; 2004]

NF

Normal Form

RDBMS relational theory

NFS

NETWORK FILE SYSTEM;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

NHRP

NEXT HOP RESOLUTION PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NHRP

NEXT HOP RESOLUTION PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NHS

NEXT HOP SERVER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NIC

NECK INJURY CRITERION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

NIC

NETWORK INTERFACE CARD

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

NICS

NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS CONSULTING SERVICE

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

NIG

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS

[http://pmd.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/; 2004]

NIPC

NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION CENTER

Computer worm, protected by FBI, USA

[DAVID MCGUIRE, WASHINGTON, DC, NEWSBYTES, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

NIS

NETWORK INFORMATION SERVICE

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

NL

New Line

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

NLA

NETWORK LOCATION AWARENESS

[CONFIGURING WINDOWS VISTA CLIENT; MICROSOFT PRESS; 2007]

NLB

Network load balancing; cLUSTER BASED COMPUTING;

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

NLOS

NON LINE OF SIGHT; No need of "clear southern sky"; Also see: Wireless;

[185 Wireless Secrets; Wiley Publishing ; 2004]

NLQ

NEAR LETTER QUALITY

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

NLSP

NOVELL LINK STATE PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NMI

Non Mask-able Interrupt

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

NMVT

NETWORK MANAGEMENT VECTOR TRANSPORT

IBM's SNA

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NNTP

NETWORK NEWS TRANSFER PROTOCOL

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

NO

NORMALLY OPEN; Digital signal condition / relay channel; Also see: NC, COM

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

NOC

NETWORK OPERATION CENTER

[SINGTEL.COM; 2004]

NOS

NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM

[Security Complete; Sybex; 2001]

NP

NUMERICAL PERTURBATION; A method inside HOAP;

[www.fujitsu.com/global/about/ rd/200506HOAPSeries.html]

NPE

NETWORK PROCESSING ENGINE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NPM

NETWORK PROCESSOR MODULE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NPU

NETWORK PROCESSOR UNIT; Also see: CPU; CPU vs. NPU vs. DSP ?

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

NRFD

NOT READY FOR DATA; Handshake at pin-line level;

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

NS

NAME SERVER

[ADMINISTERING ACTIVE DIRECTORY; MCGRAW-HILL; 2001]

NSAP

NETWORK SERVICE ACCESS POINT

ISO 8348

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NSDI

NATIONAL SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE

[WWW.ESRI.COM]

NSP

Numeric space

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

NT1

NETWORK TERMINATION 1

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NTFS

NT File system; NEW TECHNOLOGY FILE SYSTEM

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

NTLDR

NT LOADER; cd i386 <enter>; copy ntldr c: <enter>; copy ntdetect.com c: <enter>;

[SMARTCOMPUTING; NOV., 2006]

NTLM

NT LANMAN

NT Challenge / Response Authentication Protocol

[MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE 2002]

NTLM

NT LAN Manager

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

NTP

NETWORK TIME PROTOCOL

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

NTSC

NATIONAL TELEVISION STANDARDS COMMITTEE; in Japan and North America;

[SAMS TEACH YOURSELF WEB PUBLISHING WITH HTML4 IN 21 DAYS PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE EDITION, 2ND EDITION]

NUL

Null

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

NUMA

NON UNIFORM MEMORY ACCESS

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; NOVEMBER/DECEMBER; 2004]

NUMLK

NUMBER LOCK

[STANDARD KEYBOARD]

NVH

NOISE, VIBRATION, HARSHNESS

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

NVRAM

NON VOLATILE RAM

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

NXD

NATIVE XML DATABASE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

OAUG

ORACLE APPLICATIONS USERS GROUP

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

OBE

ORACLE BY EXAMPLE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

OC4J

ORACLE9iAS CONTAINER FOR J2EE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

OCA

ORACLE CERTIFIED ASSOCIATE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

OCFS

ORACLE CLUSTER FILE SYSTEM

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, JULY/AUGUST, 2003]

OCI

ORACLE CALL INTERFACE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

OCL

OBJECT CONSTRAINT LANGUAGE

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

OCM

ORACLE CERTIFIED MASTER

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

OCP

ORACLE CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

OCR

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION

Manual OCR, Microsoft Office XP Document Imaging

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

OCX

OLE CUSTOM ACTIVEX CONTROL

OCXO

OVEN CONTROLLED X-CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

OD

OBJECT DESCRIPTION;

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]

ODBC

OPEN DATABASE CONNECTIVITY; Connectivities = 1.SQL ODBC, 2.ADO, 3.ASAM;

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

ODI

OPEN DATA-LINK INTERFACE

Developed by Novell; NIC supports TCP/IP and IPX/SPX

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

ODL

OBJECT DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

ODM

ORIGINAL DESIGN MANUFACTURING

[VICKI KWONG, HONG KONG, REUTERS, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

ODMA

OPEN DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT API

By AIIM;

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

ODMG

OBJECT DATABASE MANAGEMENT GROUP

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

ODS

OPERATIONAL DATA STORE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]

ODS

OUTPUT DELIVERY SYSTEM; SAS system-programming language;

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]

oeic

OPTO-ELECTRONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

[WWW.BELL-LABS-COM; 2003]

OEM

ORACLE ENTERPRISE MANAGER

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

OEM

Original Equipment Manufacturer

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

OFC

Oxygen free copper; Purification of element means less interference; Also see: Bus, Cable, Connector, Port;

[www.tigerdirect.com; 2004]

OFDM

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING

[www.necel.com; 2003]

OGC

OPENGIS CONSORTIUM

[WWW.ESRI.COM]

OGSA

OPEN GRID SERVICE ARCHITECTURE

[NEC; 2003]

OICETS

OPTICAL INTER-ORBIT COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING TEST SATELLITE

[Beam acquisition; JAXA; 2005]

OID

OBJECT IDENTIFIER

[MMC2 V5; MICROSOFT; 2004]; [ADMINISTERING ACTIVE DIRECTORY; MCGRAW-HILL; 2001]

OIR

ONLINE INSERTION AND REMOVAL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

OLAP

ONLINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

OLE

OBJECT LINKING AND EMBEDDING

OLE Custom Control = ActiveX Control

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

OLE db

object linking and embedding database

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

OLED

ORGANIC LED; Also see: Display;

[TONY WALTHAM, DATABASE, BANGKOK POST, 2001]; [www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/200409/04-048E; 2004]

OLN

ORACLE LEARNING NETWORK

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

OMcS

OPEN MISSIONS CRITICAL SYSTEMS

[http://www.sw.nec.co.jp/valumo/ english/world/index.html; 2003]

OMG

Object Management Group

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]; [www.omg.com]

OMG IDL

Object management group interface definition language

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

OOP

Object Oriented Programming

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

OPC

OLE FOR PROCESS CONTROL

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

OPN

ORACLE PARTNER NETWORK

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]

OPS

ORACLE PARALLEL SERVER

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

ORB

OBJECT REQUEST BROKER

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

OS

OPERATING SYSTEM

OSCP

ORACLE STORAGE COMPATIBILITY PROGRAM

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

OSDN

OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT NETWORK

[WWW.OSDN.COM; WWW.VASOFTWARE.COM; 2003]

OSI

OPEN SYSTEMS INTERCONNECTION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

OSM

ON SCREEN MANAGER; Product specific LCD monitor displays' hardware functions are controllable by NaViSet OSM software;

[WWW.NECMITSUBISHI.COM; 2004]

OSP

OLE DB SIMPLE PROVIDER; Tool kit, part of MDAC SDK

[MICROSOFT; MDAC SDK V.2.5; 1999]

OSPF

OPEN SHORTEST PATH FIRST; OSPF is deployed as same(OSI-layer) as Bridge, Internetworking, IP, RIP, Router, ...;  Routing;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

OSS

OPERATIONS SUPPORT SYSTEMS; Telcordia Technologies

[www.telcordia.com]

OSS

ORACLE SUPPORT SERVICES

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

OTN

ORACLE TECHNOLOGY NETWORK

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

OTSI

ONLINE TRAINING SOLUTION INC.

[Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures: MCSD Training Kit / Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

OTTO

CICS ONLINE TRANSMISSION TIME OPTIMIZER; V.1.1

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

OU

Organizational Unit

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

OWA

Outlook Web Access / Microsoft Exchange 2000

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

OWB

ORACLE WAREHOUSE BUILDER

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]

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P Q R S

A B C D E F G

H I J K L M N O

P Q R S

T U V W

X Y Z

Acronym

Full Name

Bibliographical Index

P2P

PEER TO PEER

[PROGRAMMING C#, JESSE LIBERTY, 2001, O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES]

P3P

PLATFORM FOR PRIVACY PREFERENCES; World Wide Web Consortium standard

[Matt Hicks, eWeek, Sept. 9, 2002]

PABX

PRIVATE AUTOMATED BRANCH EXCHANGE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows

2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

PAC

PRESENTATION ABSTRACTION CONTROL

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

PAD

PACKET ASSEMBLER/DE-ASSEMBLER DEVICE

X.25 packet

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

PAGEDEF

PAGE DEFINITION

[Infoprint Designer for iSeries v.1, r.1 &

AS/400; WWW.IBM.COM]

PAL

PHASE ALTERATION LINE; In Europe and Middle East;

[SAMS TEACH YOURSELF WEB PUBLISHING WITH HTML4 IN 21 DAYS PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE EDITION, 2ND EDITION]

PAP

Password Authentication Protocol

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

PAPERO

PARTNER TYPE PERSONAL ROBOT

[WWW.NEC.CO.JP; 5/2003] [http://www.incx.nec.co.jp/robot/ robotcenter_e.html]

PARC

PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER; XEROX

[EWEEK, JUNE 23, 2003]

PASE

PORTABLE APPLICATION SUPPORT ENVIRONMENT

IBM iSeries 400; IBM operating system OS/400;

WWW.IBM.COM

PAT

PORT AND ADDRESS TRANSLATION

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

PC

PERSONAL COMPUTER

PCAR

PRINCIPLE COMPONENT AUTO REGRESSIVE

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

PCASSO

PATIENT CENTERED ACCESS TO SECURE SYSTEMS ONLINE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

PCB

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD; Also see: MCM; FPC;

[TONY WALTHAM, DATABASE, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

PCD

PHOTO CD

[MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE 2002]

PCI

PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

PCI-X

PCI EXTENDED

[EWEEK, SEPT., 2003]

PCM

PULSE CODE MODULATION; Generating waves to create pulses;

[NETWORK SECURITY ILLUSTRATED; McGraw-Hill; 2004]

PCMCIA

PERSONAL COMPUTER MEMORY CARD INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

PCR

PHASE CHANGE REWRITABLE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

PCS

PERSONAL CONNECTIVITY SOLUTION

[WWW.AMD.COM; 2003]

PCT

PERSONAL COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

v. 1.0

[MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE 2002]

PDA

PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

PDB

PROTEIN DATA BASE

[BIOINFORMATICS, NEC; 2002; http://www.nec.co.jp/techrep/en/r_and_d/ ]

PDC

Primary Domain Controller

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

PDH

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT HOUR

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

PDL

PAGE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

PDM

PROGRAMMING DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

PDN

PUBLIC DATA NETWORK

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

PDU

PROTOCOL DATA UNIT

A data packet

[WS_Ping Pro, IPSWITCH 2000]

PE

PORTABLE EXECUTABLE

[PROGRAMMING C#, JESSE LIBERTY, 2001, O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES]

PEAP

PROTECTED EXTENDED AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL; For password based wireless protection schemes;

[.NET MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

PEC

primary enterprise controller

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

PERL

PRACTICAL EXTRACTION AND REPORT LANGUAGE; In 2004, Perl v.5.6, 6.0;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

PGA

PROGRAM GLOBAL AREA

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

PG DN

PAGE DOWN

[STANDARD KEYBOARD]

PG UP

PAGE UP

[STANDARD KEYBOARD]

PGA

PIN GRID ARRAY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

PGA

PROFESSIONAL GRAPHICS ADAPTER

PGP

PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY; Email and storage disk encryption by Phil Zimmerman; www.nai.com; Free in Internet;

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

PHP

Hypertext Preprocessor

See: *.php3, *.php

[ACCHTML 4 PRO]

www.visicommedia.com

PHY

PHYSICAL LAYER; Also see: MAC;

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, LINLEY GWENNAP & BOB WHEELER, MICRODESIGN, 2000]

PID

POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM

[WWW.NECTHAI.CO.TH; 2002]

[www.nec.com.sg/ap/section/solutions/solutions/pid.html; 2004]

PIM

PROTOCOL INDEPENDENT MULTICAST

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

PIMA

PATTERN INDUCED MULTI SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; Program;

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING, BRYAN BERGERON, PRENTICE HALL, 2003]

PIN

PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER

[WWW.NEC.COM.SG; 2004]

PING

PACKET INTERNET GROPER

Defined in RFC 792, ICMP's Echo function

[WS_Ping Pro, IPSWITCH 2000]

PIO

PHYSICAL I/O; Also see: LIO

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, JULY/AUGUST, 2003]

PIP

PICTURE IN PICTURE

[Samsung Ad., Bangkok Post, 2001]

PIR

PROTEIN IDENTIFICATION RESOURCE

[BIOINFORMATICS, NEC; 2002; http://www.nec.co.jp/techrep/en/r_and_d/ ]

PIX

PRIVATE INTERNET EXCHANGE

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

PKI

PUBLIC KEY INFRASTRUCTURE; PKI = encryption and digital signature

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

PKS

PHARSIGHT KNOWLEDGEBASE SERVER

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]

PL

PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE;

[ORACLE8 ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE, 1997, ORACLE CORPORATION]

PLA

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC ARRAY

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; 2003]

PLC

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLER

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

PLD

PAPER LIKE DISPLAY

[CANON; 2005]

PLIM

PHYSICAL LAYER INTERFACE MODULE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

PLL

PHASE LOCK LOOP

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

For Monbusho level engineers only: define precisely between I/O and PLL;

PLM

PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

[WWW.IBM.COM]

PLSE

PRODUCT LINE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

PMC

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT CONSOLE

[EWEEK, JUNE, 2003]

PMD

PROTEIN MUTANT DATABASE

[http://pmd.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/; 2004]

PMS

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

A system / PC Console based super hybrid digital PABX

[PANASONIC SYSTEMS, 2001, www.panasonic-th.com , BANGKOK POST]

PNG

PORTABLE NETWORK GRAPHICS; cdrom.com/pub/png

[SAMS TEACH YOURSELF WEB PUBLISHING WITH HTML 4 IN 21 DAYS PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE EDITION, 2ND EDITION; 2000]

PNNI

PRIVATE NETWORK NODE INTERFACE; protocol

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]

PNP

Plug and Play

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

POC

Program Operator communication

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

POC

Push to talk over cellular; POC and voip are packet based voice services

[www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0505/1101.html]

PODEM

PATH ORIENTED DECISION MAKING

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; 2003]

POE

POWER OVER ETHERNET; wlan 802.3AF;

[EWEEK; JAN. 5, 2004]

POP

POINT OF PRESENCE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

POP

Post Office Protocol; PoP3, POP version 3;

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

POS

PACKET OVER SONET

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

POS

POINT OF SALE

[EWEEK, JUNE, 2003]

POST

Power on self test

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

POTS

PLAIN OLD TELEPHONE SERVICE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL] [185 Wireless Secrets; Jack McCullough; Wiley Publishing; 2004]

PP

Presentation Position

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

PPDD

PRACTICAL PRIVACY DISK DRIVER; Linux;

[SECURITY COMPLETE; SYBEX; 2001]

PPFA

PAGE PRINTER FORMATTING AID

[Infoprint Designer for iSeries v.1, r.1 & AS/400; WWW.IBM.COM]

PPP

POINT-TO-POINT PROTOCOL

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

PPPOE

PPP OVER ETHERNET

[NEC; 2002; http://www.nec.co.jp/techrep/en/r_and_d/ ]

PPRC

PEER-TO-PEER REMOTE COPY

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

PPS

PACKET PER SECOND

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

PPTP

POINT-TO-POINT TUNNELING PROTOCOL

PPTP supports IP, IPX, and NetBEUI

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997] [PC TECH HINT: Q329834] Have you fixed PPTP implementation DoS  by XP SP1 yet?

