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                               Acronym Mania 
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Ok, here it is.  The most comprehensive Acronym/Abbreviation list out 
there.  I have gone to a great deal of trouble to round these up, so I 
hope that you atleast appreciate them.  If you know of any others that I 
have left out, and should include, then please mail me on INet. 
 
2600      Hacking Magazine 
AAA       Aces of Ansis of Art 
ACD       Automatic Call Distributor 
ACT       Application Center for Technology 
AEA       American Electronics Association 
AI        Artificial Intelligence 
ANAC      Automatic Number Announcer 
ANI       Automatic Number Identification 
ANSI      American National Standard Institute 
APA       Authentic Pirate Association 
APHA      American Phreak/Hack Association 
API       American Pirate Industries 
APL       A Programming Language 
ASCII     American Standard Code for Information Interchange 
ASMP      Asymmetrical Multi-Processing 
AT&T      American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
ATM       Automatic Teller Machine 
Amex      American Express 
B/L       Backlog 
BASIC     Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code 
BBS       Bulletin Board System 
BCC       Boys from Company C / Bilbo's Cracking Club 
BIOS      Basic Input Output System 
BIT       Binary Digit 
BMC       Basic Monthly Charge 
BPI       Bits per Inch 
BPS       Bits Per Second 
Beige Box Converted Phone for Hooking Up to Output Devices (Basically) 
CAD       Computer Aided Design 
CAEM      Computer Aided Engineering and Manufacturing 
CAM       Computer Aided Manufacturing 
CASE      Computer Aided Software Engineering 
CAT       Computer-aided Test 
CBC       Cipher Block Chaining 
CBI       Computer-based Instruction / Credit Buero 
CC        Credit Card / Calling Card 
CCITT     Committee Consultif Internationale Telegraphie 
CD        Compact Disk 
CDD       Common Data Dictionary 
CDR       Compact Disk Reader 
CERT      Computer Emergency Responce Team 
CFB       Cipher Feedback 
CHiNA     Communist Hackers in North America 
CIA       Central Intelligence Angency 
CIS       Compuserve 
CIT       Computer Integrated Telephony 
CLASS     Custom Local Area Signaling System 
CMOS      Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor(Silicon) 
CNA       Customer Name/Address 
COBOL     Common Business Oriented Language 
COMSEC    Communications Security 
COMSTAR   Common System for Technical Analysis & Reporting 
COSMOS    AT&T Mainframe 
CP/M      Control Program Master 
CPI       Canadian Pirates Inc. 
CPO       Corporate Product Operations 
CPS       Characters Per Second 
CPSR      Computer Profressionals for Social Responsibility 
CPU       Central Processing Unit 
CRT       Cathode Ray Tube 
CSC       Customer Support Center 
CSM       Computer Systems Manufacturing 
DAS       Device Access Software 
DASP      Digital Assisted Services Program 
DBMS      Data Base Management System 
DCA       Defense Communications Agency 
DCL       Digital Command Language 
DCU       Digital Credit Union 
DDS       Digital Distributed Software 
DEC       Digital Equipment Corporation 
DECUS     Digital Equipment Corporation User's Society 
DECdtm    Digital Distributed Transaction Manager 
DECnms    Digital Network Measurement System 
DECtp     Digital Transaction Processing 
DEPBA     Digital Exchange Pirate Board Alliance 
DES       Data Encryption Standard 
DFA       Design for Assembly 
DIAL      Digital Idle Asset Listing 
DIBOL     Digital Business Oriented Language 
DINS      Digital Information Network Service 
DIS       Digital Information Systems 
DMA       Direct Memory Access 
DMCL      Digital Modem Command Language 
DMS       Data Management Services 
DOD       Department of Defense 
DOS       Disk Operating System 
DPI       Dots Per Inch 
DRAM      Dynamic Random Access Memory 
DRC       Data Resource Center 
DSS       Digital Switching System 
DSU       Data Service Unit 
DTE       Data Terminal Equipment 
DTMF      Dual Tone Multi-Frequncy. 
