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L0 l10n L1 cache L2 cache L2TP L6 la label edge router label switched path label switching Label Switching Router Lab for Computer Science Laboratory INstrument Computer Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench LaborNet Labtech Notebook LabVIEW Lace lace card LADY lag Lakota LALR lalr.ss Lambada-Calculus LAMBDA lambda abstraction lambda-calculus DONE - merged into lambda calculus lambda expression lambda lifting LambdaMOO Lambda-Prolog lamer LAMINA lamp-post error LAN LANCE language language-based editor Language for Communicating Systems Language H language lawyer Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification Language Sensitive Editor language-sensitive editor languages of choice Laning and Zierler LANL Lan Manager LANtastic LAP LAP4 LAPB LAPD LAPM LAPSE laptop computer LaQuey Larch Larch/C++ LARCH/CLU Large Installation Systems Administration Larry Wall LART larval stage lase laser printer Lasherism last call optimisation last-in first-out LAT latch latency LaTeX Latin 1 lattice LAU laundromat LAURE LAVA law LAWN Lawrence Livermore Labs Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LAX layer Layer Two Tunneling Protocol laziness lazy evaluation lazy list Lazy SML lazy sml2c Lazy Standard ML lb LBA LBE LBL lc LCC lcc LCD LCF LCL lclint LCP LCS ld LDAP REDIRECT Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDB LDL LDL1 LDP LDT LE/1 leading LEAF leaf Leaf Distribution Limited leaf site League for Programming Freedom leak leaky heap Lean LEAP leapfrog attack learning curve leased line least fixed point least recently used least significant bit least upper bound leaves LEC LECOM LED LEDA Leda LED page printer LED printer leet left arrow left brace left bracket left outer join left parenthesis LeFun legacy code legacy software legacy system -- DONE legal legalese LEGOL Le-Lisp lemma Lempel-Ziv compression Lempel-Ziv Welch compression Lenat, Doug lenient evaluation LEO Leo LER LERP less than LessTif let floating letterbomb level 1 cache level 2 cache LEVEL5 OBJECT level one cache level-sensitive scan design level two cache Lex lexeme lexer lexical analyser lexical analysis lexical scope lexical scoping lexiphage LF LG LGDF LGEN LGN lha LHARC lhs lhz li Liana Liar liar paradox libg++ library Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms librery LIDO LiE LIF LIFE Life life life-cycle Life is hard LIFIA LIFO lifted domain LIGHT light client light-emitting diode light-emitting resistor light pipe light-weight Lightweight Directory Access Protocol DONE light-weight process like kicking dead whales down the beach like nailing jelly to a tree like this Lila Lilith LILLIAC IV lilo Lily LIMDEP LIM EMS LIMP Linc (Laboratory Instrument Computer) Lincoln Reckoner LINCtape Linda LindaLISP line line 666 linear address space linear argument linear assignment linear function Linear Graph Notation linear logic linear map linear programming linear space linear sweep linear transformation linear type line conditioning line eater line editor line feed line noise line printer line probing lines of code lines per minute line starve Lingo LINGOL link Link Access Procedure on the D channel Link Access Protocol Balanced Link Access Protocol for Modems Link Control Protocol link-dead linked list linker NO IMPORT link farm link rot links Link State Routing Protocol LINPACK lint Linux Linux Documentation Project Linux Network Administrators' Guide lion food Lions Book LIPL liquid crystal display LIS LISA Liskov substitution principle Lisp LISP 1 LISP 1.5 LISP 2 LISP70 LISP A LISP Extended Algebraic Facility Lispkit Lispkit Lisp Lisp-Linda Lisp Machine LISP Machine LISP Lisp Object-Oriented Programming System LISP, Objects, and Symbolic Programming Lisptalk LispView list list comprehension List Enhanced listless Listproc lists Listserv Liszt lite literal literate programming literature LITHE lithium lick LitProg LITTLE little-endian Little Smalltalk live data Live Free Or Die! livelock LiveScript liveware lk LL LLC LLGen LLM3 LLNL LLP LM3 LMAO LML LM-Prolog LMTP LNF LO L&amp O load balancing lobotomy LOC local area network Local Area Transport local bus locale local echo localisation localised locality local loop local loopback addresses locals LocalTalk location locked and loaded locked up lock-in Locus Loebner Prize {log} logarithmus dualis LogC logic logical logical