1@c -*-texinfo-*- 2@c This is part of the GNU edition of V.E.R.A. 3@c Copyright (C) 1993/2014 Oliver Heidelbach 4@c See the file vera.texi for copying conditions. 5@c 6@c Syntax: 7@c ACRONYM 8@c Expansion[ (Reference)][, "Style"] 9@c Additional explanations are included in [square brackets] 10 11@table @asis 12@item NAARS 13National Automated Accounting Research System (USA) 14 15@item NAB 16National Association of Broadcasters (org., USA) 17 18@item NAB 19Netware Asynchronous Board (Novell, Netware) 20 21@item NABTS 22North American Broadcast Teletext Standard (USA) 23 24@item NAC 25Network Administration Center 26 27@item NAC 28Network Admission Control (Cisco) 29 30@item NAC 31Networks and Communications 32 33@item NAC 34Null Attached Concentrator (FDDI) 35 36@item NACLP 37North American Conference on Logic Programming (USA) 38 39@item NACM 40Networks And Communications Marketing 41 42@item NACS 43National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors (org., USA) 44 45@item NACS 46Netware Asynchronous Communication Server (Novell, Netware) 47 48@item NACS 49Network Access Control System (Netware, DES, cryptography) 50 51@item NACSIS 52National Academic Center for Science Information Systems (org., USA) 53 54@item NACT 55Neural Adaptive Control Technology [project] (NN) 56 57@item NAD 58Network Access Device 59 60@item NADB 61National Archaeological DataBase (DB, USA) 62 63@item NAEC 64Novell Authorized Education Center (Novell, Netware) 65 66@item NAG 67National Algorithms Group [ltd] (UK, org., predecessor), "NAg" 68 69@item NAG 70Network Architecture Group (org.) 71 72@item NAG 73Numerical Algorithms Group (UK, org.), "NAg" 74 75@item NAI 76Netzwerk Arbeitswelt Informatik (manufacturer) 77 78@item NAIIN 79No Abuse In InterNet (org.) 80 81@item NAL 82Netware Application Launcher (Novell, Netware, NAM) 83 84@item NALIS 85Nevada Academic Libraries Information System 86 87@item NAM 88Netware Application Manager (Novell, Netware, NAL) 89 90@item NAMP 91Netware, Apache, MySQL, PHP (Novell, Netware, Apache, PHP, DB) 92 93@item NAMS 94National Association of Multimedia Shareware (org., USA) 95 96@item NAP 97Network Access Point (IN) 98 99@item NAP 100Network Access Protection (MS, Windows, Vista) 101 102@item NAPLPS 103North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax (BBS) 104 105@item NAPT 106Network Address and Protocol Translator (IP) 107 108@item NAPTR 109Naming Authority PoinTeR (Enum, DNS) 110 111@item NARP 112Non-Broadcast Multiple Access Address Resolution Protocol (RFC 1735) 113 114@item NAS 115Netware Access Services (Novell, Netware) 116 117@item NAS 118Network Application Services (DEC) 119 120@item NAS 121Network Application Support 122 123@item NAS 124Network Attached Storage (NFS, CIFS, HDD) 125 126@item NASI 127Netware Asynchronous Service Interface (Novell, Netware) 128 129@item NAT 130[IP] Network Address Translator (RFC 1631, IP) 131 132@item NATOA 133National Association of Telecommunications Officers & Advisors (org., USA) 134 135@item NAU 136Network Addressable Unit (IBM, SNA, OSI) 137 138@item NAU 139Network Attachment Unit (GigaB, IP-router) 140 141@item NAUN 142Nearest Active Upstream Neighbour (MAC) 143 144@item NAVNET 145NAVy NETwork (mil., USA, network) 146 147@item NB 148Nota bene (slang, Usenet, IRC) 149 150@item NBAR 151Network-Based Application Recognition 152 153@item NBCD 154Natural Binary Coded Decimal 155 156@item NBDD 157NetBIOS Datagram Distribution [server] (NETBIOS) 158 159@item NBE 160Not-Below-or-Equal 161 162@item NBFCE 163NETBIOS Frames Control Program (NETBIOS) 164 165@item NBFCP 166[PPP] NETBIOS Frames Control Protocol (PPP, NETBIOS, RFC 2097) 167 168@item NBFM 169Narrow Band Frequency Modulation 170 171@item NBIC 172Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno [initiative] (USA) 173 174@item NBIS 175Network Based Information Systems, "NBiS" 176 177@item NBMA 178Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (UNI, ATM) 179 180@item NBN 181National Broadband Network (Australia) 182 183@item NBNS 184NetBIOS Name Server (NETBIOS) 185 186@item NBP 187Name Binding Protocol (AppleTalk) 188 189@item NBS 190Narrow