The Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive

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Last updated: October 22, 2011

I'm sitting in a coffee shop in Milford, NH. In the booth next to me are two men, a father and a son. Over coffee, the father is asking his son about modems, and the son is holding forth pretty well on the subject of fax compatibility, UART requirements, and so on. But he's little out of date: The father asks, "So should I get one with a DSP?" "A what?" says the son. You just can't get far if you're not up on the lingo. You might squeak by in your company of technological nonexperts, but even some of them will surprise you. These days, technical acronyms quickly insinuate themselves into the vernacular.

Raphael Needleman

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0-9
(mu): Micro
Prefix for 10 power -6

A/P: Accounts Payable A/PC: Auto Personal Computer

(Hardware)

A/R: Accounts Receivable A/UX: Apple UniX

(Operating systems) (Apple)

1GL: 1st Generation Language

Machine language (Software)

24/7: 24 hours a day/7 days a week 2D: 2-Dimensional 2D: Double Density
(Hardware)

AA: Advertising Agent AA: Anti-Aliasing

Method for removing jagged edges

AA: Auto Answer AAA: Asp Application Aggregator AAA: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
A term for a framework for intelligently controlling access to computer resources, enforcing policies, auditing usage, and providing the information necessary to bill for services. These combined processes are important for effective network management (Security)

2G: 2nd Generation

Mobile telecommunication network allowing 14.4 kbps transfer rates (Communication)

2GL: 2nd Generation Language

Assembler and other low-level languages (Software)

2HD: 2 sides, High Density

(Hardware)

2PC: 2-Phase Commit

Protocol to allow replicated data to be modified at multiple sites

AAB: All-to-All Broadcast AAC: Advanced Audio Coding AAC: Authorization and Access Control
(Security)

2S: 2 Sides
(Hardware)

2S2D: 2 Sides, Double Density

(Hardware)

AACS: Advanced Access Content System

Standard for content distribution and digital rights management, intended to restrict access to and copying of the "next generation" of optical discs and DVDs

2SHD: 2 Sides, High Density

(Hardware)

3D: 3-Dimensional 3DES: Triple Data Encryption Standard

(Security)

AAF: Advanced Authoring Format AAL: Atm Adaption Layer

Layer 3 of the ATM architecture. Adapts user traffic into/from ATM 48-byte payloads (Communication)

3G: 3rd Generation

Mobile telecommunication network allowing 300-400 kbps transfer rates (Communication)

AAM: Automatic Acoustic Management

Feature that allows the host to request that the drive modify its acoustic behavior (Hardware)

3GIO: 3rd Generation Input Output

(Hardware) (Intel)

AAP: Applications Access Point

(DEC)

3GL: 3rd Generation Language

High level programming languages (Software)

AARP: Appletalk Address Resolution Protocol

(Network) (Apple)

3GPP: Third Generation Partners Project

See http://www.3gpp.org/ (Organizations)

AAS: All-to-All Scatter AAS: Auto Area Segmentation

Scanner technology which detects and optimizes text and graphics on the same page (Hardware) (Epson)

4G: 4th Generation

Mobile telecommunication network allowing 10Mbit/s transfer rates (Communication)

4GL: 4th Generation Language

Database access languages (Software)

AASP: Ascii Asynchronous Support Package AAT: Average Access Time AATP: Authorized Academic Training Program
(Microsoft)

4GT: 4 Gigabyte memory Tuning 5GL: 5th Generation Language

Artificial intelligence languages (Software)

ABA: Address Book Archive

Filename extension

6DOF: Six Degrees Of Freedom

A
A: Ampere
Current measurement unit

ABAP: Advanced Business Application Programming

Powerful programming language created specifically for developing SAP applications. ABAP Objects is the new objectoriented generation of this language, designed to respond to the needs of SAP's future strategies and environments (Software)

A: Anchor
HTML tag

a: atto
Prefix for 10 power -18

ABC: Atanasoff-Berry Computer

First digital calculating machine that used vacuum tubes

: ngstrom
Length measurement unit corresponding to 10 power -10 meters

ABEL: Advanced Boolean Expression Language ABEND: ABnormal END

(Software)

