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P2CC2P
     PCI to CPU / CPU tp PCI [concurrency] (BIOS, PC, PCI, CPU),
     "P2C/C2P"

P2P
     Peer to Peer [net]

P3P
     Platform for Privacy Preferences (WWW)

PA
     Precision Architecture (HP)

PABX
     Private Automatic Branch eXchange

PAC
     Privilege Attribute Certificate (DCE)

PACE
     Priority Access Control Enabled (3Com, ethernet)

PACER
     Public Access to Court Electronic Records

PACS
     Picture Archiving and Communications Systems

PACS
     Public-Access Computing Systems

PACT
     Partnership in Advanced Computing Technologies (org. UK)

PACT
     Personal Air Communications Technology, "pACT"

PACT
     Production Analyses Control Technique

PACX
     Private Automatic Computer eXchange

PAD
     Packet Assembling Disassembling (CCITT, X.3, X.28, X.29, PSDN)

PADS
     Programmer's Advanced Debuging System

PAE
     Physical Address Extension (Intel, Pentium, PAE)

PAEB
     Pan American EDIFACT Board (org., EDIFACT), "PA/EB"

PAEB
     Pan American EDIFACT Board (UN/EDIFACT)

PAI
     Process After Input (R/3)

PAL
     Paradox Application Language (Borland, DB)

PAL
     Phase Alternating Line

PAL
     Privileged Architecture Library (DEC, Alpha)

PAL
     Programmable Array Logic

PALCD
     Plasma Addressable Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)

PAM
     Paging Area Memory

PAM
     Pluggable Authentication Module (Linux, LISA)

PAM
     Primary Access Method (BS2000)

PAM
     Programmable Attribute Maps (DRAM, PCI)

PAM
     Pulse Amplification Modulation

PAML
     Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists (Internet, BBS)

PAN
     Personal Account Number

PANDORA
     Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of
     Australia

PANIX
     Public Access internet/uNIX [system] (Unix, Internet, network)

PAP
     Password Authentication Protocol (RFC 1334)

PAP
     Printer Access Protocol (AppleTalk)

PAP
     ProgrammAblaufPlan (DIN 66001)

PAPI
     PC voice API (API, PC)

PAR
     Positive Acknowledgement with Retransmission [protocols]

PAR
     Project Authorization Request (IEEE)

PARC
     Palo Alto Research Center (org., USA, Xerox)

PARISC
     Precision Architecture, Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC,
     HP), "PA-RISC"

PARLE
     [conference on] Parallel ARchitecture and Languages Europe (ECRC,
     conference)

PARTS
     Parts Assembly and Reuse Tool Set (Visual Smalltalk)

PAS
     Publicly Available Specifications (ISO)

PAS2
     Personal Application System /2 (IBM, DB2/2), "PAS/2"

PASC
     Portable Application Standards Committee (org., IEEE)

PAT
     Port and Address Translation (IOS, Cisco, LAN, IP)

PAUSE
     PERL Authors Upload SErver (PERL, CPAN)

PAWS
     Protection Against Wrapped Sequence space (TCP, satellite)

PAX
     Pixel Addressing eXtensions (Intel, RISC, CPU)

PAX
     Portable Archive eXchange (SCO, Unix)

PAX
     Private Automatic eXchange

PB
     Pipeline Burst [cache]

PBC
     Peripheral Bus Computer

PBE
     Prompt By Example

PBI
     Pacific Bell Internet (ISP)

PBI
     Phone Based Interface

PBM
     Play By Mail [game]

PBO
     Process Before Output (R/3)

PBX
     Private Branch eXchange (Nebenstellenanlage)

PC
     Personal Computer

PC
     Printed Circuit (IC)

PC
     Priority Control

PC
     Protocol Control

PC
     Punched Card

PC97
     Personal Computer 97 (MS), "PC 97"

PCA
     Policy Certification Authority (DFN, PGP)

PCA
     Power Calibration Area (CD)

PCAT
     Personal Computer - Advanced Technology, "PC-AT"

PCB
     Printed Circuit Board

PCB
     Process Control Block (BS2000)

PCB
     Program Communication Block (IBM)

PCB
     Protocol Control Block (TCP)

