QI
An acronym for Query Interface, The QI (generally based on the CCSO Nameserver) is a database system that can be accessed by ph client programs to retrieve and edit entries in the server. This is generally used for phonebook services, but can be used in any database application. Further information is available.
QWERTY
The standard english-language keyboard layout. Term comes from the first six letters below the row of numbers.
See also: DVORAK
QWK
A format for offline mail and news reader packets, originally made popular on MS-DOS BBSs.
Quine A program that generates a copy of it's own source text as it's complete output. From the logician Willard van Orman Quine. The Quine page