acronyms.comp revision 1.100
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.100 2010/06/08 12:52:51 jruoho Exp $ 2 33WHS three-way handshake 4ABI application binary interface 5ACL access control list 6ACPI advanced configuration and power interface 7ADB Apple desktop bus 8ADC analog [to] digital converter 9ADT abstract data type 10ADPCM adaptive differential pulse code modulation 11ADSL asymmetric digital subscriber line 12AES Advanced Encryption Standard 13AFS Andrew File System 14AGP accelerated graphics port 15ALU arithmetic and logical unit 16AM amplitude modulation 17AMI alternate mark inversion 18ANSI American National Standards Institute 19AP access point 20API application programming interface 21APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 22ARM Advanced RISC Machines 23ARP address resolution protocol 24ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency 25ARQ automatic repeat request 26AS autonomous system 27ASCII American standard code for information interchange 28ASLR address space layout randomization 29ASN autonomous system number 30AST abstract syntax tree 31AST asynchronous trap 32AT advanced technology 33ATA advanced technology attachment 34ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 35ATC address translation cache 36ATM asynchronous transfer mode 37ATX advanced technology extended 38AWK Aho, Werner, and Kernighan 39BAR base address register 40BCD binary coded decimal 41BEDO burst extended data output 42BER basic encoding rules 43BER bit error rate 44BFD binary formats descriptor 45BFKL big fscking kernel lock 46BGP border gateway protocol 47BIND Berkeley Internet Name Daemon 48BIOS basic input/output system 49BLOB binary large object 50BPF Berkeley packet filter 51BPS bits per second 52BQS Berkeley quality software 53BSD Berkeley software distribution 54BSOD blue screen of death 55BSS block started by symbol 56BT Bluetooth 57BT BitTorrent 58CAD computer-aided design 59CARP common address redundancy protocol 60CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 61CCD charge coupled device 62CD compact disc 63CDDA compact disc digital audio 64CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 65CER canonical encoding rules 66CFG context-free grammar 67CFG control-flow graph 68CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 69CGI common gateway interface 70CHS cylinder/head/sector 71CIDR classless inter-domain routing 72CIFS common internet file system 73CIS contact image sensor 74CJK Chinese, Japanese, and Korean 75CLI command line interface 76CLUT color look-up table 77CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 78CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 79COFF common object file format 80COW copy-on-write 81CPU central processing unit 82CR carriage return 83CRLF carriage return line feed 84CRT cathode ray tube 85CS computer science 86CS cable select 87CSMA carrier sense multiple access 88CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 89CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 90CSS cascading style sheets 91CTS clear to send 92CVS concurrent versions system 93DAC discretionary access control 94DAC digital [to] analog converter 95DB database 96DCC direct client [to] client 97DCE data control equipment 98DCE distributed computing environment 99DCT discrete cosine transform 100DDC display data channel 101DDR double data rate 102DDWG digital display working group 103DER distinguished encoding rules 104DES Data Encryption Standard 105DFS depth first search 106DFS distributed file system 107DFT discrete Fourier transform 108DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 109DIFS distributed inter-frame space 110DIMM dual inline memory module 111DLE data link escape 112DLL dynamic link library 113DMA direct memory access 114DNARD Digital network appliance reference design 115DNS domain name system 116DOM document object model 117DOS denial of service 118DPCM differential pulse code modulation 119DPD dead peer detection 120DPI dots per inch 121DPI deep packet inspection 122DRAM dynamic random access memory 123DRI direct rendering infrastructure 124DSL digital subscriber line 125DSLAM digital subscriber line access multiplexer 126DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 127DTD document type definition 128DTE data terminal equipment 129DTE dumb terminal emulator 130DVD digital versatile disc 131DVR digital video recorder 132DVI digital visual interface 133E-XER extended XML encoding rules 134EAP extensible authentication protocol 135ECN explicit congestion notification 136ECP enhanced capability port 137EDID extended display identification data 138EDO extended data out 139EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 140EFI extensible firmware interface 141EFM eight to fourteen modulation 142EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 143EGP exterior gateway protocol 144EIDE enchanced IDE 145EISA extended industry standard architecture 146ELF executable and linking format 147EOF end of file 148EOL end of line 149EOL end of life 150EOT end of transmission 151EPP enhanced parallel port 152EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 153EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 154ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 155FAT file allocation table 156FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 157FCS frame check sequence 158FDDI fiber distributed data interface 159FFI foreign function interface 160FFS fast file system 161FFS find first set 162FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 163FIFO first in first out 164FIR fast infrared 165FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 166FM frequency modulation 167FOSS free / open source software 168FPGA field programmable gate array 169FPM fast page mode 170FPU floating point unit 171FQDN fully qualified domain name 172FRU field replaceable unit 173FTP file transfer protocol 174FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 175GC garbage collector 176GCR group-coded recording 177GDT global descriptor table 178GID group identifier 179GIF graphics interchange format 180GNU GNU's not Unix 181GPL GNU/general public license 182GPU graphics processing unit 183GRE generic routing encapsulation 184GUI graphics