PRNG

PSEUDORANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; Algorithm

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, SYBEX, 2002]

PROM

PROGRAMMABLE READ ONLY MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

PRTSC

PRINT SCREEN

[STANDARD KEYBOARD]

PSC

primary site controller

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

PSTE

PARALLEL SYSPLEX TRAINING ENVIRONMENT

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

PSTN

public switched telephone network

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, LINLEY GWENNAP & BOB WHEELER, MICRODESIGN, 2000]

PTE

PAGE TABLE ENTRY

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

PTF

PROGRAM TEMPORARY FIX; ISERIES PROGRAMMING FACILITIES

[Infoprint Designer for iSeries v.1, r.1 & AS/400; ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

PTH

PIN THROUGH  HOLE

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; 2003]

PTR

IP ADDRESS TO NAME POINTER

DNS reverse lookup zone

[TRIER EXAMS © 1997 V.2.0]

www.trierexams.com

PTT

PUSH TO TALK;

[WWW.LGE.COM; 2004]

PTV

PUSH TO VIEW;  Wireless;

[WWW.LGE.COM; 2005]

PU

PHYSICAL UNIT

IBM SNA à PVC

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

PVA

PATTERN VERTICAL ALLIGNMENT; Also see: Samsung display;

[EWEEK, SEPT., 2003]

PVC

PERMANENT VIRTUAL CIRCUIT

Also see: SVC

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

PVC

PERMANENT VIRTUAL CONNECTION

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

PVC

PRIVATE VIRTUAL CIRCUIT

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

PVIEW

PROCESS VIEWER

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

PWM

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

PWS

PERSONAL WEB SERVER

See: Microsoft Personal Web Server v.4

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

PWVD

PSEUDO WIGNER VILLE DISTRIBUTION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

PXE

PREBOOT EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT; Blade controller / F5 Networks;

[EWEEK, JUNE 23, 2003]

PXI

PCI EXTENSION FOR INSTRUMENTATION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

QA

QUALITY ASSURANCE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

QBER

QUANTUM BIT ERROR RATE;

[www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0505/3101.html; 2005]

QBF

QUERY BY FORM

Computer Associates' Ingres RDBMS

[WWW.CA.COM]

QDR

QUAD DATA RATE

[WWW.SAMSUNG.COM; 2004]

QED

Quantum Effect Device

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

QEP

QUERY EXECUTION PLANS

Computer Assocites' Ingres Visual DBA

[WWW.CA.COM]

QFP

QUAD FLAT PACK; 100 PIN IN 2002; ISA pin configuration;

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

QFP

QUAD FLAT PACKAGE

[WWW.NECEL.COM; INNOVATOR'S VOICE; 2004]

QFS

QUICK FILE SYSTEM

[EWEEK; VOL. 22; NO.28; 2005]

QMU

QUEUE MANAGEMENT UNIT

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

QOS

QUALITY OF SERVICE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

R&D

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

RAC

REAL APPLICATION CLUSTER; Oracle 9i / HP UX, SUN Solaris; In 2004, RAC/10g;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

RAD

RAPID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial In User Service; Remote Access Dial In User Service;Also see: Security of AD/RADIUS; IAS;

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000] [Security Complete; Sybex; 2001]

RAID

REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INDEPENDENT DISKS

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

RAM

RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

RAM DAC

Random Access Memory Digital Analog Converter

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

RAN

RADIO ACCESS NETWORK

[WWW.NEC.CO.JP; 2002]

RARP

REVERSE ARP

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

RAS

REMOTE ACCESS SERVICE;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997] [PC TECH HINT] In XP, have you fixed Q318138 for RAS phonebook's security ?

RBAC

ROLE BASED ACCESS CONTROL; Solaris 9 OS administrative feature

[HENRY BALTAZAR, EWEEK LABS REVIEW, EWEEK, 06/17/2002]

RBF

REPORT BY FORMS

Computer Associates' Ingres RDBMS

[WWW.CA.COM]

RBM

RING BACK MELODY; Mobile wireless system

[www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0505/1301.html]

RBO

RULE BASED OPTIMIZER; Also see: CBO;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, JULY/AUGUST, 2003]

RBW

RESOLUTION BANDWIDTH

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

RCW

RUNTIME CLASS WRAPPER

[PROGRAMMING C#, JESSE LIBERTY, 2001, O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES]

RD

REFERENCED DOCUMENT

[MICROSOFT WORD 2002]

RDA

REMOTE DATA ACQUISITION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

RDBMS

RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

RDF

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION FRAMEWORK

[COLDFUSION STUDIO; ALLAIRE CORPORATION; 2000] www.allaire.com

RDN

Relative Distinguished Name

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

RDO

REMOTE DATA OBJECT

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

RDP

REMOTE DESKTOP PROTOCOL

[CONFIGURING WINDOWS VISTA CLIENT; MICROSOFT PRESS; 2007]

RDS

REMOTE DATA SERVICE

Framework for HTTP, HTTPS and DCOM

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

REAP

REMOTE EDGE ACCESS POINT; WLAN / ACS

[EWEEK; JAN. 5, 2004]

RED

RANDOM EARLY DETECTION;

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

RELAX NG

REGULAR LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION FOR XML CORE NEW GENERATION; XML Schema, grammar based

[WWW.OREILLY.COM; 2004]

REN

REMOTE ENABLE; Interface management at pin-line level;

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

RES/ENP

Restore/Enable Presentation

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

REXX

RESTRUCTURED EXTENDED EXECUTOR

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

RF

RADIO FREQUENCY

FCC type A is for business, FCC type B is for home

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

RFC

REMOTE FUNCTION CALL

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]

RFC

Request For Comments

A set of documents, published by IETF

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

RFF

Required form feed

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

RFID

RADIO FREQUENCY ID; wireless sensor; Also see: UPC; EPC;

[CIO INSIGHT, ZIFF DAVIS; JUNE, 2003]

RFX/DFX

RECORD FIELD EXCHANGE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

rgb

rED, GREEN, AND BLUE; Display produces RGB color model; Also see: HSB;

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

RID

Relative ID

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

RIP

RASTER IMAGE PROCESSOR

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

RIP

Routing Information Protocol

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]; [ADMINISTERING ACTIVE DIRECTORY; MCGRAW-HILL; 2001]

RIP2

ROUTING INFORMATION PROTOCOL 2

50 neighbors / router

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

RIS

RANDOM INTERLEAVED SAMPLING

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

RISC

REDUCED INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTING;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

RLP

REGISTER LEVEL PROGRAMMING

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

RMA

REMOTE MATERIAL AUTHORIZATION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

RMAN

RECOVERY MANAGER

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

RMC

RAPTOR MANAGEMENT CONSOLE

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, SYBEX, 2002]

RMI

Remote Method Invocation

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

RMON

REMOTE MONITORING

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]

RMS

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

[Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures: MCSD Training Kit / Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

RMS

ROOT MEAN SQUARED

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

RNC

RADIO NETWORK CONTROLLER

[WWW.NECEL.COM; INNOVATOR'S VOICE; 2004]

RNL

Required New Line

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ROI

RETURN ON INVESTMENT

Tool Estimator / IBM software;

[http://www-1.ibm.com] (9/3/01);

ROM

READ ONLY MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

ROT

RUNNING OBJECT TABLE

[IROTVIEW, V.1.1, 32 BIT, MICROSOFT; 1993-5]

RP

ROUTER PROCESSOR; Also see: SP; Motorola's RP;

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

RP3

REFERENCE POINT 3; Spec.