PCC
     Portable C Compiler

PCCA
     Personal Computer Communications Associations (org., USA)

PCD
     Photo CD (Kodak, CD)

PCD
     Process Control Device

PCDA
     Program Controlled Data Acquisition

PCDOS
     Personal Computer DOS (OS, DOS, IBM, PC), "PC-DOS"

PCERT
     Purdue Computer Emergency Response Team

PCF
     Portable Compiled Font

PCH
     Paging CHannel (GSM, CCCH, mobile-systems)

PCI
     Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)

PCI
     Protocol Control Information (OSI, ETSI)

PCIA
     Personal Communications Industry Association (org., USA, SMS)

PCIC
     PC card I/O Card (PCMCIA, I/O)

PCIE
     Permis de Conduire Informatique Europeen (ECDL)

PCIPM
     PCI Power Management [specification] (PCI), "PCI PM"

PCIS
     Portable Common Interface Set

PCIX
     Personal Computer / unIX (IBM, PC), "PC/IX"

PCIXF
     Personal Computer Integrated eXchange Format (OS/2), "PC/IXF"

PCL
     Portable Common LOOPS (CLOS)

PCL
     Printer Control Language (HP)

PCL
     Programmable Command Language (CMU, DEC, TOPS)

PCM
     Personal Computer Manufacturer

PCM
     Physical Connection Management (FDDI, SMT)

PCM
     Plug Compatible Machine

PCM
     Pulse Coded Modulation

PCMCIA
     People Can't Memorize Computer Industries Acronyms (slang)

PCMCIA
     Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (org.)

PCMS
     Project & Configuration Management System

PCMT
     Personal Computer Message Terminal

PCN
     Personal Communications Network

PCN
     Public Communications Network (mobile-systems)

PCNFS
     Personal Computer Network File System

PCNOS
     Personal Computer / Network Operating System (OS, MS-DOS, CP/M),
     "PC/NOS"

PCO
     Point of Control and Observation (ISO 9646-1, IUT)

PCP
     Primary Control Program (IBM, OS, OS/PCP)

PCP
     Printer Control Protocol

PCPC
     Personal Computers Peripheral Corporation (manufacturer)

PCR
     Peak Cell Rate (UNI, ATM, SCR)

PCR
     Processor Configuration Register (Motorola, CPU)

PCR
     Program Clock Reference

PCRW
     Phase Change ReWritable (DVD, EMCA), "PC-RW"

PCS
     Personal Communication System (Sony, Panasonic, Motorola)

PCS
     Personal Communications Services

PCS
     Programmable Communications Subsystem

PCS
     Punched Card System (PC)

PCSA
     Personal Computing Systems Architecture [= Pathworks] (DEC, NOS)

PCSC
     Personal Computer / Smard Card (PC, PCMCIA), "PC/SC"

PCSD
     Printer Control Sequence Description

PCSI
     Pacific Communication Sciences, Inc. (manufacturer)

PCT
     Private Communication Technology (Internet, MS, Visa)

PCT
     Probe Control Table (FFST/2)

PCTCP
     Personal Computer/Transmission Control Protocol, "PC/TCP"

PCTE
     Portable Common Tool Environment (CASE, ESPRIT)

PCTS
     POSIX Compliance Test Suite (POSIX)

PCV
     P-bit Coding Violation [error event] (DS3/E3)

PCV
     Path Coding Violation [error event] (DS1/E1)

PCXT
     Personal Computer - eXtended Technology, "PC-XT"

PD
     Packetization Delay

PD
     Plug & Display [standard] (LCD, VESA), "P&D"

PD
     Public DOMAIN

PDA
     Personal Digital Assistant

PDC
     Power Disk Cartridge (ECMA)

PDC
     Primary DOMAIN Controller (MS, Windows NT, BDC)

PDC
     PROLOG Development Center (manufacturer, Denmark, PROLOG)

PDE
     Partial Differential Equation

PDE
     Personal Digital Entertainment

PDES
     Product Data / Definition Exchange Standards (USA, STEP, CIM)

PDF
     Portable Document Format (Adobe)

PDF
     Program Development Facility (IBM)

PDH
     Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy (ATM)

