Abbreviations and acronyms

ANSIAmerican National Standard Institute
APARAuthorized Problem Analysis Report
APIApplication Programming Interface
ASCIIAmerican National Standard Code for Information Interchange
BOSBase Operating System
BSDBerkeley Software Distribution
BSSBlock Started by Symbol
CDCompact Disk
CDECommon Desktop Environment
CD-ROMCD-Read Only Media
CDTCentral Daylight Time
CPUCentral Processing Unit
CSTCentral Standard Time
DCEDistributed Computer Environment
DLLDynamic Link Library
DLPARDynamic Logical Partitioning
DSADynamic Segment Allocation
DVDDigital Versatile Disk
DVD-RDVD-Recordable
DVD-RAMDVD-Random Access Media
DVD-ROMDVD-Read Only Media
EBExabyte
EXTSHMExtended Mode Shared Memory Segments
FCFeature Code
FIFOFirst-in First-out
FTSSField Technical ...

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