The IIRG Hackers' Acronym Chart

ABA       American Bankers Association
ABU       Application Business Unit
ACE       American Council on Education
ACMS      Application Control Management System
ACS       Application Control Services
ACT       Application Center for Technology
AD        Authorized Dealers
ADD       Authorized Digital Dealers
ADG       Authorized Distributor Group
ADU       APp´ication Definition Utility
AEA       American Electronics Association
AI        Artificial Intelligence
AIA       Application Integration Architecture
AICPA     American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
AITRC     Applied Information Technologies Research Center
AMC       Area Management Center
AMM       Area Manufacturing Manager
ANN       Announcement Date
ANSI      American National Standards Institute
AOM       Area Operations Manager  
AOV       Average Order Value
APL       A Programming Language
APPIX     Automated Part and Product Information Exchange
AQS       Automatic Quote System
ARB       Application Review Board
ARM       Area Revenue Manager
ASC       Average System Cost or Average System Content
ASCII     American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASD       Advanced Semiconductor Development
A&SG      Accessories and Supplies Group
ASMP      Asymmetrical Multi-Processing
ASV       Average System Value
ATM       Automatic Teller Machine
ATP       Available to Promise
ATSE      Application Timesharing Software Engineering
ATD       Authorized Terminal Distributor
AT&T      American Telephone and Telegraph Company
AVT       Architecture Verification Test
BAI       Bank Administration Institute
BASIC     Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
BBA       Budget By Account
BBU       Battery Back-Up
BCG       Business Center Group
BI        Backplane Interconnect or Beginning Inventory
BIM       Basic Industry Marketing
BIOS      Basic Input Output System
BIT       Binary Digit
BJS       Bureau of Justice Statistics
B/L       Backlog
BMC       Basic Monthly Charge
BOA       Bill of Aggregation or Blanket Order Agreement
BOD       Board of Directors (Budget)
BOIS      Business Office Information Systems
BOM       Bill of Materials
BOO       Bill of Organization
BOS       Business and Office Systems
BOSE      Business and Office Systems Engineering
BPI       Bits per Inch
BPM       Business Planning Manager or Base Product Marketing
BPN       Comstar Business Plan
BPS       Bits Per Second
CAD       Computer Aided Design
CAEM      Computer Aided Engineering and Manufacturing
CAM       Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAS       Customer Administrative Services
CASE      Computer Aided Software Engineering
CAT       Computer-aided Test
CBC       Cipher Block Chaining
CBS       Common Bom System
CBI       Computer-based Instruction
CC        Cost Center, Carbon Copy or courtesy copy
CCD       Customer Configuration Document
CCEP      Commercial Communications Endorsement Program
CCITT     Committee Consultif Internationale Telegraphie
          et Telephonie
CCOO      Comprehensive Cost of Ownership
CCT       Cumulative Cycle Time
CD        Compact Disk
CDA       Compound Document Architecture
CDD       Common Data Dictionary
CDR       Compact Disk Reader
CERT      Certified Order
CFB       Cipher Feedback
CFO       Chief Financial Officer
CHIPS     Clearing House Interbank Payments System
CI        Cluster Interconnect or Computer Interconnect
CIA       Central Intelligence Angency
CIM       Computer Integrated Manufacturing
CIMT      Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Technology
CIR       Computer Intergrated Research
CIS       Commercial Instruction Set
CISC      Complex Instruction Set Computing
C&ISM     Consultant and Information Systems Marketing Group
CIT       Computer Integrated Telephony
CLP       Country List Price
CMAS      Central Massachusetts Administrative Services
CMC       Carry-in Monthly Charge
CMOS      Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor(Silicon)
CMP       Cooperative Marketing Program or Partner
COBOL     Common Business Oriented Language
COC       Corporate Operations Committee
COD       Career Opportunity Days
COEM      Commercial Original Equipment Manufacturer
