Abbreviations

``Als welcher ich verbleibe, barocken Schlußklauseln und Ew. Liebden cordialiter zugetan,
Ew. Liebden Wolaffectionirter,
F.T.
Kgl. Böheimbscher Kammer-
Actuarius und Hof-Poet.''
(Closing of the previously cited letter [Torb82])

ANSI
American National Standards Institute
ASCII
American Standard Code of Information Interchange
BNF
Backus-Naur Form
CAD
Computer Aided Design
CASE
Computer Aided Software Engineering
CLS
C List Support
CVS
Concurrent Versions System
DoE
Design of Experiments
ECAD
Electronic Computer Aided Design
EDA
Electronic Design Automation
FORTRAN
FORmula TRANslation Language
GAS
Geometry Attribute Support
G2S
Geometry 2-dimensional Support
GNU
Gnu is Not UNIX
GRS
Grid Support Module
LINUX
Linus' UNIX
LISP
LISt Processing Language
MAT
MATerial Support
MMS
Module Management System
OOP
Object Oriented Programming
PFR
Process Flow Representation
PIF
Profile Interchange Format
PBF
PIF Binary File
PLB
PIF Logical Binary
PAI
PIF Application Interface
RSM
Response Surface Modeling
SDAG
Search-Directed Acyclic Graph
SFR
Simulation Flow Representation
TAC
Tool Abstraction Concept
TCAD
Technology Computer Aided Design
UNFUG
UNiversal FUnction Generator
VISTA
Viennese Integrated System for Technology CAD Applications
VLSI
Very Large Scale Integration
VLSICAP
VLSI CAPacitance Simulator
VMAKE
Vienna MAKE
VMS
Virtual Memory System
VOOPS
VISTA Object Oriented Programming System
VUI
VISTA User Interface