PDI
     Power and Data Interface

PDK
     Peripheral Developers Kit (MS)

PDL
     Page / Program Description / Design Language

PDL
     PERL Data Language (PERL)

PDL
     Program Development Language

PDLT
     Process Dispatch Latency Time

PDM
     Program Development Manager (IBM, ADT)

PDN
     Programmer's Distribution Network (Fido)

PDN
     Public Data Network (mobile-systems)

PDO
     Portable Distributed Objects (NeXT)

PDOS
     Parallel and Distributed Operating System (OS, MIT)

PDP
     Parallel Distributed Processing (AI)

PDP
     Peripheral Data Processing

PDP
     Plasma Display Panel

PDP
     Programmable Data Processor (DEC)

PDQ
     Parallel Data Query (Informix, DB)

PDS
     Partitioned Data Set

PDS
     Portable Display Shell (Shell)

PDS
     Processor Direct Slot / Socket (Motorola, Apple)

PDS
     Professional Development System (MS)

PDS
     Public DOMAIN Software (PD)

PDSP
     Peripheral Data Storage Processor

PDSS
     Post Development and Software Support

PDT
     Pacific Daylight Time [-0700] (TZ, PST, USA)

PDTR
     Proposed Draft Technical Report

PDU
     Packet Data Unit

PDU
     Product Development Unit

PDU
     Protocol Data Unit (OSI)

PDV
     Photorealistic Data Visualization

PDV
     ProzessDatenVerarbeitung

PE
     Phase Encoding

PE
     Portable eXecutable (Win32, Java)

PE
     Processing Element (MPP)

PEA
     Pocket Ethernet Adapter (LAN, ethernet)

PEARL
     Process and Experiment Automation Realtime Language

PEBCAK
     Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard (slang)

PEBKAC
     Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair (DFUe, Usenet, IRC)

PEC
     Program Execution Control (IBM, OS/2)

PEDS
     Planning, programming, budget, and execution Electronic Delivery
     System

PEEK
     Partners Early Experience Kit (Taligent)

PEL
     Picture ELement

PEM
     Privacy Enhanced Mail (PSRG, RFC 1421/1422/1423/1424)

PEN
     Public Education Network

PEP
     Packetized Ensemble Protocol (Telebit)

PEP
     Personal Exam Prep (MS, ATEC)

PER
     Packed Encoding Rules (ASN.1)

PER
     Program Event Recording

PERL
     Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (slang)

PERL
     Practical Extraction and Report Language (PERL)

PERM
     Pre-Embossed Rigid Magnetic (Sony, HDD)

PERMIS
     PERManentes InventurabwicklungsSystem (MBAG)

PEROM
     Programmable Erasable Read Only Memory (IC)

PERPOS
     PERpetual Processing Operating System (OS, Unix)

PERT
     Program Evaluation / Evolution and Review Technique

PES
     P-bit Errored Seconds (DS3/E3)

PES
     Photo-Electric Scanning (DTP)

PES
     Programmed Electrical Stimulation

PES
     Proposed Encryption Standard (cryptography)

PEST
     Parameter Estimation by Sequential Testing

PET
     Personal Electronic Translator

PET
     Print Enhancement Technology (Compaq)

PET
     Progressive Educational Technology

PEX
     PHIGS Extension for X (X-Windows, PHIGS)

PFA
     Parameter Field Address (Forth)

PFA
     Predictive Failure Analysis (HDD)

PFC
     Power Factor Correction

PFC
     Protocol Field Compression (PPP)

PFE
     Page Fault Error (Windows, MS)

PFK
     Program Function Key

PFM
     Printer Font Metrics (Adobe)

PFPU
     Processor Frame Power Unit

PFR
     Portable Font Resource (Netscape)

PFRAM
     Polymeric Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (RAM, IC)

PFWG
     [WAI] Protocols and Formats Working Group (WAI)

PGA
     Pin Grid Array (IC, CPU)

PGA
     Professional Graphics Adapter (IBM)

PGC
     Professional Graphics Controller

PGFNA
     Prince George Free-Net Association (org., USA)

PGI
     Parameter Group Identifier (SPDU)

PGM
     Practical General Multicast (Cisco, Multicast)

