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GA

General Availability (OS/2)

GA

Genetic Algorithm(s)

GABELN

Gruppe Area Brett Echo Liste Newsgroup (telecommunication-slang, Usenet, BBS)

GABRIEL

GAteway and BRIdge to Europe's national Libraries

GAC

Global Assembly Cache (MS, .NET)

GAC

Government Advisory Council (ICANN)

GADK

Global Application Developers Kit (Sun)

GAE

Generic Application Environment

GAEB

Gemeinsamer Ausschuss fuer Elektronik im Bauwesen (org.)

GAFCON

German AirForce Communication Network Mil., Germany, Netzwerk

GAFDIN

German AirForce Digital Network Mil., Germany, Netzwerk

GAIA

GUI Application Interoperability Architecture (OSF)

GAIN

German Advanced Integrated Network (IBM)

GAK

Governmental Accessed Keys (cryptography)

GAL

Generic Array celL / Logic

GAN

Global Area Network

GAN

GrenzAktenNachweis (INPOL)

GAP

Generic Access Profile (DECT, Europe)

GAP

Generic Address Parameter

GART

Graphics Address Remapping Table (AGP)

GASH

Group Admin SHell (Unix, Shell)

GATOR

GATeway OrientierungsRatgeber (Internet)

GAWK

GNU AWK (GNU, AWK)

GB

GigaByte

GB

GuoBao [codepage]

GBIP

General Purpose Interface Bus

GBPS

GigaBits Per Second

GC

Global Catalog (MS, AD)

GCA

General Communications Architecture (Ingres)

GCAD

Geographical Computer Aided Design System

GCATT

Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (org., USA)

GCC

GNU C Compiler (GNU)

GCCS

Global Command and Control System (DISA, mil.)

GCCS

Government Code and Cipher School (UK, mil.), "GC&CS"

GCHQ

Government Communications HeadQuarters (mil., UK)

GCID

Global Call IDentifier

GCIDIE

Global Call IDentifier- Information Element (GCID), "GCID-IE"

GCL

GNU Common LISP (GNU, LISP)

GCL

Graphics Command Language

GCOS

General Comprehensive Operating System (Honeywell, OS, Honeywell Series 60, Honeywell Series 6000)

GCR

Gray Component Replacement (RGB, CYMK, DTP)

GCR

Group Coded Recording

GCRA

Generic Cell Rate Algorithm (UNI, ATM)

GCS

Greek Computer Society (org., Griechenland)

GCS

Group Control System (IBM, VM, VME, VM/ESA)

GDA

Global Directory Agent (DCE)

GDAP

Government Document Application Profile

GDB

GNU DeBugger (GNU)

GDBM

GNU Data Base Manager (DB, GNU)

GDD

Gesellschaft fuer Datenschutz und Datensicherung (org.)

GDDM

Graphical Data Display Manager (IBM)

GDI

Graphical Device / Display Interface

GDMI

Generic Definition of Management Information

GDMO

Guidelines for the Definition of Managed Objects (OSI)

GDOS

Graphics Device Operating System (OS, Atari)

GDOUG

Greater Detroit OS/2 User Group (org., user group, OS/2, USA)

GDPDU

Grundsaetze zum Datenzugriff und zur Pruefbarkeit Digitaler Unterlagen (BMF), "GDPdU"

GDROM

??? Read Only Memory (Sega, ROM), "GD-ROM"

GDS

Generalized Data Stream (IBM, APPC)

GDS

Global Directory Service (DCE)

GDT

Global Descriptor Table

GDTRC

Global Descriptor Table Register Cache (GDT, Intel, CPU)

GE

General Electric (manufacturer, GE)

GEAM

GEAM Encrypts All Mails (cryptography)

GECOS

General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor / System (OS, GE, GCOS, predecessor, Honeywell)

GEI

Gesellschaft fuer Elektronische Informationsverarbeitung [mbh] (manufacturer, Aachen)

GEIST

German Encyclopedic Internet Service Terminal (org.)

GEM

Generalized Executive for realtime Multiprocessor applications (OS)

GEM

Graphics Environment Manager (DR, PC)

GENIE

General Electric Network for Information Exchange (network, GE)

GEOS

Graphic Environment Operating System (OS)

GERAN

GSM EDGE Radio Access Network (GSM, EDGE, mobile-systems)

GESIP

GESellschaft fuer Informatik in der Pharmazie [e.v.] (org.)