address Logical Block Addressing logical complement Logical Link Control -- DONE logical relation logical shift logical shift left logical shift right Logical Unit Logical Unit 6.2 Logical Unit Number logic bomb Logic Design Language logic emulator Logic for Computable Functions logic gate logic programming Logic Replacement Technology logic variable LOGIN login LOGISCOPE Loglan Loglan'82 Loglan-88 LOGLISP LOGO LOGOL logon Lojban LOL LOLITA Lolli LOM longitudinal parity Longitudinal Redundancy Check LOOK look and feel Looking Glass LOOKS loop loop combination loop fusion LOOPN LOOPS loop through loose bytes LOP lord high fixer Lore Lorem ipsum Lorenz attractor lose loser losing loss lossage lossless lossy lost in the noise lost in the underflow LOTIS LOTOS lots of MIPS but no I/O Lotus 1-2-3 Lotus Development Corporation DONE (Lotus Software) Lotus Notes Lout love low-bandwidth low earth orbit Lower Layer Protocol lower set Low Insertion Force LOWL low-level language low pass filter Low Voltage Differential LPAC LPC LPF LPG LPI LPL lpm LP MUD lpr LPS lp spooler LPT lr LRC LRLTRAN LRU ls LSA LSB LSE LSL LSML L-Soft LSP LSR LSSD LSYD lt LT-2 LTL LTR LTR3 lu LU6.2 lub Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology Lucent Technologies LUCID Lucid Emacs Lucinda Lucy LUG luminance lump uncurrying LUN lunatic fringe Lund Simula Lund Software House AB lurk lurker lurking luser Luser Attitude Re-adjustment Tool LUSTRE lv lvalue LVD LWP ly LYaPAS Lycos lynix LYNX Lynx LynxOS Lynx Real-Time Systems LYRIC LZ77 compression LZ78 compression LZ compression lzexe LZH compression LZW compression M m2 M2toM3 M3 m4 M5 ma MAC Mac Mac-1 MAC-360 MAC address MACAnalyst Macaulay MacBinary MACDesigner macdink MACE Mach DONE as Mach kernel Machiavelli machinable machine machine code machine cycle machine language machine learning Mach Interface Generator machoflops Mac II Mac IIcx Macintosh Macintosh Common Lisp Macintosh file system Macintosh II Macintosh IIcx Macintosh Operating System Macintosh user interface Macintoy Macintrash MACL MacLisp MacMinix Mac OS Mac Playmate MacPPP MACRO macro macro- macrology Macromedia Macro SAP macrotape MACSYMA MacTCP MacX MAD Mad/1 Madaline MADCAP MADTRAN maggotbox MAGIC magic magic bullet magic cookie magic number Magic Paper magic smoke Magic Switch Story Magma Magma2 MagmaLISP magnetic disk Magnetic Ink Character Recognition magnetic tape magnetic tape drive magneto-optical disk MAGNUM Magritte mail Mail Application Programming Interface mail bomb mailbox mail bridge Mail Exchange Record mail exploder mail filter mail gateway mail hub mailing list mail merge mail path .mailrc mail server mail user agent Mail Users' Shell MAINBOL Main Distribution Frame mainframe main loop main memory MAINSAIL maintainer maintainer script maintenance Maisie major delivery Majordomo major release Make Makedoc makefile Maker Interchange Format MAL Malamud MALI mall malloc MAN man management Management Information Base Management Information System Manchester Autocode Manchester encoding Mandala Mandelbrot, Benoit Mandelbrot set mandelbug manged mangle mangler mango man page mantissa manual testing Manufacturer Resource Planning Manufacturers Automation Protocol Manufacturing Automation Protocol manularity MAO MAP map MAPI Maple computer algebra system mapping marbles Marc Andreessen marginal Marginal Hacks Maril Mark 1 marketroid Markov Markov chain Markov model Markov process Markowitz mark-sweep garbage collection markup Marlais Mars Marseille Prolog marshaling marshalling MARSYAS Martian Martin Marietta Laboratories Moorestown MARVIN Mary Programming Language MAS MASCOT Mask Read-Only Memory MASM MasPar Unity masquerading Massachusetts Institute of Technology massage Massey Hope master Matchmaker Material Resource Planning Mathcad Mathematica Mathematical Analysis without Programming Mathematics in Recognizable Form Automatically Compiled MATH-MATIC or MATHMATIC math-out MathWorks MATLAB Matrix Matrix Compiler MATRIX MATH Matrix Math eXtensions MAU mawk maximal free expression maximin MAXIMOP maximum Maytag mode maximum seek time maximum segment size Maximum Transmission Unit Maxis Software MB MBASIC Mbogo, Dr. Fred MBONE mbps MBS MC mc MC68000 MC6809 MCA -- DONE (redirected to Micro Channel Architecture) MCC McCulloch-Pitts neuron McG360 MCI MCL M-Code MCP MCP-1600 MCS MCSD MCSE mcvax mcvert MD md MD5 MDF MDI MDL Mean Time