COMSEC    Communications Security
COMSTAR   Common System for Technical Analysis & Reporting
COPIS     Corporate Planning Information System
CPO       Corporate Product Operations
CPP       Corporate Planning Process
CPS       Characters Per Second
CPSR      Computer Profressionals for Social Responsibility
CP/M      Control Program Master
CPU       Central Processing Unit
CRC       Customer Return Center
CRG       Central Resource Group
CRT       Cathode Ray Tube
CSC       Customer Support Center
CSG       Corporate Systems Group
CSO       Complimentary Solutions Organization
CSM       Computer Systems Manufacturing
CSS       Computer Special Systems
CSSE      Computer Services System Engine
CSSG      Customer Service Solutions Group
CSU       Channel Service Unit
CTS       Configuration Technical Specialists
DAG       Defense Agencies Group
DAMP      Demand Analysis Manufacturing Planning
DAP       Document Application Profile
DAS       Device Access Software
DASP      Digital Assisted Services Program
DAT       Digital Audio Tape
DBA       Digital Business Architecture
DBC       Digital Business Center
DBMS      Data Base Management System
DBOD      Distribution Board of Directors
DCA       Defense Communications Agency
DCC       Digital Customer Center
DCL       Digital Command Language
DCP       Demand for Critical Parts
DCSS      Digital Customized Support Services
DCTN      Defense Commercial Telecommunications Network
DCU       Digital Credit Union
DDH       Digital Distributed Hardware
DDIF      Digital Document Interchange Format
DDS       Digital Distributed Software
DEC       Digital Equipment Corporation
DECdtm    Digital Distributed Transaction Manager
DECnms    Digital Network Measurement System
DECtp     Digital Transaction Processing
DECUS     Digital Equipment Corporation User's Society
DES       Data Encryption Standard
DFA       Design for Assembly
DFP       District Focus Person
DFM       Design for Manufacturing
DFT       Design for Test
DIAL      Digital Idle Asset Listing
DIBOL     Digital Business Oriented Language
DIM       Demand Integration Meeting
DIMA      Data Information Management Architecture
DINS      Digital Information Network Service
DIS       Digital Information Systems or Defense Investigative
          service
DISER     Digital Information Systems External Resources
DL        Direct Labor
DLN       Digital Library Network
DMA       Direct Memory Access
DMCL      Digital Modem Command Language
DME       Digital Management Education
DMM       District Manufacturing Manager
DMS       Data Management Services
DMSS      Distribution, Marketing, Sales and Service
DMT       Design Maturity Test
DNA       Digital Named Accounts or Digital Network Architecture
DOD       Department of Defense (Gov't)
DOM       District Operations Manager
DOS       Disk Operating System
DPI       Dots Per Inch
DPP       District Partner Program
DQT       Design Quality Test
DRAM      Dynamic Random Access Memory
DRC       Data Resource Center
DRP       Distribution Resource Planning
DSA       Digital Storage Architecture or Decimal Shift and Add
          Algorithm
DSIN      Digital Software Information
DSLA      Digital Software Licensing Architecture
DSM       Distributed Systems Manufacturing
DSMC      Digital Service Monthly Charge
DSN       Digital Services Network
DSTAR     Digital System Technical Architecture Research
DSO       Days Sales Outstanding
DSM       Distributed Systems Manufacturing or District
          Sales Manager or Digital Standard MUMPS
DSRI      Digital Standard Relational Interface
DSSI      Digital Small Storage Interconnect
DSU       Data Service Unit
DTE       Data Terminal Equipment
DTIF      Digital Tabular Interchange Format
DTN       Digital Telephone Network
DTS       Digital Termination System
DVN       Digital Video Network
DVT       Design Verification Test
DWCI      DecWindows Compiler Interface
EAP       Employee Assistance Program
EAR       Export Administration Regulations
EBDI      Electronic Business Data Interchange
ECAD      Engineering Computer Aided Design
ECC       Error Correction Code
ECL       Error Code Logging
ECO       Engineering Change Order
EDC       Error Detection Code or Error Detection and