GETS

Government Emergency Telecommunications System (USA)

GFC

Generic Flow Control (ATM)

GFC

Going For Coffee (telecommunication-slang, Usenet, IRC)

GFDL

GNU Free Documentation License (GNU)

GFLOPS

Giga FLoating-point Operations Per Second (CPU)

GFP

Global Functional Plane (IN)

GFS

??? File System

GFSK

Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying (telecommunication)

GGI

General Graphics Interface

GGP

Gateway to Gateway Protocol (RFC 823)

GGS

GueteGemeinschaft Software [e.v.] (org.)

GGSN

Gateway GPRS Support Node (GPRS, mobile-systems)

GHOST

Goal Hierarchy and Objectives Structuring Technique (TUB)

GHTSTN

Guest Host Technique SuperTwisted Nematic (LCD), "GHT-STN"

GI

Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (org.)

GID

Group ID

GIDAS

Grafisch-Interaktives DatenAnalyseSystem

GIDEI

General Input Device Emulation Interface

GIDO

General Intrusion Detection Object (CIDF)

GIGO

Garbage In Garbage Out

GII

General Input Interface

GIL

Gesellschaft fuer Informatik in der Land-, forst- und ernaehrungswirtschaft [e.v.] (org.)

GIM

Gesellschaft fuer informationstechnik und InformationsManagement [mbh] (ISC, Bremen)

GIMP

General / GNU Image Manipulation Program (Linux, Graphik, GNU)

GIMPS

Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (Internet)

GINA

Generische INteraktive Anwendung (GMD)

GINA

Graphic Identification and Authentication

GIOP

General Inter-ORB Protocol (OMG, CORBA, ORB, IIOP)

GIPS

Giga Instructions Per Second (CPU)

GIRL

Generalized Information Retrieval Language

GIS

Geographic Information System

GIT

GNU Interactive Tools (GNU)

GITS

Government Information Technology Service (USA)

GJSP

GNU Java Server Pages (GNU, Java, JSP)

GKDC

Group Key Distribution Centre (KDC, CBT)

GKMP

Group Key Management Protocol

GKS

Graphic Kernel System

GLDV

Gesellschaft fuer Linguistische DatenVerarbeitung (org.)

GLGPL

GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU)

GLM

Generalized Markup Language

GLOCOM

[center for] GLObal COMmunications (org., Japan)

GLU

openGL Utility Library (OpenGL, GLU)

GLUT

openGL Utility library Toolkit (OpenGL, GLU)

GM

General MIDI [standard] (MIDI)

GMA

Gesellschaft fuer Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik (org., VDI)

GMCH

Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (Intel, ICH)

GMD

Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (org., St. Augustin)

GMDS

deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Medizinische Dokumentation, informatik und Statistik [e.v.] (org.)

GME

Gesellschaft MikroElektronik (org., VDE, VDI)

GMGPL

GNAT Modified GNU Public License (GNAT, GNU, GPL)

GMI

Generic Management Information (OSI)

GML

General Markup Language

GMOEOR

Gesellschaft ??? (org.)

GMP

GNU Multi-Precision [library] (GNU)

GMR

Giant Magneto-Resistive [heads] (HDD, IBM, Toshiba)

GMSK

Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying

GMT

Greenwich Mean Time [+0000] (TZ, UTC, UK)

GNA

Global Network Academy (Internet)

GNAT

GNU Ada Translator (GNU)

GNI

GayNet International (network)

GNIUS

GSM Network for Improved access to Universal Services (GSM, Europe)

GNMP

Government Network Management Profile (USA)

GNN

Global Network Navigator (Internet, WWW)

GNOME

GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNU)

GNU

GNU's Not Unix (rekursiv!, Unix, GNU, OS)

GNUPG

GNU Privacy Guard (GNU, cryptography), "GnuPG"

GNX400

Gateway Network eXchange 400 (Proteon, SNA, SDLC), "GNX 400"

GOCA

Graphic Object Content Architecture (IBM, MO:DCA)

GOD

Global OutDial

GOD

Grundsaetze ordnungsmaessiger Datenverarbeitung, "GoD"

GOP

Group Of Pictures (video, VOBU, DVD)

GOPS

Giga Operations Per Second

GOSIP

Government Open Systems Interconnections Profile (USA, UK)

GPA

GNU Privacy Assistant (GNU, GnuPG)

GPC

General-Purpose Computation

GPC

GNU Pascal Compiler (GNU)

GPC

Graphics Performance Characterization [committee] (org., HP, IBM, DEC, SGI, Sun,...)

