duck / Duck duck / Duck evil grin / Evil Grin evil grin / Evil Grin grin, duck and run / Grin, Duck and Run grin, duck and run / Grin, Duck and Run Grins Grins grin, duck and run / Grin, Duck and Run grin, duck and run / Grin, Duck and Run Grinning, Ducking and Hiding Grinning, Ducking and Hiding Grins Ducks Runs Grins Ducks Runs Grins Ducks Runs Very Very Fast Grins Ducks Runs Very Very Fast really big grin / Really Big Grin really big grin / Really Big Grin smile / Smile smile / Smile Very Big Grin Very Big Grin wide evil grin / Wide Evil Grin wide evil grin / Wide Evil Grin 0.02 Throwing in my two cents' worth 1VHB One Very Happy Bunny 4WD Four Wheel Drive 9TOO10 Nine Times Out Of Ten A/D Analog to Digital AA Alcholics Anonymous/Automobile Association/Always Allowed / Auto Answer / Alcoholics Anonymous AAA Any Advice Appreciated AAB All-to-All Broadcast AAF A**e About Face AAIDK Another Acronym I Didn't Know AAIR Anyway As I Recall AAL Asynchronous transfer mode Adaption Layer AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact AAMOI As A Matter Of Interest AAP Applications Access Point AAS All-to-All Scatter AASP ASCII Asynchronous Support Package AAT Average Access Time AB Alberta ABEND Abnormal End ABI Application Binary Interface ABIOS Advanced BIOS ABS Absolute ABT Abort ACC Accumulator ACCF Advanced Communications Function ACD Automated Call Distribution ACDI Asynchronous Communications Device Interface ACF Access Control Field ACK Acknowledgment ACL Access Control List ACM Association for Computing Machinery/Audio Compression Manager ACP Ancillary/Auxillary Control Program ACPO Association of Chief Police Officers ACRONYM A Clever manneR Of Notifying Your Meaning ACS Access Control Set/System ACT Australian Capital Territory ACTS Automated Computer Time Service ACU Automatic Calling Unit ADA Automatic Data Acquisitions / Programming Language named after Augusta Ada Lovelace ADC Adaptive Data Compression / Analog to Digital Converter ADCCP Advanced Data Communication Control Procedures ADD Attention Deficit Disorder ADF Adapter Definition File (see MCA) / Automatic Document Feed ADGR All Donations Gratefully Received ADM Annual Divisional Meeting ADPCM Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation ADS Application Development System ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ADU Automatic Dialing Unit AFAIAA As Far As I Am Aware AFAIAC As Far As I Am Concerned AFAIC As Far As I Care AFAICR As Far As I Can Recall AFAICS As Far As I Can See AFAICT As Far As I Can Tell AFAICWO As Far As I Can Work Out AFAIK As Far As I Know AFAIR As Far As I Recall AFAIU As Far As I Understand AFAIUI As Far As I Understand It AFAWCT As Far As We Can Tell AFII Association for Font Information Interchange AFK Away From Keyboard AFN American Forces Network AFOAL A F**k of a Lot AFP Appletalk Filing Protocol AFTLOTM Apologies For The Length of This Message AFTLOTMAW Apologies For The Length of This Message As Well AGAN As Good As New AGC Automatic Gain Control AGM Annual General Meeting AGP Accelerated/Advanced Graphics Port AGTN Altes Global Communications Network AHWBA Any Help Will Be Appreciated AI Analog Input / Artificial Intelligence AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics AICM And I Claim My .... AICM£5 And I Claim My £5 AICM5P And I Claim My 5 Pounds AIDK Acronym I Didn't Know AIF Audio Interchange Format AIM Acronym Install Manager (Superseded by ARM) AINW All Is Not Well AIR As I Recall AISB As I Said Before AISTR As I Seem To Recall AIUBTUBA And If yoU Believe That yoU'll Believe Anything AIUI As I Understand It AIYBTYBA And If You Believe That You'll Believe Anything AK Alaska AKA Also Known As/All Kidding Aside AL Alabama ALGOL Algorithmic Oriented Language AM Amplitude Modulation AMD Active Matrix Display AMEOL Claims to stand for 'A Most Excellent Off Line' reader AMOI A Matter Of Interest ANSI American National Standards Institute AO Analog Output AOK All OK AOL America OnLine / America On Line APFU As Per F***ing Usual API Application Programming Interface/Associated Press International / Application Program Interface APL A Programming Language APNIC Asia-Pacific Network Information Center APPI Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking APPLE Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity APPN Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking APS Asynchronous Protocol Specification APU Auxiliary Power Unit / As Per Usual AR Arkansas ARCA Advanced RISC Computing Architecture ARCnet Attached Resource Computer Network ARLL Advanced Run Length Limited ARM Acronym Resource Manager / Advanced RISC Machine / Asynchronous Response Mode ARQ Automatic Repeat Request ARRL American Radio Relay League ARTFMF Always Read The F**king Manual First ARTS Asynchronous Remote Takeover Server ARTT Asynchronous Remote Takeover Terminal ARU Audio Response Unit AS Autonomous System / American Samoa ASAIGAC As Soon As I Get A Chance ASAP As Soon As Possible / Automatic Switching And Processing ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASIO Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation ASOASF And So On And So Forth ASP Association of Shareware Professionals ASPI Advanced SCSI Programming Interface / Advanced/Adapted SCSI Programming Interface ASPS Advanced Signal Processing System ASR Automatic Send-Receive / Automatic Speech Recognition AST Atlantic Standard Time ASTMS Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs ASVI Ah So Very Interesting ASYNC Asynchronous AT Advanced Technology ATA Advanced Technology Attachment ATB All The Best ATDP Attention Dial Pulse ATDT Attention Dial Tone ATE Automated Test Equipment ATH Attention Hang-Up ATM At The Moment/Adobe Type Manager/Automated Teller Machine / Asynchronous Transfer Mode ATMA Amateur Telescope Makers Association ATP As Time Permits ATR Automatic Terminal Recognition ATTN Attention ATTRIB Attribute AU Astronomical Unit AUDIT Automated Data Input Terminal AUI Attachment Unit Interface AUP Appropriate Use Policy / Acceptable Use Policy AUTO Automatic AUTOEXEC Automatic Execution AUX Auxiliary AV Audio Visual AVG Average AVHBI A Very Happy Bunny Indeed! AVI Audio Visual Interleaved AVR Automatic Voice Recognition AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again? AWHFY Are We Having Fun Yet? AWITNR And When Is The Next Release? AWK Unix language named after its authors...Al Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan AWOL Absent WithOut Leave AYK As You Know AZ Arizona B/F Background/Foreground B4 Before B5 Babylon Five BAC By Any Chance BACS Bankers' Automated Clearing System BAD Broken As Designed BAFO Best And Final Offer BAL Basic Assembly Language BAM Boyan Action Module BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code / Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control BASM Built-In ASseMbler BASTARD Blinking After Six To Avoid Ruinous Debt BAU Business As Usual BB Best of Breed/Bum Bandit / BIG Bang Theory BBC British Broadcasting Corporation BBDC Big Boys Don't Cry BBFN Bye Bye For Now BBR Broken Beyond Repair BBS Bulletin Board System BC British Columbia BCC Blind Carbon Copy BCD Binary Coded Decimal BCL Batch Command Language BCNU Be Seeing You BCP Best Current Practice / Bulk Copy Program BCPL Basic Computer Programming Language BCS British Computer Society BDC Backup Domain Controller BDOS Basic Disk Operating System BEM Bug-Eyed Monster / British Empire Medal BERT Bit Error Rate Test/Tester BFD Blank Floppy Disk BFN Bye For Now BFT Binary File Transfer BGI Bloody Good Idea BGL Bloody Good Lad BGP Border gateway Protocol BGWM Be Gentle With Me BHD Bad Hair Day BHOW Bangs Head On Wall BI Binary Input BICBW But I Could Be Wrong BiDi Bidirectional BIGOT Blinking In Generous/Goddamn/Grotty Organisation's Time BIIK Buggered If I Know BION Believe It Or Not BIOS Basic Input Output System BIOYIOP Blow It Out Your Input Output Port BIS Business Information System BISDN Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network BIT Binary digIT BIU Bus Interface Unit BIX Byte Information Exchange BK Because BKSP Backspace BL Backlit BLAST Blocked Asynchronous Transmission BLINK Binary LINK BLOB Binary Large OBject BLTN Better Late Than Never BM Bloody Marvelous / Bloody Marvellous BMIC BusMaster Interface Controller BMP BitMaP file / Batch Message Processing Program BMW Bavarian Motor Works BMWM Big Mean Windows Machine BNC Bayonet Neill-Concelman (connector) BNFL British Nuclear Fuels Limited BO Best Offer / Body Odour / Binary Output BoB Break-out Box BOFH Bastard Operator From Hell BOM Beginning Of Message BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol BOS Basic Operating System BOT Beginning Of Table/Tape BOWTH But Oh What The Heck BOYD Bring Out Your Dead BPB BIOS Parameter Block BPI Bits Per Inch BPS Bits/Bytes Per Second BRB Be Right Back BRI Basic Rate Interface BRIZE Be Ready In Zealous Anticipation BRS Big Red Switch BS BullSh!t / BullS**t BSAC British Sub-Aqua Club BSAM Basic Sequential Access Method BSBH Busy Season, Busy Hour BSC Binary Synchronous Communication BSD Berkely Software/Standard Distribution BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy BSF But Seriously, Folks BSI British Standards Institute BSOD Blue Screen Of Death BST But Seriously Though / British Summer Time BSV Boot Sector Virus BSY Busy BSYNC Binary Synchronous Communications BT British Telecom / Bit Test BTA But Then Again BTAIM Be That As It May BTCC British Touring Car Championship BTDT Been There Done That BTDTBTTS Been There Done That Bought The T Shirt BTDTGTTS Been There Done That Got The T Shirt BTDTSTVBTTS Been There Done That Seen The Video Bought The T Shirt BTDTSTVGTTS Been There Done That Seen The Video Got The T Shirt BTOBD Be There Or Be Dead BTSOOM Beats The Stuffing Out Of Me BTVN By The Very Nature BTW By The Way BTWMIDTR But That Would Make It Difficult to Read? BTYG But There You Go BUF Buffer BURMA Be Undressed Ready My Angel BURP Be Undressed Ready Pet BWM Block-Write Mode BWTF But What The F**k BWTMIDTR But Would That Make It Difficult to Read? BYKT But You Knew That BYKTA But You Knew That Already BYKWIM But You Know What I Mean BYO Buy/Bring Your Own BYOB Bring Your Own Beer / Bring Your Own Beer/Booze BYTE Binary Element String BYU Bob's Your Uncle C C Programming Language C/D Control Data C/MO Cash/Money Order C/S Client/Server C3CM Command, Control, Communications and CounterMeasures / Command, Control, Communications and Counter Measures CA Collision Avoidance / California / Computer Associates California CAD Computer Aided Design/Ctrl-Alt-Delete CADD Computer Aided Design and Drafting CADET Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try CAE Common Applications Environment CAI Computer Aided Instruction CAL Computer Assisted Learning CAM Common Access Method CAMRA CAMpaign for Real Ale CANX Cancelled CAP Computer Aided Publishing CAPS CAPitalS (Upper Case Letters) CAPSTAN Can A Pr**k Stand Twice A Night CaRP CAmpaign for Real Pedantry CARP CAmpaign for Real Pedantry CAS Computer Aided Styling CASBA Clean Air Smoke Break Agreement CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering CASL Crosstalk Application Scripting Language CASS Computer Assisted Search Service CASSIS Classified and Search Support Information System CAT Computer Assisted Learning / Concatenate CATS Computer Assisted Training System CAU Controlled Access Unit CAV Constant Angular Velocity CB Citizen Band Radio CBC Cipher Block Chaining CBE Commander of the (Order of the) British Empire CBI Computer Based Instruction CBL Computer Based Learning CBMS Computer-Based Mail System / Central Bank Money Stock CBR Constant Bit Rate CBT Computer Based Training CC Carbon Copy / Closed Conference / Cluster Controller CCC Clever Chaps Club / Closed Confidential Conference CCD Charged-Coupled Device CCDL Clean Current Driving License CCIR International Radiotelephony Consultative Committee CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telegraph and Telephone / Consultative Committee for International Telephony & Telegraphy CCP Console Command Processor CCUG Church Computers User Group CCV Control Configured Vehicles CD Compact Disk / Carrier Detect / Change Directory / Collision Detection / Compact Disc/Disk CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interchange/Interface CDE Common Desktop Environment / Complex Data Entry CD-I Compact Disk - Interactive CDL Computer Design Language CD-MO Compact Disk - Magneto Optical CDOS Concurrent Disk Operating System CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data CDR Call Detail Recording CD-R Compact Disk - Recordable CD-RDx Compact Disk - Read Only Memory Data Exchange Standard CDROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory CD-ROM Compact Disk - Read Only Memory / Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months CD-RTOS Compact Disk - Real Time Operating System CDS Current Directory Structure CD-V Compact Disk - Video CD-WO Compact Disk - Write Once CD-XA Compact Disk - Extended Architecture CE Chip Enable / Collision Elimination CEG Continuous Edge Graphics CEI Conducted Electromagnetic Interference CEO Chief Executive Officer CERN Conseil European pour la Recherche Nucleaire CERT Computer Emergency Response Team CET Central European Time CF Compact Flash CFB Cipher Feedback CFC ChloroFluoroCarbon CFRP Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastics CFV Call For Votes CGA Colour Graphics Adapter CGI Common Gateway Interface/Computer Generated Images/Computer Graphics Interface CHAP Challenge Authentication Protocol CHAR Character CHAT Conversational Hypertext Access Technology CHCK Channel Check CHCP Change Code Page CHDIR Change Directory CHGRP Change Group CHKDSK Check Disk CHMOD Change Mode CHOWN Change Owner CHP Chapter CHR Character CI$ Compuserve Information $ervice / CompuServe CIA Completely Ignorant Agency / Central Intelligence Agency CICS/VS Customer Information Control System/Virtual Storage CID Configuration/Installation/Distribution CIHBM2 Could I Have Bin Mail Too CIHBM2P Could I Have Bin Mail Too Please CIHBMTP Can I Have BinMail Too Please CIHM2 Could I Have Mail Too CIHM2P Could I Have Mail Too Please CIHMT Could I Have Mail Too CIHMTP Could I Have Mail Too Please CIM CompuServe Information Manager / Compuserve Information Manager / Computer Integrated Manufacturing CIO Chief Information Offier CIOCS Communication Input/Output Control System CIP Command Interface Port CIR Committed Information Rate CIRC Circular Reference CIS CompuServe Information Service / Card Information Structure / Computer Information Systems CISC Complex Instruction Set Computing CISINET CompuServe Information Service InterNET CIX Compulink Information eXchange / Commercial Internet Exchange CIXIP Compulink Information eXchange Internet Provider / Compulink Information eXchange Internet Provider/Provision CJLI Command Job Language Interpreter CKD Count Key Data (device) CLAR Channel Local Address Register CLI Command Line Interface / Call-Level Interface CLIST Command List CLK Clock CLNP Connectionless Network Protocol CLS Clear Screen CLUI Command Line User Interface CLUT Color Look-Up Table CLV C'est La Vie / Constant Linear Velocity CM Corrective Maintenance CMA Concert Multi-thread Architecture CMC Common Mail/Messaging Calls CMCA Confusing May Cause Anxiety CMG Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George CMIIW Correct Me If I'm Wrong CMIP Common Management Information Protocol CMIS Common Management Information System CML Computer Mananged Learning CMMS Computerized Maintenance Management Software CMMU Cache/Memory Management Unit CMO Cash/Money Order CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor CMOT Cut Me Own Throat CMOTD Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler CMY Cyan-Magenta-Yellow CMYK Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-blacK CNA Certified NetWare Administrator CNC Computerized Numerical Control CND Can Not Duplicate / Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament CNE Certified Novell/NetWare Engineer CNIDR Clearinghouse for Networked Information and Retrieval CNO Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen CNP Continued in Next Post CNSS Core Nodal Switching Subsystem CNX Certified Network Expert CO Company/Care Of / Colorado COBOL COmmon Business-Oriented Language COD Cash On Delivery / Concise Oxford Dictionary CODEC COder/DECoder / Compression/Decompression COEM Commercial Original Equipment Manufacturer COFF Common Object File Format COL Collision / Computer Oriented Language COLT City Of London Telecommunications COM COMmercial (organization Domain name) / Common Object Model / Communication Port i.e. COMMS 1 COM1 First serial Port COM2 Second serial Port COM3 Third serial Port COM4 Fourth serial Port COMDEX Computer Dealers Exposition CON Console (includes Keyboard and Screen) COND Condemned CONFIG Configuration CONTONE Continuous Tone CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture COS Compatible Operating System COSMOS Computer System for Mainframe Operations COTAL Custodian Of The Acronyms List COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf CP Communist Party/Corporal Punishment/Crime Prevention/Copy Protection CP/M Control Program for Microcomputers CPG Clock Pulse Generator CPI Characters Per Inch / Clock Per Instruction / Common Programming Interface / Consumer Price Index CPI-C Common Programming Interface for Communications CPL Current Privilege Level CPS Characters/Cycles Per Second CPU Central Processing Unit CR Carriage Return CR/LF Carriage Return/Line Feed CRC Cyclic Redundance Check CREN Corporation for Research and Education CRF Cable Retransmission Facility / Cross Reference File CRISIS Carefully Reduce It So It Stops CRLF Carriage Return Line Feed CRO Cathode Ray Oscilloscope CROM Control Read Only Memory CRT Cathode Ray Tube CRTC CRT Controller CS Clear to Send CSAR Channel System Address Register CSD Corrective Service Disk / Corrective Service Diskette CSE Certified System Engineer CSI CompuServe Information Service CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization CSL Computer Sensitive Language CSLIP Corrective Serial Line Interface Protocol CSM Communications Services Manager CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access/with Collision Detection CSSD Central Sterile Services Department CST Central Standard Time CSU Channel Service Unit CSV Comma-Separated Values/Variables CT Connecticut CTB Cipher Type Byte CTC Cut The Crap CTI Computer-Telephone Integration CTOAGAATM Can't Think Of A Good Acronym At The Moment CTPA Coax-to-Twisted-Pair Adapter CTRL Control CTS Clear To Send CU See You CUA Common User Access/Commonly Used Acronym CUDDLE Cute Under Duvet Delights Lead to Excitement CUI Character-Oriented User Interface / Common User Interface CUL See You Later / See yoU Later CUL8R See yoU Later CUM CIX User Manual CVF Compressed Volume File CVGA Color Video Gaphics Array CW Continuous Wave - meaning Morse Code CWU Communication Workers Union CYA Cover Your ASSetts / Cover Your Assetts CYL See You Later / Cylinder CYMK Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-blacK D/A Digital to Analog D/R Direct or Reverse DAC Digital to Analog Converter DAL Data Access Language DAM Data Acquisition and Monitoring DAO Data Access object / Data Access Objects DAP Data Access Protocol DARI Database Application Remote Interface DASD Direct Access Storage Device DAT Digital Audio Tape / Disk Array Technology DATACOM Data Communications dB DeciBel = 10Log(P2/P1) DB Dogs B**locks / Data Base / Data Buffer DB2 Database 2 DBA Database Administrator DBCS Double-Byte Character Set DBM Data Base Manager DBMS Data Base Management System DBS Data Base Server DBTDT Don't Bother To Decode This DC Data Collection / Data Communication / Data Control / Device Control / Direct Current / District of Columbia DCA Document Content Architecture DCAF Distributed Console Access Facility DCC Digital Command Control / Digital Compact Cassette DCD Data Carrier Detect DCE Data Communications Equipment / Distributed Computing Environment DCF Data Communication Facility DCI Display Control Interface DCS Data Collection System / Data Control System / Desktop Color Separation DCT Discrete Cosine Transform DCX Delta Clipper eXperimental DD Digital Display / Double Density / Direct Debit DDB Device Dependent Bitmap DDC Digital Data Channel / Direct Dial Connection DDCA Direct Dial Conferencing Account DDCMP Digital Data Communications Message Protocol DDCS Distributed Database Connection Services DDD Direct Distance Dialing DDE Dynamic Data Exchange / Direct Data Entry DDEML Dynamic Data Exchange Manager Library DDF Dynamic Data Formatting DDK Device Driver Kit DDL Data Definition/Description Language DDM Distributed Data Management DDS Design Data Sheet / Digital Data Storage DDT Dichloro­Diphenyl­Trichloroethane DE Delaware DEBE Does Everything But Eat DEC Digital Equipment Corporation / Do Expect Cuts DEFRAG Defragment DEK Data Encryption Key DEL Delete DES Data Encryption Standard / Data Entry Sheet DEV Device DFC Data Flow Control / Distinguished Flying Cross DFS Distributed File System DFT Diagnostic Funtion Test DFU Data File Utility DG Data General / Director General DGIS Direct Graphics Interface Standard DGUTDJ Don't Give Up The Day Job DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHYB Don't Hold Your Breath DIA Document Interchange Architecture DIB Device Independent Bitmap DIBOL DEC Business Oriented Language DICE Do It Correctly Every-time DID Direct Inward Dialing DIF Data Interchange Format DIIK Darn If I Know / Damned/Darn If I Know DILLIGAFF Do I Look Like I Give a Flying F**k DIN Deutsche Industrie Norm DIO Duck Incoming Objects / Data Input-Output DIP Dual In-line Package / Digital Imaging Processing / Dual In-line Package/Pin DIR Directory DIRA Disclaimer In Resume Applies DIV Divide DIWWNW4 Does It Work With NetWare 4? DIY Do It Yourself DKWYM Don't Know What You mean DL Download DL/1 Data Manipulation Language 1 DLC Data Link Control DLE Data Link Escape DLG Devilish Little Grin DLL Dynamic Link Library DLM Dynamic Link Module DLR DOS LAN Requester DLT Digital Linear Tape DLTBGYD Don't Let The Buggers Grind You Down DM Distributed Memory DMA Direct Memory Access/Addressing DMAC DMA Controller DME Distributed Management Environment DMI Desktop Mangement Interface DML Data Manipulation Language DMM Digital Multimeter DMMS Dynamic Memory Management System DMOS Double-diffused Metal-Oxide Semiconductor DMP Dot Matrix Printer DMPC Distributed Memory Parallel Computer DMQS Display Mode Query and Set DMS Data Management Software/System DMSD Digital Multistandard Decoding DMY Day Month Year DNC Direct Numerical Control DNIC Data Network Identification Code DNIS Dialed Number Identification Service DNPM Damn Near P***ed Myself DNQ Do Not Quote DNR Domain Name Registration DNRWWA Domain Name Registration With Web Aliasing DNS Domain Name System/Server DOA Dead On Arrival DOD Department Of Defense DOE Department Of Energy DOM Dirty Old Man DOS Disk Operating System / Defunct Operating System DOSEM DOS Emulation DOT Department Of Transportation DOW Day Of Week DP Data Processing DPA Demand Protocol Architecture DPAM Demand Priority Access Method DPAREN Data Parity Enable DPB Drive Parameter Block DPC Direct Program Control DPI Dots Per Inch DPMI DOS Protected Mode Interface DPO Data Phase Optimization DPS Douple Page Spread / Document Processing System DPSK Differential Phase Shift Keying DQL DataEase Query Language DQM Don't Quote Me DQMOT Don't Quote Me On That/This DR Data Received DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory DRAW Direct Read After Write DRDA Distributed Relational Database Architecture DRDW Direct Read During Write DROFL Double Roll On Floor Laughing DRV Drive DS Data Segment / Data Send / Data Server / Double Sided DS9 Deep Space Nine DSAP Destination Service Access Point DSDD Double Sided, Double Density (diskette) DSE Data Storage Equipment DSEA Display Station Emulation Adapter DSHD Double Sided, High Density (diskette) DSIF Deep Space Instrumentation Facility DSIS Distributed Support Information Standard DSL Dynamic Simulation Language DSMA Digital Sense Multiple Access DSN Deep Space Net DSOM Distributed System Object Model DSP Digital Signal Processor / Digital Signal Processor/Processing DSQD Double Sided, Quad Density (diskette) DSR Data Set Ready / Device Status Register DSS Decision Support System DST Daylight Saving Time DSTN Double