Between Failures Mean Time Between Faults Mean Time To Recovery measure measurement meatspace meatware Media Access Control Media Access Unit Media Converter Media Gateway Control Protocol Medium Access Control meeces Meet meg mega- megabits per second megabyte megaflop megaflops megahertz megapenny MEGO Mei Mel MELD MELDC Melinda Mellor meltdown member function membership function meme meme plague memetic algorithm memetics Memex memo function memoisation memoised function memoization memoized function memory memory address space memory farts memory leak memory location memory management Memory Management Unit memory mapped I/O DONE memory protection memory smash Memory Type Range Registers MEMS Mentat MENTOR menu menu bar menuitis MENYMA/S Mercury Autocode mercury delay line MERISE Merlin MEROON Mesa mesh MESI protocol message Message Digest 5 message digest function Message Handling System message passing Message Passing Interface message switching Message Transfer Agent Messaging Application Programming Interface Messaging Applications Programming Interface mess-dos META meta META 5 meta bit MetaCard Meta-CASE tool Metaclass Meta-Crystal Metadata meta-data Metadata Information Partners META element metafile METAFONT metaheuristic Meta-II metainformation Meta-IV METAL metalanguage Metal Oxide Semiconductor Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor metaphone metaprogram metasyntactic variable metasyntax META tag Meta-Vlisp Met-English METEOR meter method methodology Methods me too metre metric Metropolitan Area Network M-expression LISP MFC MFE MFLOPS MFM DONE MFTL mg MGCP mh MHDL MHEG MHS MHz MIB MIB Variable Mic-1 Mic-2 MICE mice Michigan Algorithm Decoder mickey mickey mouse program MICR micro micro- Micro Assembly Language microcentury Micro Channel Architecture -- DONE microcode Microcom Networking Protocol microcomputer microcontroller MicroDroid microelectromechanical system Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation MicroEmacs microfloppies microfortnight MicroGnuEmacs Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems Micro Interpreter for Knowledge Engineering microkernel microLenat micrometre Micro ML Micron micron Micron Electronics, Inc. Micronetics Standard MUMPS Micro$oft microPLANNER microprocesor microprocessor Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages microprogramming microReid MICRO SAINT microsecond Microserf Microslop Microsloth Windows Microsoft Microsoft Access Microsoft Basic Microsoft Certified Solution Developer Microsoft Certified System Engineer Microsoft Certified Systems Developer Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Excel Microsoft Exchange Microsoft Extended Microsoft Foundation Classes Microsoft IIS Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer Microsoft Internet Information Server Microsoft Mail Microsoft Mail Application Program Interface Microsoft Network Microsoft Networking Microsoft Office Microsoft Point to Point Encryption Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft Windows Microsoft Word MicroStation microtape Microware Corporation Microwave Hardware Description Language MIDAS Midas Midas-WWW middle-endian middleware MIDI mid-level network MIF MIG MIGRAINES MII MIIS MIKE mil Milarepa MILITRAN mill millennium bug millennium meltdown milli- milliLampson millisecond MILNET MIMD MIME mimencode MIMER MIME type MIMIC MIMOLA mind mouse mind uploading Minerva software minicomputer Mini Disc minifloppy minimal automaton minimax DONE Mini-ML minimum seek time Mini PL/I MINITAB II MINIX Minnesota Internet Users Essential Tool MINT MiNT Mint Is Not TRAC Minuet MINUIT minus minus infinity MIPS MIPS project MIPS R2000 MIPS R2010 MIPS R3000 MIPS R4000 MIPS Technologies, Inc. Miracula Miranda MIRFAC mirror mirroring MIS misbug misfeature MISHAP Missed'em-five missile address miswart MIT MIT AI Lab MITI MITILAC MIT Lisp Machine MITRE Corporation MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics MITS MIT Scheme MIX MIXAL MIX Communications M-JPEG MJS mk ML ml ML-2000 MLAB ML/I MLISP ML Kit MLL ML-lex ML-Linda ML Threads ML-Twig mm Mma mmap MMCD MMDF MMI MML MMU MMX MMX technology mn mnemonic MNP mo Mobile Triton mobo MOBSSL-UAF moby mockingbird Mockingboard Mock Lisp mod modal modal logic MODCAL Mode mode mode bit MODEF MODEL model model checking modeling modelling Model View Controller modem MODEM7 moderator Modified Frequency