Band Socket (Intel, Nokia) 191 192@item NBS 193National Bureau of Standards (org., predecessor, NIST) 194 195@item NBT 196NETBIOS on TCPIP (MS) 197 198@item NC 199Network Channel / Connect / Control 200 201@item NC 202Network Computer [reference profile] (Apple, IBM, Netscape, Oracle, Sun, Internet) 203 204@item NC 205Network Co-ordinator (FidoNet) 206 207@item NC 208Norton Commander (Symantec) 209 210@item NC 211Numerical Control 212 213@item NCA 214Network Communications Adapter 215 216@item NCA 217Network Computing Architecture (Oracle, Apollo) 218 219@item NCA 220Network Control Analysis 221 222@item NCA 223Nexus Computing Agent (NGSCB, MS, Palladium) 224 225@item NCA 226Nexus Computing Agent (MS, Palladium) 227 228@item NCA 229Novell Certification Alliance (Novell, Netware) 230 231@item NCAIR 232National Center for Automated Information Research (org., USA) 233 234@item NCAM 235National Center for Accessible Media (org., USA) 236 237@item NCB 238Network Control Block (LAN) 239 240@item NCC 241Network Control / Coordination Center 242 243@item NCC 244Network Control Computer 245 246@item NCCF 247Network Communications Control Facility (IBM) 248 249@item NCCS 250NASA Center for Computational Sciences (org., NASA) 251 252@item NCD 253Network Computing Devices (manufacturer) 254 255@item NCD 256Norton Change Directory (DOS) 257 258@item NCDMA 259Narrowband - Code Division Multiple Access (telecommunication, mobile-systems, CDMA), "N-CDMA" 260 261@item NCE 262Nomadic Computing Environment (Tadpole) 263 264@item NCGA 265National Computer Graphics Association (org., USA) 266 267@item NCHPC 268National Consortium for High Performance Computing (org., HPC, USA) 269 270@item NCI 271Network Channel Interface 272 273@item NCI 274Non Coded Information 275 276@item NCIA 277Native Client Interface Architecture (IOS) 278 279@item NCIP 280Novell Certified Internet Professional (Novell, WWW, CNA) 281 282@item NCITS 283National Committee for Information Technology Standards (org., USA) 284 285@item NCL 286Null Convention Logic (CPU) 287 288@item NCLP 289Novell Certified Linux Professional (Noell, Linux) 290 291@item NCMOS 292N-channel [Silicon Gate Reversed] CMOS 293 294@item NCN 295Nixdorf Communications Network 296 297@item NCOHPCC 298National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications (org., USA, HPC), "NCO/HPCC" 299 300@item NCOS 301Network Computer Operating System (OS, Oracle, Internet) 302 303@item NCOS 304Non-Concurrent Operating System (OS, UNIVAC 9200, UNIVAC 9300) 305 306@item NCP 307Netware Core Protocol (Novell, IPX) 308 309@item NCP 310Network Control Processor 311 312@item NCP 313Network Control Program (BBN, ARPANET) 314 315@item NCP 316Network Control Program / Point (IBM) 317 318@item NCP 319Non-Carbon Paper 320 321@item NCP 322Not Copy-Protected 323 324@item NCPE 325Netware Core Protocol Extension (NCP, Netware, IPX) 326 327@item NCPIE 328National Council on Patient Information and Education (org., USA) 329 330@item NCR 331National Cash Registers (manufacturer, AT&T) 332 333@item NCS 334National Communications System (USA) 335 336@item NCS 337Network Computing System (HP, Apollo) 338 339@item NCS 340Network Control System 341 342@item NCSA 343National Center for Supercomputing Applications (org., USA) 344 345@item NCSC 346National Computer Security Center (org., USA) 347 348@item NCSC 349North Carolina Supercomputing Center (org., USA) 350 351@item NCSD 352National Cyber Security Division 353 354@item NCSI 355Network Communications Service Interface (NMP) 356 357@item NCSL 358National Computer Systems Laboratory (NIST, org., USA) 359 360@item NCSL 361National Conference of Standards Laboratories (org., USA) 362 363@item NCSNDR 364Network Computing System Network Data Representation (HP, Apollo), "NCS NDR" 365 366@item NCSS 367Non Commentary Sources Statements (LOC) 368 369@item NCSS 370Number Crunching Statistical System 371 372@item NCSTRL 373Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (WWW) 374 375@item NCT 376Network Control and Timing 377 378@item NCTA 379National Cable & Telecommunications Association (org., USA) 380 381@item NCTE 382Network