          Correction or Engineering Data Center
EDI       Electronic Document Interchange or Electronic Data Interchange
EDP       Electronic Data Processing
EDRS      Engineering Data Resources Services
EDU       Education Computer Systems
EFF       Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFT       Electronic Fund Transfer
EI        Ending Inventory
EIA       Electronic Industries Association
EIS       Enterprise Integration Services
ELF       Employee Locator Facility
EMA       Enterprise Management Architecture
ENET      Ethernet
ENG       Engineering
EOL       End Of Life
EPG       External Products Group
EPLS      Engineering Price List System
EPP       Executive Partner Program
EPROM     Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
ESB       Entry Systems Business
ESD       Electronic Systems Development
ESDI      Enhanced Small Device Interface
ESDP      Educational Services Development and Publshing
ESG       Engineering Systems Group
ESO       Engineering Support Operations
ESVN      Executive Secure Voice Network
ET&Q      Engineering, Technology and Quality
EUSR      End User
EXCOM     Executive Committee
F & A     Finance and Accounting or Finance and Administration
FA&T      Final Assembly and Test
FABS      Financial and Administration Business Systems
FBI       Federal Bureau of Investigations
FBOD      Finance Board of Directors
FCC       Federal Communications Commission
FCO       Field Change Order                     
FCS       First Customer Ship
FCST      Forecast
FDDI      Fiber Distributed Data Interface
F/G       Finished Goods
4GL       Fourth Generation Language
FIFO      First In First Out
FIMG      Finance Industry Marketing Group
FIPS      Federal Information Processing Standard
FISG      Financial Industries Systems Group
FMAP      Field Manufacturing Automated Process
FMC       Financial Management Center
FMIC      Field Manufacturing Information Center
FMMC      Field Manufacturing Management Committee
FMP       Field Manufacturing Plan
FOA       Fiber Optic Adapter
FOMC      Field Operations Management Committee
FPA       Floating Point Adapter
FPP       Floating Point Processor
FRS       First Revenue Ship
FRU       Field Replaceable Unit
FS        Field Service
FSG       Financial Systems Group 
FSL       Field Service Logistics
FT        Field Test
FTS       Federal Telecommunications service
FVC       First Volume Commit
FY        Fiscal Year
GAO       Government Accounting Office
GB        Gigabyte
GIA       General International Area
GIPS      Giga Instructions Per Second
GKS       Graphics Kernal System
GOVT      Government
GMG       Government Manufacturing Group
GPX       Graphics Processor Accelerator
GSA       General Services Administration
GSB       General Systems Business
GSIM      General Services Industry Marketing Group
GSG       Government Systems Group
HBO       Home Box Office
HCIG      Health Care Industry Group
HDA       Head Disk Assembly
HDSC      High-density Signal Carrier
HPS       Hardware Product Services
HPS       High Performance Systems
HQ        Headquarters
HSC       Hierarchical Storage Controller
HVM       High Volume Manufacturing
HW        Hardware
I/O       Input output
IC        Integrated Circuit
ICST      Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology
IDECUS    Internal Digital Equipment Corporation User's Society
IED       International Engineering Development
IEEE      Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IEG       Internal Equipment Group
IIRG      International Information Retreival Guild
IL        Indirect Labor
IMM       Idle Material Management
IMS       Integrated Management Systems
IM&T      Information and Technology Management
INV       Inventory
IO        Independent Option or Input/Output
IOP       Input Output Processor
IPDP      Industrial Peripheral Data Processing
IPG       Image Processing Group
IPMO      Industry Program Management Office
IPS       Inches Per Second
IPSG      Internal Product Strategies Group
IPT       Inventory Program Team
IRR       Internal Rate of Return
IS        Information Systems
ISBS      Information Systems Business Segment
ISDN      Integrated Services Digital Network