PGML
     Precision Graphics Markup Language (XML, IBM, Netscape, Sun, Adobe)

PGO
     Profile Guided Optimization (Intel)

PGP
     Pretty Good Privacy

PGS
     Program Generation System

PHIGS
     Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System

PHIGSPLUS
     PHIGS Plus Lumiere and Surfaces (PHIGS), "PHIGS-PLUS"

PHIPS
     Professional High-Resolution Image Processing System (CA)

PHOTON
     paneuropean PHOtonic Transport Overlay Network (ACTS)

PHP
     PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP/FI, HTML, CGI, successorr)

PHPFI
     Personal Home Page [construction kit]/Form Interpreter (HTML, CGI,
     PHP, Verlaeufer), "PHP/FI"

PHUN
     Phreakers and Hackers Underground Network (network)

PHY
     PHYsical Layer Control (FDDI)

PI
     Placement and Interconnect [system] (VLSI, MIT)

PIA
     Peripheral Interface Adapter

PIA
     Plug-In Administrator

PIC
     Personal Intelligent Communicator

PIC
     Point in Call (IN)

PIC
     Primary Independent Carrier

PIC
     Priority Interrupt Controller (IC)

PIC
     Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC)

PICG
     PCTE Interface Control Group (org., PCTE)

PICS
     Platform for Internet Content Selection (org., Internet)

PICS
     Plug-in Inventory Control System

PICS
     Protocol Implementation Conformance Statements

PICSDCPR
     PICS Detailed Continuing Property Record, "PICS/DCPR"

PICU
     Priority Interrupt Control Unit

PID
     Process IDentification number (Unix)

PID
     Protocol IDentifier [governing connection types]

PIE
     Personal Interactive Electronics [division] (Apple)

PIG
     Psion Interest Group (Psion)

PIIX
     PCI IDE/ISA Xcelerator (Intel IC)

PIKT
     Problem Informant/Killer Tool (GNU, Linux)

PIM
     Parallel Inference Machine (FGCS, AI)

PIM
     Personal Information Manager

PIM
     Protocol Independent Multicast (ACM, Multicast)

PIMA
     Photographic & Imaging Manufacturers Association (org.,
     predecessor, I3C)

PIMB
     PCTE Interface Management Board (org., PCTE)

PIMDM
     Protocol Independent Multicast-Dense Mode [protocol] (PIM, ACM,
     Multicast), "PIM-DM"

PIMF
     Paar [kabel] In MetallFolie (VDE, STP), "PiMF"

PIMS
     Project Information Management System

PIMSM
     Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode [protocol] (RFC
     2117/2362, PIM, ACM, SM, Multicast), "PIM-SM"

PIN
     Personal Identification Number (banking, ICC)

PIN
     Processor Independent Netware (Novell, HP, DEC, Apple, Sun)

PINE
     Program for Internet News and Email / PINE Is No longer ELM

PINET
     Physicians Information NETwork (network, USA)

PING
     Packet InterNet Groper (ICMP, TCP/IP)

PINT
     PSTN INTernet Interworking [group] (PSTN, IETF)

PIO
     Parallel / Programmed Input/Output

PIOS
     Personen, Institutionen, Objekte, Sachen (INPOL)

PIP
     Packet Interface Port

PIP
     Paper Impact Printing

PIP
     Peripheral Interchange Program

PIP
     Personal Information Processor

PIP
     Picture In Picture (video)

PIP
     Plug-In Protocol (ZOC)

PIPS
     Parallel Information Processing System (GNU)

PIPS
     Pattern Information Processing Systems

PIRA
     Printing Industries Research Association (org.)

