CI$

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

CI$
 //, n.

   Hackerism for `CIS', CompuServe Information Service. The dollar sign
   refers to CompuServe's rather steep line charges. Often used in {sig
   block}s just before a CompuServe address. Syn. {Compu$erve}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

CompuServe Information Service
CI$

   <company> (CIS) One of the services run by {CompuServe
   Corporation}.  CIS provides a wide variety of information and
   services, including {bulletin boards}, on-line conferencing,
   business news, sports and weather, financial transactions,
   {electronic mail}, travel and entertainment data as well as
   on-line editions of computer publications.  CompuServe
   Information Service should not be confused with CompuServe
   Corporation's other sectors which offer many other services
   besides the consumer information service.

   CIS is a large international conferencing system (albeit with
   a heavy US bias).  It provides an access to the {Usenet} news
   (GO INTERNET).  More comprehensive {Internet} access was
   planned for the end of 1994.

   Compuserve's main competitors were {AOL} and {Prodigy}.  The
   names CI$ and {Compu$erve}, once used in {sig blocks}, refer
   to CompuServe's high charges.

   (http://compuserve.com/).

   (1995-09-12)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

CI
       Check In (RCS)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

CI
       Coded Information

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

CI
       Common Interface (DVB)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

CI
       Component Interface (DMI)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

CI
       Configuration Item (CM)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

CI
       Congestion Indicator