Supertwisted Nematic DSU Data/Digital Service Unit DSW Data/Device Status Word DTA Disk Transfer Area DTB Downloading This Blink DTD Document Type Definition / Drop To DOS DTE Data Terminal Equipment DTL Diode-Transistor Logic DTLOI Due To Lack Of Interest DTMF Data/Dual Tone Multiple Frequency DTP Desk Top Publishing DTR Data Terminal Ready / Data Transfer Rate DTV Desktop Video DTVC Desktop Video Conferencing DU Disk Usage DUAT Direct User Access Terminal DUN Dial Up Networking DUYBOC Don't Understand Your Banter Old Chap DV DESQview DVI Digital Video Interactive DVMRP Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol DW Doctor Who DWAI Don't Worry About It DWIM Do What I Mean DWIS Do What I Say DXC Data Exchange Control DXF Drawing Exchange Format DYJHIW Don't You Just Hate It When DYSWIM Do You See What I Mean EA Extended Attribute EAR Everythings All Right EARN European Academic Research Network EATA Enhanced AT Bus Attachment EBBB Engage Brain before Blinking EBC EISA Bus Controller EBCD Extended Binary Coded Decimal EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ECC Error Checking and Correction / Error Correction Code ECD Enhanced Color Display ECL Emitter Coupled Logic ECNE Enterprise Certified NetWare Engineer ECP Enhanced Capability Port ED Eating Disorder EDC Enhanced Data Correction / Error Detection and Correction EDDC Extended Distance Data Cable EDI Electronic Data/Document Interchange EDLC Ethernet Data Link Control EDO Extended Data Out EDP Electronic Data Processing EDPM Electronic Data Processing Machine EDRAM Extended Dynamic Random Access Memory EDSI Enhanced Small Device Interface EDU Education (organization Domain name) EEC European Economic Community / Extended Error Correction EEM Extended Memory Management EEMS Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification EEPROM Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory EER Effective Exchange Rate EES Escrow Encryption Standard EFA Extended File Attribute EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation EFI Electromechanical Frequency Interference EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter EGP Exterior/External Gateway Protocol EHLLAPI Emulator High Level Language Application Programming Interface EHT Extra High Tension EIA Electronic Industries Association EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics EIS Executive Information System EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture EM Electronic Mail / Expanded Memory EMA Electronic Mail Association EMACS Editing MACroS E-MAIL Electronic Mail EMC Extended Math Coprocessor EMFBI Excuse Me For Butting In EMFJI Excuse Me For Jumping In EMI Electromagnetic Interference / Electrical and Mechanical Industries / European Monetary Institute EMM Expanded Memory Manager EMR Electro-Magnetic Radiation / Enhanced Metafile Record EMS Expanded Memory System/Executive News Service / Electronic Mail System / Electronic Message Service / Expanded Memory Specification/System / European Monetary System ENS Executive News Service ENSS Exterior Nodal Switching Subsystem EOB End of Block EOD End Of Discussion EOF End of File EOI End or Identify EOJ End of Job EOL End Of Lecture / End of Line EOM End of Message EOR End Of Rant/Report EOT End Of Thread/Tape/Transmission EPP Enhanced Printer Port EPROM Electrically/Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory EPSF Encapsulated PostScript Files ERLL Enhanced Run Length Limited ERM Exchange Rate Mechanism EROM Erasable Read Only Memory ERR Error ESA European Space Agency / Enterprise Systems Architecture ESAD Eat Sh*t And Die / Eat S**t And Die ESC Escape ESC/P Epson Standard Code for Printers ESCM Extended Services Communications Manager ESCON Enterprise System CONnection ESD Electronic Software Distribution ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface ESI Enhanced Serial Interface ESN Electronic Security Number ESOSL Endless Snorts of Stupid Laughter ESP Enhanced Serial Port ESS Electronic Switching System EST Eastern Standard Time ET Extra Terrestrial ETA Estimated Time Of Arrival ETB End of Transmission Block ETLA Extended Three letter Acronym EU European Union EULA End User License Agreement EVGA Extended Video Graphics Array/Adapter EWIT Exactly What I Thought EXT External F2F Face To Face FAA F**k All available FAC Feminists Against Censorship FAQ Frequently Asked Question FAR Frequently Asked Request FAST Federation Against Software Theft FAT File Allocation Table FAX Facsimile FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation FCB File Control Block FCC Federal Communications Commission FCFS First Come, First Served FCS For Christ's Sake FD Floppy Disk/Drive / Full Duplex FDC Floppy Disk Controller FDDI Fibre Digital/Distributed Data Interchange/Interface FDISK Fixed Disk FDM Frequency-Division Multiplexing FDROTFL Falling Down Rolling On The Floor Laughing FDX Full Duplex FEFO First-Ended, First-Out FEIYD ForEver In Your Debt FEP Front End Processor FESDK Far East Software Development Kit FET Field Effect Transistor FF Flip-Flop / Form Feed FFC F**king Fast Comms FFO Finger Food Only FFR Fitness For Role FFS For F**ks Sake FFST First Failure Support Technology FFT Fast Fourier Transform + Final Form Text FFTB Feel Free To Butt FGS For God's Sake FH Floating Head FI For Instance FIC First In Command FIF Fractal Image Format FIFO First In First Out / First In, First Out FIL Father In Law FILO First In Last Out / First In, Last Out FIP File Processor Buffering FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard FIQ Fast Interrupt reQuest FIR Finite Impulse Response FISH First In, Still Here FITB Fill In The Blank.... FITMR Fixed In The Maintenance Release (honest, guv...) FITNMR Fixed In The Next Maintenance Release FITNR Fixed In The Next Release FL File List / Florida FLC Ferro-electric Liquid Crystal FLD Field FLOPS Floating Point Operations Per Second FM Font Monster/Frequency Modulation/File Manager / Federated States of Micronesia FNT Font FOAD F**k Off And Die FOAF Friend Of A Friend FOC Free Of Charge/Falls Off Chair FOCL Falls Off Chair Laughing FOCLWTSDMF Falls Off Chair Laughing With Tears Streaming Down My Face FOF Friend of a Friend FOMC Federal Open Market Committee FOOBAH F**ked Up Beyond All Hope FOOBAR F**ked Up Beyond All Recognition FORTH Programming Language FORTRAN FORmula TRANslator FOSSIL Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer FOTCL Falling Off The Chair Laughing FOTP Fresh Off The Press FOTS For Old Times Sake FPP Fixed Path Protocol / Floating Point Processor FPS For Pete's/Pity's Sake / Frames Per Second FPU Floating Point Unit FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name FRA File Read All FRAG Fragmentation FRAM Ferroelectric Random-Access Memory FRC Fibre Reinforced Composite FRPI Flux Reversals Per Inch FSD File System Driver FSE Full Screen Editor FSF Free Software Foundation FSJ Frequently Said Jokes FSK Frequency Shift Keying FSN Full Service Network FSR For Some Reason / Free System Resources FTAM File Transfer and Access Method FTAOD For The Avoidance Of Doubt FTOYWDK For Those Of You Who Don't Know FTP File Transfer Protocol FTPD File Transfer Protocol Daemon FTR For The Record FTTB For The Time being FU Fouled Up / F**ked Up FUBAH F**ked Up Beyond All Hope FUBAR Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition / F**ked Up Beyond All Recognition FUD Fear, Uncertainty And Doubt FUN Feeling Unduley Naughty FWD Four/Front Wheel Drive FWICR From What I Can Recall FWIR From What I Recall FWIW For What It's Worth FWOT F**king Waste Of Time FX Effects (Stage directions!) FY Faithfully Yours FYA For Your Amusement FYEO For Your Eyes Only FYI For Your Information G7 Group of Seven - Britain, Canada, France, Germany Italy, Japan & United States GA Georgia GABS Going Away, Back Soon GAL Get A Life GAPI Gateway Application Programming Interface Gb Gigabit (1,000 megabits) GB Great Britain / Gigabyte (1,000 megabytes) GBH Grevious Bodily Harm GBP Great British Pounds (sterling) / Great British Pounds (Sterling) GBS Get Better Soon GCHQ Government Communications HeadQuarters GCMG Grand Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George GD&R Grinning, Ducking & Running GDDM Graphics Data Display Manager GDI Graphics Device Interface GDP Gross Domestic Product GEO Geosynchronous Earth Orbit GFI Go For It GIF Graphics Information File (see gif conf) GIGO Garbage In Gospel Out / Garbage In, Garbage Out git Taz Git Taz GIWIST Gee I Wish I'd Said That GIX Global Internet Exchange GKS Graphical Kernal System GL Good Lad! GLG Goofy Little Grin GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting GM George Medal GMAC Give Me A Chance GMS Grant-Maintained School GMT Greenwich Mean Time GMTA Great Minds Think Alike GNDN Goes Nowhere Does Nothing GNN Global Network Navigator GNP Gross National Product GNU Gnu's Not Unix GOAL Guardian Of the Acronym Lists GOBS Going On holiday Back Soon GOK God Only Knows GOLF Groups Of Lazy Fellows GOTFIA Groaning On The Floor In Agony GOV Government (organization Domain name) GP Gas Plasma GPF General Protection Fault GPI Graphics Programming Interface GPIB General Purpose Interface Bus GPS Global Positioning System GR&D Grinning, Running & Ducking GREP Global Regular Expression Print GRP Glass Reinforced Plastics GS Government Service GTBOS Glad To Be Of Service GTFA Get The F**king Address GTFI Get The F**king Idea GTSU Glad To See You GU Guam GUI Graphical User interface / Graphical User Interface GUSAC Glasgow University Sub-Aqua Club GW-BASIC Gee Whiz BASIC GWS Get Well Soon GYLI Glad You Liked It GYSACOPGPARTFM Get Yourself A Copy Of PGP And Read The F**king Manual GYSACOPGPARTM Get Yourself A Copy Of PGP And Read The Manual H/V Horizontal/Vertical H/W Hardware HACMP High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer HAM Amateur Radio Enthusiast HAND Have A Nice Day HART Highway Addressable Remote Transducer HBA Host Bus Adapter HCATSOTD Html Counters Are The Spawn Of The Devil HCL Hardware Compatibility List HD Hard Disk / High Density HDA Head Disk Assembly HDD Hard Disk Drive HDI Head to Disk Interference HDLC High-Level Data Link Control HDR Header HDSC High Density Signal Carrier HDSL High-rate Digital Subscriber Link HDW Hardware HDX Half Duplex HERC Hercules HEX Hexadecimal Number HEY HElp Yourself HF High Frequency HFS Hierarchical File System Hg Mercury HG Mercury HGA Hercules Graphics Adapter HGC Hercules Graphics Card HGCP Hercules Graphics Card Plus HH Hour HHGTTG Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy HHM He Has Mail HHVFNGABYBIAVHB Ha Ha Very Funny Now Go And Boil Your Bum In A Very Hot Bath HI Her Indoors / Hawaii HIFD HIgh-density Floppy Disk HIH Hope It Helps HK Hong Kong HLL High Level Language HLLAPI High Level Language Application Programming Interface HLQ High Level Qualifier HLS Hue, Luminance, Saturation (color model) HLT Halt HMA High Memory Area HMI Host Micro Interface HMN High Message Number HMOS High density/speed Metal Oxide Semiconductor HMSO Her Majesty's Stationery Office HOLLAND Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies HOTAS Hands On Throttle And Stick HOTOL HOrizontal TakeOff and Landing HOTP Hot Off The Press HP Hewlett Packard / Houses of Parliament HPCC High Performance Computing and Communications HPFS High-Performance File System / High Performance File System HPG Hewlett-Packard Graphics HPGL Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language HPIB Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus HPPA Hewlett-Packard Precision Architecture HPPI High Performance Parallel Interface HRG High Resolution Graphics HRT Hormone Replacement Therapy HSC High Speed Channel HSI Hue Saturation Intensity HSM Hierarchical Storage Management HSP High Speed Printer HSSI High Speed Serial Interface HST High Speed Technology HSV Hue Saturation Value HTF How the F**k HTFWISYKT How the F**k Was I Supposed to know That HTH Hope This Helps/How The Hell HTM HyperText Mark-up HTML HyperText Markup Language / HyperText Mark-up Language HTMLCATSOTD HyperText Mark-up Language Counters Are The Spawn Of The Devil HTTP HyperText Transmission Protocol / HyperText Transfer/Transmission/Transport Protocol HTTPS HyperText Transfer Protocol Server HTWFAIP How To Win Friends And Influence