acronyms.comp revision 1.103
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.103 2010/07/30 13:32:24 dholland 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 22ARC adaptive replacement cache 23ARM Advanced RISC Machines 24ARP address resolution protocol 25ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency 26ARQ automatic repeat request 27AS autonomous system 28ASCII American standard code for information interchange 29ASLR address space layout randomization 30ASN autonomous system number 31AST abstract syntax tree 32AST asynchronous trap 33AT advanced technology 34ATA advanced technology attachment 35ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 36ATC address translation cache 37ATM asynchronous transfer mode 38ATX advanced technology extended 39AWK Aho, Werner, and Kernighan 40BAR base address register 41BCD binary coded decimal 42BEDO burst extended data output 43BER basic encoding rules 44BER bit error rate 45BFD binary formats descriptor 46BFKL big fscking kernel lock 47BGP border gateway protocol 48BIND Berkeley Internet Name Daemon 49BIOS basic input/output system 50BLAS basic linear algebra subprograms 51BLOB binary large object 52BMC baseboard management controller 53BPF Berkeley packet filter 54BPS bits per second 55BQS Berkeley quality software 56BSD Berkeley software distribution 57BSOD blue screen of death 58BSS block started by symbol 59BT Bluetooth 60BT BitTorrent 61CAD computer-aided design 62CAM computer assisted manufacturing 63CAM content addressable memory 64CARP common address redundancy protocol 65CAS (atomic) compare and swap 66CAS computer algebra system 67CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 68CCD charge coupled device 69CD compact disc 70CDDA compact disc digital audio 71CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 72CER canonical encoding rules 73CFG context-free grammar 74CFG control-flow graph 75CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 76CGI common gateway interface 77CHS cylinder/head/sector 78CIDR classless inter-domain routing 79CIFS common internet file system 80CIS contact image sensor 81CJK Chinese, Japanese, and Korean 82CLI command line interface 83CLUT color look-up table 84CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 85CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 86COFF common object file format 87COW copy-on-write 88CPU central processing unit 89CR carriage return 90CRLF carriage return line feed 91CRT cathode ray tube 92CS computer science 93CS cable select 94CSMA carrier sense multiple access 95CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 96CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 97CSS cascading style sheets 98CTS clear to send 99CVS concurrent versions system 100DAC discretionary access control 101DAC digital [to] analog converter 102DB database 103DCC direct client [to] client 104DCE data control equipment 105DCE distributed computing environment 106DCT discrete cosine transform 107DDC display data channel 108DDR double data rate 109DDWG digital display working group 110DER distinguished encoding rules 111DES Data Encryption Standard 112DFS depth first search 113DFS distributed file system 114DFT discrete Fourier transform 115DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 116DIFS distributed inter-frame space 117DIMM dual inline memory module 118DLE data link escape 119DLL dynamic link library 120DMA direct memory access 121DNARD Digital network appliance reference design 122DNS domain name system 123DOM document object model 124DOS denial of service 125DPCM differential pulse code modulation 126DPD dead peer detection 127DPI dots per inch 128DPI deep packet inspection 129DRAM dynamic random access memory 130DRI direct rendering infrastructure 131DSL digital subscriber line 132DSLAM digital subscriber line access multiplexer 133DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 134DTD document type definition 135DTE data terminal equipment 136DTE dumb terminal emulator 137DVD digital versatile disc 138DVR digital video recorder 139DVI digital visual interface 140E-XER extended XML encoding rules 141EAP extensible authentication protocol 142ECN explicit congestion notification 143ECP enhanced capability port 144EDID extended display identification data 145EDO extended data out 146EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 147EFI extensible firmware interface 148EFM eight to fourteen modulation 149EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 150EGP exterior gateway protocol 151EIDE enchanced IDE 152EISA extended industry standard architecture 153ELF executable and linking format 154EOF end of file 155EOL end of line 156EOL end of life 157EOT end of transmission 158EPP enhanced parallel port 159EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 160EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 161ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 162FAT file allocation table 163FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 164FCS frame check sequence 165FDDI fiber distributed data interface 166FFI foreign function interface 167FFS fast file system 168FFS find first set 169FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 170FIFO first in first out 171FIR fast infrared 172FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 173FM frequency modulation 174FOSS free / open source software 175FPGA field programmable gate array 176FPM fast page mode 177FPU floating point unit 178FQDN fully qualified domain name 179FRU field replaceable unit 180FTP file transfer protocol 181FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 182FWH firmware hub 183GAS generic address structure 184GC garbage collector 185GCR group-coded recording 186GDT global descriptor table 187GID group identifier 188GIF