ISM       Installed Systems Marketing
ISO       International Standards Organization
ISPS      Information System Production Systems
ISS       Initial System Sale or Internal Special Systems
ISSA      Information Systems Security Association
ISWS      Internal Software Services
ITAP      Information and Technology Architecture Plan
ITAR      International Traffic in Arms Regulation
IVIS      Interactive Video Interface System
JEC       Job Evaluation Classification
JIT       Just In Time
KB        Kilobyte
KPL       Kit Parts List
KSR       Keyboard Send Receive
LAN       Local Area Network
LAST      Local Area System Transport
LAT       Local Area Transport
LAVC      Local Area Vax Cluster
LDM       Limited Distance Modem
LDP       Laboratory Data Products
LEBC      Low End Business Center
LEGSS     Low End Graphics Sub-System
LED       Light Emitting Diode
LEDS      Low End Disk Systems
LEN       Low End Networks
LEST      Low End Systems and Technologies
LIFO      Last In First Out
LMF       License Management Facility or Low Magnetic Field
LMI       Local Memory Interconnect
LPM       Lines Per Minute
LRP       Long Range Plan
LSE       Language Sensitive Editor
LSI       Large Scale Integration
MAC       Macintosh Computer or Message Authentication
MAN       Metropolitan Area Network
MARCOM    Marketing Communications
MAP       Manufacturing Automation Protocol
MASS      Mid-Atlantic and Southern States
MATAC     Material Acquisition
MB        Megabyte
MBOD      Manufacturing Board of Directors
MBPS      Mega-Bits Per Second
MBU       Manufacturing Business Unit
MCAM      Manufacturing Corporate Account Manager
MCESS     Mechanical Component Engineering Support Service
MCS       Multinational Character Set
MCT       Manufacturing Cycle Time
MCU       Multi Chip Unit
MDDS      Media and Documentation Update Service
ME        Mechanical Engineering
MEM       Manufacturing Engineering and Marketing
MFG       Manufacturing
MFLOPS    Millions of Floating Point Operations Per Second
MHZ       Mega-Hertz
MIC       Management Information Center
MIDAS     Master Integrated Distribution Subcontracting Agreement
MIF       Master Item File
MIMG      Media Industry Marketing Group
MIPS      Millions of Instructions Per Second
MIR       Material Increase Request
MIS       Management Information Systems
MISG      Market Information Services Group
MIT       Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy
MLDS      Medium Large Disk Systems
MLP       Maynard List Price
MLPC      Model Level planning Committee
MOF       Master Order Form
MOS       Metal Oxide Semiconductor or Material Order System
MP        Multi-Processor                
MPME      Manufacturing Process and Material Engineering
MPS       Master Production Schedule
MPSC      Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems
MRC       Manufacturing Resource Center or Management Response Center or
          Market Research Center
MTBSI     Mean Time Between System Interruptions
MTS       Message Transport Service
MRP       Manufacturing Resource Planning
MS        Milli-Seconds
MSCP      Mass Storage Control Protocol
MSB       Mid-Range Systems Business
MSD       Micro Systems Development
MSPM      Manufacturing System Program Manager
MSSC      Marketing Sales Strategy Committee
MTBF      Mean Time Between Failures
MTTR      Mean Time to Repair
MUX       Multiplexer
MVB       MicroVax Business
NAC       Networks and Communications
NACM      Networks and Communications Marketing
NASA      National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASM      Named Account Sales Manager
NAS       Network Application Support
NBS       National Bureau of Standards
NCS       Network Control Program
NCSC      National Computer Security Center
NDIS      Network Device Interface Specification
NDU       Network Device Utility
NEAS      Northeast Atlantic States
NES       Net Equipment Sales
NFT       Network File Transfer
NHAS      New Hampshire Administrative Services
NI        Network Interconnect
NJE       Network Job Entry
NMI       Nautilus Memory Interconnect
NOR       Net Operating Revenue
NPIP      New Product Integration Process
NPO       New Product Operations
NPSU      New Product Start Up