People HVP Horizontal & Vertical Position HW HardWare HWBMBB He Whose Books Must be Bought (aka Terry Pratchett) HWCP Hardware Code Page HWD Height-Width-Depth HWISTKT How Was I Supposed To Know That? HWSTWH He Would Say That, Wouldn't He I/F Interface I/O Input/Output IA Iowa IAAMWE I Am At My Wits End IAB Internet Architecture Board IAC In Any Case IAE In Any Event IAF Is A Fact IAH In All Honesty IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer IAP Internet Access Provider IARU International Amateur Radio Union IAUP Internet User Account Provider IAW In Accordance With IBC Inside Back Cover / Instrument Bus Computer IBIWISI I'll Believe It When I See It IBM Its Being Mended/Its Better Manually / International Business Machines / I Blame Microsoft IBM-GL IBM Graphics Language IBRD World Bank IC I See / Integrated Circuit / Interrupt Controller ICA Internet Conferencing Account / Intra-application Communications Area ICA-OUT Internet Conferencing Account Occasional User Tarrif ICAS Intel Communicating Applications Specifications ICA-SUT Internet Conferencing Account Standard User Tariff ICBM InterContinental Ballistic Missile ICBW I Could Be Wrong ICE I Cannot Explain / In-Circuit Emulator ICI Image Component Information ICL Interface Clear ICLID Incomming-Call Line Identification ICM Image Color Matching ICM5P I Claim My 5 Pounds ICM5UKP I Claim My 5 UK Pounds ICMFP I Claim My Five Pounds ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol iCOMP Intel Comparative Microprocessor ICP Integrated Channel Processor ICPC I Couldn't Possibly Comment ICR Intelligent Character Recognition ICS Intuitive Command Structure ICYDK In Case You Didn't Know ID Identity / Identification/Identifier / Idaho IDA Integrated Digital Access / Intelligent Disk/Drive Array IDAPI Integrated Database Application Programming Interface IDDI I Didn't Do It IDE Imbedded/Integrated/Intelligent Drive Electronics / Integrated Development Environment IDGAFF I Dont Give A Flying F**k / I Don't Give A Flying F**k IDLM I Don't Like Mondays IDNKT I Did Not Know That IDNSWYM I Did Not See What You Mean IDP Integrated Data Processing IDSWYM I Do/Don't See What You Mean IE Info Evolution IEE Institute of Electrical Engineers IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEMSI Interactive Electronic Mail Standard Identification IETF Internet Engineering Task Force IFAPIFAP In For A Penny In For A Pound IFC Inside Front Cover IFD Image File Directory IFF Interchangeable File Format IFG Incoming Fax Gateway IFS Installable File System IFSM Information Systems Management IGA Integrated Graphics Array IGABW I've Got A Bigger Willy IGC Integrated Graphics Controller IGES Initial Graphics Exchange Standard IGS Internet Go Server IGTHAAS It's Great To Have An Automatic Signature IHAG I'd Hazard A Guess IHNI I Have No Idea IIABDFI If It Aint Broken, Dont Fix It / If It Ain't Broken, Don't Fix It IIDKB If I Didn't Know Better IIR If I Recall/Remember / Immediate Impulse Response IIRC If I Recall/Remember Correctly IITF Information Infrastructure Task Force IITP It's In The Pot/Post IITYWYBAD If I Tell You, Will You Buy Another Drink IITYWYBMAB If I Tell You, Will You Buy Me A Beer IIUC If I Understand Correctly IIUYC If I Understand You Correctly IIWY If I Were You IKTF I Know That Feeling IKWYM I Know What You Mean IL Illinois IM IntelliMouse IMAP Interactive Mail Access Protocol / Internet Message Access Protocol IMCDO In My Conceited Dogmatic Opinion. IMCO In My Considered Opinion IMDS Image Data Stream IME In My Estimation/Experience / Input Method Editor IMF International Monetary Fund IMG Image IMHA In My Humble Analysis IMHE In My Humble Estimation/Experience IMHO In My Humble Opinion/In My Honest Opinion / In My Honest/Humble Opinion IMMDNDM If My Memory Does Not Deceive Me IMNHO In My Not so Humble Opinion IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion IMNVHO In My Not Very Humble Opinion IMO In My Opinion IMP Information/Interface Message Processor IMPA Intelligent Multi-Port Adapter IMR Internet Monthly Report IMRMPBC I Must Read Messages Properly Before Commenting IMS If Memory Serves / Information Management System IMV In My View IMVHO In My Very Humble Opinion IN Input / Indiana INC Increment INHW If Not Here, Where? INHW? If Not Here, Where? INM Integrated Network Management INPKIAM Irritating New Parent Know It All Mode INPO In No Particular Order INS Integrated Network Server INT Integer / International (organization Domain name) INTA Interrupt Acknowledge INTERNET Interesting Notions Transmitted Electronically Round Newly Engineered Technology InterNIC Internet Network Information Center INTSAT I'm Not Totally Sure About This IOCS Input/Output Control System IOCTL Input/Output Control IOM Isle Of Man IOTTMCO Its Obvious To The Most Casual Observer IOW In Other Words/Isle Of Wight IP Internet Protocol / Instruction Pointer IPC Instructions Per Clock IPDS IBM Personal Dictation System / Intelligent Printer Data Stream IPF Information Presentation Facility / Windows '95 GPF IPL Initial Program Load / Interrupt Priority Level IPX Internetwork Packet Exchange IQL Interactive Query Language IR InfraRed IRBM Intra-Regional Ballistic Missile IRC Internet Relay Chat IRCop Internet Relay Chat operator IRDS Information Resource Dictionary System IRF Inheritance Rights Filter IRMC I Rest My Case IRQ Interrupt ReQuest IRS Inland Revenue Service IRTHG I Refer The Honourable Gentleman IRTHGTTAIGHAMA I Refer The Honourable Gentleman To The Answer I Gave Him/Her A Moment Ago IRTHGTTAIGSMA I Refer The Honourable Gentleman To The Answer I Gave Some Moments Ago IRTHGTTRIGSMA I Refer The Honourable Gentleman To The Reply I Gave Some Moments Ago IRTM I Read The Manual / I Remember That Much IS Information System ISA Instruction Set Architecture / Industry Standard Architecture ISAM Indexed Sequential-Access Management/Method ISC I Stand Corrected / Instruction Set Computer ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network / It Still Does Nothing ISH Information Super Highway ISIS Integrated Systems and Information Services ISL Interactive System Language ISLAGIATT It seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time ISMF Interactive Storage Management Facility ISN Initial Sequence Number ISO International Standards Organization ISP Internet Service Provider ISPF Interactive System Programming Facility ISR Information Storage and Retrieval / Interrupt Service Routine ISSN International Standard Serial Number ISTM It Seems To Me ISTMT It Seems to Me That ISTR I Seem To Recall/Remember ISV Independent Software Vendor ISWBNI It Still Would Be Nice If ISWYM I See What You Mean IT Information Technology ITABOAF Is This A Bug Or A Feature ITALY I Trust And Love You ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulation ITBOF Is This a Bug Or a Feature ITC International Typeface Corporation / Independent Television Commission ITM In The Meantime ITMA It's That Man Again ITMT In The MeanTime ITNR In The Next Release ITRO In The Region Of ITTIBM I Think Therefore IBM ITU International Telecommunication Union ITU-R International Telecommunications Union Radio (Sector) ITU-T International Telecommunications Union Telecommunications (Sector) ITYR I Think You're Right IUAP Internet User Account Provider IV&V Independent Verification & Validation IVIS Interactive Video Information System IVL Intel Verification Lab IVR Interactive Voice Response IVS Interactive Videodisk System IVT Interrupt Vector Table I-WAY Information Highway IWB It Will/Would Be IWBB It Would Be Better IWBBI It Would Be Better If IWBITNAL It Will Be In The Next Acronyms List IWBN It Would Be Nice IWBNI It Would Be Nice If IWFM It Works For Me IWHAGT I Would Hazard A Guess That IWHT I Would Have Thought / I Would Hope That IWSTM It Would Seem To Me IWW I Wonder Why IYAM If You Ask Me IYDMMA If You Don't Mind Me Asking IYDSWIM If You Do See What I Mean IYKWGFY If You Know What's Good For You IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean IYSS If You Say So IYSWIM If You See What I Mean IYWBSK If You Would Be So Kind JAAMOI Just As A Matter Of Interest JAD Joint Application Design JAIT Just As I Thought JAM Just A Minute... JANET Joint Academic NETwork / Joint Academic Network JAT Just A Tick... JC Jesus Christ JCBT Just Come Back Today JCL Job Control Language JFIF JPEG File Interchange Format JFTR Just For The Record JFYI Just For Your Information JIC Just In Case JIT Just In Time JOOI Just Out Of Interest JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group JPG Joint Photographic experts Group JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory JSYK Just So You Know JTFM Just The Facts, Ma'am/Man JTYWLTKT Just Thought You Would Like To Know That Ju Junkers JUNET Japanese Unix NETwork Kb Kilobit KB KeyBoard / Keyboard / KiloByte / Kilobyte (1,024 bytes) / Knowledge Base KBD Keyboard KBPS Kilobytes Per Second KCBIWIYWI Keep Coming Back, It Works If You Work It KCMG Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George KDT Key Definition Table KGB Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti KISS Keep It Simple Stupid KITA Kick In The A**E KMI Keep Me Informed KOBNR Kind Of But Not Really KOW Knock On Wood KPI Kernal Programming Interface KRS Knowledge Retrieval System KS Kansas KSPH Keystrokes Per Hour KSR Keyboard Send Receive KUTA Kick Up The A**E KUTGW Keep Up The Good Work KWIM Know What I Mean KWIMH Know What I Mean Henry KY Kentucky L8R Later LA Los Angeles/Low Alcohol/Lower Ancoats / Louisiana LAB Lo And Behold LADDR Layered Device Driver Architecture LALL Longest Allowed Lobe Length LAN Local Area Network LANACS Local Area Network Asynchronous Connection Server LAPB Link Access Procedure Balanced LAPD Link Access Procedure Direct / Los Angeles Police Department LAPM Link Access Procedure for Modems LAR Load Access Rights LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation LAT Local Access Terminal / Local Area Transport LAVC Local Area VAX Cluster LAWN Local Area Wireless Network LB Left Button (of 2 or 3 button Mouse) LBA Logical Block Addressing LBICPHAGAS Leans Back In Chair Pours Him/Herself Another Glass And Sulks LBL Label LBR Librarian LBT Listen Before Talking LCC Leadless Chip Carrier LCD Liquid Crystal Display LCF Low Cost Fiber LCP Link Control Protocol LCR Light Carpet Rules (no staining substances no shoes) LCU Last Cluster Used LDA Logical Device Address LDM Long Distance Modem LDT Local Descriptor Table LEA Local Education Authority LEC Local Exchange Carrier LED Light Emitting Diode LEM Language Extension Module LEN Low Entry Networking LEO Low Earth Orbit / Lyons Electronic Office LETS Local Exchange Trading System LF Line Feed LFN Long File Name LFNS Long File NameS LFT Life Functions Terminated LGM Little Green Men LH Left Hand LHC Lacks Hard Currency LHS Left Hand Side LHSF Let's Have Some Fun LIBOR London Inter Bank Offered Rate LIF Low Insertion Force LIFO Last In First Out / Last In, First Out LILO Last In Last Out / Last In, Last Out LIM Lotus Intel Microsoft Expanded Memory Specification LIMA Lotus/Intel/Microsoft/AST LIMS Library Information Management System LIP Large Internet Packet LIPS Logical Inferences Per Second LISP List Processing LISTSERV List Server LLAP Live Long And Prosper LLC Logical Link Control LLDT Load Local Descriptor Table LLF Low Level Format LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous/Thundering Applause LM/X LAN Manager for Unix LMAO Laughing My Arse Off / Laughing My A**e Off LMB Left Mouse Button LMK Let Me Know LOB Load Of B**locks LOC Loop On-Line Control LOGO A Programming Language LOL Lots Of Luck/Laughing Out Loud LOMBARD Lots Of Money but a Right D*ckh**d LOOB Load Of Old B**locks LP Long Playing LPC Local Procedure Call LPI Lines Per Inch LPM Lines Per Minute LPN Logical Page Number LPT Line Printer LPT1 First Parallel Printer Port LPT2 Second Parallel Printer Port LPT3 Third Parallel Printer Port LQ Letter Quality LQM Link Quality Monitoring LSA Line Sharing Adapter LSB Least Significant Bit LSC Least Significant Character LSD Least Significant Digit LSE London School of Economics LSI Large Scale Integration LSL Link Support layer LST List LTBW Let The Buggers Wait LTD Limited LTMSH Laughing 'Till My sides Hurt LTNS Long