| Term | Description |
|---|
| N-ISDN | Narrowband ISDN + National ISDN
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| N/I | Non-Interlaced
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| NAC | Network Adapter Card
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| NACD | National Association of Computer Dealers
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| NACS | National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors
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| NAE | Not Above or Equal
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| nagware | Nagware is a variant of shareware that will frequently remind its users to register. |
| NAK | Negative Acknowledgment
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| NAL | Novell Application Launcher [Novell]
|
| NAM | Number Assignment Module
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| NAMPS | Narrow-Band Analog Mobile Phone Service [Motorola]
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| NAND | Not And
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| NANO | One thousand-millionth
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| NAP | Network Access Point
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| NAPLPS | North American Presentation Level Protocol
Syntax (graphics)
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| NAS | Network Access Server + Network Application Support [DEC] +
Network Attached Storage
|
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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| NASDAQ | National Association of Securities Dealers
Automatic Quotation
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| NASI | NetWare Asynchronous Services Interface [Novell]
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| NASIRC | NASA Automated Systems Internet Response Capability
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| NASKER | NASA Ames Kernel (benchmark)
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| NAT | Network Address Transformation/Translation
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| NAU | Network Addressable Unit
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| NAV | Navigator
|
| NAVSTAR | Navigation Satellite Timing and Ranging
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| NAWS | Negotiate About Window Size
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| NBE | Not Below or Equal
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| NBI | Nothing But Initials
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| NBMA | Non-Broadcast Multi Access
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| NBS | Narrowband Socket + National Bureau of Standards +
Numeric Backspace
|
| NC | Network Computer + No Carry + Numerical Control
|
| NCA | Network Communications Adapter +
Network Computing Architecture [Oracle]
|
| NCC | Network Control Center
|
| NCD | Network Computing Device
|
| NCGA | National Computer Graphics Association
|
| NCIC | National Crime Information Center
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| NCMT | Numerical Control for Machine Tools
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| NCOS | Network Computer Operating System
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| NCP | NetWare Core Protocol + Not Copy Protected +
Network Control Processor/Program/Protocol
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| NCR | National Cash Register (Company)
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| NCSA | National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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| NCSC | National Computer Security Center
|
| NCSI | Network Communications Services
Interface [Network Products Corp.]
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| NDB | Non-Directional Beacon
|
| NDDK | Network Device Development Kid [Microsoft]
|
| NDEF | Not to be Defined
|
| NDIS | Network Device/Driver Interface Specification
|
| NDL | Network Data Language
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| NDMP | Network Data Management Protocol
|
| NDN | Non-Delivery Notice
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| NDP | Numeric Data Processor
|
| NDR | Network Data Representation
|
| NDRO | Non-Destructive Read Out
|
| NDS | NetWare Directory Service [Novell]
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| NEC | Nippon Electric Company
|
| NED | NASA Extragalactic Database [NASA]
|
| NEG | Negative + Negate
|
| NEMA | National Electrical Manufacturers Association
|
| NEP | Network Entry Point
|
| NES | National Education Supercomputer
|
| NEST | Novell Embedded Systems Technology [Novell]
|
| NetBEUI | NetBIOS Extended User Interface [IBM]
|
| NetBIOS | Network Basic Input/Output System [IBM]
|
| NetBSD | A free variant of Berkeley UNIX available for Alpha, x86, 68xx, PA-RISC, SPARC, PowerPC, ARM, and many other types of machines. Its emphasis is on portability. |
| netiquette | The established conventions of online politeness are called netiquette. Some conventions vary from site to site or online medium to online medium; others are pretty standard everywhere. Newbies are often unfamiliar with the conventional rules of netiquette and sometimes embarrass themselves accordingly. Be sure not to send that incredibly important e-mail message before reading about netiquette. |
| NETMON | Network Monitor
|
| Netscape | A commercial webbrowser for the Macintosh,Windows,and the X windowing system. Netscape is currently free to educational users. |
| Network | A group of computers connectedby cables or other means and using softwarethat enables them to exchange information and share equipment (such as printersand disk drives). |
| newbie | A newbie is a novice to the online world or computers in general. |
| NEWS | NetWare Early Warning System [Frye Computer] +
Network Extensible Window System
|
| NEWS. | Current events [USENET Newsgroup Category]
|
