MUMPS ( Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System ), or alternatively M, is a programming language created in the late 1960s, originally for use in the healthcare industry.

System Programming Language or SPL is also the name of a specific language on the HP 3000 computer series used for its operating system HP Multi-Programming Executive and other systems software.

The time-sharing experiment began as a " half-page of code written out on a kitchen table " combined with a small multi-programming system, LLMPS from MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, which was modified and became the UM Multi-Programming Supervisor ( UMMPS ) which in turn ran the MTS job program.

During his final year at the university, Sassenrath joined Hewlett Packard's Computer Systems Division as a member of the Multi-Programming Executive ( MPE ) file system design group for HP3000 computers.

MPE ( Multi-Programming Executive ) is a business-oriented minicomputer operating system made by Hewlett-Packard.

Around this time, Neil Pappalardo, Curtis Marble, and Robert Greenes developed MUMPS ( Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System ) in Octo Barnett's Laboratory of Computer Science at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, another center of biomedical computing that received significant support from the NIH.

The operating system, known as MPE ( for Multi-Programming Executive ), loads code segments from program files and segmented Library ( SL ) files as needed, up to 256 segments in one process.

The 3000 series operating system was originally styled the Multi-Programming Executive, MPE ( later called MPE XL and then, after POSIX compliance was added in versions 5. 0-5. 5, MPE / iX ).

* Multi-Programming Executive-Filesystem by Hewlett-Packard.

Users of LEO computers programmed in two coding languages: Intercode, a low-level assembler type language ; and CLEO ( acronym: Clear Language for Expressing Orders ), the COBOL equivalent.

The name MADECH is a double acronym in the French language.

Among Whorf's well known examples of linguistic relativity are examples of instances where an indigenous language has several terms for a concept that is only described with one word in English and other European languages ( Whorf used the acronym SAE " Standard Average European " to allude to the rather similar grammatical structures of the well-studied European languages in contrast to the greater diversity of the less-studied languages ).

Other types of slang include SMS language used on mobile phones, and " chatspeak ," ( e. g., " LOL ", an acronym meaning " laughing out loud " or " laugh out loud " or ROFL, " rolling on the floor laughing "), which is widely used in instant messaging on the Internet.

Open circuit demand scuba is a 1943 invention by the Frenchmen Émile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, but in the English language Lambertsen's acronym has become common usage and the name Aqua-Lung, ( often spelled " aqualung "), coined by Cousteau for use in English-speaking countries, has fallen into secondary use.

The Standard Arabic Technical Transliteration System, commonly referred to by its acronym SATTS, is a system for writing and transmitting Arabic language text using the one-for-one substitution of ASCII-range characters for the letters of the Arabic alphabet.

Planner ( often seen in publications as " PLANNER " although it is not an acronym ) is a programming language designed by Carl Hewitt at MIT, and first published in 1969.

Soon after his death, Foucault's partner Daniel Defert founded the first national AIDS organisation in France, which he called AIDES ; a pun on the French language word for " help " ( aide ) and the English language acronym for the disease.

" The SPEAKING acronym, described below, was presented as a lighthearted heuristic to aid fieldworkers in their attempt to document and analyze instances of language in use, which he termed " speech events.

" Embedded in the acronym is an application and extension of Jakobson's arguments concerning the multifunctionality of language.

The book first publicized the acronym TANSTAAFL (" There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch "), and helped popularize the constructed language Loglan, which is used in the story for precise human-computer interaction.

Since the 1980s Ullans, a portmanteau neologism popularized by the physician, amateur historian and politician Ian Adamson, merging Ulster and Lallans — the Scots for Lowlands — but also an acronym for “ Ulster-Scots language in literature and native speech ” and Ulstèr-Scotch, the preferred revivalist parlance, have also been used.

Object-oriented software engineering ( commonly known by acronym OOSE ) is an object modeling language and methodology.

* Television advertisement, it is used in the Japanese language as an acronym for " commercial message "

It is often used for an alternate language ( hence giving the facetious " Spanish audio program " expansion to the acronym ), or for the Descriptive Video Service ( DVS ) offered in the U. S. by PBS, along with broadcasting the local NOAA Weather Radio service or a local National Public Radio station at times where translation or DVS is not needed.

The term Auslan is an acronym of " Australian sign language ", coined by Trevor Johnston in the early 1980s, although the language itself is much older.

The acronym BRD reached some frequency in West German scientific and ministerial use, so that it was added to the western edition of the German language dictionary Duden in 1967.

* New Democratic Party, a political party in Canada, through its French language acronym NPD, standing for Nouveau Parti Démocratique

* Web Ontology Language ( although the official acronym is OWL ), a markup language for publishing and sharing data using ontologies on the World Wide Web

Ulster Scots, the local dialect of Lowland Scots, which has, since the 1980s, also been called ' Ullans ', a portmanteau neologism popularised by the physician, amateur historian and politician Dr Ian Adamson, merging Ulster and Lallans-the Scots for Lowlands-but also an acronym for " Ulster-Scots language in literature and native speech ".

The Defoid language group consists of two branches, Yoruboid and Akoko, which though related, are now recognized as not being closer to each other than they are to Igboid and Edoid ; the acronym is used provisionally for all four families.

* 16 November – The first air transport company ( or airline ) in the world, the German Airship Travel Corporation ( known by its German language acronym DELAG ), is founded at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, to use Zeppelins, a type of rigid airship, to carry passengers.

BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use ; the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

The acronym is tied to the name of an unpublished paper by Thomas Kurtz and is not a backronym.

The name itself is an acronym, a pun, and a description.

Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments.

The acronym comes from the French version of its name Conférence européenne des administrations des postes et des télécommunications.

The new car's name was an acronym of the company's partners ' surnames:

Originally written by four graduate students at the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley ( UCB ), the name originates as an acronym from Berkeley Internet Name Domain, reflecting the application's use within UCB.

Although the acronym ECU is formed from English words, écu is also the name of an ancient French coin.

Although not an acronym, the language's name is sometimes spelled with all capital letters as FORTH, following the customary usage during its earlier years.

The name " FUDGE " was once an acronym for Freeform Universal Donated ( later, Do-it-yourself ) Gaming Engine and, though the acronym has since been dropped, that phrase remains a good summation of the game's design goals.

Originally the name FASA was an acronym for " Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration ", a joking allusion to the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.

Founded in Sweden in 1943 by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad, who later became one of the richest people in the world, the company's name is an acronym comprising the initials of the founder's name ( Ingvar Kamprad ), the farm where he grew up ( Elmtaryd ), and his hometown ( Agunnaryd, in Småland, South Sweden ).

ICAO logo. Top: ICAO acronym in English, French / Spanish and Russian. Bottom: ICAO full name in Chinese and acronym in Arabic

The name LR is an acronym.

The name LAME is a recursive acronym for " LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder ".

His full Hebrew name is Rabbi Mosheh ben Maimon (), whose acronym forms " Rambam " ( רמב " ם ).

The designation on the devices shown, GAP / R, is an acronym for the complete company name.

It has been speculated that the name and acronym were selected in a sly reference to the movie Little Caesar, which featured a notorious gangster named Rico.

The name is an acronym for creativity, lifestyle, innovation, emotion though formerly communication, link, information and entertainment.

It was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. and it retains the acronym SFWA after a very brief use of the SFFWA.