Computer/System Terms
Acronyms - S
- SA - System Administrator
- SaaS - Software-as-a-Service
- SAL - soft adjacent layer (read-write head design structure)
- SAN - storage area network
- SAS - single-attachment station
- SATA - Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (interface connecting disk drives to a personal computer)
- SCAT - Single Chip Advanced Technology chipset (multiple chips combined into a single chip)
- SCSI - Small Computer System Interface
- SDLC - Software Development Life Cycle
- SDN - Software Defined Networking
- SID - security identifier
- SIM - Subscriber Identity Module (removable phone chip)
- SIP - Session Initiation Protocol
- SMB - Server Message Block (Protocol used to share files, printers, and other network resources.)
- SOC - System on a Chip
- SPGA - staggered pin grid array (chip underside pin arrangement)
- SQL - Structured Query Language
- SSD - Solid-State Drive (drive using solid-state electronics - no mechanical parts)
- SSID - Service Set Identifier
- SYN - Synchronize or synchronous
- SYN/ACK - Synchronize/Acknowledgment packet
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Acronyms - T
- TACACS - Terminal Access Controller Access Control System
- TAO - track-at-once recording
- TB - terabyte (one trillion bytes) (1,000,000,000,000 bytes)
- TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
- TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
- TDM - Time Division Multiplexing (communication sessions given time slot/take turns transmitting)
- TF - thin film head (read-write head composition)
- TPI - tracks per inch (disk density/recording capacity measure)
- TTL - Transistor-Transistor Logic (digital integrated circuit type)
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Acronyms - U
- UAC - User Account Control
- UAC - User Agent Client
- UART chip - Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter chip
- UAS - User Agent Server
- UBR - unspecified bit rate
- uC - microcontroller
- UC - Unified Communications
- UDF - Universal Disk Format
- UDP - User Datagram Protocol
- UI - user interface (user-computer interaction/communication - commands, menus, icons)
- UID - user identifier
- UPS - uninterruptible power supply
- USB - universal serial bus
- uP - microcroprocessor
- UUID - universal unique identifier
- UV - ultraviolet light