| Newton | Although Newton is officially the name of the lightweight OS developed by Apple to run on its MessagePad line of PDAs, it is often used to mean the MessagePads (and compatible PDAs) themselves and thus the term "Newton OS" is often used for clarity. The Newton OS is remarkably powerful; it is fully multitasking in spite of the fact that it was designed for small machines. It is optimized for hand-held use, but will readily transfer data to all manner of desktop machines. Historically it was the first PDA. Recently Apple announced that it will discontinue further development of the Newton platform, but will instead work to base future hand-held devices on either Mac OS or Mac OS X with some effort dedicated to making the new devices capable of running current Newton programs. |
| Newton book | Newton books provide all the functionality of ordinary books but add searching and hypertext capabilities. The format was invented for the Newton to provide a means of making volumes of data portable, and is particularly popular in the medical community as most medical references are available as Newton books and carrying around a one pound Newton is preferable to carrying around twenty pounds of books, especially when it comes to looking up something. In addition to medical books, numerous references, most of the classics, and many contemporary works of fiction are available as Newton books. Most fiction is available for free, most references cost money. Newton books are somewhat more capable than the similar Palm DOC; both are specific types of eBooks. |
| Newton Script | A intepreted, object-oriented language for Newton MessagePad computers. |
| NEXT | Near-End Crosstalk
|
| NFF | No Fault Found
|
| NFS | Network File System [Sun]
|
| NG | No Good
|
| NGE | Not Greater or Equal
|
| NGI | Next-Generation Internet
|
| NHC | National Hurricane Center
|
| NHR | National Handwriting Recognition
|
| NHRP | Next Hop Resolution Protocol
|
| NIA | Next Instruction Address
|
| NIC | Network Information Center [Internet] +
Network Interface Card +
Numeric Intensive Computing
|
| NICAD | Nickel-Cadmium
|
| NICOLAS | Network Information Center OnLine Aid System [NASA]
|
| NID | New Interactive Display [NEC] + Next ID
|
| NIDS | Network Intrusion Detection System [Unisys]
|
| NII | National Information Infrastructure
|
| NIM | Network Installation Management [IBM]
|
| NIMH | Nickel-Metal Hydride
|
| NIO | Native Input/Output
|
| NIPS | Network I/Os Per Second
|
| NIR | Network Information Retrieval
|
| NIS | Network Information Service [Unix]
|
| NISO | National Information Standards Organization
|
| NISP | Networked Information Services Project
|
| NIST | National Institute for Standards and Technology
|
| NITC | National Information Technology Center
|
| NIU | Network Interface Unit
|
| NJE | Network Job Entry (protocol) [IBM]
|
| NL | New Line
|
| NLB | Network Load Balancing [Microsoft]
|
| NLE | Not Less or Equal
|
| NLM | NetWare Loadable Module [Netware]
|
| NLP | Natural-Language Processing
|
| NLQ | Near Letter Quality
|
| NLSFUNC | National Language Support Function
|
| NLV | National Language Version [IBM]
|
| NMI | Non-Maskable Interrupt
|
| NMM | NetWare Management Map [NetWare]
|
| NMOS | Negative Channel Metal-Oxide Semiconductor
|
| NMP | Network Management Protocol [AT&T]
|
| NMS | Network Management System [Novell]
|
| NN | Network Node + No News [Internet]
|
| NNI | Network to Network Interface
|
| NNM | Network Node Manager
|
| NNTP | Network News Transfer Protocol [Internet]
|
| NOC | Network Operations Center
|
| Node | A personal computer hooked up to a network.Any network station. |
| Nonsolid color | See ditheredcolor. |
| NOP | No Operation
|
| NOPAC | Network OPAC
|
| NOR | Not Or
|
| NOS | Network Operating System
|
| Notebook | Small compact computer.Smaller than a portable. Measurements are usually about 8.5 x 11 inches.O |
| NPA | Network Printer Alliance + Numbering Plan Area
|
| NPI | Network Printer Interface
|
| NPL | Nonprocedural Language
|
| NPS | Novell Productivity Specialist [Novell]
|
| NPT | Non-Programmable Terminal
|
| NPTN | National Public Telecomputing Network
|
| NPU | Natural Processing Unit
|
| NPX | Numeric Processor Extension
|
| NQS | Network Queuing System [Cray]
|
| NRC | National Research Council (Canada)
|
| NREN | National Research and Education Network
|
| NRM | Network Resource Manager
|
| NRZ | Not Return to Zero
|
| NRZI | Non Return to Zero Inverted
|
| NS | Nanosecond (one-billionth of a second) +
National Semiconductor (as in Ns16550 UART) +
Network Supervisor + Non Stop
|
| NSA | POLY National Security Agency Polygraph
|
| NSAP | Network Service Access Point
|
| NSAPI | Netscape Server API [Netscape]
|
| NSERC | National Sciences and Engineering Research Council
(Canada)
|
| NSF | National Science Foundation
|
| NSFNET | National Science Foundation Network
|
| NSI | NASA Science Internet
|
| NSLOOKUP | Name Server Lookup [Unix]
|
| NSM | Netscape Server Manager [Netscape]
|
| NSP | Native Signal Processing [Intel] + Network Service
Provider
|
| NSSC | NASA Standard Spacecraft Computer
|
| NSTC | National Science and Technology Council
|
| NSTL | National Software Testing Labs
|
| NT | New Technology [Microsoft]
|
| NT-1 | Network Terminator Type 1
|
| NTAS | NT Advanced Server [Microsoft]
|
| NTF | No Trouble Found
|
| NTFS | New Technology File System [Microsoft]
|
| NTIA | National Telecommunications and
Information Administration
|
| NTIS | National Technical Information Service
|
| NTP | Network Time Protocol
|
| NTRAS | NT Remote Access Services [Microsoft]
|
| NTSA | NetWare Telephony Services Architecture [Novell]
|
| NTSC | National Television Standards Committee
|
| NTU | Network Termination Unit
|
| NUI | Network User Identification +
Network User Interface +
Notebook User Interface [Go Corporation]
|
| NUL | Null + (dummy device) + (no device)
|
| NUMA | Non-Uniform Memory Access
|
| NURBS | Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines
|
| NV | No Overflow
|
| NVM | Non-Volatile Memory
|
| NVOD | Near-Video On Demand
|
| NVP | Nominal Velocity of Propagation
|
| NVRAM | Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
|
| NVT | Network Virtual Terminal +
Novell Virtual Terminal [Novell]
|
| NWS | NetWare Web Server [Netware]
|
| nybble | A nybble is half a byte, or four bits. It is a case of computer whimsy; it only stands to reason that a small byte should be called a nybble. Some authors spell it with an "i" instead of the "y", but the "y" is the original form. |
| NYM | Anonymous
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