DTN       Digital Telephone Network 
ECAD      Engineering Computer Aided Design 
ECC       Error Correction Code 
ECHO      Elite Crackers/Hackers Organization 
EDP       Electronic Data Processing 
EDU       Education Computer Systems 
EFF       Electronic Frontier Foundation 
ENET      Ethernet 
ENG       Engineering 
EPAH      Ethical Phreakers and Hackers 
EPROM     Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory 
ESDI      Enhanced Small Device Interface 
ESS       Electronic Switching System 
ESVN      Executive Secure Voice Network 
EUSR      End User 
FBI       Federal Bureau of Investigations 
FCC       Federal Communications Commission 
FCP       Fone ConsPiracy 
FIFO      First In First Out 
FIPS      Federal Information Processing Standard 
FOA       Fiber Optic Adapter 
FPP       Floating Point Processor 
FTP       File Transfer Protocol 
FTS       Federal Telecommunications service 
FiRM      First in Realising Most 
FUCK      Fucked Up College Kids 
GB        Gigabyte 
GIA       General International Area 
GIPS      Giga Instructions Per Second 
GOVT      Government 
GPX       Graphics Processor Accelerator 
GtD       Gates of Dawn 
HDA       Head Disk Assembly 
HDSC      High-density Signal Carrier 
HEaT      Hackers Enterprising across Telecommunications 
HQ        Headquarters 
HST       High Speed Transfer 
HW        Hardware 
I/O       Input output 
IBM       International Business Machines 
IC        Integrated Circuit 
IC        Inner Circle 
ICST      Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology 
IEEE      Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers 
IIRG      International Information Retreival Guild 
INC       International Network of Crackers 
INET      Internet 
IOP       Input Output Processor 
IPS       Inches Per Second 
IRG       International Rogues Guild 
IRS       fIles Reviewing Society 
IS        Information Systems 
ISDN      Integrated Services Digital Network 
ISO       International Standards Organization 
ISSA      Information Systems Security Association 
ISWS      Internal Software Services 
ITT       International Telephone & Telegraph 
IVIS      Interactive Video Interface System 
K.A.O.S   Krackers Association of Sweden 
KB        Kilobyte 
KSR       Keyboard Send Receive 
LAN       Local Area Network 
LASS      Laser Aided Swicthing System. 
LAST      Local Area System Transport 
LAVC      Local Area Vax Cluster 
LDM       Limited Distance Modem 
LED       Light Emitting Diode 
LEDS      Low End Disk Systems 
LEN       Low End Networks 
LIFO      Last In First Out 
LMI       Local Memory Interconnect 
LMOS      Loop Matinentce Operations System 
LOD/H     Legion of Doom/Hackers 
LOL       Legion of Lucifer 
LPM       Lines Per Minute 
LSE       Language Sensitive Editor 
MAC       Macintosh 
MAN       Metropolitan Area Network 
MAP       Manufacturing Automation Protocol 
MB        Megabyte 
MBPS      Mega-Bits Per Second 
MCM       Miami Cracking Machine 
MCS       Multinational Character Set 
MCU       Multi Chip Unit 
ME        Mechanical Engineering 
MFLOPS    Millions of Floating Point Operations Per Second 
MHZ       Mega-Hertz 
MIPS      Millions of Instructions Per Second 
MIS       Management Information Systems 
MIT       Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy 
MLDS      Medium Large Disk Systems 
MOS       Metal Oxide Semiconductor 
MP        Multi-Processor 
MS        Milli-Seconds 
MSCP      Mass Storage Control Protocol 
MSD       Micro Systems Development 
MTBF      Mean Time Between Failures 
MTBSI     Mean Time Between System Interruptions 
MUX       Multiplexer 
MVB       MicroVax Business 
NAC       Networks and Communications 
NAP/PA    North American Pirate/Phreak Association 
