acronyms.comp revision 1.101
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.101 2010/07/29 18:36:34 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 50BMC baseboard management controller 51BPF Berkeley packet filter 52BPS bits per second 53BQS Berkeley quality software 54BSD Berkeley software distribution 55BSOD blue screen of death 56BSS block started by symbol 57BT Bluetooth 58BT BitTorrent 59CAD computer-aided design 60CARP common address redundancy protocol 61CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 62CCD charge coupled device 63CD compact disc 64CDDA compact disc digital audio 65CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 66CER canonical encoding rules 67CFG context-free grammar 68CFG control-flow graph 69CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 70CGI common gateway interface 71CHS cylinder/head/sector 72CIDR classless inter-domain routing 73CIFS common internet file system 74CIS contact image sensor 75CJK Chinese, Japanese, and Korean 76CLI command line interface 77CLUT color look-up table 78CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 79CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 80COFF common object file format 81COW copy-on-write 82CPU central processing unit 83CR carriage return 84CRLF carriage return line feed 85CRT cathode ray tube 86CS computer science 87CS cable select 88CSMA carrier sense multiple access 89CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 90CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 91CSS cascading style sheets 92CTS clear to send 93CVS concurrent versions system 94DAC discretionary access control 95DAC digital [to] analog converter 96DB database 97DCC direct client [to] client 98DCE data control equipment 99DCE distributed computing environment 100DCT discrete cosine transform 101DDC display data channel 102DDR double data rate 103DDWG digital display working group 104DER distinguished encoding rules 105DES Data Encryption Standard 106DFS depth first search 107DFS distributed file system 108DFT discrete Fourier transform 109DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 110DIFS distributed inter-frame space 111DIMM dual inline memory module 112DLE data link escape 113DLL dynamic link library 114DMA direct memory access 115DNARD Digital network appliance reference design 116DNS domain name system 117DOM document object model 118DOS denial of service 119DPCM differential pulse code modulation 120DPD dead peer detection 121DPI dots per inch 122DPI deep packet inspection 123DRAM dynamic random access memory 124DRI direct rendering infrastructure 125DSL digital subscriber line 126DSLAM digital subscriber line access multiplexer 127DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 128DTD document type definition 129DTE data terminal equipment 130DTE dumb terminal emulator 131DVD digital versatile disc 132DVR digital video recorder 133DVI digital visual interface 134E-XER extended XML encoding rules 135EAP extensible authentication protocol 136ECN explicit congestion notification 137ECP enhanced capability port 138EDID extended display identification data 139EDO extended data out 140EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 141EFI extensible firmware interface 142EFM eight to fourteen modulation 143EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 144EGP exterior gateway protocol 145EIDE enchanced IDE 146EISA extended industry standard architecture 147ELF executable and linking format 148EOF end of file 149EOL end of line 150EOL end of life 151EOT end of transmission 152EPP enhanced parallel port 153EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 154EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 155ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 156FAT file allocation table 157FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 158FCS frame check sequence 159FDDI fiber distributed data interface 160FFI foreign function interface 161FFS fast file system 162FFS find first set 163FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 164FIFO first in first out 165FIR fast infrared 166FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 167FM frequency modulation 168FOSS free / open source software 169FPGA field programmable gate array 170FPM fast page mode 171FPU floating point unit 172FQDN fully qualified domain name 173FRU field replaceable unit 174FTP file transfer protocol 175FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 176FWH firmware hub 177GAS generic address structure 178GC garbage collector 179GCR group-coded recording 180GDT global descriptor table 181GID group identifier 182GIF graphics interchange format 183GMCH graphics and memory controller hub 184GNU GNU's not Unix 185GPL GNU/general public license 186GPU graphics processing unit 187GRE generic routing encapsulation 188GUI graphics user interface 189GUID globally unique identifier 190HA high availability 191HAL hardware abstraction layer 192HBA host bus adapter 193HCI host controller interface 194HCI human-computer interaction 195HDD hard disk drive 196HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 197HID human interface device 198HT hyper-threading 199HTML hyper-text markup language 200HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 201HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 202HZ Hertz 203I2O intelligent input/output 204IANA Internet assigned number authority 205IC integrated circuit 206ICB Internet citizen's band 207ICH I/O controller hub 208ICE internal compiler error 209ICE in-circuit emulator 210ICMP Internet control message protocol 211IDE integrated drive electronics 212IDE integrated development environment 213IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 214IDS intrusion detection system 215IDT interrupt descriptor table 216IE Internet Explorer 217IEC international