PAM

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

pam \pam\, n. [From {Palm} victory; cf. trump, fr. triumph, and
   perh. fr. F. pamphile from Pamphile, a man's name.]
   1. The knave of clubs. [Obs.] --Pope.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A card game in which the jack of clubs is trump.
      [PJC]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pam \Pam\, prop. n.
   A form of the female given name {Pamela}.
   [PJC]

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

Pluggable Authentication Module
PAM

   <security> (PAM) The new industry standard integrated {login}
   {framework}.  PAM is used by system entry components, such as
   the {Common Desktop Environment}'s dtlogin, to authenticate
   users logging into a {Unix} system.  It provides pluggability
   for a variety of system-entry services.  PAM's ability to
   {stack} authentication {modules} can be used to integrate
   {login} with different authentication mechanisms such as
   {RSA}, {DCE} and {Kerberos}, and thus unify login mechanisms.
   PAM can also integrate {smart card} authentication.

   White paper (http://gr.osf.org/book/psm-wppr.htm).

   [OSF-RFC 86.0 V. Samar, R. Schemers, "Unified Login with
   Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)", Oct 1995].

   (1997-07-18)

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

Pam

   <language> A {toy} {ALGOL}-like language used in "Formal
   Specification of Programming Languages: A Panoramic Primer",
   F.G. Pagan, P-H 1981.

   (1996-12-23)

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

PAM
       Paging Area Memory

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

PAM
       Pluggable Authentication Module (Linux, LISA)

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

PAM
       Primary Access Method (BS2000)

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

PAM
       Pulse Amplification Modulation

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

PAM
       Programmable Attribute Maps (DRAM, PCI)