List of Acronyms
API - Application Program Interface
BOA - Basic Object Adapter
CDR - Common Data Representation
COM - Component/Common Object Model
CORBA - Common Object Request Broker
DAC - Discretionary Access Control
DCE - Distributed Computing Environment
GUID - Globally Unique Identifier
HTML - Hyper-text Markup Language
IDL - Interface Definition Language
IIOP - Internet Inter-ORB Bridges
MAC - Mandatory Access Control
NCS - Network Computing System
NDR - Network Data Representation
NIS - Network Information Service
OA - Object Adapter
ODBC - Open Database Connectivity
OLE - Object Linking and Embedding
ONC - Open Network Computing
ORB - Object Request Broker
OSF - Open Software Foundation
PII - Portable Independent Interfaces
POSIX - Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments
RBAC - Role-based Access Control
RDA - Remote Database Access
RPC - Remote Procedure Call
RPCL - Remote Procedure Call Language
TCP/IP - Transmission and Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
XDR - External Data Representation
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