electrotechnical commission 218IEEE Institute [of] Electrical [and] Electronics Engineers 219IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group 220IETF Internet Engineering Task Force 221IGMP Internet group management protocol 222IGP interior gateway protocol 223IKE Internet key exchange 224IMC integrated memory controller 225IMAP Internet mail access protocol 226INCITS international committee on information technology standards 227IO input/output 228IOCTL input/output control 229IP Internet Protocol 230IP intellectual property 231IPC interprocess communication 232IPNG Internet protocol, next generation 233IPS intrusion prevention system 234IPSEC Internet protocol security 235IRC Internet relay chat 236IRDA infrared data association 237IRQ interrupt request 238IRTF Internet research task force 239ISA industry standard architecture 240ISDN integrated services digital network 241ISI inter-symbol interference 242ISM industrial, scientific and medical 243ISN initial serial number 244ISO international standards organization 245ISOC Internet society 246ISP Internet service provider 247ISR interrupt service routine 248IST interrupt stack table 249IVT interrupt vector table 250JBOD just a bunch of disks 251JIT just in time 252JPEG joint photographic experts group 253JRE Java runtime environment 254JTAG joint test action group 255KLOC thousand lines of code 256KPI kernel programming interface 257KVA kernel virtual address 258KVM kernel virtual memory 259KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 260LAMP Linux Apache MySQL {Perl,PHP,Python} 261LAN local area network 262LBA logical block addressing 263LCD liquid crystal display 264LCP link control protocol 265LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 266LDT local descriptor table 267LED light emitting diode 268LFS log-structured file system 269LIFO last in first out 270LILO last in last out 271LILO Linux loader 272LIR local Internet registry 273LKM {Linux, loadable} kernel module 274LKML Linux kernel mailing list 275LLC logical link control 276LOC lines of code 277LPC low pin count 278LRC longitudinal redundancy check 279LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 280LSB Linux standards base 281LSI large scale integration 282LTR load task register 283LUN logical unit number 284LV logical volume 285LVM logical volume management 286LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 287MAC medium access control 288MAC mandatory access control 289MBR master boot record 290MCGA multicolor graphics adapter 291MCH memory controller hub 292MDA mail delivery agent 293MDA monochrome display adapter 294MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 295MFC merge from current 296MFM modified frequency modulation 297MIDI musical instrument digital interface 298MIME multipurpose Internet mail extensions 299MIMO multiple input multiple output 300MIPS million instructions per second 301MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 302MMU memory management unit 303MPEG moving picture experts group 304MPLS multiprotocol label switching 305MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 306MSF minutes seconds frames 307MSI message signaled interrupt 308MSS maximum segment size 309MTA mail transfer agent 310MTU maximum transmission unit 311MUA mail user agent 312MWE module width encoding 313NAS network attached storage 314NAT network address translation 315NAV network allocation vector 316NCP network control protocol 317NCQ native command queuing 318NFS network file system 319NIC network interface card 320NIS network information service 321NLS native language support 322NMI non-maskable interrupt 323NNTP network news transfer protocol 324NOP no operation 325NRZ non-return to zero 326NSA National Security Agency 327NUMA non-uniform memory access 328NVRAM non-volatile random access memory 329OCL object constraint language 330OCR optical character recognition 331OEM original equipment manufacturer 332OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 333OO object oriented 334OO OpenOffice 335OOB out of band 336OOM out of memory 337OOP object oriented programming 338OQL object query language 339OS operating system 340OSD open source definition 341OSF open software foundation 342OSI open systems interconnection 343OSI open-source initiative 344OSPF open shortest path first 345OSS open source software 346OSS open sound system 347OTP one time password 348OUI organizationally unique identifier 349OWL Web ontology language 350P2P peer to peer 351P2P PCI to PCI 352PA physical address 353PAE physical address extension 354PAM pluggable authentication modules 355PAM pulse amplitude modulation 356PAT port address translation 357PATA parallel ATA 358PAX portable archive exchange 359PC personal computer 360PCC Portable C Compiler 361PCI peripheral component interconnect 362PCM pulse code modulation 363PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 364PDA personal digital assistant 365PDF portable document format 366PDP page descriptor page 367PDU protocol data unit 368PER packed encoding rules 369PERL practical extraction [and] report language 370PFS perfect forward secrecy 371PGP pretty good privacy 372PHB PCI host bridge 373PIC programmable interrupt controller 374PIC position independent code 375PID process id 376PIE position independent executable 377PIN personal identification number 378PIO programmed input/output 379PKI public key infrastructure 380PLL phase locked loop 381PMT photo-multiplier tube 382PNG portable network graphics 383POE power over ethernet 384POP post office protocol 385POSIX portable operating system interface [for] Unix 386POST power on self test 387POTS plain old telephone system 388PPC PowerPC 389PPB PCI [to] PCI bridge 390PPP point-to-point protocol 391PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 392PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 393PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 394PRNG pseudo random number generator 395PROM programmable read only memory 396PSK pre-shared key 397PSTN public switched telephone network 398PTE page table entry 399PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 400PTP page table page 401PWM pulse width modulation 402PXE preboot execution environment 403QA quality assurance 404QOS quality of service 405RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 406RAM random access memory 407RAS restartable atomic sequence 408RAS remote access service 409RCS revision control system 410RCU read-copy-update 411RDF resource description format 412RGB red green blue 413RHL Red Hat Linux 414RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 415RIP routing information protocol 416RIR regional Internet registry 417RISC reduced instruction set computing 418RLE run length encoding 419RLL run length limited 420RNG random number generator 421ROM read only memory 422RPC remote procedure call 423RPM revolutions per minute 424RSS really simple syndication 425RTC real time clock 426RTF rich text format 427RTOS real time operating system 428RTS request to send 429RTT round time trip 430S/PDIF Sony/Phillips digital interface 431SACD super audio compact disc 432SAD security association database 433SAM serial access memory 434SAN storage area network 435SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 436SATA serial advanced technology attachment 437SB sound blaster 438SCM software configuration management 439SCM source code management 440SCP secure copy 441SCI system control interrupt 442SCSI small computer system interface 443SCTP stream control transmission protocol 444SDK software development kit 445SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 446SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 447SIFS short inter-frame space 448SIMD single instruction multiple data 449SIMM single inline memory module 450SIP session initiation protocol 451SIR slow infrared 452SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 453SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 454SMI system management interrupt 455SMP symmetric multiprocessing 456SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 457SNMP simple network management protocol 458SOA service oriented architecture 459SOAP simple object access protocol 460SOHO small office / home office 461SPARC scalable processor architecture 462SPARQL SPARQL protocol and RDF query language 463SPD security policy database 464SPD serial presence detect 465SPI serial peripheral interface 466SPI stateful packet inspection 467SQL structured query language 468SRAM static random access memory 469SSD solid state drive 470SSE streaming SIMD extensions 471SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 472SSH secure shell 473SSL secure sockets layer 474SSP stack smashing protection 475STP shielded twisted pair 476STP spanning-tree protocol 477SUS Single Unix Specification 478SVG scalable vector graphics 479SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 480SWF Shockwave Flash 481TCB trusted computing base 482TCL tool command language 483TCP transmission control protocol 484TCQ tagged command queueing 485TDD test driven development 486TFT thin film transistor 487TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 488TIAS try it and see 489TIFF tagged image file format 490TITS try it to see 491TLA top level aggregator 492TLB transition lookaside buffer 493TLD top level domain 494TLS transport layer security 495TLS thread local storage 496TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 497TOS terms of service 498TOS type of service 499TPM trusted platform module 500TR token ring 501TR task register 502TRNG true random number generator 503TSS task state segment 504TTL time to live 505TTY teletype 506TZ time zone 507UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 508UC uncacheable 509UDMA ultra DMA 510UDO ultra density optical (storage) 511UDP user datagram protocol 512UFS Unix file system 513UI user interface 514UID user identifier 515UID unique identifier 516UML unified modeling language 517UPS uninterruptible power supply 518URI uniform resource identifier 519URL uniform resource locator 520USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 521USB universal serial bus 522USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 523UTC coordinated universal time 524UTP unshielded twisted pair 525UUCP Unix-to-Unix copy protocol 526UUID universally unique identifier 527UUOC useless use of cat 528VA virtual address 529VAX virtual address extension 530VCM virtual channel memory 531VESA video electronics standards association 532VG volume group 533VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 534VLAN virtual local area network 535VLSI very large scale integration 536VLSM variable length subnet mask 537VM virtual {machine,memory} 538VPN virtual private network 539VRAM video random access memory 540VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 541W3C World Wide Web Consortium 542WAN wide area network 543WAP wireless application protocol 544WEP wired equivalent privacy 545WFI wait for interrupt 546WIFI wireless fidelity 547WLAN wireless local area network 548WPA wi-fi protected access 549WRAM window random access memory 550WWAN wireless wide area network 551WWW world wide web 552WYSIWYG what you see is what you get 553XER XML encoding rules 554XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 555XML extensible markup language 556XP extreme programming 557XSL extensible stylesheet language 558XSS cross site scripting 559XT extended technology 560XUL XML user interface language 561YACC yet another compiler compiler 562YP yellow pages (aka NIS) 563ZFOD zero-filled on demand 564ZIFS zero insertion force socket 565