PISA
     Portable InformationsSystem Architecture (DB, infodas, PISA)

PISABG
     PISA/Business Graphics (PISA), "PISA/BG"

PISADB
     PISA/Data Base (PISA, DB), "PISA/DB"

PISADD
     PISA/Data Dictionary (PISA), "PISA/DD"

PISADK
     PISA/ ??? (PISA), "PISA/DK"

PISAMP
     PISA/Menue Processor (PISA), "PISA/MP"

PISANT
     PISA/ ??? (PISA), "PISA/NT"

PISAPPS
     PISA/ProduktionsPlanung und -Steuerungssystem (PISA), "PISA/PPS"

PISAQL
     PISA/Query Language (PISA), "PISA/QL"

PISARG
     PISA/Report Generator (PISA), "PISA/RG"

PISW
     Process Interrupt Status Word (CPU, assembler)

PIT
     Programmable Interval Timer

PITA
     Pain In The Anatomy / Ass (slang, Usenet, IRC)

PIU
     Path Information Unit (IBM, SNA)

PIU
     Plug-In Unit

PIXEL
     PIcture ELement

PIXIT
     Protocol Implementation eXtra Information for Testing

PK
     Public Key (cryptography)

PKCS
     Public Key Cryptography Standards (org., USA, cryptography)

PKI
     Public Key Infrastructure (cryptography, Internet, ITU, PKI)

PKS
     Polizeiliche KriminalStatistik (INPOL)

PKT
     Partition Knowledge Table

PL
     Physical Layer (ISO, OSI)

PLA
     Program License Agreement (IBM)

PLA
     Programmable Logic Array

PLATO
     Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations

PLB
     Picture Level Benchmark (GPC)

PLBSI
     Picture Level Benchmark Sample Implementation (GPC)

PLC
     Programmable Logic Controller (IC)

PLCC
     Plastic Leaded [/ Leadless] Chip Carrier

PLCP
     Physical Layer Convergence Procedure / Protocol (UNI, DS-3)

PLD
     Programmable Logic Device (IC, RL)

PLDA
     Private Loop Direct Attach

PLDM
     Power Line Disturbance Monitor

PLI
     Programming Language One (DEC), "PL/I"

PLIP
     Parallel Line Internet Protocol (IP), "PL/IP"

PLL
     Phase Locked Loop

PLM
     Programming Language for Microcomputers

PLMN
     Public Land Mobile Network (mobile-systems, GSM)

PLONK
     Please Leave Our Newsgroup, Kid (Usenet, slang)

PLOU
     Physical Layer Overhead Unit (UNI), "PL-OU"

PLP
     Packet Layer Protocol (X.25)

PLP
     Party Line Protocol

PLP
     Presentation Level Protocol

PLS
     Personal Library Systems (manufacturer)

PLS
     PhysicaL Signaling

PLS
     Programmable Logic Sequencer

PLT
     Procedure Linkage Table

PLV
     Presentation Level Video (DVI, Intel)

PM
     Performance Management

PM
     Peripheral Module

PM
     Personal Message (BBS)

PM
     Physical Medium

PM
     Presentation Manager (OS/2)

PM
     Privileged Mode (HP, MPE)

PM
     Protected Mode (Intel, CPU)

PMA
     Physical Medium Attachment

PMA
     Policy Management Architecture (Netmanage, Internet)

PMA
     Program Memory Area (CD)

PMAC
     Packet Media Access Control (FDDI), "P-MAC"

PMAC
     Peripheral Module Access Controller

PMBR
     PIM Multicast Border Router (PIM, Multicast)

PMC
     Pseudo-Machine Code

PMD
     Physical layer, Medium Dependant [sub-layer] (FDDI, UNI)

PMDRAM
     Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM, DRAM, IC), "PM-DRAM"

PME
     Pattern Matching Engine

PMJI
     Pardon Me for Jumping In (slang)

PMMU
     Paged Memory Management Unit

PMOS
     Positive-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (IC)

PMP
     Point to MultiPoint (UNI)

PMP
     Preventive Maintenance Package (AIX, IBM)

PMR
     Poor Man's Routing

PMR
     Problem Management Report (IBM)

PMS
     Personal Mailing System

PMS
     Processor Memory Switch

PMS
     Project Management System

PMS
     Public Message System

PMSP
     Preliminary Message Security Protocol

PMU
     PowerMeter Unit

PMW
     Project Manager Workbench

PMX
     Packet MultipleXer (MUX)

PMX
     Presentation Manager for the X window system, "PM/X"

PNG
     Portable Network Graphics [format] (RFC 2083)

PNNI
     [phase 0] Public Network Node Interface [protocol] (ATM)

PNNI
     Private Network to Network Interface (ATM), "P-NNI"

