Abbreviations "S" ( All the "S" Character ).

     

Abbreviations

                         S

Short Name  ��  Full Name or Abbreviations

SA        Selective Availability

SAA       Systems Application Architecture [IBM]

SADL      Synchronous Data Link Control [Racal-Vadic]

SAINT   * Symbolic Automatic Integrator

SAL       Shift Arithmetic Left

SAM       Serial Access Memory + Sequential Access Method +

          Single Application Mode [Microsoft]

SANE      Standare Apple Numeric Environment

SAP       Second Audio Program + Service Access

          Point [DEC] + Service Advertising Protocol

SAP     * Symbolic Assembly Program

SAPI      Speech Application Program Interface [Microsoft]

SAR       Shift Arithmetic Right +

          Successive Approximation Register +

          Synthetic Aperature Radar

SAS       Sales Accounting System + Single Attached Station +

          Single Audio System + Statistical Analysis System

SASI      Shugert Associates System Interface (SCSI originated

          from SASI)

SATAN     Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks

.SAV      Saved (file name extension)

SAVDM     Single Application VDM

SB        Sound Blaster [Creative Labs] + Sound Board

SBA       Scene Balance Algorithms [Kodak]

SBB       Subtract With Borrow

SBC       Single-Board Computer

SBCS      Single-Byte Character Set

SBI       Sound Blaster Instrument

.SBR      Source Browser (file name extension) [Borland]

.SC       Script (file name extension)

SCADA     Supervisory Control and Data Aquisition

SCAM      SCSI Configuration Automatically

SCAS      Scan String

SCB       Subsystem Control Block [IBM]

SCC       Serial Communications Controllers +

          Serial Controller Chip +

          Synchronous Channel Check [IBM]

SCCS      Source Code Control System

SCD       Standard Color Display

SCF       System Control Facility

SCI.      Science [USENET Newsgroup Category]

SCLM      Softwre Configuration and Library Management [IBM]

SCM       ScreenCam Format [Lotus] +

          Software Configuration Management + Station Class Mark

SCO       Santa Cruz Operation (Software Company)

SCOPE     Simple Communications Programming Enironment

          [Hayes]

SCP       Save Cursor Position + Subsystem Control Port +

          System Control Program

SCR       Silicon Controlled Rectifier

.SCR      Script (file name extension)

SCRN      Screen (video display)

SCRS      Scalable Cluster of RISC Systems

SCSA      Signal Computing System Architecture [Dialogic]

SCSI      Small Computer Systems Interface

SD        Send Data + Super Density

SDA       Software Disk Array + Source Data Automation +

          System Display Architecture [Digital]

SDB       Symbolic Debugger [Unix]

SDD       Software Description Database [Internet]

SDF       Space Delimited File + Space Delimited Format

.SDF      Standard Data Format (file name extension)

SDI       Selective Dissemination of Information +

          Single Document Interface

          Software Development Interface [Mosaic]

SDK       Software Developer's Kit [Microsoft]

SDLC      Synchronous Data Link Control (protocol)

SDM       System Development Multitasking

SDMS      SCSI Device Management System [NCR]

SDN       Software Defined Network [AT&T]

SDNS      Secure Data Network Service

SDR       Streaming Data Request

SDRAM     Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory

SD-ROM    Super Density ROM

SDS       Sysops Distribution System

SDSL      Single-Line Digital Subscriber Line

SD_STB    Streaming Data Strobe [IBM]

SDV       Switched Digital Video [AT&T]

SEA       Standard Extended Attribute [OS/2]

.SEA      Self Extracting Archive (file name extension) [Macintosh]

SEAC    * Name of first computer to use transistors, built by

          (National Bureau of) Standards Eastern Automatic

          Calculator (Also see SWAC)

SEAL      Segmentation and Reassembly Layer (protocol) +

          Screening External Access Link [Digital-DEC]

SEC       Single Error Correction

SECAM     Sequentiel Couleur Avec Memoire

          (Sequential Color With Memory)

SED       Stream Editor + Stream-Oriented Editor

SEG       Segment

SEH       Structured Exception Handling

SEL       Select

SEM       Scanning Electron Microscope +

          Standard Electronic Module

SEPP      Secure Encryption Payment Protocol

SER       Serial

SET       Secure Electronic Transaction +

          Softwave Engineering Technology

.SET      Driver Set (file name extension) [Lotus 1-2-3] [LDC] +

          Image Settings (file name extension) [Paradox]

SETEXT    Structure Enhanced Text [Internet]

SEU       Smallest Executable Unit

SF        Sign Flag

SFQL      Structured Full-text Query Language

SFS       System File Server

SFT       System Fault Tolerance

SFX       Sound Effect(s)

SGEN      Signal Generator + System Generator

SGDT      Store Global Descriptor Table

SGI       Silicon Graphics, Inc.

