Tech Acronym Etymologies
Users discuss, question, and explain the origins, meanings, and confusions around technical acronyms, abbreviations, prefixes, and naming conventions in areas like networking, hardware, electronics, and software.
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I got lost in their naming convention, what is it, 2c? 8c? 9c?
So "vice signalling", maybe?
The short names confuse me a bit on this.
Interesting to know about the 'N'. How about g1 & f1? Any history behind those?
They're probably referring to the "CF/CW/TW" part.
gx probably means global crossing, qw probably means qwest
Do you mean cmr, cmi, cmtt, ...?
It’s a contraction of the inner 8 letters. In the same vein as i18n.
Do you happen to know what the KA and KL prefixes stand for?
S for simple really comes apart in "SNMP".