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| | TLA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19) |
 | | The TLA ('''''t hree- l etter a bbreviation or a cronym ') is the most popular type of abbreviation in computing and telecom terminology, and is also common in political jargon. |
 | | Some of these, such as " DOS ", are strict acronym s, while others, like "TLA" itself, are initialism s; this distinction is not universally accepted (see the latter article for a discussion), but leads to the use of abbreviation as opposed to acronym in expanding the term. |
 | | In the MS-DOS operating system for personal computers, because only three-letter file extension s (usually denoting the file type) were allowed, many longer abbreviations were shortened to three letters (for example JPEG to JPG, HTML to HTM). |
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