Modulation DONE modifier M O drive MODSIM MODSIM II Modula Modula-2 Modula-2* Modula-2+ Modula-3 Modula-3* Modula-3pi Modula-P Modula-Prolog Modula/R Modular C MODUlar LAnguage Modular Prolog Modular SB-Prolog module Modulex modulo modulo arithmetic modulo operator molly-guard monad monadic Mongolian Hordes technique moniter monitor monkey, scratch monkey up monochrome monoid monotonic MONSTR Montage Monte Carlo monty MOO Moof Moore bound Moore graph Moore's Law moose call MooZ Mops MORAL moria morphing Morse code MORTRAN MOS DONE (MOS Technology) Mosaic Mosaic Communications Corporation Moscow ML MOSFET Mosiac MOS Technologies most general unifier most significant bit motd mother motherboard Motif DONE Motion JPEG Motion Picture Experts Group Motorola Motorola 14500B Motorola 6800 Motorola 68000 Motorola 6801 Motorola 68010 Motorola 68020 Motorola 68030 Motorola 68040 Motorola 68050 Motorola 68060 Motorola 6809 Motorola 680x0 Motorola 68HC11 Motorola 68LC040 Motorola 88000 Motorola, Inc. mount Mouse mouse mouse ahead mouse around mouse arrest mouse belt mouse droppings mouse elbow mouse mat mouse pad mouse trails mouso Moving JPEG Moving Picture Expert Group Moving Picture Experts Group Moving Pictures Experts Group Moxie Mozilla Mozilla Public License mp MP1 MP-1 MP2 MP3 MPC MPC Level 1 Specification MPC Level 2 Specification MPEG MPEG-1 MPEG-1 audio layer 3 MPEG-1 layer 3 MPEG-2 MPEG-3 MPEG-4 MPG mpg MPI MPL MPL II MPLS MPLS domain MP/M MPP MPPE MPPL MPR II M-Prolog MPS III MPSX MPV MPX mq MQG mr MRDS MRI MROC MROM MRP MRP II MRS ms MS Access MSAU MSB MS-BASIC MS-DOG MS-DOS MSG.84 msgGUI MSIE MSM MS Mail MSN MSS MS-Windows MswLogo MS Word MSX MSX-DOS mt MTA MTBF mtc M Technology Association MTOS MTS MTTR MTU Mu mu MUA MUCAL MUD muddie Muddle mudhead MUD Object Oriented muFP mu-law Mule Mul-T Multi-BinProlog multiC MultiCal System multicast addressing multicast backbone Multi-channel Memorandum Distribution Facility multician Multics Multics Relational Data Store Multiflow Computer Multi-Garnet multihomed host multilayer perceptron MultiLisp Done multimedia Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group MultiMedia Compact Disc MultiMedia Extension Multimedia Integrated Conferencing for European Researchers Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions Multimedia Personal Computer multi-part key Multi-Pascal multiple access Multiple Document Interface multiple inheritance Multiple Instruction Multiple Data Multiple Instruction/Multiple Data Multiple Master multiple perspective software development multiple value Multiple Virtual Storage multiplexer multiplexing multiplexor Multiplexor Channel multiplex printer Multipop-68 multiprocessing multiprocessor multiprogramming Multiprotocol Label Switching Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions multiscan MultiScheme Multistation Access Unit multisync Multisystem eXtension Interface Bus multitasking Multi-tasking Program for Microcomputers multithreaded multithreading MultiTOS Multi-User Dimension Multi-User Dungeon Multi-User Shared Hallucination Multi-Version Concurrency Control multi-way branch MuMath mumblage mumble mumble mode MUMPS munch munching munching squares munchkin mundane mung munge MUP MU-Prolog Murphy's Law Muse museum MUSH Music Musical Instrument Digital Interface MuSimp MUSL mutant Mutation Testing MuTeX mutex mutter mutual exclusion mutually recursive mutual recursion mux mv MVC MVCC MVS MVS/ESA MVS/OE MVS/Open Edition MVS/SP MVS/XA mw MX mx MXI MXIbus MX Record my My Favourite Toy Language MYOB MYSTIC mz N N10 na nadger NAG Nagling Coalescence nagware nailed to the wall nailing jelly naive naive user NAK name capture named named pipe name resolution name service switching namespace NaN NAND nano- nanoacre nanobot nanocomputer nanofortnight nanosecond nanotechnology Napier NAPLPS DONE NAPSS narrowing NAS nasal demons NASI nastistical NASTRAN nastygram NAT Nathan Hale National Bureau of Standards National Center for Supercomputing Applications national characters National Database Language National Information Infrastructure National Information Services and Systems National Institute of Standards and Technology National Research and Education Network National Science Foundation National Science Foundation Network National Software Reuse Directory National Spatial Data Infrastructure National Television Standards Committee native compiler Native Language System NATURAL natural deduction Natural English natural language Natural Language Information Analysis Method natural language processing natural number nature NAU navigating Navigator Nawk NB NBFCP NBS NBT NC nc NCD NCP NCR Corporation NCS NCSA ND NDIS NDL NDS ne neat hack neats vs. scruffies Nebula NEC neep-neep negation by failure negative acknowledge NELIAC Neon neophilia Neptune Nerd pride NERECO NESL net net.