Time No See LU Logical Unit / London Underground LUA Logical Unit Application LUL London Underground Limited LZ Lempel-Zev (compression algorithm) LZW Lempel-Ziv-Walsh (compression algorithm) M&T Mother and Toddler M2M Messages To Me M8 Mate MA Massachusetts MAABOS Mad As A Bunch Of Spiders Mac Macintosh MAC Media/Medium Access Control MACINTOSH Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System MAN Manual / Metropolitan Area Network MANPAGE MANual PAGE MAP Memory Allocation Map MAPI Messaging Applications Programming Interface / Mail/Messaging Applications Programming Interface MAPICS Manufacturing, Accounting and Production Information Control System MaR Mark as Read MASM MAcro ASseMbler MATE Men Always Tell Everybody MAU Media Access Unit MAW Mission Adaptive Wings MAX Maximum MB MessageBase / Megabyte (1,000 kilobytes) / Middle Button (of 3 button Mouse) / Manitoba MBASIC Microsoft BASIC MBE Member of (the Order of) the British Empire MBONE Multicast Backbone MBPS Megabytes Per Second MBR Master Boot Record MBW MessageBase Window MBX Mailbox MCA Micro Channel Architecture MCAD Mechanical Computer Aided Design MCB Memory Control Block MCGA Multicolor Graphics Array MCI Media Control Interface MCL Microsoft Compatibility Labs MCM Multi-Chip Module MCU Multi-Chip Unit MD Managing Director / Make Directory / Monochrome Display / Maryland MDA Monochrome Display Adapter MDBTYD My Dad's Bigger Than Your Dad MDI Multiple Document Interface MDK Multimedia Developers Kit MDLP Modile Data Link Protocol MDR Minimum Design Requirement MDY Month Day Year Me Messerschmitt ME Maine MEB Memory Expansion Board MEG Megabyte MEGO My Eyes Glaze Over MEM Memory MESI Modified Exclusive Shared and Invalid MFC Microsoft Foundation Classes / Microsoft Foundataion Class MFFS Microsoft Flash File System MFLOPS Million Floating Point Operations Per Second MfM Messages for Me / Messages for/from Me MFM Modified Frequency Modulation MFP Multifunction Peripheral MFS Macintosh File System MFT Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks MGA Monochrome Graphics Adapter MGE Modular GIS Environment MH Marshall Islands MHOTY My Hat's Off To You MHS Message Handling System MI Michigan MI5 Military Intelligence 5 Counter Espionage MI6 Military Intelligence 6 Foreign MIC Mother In Charge MICRO One-millionth MICROWAVE Meals In Coffins, Revived Only With All Vitamins Removed MICS Macro Interpretive Commands MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface MIF Management Information Format MIG MIkoyan-Gurevich MIHBM May I have BinMail MIHBMP May I Have BinMail Please MIHBMT May I Have BinMail Too MIHBMTP May I Have BinMail Too Please MII Microsoft/IBM/Intel MIL Mother In Law / Military (organization Domain name) MIM Metal-Insulator-Metal MIMD Multiple Instruction Multiple Data Stream MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions MIN Minimum MIPS Millions of Instructions Per Second MIRV Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicles MIS Management Information System / Multimedia Information Sources / Management Information Systems MISC Miscellaneous MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIX Member Information Exchange MJ Marijuana/Pot/Cannabis MKDIR Make Directory ML Machine Language MLAPI Multilingual Application Programming Interface MLC Multilevel Cell MLID Multi-Link Interface Driver MLR Minimum Lending Rate MM Minutes + Month MMB Middle Mouse Button MMBTY My Mum's Bigger Than You MMC Matched Memory Cycle MMPM Multi Media Presentation Manager MMS My Mother Said MMU Memory Management Unit MN Minnesota MNOS Metal Nitride Oxide Semiconductor MNP Microcom Network Protocol MO Magneto-Optical (disk drive) / Missouri MOC Me/My Old Chum MOD Modem / Modulus MODEM Modulator Demodulator MOHLL Machine Oriented High Level Language MOM Microsoft Office Manager MOP Maintenance Operations Protocol MORF Male OR Female? MOS Metal Oxide Semiconductor MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor MOTOS Member Of The Opposite Sex MOTSS Member Of The Same Sex MOUY Make One Up Yourself MOV Metal Oxide Varistor MP Message Pane / Multiple Processors / Northern Mariana Islands / Member of Parliament / Military Policeman MPC Multimedia Personal Computer MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group MPU Microprocessor Unit MR Modem Ready MRCF Microsoft Realtime Compression Format MRCI Microsoft Realtime Compression Interface MRDA Mandy Rice Davies Applies ("Well He Would, Wouln't He?) / Mandy Rice-Davies Applies MRGC Maritime Radiocommunications General Certificate MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRLP Monster Raving Looney Party MRO Multi-Region Operation MROK Moderators Rule OK MRPL Main Ring Path Length MRS Media Recognition System MRT Mean Repair Time MS Multiple Sclerosis/MickeySoft / MicroSoft / Mississippi MSACM Microsoft Audio Compression Manager MSAU Multi-Station Access Unit MSAV Microsoft Anti Virus MSB Most Significant Bit MSCDEX Microsoft Compact Disc EXtensions MSD MickeySoft Diagnostics / Mass Storage Device / MicroSoft Diagnostics / Microsoft System Diagnostics / Most Significant Digit MSDN MicroSoft Developer Network MS-DOS Microsoft - Disk Operating System MSDR Multiplexed Streaming Data Request MSDS Microsoft Developer Support MSG Message / Mono-Sodium Glutamate MSI Medium Scale Integration MSIE MicroSoft Internet Explorer MSIM MicroSoft IntelliMouse MSKB MicroSoft Knowledge Base MSL MicroSoft Library / Map Specification Library MSN MicroSoft Network MSO Multiple-Systems Operator MST Mountain Standard Time MSVC Microsoft Visual C / MicroSoft Visual C MT Empty / Montana MTAACW Many Thanks And Ain't Cix/Cis Wonderful MTBB Mean Time Between Breakdowns MTBF Mean Time Between Failures MTF Microsoft Tape Format / Modulation Transfer Function MTIA Many Thanks In Anticipation MtM Messages to Me MTM Messages To Me MTS Message Transfer Service/System MTTF Mean Time To Failure MTTR Mean Time To Repair MTU Maximum Transmission Units MUD Multi User Dungeon / Multi-User Domain / Multi-User Dungeon MUG Multi User Game MUMPS Massachusetts (General Hospital) Utility Multi-Programming System MUNG Mash Until No Good MUSE Multi-User Shared Environment MUX Multiplexer MVB Multimedia Viewer Book MVC Multimedia Viewer Compiler MVDM Multiple Virtual DOS Machines MVGA Monochrome Video Graphics Array MVP Multimedia Video Processor MVS Multiple Virtual Storage MVT Multiprogramming with a Variable number of Tasks MVW Message View Window MW Minimum Wage MX Mail Exchanger MYOB Mind Your Own Business N/I Non-Interlaced NA Not Applicable NAAFI Navy Army Air Force Institute (Service canteen & shop ) NAC Net Access Conferencing / Network Adapter Card NAFAIAA Not As Far As I Am Aware NAFAIAC Not As Far As I Am Concerned NAFAIC Not As Far As I'm Concerned NAFAICS Not As Far As I Can See NAFAICT Not As Far As I Can Tell NAFAIK Not As Far As I Know NAH No Acronym Here NAK Negative Acknowledgment NALOPKT Not A Lot Of People Know That NALOPSTKT Not A Lot Of People Seem To Know That NANO One thousand-millionth NAP Network Access Point NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASI NetWare Asynchronous Services Interface NATM Not At The Moment NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation NAU Network Addressable Unit NAY Nobody Asked You NB New Brunswick NBC Nuclear, Biological, Chemical NBD No Big Deal NBF No Bloody Fear NBI Nothing But Initials NBL Not Bloody Likely NC No Charge / No Children / North Carolina NCA Network Communications Adapter NCC Network Control Center NCGA National Computer Graphics Association NCP Network Control Processor/Program/Protocol NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications / National Centre for Supercomputing in America / National Computer Security Agency NCT National Childbirth Trust ND North Dakota NDA Non Disclosure Agreement NDDK Network Device Development Kit NDIS Network Device/Driver Interface Specification NDP Numeric Data Processor NDS NetWare Directory Service NDW Norton Desktop for Windows NE Nebraska NEG Negative NET Network (organization Domain name NetBEUI NetBIOS Extended User Interface NetBIOS Network Basic Input/Output System NF Newfoundland NFF No Fault Found NFG No F**king Good NFI No F**king Idea NFS Network File System NFW No Flippin' Way NG NewsGroup NGEAA Normal Granny Eggs Apologies Applies NH New Hampshire NHC National Hurricane Center NIAL Not In Acronyms List NIC Network Information Center / Network Interface Card NICBDAT Nothing Is Certain But Death And Taxes NID Not In Dictionary NIFD Now I Feel Dumb NIFOC Nude In Front Of Computer NIH Not Invented Here NIMBY Not In My Back Yard NIMCD Not In My Current Dictionary NIMHO Not In My Humble Opinion NIMO Not It My Opinion NIMTO Not In My Term of Office NIMVHO Not In My Very Humble Opinion NIOED Not In the Oxford English Dictionary NIPS Network I/Os Per Second NIR Network Information Retrieval NIS Network Information Service NISA New Information System Architecture NITAL Not In The Acronym List NITD Not In The Dictionary NITRO Not In The Region Of NJ New Jersey NJE Network Job Entry NL New Line NLM NetWare Loadable Module NLP Northern Line Project NLQ Near Letter Quality NM New Mexico NMI Non-Maskable Interrupt NMM NetWare Management Map NMOS Negative Channel Metal-Oxide Semiconductor NMR No Moves Received NMS Network Management System NNI Network-Network Interface NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOC Network Operations Center NORTON kNickers Off Ready To Open Knees NORWICH kNickers Off Ready When I Come Home NOS Network Operating System NPA Network Printer Alliance NPBT Net Payment Before Tax NPD No Problem, Dude NPFS Named Pipes Filing System NPI Network Printer Interface NPL Nonprocedural Language NPLU Not People Like Us NPMW New and Prospective Members Welcome NQOS Not Quite Our Sort NRN No Reply Necessary NS Network Supervisor / Nova Scotia / Non Smoking NSA National Security Agency NSD NearSite Dial NSF National Science Foundation NSFNET National Science Foundation NETwork NSN NearSite Network NSP Network Service Provider NSSTD No Sooner Said Than Done NSW New South Wales NT National Trust/New Technology/National Theatre / Northwest Territories NT3 Windows NT v3 NT4 Windows NT v4 NT5 Windows NT v5 NTAS NT Advanced Server NTF No Trouble Found NTFS New Technology File System / Windows NT Filing System NTIAAO Not That I Am Aware Of NTIIAO Not That I Is Aware Of NTIM Not That It Matters NTOOT Nine Times Out Of Ten NTRAS NT Remote Access Services NTS NT Server NTSA NetWare Telephony Services Architecture NTW NT Workstation NUI Network User Identification/Interface NUL Null NUTGAUA Not Unless You Get An Unknown Acronym NV Nevada NVM Non-Volatile Memory NVR Non-Volatile RAM NVRAM Non-Volatile Random Access Memory NVT Novell Virtual Terminal NY New York NYPD New York Police Department OAB One-to-All Broadcast OAI Open Applications Interface OAS On A Stick / One-to-All Scatter OB Outside Broadcast OBC On Back Cover OBE Order of the British Empire OBJ Object OBN Order of the Brown Nose OBO Or Best Offer OCL Operation Control Language OCR Optical Character Recognition OCS Open Crotch Shot OD Open Doc (alternative to OLE) ODA Office Document Architecture ODAPI Open DataBase Application Programming Interface ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity ODBMS Object-Oriented Database Management System ODI Open Datalink Interface / Open Device Interconnect / Open-link Data Interface ODS Open Data Services ODT Open Desktop OE Old English OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OED Oxford English Dictionary OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer OEO Organisational Email Option OES Organisational Email Service OF Overflow Flag OFFS Oh For F**ks Sake OFS Output Field Separator OFT Operator Finger Trouble OH Over Here / Off Hook / Ohio OHMIGAWD Oh My God OIC Oh I See OICWYM Oh I See What You Mean OIDL Object Interface Definition Language OIS Office Information Systems OK OK (Well, what did you expect?) / Oklahoma OLE Object Linking and Embedding OLI Optical Line Interface OLR Off Line Reader OLTP On-Line Transaction Processing OM Old Man / Object Manager OME Open Messaging Environment OMF Object Module Format / Open Message Format OMG Oh My God / Object Management Group OMI Open Messaging