Unix Abbreviations and Acronyms

  1. k-b
    Keyboard
  2. NAK
    Negative Acknowledge
  3. PARA
    Paragraph
  4. BINARY
    Binaries
  5. AIX
    Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM)
  6. RMDIR
    Remove Directory
  7. SPOOL
    Simultaneous Peripheral Operation OnLine
  8. ANSCII
    American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
  9. 3W
    World Wide Web
  10. STX
    Start of Text
  11. SCOC
    Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
  12. A/UX
    Apple Unix
  13. Sinix
    Siemens Unix
  14. srand
    seed random number generator
  15. c89
    1989 C compiler
  16. chsh
    change shell
  17. nawk
    New AWK
  18. PASSWD
    Password
  19. SIGABRT
    signal: abort
  20. SIGALRM
    signal: alarm clock

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