- netaddress NetBEUI NetBIOS NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol NetBios over TCP/IP NetBOLLIX netbui netburp netCDF DONE Netcom On-line Communication Services, Inc. netdead Netfind net.god NetHack netiquette -- DONE NETL netlag netload Netmarq Limited netmask NetNanny netnews net.personality netpipes net.police netquette Netrek netrock Netscape Netscape Communications Corporation Netscape Navigator Netscape Public License netsplit netstat netter NetWare NetWare Core Protocol Netware Directory Services Netware Input/Output Subsystem NetWare Link State Protocol network network address Network Addressable Unit Network Address Translation Network Address Translator network byte order network card network closet Network Computing Devices network database Network Definition Language Network Device Interface Specification Network extensible Window System Network File System Network Filing System Network Information Center Network Information Service DONE Network Information System DONE networking network interface card network interface controller network layer network management network meltdown Network News Transfer Protocol Network Node Interface network number network operating system Network Operations Center network redirector network segment Network Solutions, Inc. Network Termination network, the Network Time Protocol network transparency NetX Net:X neural nets neural network neuron Neutral Interconnect neutrosophic neutrosophic logic neutrosophic probability neutrosophic set neutrosophic statistics Neutrosophy Never Offline newbie New Flavors newgroup wars New Jersey newline NEWP NEW Programming language NeWS DONE news NewsClip newsfroup newsgroup newsletter Newspeak Newsqueak .newsrc news reader New Storage System new talk New Testament Newton DONE, renamed Apple Newton Newton-Raphson NewWave NewYacc New York State Educational Reasearch ETwork New York University NEXOR Nexpert Object NeXT, Inc. Next Program Counter NEXTSTEP nf NFA NFQL NFS NFT ng NGL NHOH ni NIAL NIAL Systems Ltd. NIAM nibble Nibble Mode DRAM NIC NIC.DDN.MIL NICE nick nickle NICOL I NIFOC = Nude In Front Of The Computer Nightmare File System night mode NIH NIHCL NII NIKL Niklaus Wirth NIL niladic Ninety-Ninety Rule NIOS nipple NIS NISO NISS NIST NJCL nl NLM NLP NLS NLSP NLX NMI nML NMU NN nn NNI NNTP no NOC NODAL Nodal Switching System noddy node NOL NOMAD NOMEX underwear Nominal Semidestructor non-algorithmic procedure nondeterminism nondeterministic nondeterministic automaton nondeterministic polynomial time Nondeterministic Turing Machine non-impact printer non-interlaced nonintrusive testing nonlinear Non-Maintainer Upload Non-Maskable Interrupt non-optimal solution Nonpareil non parity non-polynomial Non Return to Zero Inverted nontrivial Non-Uniform Memory Access non-uniform quantising logarithmic compression Non-Uniform Rational B Spline non-volatile non-volatile memory Non-Volatile Random Access Memory non-volatile storage no-op NOR NORC COMPILER NorCroft NORD PL NORDUnet norm normal distribution normal form normalisation normalised normal order reduction normed space northbridge NorthWestNet NOS NOT Not-a-Number notebook NoteCards Notepad Notes Nother not ready for prime time notwork Nova - is this Data General Nova? Novell Data Systems Novell DOS Novell, Inc. Novell NetWare NOWEB no-write allocation DONE NP np NPC NP-complete NP-hard NPL NPPL N-Prolog NP time NQS Nqthm nr NREN nroff NRZ NRZI ns NSA line eater NSAPI NSDI NSE NSF NSFIP NSFNET NSI nslookup NSRD NSS NT NT1 NT5 ntalk NTAS NT File System NTFS n-tier NTIS NTMBS NTP NTSC NTU nu NuBus nu-calculus NUCLEOL nude nuke null nullary null modem null-terminated multibyte string NUMA number crunching numbers number sign Numeris Nuprl NU-Prolog nurbs -- DONE Nu Thena NUXI problem NVRAM NVS NWNET NYAP nybble nyetwork nym nym server Nyquist frequency -- DONE Nyquist Theorem-- DONE NYSERNET NYU OMNIFAX nz
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