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Acronym List

ANSI
American National Standards Institute
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AST
Asynchronous System Trap
BIL
Band Interleaved by Line
BIP
Band Interleaved by Pixel
BSQ
Band SeQuential
CMS
Code Management System
DEC
Digital Equipment Corporation
FITS
Flexible Image Transport System
Fortran
FORmula TRANslator
FPS
Floating Point Systems
GUI
Graphical User Interface
HP
Hewlett-Packard
HRSC
High Resolution Stereo Camera
HTML
HyperText Markup Language
HW
HRSC/WAOSS
IBM
International Business Machines
IEEE
Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers
I/O
Input/Output
JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPL
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
K&R
Kernighan and Ritchie
MIDR
Mosaicked Image Data Record
MIPL
Multimission Image Processing Laboratory
MIPS
Multimission Image Processing Subsystem
MSTP
Multimission Software Transition Project
NBB
Number of Bytes of Binary (prefix)
NFS
Network File System
NIMS
Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
NLB
Number of Lines of Binary (header)
PCA
Performance and Coverage Analyzer
PDS
Planetary Data System
QIO
Queue Input/Output
RDM
Report Display Manager
RISC
Reduced Instruction Set Computer
RMS
Record Management Services
RPC
Remote Procedure Call
RTL
Run-Time Library (specific to VICAR in this document)
SPARC
Scalable Processor ARChitecture
SPICE
Spacecraft, Planet, Instrument, C-kernel, Event
SUBLIB
SUBroutine LIBrary (of VICAR)
TAE
Transportable Applications Environment
TBD
To Be Determined
TCL
TAE Command Language
VAX/VMS
Virtual Address eXtension/Virtual Memory System
VFC
Vector Function Chainer
VICAR
Video Image Communication And Retrieval
VIDS
VICAR Interactive Display Subsystem
VRDI
Virtual Raster Display Interface
WAOSS
Wide Angle Optoelectronic Stereo Scanner
WWW
World-Wide Web

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