| Acronym | Meaning |
| MIP | Millions Of Instructions Per Second |
| MOLAS | Mono Lake APIPS Study |
| EDUCOM | A Consortium Of Industrial Organizations And University Computing Administrators |
| MSF | Magnetic Flux Structures |
| DMAIAGS | Defense Mapping Agency Inter-American Geodetic Survey |
| NOC | Naval Oceanographic Command |
| TDMC | TAMEX Data Management Center |
| UUCP | UNIX-to-UNIX Copy |
| DBZ | Decibles |
| DRGS | Direct Read-out Ground Station |