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From: stjahn@sunpool.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Steffen Jahn)
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Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
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Date: 15 May 1997 10:07:56 GMT
Organization: Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg
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Rob McMahon (cudcv@csv.warwick.ac.uk.spam.off) wrote:
: wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu (Wayne Cochran - CS) writes:
: 
: > how silly of me, UDP = user datagram protocol
: 
: How's aboout Unreliable Datagram Protocol.

RFC 768, J. Postel, 28 August 1980

This User Datagram  Protocol  (UDP)  is  defined  to  make  available  a
datagram   mode  of  packet-switched   computer   communication  in  the
environment  of  an  interconnected  set  of  computer  networks...