user interface 185GUID globally unique identifier 186HA high availability 187HAL hardware abstraction layer 188HBA host bus adapter 189HCI host controller interface 190HCI human-computer interaction 191HDD hard disk drive 192HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 193HID human interface device 194HT hyper-threading 195HTML hyper-text markup language 196HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 197HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 198HZ Hertz 199I2O intelligent input/output 200IANA Internet assigned number authority 201IC integrated circuit 202ICB Internet citizen's band 203ICE internal compiler error 204ICE in-circuit emulator 205ICMP Internet control message protocol 206IDE integrated drive electronics 207IDE integrated development environment 208IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 209IDS intrusion detection system 210IDT interrupt descriptor table 211IE Internet Explorer 212IEC international electrotechnical commission 213IEEE Institute [of] Electrical [and] Electronics Engineers 214IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group 215IETF Internet Engineering Task Force 216IGMP Internet group management protocol 217IGP interior gateway protocol 218IKE Internet key exchange 219IMAP Internet mail access protocol 220INCITS international committee on information technology standards 221IO input/output 222IOCTL input/output control 223IP Internet Protocol 224IP intellectual property 225IPC interprocess communication 226IPNG Internet protocol, next generation 227IPS intrusion prevention system 228IPSEC Internet protocol security 229IRC Internet relay chat 230IRDA infrared data association 231IRQ interrupt request 232IRTF Internet research task force 233ISA industry standard architecture 234ISDN integrated services digital network 235ISI inter-symbol interference 236ISM industrial, scientific and medical 237ISN initial serial number 238ISO international standards organization 239ISOC Internet society 240ISP Internet service provider 241ISR interrupt service routine 242IST interrupt stack table 243IVT interrupt vector table 244JBOD just a bunch of disks 245JIT just in time 246JPEG joint photographic experts group 247JRE Java runtime environment 248JTAG joint test action group 249KLOC thousand lines of code 250KPI kernel programming interface 251KVA kernel virtual address 252KVM kernel virtual memory 253KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 254LAMP Linux Apache MySQL {Perl,PHP,Python} 255LAN local area network 256LBA logical block addressing 257LCD liquid crystal display 258LCP link control protocol 259LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 260LDT local descriptor table 261LED light emitting diode 262LFS log-structured file system 263LIFO last in first out 264LILO last in last out 265LILO Linux loader 266LIR local Internet registry 267LKM {Linux, loadable} kernel module 268LKML Linux kernel mailing list 269LLC logical link control 270LOC lines of code 271LRC longitudinal redundancy check 272LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 273LSB Linux standards base 274LSI large scale integration 275LTR load task register 276LUN logical unit number 277LV logical volume 278LVM logical volume management 279LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 280MAC medium access control 281MAC mandatory access control 282MBR master boot record 283MCGA multicolor graphics adapter 284MDA mail delivery agent 285MDA monochrome display adapter 286MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 287MFC merge from current 288MFM modified frequency modulation 289MIDI musical instrument digital interface 290MIME multipurpose Internet mail extensions 291MIMO multiple input multiple output 292MIPS million instructions per second 293MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 294MMU memory management unit 295MPEG moving picture experts group 296MPLS multiprotocol label switching 297MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 298MSF minutes seconds frames 299MSI message signaled interrupt 300MSS maximum segment size 301MTA mail transfer agent 302MTU maximum transmission unit 303MUA mail user agent 304MWE module width encoding 305NAS network attached storage 306NAT network address translation 307NAV network allocation vector 308NCP network control protocol 309NCQ native command queuing 310NFS network file system 311NIC network interface card 312NIS network information service 313NLS native language support 314NMI non-maskable interrupt 315NNTP network news transfer protocol 316NOP no operation 317NRZ non-return to zero 318NSA National Security Agency 319NUMA non-uniform memory access 320NVRAM non-volatile random access memory 321OCL object constraint language 322OCR optical character recognition 323OEM original equipment manufacturer 324OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 325OO object oriented 326OO OpenOffice 327OOB out of band 328OOM out of memory 329OOP object oriented programming 330OQL object query language 331OS operating system 332OSD open source definition 333OSF open software foundation 334OSI open systems interconnection 335OSI open-source initiative 336OSPF open shortest path first 337OSS open source software 338OSS open sound system 339OTP one time password 340OUI organizationally unique identifier 341OWL Web ontology language 342P2P peer to peer 343P2P PCI to PCI 344PA physical address 345PAE physical address extension 346PAM pluggable authentication modules 347PAM pulse amplitude modulation 348PAT port address translation 349PATA parallel ATA 350PAX portable archive exchange 351PC personal computer 352PCC Portable C Compiler 353PCI peripheral component interconnect 354PCM pulse code modulation 355PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 356PDA personal digital assistant 357PDF portable document format 358PDP page descriptor page 359PDU protocol data unit 360PER packed encoding rules 361PERL practical extraction [and] report language 362PFS perfect forward secrecy 363PGP pretty good privacy 364PHB PCI host bridge 365PIC programmable interrupt controller 366PIC position independent code 367PID process id 368PIE position independent executable 369PIN personal identification number 370PIO programmed