PNP
     Plug 'N Play (PNP), "PnP"

PNPBIOS
     Plug and Play Basic Input Output System (PNP, BIOS), "PnP BIOS"

PNPN
     Positive Negative Positive Negative [devices]

PNS
     PeaceNet Sweden (network)

PNW
     Personal NetWare (Novell, Netware)

POACH
     PC-On-A-Chip (PC)

POC
     Proof of Concept

POCSAG
     Post Office Code Standard Advisory Group (org., SMS)

POD
     Plain Old Document [format]

POD
     Print / Publishing On Demand, "PoD"

PODA
     Piloting of ODA (ESPRIT, SNI, Bull, TITN, ICL, Olivetti, ODA)

PODA
     Priority Orientated Demand Assignment (MAC, TDM)

POE
     PowerOpen Association (Apple, IBM, Motorola, ..., org.)

POEM
     Portable Object-orientated Entity Manager (SGML)

POEMS
     Platinum Open Enterprise Management System

POEP
     Primary Operand Execution Pipeline (Motorola, CPU), "pOEP"

POF
     Plastic Optical Fiber (OWG)

POGO
     Programmer-Oriented Graphics Operation

POH
     Path OverHead (SONET)

POI
     Path Overhead Indicator (SONET)

POI
     Point Of Information

POI
     Point Of Interaction (IN)

POL
     Problem / Procedure / Process Oriented Language

PON
     Passive Optical Network

POOL
     Parallel Object Orientated Language (DOOM, OOP)

POP
     Package for Online Programming

POP
     Point Of Presence (Internet, ISP)

POP3
     Post Office Protocol 3 (Internet, RFC 1939)

POR
     Point Of Return (IN)

POR
     Power-On Reset (BIOS)

POS
     Primary Operating System (OS, RCA Spectra 70)

POS
     Professional Operating System (OS, DEC), "P/OS"

POS
     Programmable Object Select

POS
     Piece of Shit

POSE
     Palm Operating System Emulator (Palm)

POSI
     Promoting conference for OSI (Japan, org., conference)

POSIX
     Portable Operating System for unIX (OS, IEEE 1003, ISO 9945, PASC,
     Unix)

POST
     Power-On Self-Test

POSYBL
     PrOgramming SYstem for distriButed appLications

POTS
     Plain Old Telephone System (slang, Usenet, IRC)

POV
     Persistence of Vision (raytracing)

POWER
     Power Optimization With Enhanced RISC [chip] (IBM, Apple, Motorola)

PP
     Physical Partition (LVM)

PP
     Physical Plane (IN)

PP
     Pre-Processor

PPA
     Parallel Port Adapter

PPC
     PowerPC (Apple)

PPC
     Program to Program Communication (Apple)

PPDS
     Personal Printer Data Stream

PPDU
     Presentation Protocol Data Unit (PDU, OSI, ISO 8823, OSI/RM)

PPE
     Packet Processing Engine (Hub)

PPGA
     Plastic Pin Grid Array (CPU)

PPI
     Parallel Port Interface

PPI
     Pixels Per Inch

PPI
     Programmable Peripheral Interface

PPID
     Parent Process IDentification number (Unix)

PPL
     Pcboard Programming Language (BBS)

PPL
     Polymorphic Programming Language (Harvard, Xerox, PARC)

PPM
     Pages Per Minute

PPM
     Pulse Position Modulation (MMVF)

PPMI
     PCI bus Power Management Interface (PCI)

PPMS
     Professional Productivity Management System

PPN
     Project Programmer Number

PPN
     Public Packet Switching

PPOP
     Plain Paper Optimized Printing (Canon), "P-POP"

PPP
     Point-to-Point Protocol (Internet, PPP, RFC 1171/1661)

PPPD
     Point-to-Point Protocol Deamon (PPP)

PPPOE
     Point-to-Point Protocol Over Ethernet [protocol] (ADSL, RFC 2516),
     "PPPoE"

PPS
     Packets Per Second

PPS
     Parallel Processing System

PPS
     ProduktionsPlanung und -Steuerung

PPS
     Public Packet Switching [network]