Channel-Terminating Equipment 383 384@item NCTL 385National Computer and Telecommunications Laboratory (org., USA) 386 387@item NCU 388Non-Cacheable Units 389 390@item ND 391Navigation Display (Airbus, A380) 392 393@item NDA 394Network Delivery Access 395 396@item NDA 397Network Display Adapter 398 399@item NDA 400Non-Disclosure Agreement 401 402@item NDA 403Norddeutsche DatenAutobahn (network) 404 405@item NDAS 406Network Direct Attached Storage (HDD) 407 408@item NDBMS 409Network DataBase Management System (DB) 410 411@item NDBS 412Non-standard DataBase System (DB) 413 414@item NDC 415National Destination Code (MS-ISDN, GSM, mobile-systems) 416 417@item NDC 418Network Data Collection 419 420@item NDC 421Node Data Controller (Zenith) 422 423@item NDCC 424Network Data Collection Center 425 426@item NDD 427Norton Disk Doctor [software] 428 429@item NDDL 430Neutral Data Definition Language (DDL) 431 432@item NDE 433NeWS Development Environment 434 435@item NDEF 436NFC Data Exchange Format (NFC) 437 438@item NDI 439Network Distributed ISDN [for windows NT] (AVM, ISDN, Windows NT) 440 441@item NDIS 442Network Driver Interface Specification (3COM, MS) 443 444@item NDL 445Network Database Language (DB, 4GL) 446 447@item NDM 448Normal Disconnected Mode (IRDA, IRLAP, NRM) 449 450@item NDMP 451Network Data Management Protocol 452 453@item NDMS 454Netware Distributed Management Services (Novell, Netware) 455 456@item NDP 457Neighbor Discovery Protocol (RFC 2462) 458 459@item NDP 460Numeric Data Processor 461 462@item NDPA 463Network Problem Determination Application 464 465@item NDR 466Network Data Representation (NCS, DCE, Apollo) 467 468@item NDR 469Network Data Representation service (DCE/RPC) 470 471@item NDR 472Non-Delivery Report (SMTP) 473 474@item NDR 475Non-Destructive Read 476 477@item NDRO 478Non-Destructive ReadOut 479 480@item NDS 481Netware Directory Services (Novell, Netware) 482 483@item NDS 484Network Data System 485 486@item NDT 487Net Data Throughput 488 489@item NDT 490Newfoundland Daylight Time (TZ, NFT) 491 492@item NDT 493Non-Destructive Testing 494 495@item NDU 496Network Device Utility 497 498@item NDV 499Non DSL Village (WIMAX, DSL) 500 501@item NE 502Network Element 503 504@item NE 505Netzebene (DTAG) 506 507@item NEA 508[Siemens] NEtzwerkArchitektur (NEA, Siemens) 509 510@item NEA 511Network Endpoint Assessment 512 513@item NEAB 514NEA Benutzerebenenprotokoll (NEA, Siemens) 515 516@item NEAN 517NEA Netzwerkebenenprotokoll (NEA, Siemens) 518 519@item NEAR 520National Electronic Accounting and Reporting 521 522@item NEARNET 523New England Academic and Research NETwork (USA, network), "NEARnet" 524 525@item NEAT 526New Enhanced Advanced Technology (AT) 527 528@item NEAT 529Novell Easy Administration Tool (Novell, Netware) 530 531@item NEATE 532NEA Transportebenenprotokoll (NEA, Siemens) 533 534@item NEBS 535Network Equipment Building System 536 537@item NEC 538National Electrical Code (USA) 539 540@item NEC 541Nippon Electronic Corporation (manufacturer) 542 543@item NED 544NASA Extragalactic Database (DB) 545 546@item NEDO 547New Energy and industrial technology Development Organization (org., Japan) 548 549@item NEFS 550Network Extensible File System, "NeFS" 551 552@item NEII 553National Engineering Information Initiative (org., USA) 554 555@item NEM 556No-Eviction Mode (Intel, HT, CPU) 557 558@item NEM 559Nothing Else Matters (slang, Usenet, IRC) 560 561@item NEMS 562Nanoelektromechanische Speicher (IC, RAM) 563 564@item NEP 565Never-Ending Program 566 567@item NEREN 568NEbraska Research and Education Network (USA, network) 569 570@item NERO 571Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives [project] 572 573@item NES 574News Electronic Service 575 576@item NES 577Nintendo Entertainment System 578 579@item NESC 580National E-Science Centre (org., UK), "NeSC" 581 582@item NESPINN 583NEurocomputer fuer Spikende Neuronale Netze (TUB) 584 585@item NEST 586Netware Embedded Systems Technology (Novell, Netware) 587 588@item NET 589Network Entity Title 590 591@item NETBEUI 592NETBIOS Extended User Interface (UI) 593 594@item NETBIOS 595NETwork Basic Input Output