Interface OMNS Open Network Management System OMR Optical Mark Recognition OMRLP Official Monster Raving Looney Party OMS Over My Shoulder ON Ontario ONC Open Network Computing ONO Or Near Offer OO Object Oriented OOC Out Of Character/Out Of Curiosity OODB Object-Oriented Database OODMS Object-Oriented Database Management System OOI Out Of Interest OOL Object-Oriented Language OOMPR Out Of My Price Range OOO Out Of Order OOPL Object-Oriented Programming Language OOPS Object Oriented Programming and Systems OOS Object-Oriented Systems OOSO Over and Out, Signing Off OOTB Out Of The Box (ie Brand New) / Out Of The Box (i.e. Brand New) OOTD One Of These Days OOTT One Of Those Things OOUI Object Oriented User Interface OPAC Online Public Access Catlog OPCODE Operational Code OPD Operand OPEC Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPI Open Prepress Interface OPM Operations Per Minute OPS Operations OPT Open Protocol Technology OPUS Octal Program Updating System OR Oregon ORG Organization (organization Domain name) ORS Output Record Separator OS Operating System OS/2 Obsolete Soon, Too / Operating System/2 OS/E Operating System/Environment OS2 Obsolete Soon Too OSA Open System Architecture / Official Secrets Act OSF Open Software Foundation / Open Software Federation OSI Open Systems Interconnection OSM Off-Screen Model OSP Optical Storage Processor OSPF Open Shortest Path First OSQL Object Structured Query Language OST Obsolete Soon Too OT Object Technology OTB Over The Board OTF On The Floor OTOH On The Other Hand OTP One-Time Programmable OTT Over The Top OTTH On The Third Hand OTTOMH Off The Top Of My Head OURS Open Users Recommended Solutions OV Overflow OVHB One Very Happy Bunny OVSN Out Very Soon Now OWI Out With It OWIBNI Oh Wouldn't It Be Nice If OWIL Only When I Laugh OWL Object/Open Windows Library OWTTE Or Words To That Effect PA Pennsylvania PAAF Pissed As A Fart PABX Private Automatic Branch eXchange / Private Automatic Branch Exchange PACS-L Public Access Computer Systems List PAD Packet Assembler/Disassembler PAF Postal Address File PAIH Public-Access Internet Host PAIS Public-Access Internet Site PAL Phase Alternation Line / Programmed Array Logic / Programming Assembly Language PALC Plasma-Addressed Liquid Crystal PANS Pretty Advanced New Stuff / Pretty Advanced/Annoying New Stuff PAP Password Authentication Procedure / Passwork Authentication Protocol PAR Parallel PARA Paragraph PASCAL Programming Language named for Blaise Pascal PAX Portable Archive Exchange PBE Prompt By Example PBX Private Branch Exchange PC Personal Computer/Price Check/Politically Correct / Printed Circuit / Program Counter PCB Printed Circuit Board / Program Control Block PCD Photo Compact Disk PC-DOS Personal Computer - Disk Operating System PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect PC-I/O Program Controlled I/O PCL Printer Command Language / Process Control Language PCMCIA People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms / Personal Computer Memory Card International Association PCMIM Personal Computer Media Interface Module PCN Personal Computer Network PCNFS Personal Computer Network File System PCTW PC Tools for Windows PCW Personal Computer World PD Public Domain PDA Personal Digital Assistant PDC Primary Domain Controller PDD Physical Device Driver PDF Portable Document File/Format PDG Pretty Damned Good / Problem Determination Guide PDIAL Public Dialup Internet Access List PDL Page/Program Description Language PDN Public Data Network PDP Programmable Data Processor PDQ Pretty Damned Quick PDS Packet Driver Specification / Partitioned Data Set PDSS Post Development and Software Support PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDU Plug Distribution Unit PE Prince Edward Island PEA Pocket Ethernet Adapter PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard PEL Picture ELement PEM Privacy-Enhanced Mail PEO Personal Email Option PERL Practical Extraction and Report Language PERT Program Evaluation and Review Technique, Meg Ryan PES Processor Enhancement Socket PET Print Enhancement Technology PF Political Fund PF&HOMW Printed, Framed & Hanging On My Wall PFMFJI Please Forgive Me For Jumping In PFR Power-Fail Restart PGA Professional Graphics Adapter / Professional Golfers' Association PGDN Page Down PGM Program PGP Pretty Good Privacy PGUP Page Up PGY Post Graduate year PGY-1, PGY-2 etc. used in PGY Med. PI Private Investigator/3.1415926 / 3.1415926535 etc etc etc PIA Peripheral Interface Adapter PIC Personal Intelligent Communicator / Priority/Program Interrupt Controller PICS Platform for Internet Content Selection PICT Picture PID Process Identification Number / Pelvic Inflammatory Disease PIF Picture Interchange File / Program Information File PIM Personal Information Manager PIN Personal ID Number / Personal/Process Identification Number PINE Pine Is Not Elm PING Packet INternet Gopher / Packet Internet Groper PIO Parallel Input/Output PIPI Producer Input Price Indices PIPO Parallel In, Parallel Out PIT Programmable Interval Timer PITA Pain In The Arse / Pain In The A**e PITB Pain in the Butt PITN Pain In The Neck PIXEL Picture Element PKZ Phil Katz ZIP (file compression program) PL/1 Programming Language One PL/M Programming Language for Micros PLA Programmable Logic-Array PLC Public Limited Company / Programmable Logic Controller PLD Programmable Logic Device PLL Phase Locked Loop PLOKTA Press Lots Of Keys To Abort PM Presentation Manager / Preventative Maintenance / Process Manager PMB Pardon Me, But PMETC Pardon Me Etc. PMFB Pardon Me For Breathing PMFBI Pardon Me For Butting In PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In PMFJOT Pardon Me For Jumping Off Topic PMI Pardon My ignorance PMJI Pardon Me Jumping In PMMU Paged Memory Management Unit PMOS Positive Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor PMS Policy Management System / Pre-menstrual Syndrome PMYMHMMFSWGAD Pardon Me, You Must Have Mistaken Me For Someone Who Gives A Damn PN Processing Node PND Post-Natal Depression PNP Plug And Play POC Point Of Contact POL Problem Oriented Language POOP Proper Object Oriented Programming ("If it's not POOP it's crap") POP Post Office Protocol / Point Of Presence POP1 Post Office Protocol 1 POP2 Post Office Protocol 2 POP3 Post Office Protocol 3 POSIX Portable Operating System Interface POST Power-On Self Test POV Point Of View PPD Prepaid PPI Producer input Price Indices PPM Pages Per Minute PPP Point to Point Protocol PPS Packets Per Second PPTP Point to Point Tunnelling Protocol PQ Quebec / Prime Ministers Questions PQMF Please Quote Me For PR Puerto Rico / Public Relations PRBS Pseudo-Random Binary Sequence PRF Pulse Repetition Frequency PRI Primary Rate Interface PRMD Private Management Domain / Private Mangement Domain PRN Printer PROC Procedure PROG Program PROLOG PROgramming In LOGic PROM Programmable Read Only Memory PRTSC Print Screen PS Proportional Spacing / Permanent Secretary / Police Sergeant / Post Script / Public School PS/2 Programming System 2 PSC Print Server Command PSDN Packet-Switched Data Network PSDS Packet-Switched Data Service PSERVER Print Server PSF Permanent Swap File PSID PostScript Image Data PSIM People Say I'm Mad PSL Private Sector Liquidity PSN Packet Switching Network PSPDN Packet-Switched Public Data Network P-SRAM Pseudo-Static Random Access Memory PST Pacific Standard Time PSTN Public Switch Telephone Network PSU Power Supply Unit PSW Program Status Word PTA Parent-Teacher's Association PTD Parallel Transfer Disk Drive PTO Patent and Trademark Office PTTPTB Praise To The Powers That Be PU Priority Unread PUB People Undertaking Booze / Public PUS Processor Upgrade Socket PVC Permanent Virtual Circuit PVM Parallel Virtual Machine PW PowWow / Password / Palau PWB Printed Wire Board PWD Print Working Directory PWR Power PYT Pretty Young Thing Q Que? QA Quality Assurance QALOPKT Quite A Lot Of People Know That QBE Query By Example QBF Query by Form QC Quality Control QDOS Quick and Dirty Operating System QED Quod Erat Demonstrandum QEMM Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager QFA Quick File Access QIC Quarter Inch Cartridge QL Quantum Leap QRK Do You Understand QRM Interference Man made QRP Low Power / Very Quietly QRT Stopping Communication QRX Wait For A Short Time QRZ Who Are You QSL I Expect a Reply QSO Chat / Communication QSY Change Frequency / Move To Another Topic QTH Location QUANDO QUick ANd Dirty Operation R&D Research and Development R/O Receiver Only R/T Receive/Transmit R/W Read/Write RAD Rapid Application Development RAF Royal Air Force RAFA Royal Air Force Association RAFARS Royal Air Force Amateur Radio Society RAID Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks / Redundant Arrays of Independent/Inexpensive Disks/Drives RAM Random Access Memory RAMDAC Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter RAMP Remote Access Maintenance Protocol RAND Random RAP Rapid Application Prototyping RAQ Rarely Asked Question RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol RAS Remote Access Service/Storage RASAPI Remote Access Service Application Programming Interface RASMAN Remote Access Service Manager RAUBM Replies As Usual By Mail RB Right Button (of 2 or 3 button Mouse) RBBS Remote Bulletin Board System RBM Reply By Mail RBMO Reply By Mail Only RBTL Read Between The Lines RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCP Remote CoPy RD Receive Data / Remove Directory RDA Remote Database Access RDB Receive Data Buffer / Relational DataBase RDBMS Relational DataBase Management System RDCLK Received Timing Clock RDM Really Doesn't Matter RDSR Receiver Data Service Request REG Register RELSECT Relative Sector REM Remark REN Rename / Ring Equivalent Number REQ Request RES Remote Execution Service / Reset / Resolution RET Resolution Enhancement Technology / Return REX Relocatable Executable REXEC Remote Execution REXX Restructured Extended Executor RF Radio Frequency RFC Request For Comments RFI Radio Frequency Interference RFL Refresh File List RFP Request For Proposal / Request for Proposal RFQ Request for Quotation RFS Remote File Sharing/System RFU Reserved For Future Use RGB Red-Green-Blue RH Right Hand RHIA Rubs Hands In Anticipation RHP Right Hand Page RHS Right Hand Side RI Rhode Island RIFF Resource Interschange File Format RIITTSS Reality Impaired Individuals with Tendencies Toward Satiric Surrealism RIM Remote Installation and Maintenance RIME RelayNet International Message Exchange RIO Right In One RIP Raster Image Processor / Remote Imaging Protocol / Routing Information Protocol RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer RL Real Life RLE Run Length Encoded RLL Run Length Limited RLN Remote LAN Node RLOGIN Remote Login RLSD Received Line Signal Detected RMB Right Mouse Button RMDIR Remove Directory RMON Remote Monitor/Monitoring RMP Remote Maintenance Processor RNARS Royal Navy Amateur Radio Society RND Random RNR Ringing No Reply R-O Read Only ROAST Ram On A STick ROFC Roll On Floor Crying ROFIFOG Roll On Floor In Fits Of Giggles ROFL Rolls On Floor Laughing ROFLAHMSL Rolling On Floor Laughing And Holding My Sides Laughing ROFLASSO Rolling On Floor Laughing And Splitting Sides Open ROFLASTC Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat ROFLMAO Roll On Floor Laughing My A**e Off ROFLWPFOS Rolls On Floor Laughing With Pants Full Of S**t ROFLWTROMF Rolling On Floor Laughing With Tears Running Off My Face ROFLWTSDMF Rolls On Floor Laughing With Tears Streaming Down My Face ROM Read Only Memory ROP Run Of Paper / Raster Operation ROT13 EBG13 ROTBA Reality On The Blink Again ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off. / Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A**E Off. ROTFLMHO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Head Off ROTM Right On The Money ROUS Rodents Of Unusual Size (I don't believe they exist) ROW Rest Of World ROYGBIV An acronym for the colours of the spectrum RPC Remote Procedure Call RPG Role-Playing Game / Report Program Generator / Role Playing Game RPI Retail Price Index RPITA Royal/Real Pain In The A**e RPPROM Reprogrammable PROM RPQ Request for Price Quotation RPRINTER Remote Printer RPT Repeat RQBE Relational Query By Example RRP Recommended Retail Price RS Request