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

                   

Abbreviations

          F

Short Name  ��  Full Name or Abbreviations

FAB       Computer-Chip Fabrication Plant

FAC       File Access Code

FAMOS     Floating Gate Avalanche MOS

FANS      Future Air Navigation System

FAP       File Access Protocol

FAPI      Family Application Program Interface

FAQ       Frequently Asked Question

FARNET    Federation of American Research Networks [Internet]

FAT       File Allocation Table

FAX       Facsimile

.FAX      Fax (file name extension)

FC/AL     Fiber Channel/Arbitrated Loop

FCB       File Control Block

FCC       Federal Communications Commission

FCC:      File Carbon Copy

FCCSET    Federal Coordinating Council for

          Science, Engineering and Technology

FCI       Flux Changes per Inch

FCR       FIFO Control Register

FCS       Fiber Channel Standard + Frame Check Sequence

FD        Floppy Disk + Floppy Drive + Full Duplex

FDC       Floppy Disk Controller

FDDI      Fiber Digital Device Interface +

          Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FDISK     Fixed Disk

FDM       Frequency-Division Multiplexing

FDX       Full Duplex

FECN      Forward Explicit Congestion Notification

FED       Field-Emitter Display

FEFO      First-Ended, First-Out

FEP       Front End Processor

FEPI      Front End Programming Interface

FeRAM     Ferroelectric RAM

FESDK     Far East Software Development Kit [Microsoft]

FET       Field Effect Transistor

FF        Flip-Flop + Form Feed

FFDC      First Failure Data Capture [IBM]

FFS       Fast File System

FFST      First Failure Support Technology [IBM]

FFT       Fast Fourier Transform + Final Form Text [IBM]

FG        Floating Gate

FGREP     Fixed Global Regular Expression Print [Unix]

FHSS      Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum

FIF       Fractal Image Format

FIFO      First-In, First-Out

FILO      First-In, Last-Out

FIP       File Processor Buffering

FIPS      Federal Information Processing Standard

FIR       Finite Impulse Response

FIRST     Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams

FIX       Federal Internet Exchange

FLC       Ferro-electric Liquid Crystal

FLD       Field

FLL       FoxPro Link Library [Microsoft Fox Pro]

FLOPS     Floating Point Operations Per Second

FMS       Forms Management System

FMT       Format

FNT       Font

FOCUS     Forum of Control Data Users

FOD       Fax On Demand

FOG       First Osborne Group

FOIRL     Fiber Optic Inter Repeater Link [IEEE]

FOLDOC    Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing

.FON      Font + Phone + Phone Directory (all file name

          extensions)

.FOR      Fortran source code (file name extension)

FORTH     (Programming Language)(See HLL)

FORTRAN   Formula Translator (Programming Language)(See HLL)

FOSE      Federal Office Systems Exposition

FOSI      Format Option Specification Instance

FOSSIL    Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer

FPC       Floating Point Calculation

FPCE      Floating-Point C Extension (specification)

FPGA      Field Programmable Gate-Array

FPLA      Field Programmable Logic-Array

FPM       Fast Page Mode

FPP       Fixed Path Protocol + Floating Point Processor

FPR       Floating-Point Register

FPS       Favorite Picture Selection + Frames Per Second

FPT       Forced Perfect Termination

FPU       Floating Point Unit

FQDN      Fully Qualified Domain Name [Internet]

FRAD      Frame Relay Access Device +

          Frame Relay Assembler/Disassembler

FRAG      Fragment + Fragmentation

FRAM      Ferroelectric Random-Access Memory

FRC       Funtional Redundancy Checking

FRED      Frame Editor + Front-End to Dish

FRPI      Flux Reversals Per Inch

.FRS      WordPerfect Graphics Driver (file name extension)

FS        File Separator

FSD       File System Driver [OS/2]

FSE       Full Screen Editor

FSF       Free Software Foundation [Internet]

FSK       Frequency Shift Keying

FSN       Full Service Network

FSP       File Service Protocol

FSR       Free System Resources

FST       Flat Square Tube (monitor)

F/T       Full Time

FTAM      File Transfer, Access and Management +

          File Transfer and Access Method

FTM       Flat Tension Mask [Zenith]

FTP       File Transfer Protocol [Internet]

FTPD      File Transfer Protocol Daemon

FTTC      Fiber To The Curb

FTS       Federal Telecommunication System

FTX       Fault Tolerant Unix

FUI       File Update Information

FUNC      Function

FVT       Full Video Translation

FYI       For Your Information

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