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Acronyms...
of particular relevance to T171-ers... eeek! |
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These acronyms
are the ones that crop up as you plunge through T171 and think at the
time... "wouldn't it be a nice idea if there was a list of all of
'em"... well... here's that list! Enjoy! Love it as if it were your
very own... Print it off for reference, why don'cha!
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Acronym
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What
does it stand for?
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ARPA |
Advanced
Research Projects Agency |
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AT&T |
American
Telephone & Telegraph Company |
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BBN |
Bolt
Beranek & Newman |
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CCA |
Computer
Corporation of America |
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CDC |
Control
Data Corporation |
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CMC |
Computer
Mediated Communications |
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CRT |
Cathode-ray
tube |
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DARPA |
Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency |
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DCA |
Defense
Communicatons Agency |
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DNS |
Domain
Name System |
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DOD |
Department
of Defense |
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FCC |
Federal
Communications Commission |
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FTP |
File
Transfer Protocol |
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GE |
General
Electric |
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HTTP |
Hypertext
Transfer Protocol |
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ICCC |
International
Conference on Computer Communications |
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IEEE |
Institute
of Electrical & Electronics Engineers |
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IMP |
Interface
Message Processor |
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INWG |
International
Network Working Group |
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IP |
Intenet
Protocol |
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IPTO |
Information
Processing Techniques Office |
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ISI |
Information
Sciences Institute |
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ISO |
International
Organization for Standardization |
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JSAC |
Joint
Services Advisory Committee |
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MCI |
Microwave
Communications of America, Inc. |
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MIT |
Massaschusetts
Institute of Technology |
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MITRE |
MIT
Research |
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NASA |
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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NCC |
Network
Control Center |
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NCP |
Network
Control Protocol |
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NIC |
Network
Information Center or Network Interface Card |
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NLS |
Online
Systems |
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NPL |
National
Physical Laboratory |
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NSF |
National
Science Foundation |
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NWG |
Network
Working Group |
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OS |
Operating
System |
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OSI |
Open-Systems
Interconnection |
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RAND |
Research
And Development [RAND Corporation] |
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RFC |
Request
for comments |
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RFNM |
Ready
for next message |
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RFP |
Request
for proposals |
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ROTC |
Reserve
Officers Training Corps |
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SAGE |
Semi-Automatic
Ground Environment |
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SDC |
System
Development Corporation |
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SMTP |
Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol |
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SRI |
Stanford
Research Institute |
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TCP/IP |
Transmission
Control Protocol / Internet Protocol |
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TIP |
Terminal
IMP |
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UCAR |
University
Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
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UCLA |
University
of California at Los Angeles |
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UCSB |
Univeristy
of California at Santa Barbara |
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USC |
University
of Southern California |
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USPS |
United
States Postal Service |
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If
anyone knows of any important ones that are missing, then please submit
them using the comments form. Click here
for the form.
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Last
update
11 January, 2004
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Many
thanks to Judith
White for the original T171 acronyms list
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