System (IBM, RFC 1001/1002), "NetBIOS" 596 597@item NETBLT 598NETwork BLock Transfer (IP) 599 600@item NETBT 601NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NETBIOS, TCP/IP), "NetBT" 602 603@item NETCDF 604NETwork Common Data Format, "NetCDF" 605 606@item NETDA 607NETwork Design and Analysis 608 609@item NETPARS 610NETwork Performing Analysis Reporting System 611 612@item NETSS 613National Electronic Telecommunication Surveillance System (USA) 614 615@item NEWS 616Netware Early Warning System (Novell, Netware) 617 618@item NEWS 619Networked Extensible Windowing System (Sun), "NeWS" 620 621@item NEWT 622NeWS Terminal, "NeWT" 623 624@item NEXT 625NEw eXtended Technology, "NeXT" 626 627@item NFA 628Name Field Address (Forth) 629 630@item NFA 631Non-determistic Finite-state Automation 632 633@item NFAIS 634National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (org., USA) 635 636@item NFAS 637Non Facilities-Associated Signaling (ISDN, PRI) 638 639@item NFC 640Near Field Communication (Bluetooth) 641 642@item NFC 643Normalization Form C(ompostion) (Unicode) 644 645@item NFGM 646Nano-Floating Gate Memory (RAM, IC) 647 648@item NFR 649Near Field Recording [technology] 650 651@item NFS 652Network Facilities Services 653 654@item NFS 655Network File System (Sun, Unix, RFC 1094/1813/3010) 656 657@item NFSP 658Netware File Service Protocol (Novell, Netware) 659 660@item NFT 661Network File Transfer (DNA, DEC) 662 663@item NFT 664NewFoundland Time [-0330] (TZ, NDT) 665 666@item NG 667NewsGroup (slang, Usenet) 668 669@item NGDD 670New Generation Desktop Design (Mitsubishi) 671 672@item NGE 673Not-Greater-or-Equal 674 675@item NGFF 676Next Generation Form Factor (Intel) 677 678@item NGI 679Nederlands Genootschap for Informatica (org., Netherlands) 680 681@item NGIO 682Next Generation Input / Output (I/O, Intel) 683 684@item NGPP 685Next Generation Print Path [old term] (MS, Windows, Vista, XPS) 686 687@item NGPT 688Next Generation POSIX Threading (POSIX, IBM) 689 690@item NGS 691Non-Government Standard (USA) 692 693@item NGSB 694Non-Government Standards Body 695 696@item NGSBC 697Next Generation Secure Computing Base (MS, Windows, XP) 698 699@item NGSCB 700Next Generation Secure Computing Base (MS, Palladium) 701 702@item NHRP 703[NBMA] Next Hop Resolution Protocol (X.25, ATM, NBMA, IETF) 704 705@item NHSE 706National HPCC Software Exchange (USA) 707 708@item NI 709Network Interconnect / Interface 710 711@item NI 712Normenausschuss Informationstechnik (Din, org.) 713 714@item NI 715Normenausschuss Informationsverarbeitungssysteme [1987-1995] (DIN, predecessor, NI) 716 717@item NIA 718Network Information Access 719 720@item NIAC 721National Infrastructure Advisory Council (org., USA) 722 723@item NIAHGB 724Normenausschuss Informationstechnik - Ad-Hoc Gruppe Biometrie (NI, DIN), "NI-AHGB" 725 726@item NIAP 727National Information Assurance Partnership (org., NIST, NSA) 728 729@item NIAS 730Netware Internet Access Server (Novell, Netware) 731 732@item NIC 733Network Information Center (Internet, org.) 734 735@item NIC 736Network Interface Card / Controller 737 738@item NIC 739Numeric Intensive Computing 740 741@item NICAM 742Near-Instantaneously Companded Audio Multiplex (audio) 743 744@item NICD 745NIckel CaDmium [batterie], "NiCd" 746 747@item NICE 748Network Information and Control Exchange (DECNET) 749 750@item NICOL 751Network Information Center On-Line 752 753@item NICOLAS 754Network Information Center On-Line Aid System 755 756@item NID 757Namespace IDentifier (URN) 758 759@item NIDL 760Network Interface Definition Language (Apollo, DOMAIN, NCA) 761 762@item NIDOS 763NIxdorf Disk Operating System (OS, SNI) 764 765@item NIDR 766Network Information Discover and Retrieval 767 768@item NIDX 769Network Intrusion Detection eXpert system (BELLCORE, XPS) 770 771@item NIE 772Newton Internet Enabler (Apple, PDA) 773 774@item NIFTP 775Network Independent File Transfer Program (FTP) 776 777@item NIHCL 778National Institute of Health [c++] Class Library (PD) 779 780@item NII 781National Information Infrastructure [program] (USA, org.) 782 783@item NIIT 784National Information Infrastructure