A/D: Analog/Digital
(Hardware)

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ACS ACE: Apacer Compression Explorer ACE: Ascii Compatible Encoding ACE: Automatic Computing Engine ACF: Access Control Field ACF: Advanced Communications Function ACH: Automated Clearing House ACIA: Asynchronous Communication Interface Adapter ACIAS: Automated Calibration Interval Analysis System ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability
(Software)

ABI: Application Binary Interface

Defines the binary system interface between compiled applications and the operating system on which they run (Software)

ABIOS: Advanced Basic Input Output System ABIST: Automatic Built-In Self-Test
(IBM)

ABLE: Adaptive Battery Life Extender ABLE: Agent Building and Learning Environment
(IBM)

ABM: Asynchronous Balanced Mode

HDLC data transfer mode (Network)

ABNF: Augmented Backus Naur Form

Syntax description for programming languages

ABNF: Augmented Backus Naur Form ABR: Available Bit Rate

One of five ATM Forum defined service types. Supports variable bit rate data traffic with flow control, a minimum guaranteed data transmission rate and specified performance parameters (Communication)

ACIS: American Committee for Interoperable Systems ACK: ACKnowledge

A transmission control character transmitted by a station as an affirmative response to the station with which the connection has been set up. (Communication)

ABRS: Automated Book Request System ABS: ABSolute ABS: Address Book Synchronization
(IBM)

ACL: Access Control List

For granting or denying access to computer resources (security) (Operating systems)

ACL: Advanced Cmos Logic ACL: Asynchronous ConnectionLess

(Communication)

ABS: Auto Balance System

System to reduce vibration and noise in a peripheral (Hardware)

ACM: Abstract Control Model

(Software)

ABS: Automatic Backup System ABT: ABorT ABTS: Ascii Block Terminal Services AC: Access Customer
(Communication)

ACM: Afp Conversion Module

(Software)

ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

(Organizations)

AC: Alternate Current AC: Audio Codec

(Hardware)

ACM: Audio Compression Manager

(Microsoft)

ACMS: Application Control Management System ACNM: Application Centric Network Management
(Software)

AC: Authentication Center AC: AutoCheck AC: Automatic Computer ACAP: Application Configuration Access Protocol
Designed to support remote storage and access of program option, configuration and preference information

ACO: Alternate Checksum Option

(Network)

ACP: Active Code Page ACP: Ancillary Control Program ACP: Auxiliary Control Process ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
(Hardware)

ACC: ACCumulator ACC: Authorization Contract for Containers

Specification (JSR-115) that defines new java.security.Permission classes to satisfy the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) authorization model (Software) (Sun)

ACR: Advanced Communication Riser

(Hardware)

ACD: Automatic Call Distribution ACDI: Asynchronous Communications Device Interface ACE: Access Control Encryption ACE: Access Control Entry
An entry in an Access Control List (ACL). An ACE contains a set of access rights and a security identifier (SID) that identifies a trustee for whom the rights are allowed, denied, or audited (Operating systems)

ACR: Allowed Cell Rate ACROSS: Automated Cargo Release and Operations Service System ACS: Access Control Server ACS: Access Control Set ACS: Access Control System ACS: Admission Control Service
(Network) (Microsoft)

ACE: Adobe Certified Expert

(Adobe)

ACS: Advanced Computer System

(IBM)

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ACS ACS: Asynchronous Communication Server ACS: Automatic Class Selection ACS: Automatic Contrast Selection ACSE: Association Control Service Element
The method used in International Organization for Standardization's open systems interconnection (OSI) for establishing a call between two applications.

