MILITARY
SHAEF....Supreme headquarters allied expeditionary force
ETO....European theater of operation
NORAD....North American air defense command
AEF....America expeditionary force
BEF....British expeditionary force
ANZAC....Australian& New Zealand army corp.
BOHICA....Bend over here it comes again
CATTAC....Chief assistant to the assistant chief
DILLIGAFF....Do I look like I give a flying F#$%
FOAD....Fall over and die
FUBAR....Fouled up beyond all reconigition
FUBB....Fouled up beyond belief
HMFIC....Head M** F** in charge
HMFICC....Head M** F** in complete charge
POETS...."Pass" on everything, tomorrow's Saturday
POINTS...."Pass" on it now, tomorrow's Saturday
REMF....Rear echelon M** F**
SNAFU....Situation normal all fouled up
SOP....Standing operational proceedures
TLAM....Tomahawk land-air missile...aka cruise missile
TPTB.... The powers that be Others
LLAP...Live long and prosper
LA....Laughing aloud
AAA....Amazingly approapriate abbreviation
FTL....Faster than light
RPG....Role playing game
SFX....Special effect
YAP....Yet another ploy
YAR....Yet another rumor
GMTA....Great minds think alike
IDIC....Infinite diversity in infinite combinations
TTFN....Ta ta for now
TTYL....Talk to ya later
YASQ....Yet another stupied question
DQOTD....Dumb question of the day
ROBTA....Reality on the blink again
IMO....In my opinion
L&R....Later
ROTM....Right on my money
SIG....Special interest group
TTMS....Talk (type) to me soon
TTYL(A)....Talk (type) to me later (alligator)
Technical
AI....Artificial intelligence
ANSI....American national standards institute
ASCII....American standard code for information interchange
BASIC....Beginner's all purpose symbolic institution code (programming)
BCD....Binary codec decimal (programming)
BIOS....Basic input output system
BPS....Bits per second (communication)
CAD....Computer aided design
CAE....Computer aided engineering
CAM....Computer aided manufacturing
CASE....Computer aided Software engineering
CCITT....Consultative committee for international telephony& telegraphy
CD....Compact disk
ROM....Read only memory
CGA....Color graphics adapter (screen)
CMOS....Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (memory)
CPI....Characters per inch (printer)
CPL....Characters per line (printer)
CPS....Characters per second (pronter)
CPU....Central processing unit
CRT....Cathody ray tube (screen)
DD....Double density (floppy disk)
DEC....Digital equipment corporation
DES....Data encryption standard
DIF....Device input format
DIP....Dual in line package (memory)
DMA....Direct memory access
DS....Double sided (floppy disk)
DV....DESQview (multitasking program)
EGA....Enhanced graphics adapter (screen)
EMM....Expanded memory manager (memory)
EMS....Expanded memory specification (memory)
EOF....End of file
EOL....End of line
EPROM....Erasable programmable read only memory (memory)
ESDI....Enhanced small device interface
FAT....File allocation table (disk)
FCC....Federal communications commission (communication)
GUI....Graphical user interface
HD....High density (floppy disk)
HGC....Hercules graphics card (screen)
I/F....interface
I/O....input/ output
IDE....Intergrated drive electronics (hard disk)
KB.... kilo byte= 1,024 bytes
LIM....Lotus intel microsoft expanded memory specification
LPI....Lines per inch (printer)
MB....Mega byte= 1,048,576 bytes
MDA....Monochrome display adapter (screen)
MFM....Modified frequency modulation (hard disk)
MIPS....Millions of instructions per second
MIS....Management information systems
MMU....Memory management unit
MNP....Microcom network protocol (communication)
MS....Microsoft
OEM....Original equipment manufacturer
POST....Power on self test
PROM....Programmable read only memory (memory)
RAM....Random access memory (memory)
RLL....Run length limited (hard disk)
TPA....Third party applications
GAFMOI....Getting away from most of it
GAFIA....Getting away from it all
RTM....Read the manual
RTFM....Here, Sir; Let me do this for you, Sir (military)