[WWW.NECEL.COM; INNOVATOR'S VOICE; 2004]

RPC

Remote Procedure Call

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

RPG

REPORT PROGRAM GENERATOR

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

RPS

REDUNDANT POWER SUPPLY

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

RPT

Repeat

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

RRAS

ROUTING AND REMOTE ACCESS SERVICE

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

RS

Routing Server

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

RS

RECOMMENDED STANDARD / ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

RS

Record Separator

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

RSA

RIVEST, SHAMIR, ADLEMAN; encryption

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN; SYBEX; 2002]

RSH

REMOTE SHELL; PROTOCOL

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN; SYBEX; 2002]

RSP

ROUTE SWITCH PROCESSOR; Also see: RP, SP, ...;

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

RSP

Required Space

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

RSRB

REMOTE SOURCE ROUTE BRIDGING

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

RSS

REALLY SIMPLE SYNDICATION; feeds

[Microsoft; technet; 2005]; Basically, RSS is XML format, and RSS services are web_content_distribution [i.e. addresses, banners headlines, short texts, hyperlinks, ...], and web content_sharing;

RSVP

RESOURCE RESERVATION PROTOCOL; It contains TCP/UDP port number at Layer 4

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]; [ADMINISTERING ACTIVE DIRECTORY; MCGRAW-HILL; 2001]

RSVP

resource reservation setup protocol

See: Microsoft RSVP 1.0

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

RTC

Real Time Clock

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

RTD

RESISTIVE TEMPERATURE DEVICE

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

RTF

RICH TEXT FORMAT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

RTMP

ROUTING TABLE MAINTENANCE PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

RTOS

REAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEM

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

RTP

ROUTING TABLE PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

RTR

RESPONSE TIME REPORTER

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

RTS

REQUEST TO SEND

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

RTT

ROUND TRIP TIME; Latency; Propagation delay; Should be in ms;

[185 WIRELESS SECRETS; WILEY PUBLISHING; 2004]

RTTI

RUN TIME TYPE INFORMATION;

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]; One of the C++ features - Exceptions, RTTI, Single/Multiple Inheritance, Template, ...;

RTU

REMOTE TERMINAL UNIT

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

RUP

RATIONAL UNIFIED PROCESS

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

RVDT

ROTARY VARIABLE DIFFERENTIAL TRANSFORMER; Also see: LVDT

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

RVS

ROTATIONAL VIBRATION SENSOR

[SCSI UltraStar series, Hitachi; 2004]

RWIN

RECEIVE WINDOW

RWIN sets DUN's modem state

[MODEM BOOSTER V.2.2]

RXD

RECEIVE (X) DATA, RECEIVE (RX) DATA

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

S

STACK; Also see: MPLS;

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

S/N

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO

[WWW.SONY.NET; 2003]

SA

SECURITY ASSOCIATIONs

[firewall 24seven; sybex; 2002]

SA

Set Attribute

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SA

SYSTEM AUTOMATION;

OS/390 V.2

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM]

SACL

SYSTEM ACCESS CONTROL LIST

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

SAM

SECURITY ACCOUNTS/ACCOUNTING MANAGER; Windows 2000;

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]; [ADMINISTERING ACTIVE DIRECTORY; MCGRAW-HILL; 2001]

SAM

SERVICE AUTOMATION MODULE; Opsware System 3

[Paula Musich, eWeek, 9/2/2]

SAM

STORAGE AREA MANAGER; HP OPENVIEW

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

SAM

SUM-ADDRESSED MEMORY

Ultra SPARC III

[www.sun.com]

SAML

SECURITY ASSERTION MARKUP LANGUAGE

[EWEEK, July 7, 2003]

SAN

STORAGE AREA NETWORKS

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

SAN

SYSTEM AREA NETWORK

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

SAP

SERVICE ACCESS POINT

Multiplexing

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

SAP

SERVICE ADVERTISING PROTOCOL

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

SAPI

SPEECH API

v.5.0.2602.00

[MICROSOFT EXCEL 2002]

SAR

SEGMENTATION AND REASSEMBLY; ATM

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSORS; MICRODESIGN RESOURCES; 2000]

SAS

SINGLE ATTACHMENT STATION

Also see: DAS; multi-mode FDDI

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SATAN

SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR TOOL FOR ANALYZING NETWORK; Unix;

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

SAX

SIMPLE API FOR XML; API's event driven parser;

[XML PARSER USABILITY AND PERFORMANCE, MATTHEW WILSON, WINDOWS DEVELOPER MAGAZINE, 04/2003]

SBS

Small business server; mIcrosoft

[eweek, sept., 2003]

SBS

Subscript

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SCADA

SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

SCC

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION CARD;

[www.sun.com; 2002]

SCC

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION CHECKER

[MICROSOFT; sql SERVER 2005]; If auto, SCC verifies and updates registry keys; Otherwise, manual registry key update is needed;

SCCML

SECURITY CONFIGURATION COORDINATION MARKUP LANGUAGE; Policy description language;

[www.nec.co.jp/press /en/0505/1601.html]

SCF

SWITCHED CAPACITOR FILTER

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

SCM

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

SCM

SERVICE CONTROL MANAGER

[MMC 2 V.5; MICROSOFT; 2004]

SCMS

SERIAL COPY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

[Security Complete; Sybex; 2001]

SCN

SYSTEM CHANGE NUMBER; SCN is used to deploy point-in-time recovery of DBMS;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

SCODE

STATUS CODE – COM's predefined identifiers

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

SCPI

STANDARD COMMAND FOR PROGRAMMABLE INSTRUMENT

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

SCRLK

SCROLL LOCK

[STANDARD KEYBOARD]

SCSI

SMALL COMPUTER SYSTEM INTERFACE; Also see: FC-AL;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SD

STANDARD DEVIATION

SDA

SCREEN DESIGN AID;

ISERIES PROGRAMMING FACILITIES

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

SDE

SPATIAL DATABASE ENGINE; Maplex - automated text placement and cartographic design software

[WWW.ESRI.COM]

SDH

SYNCHRONOUS DIGITAL HIERARCHY; OPTICAL NETWORKING

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

SDI

SINGLE DOCUMENT INTERFACE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

SDK

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

SDL

SPECIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE; Telelogic Tau Developer 2

[UML 2, GARY EVANS, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, APRIL, 2003, VOL.11, NO.4]

SDLC

SYNCHRONOUS DATA LINK CONTROL

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

SDMI

SECURE DIGITAL MUSIC INITIATIVE

[sonicstage v.1.2, sony, 2002; www.sdmi.org]

SDP

SERIAL DATA PROCESSOR; Also see: Motorola's CP, C-5;

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

SDRAM

SYNCHRONOUS DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY; Unbuffered

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SDS

STOCKWATCH DATA SERVICES

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

SDSL

SYMMETRIC DSL

[MMC2 v5; Microsoft; 2004]

SECAM

SYSTEME ELECTRONIC POUR COLEUR AVEC MEMOIRE; In France & Russia;

[SAMS TEACH YOURSELF WEB PUBLISHING WITH HTML4 IN 21 DAYS PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE EDITION, 2ND EDITION]

SED

SURFACE CONDUCTION ELECTRON EMITTER DISPLAY; Cannon + Toshiba; Flat display;

[www.canon.com/press/p2004sep14.html]

SED/SEC

SINGLE ERROR DETECTION / SINGLE ERROR CORRECTION

www.sun.com

SEH

STRUCTURED EXCEPTION HANDLING

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

sel

select

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SELENE

SELENOLOGICAL AND ENGINEERING EXPLORER

[www.jaxa.jp/missions/projects/sat/ exploration/selene/index_e.html]

SER

SOFT ERROR RATE

[WWW.NECEL.COM/EN/NEWS/ ARCHIVE/0212/1601.HTML]

serdes

serialization and deserialization; (ATM || PPP)/SONET is mapped by framer-chip, and then passed to transceiver serdes function;

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, LINLEY GWENNAP & BOB WHEELER, MICRODESIGN, 2000]

SEU

SOURCE ENTRY UTILITY; ISERIES PROGRAMMING FACILITIES

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

SFC

SWITCH FABRIC CARD

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SFE

Start field extended

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SFM

Services for Macintosh

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

SFP

small form factor pluggable; Also see: Bus Connector and Port;

[ www.sei.co.jp/iv_e/annual/04/an2004.pdf ]

SFP

SOFT FRONT PANEL

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

SGA

STARED GLOBAL AREA; Memory

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

SGK

SERVICES GUIDE KIT; Also see: Microsoft SGK 5

[IMPLEMENT .NET ALERTS, SARA REA, .NETMAGAZINE, 05/2003]

SGML

STANDARD GENERALIZED MARKUP LANGUAGE

See: *.xml, *.dtd, *.xsl

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SHA

SECURE HASH ALGORITHM; SHA-1 is created by NIST;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SHTTP

SECURE HTTP;

[BIOINFORMATICS; PRENTICE HALL; 2003]

SHy

Syllable hyphen

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SI

international System of Units

SI

Shift In

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

SID

Security ID          or            Security Identifier

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

SIGE

SILICON GERMANIUM; Fabrication technology to implement power amplifier on radio frequency

[WWW.IBM.COM]

SIGEHBT

Silicon germanium heterojunction bipolar transistor;

[WWW.NEC.COM]

SIMD

SINGLE INSTRUCTION – MULTIPLE DATA;

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

SIMM

SINGLE INLINE MEMORY MODULE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SIMPLE

