AFS - Andrew File System; managed, distributed data
AMI - Analysis Module Interface ASP
API - Application Programming Interface
ARCH - Computing platform and operating system, e.g. irix
ASP - Analysis Service Package, system-like functions in STAF
ASU - Analysis Service Utility ASP
CORBA - Common Object Request Broker Arch., interface standard
CVS - Concurrent Versions System; code version management
DataSet - Container for STAF tables; analogous to UNIX directory
DIO - Data Input/Output ASP
DLT - Digital Linear Tape
DSL - DataSet Library software
DST - Data Summary Tape; event reconstruction summary
DUI - Dataset Unix like Interface ASP
Fritiof - String fragmentation LUND model event generator
GUI - Graphical User Interface
Hijing - String fragmentation with hard scattering event generator
html - Hypertext mark-up language, for web documents
IDL - Interface Definition Language; interface for tables and PAMS
KUIP - Kit for User Interface Package; Fortran-like scripting language
kumac - KUIP macro; files for convenient running of STAF and PAW
LEV - Log Environment and Version ASP
MDS - Managed Data Store, a.k.a. Mass Data Store
ntuple - PAW table-like data structure in compressed format (Zebra)
Objectivity - Commercial OODBMS product and company name
OODBMS - Object Oriented Data Base Managment Software
ORACLE - Commercial RDBMS product and company name
OS - Operating System (e.g. irix 6.0)
PAM - Physics Analysis Module; user written analysis code in STAF
PAW - Physics Analysis (for) Workstation(s); CERN data analysis product
PKG - Package; related set of software items as understood in STAR
RCF - RHIC Computing Facility
RDBMS - Relational Data Base Managment Software
ROOT - Rene Brun's Object Oriented replacement for PAW
SAS - Simulations and Analysis Software (group in STAR)
SLM - STAR Library Makefiles
SOC - Service Object Catalog ASP
SOFI - SOFtware Infrastructure (group in STAR)
SPX - Service Package eXample ASP
STAF - STAR Analysis Framework
StAF - Standard Analysis Framework
Stic - STAR idl compiler
SWAT - SoftWare infrastructure Action Task force team in STAR
table - Basic data structure element in STAF
TBR - Table BRowser ASP
Tcl/TK - Tool Command Language/Tool kit; scripting language with GUI
TNT - Table to NTuple ASP
TOP - Table OPerator ASP
URL - Universal Resource Locator for web documents
VENUS - String model event generator with rescattering
VINI - Parton cascade model based event generator
WWW - World Wide Web
xdf - file name extension suffix for external XDR files
XDR - eXternal Data Representation; data format