input/output 371PKI public key infrastructure 372PLL phase locked loop 373PMT photo-multiplier tube 374PNG portable network graphics 375POE power over ethernet 376POP post office protocol 377POSIX portable operating system interface [for] Unix 378POST power on self test 379POTS plain old telephone system 380PPC PowerPC 381PPB PCI [to] PCI bridge 382PPP point-to-point protocol 383PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 384PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 385PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 386PRNG pseudo random number generator 387PROM programmable read only memory 388PSK pre-shared key 389PSTN public switched telephone network 390PTE page table entry 391PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 392PTP page table page 393PWM pulse width modulation 394PXE preboot execution environment 395QA quality assurance 396QOS quality of service 397RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 398RAM random access memory 399RAS restartable atomic sequence 400RAS remote access service 401RCS revision control system 402RCU read-copy-update 403RDF resource description format 404RGB red green blue 405RHL Red Hat Linux 406RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 407RIP routing information protocol 408RIR regional Internet registry 409RISC reduced instruction set computing 410RLE run length encoding 411RLL run length limited 412RNG random number generator 413ROM read only memory 414RPC remote procedure call 415RPM revolutions per minute 416RSS really simple syndication 417RTC real time clock 418RTF rich text format 419RTOS real time operating system 420RTS request to send 421RTT round time trip 422S/PDIF Sony/Phillips digital interface 423SACD super audio compact disc 424SAD security association database 425SAM serial access memory 426SAN storage area network 427SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 428SATA serial advanced technology attachment 429SB sound blaster 430SCM software configuration management 431SCM source code management 432SCP secure copy 433SCI system control interrupt 434SCSI small computer system interface 435SCTP stream control transmission protocol 436SDK software development kit 437SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 438SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 439SIFS short inter-frame space 440SIMD single instruction multiple data 441SIMM single inline memory module 442SIP session initiation protocol 443SIR slow infrared 444SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 445SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 446SMI system management interrupt 447SMP symmetric multiprocessing 448SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 449SNMP simple network management protocol 450SOA service oriented architecture 451SOAP simple object access protocol 452SOHO small office / home office 453SPARC scalable processor architecture 454SPARQL SPARQL protocol and RDF query language 455SPD security policy database 456SPD serial presence detect 457SPI serial peripheral interface 458SPI stateful packet inspection 459SQL structured query language 460SRAM static random access memory 461SSD solid state drive 462SSE streaming SIMD extensions 463SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 464SSH secure shell 465SSL secure sockets layer 466SSP stack smashing protection 467STP shielded twisted pair 468STP spanning-tree protocol 469SUS Single Unix Specification 470SVG scalable vector graphics 471SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 472SWF Shockwave Flash 473TCB trusted computing base 474TCL tool command language 475TCP transmission control protocol 476TCQ tagged command queueing 477TDD test driven development 478TFT thin film transistor 479TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 480TIAS try it and see 481TIFF tagged image file format 482TITS try it to see 483TLA top level aggregator 484TLB transition lookaside buffer 485TLD top level domain 486TLS transport layer security 487TLS thread local storage 488TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 489TOS terms of service 490TOS type of service 491TR token ring 492TR task register 493TRNG true random number generator 494TSS task state segment 495TTL time to live 496TTY teletype 497TZ time zone 498UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 499UC uncacheable 500UDMA ultra DMA 501UDO ultra density optical (storage) 502UDP user datagram protocol 503UFS Unix file system 504UI user interface 505UID user identifier 506UID unique identifier 507UML unified modeling language 508UPS uninterruptible power supply 509URI uniform resource identifier 510URL uniform resource locator 511USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 512USB universal serial bus 513USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 514UTC coordinated universal time 515UTP unshielded twisted pair 516UUCP Unix-to-Unix copy protocol 517UUID universally unique identifier 518UUOC useless use of cat 519VA virtual address 520VAX virtual address extension 521VCM virtual channel memory 522VESA video electronics standards association 523VG volume group 524VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 525VLAN virtual local area network 526VLSI very large scale integration 527VLSM variable length subnet mask 528VM virtual {machine,memory} 529VPN virtual private network 530VRAM video random access memory 531VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 532W3C World Wide Web Consortium 533WAN wide area network 534WAP wireless application protocol 535WEP wired equivalent privacy 536WFI wait for interrupt 537WIFI wireless fidelity 538WLAN wireless local area network 539WPA wi-fi protected access 540WRAM window random access memory 541WWAN wireless wide area network 542WWW world wide web 543WYSIWYG what you see is what you get 544XER XML encoding rules 545XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 546XML extensible markup language 547XP extreme programming 548XSL extensible stylesheet language 549XSS cross site scripting 550XT extended technology 551XUL XML user interface language 552YACC yet another compiler compiler 553YP yellow pages (aka NIS) 554ZFOD zero-filled on demand 555ZIFS zero insertion force socket 556