SGM       Shaded Graphics Modeling

SGML      Standard Generalized Markup Language

SGR       Set Graphics Rendition

SGRAM     Synchronous Graphics RAM

S/H       Sample and Hold

SHA       Secure Hash Algorithm [NSA]

SHAR      Shell Archive

SHG       Segmented Hypergraphics

SHL       Shift Logical Left

SHR       Shift Logical Right

S-HTTP    Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol

.SHW      Show (file name extension)

SI        Shift-In + Source Index + System Information

SIC       Standard Industrial Code

SID       Security Identifier + Serial Input Data +

          Station Identification [AT&T] +

          Symbolic Interactive Debugger

SIDF      System Independent Data Format

SIDH      System Identification for Home Systems

SIDT      Store Interrupt Descriptor Table

SIFT      Stanford Information Filtering Tool

SIG       Special Interest Group

SIGCAT    Special Interest Group on CD-ROM Applications

          and Technology

SIM       Simulator

SIMD      Single Instruction Multiple Data Stream (processor)

SIMM      Single In-line Memory Module

SIMTEL    Simulation and Teleprocessing

SIMULA    Simulation (language)

SIO       Serial Input/Output (communications driver)

SIP       Single In-line Package

SIPC      Simply Interactive Personal Computer [Microsoft]

SIPO      Serial In, Parallel Out

SIPP      Single In-line Pin Package

SIR       Serial Infrared [Hewlett-Packard]

SIRDS     Single-Image Random Dot Stereogram

SI/SO     Serial In/Serial Out + Shift In/Shift Out

SIT       Special Information Tones

.SIT      Stuff-It (compressed file name extension) [Macintosh]

SKU#      Stock Keeping Unit Number

SLDT      Store Local Descriptor Table

SLED      Single Large Expensive Disk

SLIP      Serial Line Interface Protocol

SLM       Spatial Light Modulator

SLMR      Silly Little Modem Reader

SLOSH     Sea, Lake and Overland Surge from Hurricane (program)

SLSI      Super Large-Scale Integration

SLSS      Systems Library Subscription Service [IBM]

SLU       Spoken Language Understanding

SM        Set Mode + Shared Memory

SMART     Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology

SMB       Server Message Block (protocol) [MII]

SMD       Surface Mounted Device

SMDS      Switched Multimedia/Multi-Megabit Data Service

SMF       System Manager Facility [Compaq]

SMI       System Management Interrupt [Intel]

SMIF      Standard Mechanical Interface

SMIT      System Management Interface Tool [IBM]

SMK       Software Migration Kit [Microsoft]

SML       Standard Meta Language

SMM       System Mangement Mode [Intel]

SMOBC     Solder Mask Over Bare Copper

SMP       Simple Management Protocol + Symbolic Manipulation Program +

          Symmetrical Multi-Processing + Symmetric Multiprocessor

.SMP      Sample (file name extension)

SMPC      Shared Memory Parallel Computer

SMPS      Switching Mode Power Supply

SMRAM     System Management Random Access Memory

SMS       Storage Management Services [NetWare] +

          Storage Management Subsystem/System +

          Systems Management Server [Microsoft]

SMSW      Store Machine Status Word

SMT       Station Management (protocol) +

          Surface-Mount Technology

SMTP      Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SMU       System Management Utility

SN        Serial Number

S/N       Signal-to-Noise (Ratio)

SNA       Systems Network Architecture [IBM]

SND       Sound

SNEWS     Secure News Server [Internet]

SNMP      Simple Network Management Protocol

SNOBOL    String Oriented Symbolic Language (Progamming Language)

SNP       Serial Number/Password [Omen Technology]

SNR       Signal-to-Noise Ratio

SOA       Start Of Authority

SOC       System On a Chip

SOC.      Social Issues [USENET Newsgroup Category]

SOCKS     Socket Secure (server) [Internet]

SODIMM    Small Outline DIMM

SOE       Standard Operating Environment

SOH       Start of Header

SOHO      Small Office/Home Office

SOL       Simulation Oriented Language

SOM       Start of Message + System Object Model [IBM]

