V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

NDIS
       Network Driver Interface Specification (3COM, MS)


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Network Device Interface Specification
NDIS

    (NDIS) A Microsoft Windows
   device driver programming interface allowing multiple
   protocols to share the same network hardware.
   E.g. TCP/IP and IPX on the same NIC.  NDIS can also be
   used by some ISDN adapters.

   A protocol manager accepts requests from the transport layer
   and passes them to the data link layer (routed to the
   correct network interface if there is more than one).

   NDIS was developed by Microsoft and 3COM.  Novell offers
   a similar device driver for NetWare called Open Data-Link
   Interface (ODI).

   The NDIS 2.0 specification was 5000 lines.

   (http://microsoft.com/hwdev/devdes/ndis5.htm).

   cdrom.com NDIS archive
   (ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/network/ndis/).

   ["3TECH, The 3COM Technical Journal", Winter 1991].

   (2000-10-30)