NARC      Nuclear phreAkers/hackeRs/Carders 
NASA      National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
NBS       National Bureau of Standards 
NCIC      Nation Crime Information Agency 
NCS       Network Control Program 
NCSC      National Computer Security Center 
NDIS      Network Device Interface Specification 
NDU       Network Device Utility 
NET       Network 
NFT       Network File Transfer 
NPA       Numeral Planning Area 
NPA       National Phreakers Association 
NPPG      No Paticular Pirate Group 
NS        Nano-Seconds 
NSA       National Security Agency 
NSC       National Security Council 
NSDD      National Security Decision Directive 
NTIA      National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
NTISSC    National Telecommunications and Information Systems 
NUA       Network User Address 
NUI       Network User Identication 
NUP       New User Password 
NWSS      Networks & Site Services 
NYC       New York Crackers 
O/S       Operating System 
ODI       Open Data Interface 
OIS       Office and Information Systems 
OLTP      On-Line Transaction Processing 
ONI       Operator Number Identification 
OPS       Operations 
OSF       Open Software Foundation 
P500      Phortune 500 
PAD       Public Access Device 
PAPI      Pirate A Program Inc. 
PBX       Private Branch Exchange 
PC        Personal Computer 
PCB       Printed Circuit Board 
PCP       Personal Computer Pursuit 
PDP       Peripheral Data Processing 
PHA       Phreakers/Hackers/Anarchists 
PIN       Personal Identification Number 
PPP       Phuckin' Phield Phreakers 
PROM      Programmable Read Only Memory 
PSN       Packet Switched Network 
PSS       Professional Software Services 
PSU       Portable Storage Unit 
PTL       Pirates That Live 
RAM       Random Access Memory 
RJE       Remote Job Entry 
RO        Read Only 
ROM       Read Only Memory 
RTE       Remote Terminal Emulation 
S-Box     Skunk Box 
SA        Storage Array 
SAG       Street Address Guide 
SBC       Single Board Computer 
SBI       Storage Bus Interconnect 
SCIT      Semi-Conductor and Interconnect Technologies 
SCO       Semiconductor Operations 
SCSI      Small Computer Storage Interface 
SDA       Software Design Automation 
SDC       Software Distribution Center 
SDI       Standard Drive Interface 
SDNS      Secure Data System Network 
SEG       Semiconductor Engineering Organization 
SIG       Special Interest Group 
SMP       Symmetrical Multi-Processing 
SOE       Standards of Excellence 
SPI       Software Pirates Incorporated 
SSD       Solid State Disk 
SYS       System 
SxS       Step by Step (switching) 
TAN       Telecomm and Networks 
TAP       Trans-Atlantic Project 
TBU       Terminals Business Unit 
TCS       The Criminal Syndicate 
THG       The Humble Guys 
TMSCP     Tape Mass Storage Control Protocol 
TOP       Technical Office Protocol 
TOPS      Tapes and Optical Products 
TRW       Credit Card Company 
TSAN      The Sysops Associated Network 
TSN       Terminal Switching Network 
TTE       Thrifty Telephone Exchange 
TUIMG     Telecom/Utilities Industry Marketing Group 
UCS       Uniform Communication Standard 
UGC       Underground Council 
UNIX      Operating System 
UPi       United Phreakers Inc. 
VAXft     VAX Fault Tolerant 
VIA       Vax Information Architecture 
VMS       Virtual Memory System 
VPA       VAX Performance Advisor 
VRAM      Video Random Access Memory 
VT        Video Terminal 
VUP       Vax Unit of Processsing 
WAN       Wide Area Network 
WATS      Wide Area Telephone Service 
WORM      Write Once Read Many 
WYSIWYG   What You See Is What You Get 
cDc       Cult of the Dead Cow 
 
                                            Max 
 
 
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