SIP IM PRESENCE LEVERING EXTENSIONS; IBM Sametime v.3;

[EWEEK, SEPT., 2003]

SIP

SINGLE IN-LINE PACKAGE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SIP

SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL; IBM Sametime v.3; IP Telephony;

[EWEEK, Sept., 2003]

SKIP

SIMPLE KEY MANAGEMENT FOR INTERNET PROTOCOLS

[Security Complete; Sybex; 2001]

SLA

SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT

[Oracle Magazine; August, 2004]

SLIP

SERIAL LINE INTERNET PROTOCOL

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

SM/SW

Set Mode/Switch

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SMART

SELF MANAGING AND RESOURCE TUNING

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

SMB

SERVER MESSAGE BLOCK; SESSION MESSAGE BLOCK;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000] [Security Complete; Sybex; 2001]

SMDS

SWITCHED MULTIMEGABIT DATA SERVICES

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

SMII

SERIAL MEDIA INDEPENDENT INTERFACE; Also see: MII

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

SMIP

SERVICE PROVIDER MIP

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SML

SIMPLE MACRO LANGUAGE; PC ARC/INFO and Data Automation Kit

[WWW.ESRI.COM]

SMM

SYSTEM MANAGEMENT MODE

A mode of Intel Pentium processor

[INTEL, PENTIUM]

SMP

SYMMETRIC MULTIPROCESSING

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

SMP

SYMMETRIC MULTIPROCESSOR

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

SMRP

SIMPLE MULTICAST ROUTING PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SMS

SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE; SHORT MESSAGE SYSTEM;

[185 Wireless Secrets; Wiley Publishing; 2004] [WIRELESS AND DEVICES, TOM ZACIOS, .NETMAGAZINE, 05/2003]

SMS

SYSTEM MANAGEMENT SERVER

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

SMS

SYSTEM MANAGED SPACE;

IBM DB2 UDB

[WWW.IBM.COM]

SMS

SYSTEM MANAGED STORAGE;

Z/OS CATALOG MANAGEMENT

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM]

SMT

SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT TOOLSET

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

SMT

SURFACE MOUNTED TECHNOLOGY

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; 2003]

SMTP

SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SNA

SYSTEMS NETWORK ARCHITECTURE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SNAP

SUBNETWORK ACCESS PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SNIA

STORAGE NETWORKING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION; Also see: HBA, Tape/CD/DVD libraries;

[REDUCE STORAGE WITH NAS AND SAN, TOM CLARK, .NETMAGAZINE, 5/2003]

SNMP

Simple network management protocol;

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997] [PC TECH HINT] Have you fixed Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-006 yet?

SO

Shift out

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

SOA

SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE

[.NET AND SOA; DARYL PLUMMER; .NETMAGAZINE; APRIL, 2003]

SOA

START OF AUTHORITY

[WS_Ping Pro, IPSWITCH 2000]; [ADMINISTERING ACTIVE DIRECTORY; MCGRAW-HILL; 2001]

SOAP

SIMPLE OBJECT ACCESS PROTOCOL; WebSphere

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

SOC

SYSTEM ON CHIP; Also see: Embedded DRAM from NEC;

[http://www.snug-universal.org; 09/03/01] [www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0412/1702.html; 2004]

SODA

SERVICE ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT OF APPLICATION

[.NET AND SOA; DARYL PLUMMER; .NETMAGAZINE; APRIL, 2003]

SOG

SYSTEM ON GLASS; To sCAN;

[WWW.NEC.CO.JP/PRESS/EN/0502/1801.HTML]

SOH

Start of Heading

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

soho

small office or home

[a guide to network processor, microdesign, 2000]

SOI

SILICON ON INSULATOR

[WWW.NECEL.COM; INNOVATOR'S VOICE; 2004]

SOM

SYSTEM OBJECT MODEL; IBM's usage;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SONET

SYNCHRONOUS OPTICAL NETWORK; Multi-mode fiber optic; Basically, it carries ATM and POS

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

SOS

Start of significance

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SP

SWITCH PROCESSOR; Also see RP;

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SP

SERVICE PACK

For fixing known and reported bugs

[MICROSOFT PERSONAL WEB SERVER, V.4, RELEASE NOTES]

SP

Space

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SP

SERVICE PACK

Patch;

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

SPA

SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION

Founded in 1984

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

SPA

SECURE PASSWORD AUTHENTICATION

[MICROSOFT OUTLOOK 2002]

SPAP

Shiva PAP, Shiva Password Authentication Protocol

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

SPARC

SCALABLE PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SPC

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

SPDT

SINGLE POLE DOUBLE THROW; ALSO SEE: SPST; Switch

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

SPEC

STANDARD PERFORMACE EVALUTION CORP.

SPEXS

SEQUENCE PATTERN EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH

[BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTING, BRYAN BERGERON, PRENTICE HALL, 2003]

SPI

STATEFUL PACKET INSPECTION; Firewall;

[LinkSys, Cisco; Broadband Router Installation and Troubleshooting Guide; 2005]

SPM

SHARED PROPERTY MANAGER

[MMC 2, V.5; MICROSOFT; 2004]

SPOOL

SIMULTANEOUS PERIPHERAL OPERATION ON LINE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

SPP

SCALABLE PARALLEL PROCESSING

[MICROSOFT COMPUTER DICTIONARY, 4th Edition, 1999]

SPring-8

Super Photon ring-8 GeV; World's strongest synchrotrons for finding new "computing" materials;

[Canon Science Lab; www.canon.com; 2004]

SPS

SHARE-POINT PORTAL SERVER

[TRENDS AND ANALYSIS, CRAIG ROTH, .NETMAGAZINE, 05/2003]

SPS

Super Script

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SPST

SINGLE POLE SINGLE THROW; Also see: Spdt; Switch

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

SPX

SEQUENCED PACKET EXCHANGE; IPX;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

SQL

STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

SQM

Service Quality Monitoring

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2005]

SQUID

SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICE

[www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/040909a.html]

SR

SPEECH RECOGNITION

[MICROSOFT EXCEL 2002]

SR/TLB

SOURCE ROUTE / TRANSLATIONAL BRIDGING

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SRAM

STATIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SRB

SOURCE ROUTE BRIDGING

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SRL

STRUCTURE RETURN LOSS; Also see: Impedance Z;

[WWW.TIGERDIRECT.COM; 2004]

SRM

STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

[WWW.VERITAS.COM/SRM; 2002]

SRQ

SERVICE REQUEST; Interface management at pin-line level;

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

SRT

SOURCE ROUTE TRANSPARENT

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SRTP

SEQUENCED ROUTING UPDATE PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SSA

SERIAL STORAGE ARCHITECTURE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SSE

SILICON SWITCH ENGINE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SSH

SECURE SHELL; Protocol

[FIREWALL 24SEVEN; SYBEX; 2002]

SSID

SERVICE SET IDENTIFIER; Also see: Wireless;

[185 Wireless Secrets; Wiley Publishing; 2004]]

SSIP

STANDARD SERIAL INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SSL

SECURE SOCKETS LAYER

Open standard by Netscape; v.2.0, v.3.0; Developed by Netscape;

[MICROSOFT OUTLOOK 2002]; [WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

SSO

SINGLE SIGN ON; ORACLE SECURITY

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

SSP

SILICON SWITCH PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SSP

SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTION PROGRAM

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

SSR

SOLID STATE RELAY; Multiplexer

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

SSRP

SIMPLE SERVER REDUNDANCY PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SSRP

SIMPLE SERVER REDUNDANCY PROTOCOL

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

STA

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY OF JAPAN

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

STA

SPANNING TREE ALGORITHM

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

STA

SINGLE THREADED APARTMENT

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

STC

SEMICONDUCTOR TEST CONSORTIUM

[www.semitest.org; 2004]

STDA

STREET TALK DIRECTORY ASSISTANT SERVER

[MMC2 V5; MICROSOFT; 2004]

STFT

SHORT TIME FOURIER TRANSFORM

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

STL

STANDARD TEMPLATE LIBRARY

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]

STM

SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY

[WWW.SEAS.UCLA.EDU; 2003]

STM

SHORT TERM MEMORY; AI usage;

Human beings natural memory; Also see: LTM;

STP

SHIELDED TWISTED PAIR; Also see: UTP

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

STP

STANDARD TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE

[PHYSICS DEMYSTIFIED; STAN GIBILISCO; MCGRAW-HILL; 2002]