to Send RSARS Royal Signals Amateur Radio Society RSC Royal Shakespere Company / Royal Shakespeare Company RSCS Remote Spooling Communications System RSF Right Said Fred RSGB Radio Society of Great Britain RSH Remote Shell RSI Repetitive Strain Injury RSN Real Soon Now RSPCA Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals RSTS Resource Sharing Time Sharing RTAM Remote Terminal Access Method RTBI Round Tables of great Britain RTC Real-Time Clock RTDM Real-Time Data Migration RTEL Reverse Telnet RTF Rich Text Format RTFH Read The F**king Help RTFHF Read The F**king Help Files RTFM Read The F*****g Manual / Read The F**king Manual / Reboot The F**king Machine RTFRN Read The F**king Release Notes RTL Run Time Library RTM Read The Manual RTNR Ring Tone No Reply RTOLH Read The Online Help RTOS Real-Time Operating System RTRN Read The Release Notes RTROTT Read The Rest Of The Thread RTS Request To Send RTT Read The Thread RTTEOTM Read To The End Of The Manual/Message RTTEOTT Read To The End Of The Thread RTTY Radio Teletypewriter RUOK Are You OK? RW Reading Window RWM Read-Write Memory RX Receive RXD Received Data S/N Signal-to-Noise Ratio S/NS Smoking and Non-Smoking S/W Software SAA Systems Application Architecture SAE Self/Stamped Addressed Envelope SAH Sure As Hell SAJB Self Addressed Jiffy Bag SAM Sequential Access Method SAP Service Advertising Protocol SASE Self Addressed Stamped Envelope SB Sound Board SBT Sad but True SC South Carolina SCB Subsystem Control Block SCC Synchronous Channel Check SCRN Screen SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface / System Can't See It SD Send Data / South Dakota SD_STB Streaming Data Strobe SDA Software Disk Array SDB Symbolic Debugger SDF Space Delimited File/Format SDI Single Document Interface SDK Software Development Kit SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control SDNS Secure Data Network Service SDQ Stupid Dumb Question SDR Streaming Data Request SDRAM Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory SEA Self-Extracting Archive / Standard Extended Attribute SEAL Segmentation and Reassembly Layer SEC Single Error Correction SED Stream-Oriented Editor SEG Segment SEL Select SEM Scanning Electron Microscope SER Serial SET Softwave Engineering Technology SETEXT Structure Enhanced Text SETI Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence SEU Smallest Executable Unit SFAICT So Far As I Can Tell SFAIK So Far As I Know SFLOC Stony Faced Look Of Contempt SFQL Structured Full-text Query Language SFSG So Far So Good SFT System Fault Tolerance SFX Sound Effect(s) SGML Standard Generalised Markup Language SGR Set Graphics Rendition SHBM She Has Binary Mail SHBMA She Has Binary Mail Also SHBMAW She Has Binary Mail As Well SHBMT She Has Binary Mail Too SHG Segmented Hypergraphics SHM She Has Mail SI System Information SI/SO Serial In/Serial Out SIAAGS Sold It At A Garage Sale SIAS Suck It And See SIAT Storm In A Teacup SID So I Do / Serial Input Data / Station IDentification SIDF System Independent Data Format SIG Special Interest Group / Spectrum Is Green SILYMI Say It Like You Mean It SIM Simulator SIMD Single Instruction Multiple Data Stream SIMM Single Inline Memory Module / Single In-line Memory Module SIO Serial Input/Output SIP Single In-line Package SIPO Serial In, Parallel Out SIPP Single In-line Pin Package SIR Serial Infrared / Service Incident Report SITD Still In The Dark SK Saskatchewan SLATFATF So Long And Thanks For All The Fish SLBM Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile SLCM Submarine Launched Cruise Missile SLIDE Still Living In Drab Environment SLIP Serial Line Interface Protocol / Serial Line Interface/Internet Protocol SLMR Silly Little Modem Reader SMD Surface Mounted Device SMDS Switched Multi-Megabit Data Service SMI System Management Interrupt SMIF Standard Mechanical Interface SMIT System Management Interface Tool SMK Software Migration Kit SMM System Mangement Mode SMOP Small Matter Of Programming SMP Simple Management Protocol SMPC Shared Memory Parallel Computer SMPS Switching Mode Power Supply SMRAM System Management Random Access Memory SMS Storage Management Services SMT Surface-Mount Technology SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol / Simple Mail Transfer/Transmission Protocol SMU System Management Utility SN Serial Number SNA Systems Network Architecture SNAFU Situation Normal - All Fouled Up / Situation Normal - All F**ked Up SND Sound SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol SNOBOL String Oriented Symbolic Language SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio SO Significant Other / Smoking Outdoors SOAP Seems Ok At Present SOBOH Slap On Back Of Head SOC System On a Chip SOCKS Socket Secure Server SOE Standard Operating Environment SOED Shorter Oxford English Dictionary SOH Sense Of Humour / Start of Header SOL Sh*t Outta Luck / Simulation Oriented Language SOLAS Safety Of Life At Sea SOLDELET Selective On-Line DELETe SOLRLA Serious Off Line Reader Lag Alert SOM Start of Message / System Object Model SONET Synchronous Optical Network SOP Standing/Standard Operational Procedures / Standard Operating Procedures SOS Save Our Souls / Sound Of Spitting SOTA State Of The Art SOTD Spawn Of The devil SP Starting Price (Information, Gen) / Service Pack SPARC Scalable Processor ARChitecture SPC Small Peripheral Controller SPCA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPF Shortest Path First SPI Service Provider Interface SPIT Shadow Pilots In Training SPL Spooler SPM System Performance Monitor SPOF Single Point Of Failure SPP Sequenced Packet Protocol SPS Standby Power System SPT Sectors Per Track SPX Sequential Packet eXchange SQL Structured Query Language SQL/DS Structured Query Language/Data System SRAM Shadow/Static Random Access Memory SRB Source-Route Bridge SRPI Server-Requester Programming Interface SRQ Service Request SS Seconds / Single Sided SSADM Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method SSAP Source Service Access Point SSI Small Scale Integration SSL Secure Sockets Layer SSTO Single Stage To Orbit SSWL Splits Sides With Laughter ST Star Trek/Crappy Amiga Clone STA Spanning Tree Algorithm STB Simply The Best STDAUX Standard Auxillary STDERR Standard Error STDIN Standard Input STDIO.H Standard Input/Output Header STDM Statistical Time Division Multiplexer STDOUT Standard Output STDPRN Standard Printer STFAGOS Stuff That For A Game Of Soldiers STFU Shut The F**k Up STN Stop This Nonsense / Super-Twist Nematic STOVL Short Take-Off Vertical Landing STP Shielded Twisted Pair / Signal Transfer Point STR Synchronous Transmitter Receiver STR8 STRaight STTNG Star Trek The Next Generation STWSTBAS Sorry That Was Supposed To Be A Say Su Sukhoi SUAB Sit Up And Beg SUB Subroutine SVC Switched Virtual Circuit SVGA Super Video Graphics Array SVM System Virtual Machine SW SoftWare SWAG Simple Wild A**e Guess SWAIS Simple Wide Area Information Server SWALK Sealed With A Loving Kiss SWL Short Wave Listener SWMBO She Who Must Be Obeyed SWSTWS She Would Say That Wouldnt She / She Would Say That Wouldn't She SWW Shorter Working Week SWYM See What You Mean SYNC Synchronous SYS System SYSGEN System Generator SYSLOG System Log SYSMOD System Modification SYSOP System Operator SYSREQ System Request SYT Sweet Young Thing T/B Top and Bottom T/R Transmit/Receive TAFN Thats All For Now TAIISAT Take An Interest In Sex And Travel TANJ There Aint No Justice / There Ain't No Justice TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch TANSTAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As Free Lunch TAPCIS The Access/Ancient Program for the CompuServe Information Service TAPI Telephony Application Programming Interface TARDIS Time And Relative Dimensions In Space TARFU Things Are Really F**ked up! TASM Turbo Assembler TAXI Transparent Asynchronous Tranceiver/Receiver Interface Taz Git! TAZ Git! TB Terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) TBBS The Bread Board System TBH To Be Honest TBONTB To Be Or Not To Be TBQH To Be Quite Honest TBS Too Be Serious TBT Technology Based Training TBW That Blasted Woman TC Transmission Control TCL Tool Command Language TCM Trellis-Coded Modulation TCP Transmission Control Protocol TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol TCR Tottenham Court Road TCS Traction Control System TD Transmit Data TDA Trades Descriptions Act TDB The Dogs B*llocks TDE Terminal Display Editor / Total Domestic Expenditure TDM Too Damn Many / Time Division Multiplexing TDMA Time Division Multiple Access TDMS Terminal Display Management System TDNBW This Does Not Bode Well TDO Total Domestic Output TDSR Transmitter Data Service Request TED Tiny Editor TEMP Temporary TFDD Text File Device Driver TFFT Thank F**k For That TFI Thank F**k It's TFIF Thank F**k It's Friday TFM The F**king Manual TFT Thanks For That / Thin-Film Transistor TFTA Thanks For The Acronym(s) TFTBM Thanks For The BinMail TFTC Thanks For The Comment TFTFB Thanks For The Feedback TFTI Thanks For The Information TFTP Trivial File Transmission/Transfer Protocol TFTR Thanks For The Report TFTS Thanks For The Smilies TFTT Thanks For The Thought TG Thank God TGFT Thank God For That TGIF Thank God Its Friday TGSE Teaching Grandma to Suck Eggs TGTSE Teaching Grandma To Suck Eggs THX Thanks TIA Thanks In Anticipation / Thanks In Anticipation/Advance TIAAO That I Am Aware OF TIAPSA This Is A Public Service Announcement TIC Tongue In Cheek TIFF Tagged Image File Format TINA There Is No Alternative TINAA This Is Not An Acronym TINALO This Is Not A Legal Opinion TINAR This Is Not A Recommendation TINF This Is Not Funny TINSTAAFL There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch TITK Those In The Know TITQ That Is The Question TIWTGLGG This Is Where The Goofy Little Grin Goes TJATAW Truth, Justice, And The American Way TKSVMIA ThanKs So Very Much In Advance TLA Three Letter Abbreviation/Acronym / Three Letter Acronym/Abbreviation TLC Tender Loving Care TLI Transport Layer Interface tm Trade Mark TM Trade Mark TMAI Tell Me About It TMDWRAGI Too Much Duplication Will Ruin A Good Idea TMFAQITOW The Most Frequently Asked Question In The Online World TMFAQITW The Most Frequently Asked Question In The World TMKDS Tie My Kangaroo Down Sport TMP Temporary TMRTB That Man Reads The Beano TN Twisted Nematic / Tennessee TNAGD That's Not A Good Design TNC Thread Neill-Concelman (similar to BNC but with screw lock) TNG The Next Generation TNR The Next Release TNX Thanks ToC Table Of Contents TOP Technical and Office Protocol TOS The Original Series TOTAL Teddy Out The Air Lock TOUCH Take Off Useless Clothes Hurriedly TP TelePathy/Turbo Pascal / Thread Pane/TelePathy/Turbo Pascal TPI Tracks Per Inch / Tax and Price Index TPM Transactions Per Minute TPS Transactions Per Second TPTB The Powers That Be TPTBVTAH The Powers That Be Version Two At Home TPTBVTAW The Powers That Be Version Two At Work TPW Turbo Pascal for Windows TR Terminal Ready TRAIN Transport (Rairly Available If Needed) TRDMC Tears Running Down My Cheeks TRN Threaded Read News TSB Termination Status Block TSO Time Sharing Option TSR Terminate and Stay Resident TSS Time Sharing System TSTN Triple Supertwisted Nematic TSV Tab Separated Values TSVMIA Thanks So Very Much In Advance TTBOMK To The Best of My Knowledge TTD Things To Do TTFN Ta Ta For Now TTFS Try This For Size TTGL Thank The Good Lord TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic TTMS Talk/Type To Me Soon TTT To Tell the Truth TTTT To Tell The Truth TTWTCC That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles TTWTTF That's the Way The Toast Flies TTY Tele-TYpe TTYL Talk To You Later TTYLA Talk/Type To You Later Alligator Tu Tupolev TVF Table of contents Verbosely from File TVM Ta Very Much TVMIA Ta Very Much In Advance TVVM Thanks Very Very Much TVVMIA Thanks Very Very Much In Advance TWBFITNR This Will Be Fixed In The Next Release TWBITNAL They Will Be In The Next Acronyms List TWBN That Would Be Nice TWID The Way It's Done TWIMC To Whom It May Concern TWIT That's What I Thought TWMTBACT That Was Meant To Be A Comment To... TWSTBACT That Was Supposed To Be A Comment To... TWSTBAS That Was Supposed To Be A Say TX Transmit / Texas TXD Transmitted Data TXT Text TYVM Thank You Very Much TYVMI Thank