A new control system always introduces its own "language". A somehow sportive approach is the creation of an unlimited amount of abbreviations. In order to clarify this for EPICS here is a first start of a collection. Have fun to read it...

CA	Channel Access
CAC	Channel Access Client
CAS	Channel Access Server
DCS	Distributed Control System
DCS	Detector Control System (see i.e. ALICE DCS)
EPICS	Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
IOC	Input/Output Controller
OPI	OPerator Interface
PV	Process Variable

Some stand alone CA Clients and their short names (Copied from Getting Started with EPICS: Introductory Session I)

ADT	Array Display Tool
ALH	Alarm Handler
AR	Data Archiver (the original, deprecated)
BURT	Backup and Restore Tool
CAEX	Channel Access Examples
CASR	Host-based Save/Restore
CAU	Channel Access Utility
DM2K	Display Manager 2000 (BESSY)
EDD/DM	Editor and Display Manager (LANL)
EDM	Extensible Display Manager (ORNL)
HistTool	Data Histogramming Tool
JoiMint	Java Operator Interface and Management INtegration Toolkit (DESY)
Jprobe	Java Version of Probe, a Channel Monitoring Program
Knobs	Knob Manager and KnobConfig, an Interface to SunDials
MEDM	Motif Editor and Display Manager
Probe	Motif Channel Monitoring Program
StripTool	Strip-chart Plotting Tool
Yviewer	Data Visualization Tool

last change: -- BurkhardKolb - 23 Aug 2005

-- MarcRStockmeier - 05 Jul 2005