STS

SELF TEST SOFTWARE

[Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures: MCSD Training Kit / Microsoft Corporation, 1999]; [WWW.SELFTESTSOFTWARE.COM]

STS

SELF TEST SOFTWARE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

STUN

SERIAL TUNNELING

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

STX

Start of Text

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

SUB

Substitute

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

SUMONCLE

SUN MOON CIRCLE; RSC solar cell energy photovoltaic semiconductor

[sumoncle.com; 2003]

SUN ONE

SUN OPEN NET ENVIRONMENT;

[HENRY BALTAZAR, EWEEK, 06/17/2002]

SVC

SWITCHED VIRTUAL CIRCUIT

Also see: PVC

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

SVC

SWITCHED VIRTUAL CIRCUIT

Frame Relay

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

SVGA

SUPER VIDEO GRAPHICS ARRAY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

SWATCH

SIMPLE WATCHER; Linux;

[COMPLETE SECURITY; SYBEX; 2001]

SYLK

SYMBOLIC LINK

[MICROSOFT EXCEL 2002]

SYN

SYNCHRONIZE CONNECTION ESTABLISHMENTS; ; Transport layer;

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

SYN

Synchronous Idle

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

SYSRQ

SYSTEM REQUIRE

[STANDARD KEYBOARD]

 Up

T U V W

A B C D E F G

H I J K L M N O

P Q R S

T U V W

X Y Z

Acronym

Full Name

Bibliographical Index

TA

TERMINAL ADAPTER;

[MILES IGNOTUS, BANGKOK POST, 9/5/01]

TA

TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ENTRY

[MICROSOFT WORD 2002]

TAD

TELEPHONE ANSWERING DEVICE

[Owner's Manual, MFC-3100C; WWW.BROTHER.COM; 2002]

TAF

TRANSPARENT APPLICATION FAILOVER

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

TAPI

Telephony Application Programming Interface

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

TARP

TARGET ARP

SONET

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

TAXI

TRANSPARENT ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSMITTER / RECEIVER INTERFACE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

TBSM

TIVOLI BUSINESS SYSTEMS MANAGER

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

TC

TABLE OF CONTENTS ENTRY

[MICROSOFT WORD 2002]

TCA

TARGET CHANNEL ADAPTER; ALSO SEE: HCA; Grid vs others.htm

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 2003]

TCFS

TRANSPARENT CRYPTOGRAPHIC FILE SYSTEM

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

TCO

TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP

How to minimize the cost when investing in network?

[Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures: MCSD Training Kit / Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

TCP

TAPE CARRIER PACKAGE

[WWW.NECEL.COM; INNOVATOR'S VOICE; 2004]

TCP

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; OSI's Transport Layer

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

TCR

TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT RESISTANCE

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

TCSEC

TRUSTED COMPUTER SECURITY EVALUATION CRITERIA; US GOVERNMENT

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

TDI

TRANSPORT DRIVER INTERFACE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

TDM

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXER; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

TDM

TRIADIC DOMAIN MODEL

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

TDR

TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETER

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

TDS

TABULAR DATA STREAM; Encryption;

[Microsoft SQL Server 2005]

TDWI

THE DATA WAREHOUSING INSTITUTE

[WWW.DW-INSTITUTE.COM]

TFT

THIN FILM TRANSISTOR

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

TGA

TARGA

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

TGS

TICKET GRANTING SERVICE; A part of Kerberos v.5

[MMC 2 V.5; MICROSOFT; 2004]

TGT

TICKET GRANTING TICKETS; Kerberos;

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

T/H

TRACK AND HOLD

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

THD

TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION; PCI dynamic analog input;

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

TI

TIBIA INDEX

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

TIFF

TAGGED IMAGE FILE FORMAT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

TIP

TRANSACTION INTERNET PROTOCOL

[MMC 2 V.5; MICROSOFT; 2004]

TIS FWTK

TRUSTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS FIREWALL TOOLKIT; Firewall

[FIREWALLS 24SEVEN, MATTHEW STREBE, CHARLES PERKINS; SYBEX; 2002]

TLS

TRANSPORT LAYER SECURITY

[Security Complete; Sybex; 2001]

TLU

TABLE LOOKUP UNIT; Also see: Motorola's C-5;

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

TMR

TUNNEL MAGNETO-RESISTIVE

[http://pr.fujitsu.com/en/news/2002/05/15-1.html]

TMS

TRUTH MAINTENANCE SYSTEM

[DOMAIN ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND PRACTICES; KIYOSHI ITOH; SATOSHI KUMAGAI; TOYOHIKO HIROTA; 2003; TAYLOR & FRANCIS]

TOA

TABLE OF AUTHORITY

[MICROSOFT WORD 2002]

TOAD

TOOL FOR ORACLE APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; VERSION 3.0 ~ 4.0; 2003

[EWEEK, JUNE 23, 2003]

TOC

TABLE OF CONTENTS

[MICROSOFT WORD 2002]

TOE

TCP/IP OFFLOAD ENGINE; Also see: ASIC from Adaptec;

[REDUCE STORAGE WITH NAS AND SAN, TOM CLARK, .NETMAGAZINE, 5/2003] [EWEEK, AUGUST, 2003]

TOS

TYPE OF SERVICE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

TRIP

TOKEN RING INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

TRN

Transparent

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

TS

TRANSACTION SERVER

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

TSID

TRANSMITTING SUBSCRIBER IDENTIFICATION

[MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP FAX CONSOLE v.5; 2004]

TSO

TIME SHARING OPTION

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

TSPC

TRUE SINGLE PHASE CLOCK; CIRCUIT;

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; McGraw Hill; 2003]

TSQL

Transact Structured Query Language

[MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 7.0 ADMINISTRATOR'S POCKET CONSULTANT, stanek, 1999]

TSR

TERMINATE AND STAY RESIDENT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

TTI

THORAX TRAUMA INDEX

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

TTL

Time to live; Also see: MPLS;

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

TTL

TRANSISTOR TRANSISTOR LOGIC

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com] [CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Analysis and Design; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; 2004]

TTS

TEXT TO SPEECH

Speech Recognition

[MICROSOFT EXCEL 2002]

TTY

Teletypewriter

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

TV

TELEVISION

TWS

TIVOLI WORKLOAD SCHEDULER; V.8

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

TXD

TRANSMIT (X) DATA, TRANSMIT (TX) DATA

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

UAA

UNIVERSALLY ADMINISTERED ADDRESS

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

UAM

USER AUTHENTICATION MODULE; For MacOS(s);

[MICROSOFT; 2004]

UAN

UNIVERSAL APPLICATION NETWORK; XML based platform for web servicing

[Dennis Callaghan, eWeek, 9/2/2]

UART

UNIVERSAL ASYNCHRONOUS RECEIVER TRANSMITTER

Fax/Voice modem's chip

[BitWare, Computer Associates International, 2000]

UBS

Unit backspace

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

UDA

UNIVERSAL DATA ACCESS

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

UDDI

UNIVERSAL DESCRIPTION, DISCOVERY, AND INTEGRATION

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

UDF

Uniqueness Database File

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

UDP

USER DATAGRAM PROTOCOL

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

UDRP

UNIFORM DOMAIN-NAME DISPUTE RESOLUTION POLICY

[www.internic.org]

UDT

USER DEFINED TYPE

[VB6; VISUAL BASIC; 2001]

UFO

ULEAD FILE FOR OBJECT

[SAMS TEACH YOURSELF WEB PUBLISHING WITH HTML4 IN 21 DAYS PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE, 2ND EDITION; 2000]

UI

USER INTERFACE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

UID

USER ID; Tools >> Manage Test Source ... >> UID for data source

[ODBC TEST V.2.6; MICROSOFT; 2000]

UIM

USER IDENTITY MODULE

[WWW.SAMSUNG.COM; 2004]

UINT

UNSIGNED INTEGER

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

UIX

USER INTERFACE IN XML

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]

ULSI

ULTRA LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; McGraw Hill; 2003]

UML

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE

[Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures: MCSD Training Kit / Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

UMTS

UNIVERSAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

[185 Wireless Secrets; Wiley Publishing; 2004]

UNC

UNIVERSAL NAMING CONVERSION;

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999] [PC TECH HINT] In XP, have you fixed Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-017 yet?