Testbed (ISH, USA) 785 786@item NILFS 787New Implementation of a Log-structured File System (FS) 788 789@item NIMH 790NIckel Metal Hydride [battery], "NiMH" 791 792@item NIMT 793National Institute for Management Technology (org., Irland) 794 795@item NIPC 796National Infrastructure Protection Center (org., USA) 797 798@item NIPT 799[international symposium on] New Information Processing Technologies (conference, MITI) 800 801@item NIR 802Network Information Registry / Retrieval 803 804@item NIS 805Network Information Service (NSF) 806 807@item NIS 808Network Information System (Unix) 809 810@item NISC 811Network Information and Support Center 812 813@item NISCC 814National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre (org., UK) 815 816@item NISDN 817Narrowband Integrated-Services Digital Network (ISDN), "N-ISDN" 818 819@item NISI 820Network Information Services Infrastructure 821 822@item NISO 823National Information Standards Organization (org., USA) 824 825@item NISS 826National Information on Software and Services (USA) 827 828@item NISSPAC 829NISS Public Access Collections (NISS) 830 831@item NIST 832National Institute of Standards and Technology (org., USA) 833 834@item NISYP 835Network Information System / Yellow Pages, "NIS/yp" 836 837@item NIT 838Network Information Tabel (DVB) 839 840@item NITF 841National Imagery Transmission Format 842 843@item NITOL 844Norway-net with IT for Open Learning (network) 845 846@item NITS 847Network Independent Transport Service 848 849@item NIU 850Network Interface Unit 851 852@item NIU 853North american ISDN Users (USA, ISDN) 854 855@item NIUF 856North american ISDN Users Forum (USA, user group, ISDN, org.) 857 858@item NJC 859Nordic Journal of Computing (Finland) 860 861@item NJE 862Network Job Entry (BITNET, RSCS) 863 864@item NJE 865Network Job Entry 866 867@item NJSZT 868Neumann Janos SZamitogep-tudomanyi Tarsasag (org., Ungarn) 869 870@item NKS 871Network Knowledge Server 872 873@item NKSR 874Non-Kernel Security Related (Unix) 875 876@item NKZ 877NetzKontrollZentrum (Bundeswehr) 878 879@item NL 880Network Layer (ISO, OSI) 881 882@item NL 883New Line (ASCII) 884 885@item NL 886Number Lines (Unix) 887 888@item NLA 889Network Location Awareness (MS, Windows) 890 891@item NLB 892Network Load Balancing (MS, Windows) 893 894@item NLDM 895Network Logical Data Manager (IBM) 896 897@item NLE 898Not-Less-or-Equal 899 900@item NLKD 901Novell Linux Kernel Debugger (Novell, Linux) 902 903@item NLM 904Netware Loadable Module (Novell, Netware) 905 906@item NLOS 907Non Line Of Sight (WIMAX, LOS) 908 909@item NLP 910Natural Language Processing 911 912@item NLP 913Non-Linear Programming 914 915@item NLP 916Normal Link Pulse (ethernet, LAN) 917 918@item NLPID 919Network Layer Protocol IDentifier (ATM, OSI) 920 921@item NLQ 922Near Letter Quality 923 924@item NLRI 925Network Layer Reachability Information 926 927@item NLRP 928Natural Language Retrieval Processing 929 930@item NLS 931Native Language Support (HP) 932 933@item NLS 934Native Language System (OSF) 935 936@item NLS 937Network License Server 938 939@item NLS 940oNLine System 941 942@item NLSP 943Netware Link Services Protocol (Novell, Netware, IPX) 944 945@item NLSP 946Network Layer Security Protocol (ISO, IEC, ISO/IEC 11557) 947 948@item NLUUG 949NetherLand Unix User Group (org., user group) 950 951@item NLV 952National Language Version (IBM, OS/2, ...) 953 954@item NM 955Native Mode (PARISC, CM) 956 957@item NM 958Network Management 959 960@item NMA 961Network Management Architecture (SNA) 962 963@item NMAA 964National Multimedia Association of America (org., USA) 965 966@item NMAS 967Novell Modular Authentication Services (Novell, Netware) 968 969@item NMC 970Network Management Center 971 972@item NMCP 973Network Management Communication Protocol 974 975@item NMCS 976National Military Command System (mil., USA) 977 978@item NMEA 979National Marine Electronics Association [protocol] (org., USA, GPS) 980 981@item NMEO 982NetWorker Module for EMC Symmetrix for Oracle (Oracle, EMC, DB) 983 984@item NMF 985Network Management Forum 986 987@item NMI 988Non-Maskable Interrupt 989 990@item NML 