Abbreviations "N,O" ( All the "N,O" Character ).

Abbreviations

                           N

Short Name  ��  Full Name or Abbreviations

NAC       Network Adapter Card

NACD      National Association of Computer Dealers

NACS      National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors

NAE       Not Above or Equal

NAK       Negative Acknowledgment

NAM       Number Assignment Module

NAMPS     Narrow-Band Analog Mobile Phone Service [Motorola]

NANO      One thousand-millionth

NAP       Network Access Point

NAPLPS    North American Presentation Level Protocol

          Syntax (graphics)

NAS       Network Application Support [DEC]

NASA      National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASDAQ    National Association of Securities Dealers

          Automatic Quotation

NASI      NetWare Asynchronous Services Interface [Novell]

NASIRC    NASA Automated Systems Internet Response Capability

NASKER    NASA Ames Kernel (benchmark)

NAU       Network Addressable Unit

NAWS      Negotiate About Window Size

NBE       Not Below or Equal

NBI       Nothing But Initials

NBS       National Bureau of Standards + Numeric Backspace

NC        Network Computer + No Carry + Numerical Control

NCA       Network Communications Adapter

NCC       Network Control Center

.NCF      Netware Command File [Novell]

NCGA      National Computer Graphics Association

NCIC      National Crime Information Center

NCMT    * Numerical Control for Machine Tools

NCOS      Network Computer Operating System

NCP       NetWare Core Protocol + Not Copy Protected +

          Network Control Processor/Program/Protocol

NCR       National Cash Register (Company)

NCSA      National Center for Supercomputing Applications

NCSC      National Computer Security Center

NCSI      Network Communications Services

          Interface [Network Products Corp.]

NDB       Non-Directional Beacon

NDDK      Network Device Development Kid [Microsoft]

NDEF      Not to be Defined

NDIS      Network Device/Driver Interface Specification

NDN       Non-Delivery Notice

NDP       Numeric Data Processor

NDR       Network Data Representation

NDRO      Non-Destructive Read Out

NDS       NetWare Directory Service [Novell]

.NDX      Index (file name extension)

NEC       Nippon Electric Company

NED       NASA Extragalactic Database [NASA]

NEG       Negative + Negate

NEP       Network Entry Point

NES       National Education Supercomputer

NEST      Novell Embedded Systems Technology [Novell]

NET       Network (organization Domain name) [Internet]

NetBIOS   Network Basic Input/Output System [IBM]

NetBEUI   NetBIOS Extended User Interface [IBM]

.NEW      New Information (file name extension)

NEWS      NetWare Early Warning System [Frye Computer] +

          Network Extensible Window System

NEWS.     Current events [USENET Newsgroup Category]

NEXT      Near-End Crosstalk

NFF       No Fault Found

NFS       Network File System

NG        No Good

NGE       Not Greater or Equal

NHC       National Hurricane Center

NHR       National Handwriting Recognition

N/I       Non-Interlaced

NIA       Next Instruction Address

NIC       Network Information Center [Internet] +

          Network Interface Card +

          Numeric Intensive Computing

NICAD     Nickel-Cadmium

NICOLAS   Network Information Center OnLine Aid System [NASA]

NID       New Interactive Display [NEC] + Next ID

NII       National Information Infrastructure

NIM       Network Installation Management [IBM]

NIMH      Nickel-Metal Hydride

NIO       Native Input/Output

NIPS      Network I/Os Per Second

NIR       Network Information Retrieval

NIS       Network Information Service [Unix]

N-ISDN    Narrowband ISDN + National ISDN

NISO      National Information Standards Organization

NISP      Networked Information Services Project

NIST      National Institute for Standards and Technology

NITC      National Information Technology Center

NIU       Network Interface Unit

NJE       Network Job Entry (protocol) [IBM]

NL        New Line

NLE       Not Less or Equal

NLM       NetWare Loadable Module [Netware]

NLP       Natural-Language Processing

NLQ       Near Letter Quality

NLSFUNC   National Language Support Function

NLV       National Language Version [IBM]

NMI       Non-Maskable Interrupt

NMM       NetWare Management Map [NetWare]

NMOS      Negative Channel Metal-Oxide Semiconductor

NMP       Network Management Protocol [AT&T]

NMS       Network Management System [Novell]

NN        Network Node + No News [Internet]

NNI       Network-Network Interface

NNTP      Network News Transfer Protocol [Internet]

NOC       Network Operations Center

NOP       No Operation

NOPAC     Network OPAC

NOR       Not Or

NOS       Network Operating System

NPA       Network Printer Alliance

NPI       Network Printer Interface

NPL       Nonprocedural Language

NPS       Novell Productivity Specialist [Novell]

NPTN      National Public Telecomputing Network

NPU       Natural Processing Unit

NPX       Numeric Processor Extension

NQS       Network Queing System [Cray]

NRC       National Research Council (Canada)

NREN      National Research and Education Network

NRZ       Not Return to Zero

NRZI      Non Return to Zero Inverted

NS        Nanosecond + National Semiconductor (as in Ns16550 UART) +

          Network Supervisor + Non Stop

NSAP      Network Service Access Point

NSAPI     Netscape Server API [Netscape]

NSA POLY  National Security Agency Polygraph

NSERC     National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada)

NSF       National Science Foundation

NSFNET    National Science Foundation Network

NSI       NASA Science Internet

NSLOOKUP  Name Server Lookup [Unix]

