acronyms.comp revision 1.10
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.10 2003/08/10 00:44:46 keihan Exp $ 2 3ABI application binary interface 4API application programming interface 5AGP accelerated graphics port 6ATA advanced technology attachment 7BIOS basic input/output system 8BLOB binary large object 9BSD berkeley software distribution 10CD compact disc 11CHS cylinder/head/sector 12CLI command line interface 13CRLF carriage return line feed 14CSS cascading style sheets 15CVS concurrent versions system 16DMA direct memory access 17DNS domain name system 18DSL digital subscriber line 19DTD document type definition 20DVD digital versatile disc 21EISA extended industry standard architecture 22FFS fast file system 23FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 24FTP file transfer protocol 25FQDN fully qualified domain name 26GIF graphics interchange format 27GNU gnu's not unix 28GPL gnu/general public license 29GUI graphics user interface 30HTML hyper-text markup language 31HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 32I2O intelligent input/output 33IANA internet assigned number authority 34ICB internet citizen's band 35ICMP internet control message protocol 36IDE integrated drive electronics 37IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 38IETF internet engineering task force 39IESG internet engineering steering group 40IKE internet key exchange 41IMAP internet mail access protocol 42IO input/output 43IOCTL input/output control 44IP internet protocol 45IPNG internet protocol, next generation 46IPSEC internet protocol security 47IRC internet relay chat 48IRQ interrupt request 49IRTF internet research task force 50ISA industry standard architecture 51ISDN integrated services digital network 52ISOC internet society 53ISP internet service provider 54JPEG joint photographic experts group 55LAN local area network 56LBA logical block addressing 57LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 58LUN logical unit number 59MBR master boot record 60MIPS million instructions per second 61NAT network address translation 62NIS network information service 63NUMA non uniform memory access 64PAX portable archive exchange 65PCI peripheral component interconnect 66PERL practical extraction [and] report language 67PGP pretty good privacy 68PID process id 69PNG portable network graphics 70POP post office protocol 71POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 72PPP point-to-point protocol 73PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 74RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 75RAM random access memory 76RCS revision control system 77RFC request for comments 78RISC reduced instruction set computing 79ROM read only memory 80RPM revolutions per minute 81RTF rich text format 82SATA serial advanced technology attachment 83SCSI small computer standard interface 84SMP symmetric multiprocessing 85SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 86SSH secure shell 87SSL secure sockets layer 88TCL tool command language 89TLD top level domain 90TTY teletype 91TZ time zone 92TCP transmission control protocol 93UDP user datagram protocol 94UPS uninterruptible power supply 95URI uniform resource identifier 96URL uniform resource locator 97USB universal serial bus 98UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 99VPN virtual private network 100XML extensible markup language 101XSL extensible stylesheet language 102WWW world wide web 103