THE UNIX ACRONYM LIST

Organisations/Institutions/Companies

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AcronymMeaning
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ARPA Advanced Research Project Agency
DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
FSF Free Software Foundation
HP Hewlett Packard
IBM International Business Machines
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronical Engineers
ISO not an acronym (from greek "isos"; see here)
NIC Network Information Center
OSF Open Software Foundation
OSI Open Systems Interconnection
SCO Santa Cruz Operation
USL Unix System Laboratories
W3C Word Wide Web Consortium

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