NSM       Netscape Server Manger [Netscape]

NSP       Native Signal Processing [Intel] + Network Service Provider

NSSC      NASA Standard Spacecraft Computer

NSTC      National Science and Technology Council

NSTL      National Software Testing Labs

NT        New Technology [Microsoft]

NTAS      NT Advamced Server [Microsoft]

NTF       No Trouble Found

NTFS      New Technology File System [Microsoft]

NTIA      National Telecommunications and

          Information Administration

NTIS      National Technical Information Service

NTRAS     NT Remote Access Services [Microsoft]

NTSA      NetWare Telephony Services Architecture [Novell]

NTSC      National Television Standards Committee

NUI       Network User Identification +

          Network User Interface +

          Notebook User Interface [Go Corporation]

NUL       Null + (dummy device) + (no device)

NV        No Overflow

NVM       Non-Volatile Memory

NVOD      Near-Video On Demand

NVP       Nominal Velocity of Propagation

NVRAM     Non-Volatile Random Access Memory

NVT       Network Virtual Terminal +

          Novell Virtual Terminal [Novell]

                     O

Short Name  ��  Full Name or Abbreviations

OAB       One-to-All Broadcast

OAD       Open Architecture Driver [Bernoulli]

OAG       Official Airline Guide + Online Air Guide

OAI       Open Applications Interface

OAS       One-to-All Scatter

OBD       On Board Diagnostics

OBEX      Object Exchange [Borland]

OBJ       Object

OC        Optical Carrier

OCE       Open Collaborative Environment [Apple]

OCF       Objects Components Framework [Borland]

OCL       Operation Control Language + Operator Control Language

OCR       Optical Character Recognition

OCS       On-Card Sequencer

OCX       OLE Custom Control

ODA       Office Document Architecture

ODAPI     Open Database Application Programming

          Interface [Borland]

ODBC      Open Data Base Connectivity [Microsoft]

ODBMS     Object-Oriented Database Management System  (also

          see OODMS)

ODI       Open Datalink Interface [Novell] +

          Open Device Interconnect [NetWare]

ODM       Object Data Manager [IBM]

ODMA      Open Document Management API

ODP       Open Distributed Processing

ODS       Open Data Services [Microsoft]

ODSI      Open Directory Service Interface [Microsoft]

ODT       Open Desktop

OEM       Original Equipment Manufacturer

OEP       Operand Execution Pipeline

OF        Overflow Flag

OFB       Output Feedback (mode)

OFMT      Output Format for Numbers

OFS       Object File System [Microsoft] + Output Field Separator

OH        Off Hook

OIDL      Object Interface Definition Language

OIS       Office Information Systems

OLAP      On-Line Analytical Processing

.OLD      Old version (file name extension)

OLE       Object Linking and Embedding [Microsoft]

OLI       Optical Line Interface [AT&T]

OLMC      Output Logic Macrocell

OLTP      On-Line Transaction Processing

OM        Object Manager

OMA       Object Management Architecture [Microsoft]

OME       Open Messaging Environment (protocol)

OMF       Object Module Format [Microsoft] +

          Open Media Framework + Open Message Format

OMG       Object Management Group

OMI       Open Messaging Interface [Lotus]

OMNS      Open Network Management System

OMR       Optical Mark Recognition

ONC       Open Network Computing [Sun]

ONDS      Open Network Distribution Services [IBM]

ONU       Optical Network Unit

OODB      Object-Oriented Database

OODMS     Object-Oriented Database Management System (also

          see ODBMS)

OOL       Object-Oriented Language

OOOS      Object-Oriented Operating System

OOPL      Object-Oriented Programming Language

OOPS      Object Oriented Programming and Systems

OOS       Object-Oriented Systems +

          Off-line Operating Simulator

OOT       Object-Oriented Technology

OOUI      Object Oriented User Interface

OP        Operation + Optical + Output

OPAC      Online Public Access Catalog [Internet]

OPC       Optical Photoconductor

OPCODE    Operational Code

OPD       Operand

OPI       Open Prepress Interface

OPM       Operations Per Minute

OPS       Operations

OPT       Open Protocol Technology

.OPT      Options (file name extension)

OPUS      Octal Program Updating System

ORACLE    On-Line Inquiry and Report Generator (UNIX DB program)

ORB       Object Request Broker [Microsoft]

ORG       Organization (organization Domain name) [Internet]

ORI       Online Retrieval Interface

.ORI      Original (file name extension)

ORS       Output Record Separator

OS        Operating System

OS/2      Operating System/2 [IBM]

OSA       Open Scripting/System Architecture

OS/E      Operating System/Environment

OSF       Open Software Foundation

OSI       Open Systems Interconnection

OSM       Off-Screen Model

OSP       On-Screen Programming + Optical Storage Processor

OSPF      Open Shortest Path First

OSQL      Object Structured Query Language

OT        Object Technology

OTA       Operation-Triggered Architecture

OTDR      Optical Time Domain Reflectometer

OTF       Open Token Foundation

OTP       One-Time Programmable

OURS      Open Users Recommended Solutions

.OUT      Outlines (file name extension)

OUTS      Output String

OV        Overflow

.OVL      Program Overlay (file name extension)

.OVR      Program Overlay (file name extension)

OWL       Object/Open Windows Library [Borland]

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