PPSN
     Public Packet-Switched Network

PPSU
     Personal Printer Spooling Utility

PPTP
     Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (MS, Ascend, IP)

PPU
     Peripheral Processing Unit

PQET
     Print Quality Enhancement Technology (Lexmark)

PQFP
     Plastic Quad Flat Package (CPU)

PR
     Packet Radio

PR
     Pattern Recognition

PR
     Pentium Rating (AMD)

PR
     Placement & Routing (RL, IC), "P&R"

PRACSA
     Public Remote-Access Computer Standards Association (org., USA)

PRAM
     Parameter Random Access Memory (RAM, IC, Apple), "P-RAM"

PRCS
     Project Revision Control System (GNU)

PREP
     PowerPC REferenz Plattform (IBM, Apple), "PReP"

PREPNET
     Pennsylvania Research and Economic Partnership NETwork (network,
     USA), "PREPnet"

PRF
     Problem Report Form (IBM)

PRI
     Primary Rate Interface (ISDN)

PRIDE
     PRofitable Information by DEsign (IRM)

PRISM
     Parallel Reduced Instruction Set Multiprocessing

PRISM
     PRogrammed Integrated System Maintenance

PRMD
     PRivate Management DOMAIN (X.400, MHS)

PRML
     Partial Response - Maximum Likelihood (HDD)

PRN
     Pseudo Random Noise [code] (GPS)

PRNG
     Pseudo Random Numer Generator

PRO
     Precision RISC Organization (org.)

PROFIBUS
     PROcess FIeld BUS

PROFS
     PRofessional OFfice System (IBM, VM)

PROLOG
     PROgramming in LOGic

PROM
     Partial Read Only Memory (ROM), "P-ROM"

PROM
     Programmable Read Only Memory (ROM, IC)

PROMATS
     PROgrammable Magnetic Tape System

PROPAL
     PROgrammed PAL

PROS
     ??? [protocol]

PROTEL
     PRocedure Oriented Type Enforcing Language

PRPQ
     Programming Request for Price Quotation

PRS
     Pattern-Recognition System (PR)

PRT
     Portable Remote Terminal

PRT
     Program Reference Table

PRTM
     Printing Response Time Monitor

PS
     PostScript (Adobe)

PS
     Power Supply

PS
     Privilege Service (DCE)

PS
     Process Status (Unix)

PS2
     Personal System /2, "PS/2"

PSA
     Python Software Activity (Python)

PSAP
     Presentation Service Access Point (OSI, OSI/RM, SAP)

PSB
     Program Specification Block (IBM)

PSC
     Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (org., USA)

PSCNET
     Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center NETwork (network, USA), "PSCnet"

PSD
     Printer Sharing Device

PSD
     Programmer's Supplementary Documents (BSD, Unix)

PSDC
     Public Switched Digital Capability

PSDN
     Packet-Switching Data Network

PSDS
     Public-Switched Digital Service

PSE
     Packet Switch Exchange

PSE
     Port Switched Ethernet (Bytex, VLAN, ethernet)

PSES
     P-bit Severely Errored Seconds (DS3/E3)

PSF
     Permanent Swap File

PSF
     Print Services Facility (IBM)

PSF
     Python Software Foundation (org., Python)

PSI
     Performance Systems International, inc.

PSID
     Presentation Space IDentifier (IBM)

PSIPU
     PostScript - Intelligent Processing Unit (Canon, Adobe, CLC),
     "PS-IPU"

PSIU
     Packet Switch Interface Unit

PSK
     Phase Shift Keying (DFUe)

PSL
     PD Service Lage (Haendler)

PSL
     Public Software Library

PSM
     Persistent Storage Manager (Maxtor)

PSM
     Persistent Stored Modules (SQL)

PSM
     Personal Software Marketing (IBM)

PSN
     Packet / Public Switched Network

PSN
     Packet Switch Node (ARPANET, MILNET)

PSOM
     Persistency framework in SOMobjects (IBM, DSOM)

PSOS
     Provably Secure Operating System (OS)

PSP
     Personal Software Products (IBM)

PSP
     Program Segment Prefix (DOS)

PSP
     ProjektStrukturPlan

PSPDN
     Packet Switched Public Data Network (IN)

PSR
     Phase Shift Register (IC)

