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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