991National Media Laboratory (org., USA) 992 993@item NML 994Natural Mapping Language (XPP, MPP) 995 996@item NML 997Network Management Layer (TMN) 998 999@item NMM 1000Netzwerk-integrierte Multimedia Middleware 1001 1002@item NMOS 1003Negative-channel Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (IC) 1004 1005@item NMP 1006Network MODEM Program 1007 1008@item NMPF 1009Network Management Productivity Facility (IBM) 1010 1011@item NMPL 1012Netscape/Mozilla Public License (Netscape), "N/MPL" 1013 1014@item NMS 1015Network Management Station / System (Novell, Netware) 1016 1017@item NMS 1018Network Monitoring Station 1019 1020@item NMSU 1021New Mexico State University (org.) 1022 1023@item NMT 1024Nordic Mobile Telephone (mobile-systems) 1025 1026@item NMU 1027Non-Maintainer Upload (Linux, Debian) 1028 1029@item NMVT 1030Network Management Vector Transport 1031 1032@item NN 1033Neural Network (NN) 1034 1035@item NNI 1036Network Node Interface (ATM) 1037 1038@item NNI 1039Network to Network Interface 1040 1041@item NNS 1042Netware Named Services (Novel, Netware) 1043 1044@item NNSC 1045NSF Network Service Center (org., NSF) 1046 1047@item NNTP 1048Network News Transfer Protocol (Internet, RFC 977, Usenet) 1049 1050@item NNTPS 1051Network News Transfer Protocol - Secured ??? (NNTP, Internet, Usenet) 1052 1053@item NNTR 1054No Need To Reply (slang, Cygwin) 1055 1056@item NNX 1057Network Numbering eXchange 1058 1059@item NOA 1060Net On Air (Internet) 1061 1062@item NOC 1063Network Operations Center 1064 1065@item NOCS 1066Network Operations Center System 1067 1068@item NODIS 1069NSSDC Online Data and Information Service (NSSDC) 1070 1071@item NOI 1072Node Operator Interface 1073 1074@item NOKOS 1075NOKia Open Source license (Nokia) 1076 1077@item NOMA 1078National Online Media Association (org., USA) 1079 1080@item NORGEN 1081Network Operations Report GENerator 1082 1083@item NORMA 1084NO Remote Memory Access (OSF/1, Multi-Server) 1085 1086@item NOS 1087Network Operating System 1088 1089@item NOSA 1090Netlabs Open Source Archive 1091 1092@item NOSAC 1093Netlabs Open Source Archive Client (NOSA) 1094 1095@item NOSQL 1096Not Only SQL (SQL), "NoSQL" 1097 1098@item NOTA 1099None Of The Above (slang, Usenet, IRC) 1100 1101@item NOTIS 1102Network Operator Trouble Information System 1103 1104@item NOW 1105Network Of Workstations (Cluster) 1106 1107@item NP 1108Network Performance 1109 1110@item NP 1111No Problem (telecommunication, Usenet, IRC) 1112 1113@item NPA 1114Network Performance Analyzer 1115 1116@item NPA 1117Network Printer Alliance (IEEE 1284, IBM, Lexmark, Xerox) 1118 1119@item NPA 1120Network Professional Association (org., USA) 1121 1122@item NPA 1123Numbering Plan Area 1124 1125@item NPAC 1126Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (org., USA, HPC) 1127 1128@item NPAPI 1129Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (WWW, API) 1130 1131@item NPC 1132Network Parameter Control 1133 1134@item NPC 1135Non-Player Character (MMORPG) 1136 1137@item NPD 1138Network Products Division (Toshiba) 1139 1140@item NPDA 1141Network Problem Determination Application (IBM) 1142 1143@item NPES 1144National Printing Equipment Association (org., USA) 1145 1146@item NPH 1147Non Parse Headers (HTTPD, CGI) 1148 1149@item NPI 1150Network Printer Interface 1151 1152@item NPL 1153Netscape Public License (Netscape) 1154 1155@item NPL 1156Non-Procedural Language 1157 1158@item NPM 1159Network Performance Monitor 1160 1161@item NPMS 1162Named Pipes / Mail Slots (MS) 1163 1164@item NPSI 1165NCP Packet Switching Interface (IBM, NCP) 1166 1167@item NPSI 1168Network Protocol Service Interface 1169 1170@item NPSS 1171NASA Packet Switch System (NASA) 1172 1173@item NPTL 1174Native POSIX Thread Library (POSIX) 1175 1176@item NPTN 1177National Public Telecomputing Network (network, USA) 1178 1179@item NPV 1180Net Present Value 1181 1182@item NQS 1183Network Queuing System 1184 1185@item NRC 1186National Research Council (org., USA) 1187 1188@item NRCLSE 1189National Resource for Computers in Life Science Education (USA) 1190 1191@item NREN 1192National Research and Education Network (USA, network) 1193 1194@item NRFD 1195Not Ready for Data 1196 1197@item NRIP 1198Novell Routing Information Protocol (Novell, Netware), "nRIP" 1199 1200@item NRM 1201Network Resource Management 1202 1203@item NRM 1204Normal Response Mode (IRDA, IRLAP, NDM) 1205 1206@item NRN 1207National Research Network (USA, network) 1208 1209@item NRN 1210No Reply Necessary (slang, Usenet) 1211 1212@item NROFF 1213New Run-OFF (Unix) 1214 1215@item NRPC 1216Notes Remote Procedure Call (Lotus) 1217 1218@item NRPE 1219Nagios Remote Plugin Executor 1220 1221@item NRPE 1222Nagios Remote Plug-in Executor (Nagios) 1223 1224@item NRS 1225Name Registration System 1226 1227@item NRS 1228Novell Replication Services (Novell, Netware) 1229 1230@item NRT 1231Non-Requesting Terminal 1232 1233@item NRTVBR 1234Non-RealTime Variable Bit Rate (VBR, ATM, BIT), "nrt-VBR" 1235 1236@item NRZ 1237Non-Return-to-Zero [recording] 1238 1239@item NRZI 1240Non-Return-to-Zero, Invert to ones [encoding] 1241 1242@item NS 1243Name Server (DNS, Unix) 1244 1245@item NS 1246National Standard 1247 1248@item NSA 1249National Security Agency (org., USA) 1250 1251@item NSAI 1252National Standards Authority of Ireland (org., Irland) 1253 1254@item NSAP 1255Network Service Access Point (OSI, OSI/RM, SAP) 1256 1257@item NSAPA 1258Network Service Access Point Address (OSI, NSAP) 1259 1260@item NSAPI 1261Netscape Server Application Programmer's Interface (Netscape, WWW, C/S, API) 1262 1263@item NSB 1264National Science Board (USA, org.) 1265 1266@item NSBD 1267Not-So-Bad Distribution (Bell) 1268 1269@item NSC 1270National Security Council (org., USA) 1271 1272@item NSC 1273National SemiConductor (manufacturer) 1274 1275@item NSC 1276Network Service Center 1277 1278@item NSC 1279Network Storage Corporation 1280 1281@item NSCA 1282Nagios Service Check Acceptor (Nagios) 1283 1284@item NSCA 1285National institute for Supercomputing Applications 1286 1287@item NSD 1288National Security Directive (USA) 1289 1290@item NSD 1291Network Shared Disk (GPFS, HDD) 1292 1293@item NSE 1294Network Support Encyclopedia (Novell) 1295 1296@item NSEC 1297Network Switching Engineering Center 1298 1299@item NSERC 1300Natural Sciences and Research Council (org., USA) 1301 1302@item NSF 1303National Science Foundation (org., USA) 1304 1305@item NSF 1306Norges StandardiseringsForbund (org., Norway) 1307 1308@item NSF 1309Notes Storage Facility (Lotus) 1310 1311@item NSFIP 1312NextStep Fuer IntelProzessoren, "NSfIP" 1313 1314@item NSFNET 1315National Science Foundation NETwork (network, USA, Internet), "NSFnet" 1316 1317@item NSFW 1318Not Safe For Work (slang, WWW) 1319 1320@item NSG 1321Network Services Group 1322 1323@item NSI 1324Name Service Independent (DCE/RPC, CDS) 1325 1326@item NSI 1327NASA Science Internet (NASA, network) 1328 1329@item NSI 1330Network Store Interface (MS, Windows) 1331 1332@item NSIS 1333National Schengen Information System (SIS, Europe) 1334 1335@item NSIS 1336Next Steps In Signaling (RFC 4080) 1337 1338@item NSIS 1339Nullsoft Scriptable Install System 1340 1341@item NSN 1342NASA Science Network (USA, network) 1343 1344@item NSP 1345Name Service Protocol (DNS) 1346 1347@item NSP 1348Native Signal Processing (Intel, CPU) 1349 1350@item NSP 1351Network Service Point 1352 1353@item NSP 1354Network Service Provider 1355 1356@item NSP 1357Network Services Protocol (DNA) 1358 1359@item NSPMP 1360Network Switching Performance Measurement Plan 1361 1362@item NSPR 1363NetScape Portable Runtime (Netscape, API) 1364 1365@item NSR 1366Non-Source Routed 1367 1368@item NSRD 1369National Software Reuse Directory (USA) 1370 1371@item NSS 1372Namespace Specific String (URN) 1373 1374@item NSS 1375Network Security Services (Mozilla, Internet) 1376 1377@item NSS 1378Network Server System (Airbus, A380) 1379 1380@item NSS 1381Network Storage Solutions (manufacturer) 1382 1383@item NSS 1384Nodal Switching Subsystem (NSFNET) 1385 1386@item NSS 1387Novell Storage System (Novell, Netware) 1388 1389@item NSSA 1390Not So Stubby Area (OSPF, RFC 1587) 1391 1392@item NSSDC 1393National Space Science Data Center (org., USA) 1394 1395@item NST 1396Network Security Toolkit 