ADR ADD: Adapter Device Driver ADD: Automatic Document Detection ADE: Application Data Export
(Databases) (Oracle)

ADF: Adapter Description File

File name extension

ACSI: American Customer Satisfaction Index ACSM: Application Centric Storage Management
(Software)

ADF: Application Developer Framework

Productivity layer for J2EE developers which simplifies application-building as a set of business services with Web, Wireless, and Rich Client interfaces (Software)

ACSS: Aural Cascading Style Sheets ACT: Application Compatibility Toolkit

(Software) (Microsoft)

ADF: Automatic Document Feeder

Scanner device (Hardware)

ADF: Automatically Defined Function ADI: Application Desktop Integrator

Spreadsheet-based extension of Oracle Applications. It provides full-cycle accounting within the comfort and familiarity of a spreadsheet for General Ledger and Oracle Assets (Software) (Oracle)

ACTS: Advanced Communication Technology Satellite

(Communication) (NASA)

ACTS: Automated Computer Time Server ACTT: Advanced Communication and Timekeeping Technology ACU: Automatic Calling Unit ACVC: Ada Compiler Validation Capacity AD: Acpi Disassembler AD: Active Directory
(Operating systems)

ADI: AutoCad Device Interface

Driver

ADK: Additional Decryption Key

Key to be able to decrypt data even if the private key owner is unwilling to provide the private key (Security)

ADK: Appliance Development Kit

(Software)

ADL: Address Data Latch ADL: Architecture Description Language

(Software)

ADA: ADA
Programming language named after Augusta Ada Lovelace (Software)

ADA: Adobe Developers Association

(Organizations)

ADLAT: ADaptive LATtice filter ADLC: Asynchronous Data Link Control ADM: Application Distribution and Management ADMACS: Apple Document Management And Control System ADMD: ADministrative Management Domain ADML: Application Description Markup Language
(Software)

ADA: Automatic Data Acquisitions ADAPT: Architecture, Design, Analysis and Planning Tool ADB: Apple Desktop Bus
Bus architecture (Hardware) (Apple)

ADBS: Advanced Data Broadcast System

(Communication)

ADML: Architecture Description Markup Language

(Software)

ADC: Active Directory Connector

(Operating systems)

ADMS: Adstar Distributed Management System ADMT: Active Directory Migration Tool
Provides an integrated toolset to facilitate migration and restructuring tasks in an Active Directory infrastructure (Software) (Microsoft)

ADC: Adaptive Data Compression

(Hayes)

ADC: ADd with Carry ADC: Advanced Data Connector

(Databases) (Microsoft)

ADO: Activex Data Object

(Databases) (Microsoft)

ADC: Analog to Digital Converter

A device that translates analog signals to digital signals. Contrast with digital-to-analog converter (DAC). (Hardware)

ADODB: Activex Data Object DataBase

(Databases) (Microsoft)

ADC: Apple Developer Connection

(Apple)

ADP: Access Database Project

Filename extension (Software) (Microsoft)

ADC: Apple Display Connector

(Hardware) (Apple)

ADP: Aol Dynamic Pages

(Software)

ADC: Application Delete Certificate ADC: Application Development Consultant ADCAP: ADvanced CAPability
Used to refer to advanced capability, cuttin edge technology, also in military applications (e.g. ADCAP missile)

ADP: Automatic Data Processing ADPCM: Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
Communication protocol (Communication)

ADR: ADdRess ADR: Advanced Digital Recording

(Hardware)

ADCCP: Advanced Data Communication Control Procedures

(Communication)

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AFP AES: Advanced Encryption Standard

(Security)

ADR2: Advanced Digital Recording 2nd generation

(Hardware)

ADS: Active Directory Service

Windows 2000 network objects database that stores each specific network item in a central database and that may be replicated (Operating systems) (Microsoft)

AESA: Atm End System Address

(Communication)

AF: Anisotropic Filtering

A method of enhancing the image quality of textures on surfaces that are far away and steeply angled with respect to the camera (Hardware)

ADS: Advanced Digital System ADS: Application Development Solutions

(AT&T)

AF: Assured Forwarding

Using AF, a provider may offer different levels of service for IP packets received from a customer domain. Each AF class is allocated a specified amount of buffer space and bandwidth (Network)

ADS: Application Development System ADS: Automatic Distribution System ADS/O: Application Development System / Online ADSC: Adobe Document Structuring Conventions ADSI: Active Directory Service Interface
(Network)