You Very Much Indeed UA Unusual Abbreviation / User Area UAE Unrecoverable Application Error UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter UCCP Unix-to-Unix Copy Program UCL Universal Communications Language UCS Universal Character Set UCW Union of Communication Workers UDC User Defined Commands UDE Universal Data Exchange UDF User Defined Functions UDMA Ultra Direct Memory Access UDMA2 Ultra Direct Memory Access v2 UDP User Datagram Protocol UFO Unidentified Flying Object UFS Unix File System UG User Group UHAMPDAICM5P yoU Have A Multiple Personality Disorder And I Claim My 5 Pounds UHF Ultra High Frequency UI User Interface UIAM Unless I Am Mistaken UID User IDentifier UIO Unutterably Insignificant Other UK United Kingdom UKL United Kingdom Pounds (sterling) UKP United Kingdom Pounds (sterling) UKS United Kingdom Sterling UL Upload ULC Unit Labour Cost ULSI Ultra Large Scale Integration UMB Upper Memory Block UMEAO Unlimited Multiple Email Address Option UN United Nations UNC Universal Naming Convention UNI User-Network Interface UNMA Unified Network Management Architecture UPC Universal Product Code UPL User Program Language UPM User Profile Management UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply, United Parcel Service UREP Unix RSCS Emulation Protocol URL Uniform/Universal Resource Locator URN Uniform Resource Number US United States USA United States of America USAF United States Air Force USART Universal Synchronous-Asynchronous Reciever/Transmitter USB Universal Serial Bus USENET User's Network USERID User Identification USR US Robotics USRT Universal Synchronous Receiver/Transmitter UT Universal Time (aka GMT, UTC, or Zulu Time) / User Terminal / Utah UTB Uploading This Blink UTC Coordinated Universal Time (aka UT) / Co-ordinated Universal Time (aka UT) UTCCH Until The Cows Come Home UTI Universal Text Interchange UTP Unshielded Twisted-Pair cabl / Unshielded Twisted Pair UU Uuencode/Uudecode UUCP Unix-To-Unix Copy Program UUD UUDecoding UUE UUEncoding UUI User-To-User Information UV UltraViolet / Ultraviolet UYMF Up Yours, My Friend VA Virtual Access / Virginia VAR Value Added Reseller/Retailer / Variable VB Visual Basic VB3 Visual Basic 3 VB4 Visual Basic 4 VB5 Visual Basic 5 VB6 Visual Basic 6 VBA Visual Basic for Applications VBE/AI Vesa Bios Extension/Audio Interface VBG Very Big Grin VBR Variable Bit Rate VBRUN Visual Basic Runtime VBSDK Visual Basic Software Development Kit VC Visual C VC++ Visual C++ VCD Virtual Communications Driver VCPI Virtual Control Program Interface VDD Virtual Device Driver VDDM Virtual Device Driver Manager VDE Video Display Editor VDISK Virtual Disk VDM Virtual DOS Machine VDS Virtual DMA Services VDT Video Display Terminal VDU Video Display Unit VEGA Video-7 Enhanced Graphics Adapter VEMM Virtual Expanded Memory Manager VER Version VERONICA Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Network Index to Computer Archives VERR Verify Read Access VERW Verify Write Access VESA Video Electronics Standards Association VF Virtual Floppy VFAT Virtual File Allocation Table VFC Very Fast Class (modem) VFM Value For Money VG Very Good VGA Video Graphics Array VGC Video Graphics Controller VGI Very Good Idea VHF Very High Frequency VHSIC Very High Speed Integrated Circuit VI Visual Interactive / Virgin Islands VIE Virtual Information Environment VIF Virtual Interface VINES Virtual Network Operating System VIO Video Input/Output / Virtual Input/Output VIP Variable Information Processing VLB Video Local Bus VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometer VL-BUS Vesa Local-Bus VLIW Very Long Instruction Word VLSI Very Large Scale Integrated circuit / Very Large Scale Integration VLSIPS Very Large Scale Immobilized Polymer Synthesis VM Virtual Machine/Memory VMA Virtual Memory Address VMB Virtual Machine Boot VME Virtual Memory Environment VMI Very Much Indeed VMM Virtual Machine/Memory Manager VMOS Vertical MOS VMS Virtual Memory System / Voice Message System VMT Very Many Thanks / Virtual Memory Technique VMTIA Very Many Thanks In Anticipation VNA Virtual Network Architecture VOD Video On Demand VOL Volume VPD Virtual Printer Device VPL Visible Panty Line VPOP Virtual Point Of Presence VRAM Video Random Access Memory VRML Virtual Reality Markup Language VROOMM Virtual Real-time Object Oriented Memory Manager VRU Voice Response Unit VS Virtual Storage VSAM Virtual Storage Access Method VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal VSE Virtual Storage Extended VSF Vertical Scanning Frequency VSIO Virtual Serial Input Output VSLI Very Large Scale Integration VSM Virtual Shared Memory / Virtual Storage Management VSN Volume Serial Number VSOS Virtual Storage Operating System VSQBOP Very Simple Quick Bit Of Programming VSWR Voltage Standing Wave Ratio VSYNC Vertical Sync VT Vermont VTA View Tab Assistant VTAM Virtual Telecommunications Access Method VTC Fuckwits VTOL Vertical Take-Off and Landing VUI Video User Interface VxD Virtual eXtended Driver W3 World Wide Web W4W Word For Windows W4WG Windows For WorkGroups WA Washington / Western Australia WABGI What A Bloody Good Idea WABOL What A Bunch Of Losers / With A Bit Of Luck WACRAL World Association of Christian Radio Amateurs and Listeners WAD Working As Designed / What A Dork WADBPISNB Working As Designed But Perhaps It Should Not Be WADR With all due respect WAEF When All Else Fails WAFGI What A F**king Good Idea WAFLOL With A F**king Lot Of Luck WAGI What A Good Idea WAIDW What Am I Doing Wrong WAIS Wide Area Information Server/Service WAITS Wide Area Information Transfer System WALBOL With A Little Bit Of Luck WALES Will Arrive Late Expecting Sex WALOB What A Load Of Bollocks / What A Load Of B**locks WALOOB What A Load Of Old B**locks WAMKSAM Why Are My Kids/Kitties Staring At Me? WAN Wide Area Network WASHITO Wait And See How It Turns Out WATS Wide Area Telecommunications Service WATSOOYK Why Are They So Obvious Once You Know WATSOWYK Why Are They So Obvious When You Know WBC Well Behaved Children welcome WCA Who Cares Anyway? WCD Wheel Chair Difficult WCE Wheel Chair Easy WCI Wheel Chair Impossible WCIGT Why Couldn't I Guess That WCP Wheel Chair Possible consult host WDL Windows Driver Library WDTLOI WithDrawn Through Lack Of Interest WDTM What Does That Mean WDTOM What Does That One Mean WDTTT What Does The Team Think WEFYC We're Everywhere, For Your Convenience WFAC Waiting For A Call WFMOB Well F**k My Ol' Boots WFW Windows For Workgroups / Word For Windows WFWG Windows For WorkGroups WGAF Who Gives A F**k WGS Work Group System WHAM Waveform Hold and Modify WHISH What Have I Started Here WHISN What Have I Started Now WHY What Have You WHYD What Have You Done WI Wisconsin WIAA What's It All About WIBAGI Would It Be A Good Idea WIBAGII Would It Be A Good Idea If WIBAMU Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle WIBLI Wouldn't It be Lovely If WIBNI Wouldn't It Be Nice If WIBSI Wouldn't It Be Sensible If WIHIH What in Hell is Happening / What In Hell Is Happening WIMP Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer/Pulldowns Win95 Microsoft Windows 95 Win98 Microsoft Windows 98 WINE Windows Emulator WINForum Wireless Information Networks Forum WinNT Microsoft Windows NT WINSOCK Windows Open Systems Architecture / WINdows SOCKets WINWORD Word For Windows WIP Work In Progress WISE WordPerfect Information System Environment WIWAB When I Was A Boy WIWAL When I Were A Lad WLAF World League of American Football WMAWFLHWEP Wearing My Anorak With Fur-Lined Hood With Pride WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction WMF Windows MetaFile WNIC Wide-Area Network Interface Co-Processor WNIM Wide-Area Network Interface Module WOB White On Black WOGS Working On Government Service WOM Word Of Mouth WOMBAT Wast Of Money, Brains And Time WORM Write Once, Read Many WOS Workstation Operating System WOSA Windows Open Services/Systems Architecture WOT White On Tint WP Word Processing / WordPerfect / Write Protected WPHD Write-Protect Hard Disk WPM Words Per Minute WPOS Workplace Operating System WPS Windows Printing System / Workplace Shell WRL Windows Recursive Labyrinth WRT With Respect To WS Well Spotted / WorkStation WTBC Wont That Be Confusing / Won't That Be Confusing WTBHITSTM What The Bloody Hell Is This Supposed To Mean WTF What The F**k WTFIGO What The F**k Is Going On WTFIPGO What The F**k Is Possibly Going On WTFITSTM What The F**k Is This Supposed To Mean WTFN What The F**k Now WTFWT What The F**k Was That? WTH What The Heck/Hell WTS Watch This Space WTSDMF With Tears Streaming Down My Face WTSF Watch The Sparks Fly WUASTC Wake Up And Smell The Coffee WV West Virginia WW WigWam WWFFC Why Wait For Father Christmas WWIS World Wide Information System WWML Will Write More Later WWW World Wide Web / World Wide Web/Wait WY Wyoming WYMM Will You Marry Me? WYSBYGI What You See Before You Get It WYSINWYG What You See Is Not What You Get WYSIQWYG What You See Isn't Quite What You Get WYSIWIS What You See Is What I Send WYSIWOG What You See Is What Others Get WYSIWTTYSG What You See Is What They Think You ShOuld Get WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get WYSIWYMGDOTB What You See Is What You Might Get Depending On The Browser WYSIWYMGDOYB What You See Is What You Might Get Depending On Your Browser WYSYWIG What You See You Wish I Got WYTYSYDG What You Thought You Saw, You Didn't Get WYWO While You Were Out/Offline XA eXtended Architecture / eXtended Attribute XAPIA X.400 Application Program Interface Association XBM X Windows Bitmap XCHG xXCHanGe XCMD eXternal Command XCOPY eXtended Copy XCVR Transceiver XDF eXtended Density Format XGA eXtended Graphics Array XID eXchange Identifier XIOS eXtended Input/Output System XLAT Translate XLM Excel Macro Language XLNT Excellent XMIT Transmit XMM eXtended Memory Manager XMS eXtended Memory System / eXtended Memory Specification / eXtended Memory Specification/System XOFF Transmitter Off XON Transmitter On XOR eXclusive OR XRTBI eX Round Tables of great Britain XSMD eXtended Storage Module Drive XTCLK eXternal Transmit Clock XXXX Lager (allegedly) From Oz XYL Wife YA You Are YAABOFH You Are A Bastard Operator From Hell YAABOFHAICMFP You Are A Bastard Operator From Hell And I Claim My Five Pounds YAABOFHAICMFUKP You Are A Bastard Operator From Hell And I Claim My Five UK Pounds YAC Yet Another Conference YACC Yet Another Compiler Compiler YAFA Yet Another Fine Abbreviation YAITB You Are In This Blink YAJMAICMFUKP You Are John Major And I Claim My Five UK Pounds YAK Yaklovlev YAOLR Yet Another Off Line Reader YAP Yet Another Ploy YASE Yet Another System Error YCBMTTMTP You Couldn't Bin Mail This To Me Too Please YCBMTTTMT You Couldn't Bin Mail This To Me Too YCSTA You Can Say That Again YF Wife YFST Yawns For Some Time YGBJ You've Got to Be Joking YGIAGAM Your Guess Is As Good As Mine YGTBJ You've Got To Be Joking YHBM You Have BinMail YHBM2 You Have Bin Mail Too YHBMA You Have BinMail Also YHBMAW You Have BinMail As Well YHBMT You Have Bin Mail Today/Too YHBW You Have Been Warned YHEBM You Have Encrypted BinMail YHEM You Have Encrypted Mail YHHM You Have Had Mail YHM You Have Mail YHM2 You Have Mail Too YHMS You Have My Support YHSM You Have Snail Mail YHVM You Have Voice Mail YIDTYVM Yes I Did, Thank You Very Much YKWIM You Know What I Mean YKWYD You Know What You're Doing YL Girl friend YLSNED You Learn Something New Every Day YMCA Young Men's Christian Association YMMV Your Mileage May Vary YMTT You May Think That YMTTBICPC You May Think That But I Couldn't Possibly Comment YOCYC Yes Of Course You Can YOGWYPF You Only Get What You Pay For YPVS Yamaha Power Valve System YPYMATYC You Pays Your Money And Takes Your Choice YSBIB You Should Be In Bed YSHBM You Should Have BinMail YSHM You Should Have Mail YT Yukon YTHBM You Too Have BinMail YWCA Young Women's Christian Association YWHBM You Will Have Binary Mail YWHM You Will Have Mail YWHSM You Will Have Snail Mail YWHSMS You Will Have Snail Mail Soon YWSTWY You Would Say That Wouldn't You YYGT Yes, You Get That YYRH Yes, Your Royal Highness YYY Yadda, Yadda, Yadda ZBR Zone Bit Recording Z-CAV Zoned Constant Angular Velocity ZDL Zero Delay Lockout ZIF Zero Insertion Force ZIP Compressed File Format / Zone Improvement Plan (ZIPcode) ZSL Zero Slot LAN