PSR
     Program Support Representative

PSRG
     Privacy and Security Research Group (IRTF)

PSRO
     Professional Standards Review Organization

PSS
     Packet Switch Services / Stream

PSSF
     Personal System Support Family (IBM)

PST
     Pacific Standard Time [-0800] (TZ, PDT, USA)

PSTN
     Public Switched Telephone Network (IN)

PSU
     Portable Storage Unit

PSU
     Primary Sampling Unit

PSU
     Program Storage Unit

PSW
     Program Status Word

PT
     Payload Type (ATM)

PTAL
     Payment Transaction Application Layer (Internet, banking)

PTAT
     Private Trans-Atlantic Telecommunications

PTB
     Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (org.)

PTC
     Pacific Telecommunications Council (org.)

PTC
     Parallel Test Component (ISO 9646-3, TTCN)

PTD
     Parallel Transfer Disk / Drive

PTE
     Packet Transport Equipment

PTE
     Path Terminating Equipment (SONET)

PTERM
     Physical TERMinal (IBM), "PTerm"

PTF
     Program Temporary Fix (IBM)

PTH
     Plated-Through-Hole

PTI
     Payload Type Identifier (ATM, PT)

PTI
     Polskie Towarzystwo Informatyczne (org., Poland)

PTM
     Packet Transfer Mode (ATM)

PTMSC
     Point-To-Multipoint Service Center (GPRS, mobile-systems,
     Multicast), "PTM-SC"

PTO
     Patent and Trademark Office (org., USA)

PTOCA
     Presentation Text Object Content Architecture (IBM, MO:DCA)

PTOS
     Paper Tape Operating System (OS)

PTP
     Paper Tape Punch

PTP
     Picture Transfer Protocol (PIMA 15740)

PTR
     Paper Tape Reader

PTSS
     People's Time Sharing System (OS; CDC 6600)

PTT
     Postes, Telegraphe et Telephone (org., Switzerland)

PTTP
     Point-to-PoinT Tunneling Protocol

PTW
     Primary Translation Word

PTY
     Pseudo-Terminal driver

PU
     Physical Unit (NAU)

PU
     Power Unit

PU
     Processing Unit

PUA
     Profiling User Agent

PUB
     Physical Unit Block

PUC
     Peripheral Unit Controller

PUC
     Public Utilities Commission

PUCP
     Physical Unit Control Point (IBM, SNA)

PUFFT
     Purdue University Fast FORTRAN compiler (FORTRAN)

PUID
     Physical Unit IDentifier (IBM)

PUK
     Personal / PIN Unblocking Key (PIN)

PUMA
     Power User's Macintosh Association (org., Apple)

PUMA
     Processor Upgradable Modular Architecture

PUMA
     Programmable Universal Micro Accelerator

PUMS
     Physical Unit Management Services

PUP
     PARC Universal packet Protocol

PURL
     Persistent Uniform Resource Locator (URL, WWW)

PUT
     Program Update Tape

PV
     Physical Volume (LVM, HDD)

PVA
     Packetized Video Audio

PVC
     Permanent Virtual Circuit (SVC)

PVC
     Permanent Virtual Circuit / Channel / Connection (ATM)

PVCC
     Permanent Virtual Channel Connection (ATM)

PVCS
     Polytron Version Control System

PVD
     Primary Volume Descriptor (CD, IS 9660)

PVITL
     Program-Variation-In-The-Large (SCM)

PVITS
     Program-Variation-In-The-Small (SCM)

PVM
     Parallel Virtual Machine (SMP, Cluster)

PVN
     Private Virtual Network

PVP
     Packet Video Protocol

PVPC
     Permanent Virtual Path Connection (ATM)

PWB
     Printer Wire Board

PWB
     Programmers Work Bench (MS)

PWD
     Print Working Directory (Unix)

PWM
     Pulse Width Modulation (DVD)

PWN
     Peacenet World News

PWSCS
     Programmable WorkStation Communication Services

PWV
     Pulse-Wave Velocity

PXE
     Preboot eXecution Environment (Intel)

PY
     Person Years

PZDF
     Phil Zimmermann Defense Fund (PGP)

PZE
     ???


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