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UNC Universal Name convention
SNR Signal to Noise Ratio UPS Un-interruptible Power Supply
So-Dimm Small Outline Dual In-Line Memory Module URL Uniform Resource Locator
SO/SOL Small Out Line USB Universal Serial Bus
SOHO Small Office/Home Office
USP Unique Selling Point (Proposition
SOIC Small Outline Integrated Circuit USL UNIX System Labs
SONET Synchronous Optical Network UTP unshielded twisted-pair
SP Switch Processor: UUCP UNIX to UNIX Copy Program
SPAM junk mail
VBE Video BIOS Extensions
SPAN Switched Port Analyzer:
VBR Variable bit rate
SPF Shortest Path First algorithm VCC virtual channel connection
SPID Service Profile Identifier VCD Video Compact Disk
SPX Sequenced Packet Exchange VCR Video Cassette Recorder
SPOF Single Point of Failure
VDU Visual Display Unit
SPOOL Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On Line
VESA Video Enhanced Standards Association
SQE Signal Quality Error: VGA Video Graphics Array
SRAM Static Random Access Memory VIP (1) Versatile Interface Processor
SRB Source-Route Bridging VIRUS Vital Information Resource Under Siege
sRGB Standard Red, Green & Blue
VLAN virtual LAN
SRT Source-Route Transparent bridging
VLB VESA Local Bus
SR/TLB Source-Route Translational Bridging VLIW Very Long Instruction Word
SSAP Source Service Access Point VLSI Very Large Scale Integration
SSD Solid State Drive VLSM variable-length subnet mask
SSE Silicon Switching Engine: Streaming SIMD
VM Virtual Memory
SSE2 Streaming SIMD 2 VME Versa Module Euro-card: Virtual Mode Extension
STM-1 Synchronous Transport Module Level 1 VMPS VLAN Management Policy Server
STP (1) shielded twisted-pair VPN virtual private network
STUN Serial Tunnel
VRAM Video Random Access Memory
SVC switched virtual circuit
VRT Voltage Reduction Technology
SYSOP System Operator VTP VLAN Trunking Protocol
TA terminal adapter VTR Video Tape Recorder
TACACS+ Terminal Access Controller Access Control VxD Virtual Extended Driver
System Plus
WAN Wide Area Network
TCM Trellis Code Modulation
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Pro- WATS Wide Area Telephone Service
tocol WAV Audio File
TDM Time Division Multiplexing WBMP Wireless Bitmap Image
TE terminal equipment
WD Western Digital
TE1 Terminal Equipment Type 1.
WIFI Wireless fidelity
TE2 Terminal Equipment Type 2 WIMP ’Those who use the Windows UI and not DOS’
Telco A telephone company WINS Windows Internet Name Service
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol WinSock Windows Socket Interface
TI Texas Instruments
WMA Audio File
TIA Telecomm. Industry Asocial
WMF Graphics File
TIF Graphics File WMV Video File
TLB Translation-Lookaside Buffer WORM Write Once - Read-Many
TPI Tracks Per Inch WRAM Window Random Access Memory
TRANSISTOR TRANSformer resISTOR
WS Wait State
TRIP Token Ring Interface Processor
WSYWIG ‘What You See is What You Get’
TSR Terminate and Stay Resident WWW World Wide Web
TTL Transistor-Transistor Logic XGA eXtended Graphics Array
TUD Trunk Up-Down
XHTML Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language
TUV Technischer
XLS Microsoft Excel File
TWAIN ‘Technology Without An Interesting Name’ XMF Extensible Music File
TXT Plain Text (ASCII) File XML Extensible Markup Language
UAE Unrecoverable Application Error XMS Extended Memory Specification
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
XOR Exclusive-OR
UDP User Datagram Protocol
XT eXtended Technology
UI User Interface ZIF Zero Insertion Force
UMB Upper Memory Block
ZIP Zone Information Protocol

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