Computer Abbreviations—N

Computer Abbreviations—N

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NACK: Negative ACKnowledgement

NAK: Negative AcKnowledge Character

NaN : Not a Number

NAP: Network Access Protection

NAS: Network-Attached Storage

NASM: Netwide ASseMbler

NAT: Network Address Translation

NCP: NetWare Core Protocol

NCQ: Native Command Queuing

NCSA: National Center for Supercomputing Applications

NDIS: Network Driver Interface Specification

NDPS: Novell Distributed Print Services

NDS: Novell Directory Services

NEP: Network Equipment Provider

NetBIOS: Network Basic Input/Output System

NetBT: NetBIOS over TCP/IP

NEXT: Near-End CrossTalk

NFA: Nondeterministic Finite Automaton

NFC: Near field communication

NFS: Network File System

NGL: aNGeL

NGSCB: Next-Generation Secure Computing Base

NI: National Instruments

NIC: Network Interface Controller

NIM: No Internal Message

NIO: New I/O

NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology

NLP: Natural Language Processing

NLS: Native Language Support

NMI: Non-Maskable Interrupt

NNTP: Network News Transfer Protocol

NOC: Network Operations Center

NOP: No OPeration

NOS: Network Operating System

NP: Nondeterministic Polynomial time

NPL: Netscape Public License

NPTL: Native POSIX Thread Library

NPU: Network Processing Unit

NS: Netscape

NSA: Network Security Appliance

NSI: Network Service Interface

NSPR: Netscape Portable Runtime

NSS: Novell Storage Service

NSS: Network Security Services

NSS: Name Service Switch

NT: New Technology

NTFS: NT Filesystem

NTLM: NT Lan Manager

NTP: Network Time Protocol

NUMA: Non-Uniform Memory Access

NURBS: Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline

NVR: Network Video Recorder
NVRAM: Non-Volatile Random Access Memory