GPC

Group Policy Container (AD, GPO)

GPCI

Graphics Processor Command Interface

GPF

General Protection Fault (Windows)

GPG

GNU Privacy Guard (GNU)

GPI

Graphics Programming Interface

GPIB

General-Purpose Interface Bus (IEEE 488, GPIB)

GPIO

General Purpose Input Output

GPL

General Public Licence (GNU)

GPL

Graphics Programming Language

GPM

Gesellschaft fuer ProjektManagement [e.v.] (org.)

GPO

Group Policy Objects (AD, GPO)

GPP

[SCSI-3] Generic Packetized Protocol (SAM)

GPR

General Purpose Register (CPU)

GPRS

General Packet Radio Service / System (ETSI, GSM, TCP/IP, GPRS, mobile-systems)

GPS

Global Positioning System

GPSI

Graphics Processor Software Interface

GPT

Group Policy Template (AD, GPO)

GPT

GUID Partition Table (EFI, GUID)

GPU

Graphics Processing Unit

GPV

General Public Virus

GRADD

GRaphics Adapter Device Driver (OS/2, IBM)

GRASP

Graphic Animation System for Professionals

GRC

Generic Reference Configuration

GRE

Generic Routing Encapsulation (RFC 1701, VPN)

GREP

Global Regular Expression Print (Unix)

GRIC

Global Research Internet Connection (org., ISP)

GRINS

GRaphical iNterface to SMIL (SMIL, Oratix), "GRiNS"

GRPS

General Packet Radio Service (GSM, mobile-systems)

GRUB

GRand Unified Bootloader (GNU)

GS

General Standard (MIDI)

GS

Gepruefte Sicherheit

GSDK

Game Software Development Kit (Linux, GGI, OpenGL)

GSDS

Genealogy Software Distribution System

GSL

Graphics Software Labs (AT&T)

GSM

Global System for Mobile communications

GSM

Groupe Speciale Mobile (org. , CEPT)

GSMP

General Switch Management Protocol (DEC, Sprint)

GSNW

Gateway Service for NetWare (MS, Windows NT)

GSP

GNU Server Pages (GNU, Java, JSP)

GSS

Generic Security Service (IETF, GSS-API)

GSS

Group Support System

GSSAPI

Generic Security Service API (RFC 2078, API), "GSS-API"

GST

Guam Standard Time [+1000] (TZ)

GSX

Graphics System eXtension

GTDM

Group Time Division Multiplexing [protocol]

GTF

Generalized Timing Format (VESA)

GTK

[GNU] GIMP ToolKit (GNU, GUI)

GTL

Gunning Tranceiver Logic+ [bus] (Intel, SMP), "GTL+"

GTLD

Generic Top Level DOMAIN (Internet, ICANN), "gTLD"

GTP

GPRS Tunnel Protocol (GPRS, mobile-systems)

GTS

GigaTexel Shading

GUI

Graphical User Interface (UI)

GUID

Global[ly] Unique IDentifier (COM)

GUIDE

Graphical User Interface Design Editor (Sun)

GUILE

GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension (GNU)

GUS

Guide to the Use of Standards (SPAG)

GUUG

German Unix User Group (org., user group, Unix)

GV

GebaeudeVerteiler (cable, EN 50 173)

GVBA

Global Village Business Association (org., USA)

GVV

German Volunteer Votetakers (Usenet, DANA)

GWAI

German Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (conference, AI)

GWBASIC

Graphics and Windows Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC, MS-DOS), "GW-Basic"

GWDG

Gesellschaft fuer Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Goettingen [mbH] (org.)

GWS

Gesellschaft fuer Wirtschafts- und Sozialkybernetik (org., Uni Marburg)

GWS

Graphics WorkShop