1397 1398@item NST 1399Newfoundland Standard Time (TZ) 1400 1401@item NST 1402North Sumatra Time [+0630] (TZ) 1403 1404@item NSTAN 1405NebenSTellenANlagen (DTAG, CBX), "NStAn" 1406 1407@item NSTC 1408National Science and Technology Council (org., USA) 1409 1410@item NSTL 1411National Software Testing Lab (org., USA) 1412 1413@item NSTS 1414National Secure Telephone System 1415 1416@item NSTX 1417Name Server Tunnel Exchange [protocol] 1418 1419@item NSW 1420National Software Works (OS) 1421 1422@item NT 1423[Windows] New Technology (MS, OS, Windows) 1424 1425@item NT 1426Netzwerk Terminator, Network Terminator (ISDN) 1427 1428@item NT 1429Nome Time [-1100] (TZ) 1430 1431@item NT1 1432Network Termination [unit] 1 (ISDN) 1433 1434@item NTAS 1435NT Advanced Server (MS, Windows NT) 1436 1437@item NTBA 1438Network Termination for Basic Access (ISDN) 1439 1440@item NTBBA 1441Netzwerk-Terminationspunkt BreitBandAngebot (DTAG, DSL) 1442 1443@item NTC 1444National Telecommunications Conference (conference, USA) 1445 1446@item NTDS 1447[Windows] NT Directory Services (MS, Windows NT, DS) 1448 1449@item NTE 1450Network Terminal Equipment 1451 1452@item NTFS 1453[windows] New Technology File System 1454 1455@item NTI 1456Network Termination Interface 1457 1458@item NTIA 1459National Telecommunications and Information Administration / Agency (org., USA) 1460 1461@item NTK 1462Need-To-Know (slang, Usenet, IRC) 1463 1464@item NTK 1465Newton ToolKit (Apple) 1466 1467@item NTLM 1468[Windows] NT LAN Manager (MS, Windows NT, LAN, SMB) 1469 1470@item NTN 1471National Telecommunications Network 1472 1473@item NTO 1474Network Terminal Option 1475 1476@item NTP 1477Network Time Protocol (Internet, RFC 1119/1305) 1478 1479@item NTS 1480Network Technical Support 1481 1482@item NTS 1483Network Test System 1484 1485@item NTS 1486New Typesetting System (TeX, DANTE) 1487 1488@item NTS2 1489Network Transport Services /2 (IBM), "NTS/2" 1490 1491@item NTSA 1492Netware Telephony Services Architecture 1493 1494@item NTSC 1495National Television Standards Committee (org., USA) 1496 1497@item NTSC 1498Never The Same Color (slang) 1499 1500@item NTSE 1501[Windows] NT Server / Enterprise edition (MS, Windows NT), "NTS/E" 1502 1503@item NTT 1504Nippon Telephone & Telegraph (org., Japan) 1505 1506@item NUA 1507Network User Address 1508 1509@item NUC 1510Next Unit of Computing (Intel) 1511 1512@item NUI 1513Network User Identification (Datex-P) 1514 1515@item NUISSH 1516Natur- und UmweltInformationsSystem Schleswig-Holstein (UIS), "NUIS-SH" 1517 1518@item NUMA 1519Non Uniform Memory Access (SMP) 1520 1521@item NURB 1522Non Uniform Rational B-spline 1523 1524@item NURBS 1525Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (CAD, Animation) 1526 1527@item NUS 1528National University of Singapore (org.) 1529 1530@item NUTEK 1531[National Board for Industrial and Technical Development] (org., Sweden) 1532 1533@item NVD 1534National Vulnerability Database (NIST, USA) 1535 1536@item NVDM2 1537NetView Distribution Manager /2 (OS/2, IBM), "NVDM/2" 1538 1539@item NVN 1540National Videotex Network (USA, network) 1541 1542@item NVP 1543Network Voice Protocol 1544 1545@item NVRAM 1546Non-Volatile Random Access Memory (RAM, IC) 1547 1548@item NVS 1549NachrichtenVermittlungsSystem (INPOL) 1550 1551@item NVSG 1552NVidia SceneGraph [SDK] (Nvidia, SDK) 1553 1554@item NVT 1555Network Virtual Terminal (Telnet, Internet) 1556 1557@item NWCS 1558Netware Workstation Compatible Service (Netware, Windows NT) 1559 1560@item NWIP 1561NetWare Internet Protocol (Novell, Netware) 1562 1563@item NWNET 1564NorthWestern states NETwork (network, USA), "NWNet" 1565 1566@item NWO 1567NetWork Operator (ETSI, ETSI 201 671) 1568 1569@item NWP 1570Numeric Weather Modelling 1571 1572@item NX 1573No eXecute (AMD, Athlon) 1574 1575@item NYSERNET 1576New York State Education and Research NETwork (network, USA), "NYSERNet" 1577 1578@item NZCS 1579New Zealand Computer Society (org., Neuseeland) 1580 1581@item NZT 1582New Zealand Time [+1130] (TZ) 1583 1584@item NZUSUGI 1585New Zealand Unix System User Group, Inc. (org., Unix, user group) 1586 1587@end table 1588 1589