AF: Auto Focus

(Hardware)

AFA: Accelerated File Access AFAIC: As Far As I'm Concerned

(Net lingo)

ADSI: Analog Display Services Interface ADSL: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
Communication infrastructure (Communication)

AFAICT: As Far As I Can Tell

(Net lingo)

ADSM: Adstar Distributed Storage Manager

(Databases) (IBM)

AFAIK: As Far As I Know

(Net lingo)

ADSM: Advanced Data Storage Management

(IBM)

AFAIR: As Far As I Remember

(Net lingo)

ADSP: Appletalk DataStream Protocol

(Apple)

AFAIUI: As Far As I Understand It

(Net lingo)

ADSR: Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release ADT: Abstract Data Type ADT: Access Developer Toolkit
(Software) (Microsoft)

AFC: AntiFerromagnetically-Coupled
Multilayer coating expected to permit hard-disk drives to store 100 billion bits (gigabits) of data per square inch of disk area (Hardware) (IBM)

AFC: Application Foundation Classes

(Software) (Microsoft)

ADT: Advanced Dram Technology

(Hardware)

AFC: Automatic Font Change AFC: Automatic Frequency Control AFD: Automatic File Distribution AFDW: Active Framework for Data Warehousing
(Microsoft)

ADT: Application Data Type ADT: Atlantic Daylight Time

Timezone: GMT -4:00

ADTG: Advanced Data Table Gram

Proprietary binary format for storing database data (Databases) (Microsoft)

AFFS: Amiga Fast File System

(Operating systems)

ADU: Automatic Dialing Unit ADUC: Active Directory Users and Computers
A snap-in in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) (Operating systems) (Microsoft)

AFI: Authority and Format Identifier AFII: Association for Font Information Interchange AFIRM: Automated Fingerprint Image Reporting and Match AFIS: Automated Fingerprint Identification System AFK: Away From Keyboard
(Net lingo)

ADW: Advanced Docking Window

(Software)

ADW: Alfresco Dynamic Website

Provides a robust, enterprise-class web site assembly framework that aims to go above and beyond the solutions offered by proprietary companies (Software)

ADW: Application Development Workbench

(Software)

AFLCD: AntiFerroelectric Liquid Crystal Display

(Hardware)

AE: Above or Equal AeA: America Electronics Association

(Organizations)

AFM: Adobe Font Metrics

File name extension (Adobe)

AEB: Analog Expansion Bus

(Dialogic)

AFP: Advanced Function Presentation

(IBM)

AEC: Architecture, Engineering, Construction

A computer graphics market requiring specialized applications that facilitate efficient planning, design, drafting, and analysis.

AFP: Advanced Function Printing

Suite of electronic printing solutions to turn your invoices, letters, policies, statements and reports into high-quality, costeffective documents (Software) (IBM)

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AFP: Appletalk Filing Protocol

(Communication) (Apple)

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AFPL AFPL: Alladin Free Public License AFR: Alternate Frame Rendering
(Hardware)

ALIWEB AIR: Architecture Implementation Review AIS: Alarm Indication Signal AIS: Automated Information System AISB: Association of Imaging Service Bureaus AISI: As I See It
(Net lingo)

AFR: Annualized Failure Rate

(Hardware)

AFS: Andrew File System AFT: Adapter Fault Tolerance

(Intel)

AISP: Association of Information Systems Professionals AIT: Advanced Intelligent Tape

(Hardware)

AFT: Authenticated Firewall Traversal

(Security)

AFTP: Anonymous File Transfer Protocol AGA: Advanced Graphics Adapter AGA: Advanced Graphics Architecture
Graphics architecture for Amiga computers

AIX: Advanced Interactive eXecutive

IBM's Unix (Operating systems) (IBM)

AJAX: Asynchronous Javascript Technology and Xml

Using JavaScript technology, an HTML page can asynchronously make calls to the server from which it was loaded and fetch XML documents. The XML documents may then be used by the JavaScript technology to update or modify the DOM of the HTML page (Software)