SONET     Synchronous Optical Network

SOP       Standard Operating Procedures

SOS       Silicon On Sapphire + Sophisticated Operating System +

          Standards and Open Systems

SOTA      State Of The Art

SOX       Sound Exchange

SP        Service Pack [IBM] + Stack Pointer + System Product

SPA       Software Publishers Association

SPAN      Space Physics Analysis Network

SPARC     Scalable Processor Architecture

SPC       Small Peripheral Controller + Statistical Process Control

SPCL      Spectrum Cellular Corporation

SPEC      Systems Performance Evaluation Cooperative

SPF       Shortest Path First + System Programming Facility

SPI       Service Provider Interface + SCSI Parallel Interface

SPID      Service Profile/Provider Identifier

SPIKE     Science Planning Intelligent Knowledge-Based

          Environment [STScI]

SPIRES    Stanford Public Information Retrieval System

          [Stanford University]

SPL       Spooler + System Programming Language [HP]

.SPL      Spell Checker (file name extension)

SPM       System Performance Monitor [IBM]

SPOOL     Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line

SPOT      Shared Product Object Tree [IBM]

SPP       Sequenced Packet Protocol

SPPS      Scalable Power Parallel System [IBM]

SPR       Special Purpose Register + Statistical Pattern Recognition

SPREAD  * Systems Programming, Research, Engineering

          and Development [IBM]

SPS       Standby Power System

SPSS      Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

SPT       Sectors Per Track

SPX       Sequenced Packet Exchange [Novell]

SQ        Squeezed (files)

SQL/DS    Structured Query Language/Data System [IBM]

SQRT      Square Root

SR        Shift Register

SRAM      Shadow Random Access Memory +

          Static Random Access Memory

SRB       Source-Route Bridge

.SRC      Source (file name extension)

SRD       Screen Reader System

SRM       Security Reference Monitor

SRO       Sharable and Read Only

SRP       Suggested Retail Price

.SRP      Script (file name extension)

SRPI      Server-Requester Programming Interface

SRQ       Service Request

SRR       Serially Reusable Resource

SRS       Sound Retrieval System

SS        Stack Segment + Single Sided + Seconds

SSA       Serial Storage Architecture

SSAP      Source Service Access Point

SSCP      Systems Service Control Point [IBM]

SSD       Solid State Disk

SSEC    * Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator [IBM]

SSGA      System Suppport Gate Array

SSI       Single System Image + Small Scale Integration

SSL       Secure Sockets Layer

SST       Spread-Spectrum Technology +

          Systems Services and Technology

STA       Spanning Tree Algorithm

STAR      Self Defining Text Archival

STB       Strobe

STC       Set Carry Flag

STD       Set Direction Flag + Standard

STDA      StreetTalk Directory Assistance [Banyan]

STDAUX    Standard Auxillary

STDERR    Standard Error

STDIN     Standard Input

STDIO.H   Standard Input/Output Header [C Programming Language]

STDM      Statistical Time Division Multiplexer

STDOUT    Standard Output

STDPRN    Standard Printer

.STF      Structured File (file name extension) [Lotus Agenda]

STI       Set Interrupt Flag

S/TK      Sectors Per Track

STN       Super-Twist Nematic

STOS      Store String

STP       Secure Transfer Protocol + Shielded Twisted Pair (cable) +

          Signal Transfer Point + Synchronized Transaction Processing

STR       Store Task Register + Synchronous Transmitter Receiver

STRESS    Structural Engineering System Solver (Programming

          Language)

STRUDL    Structural Design Language (Programming Language)

STScI     Space Telescope Science Institute

STT       Secure Transaction Technology [Microsoft]

STX       Start of Text

.STY      Style (file name extension) [Ventura, Word, WordPerfect]

SUB       Subroutine + Substitute + Subtract

SUN       Sun Microsystems, Inc.

.SUP      Supplemental Dictionary (file name extension)

          [WordPerfect]

SVC       Switched Virtual Circuit

SVGA      Super Video Graphics Array

S-VHS     Super VHS

SVM       System Virtual Machine [Microsoft]

SVR       Server

SVR#      System V Release Number [AT&T]

S/W       Software

SWAC    * Mobile version of SEAC, built for deployment to White Sands,

          and named Standards Western Automatic Calculator

SWAIS     Simple Wide Area Information Server [Internet]

SWISH     Simple Web Indexing System for Humans

.SWP      Swap (file name extension)

.SYL      Syllabus (file name extension)

SYLK      Symbolic Link

.SYM      Symbols (file name extension)

.SYN      Synonym (file name extension)

SYNC      Synchronous

SYS       System

.SYS      System Configuration (file name extension) +

          System Device Driver (file name extension)

SYSGEN    System Generator

SYSLOG    System Log

SYSMOD    System Modification

SYSOP     System Operator

SYSREQ    System Request

SZ        Send ZModem [Unix]

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