UNI

USER TO NETWORK INTERFACE

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

UnimodeM

Universal Modem, Universal Modulator/Demodulator

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

UPC

UNIVERSAL PRODUCT CODE; Also see: EPC; RFID;

[WWW.RFIDJOURNAL.COM; 2003]

UPN

USER PRINCIPAL NAMES

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]; [ADMINISTERING ACTIVE DIRECTORY; MCGRAW-HILL; 2001]

UPS

Un-interruptible Power Supply

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

URI

UNIFORM RESOURCE IDENTIFIER

[PROGRAMMING C#, JESSE LIBERTY, 2001, O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES]

URL

UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR; UNIVERSAL RESOURCE LOCATOR;  Blocking URL;

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999] [Security Complete; Sybex; 2001]

US

Unit Separator

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

USB

UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

USIM

UNIVERSAL SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY MODULE

[WWW.SAMSUNG.COM; 2004]

USMT

USER STATE MIGRATION TOOL

[LINUX: MANDRAKESOFT.COM; 2002]

UTC

UNIVERSAL TIME COORDINATE; Also see: System.DateTime obj; In a system, convert UTC time to local time

[MMC 2 V.5; MICROSOFT; 2004]

UTF

UNIVERSAL TEXT FORMAT

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

UTOPIA

UNIVERSAL TEST AND OPERATION PHY INTERFACE OF/FOR ATM

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

UTP

UNSHIELDED TWISTED PAIR

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

UUCP

Unix to Unix Copy

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

UUID

UNIVERSALLY UNIQUE IDENTIFIER; Also see: CLSID

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

UUT

UNIT UNDER TEST

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

UV

ULTRAVIOLET;

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; McGraw-Hill; 2004]

UWB

ULTRA WIDE BAND; Short range wireless;  Also see: Wireless USB;

[http://www.necel.com/en/ techhighlights/wusb/uwb.html; 2004]

VB

VISUAL BASIC

[PROGRAMMING C#, JESSE LIBERTY, 2001, O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES]

VBA

VISUAL BASIC APPLICATION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

VBS

VISUAL BASIC SCRIPT

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

VBSCRIPT

VISUAL BASIC SCRIPT

See: *.vbs

[MICROSOFT ACCESS 2002]

VBX

VISUAL BASIC EXTENSION  -- VISUAL BASIC CUSTOM ACTIVEX CONTROL

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

VC

VISCOUS CRITERION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

VCC

VIRTUAL CHANNEL CONNECTION

ATM

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

VCI

VITUAL CONNECTION IDENTIFIER

ATM; Also see: VPI

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

VCL

VISUAL COMPONENT LIBRARY

[SAMS, BORLAND PRESS, 1998]

VCM

VISUAL COMPONENT MANAGER      VB6 >> View >> Visual Component Manger

[MICROSOFT; VB6]

VCR

Voluntary Content Rating

Internet access authorization on web page contents

[MIDPOINT V.4]

VCR

Video cassette recorder

[Security Complete; Sybex; 2001]

VCXO

VOLTAGE CONTROL X-CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

VDM

VIRTUAL DISK MANAGER;

[FRANCIS CHU, EWEEK, 06/17/2002]; [www.slotshield.com/ productpages/products.html]

VDs

VIRTUAL DISK SYSTEM;

[REDUCE STORAGE WITH NAS AND SAN, TOM CLARK, .NETMAGAZINE, 5/2003]

VDSM

VERY DEEP SUB MICRON

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; McGraw Hill; 2003]

VESA

VIDEO ELECTRONICS STANDARDS ASSOCIATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

VfW

VIDEO fOR WINDOWS

[SAMS TEACH YOURSELF WEB PUBLISHING WITH HTML4 IN 21 DAYS PROFESSIONAL REFERENCE EDITION, 2ND EDITION]

VG

VOICE GRADE

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

VGA

VIDEO GRAPHICS ADAPTER

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

VGA

VIDEO GRAPHICS ARRAY

VHDL

VERILOG HDL; Schematic vs. VHDL

[WWW.NECEL.COM/GATEARRAY; 2003]

VI

VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

VINES

VIRTUAL INTEGRATED NETWORK SERVICE

Banyan network

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

VIP

VERSATILE INTERFACE PROCESSOR

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

VIP2

VERSATILE INTERFACE PROCESSOR 2

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

VISA

VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

VL BUS

VESA LOCAL BUS

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

VLAN

VIRTUAL LAN

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

VLDB

VERY LARGE DATABASE

[WWW.IBM.COM]

VLSI

VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION; Systems;

[CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits; Sung-Mo Kang; Yusuf Leblebici; McGraw Hill; 2003]

VLSM

VARIABLE LENGTH SUBNET MASK

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

VLV

VIRTUAL LEGACY VOLUME; Sun Microsystems' storage; Midrange;

[EWEEK; Vol. 22; No. 30; 2005]

VM

Virtual Machine

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

VML

VECTOR MARKUP LANGUAGE;

[FRONTPAGE 2002; ACCESS 2002]

VOIP

VOICE OVER IP; CISCO EQUIPMENT

[GEOFF LONG, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

VPD

VIRTUAL PRIVATE DATABASE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

VPDN

VIRTUAL PRIVATE DIAL UP NETWORK

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

VPF

VECTOR PRODUCT FORMAT

[WWW.ESRI.COM]

VPI

VIRTUAL PATH IDENTIFIER

ATM; Also see: VCI

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

VPN

Virtual Private Networks;

[WINDOWS NT IN A NUTSHELL, pearce, 1997]

VRML

VIRTUAL REALITY MODELING LANGUAGE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

VS.NET

VISUAL STUDIO.NET

[.NET AND SOA; DARYL PLUMMER; .NETMAGAZINE; APRIL, 2003]

VSAM

VIRTUAL STORAGE CATALOG METHOD; VIRTUAL STORAGE ACCESS METHOD

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM]; [ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

VSE

VIDEO SPLITTER EXTENDER

[PORT AUTHORITY2; WWW.TIGERDIRECT.COM; 2004]

VSF-OFCDM

Variable Spreading Factor-Orthogonal Frequency and Code Division Multiplexing

[http://www.nttdocomo.com; 2004]

VSS

VISUAL SOURCE SAVE

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]; VB6, 2001;

VSWR

VOLTAGE STANDING WAVE RATIO; Switch

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

VT

Vertical Tab

[Microsoft Press, 1997]

VTML

VISUAL TOOLS MARKUP LANGUAGE

[COLDFUSION STUDIO, ALLAIRE CORPORATION, 2000] www.allaire.com

VTOC

VOLUME TABLE OF CONTENTS; Z/OS CATALOG MANAGEMENT

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

VVDS

VIRTUAL VOLUME DATA SET; (MODE)

Z/OS CATALOG MANAGEMENT

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

VWIC

VIRTUAL WEBSPHERE INNOVATION CENTER

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

W3C

World Wide web consortium; Also see: www.w3.org

[Chamlernlert, Bangkok Post, 2001]

WAB

WINDOWS ADDRESS BOOK – File format

[Address Book © 1981-1999, Microsoft Corp.]

WAFL

WRITE ANYWHERE FILE LAYOUT; Also see: SnapShot / NetApp;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 2002]

WAIS

WIDE AREA INFORMATION SERVICE

[MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE 2002]

WAN

WIDE AREA NETWORK

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

WAP

Wireless access point

[d-link; tigerdirect.com; 2004 ]

WAP

Wireless Application Protocol

[Chamlernlert, Bangkok Post, 2001]

WAR

WEB APPLICATION ARCHIVE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; 6/2003]

WAS

WEBSPHERE APPLICATION SERVER

[WWW.IBM.COM]

WAS-AE

IBM WEBSPHERE APPLICATION SERVER ADVANCED EDITION

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

WBEM

WEB BASED ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

WBMP

WIRELESS BITMAP

Image, Macromedia Dreamweaver user interface to NOKIA WAP

[MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER, 2000]

WCDMA

WIDEBAND CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS

[WWW.NEC-GLOBAL.COM/FEATURES/ WORDDEFINER/KEY.HTML; 2002]

WDK

WEB DEVELOPMENT KIT

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

WDL

WINDOWS DRIVER LIBRARY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

WDM

WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; 1.5 microns in optical mux;

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]

WDM

WINDOWS DRIVER MODEL

Part of USB, IEEE 1394 and ACPI

[TRIER EXAMS © 1997 V.2.0]

www.trierexams.com

WEP

WIRED EQUIVALENT PRIVACY; Key

[EWEEK, JUNE 23, 2003]