AGARAS: AntiGlare AntiReflective AntiStatic AGC: Automatic Gain Control

(Hardware)

AGE: Amorphium Graphics Engine AGLR: Anti-Glare, Low Reflection

(Hardware)

AJDT: AspectJ Development Tools

Provides Eclipse platform based tool support for Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD) with AspectJ. See http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/ (Software)

AGP: Accelerated Graphics Port

(Hardware)

AJP: Apache JServ Protocol

Binary, packet-oriented protocol bridging the web server with the servlet container. The web server attempts to maintain persistent TCP connections to the servlet container, and to reuse a connection for multiple request/response cycles (Software)

AGU: Address Generation Unit Ah: Ampere Hour

Rechargable battery charge measurement unit (Hardware)

AH: Authentication Header

(Network)

aka: Also Known As

(Net lingo)

AHA: Adaptec Host Adapter

(Hardware) (Adaptec)

ALAT: Advanced Load Address Table ALB: Advanced Load Balancing ALC: Airline Link Control
Service protocol (Network)

AHDL: Analog Hardware Description Language AHDT: Alaska-Hawaii Daylight Time

Timezone: GMT -10:00

ALC: Application Load Certificate ALC: Arithmetic and Logic Circuits ALC: Automatic Level Control ALDC: Adaptive Lossless Data Compression
(IBM)

AHIG: Apple's Human Interface Guidelines

(Software) (Apple)

AHS: Abstract Handle Specification AHST: Alaska-Hawaii Standard Time

Timezone: GMT -10:00

AI: Analog Input AI: Artificial Intelligence AIA: Applications Integration Architecture
(DEC)

ALE: Account Level Equivalence ALE: Address Latch Enable ALE: Application Launch and Embedding
(Software)

AIC: Aixwindows Interface Composer

(IBM)

ALE: Application Linking Enabling ALEC: Alternative Local Exchange Carrier

(Communication)

AID: Application IDentifier AIFF: Audio Interchange File Format

(Apple)

ALEP: Advanced Language Engineering Platform ALG: Application Layer Gateway

Used in conjuction with Network Address Translation (NAT) to allow IP address translation (Network)

AIIM: Association for Information and Image Management AIM: Aol Instant Messenger AIM: Application Integration Module AIM: Application Interface Module AIN: Advanced Intelligent Network AIO: All In One AIP: Application Infrastructure Provider AIP: Asp Infrastructure Provider www.acronyms.ch

ALGOL: ALGOrithmic Language

Programming language (Software)

ALIBI: Adaptive Location of Internetworked Bases of Information ALICE: Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity ALINK: Active LINK ALIWEB: Archie Like Indexing in the WEB

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AOT AMR: Adaptive Multi-Rate

Audio Codec. GSM/AMR is an audio standard widely used for audio in GPRS and W-CDMA networks (Communication)

ALM: Application Lifecylcle Management

(Software)

ALM: Asynchronous Line Multiplexer

A device that connects multiple terminals or other serial interface devices to Sun network file servers or workstations. Also known as "multiple terminal interface."

AMR: Audio Modem Riser

Slot for an internal modem (Hardware)

AMS: Advanced Microcomputer System

(Hardware) (Siemens-Nixdorf)

ALN: Asynchronous Learning Network ALOM: Advanced Lights Out Management

(Hardware) (Sun)

Amstrad: Alan Michael Sugar TRADing

Eurpean based company that built the first sub $1000 IBM compatible PCs in the mid 1980's

ALP: Apple List Price

Recommended retail price for Apple Macintosh equipment (Hardware) (Apple)

AMT: Active Management Technology

Allows the IT team to better discover, heal, and protect their networked computing assets (Hardware) (Intel)

ALP: Application Layer Program (or Process)

A program or process at the Application Layer (Network)

ANDF: Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format ANI: ANImated cursor

File name extension (Microsoft)

ALP: Application Layer Protocol

Any network protocol at the application layer (Network)

ALP: Automatic Language Processing ALR: Advanced Logic Research ALSA: Architectures of Large Systems of Agents ALT: ALTernate ALU: Arithmetic Logic Unit
Device in a CPU performing arithmetic operations (Hardware)

