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• BA Bell Atlantic (company)
• BACP Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol
• BAK Binary Adaptation Kit [Microsoft]
• .BAK Backup (file name extension)
• BAL Basic Assembly Language
• BALUN Balanced Unbalanced (device)
• BAM Boyan Action Module
• BAPI Business Application Programming Interface [SAP]
• BARTS Bell Atlantic Regional Timesharing
• .BAS Basic Language (file name extension)
• BASH Bourne Again Shell [Unix]
• BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
• BASM Built-In Assembler
• BAT Block Address Translation
• .BAT Batch Processing (file name extension)
• B2B Business-To-Business
• BBS Bulletin Board System
• B2C Business To Consumer
• BCC Block Check Character
• BCC: Blind Carbon Copy
• BCD Binary Coded Decimal
• B-CHANNEL Bearer Channel
• BCL Base Class Libraries + Batch Command Language
• BCN Beacon
• BCNF Boyce-Codd Normal Form
• BCP Best Current Practice + Bulk Copy Program
• BCPL Basic Computer Programming Language
• BCR Byte Count Register
• BCS Bar Code Sorter
• BDA Bios Data Area
• BDC Backup Domain Controller
• BDE Borland Database Engine [Borland]
• BDLS Bidirectional Loop Switching
• BDOS Basic Disk Operating System
• BDR Bus Device Request
• BDSL (See DSL)
• BE Below or Equal
• B2E Business To Employees
• BECN Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
• BEDO Burst Extended Data Out
• BEEP Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol
• BEL Bell
• BELLCORE Bell Communications Research
• BER Basic Encoding Rules + Bit Error Rate
• BERT Bit Error Rate Test/Tester
• BF Bad Flag
• B/F Background/Foreground
• .BFC Briefcase (file name extension) [Microsoft]
• BFF Binary File Format [IBM]
• BFT Binary File Transfer
• BFTP Batch FTP
• BGA Ball Grid Array
• BGCOLOR Background Color [HTML]
• BGE Branch if Greater or Equal
• .BGI Borland Graphic Interface (file name extension)
• BGP Border Gateway Protocol
• BGT Branch if Greater Than
• BHI Branch if Higher
• BHIS Branch if Higher or Same
• BI Binary Input
• .BIB Bibliography (file name extension)
• BiDi Bi-Directional
• BIFET Bipolar Field Effect Transistor
• BIFF Binary Interchange File Format
• BIM Beginning of Information Marker
• .BIN Binary (file name extension)
• BINAC * Binary Automatic Computer
• BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain
• BINHEX Binary Hexadecimal
• BIOS Basic Input/Output System
• BIS Business Information System
• BISDN Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network
• BIST Built-In Self-Test
• BiSYNC (See BSYNC)
• BIT Binary Digit
• BITNET Because It's Time Network
• BITNIC Bitnet Network Information Center
• BIU Bus Interface Unit
• BIW Business Intelligence Warehouse [SAP]
• BIX Byte Information Exchange (BBS)
• .BIZ Businesses (Domain Name) [Internet]
• .BK! Backup (file name extension) [WordPerfect]
• .B~K Backup (file name extension)
• BKSP Backspace
• BL Backlit + Bit Line
• BLAST Bell Labs Layered Space Time + Blocked Asynchronous Transmission (protocol)
• [Communications Research Group]
• .BLD BASIC Bload Graphics (file name extension)
• BLE Branch if Less or Equal
• BLER Block Error
• BLK Block
• BLMC Buried Logic Macrocell
• BLOB Binary Large Object
• BLOS Branch if Lower Or Same
• BMI Branch if Minus
• BMIC BusMaster Interface Controller [Intel]
• BMP Basic Mapping Support + Basic Multilingual Plane + Batch Message Processing Program
• .BMP Bitmap (file name extension) [Paintbrush Format]
• BNC Bayonet Neill-Concelman (connector used with
• coaxial cable invented by Mr. Neill-Concelman) + British Naval Connector
• BNE Branch if Not Equal
• BNF Backus-Naur Form (also Backus-Normal Form) [developed by
• John Backus and Peter Naur]
• BNS Backbone Network Service
• BO Binary Output
• BOA Basic Object Adapter
• BOB Break-out Box
• BOC Basic Operator Console
• BOF Beginning Of File
• BOM Basic Online Memory [IBM] + Beginning Of Message
• BOND Bandwidth On Demand
• BOOTP Bootstrap Protocol [Internet]
• BOPS Billion Operations Per Second
• BORPQU Borland Pro Quattro
• BORQU Borland Quattro
• BOS Basic Operating System
• BOT Beginning Of Table + Beginning of Tape + Robot
• BP Base Pointer
• BPB BIOS Parameter Block
• BPDU Bridge Protocol Data Unit
• Berkeley Packet Filter
• BPI Bits Per Inch
• BPL Branch if Plus
• BPP Bits Per Pixel
• BPR Business Process Re-engineering [Linux]
• BPS Bits Per Second + Bytes Per Second
• BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying
• BR Bad Register
• BRGC Binary Reflected Gray Code
• BRI Basic Rate Interface + Brain Response Interface
• BS Backspace
• BSAM Basic Sequential Access Method
• BSC Binary Synchronous Communication
• .BSC Boyan Script (file name extension) [Boyan Communications]
• BSCS Bachelor of Science (Degree) in Computer Science
• BSD Berkely Software/Standard Distribution
• BSF Bit Scan Forward
• BSI British Standards Institute
• BSM Basic Storage Module [IBM]
• BSP Bulk Synchronous Parallelism
• BSR Bit Scan Reverse
• BS-RAM Burst Static RAM
• BSS Block Started by Symbol
• BST Binary Search Tree
• BSY Busy
• BSYNC Binary Synchronous Communications (protocol)
• BT Bit Test
• BTAM Basic Telecommunications Access Method [IBM]
• BTB Branch Target Buffer
• BTC Bit Test and Complement
• BTI Business Type Identifier
• BTOA Binary To ASCII
• BTP Batch Transfer Program
• BTR Bit Test and Reset
• BTS Bit Test and Set
• BU Branch Unit
• BUBL Bulletin Board for Libraries [Janet]
• BUF Buffer
• BUS Broadcast and Unknown Server
• BVH Base Video Handler
• BWM Block-Write Mode
• B2X Binary To Hexadecimal [REXX]
• BYTE Binary Element String