NRCS      National Replacement Character Set
NS        Nano-Seconds
NSA       National Security Agency
NSC       National Security Council
NSDD      National Security Decision Directive
NSF       National Science Foundation
NTIA      National Telecommunications and Information Administration
NTISSC    National Telecommunications and Information Systems
          Steering Committee
NWSS      Networks & Site Services
OA        Order Administration or Office Automation
OBU       Option Business Unit
OCRC      Option Change Review Committee
ODA       Office Document Architecture
ODI       Open Data Interface
OEM       Original Equipment Manufacturer
OIP       Opportunity Investment Planning
OIS       Office and Information Systems
OLTP      On-Line Transaction Processing
OMC       Office of Munitions Control
OOD       Office of Development (Central Engineering)
OP        Option
OPAL      On-line Presentation Access Library
OPOM      Organizational Program Office Manager
OPS       Operations
O/S       Operating System
OSF       Open Software Foundation
OSI       Open System Interconnection
OSP       Office of Sales Programs
OTA       Office of Technology Assessment
OTD       Off the Dock
OTP       Order Transaction Processing
OTS       Off The Shelf
PAC       Pricing and Announcement Committee
PASI      Production, Availability, Shipments, Inventory
PBM       Product Business Manager
PBT       Profit Before Tax
PBU       Product Business Unit
PBX       Product Branch Exchange
PC        Personal Computer or Production Control
PCB       Printed Circuit Board
PCM       Plug Compatible Manufacturer or Profit Contribution
          Margin or Product Capacity Manager
PCSA      Personal Computing System Architecture
PCSG      Personal Computing Systems Group
PDP       Peripheral Data Processing
PEP       Performance Enhancement Package or Personal Enrichment
          Program
PI        Physical Inventory
PID       Proprietary Information Disclosure
PIN       Personal Identification Number
P&L       Profit and Loss
PMG       Product Marketing Group
PMI       Private Memory Interconnect
PMT       Planning Methodology Team
PO        Purchase Order
POM       Point of Manufacturing
PPD       Product Phase Down
PP&E      Production, Planning, and Execution
PPL       Periodic Payment License
PPM       Pages Per Minute
PPSU      Personal Printer Spooling Utility
PROM      Programmable Read Only Memory
PSG       Peripheral and Supplies Group or Product Shipping Guide
PSS       Professional Software Services
PSU       Portable Storage Unit
PTG       Physical Technology Group
QBOD      Quality Board of Directors
QC        Quality Control
QDSS      Q-Bus Dragon Sub-System
QSS       Quality Solution Systems
QVSS      Q-Bus Viper Sub-System
RAM       Random Access Memory
RAMP      Reliability, Availability, Maintainability Program
RBG       Realtime Business Group
RC        Reduced Cost
RDB       Relational Database
REV       Revenue or Revision
RFI       Radio Frequency Interference or Request for Information
RFP       Request for Proposal
RISC      Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RISD      Reference Information Systems Development
RJE       Remote Job Entry
RO        Read Only
ROA       Return On Assets
ROI       Return On Investment
ROM       Read Only Memory
RPM       Reduced Parts menu
RPM       Revolution Per Minute or Rotations Per Minute
RQT       Reliability Quality Test
RSA       Reference System Architecture
RSE       Removable Storage Elements
RSL       Remote Ship List
RSTS/E    Resource Sharing Time Sharing/Extended
RSVP      Rdb Solutions Vendor Program
RT        Real Time
RTA       Real-Time Accelerator
RTBG      Real Time Business Group
RTE       Remote Terminal Emulation
SA        Storage Array
SABB      Storage Array Building Block
SASE      System and Support Engineering
SBA       Shipping and Billing Authorization
SBB       System Building Block
SBC       Single Board Computer
SBI       Storage Bus Interconnect
SBR       Storage Business Review
SBT       Software Business Technologies
SCA       Strategic Capital Acquisitions
SCIT      Semi-Conductor and Interconnect Technologies
SCO       Semiconductor Operations
S-Box     Skunk Box
SCMP      System Cooperative Marketing Program
