| Acronym | Meaning |
| MPI | Message Passing Interface |
| POS | Pivoting Optical Servo |
| JEIDA | Japan Electronic Industry Development Association |
| FBGA | Fine-pitch Ball-grid Array |
| GREP | Generalized Regular Expression Pattern-matcher |
| DSU | Data Service Unit |
| AMS | American Mobile Satellite Corporation |
| ADP | Automatic Data Processing |
| VMS | Virtual Memory System |
| LEP | Light Emitting Polymers |