ANI: Automatic Number Identification ANN: ANNotations

File name extension (IBM)

ANN: Artificial Neural Network ANS: Advanced Networking Services

(Network)

AM: Amplitude Modulation AMA: Automatic Message Accounting AMASS: Archival Management And Storage System
Manufacturer

ANS: American National Standard ANSI: American National Standard Institute

An organization that reviews and approves product standards in the United States. (Organizations)

ANT: Advanced Network Tools ANT: Another Neat Tool

Ant is a Java based build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without make's wrinkles. See http://jakarta.apache.org/ant (Software)

AMD: Active Matrix Display AMD: Advanced Micro Devices

CPU Manufacturer (AMD)

AME: Advanced Metal Evaporation

Recording media technology (Hardware)

ANX: Automotive Network eXchange AO: Analog Output AO/DI: Always On/Dynamic Isdn AOCE: Apple Open Collaborative Environment
(Apple)

AMG: All Music Guide AMHA: Advanced Macro Heuristic Analysis

(Dr. Solomon)

AMHIK: Ask Me How I Know

(Net lingo)

AOCN: Administrative Operating Company Number

(Communication)

AMI: Alternate Mark Inversion AMI: American Megatrends, Inc. AMI: Application Messaging Interface AML: Acpi Machine Language AMLCD: Active-Matrix Liquid Crystal Display
(Hardware)

AOE: Application Operating Environment

(AT&T)

AoE: Ata Over Ethernet

Network protocol designed for simple, high-performance access of SATA storage devices over Ethernet networks. It gives the possibility to build SANs with low-cost, standard technologies (Hardware)

AMMA: Advanced Memory Management Architecture AMP: Alfresco Module Package

File format. Collection of code, XML, images, CSS, etc. that collectively extend the functionality or data provided by the standard Alfresco repository (Software)

AOL: Alert On Lan

(Network)

AOL: America OnLine

(Network)

AOP: Aspect-Oriented Programming

(Software)

AMP: Asymmetric MultiProcessing

System architecture that uses different types of processors in a multi-processor system (Hardware)

AOP: Association of Online Professionals

(Organizations)

AMP: Attached Media Processor

(Hardware)

AOS: Add Or Subtract AOSD: Aspect-Oriented Software Development

(Software)

AMPS: Advanced Mobile Phone System

(Communication)

AMQRS: Audio Master Quality Recording System

(Hardware)

AOT: Ahead Of Time

Programs compilation technique (Software)

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AOW AOW: Asia and Oceania Workshop

One of the three regional OSI implementors workshops.

ARAG APPC: Advanced Program to Program Communication APPCM: Access Protection and Priority Control Mechanism APPEL: A P3p Preference Exchange Language APPI: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking
(Network)

AP: Access Point

(Hardware)

AP: Access Provider

(Communication)

AP: Application Processor AP: Application Protocol

(Software)

APPN: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking

(Network) (IBM)

APA: Adaptive Packet Assembly APA: All Points Addressable APA: Arithmetic Processing Accelerator APAR: Authorized Program Analysis Report
(IBM)

APR: Advanced Port Replicator

(Hardware)

APR: Apache Portable Runtime

Its mission is to provide a free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system portability layer to as many operating systems as possible, including Unices, MS Win32, BeOS and OS/2 (Software)

APC: American Power Conversion APCUG: Association of Personal Computer User Groups APCVG: Association of Personal Computer Users Group
(Organizations)

APRP: Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing APS: Active Pixel Sensor APS: Advanced Photo System APS: Advanced Printing Service
(IBM)

APDU: Application Protocol Data Unit APE: Application Performance Explorer

(Software) (Microsoft)

APS: Analog Protection System APS: Asynchronous Protocol Specification APS: Automatic Protection Switching
A mean for automatically detecting and signalling a transmission link failure (Communication)

APF: Apple Filing Protocol

(Apple)

APF: Automated Purposing Framework

Collection of scripts and utilities that enable you to consistent