SCSI      Small Computer Storage Interface
SDA       Software Design Automation
SDC       Software Distribution Center
SDI       Standard Disk Interconnect or Standard Drive Interface
SDNS      Secure Data System Network
SDS       Sales and Distribution Systems
SEG       Semiconductor Engineering Organization
SHIBNI    Shipped But Not Invoiced
SIA       Semiconductor Industry Association
SIG       Special Interest Group
SIM       Service Industry Marketing
SLA       Service Level Agreement
SLC       Service Level Contract or Software License Configurator
SLS       Storage Library System
SMDI      Storage Module Disk Interconnect
SME       Society of Manufacturing Engineering
SMP       Symmetrical Multi-Processing
SMS       Self-maintenance Services
SMU       Strategic Marketing Unit
SNA       System Network Architecture
SNPC      Software New Products Committee
SO        System Option
SOC       Systems and Option Catalog
SOE       Standards of Excellence
SOP       Sum of the Pieces
SPG       Software Product Group
SPI       Self-Paced Instruction
SPM       Software Performance Montior
SPP       Ship Plan
SPS       Software Product Services
SQL       Structural Query Language
SQM       Software Quality Mangement
SRC       System Resource Center
SRG       Strategic Relations Group
SRTC      Service Right-to-Copy
SS        Standard System
SSB       Software Supply Business
SSD       Solid State Disk
SSG       Software Systems Group
SSS       Software Support Services
STAR      Systems and Technology Applications Requirements
STG       Strategic Technologies Group
SWIFT     Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications
SWM       Semiconductor Worldwide Management
SWS       Software Services
SYS       System
TAN       Telecomm and Networks
TAP       Trans-Atlantic Project
TBG       Telecomm Business Group
TBU       Terminals Business Unit
TC        Transfer Cost
T's & C's Terms and Conditions
TCC       Technical Consulting Center
TDCC      Transport Data Coordinating Committee
TDMS      Terminal Data Management System
TGL       Third Generation Language (3GL)
TIS       Technical Information Systems
TLB       TransLAN Bridge
TMSCP     Tape Mass Storage Control Protocol
TOEM      Technical Original Equipment Manufacturer
TOP       Technical Office Protocol or Technology and Organizational
          Performance
TOPS      Tapes and Optical Products
TP        Transaction Processing
TPC       Transaction Processiong Performance Council
2PC       Two Phase Commit
TPI       Tracks Per Inch
TPL       Traditional Product Line
TPS       Transactions Per Second
TQC       Total Quality Control
TSG       Telecommunications Systems Group
TSN       Terminal Switching Network
TSO       Technical Services Organization
TSP       Technology Strategy and Planning
TTM       Time to Market
TUIMG     Telecom/Utilities Industry Marketing Group
UCS       Uniform Communication Standard
UOF       Unusual Order Form
UPC       Utility Port Conditioner
UPS       Uninterruptible Power System
USMP      U.S. Manufacturing Planning
USC       User Steering Committee
USCIC     U.S. Country Information Center
USFDC     U.S. Financial Data Center
USIBC     U.S. Integrated Business Center
USPL      U.S. Price List
VAN       Value Added Network
VAR       Value Added Reseller
VAX       Virtual Address Extension
VAXft     VAX Fault Tolerant
VFP       Vertical Forms Printing
VFU       Vertical Forms Unit
VIA       Vax Information Architecture
VIPS      Video Image Printer Systems
VLSI      Very Large Scale Integration
VMS       Virtual Memory System
VOLM      Volume
VPA       VAX Performance Advisor
VRAM      Video Random Access Memory
VT        Video Terminal
VTX       Videotex
VUIT      Visual User Interface Tool
VUP       Vax Unit of Processsing
WACS      Western and Central States
WAN       Wide Area Network
WATS      Wide Area Telephone Service
WCU       Water Cooling Unit
WINS      Warehouse Information Network Standards
WIP       Work In Process
WORM      Write Once Read Many
WPS       Word Processing Software
WW        Worldwide
WYSIWYG   What You See Is What You Get
XCOST     Transfer Cost
XFMC      Cross Functional Management Committee
XSV       Transfer Cost System Value