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Acronyms Q-Z
What’s an acronym? It’s an abbreviation of a larger word (or words) that sometimes makes a new word on it’s own, such as DOS-Disk Operating System. I have accumulated a list of acronyms from various sources I have long since forgotten. If you know of some that are missing (I’m sure there are many), e-mail them to me and I’ll consider including them on the page.
| QC |
Quality control |
| RAM |
Random-Access Memory |
| RC |
Resin-Coated |
| RGB |
Red-Green-Blue |
| RIFF |
Raster Image File Format |
| RIP |
Raster Image Processor |
| RISC |
Reduced Instruction Set Computing |
| RLE |
Run-Length Encoding |
| RLL |
Run-Length Limited |
| ROM |
Read-Only Memory |
| RS-232 |
Recommended Standard - serial interface |
| RTF |
Rich-Text Format |
| SCODL |
Scanned Conversion Object Description Language |
| SCSI |
Small Computer System Interface |
| SGML |
Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| SIMM |
Single In-line Memory Module |
| SNAP |
Specification for Non-heat Advertising Printing |
| SPARC |
Scalar Processor ARChitecture |
| SWOP |
(revised) Specifications for Web Offset Printing |
| TARGA |
Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter |
| TCP/IP |
Transport Control Protocol/Interface Program |
| TGA |
TARGA file format |
| TIFF |
Tag Image File Format |
| UNC |
Universal Naming Convention |
| UNIX |
AT&T Bell Laboratories Operating System |
| UPC |
Universal Product Code |
| UPS |
Uninterruptible Power Source |
| URL |
Universal Resource Locators |
| USB |
Universal Serial Bus |
| USM |
UnSharp Masking |
| UV |
Ultraviolet |
| VAR |
Value-Added reseller |
| VDT |
Video Display Terminal |
| VGA |
Video Graphics Array |
| VLSI |
Very-Large-Scale Integration |
| VM |
Virtual Memory |
| VME |
Virtual Memory Extended |
| VRAM |
Video Random-Access Memory |
| WAN |
Wide Area Network |
| WATS |
Wide Area Telephone Service |
| WMF |
Windows MetaFile |
| WORM |
Write Once, Read Many |
| WPP |
Web Presence Provider |
| WYSIWYG |
What You See Is What You Get |
| XGA |
eXtended Graphics Array |
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