WER

WINDOWS ERROR REPORTING

[WWW.MICROSOFT.COM/HWDEV; 2002]

WES

WEBSPHERE EVERYPLACE SUITE;

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

WFMS

WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]

WHQL

WINDOWS HARDWARE QUALITY LABS

[WWW.MICROSOFT.COM/HWDEV; 2002]

WIA

WINDOWS IMAGE ACQUISITION

[MICROSOFT PLATFORM SDK, FEB., 2001]

WIC

WAN INTERFACE CARD

[CISCO ROUTER HANDBOOK, GEORGE SACKETT, 1998, THE MCGRAW-HILL]

wi-fi

wireless fidelity; Also see: HI-fi;

[185 Wireless Secrets; Wiley Publishing; 2004]

WILL

WEB INSTRUCTOR-LED LEARNING

[www.cai.com]

WIMP

Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointer

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

WINNET

WINDOWS NETWORK

[WS_Ping Pro, IPSWITCH 2000]

WINS

WINDOWS INTERNET NAMING SERVICE;

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

WIU

WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

[ www.wiu.edu ]

WKS

WELL KNOWN SERVICE

DNS

[TRIER EXAMS © 1997 V.2.0]

www.trierexams.com

WLAN

WIRELESS LAN; Fewer the access-points in quantity, lower the cost in currency;

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

WL CSP

WAFER LEVEL CHIP SIZE PACKAGE

[WWW.SANYO.COM/ SEMICONDUCTORS/ ; 2004]

WMA

Windows Media Audio

[Bangkok Post]

WMF

WINDOWS METAFILE FORMAT

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

WMI

WINDOWS MANAGEMENT INSTRUMENTATION

WMI is Microsoft implementation of WBEM; Before editing policy, read WMI filter / MMC 2 v.5;

[WINDOWS 2000 ADMINISTRATOR'S HANDBOOK, LINSENBARDT & STIGLER, 2000]

WMI CIM

WMI COMMON INFORMATION MODEL

[MMC 2 V.5; MICROSOFT; 2004]

WML

WIRELESS MARKUP LANGUAGE

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]

WMPXP

WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER FOR WINDOWS XP

[PC TECH HINT] Q320920 Security Update is needed in a XP system.

WMT

WINDOWS MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES

[sonicstage v.1.2, sony, 2002]

WNET

WINDOWS NETWORKING

[MICROSOFT PLATFORM SDK, FEB., 2001]

WORM

WRITE ONCE READ MANY

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

WOSA

WINDOWS OPEN SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

WOV

WAR ON VIRUS

[MARC HOLT, DATABASE, BANGKOK POST, 2001]

WPA

WIFI PROTECTED ACCESS; WLAN 802.11g; WPA2; Also see: Wireless;

[EWEEK, 2/2/2004]

WPA

WINDOWS PRODUCT ACTIVATION

Windows XP and later versions

[JAMES HEIN, DATABASE, BANGKOK POST, 9/12/01]

WPAN

WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORK

[185 Wireless Secrets; Wiley Publishing; 2004]

WQL

WMI QUERY LANGUAGE; To write WMI filter;

[MMC 2 V.5; MICROSOFT; 2004]

WRAM

WINDOWS RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

WRKSPLF

WORK WITH ALL SPOOLED FILES

[Infoprint Designer for iSeries v.1, r.1 & AS/400; WWW.IBM.COM]

WS

WEB SERVICES

[EWEEK, SEPT., 2003]

wsbpel

WEB SERVICES BUSINESS PROCESS EXECUTION LANGUAGE

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; NOVEMBER/DECEMBER; 2004]

WSDD

WEBSPHERE DEVELOPER DOMAIN

[WWW.IBM.COM; 2002]

WSDK

WEB SERVICES DEVELOPMENT KIT;

[Darryl Taft, eWeek, 9/2/2]

WSDL

WEB SERVICES DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE; WebSphere; Also see: SOAP, UDDI; XML based Web Services;

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

WSDP

WEB SERVICES DEVELOPER PACK

[EWEEK, JUNE 23, 2003]

WSE

WEB SERVICES ENHANCEMENT; 2.0 PROVIDES SOAP MESSAGE CLASSES

[EWEEK, JUNE 23, 2003]

WSFL

WEB SERVICES FLOW LANGUAGE

[EWEEK, JULY, 2003]

WSH

WINDOWS SCRIPTING HOST;

[.NET MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 2003]

WSP

WIRELESS SERVICE PROVIDER; aLSO SEE: ISP;

[185 WIRELESS SECRETS; WILEY PUBLISHING; 2004]

WTE3

WEB TRAFFIC EXPRESS

ibm db2 udb

www.ibm.com

WTL

WINDOWS TEMPLATES LIBRARY

[MICROSOFT PLATFORM SDK, 2001]

WUG

WIRELESS USER GROUP; Also see: wireless;

[185 WIRELESS SECRETS; WILEY PUBLISHING; 2004]

WUS

Word Underscore

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

WVD

WIGNER VILLE DISTRIBUTION

[MEASUREMENT AND AUTOMATION, CATALOG 2003; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; ni.com]

WWW

WORLD WIDE WEB

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

WYSIWYG

WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET

[JAVA 2 COMPLETE, SYBEX, 1999]

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X Y Z

A B C D E F G

H I J K L M N O

P Q R S

T U V W

X Y Z

Acronym

Full Name

Bibliographical Index

XACML

EXTENSIBLE ACCESS CONTROL MARKUP LANGUAGE

[EWEEK, JULY, 2003]

XAUI

ATTACHMENT UNIT INTERFACE; Ethernet; InfiniBand;

[WWW.NECEL.COM; INNOVATOR'S VOICE; 2004]

XBRL

EXTENSIBLE BUSINESS REPORTING LANGUAGE; Also see: PeopleSoft; Financial Managment software;

[EWEEK, JAN. 12, 2004] [www.fsw.fujitsu.com/news/ year2005/pr04-26-2005.html]

XDK

XML DEVELOPER'S KIT

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

XDP

EXTRA DEVICE PORT;

[PANASONIC SYSTEMS, 2001, www.panasonic-th.com , BANGKOK POST]

XDR

EXTREME DATA RATE

[WWW.SAMSUNG.COM; 2005]

XE

INDEX ENTRY

[MICROSOFT WORD 2002]

XGA

EXTENDED GRAPHICS ARRAY

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

XHTML

EXTENSIBLE HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

XKMS

XML KEY MANAGEMENT SPECIFICATION

[EWEEK, JULY, 2003]

XML

EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE; Since 1998; In 2004, AxKit provides detailed tutorial;

[ACCESS 2002]

XMS

EXTENDED MEMORY SPECIFICATION

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

XNS

XEROX NETWORK SYSTEM

[MCSE Training Kit – Microsoft Windows 2000 Server / Microsoft Corporation, 2000]

XOR

EXCLUSIVE OR, EOR OR EXCLUSIVE OR, XOR

[MICROSOFT PRESS, 1997]

XP

EXECUTIVE PROCESSOR; Also see: C-5;

[A GUIDE TO NETWORK PROCESSOR, MICRODESIGN RESOURCES, 2000]

XPS

X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY

[WWW.SEAS.UCLA.EDU; 2003]

XPS

XML PAPER SPECIFICATION

[EWEEK; VOL. 22; NO. 30; 2005]

XRC

EXTENTED REMOTE COPY

[ISOURCE.IBM.COM; 2002]

XRD

X-RAY DIFFRACTION

[WWW.MSC.COM; 2003]

XSD

XML SCHEMA DEFINITION

[ORACLE MAGAZINE; SEPT./OCT. 2004]

XSL

EXTENSIBLE STYLESHEET LANGUAGE

XSL is utilized to display XML in IE

[ACCESS 2002]

XSLT

EXTENSIBLE STYLE SHEET TRANSFORMATION; Read XML first;

[WWW.UNEX.BERKELEY.EDU; 2002]

XSU

XML SQL UTILITY

[ORACLE MAGAZINE, 2002]

ZAW

MICROSOFT ZERO ADMINISTRATION FOR WINDOWS

[Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 : MCSD Training Kit

/ Microsoft Corporation, 1999]

ZVS

ZERO VOLT SWITCH

[WWW.NECEL.COM; 2003]

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