AAS American Astronomical Society ANSI American National Standards Institute API Application Program Interface APPC Advanced Peer to Peer Communications APPN Advanced Peer-to-Peer Network ARCNet Attached Resource Computer Network ARP Address Resolution Protocol ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASICs Application-Specific Integrated Circuits AT Advanced Technology ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode AUI Attachment Unit Interface BBN Bolt, Beranek and Newman BGP Border Gateway Protocol BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIOS Basic Input/Output System CCITT Consultive Committee on International Telephone and Telegraph CDE Common Desktop Environment CD-ROm Compac Disc-Read Only Memory CLI Command Line Interface CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection CTAN Comprehensive TeX Archive Network CTL Complex Text Layout COPS Computer Oracle and Password System CRC Cyclical Redundancy Check CTIO Cerro Tololo Image Observatory DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DDN Defense Data Network DDP Datasys dedicated Port DIP switch Dual-In Package switch DLC Data Link Control DLSw Data Link Switching DMA Direct Memory Access DNS Domain Name System DoD Department of Defense DOS Disk Operating Systems DPP Distributed Packet Processing DR Dynamic Reconfiguration DS1 Digital System 1 DS3 Digital System 3 DS4 Digital System 4 DTE Data Terminal Equipment ECC Error Correction Code ECF European Coordination Facility ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association EPROM Erasable Programable Read Only Memory EEPROM Electrically Erasable, Programable Read Only Memory EGP Exterior Gateway Protocol EIA Electronics Industries Association EIS Executive Information System EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture EOF End Of File EOT End Of Transmition FAT File Allocation Table FCS Frame Check Sequence FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface FITS Flexible Image Transport System FOIRL Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link FTP File Transfer Protocol GAN Global Area Network GBICs Gigabit Interface Converters GNN Global Network Navigator GUI Graphical User Interface HDLC High Data Level Control IAU International Astronomical Union ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol IDE Integrated Device Electronics IEEE Institute od Electrical and Electronic Engineers IETF Internet Engineering Task Force IFM Intelligent Flow Management IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol IIIMP Internet Intranet Input Method Protocol IIS International Imaging System IKI Image Kernel Interface IOS Internetworking Operating System IP Internet Protocol IPAC Infrared Processing and Analysis Center IPX Internet Packet eXchange IRAF Image Reduction and Analysis Facility IRAS Infrared Astronomy Satellite IRC Internet Relay Chat ISA Industrial Standard Application ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network ISO International Standards Organization LAN Local Area Network LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission LCD Liquid Crystal Display LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LED Light Emission Diode LLC Logical Link Control LU Logical Unit MAC Medium Access Control MAU Multi Access Unit MCA MicroChannel Adapter MIDAS Munich Image Data Analysis System MII Media Independent Interface MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension MIT Unshielded Twisted Pair MOSPF Multicast Open Shortest Path First MTU Maximum Transmission Unit NDIS Network Driver Interface Specification NFS Network File System NFSNET National Science Foundation Network NIC Network Information Center NIS Network Information Services NLM Netware Loadable Module NLSP NetWare Link Services Protocol NNTP Network News Transport Protocol NOAO National Optical Astronomy Observatories NOS Network Operating System OCR Optical Character Recognition ODI Open Data-link Interface OEM Original Equipment Manufacturers OSI Open Systems Interconnection OSPF Open Shortest Path First PACE Prority Access Control Enable PBX Private Branch Exchange PCI Peripherical Component Interconnect PDF Portable Document Format PDN Public Data Network PING Packet Internet Groper POSIX Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments POTS Plain Old Telephone Service PPP Point to Point Protocol PROM Programable Read Only Memory QoS Quality of Service RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks RAM Random Access Memory RAP Roving Analysis Port RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol RAS Remote Access Service RDI Integrated Services Digital Network RFC Request for Comments (Read for Confuse) RIP Routing Information Protocol ROM Read Only Memory RPC Remote Procedure Call RTFM Read The Fine Manual SAA System Application Architecture SAC Single Attachment Concentrator SAP Service Advertisement Protocol SCA Single Connector Attachment SCO Santa Cruz Operation SCSI Small Computer System Interface SDAS Science Data Analysis System SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy SDLC Synchronous Data Link Control SLIP Serial Line Internet Protocol SMCC Sun Microsystems Computer Company SMDS Switched Multimegabit Data Service SMS Storage Management Services SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SNA Systems Network Architecture SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol SONET Synchronous Optical Networking SPOOL Simultaneous Peripherical Operations On Line SPX Secuencial Packet Exchange SQL Structure Query Lenguage SSP System Service Processor STA Spanning Tree Algorithm STP Shielded Twisted Pair STP Spanning Tree Protocol STScI Space Telescope Science Institute TCP Transmission Control Protocol TELNET Virtual Terminal TP Twisted Pair UDP User Datagram Protocol UPS Uninterruptable Power Supply USL Unix System Laboratories UUCP Unix to Unix Copy Protocol VAR Value Added Resealler VERONICA Very Easy Rodent Oriented Netwide Index to Computerized Archives VESA Video Electronics Standard Arquitecture VINES Virtual Networking System VLAN Virtual LAN VMS Virtual Memory System WAIS Wide Area Information Server WAN Wide Area Network WFQ Weighted Fair Queuing WWW World Wide Web WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get XFN X/Open Federated Naming YP Yellow Page