graphics interchange format 189GMCH graphics and memory controller hub 190GNU GNU's not Unix 191GPL GNU/general public license 192GPU graphics processing unit 193GRE generic routing encapsulation 194GUI graphics user interface 195GUID globally unique identifier 196HA high availability 197HAL hardware abstraction layer 198HBA host bus adapter 199HCI host controller interface 200HCI human-computer interaction 201HDD hard disk drive 202HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 203HID human interface device 204HPC high performance computing 205HT hyper-threading 206HTML hyper-text markup language 207HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 208HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 209HZ Hertz 210I2O intelligent input/output 211IANA Internet assigned number authority 212IC integrated circuit 213ICB Internet citizen's band 214ICH I/O controller hub 215ICE internal compiler error 216ICE in-circuit emulator 217ICMP Internet control message protocol 218IDE integrated drive electronics 219IDE integrated development environment 220IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 221IDS intrusion detection system 222IDT interrupt descriptor table 223IE Internet Explorer 224IEC international electrotechnical commission 225IEEE Institute [of] Electrical [and] Electronics Engineers 226IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group 227IETF Internet Engineering Task Force 228IGMP Internet group management protocol 229IGP interior gateway protocol 230IKE Internet key exchange 231IMC integrated memory controller 232IMAP Internet mail access protocol 233INCITS international committee on information technology standards 234IO input/output 235IOCTL input/output control 236IP Internet Protocol 237IP intellectual property 238IPC interprocess communication 239IPNG Internet protocol, next generation 240IPS intrusion prevention system 241IPSEC Internet protocol security 242IRC Internet relay chat 243IRDA infrared data association 244IRQ interrupt request 245IRTF Internet research task force 246ISA industry standard architecture 247ISDN integrated services digital network 248ISI inter-symbol interference 249ISM industrial, scientific and medical 250ISN initial serial number 251ISO international standards organization 252ISOC Internet society 253ISP Internet service provider 254ISR interrupt service routine 255IST interrupt stack table 256IVT interrupt vector table 257JBOD just a bunch of disks 258JIT just in time 259JPEG joint photographic experts group 260JRE Java runtime environment 261JTAG joint test action group 262KLOC thousand lines of code 263KPI kernel programming interface 264KVA kernel virtual address 265KVM kernel virtual memory 266KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 267LAMP Linux Apache MySQL {Perl,PHP,Python} 268LAN local area network 269LBA logical block addressing 270LCD liquid crystal display 271LCP link control protocol 272LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 273LDT local descriptor table 274LED light emitting diode 275LFS log-structured file system 276LFU least frequently used 277LIFO last in first out 278LILO last in last out 279LILO Linux loader 280LIR local Internet registry 281LKM {Linux, loadable} kernel module 282LKML Linux kernel mailing list 283LL/SC load linked / store conditional 284LLC logical link control 285LOC lines of code 286LPC low pin count 287LRC longitudinal redundancy check 288LRU least recently used 289LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 290LSB Linux standards base 291LSI large scale integration 292LTR load task register 293LUN logical unit number 294LV logical volume 295LVM logical volume management 296LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 297MAC medium access control 298MAC mandatory access control 299MBR master boot record 300MCGA multicolor graphics adapter 301MCH memory controller hub 302MDA mail delivery agent 303MDA monochrome display adapter 304MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 305MFC merge from current 306MFM modified frequency modulation 307MIDI musical instrument digital interface 308MIME multipurpose Internet mail extensions 309MIMO multiple input multiple output 310MIPS million instructions per second 311MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 312MMU memory management unit 313MPEG moving picture experts group 314MPLS multiprotocol label switching 315MRU most recently used 316MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 317MSF minutes seconds frames 318MSI message signaled interrupt 319MSS maximum segment size 320MTA mail transfer agent 321MTU maximum transmission unit 322MUA mail user agent 323MWE module width encoding 324NAS network attached storage 325NAT network address translation 326NAV network allocation vector 327NCP network control protocol 328NCQ native command queuing 329NFS network file system 330NIC network interface card 331NIS network information service 332NLS native language support 333NMI non-maskable interrupt 334NNTP network news transfer protocol 335NOP no operation 336NRZ non-return to zero 337NSA National Security Agency 338NUMA non-uniform memory access 339NVRAM non-volatile random access memory 340OCL object constraint language 341OCR optical character recognition 342OEM original equipment manufacturer 343OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 344OO object oriented 345OO OpenOffice 346OOB out of band 347OOM out of memory 348OOP object oriented programming 349OQL object query language 350OS operating system 351OSD open source definition 352OSF open software foundation 353OSI open systems interconnection 354OSI open-source initiative 355OSPF open shortest path first 356OSS open source software 357OSS open sound system 358OTP one time password 359OUI organizationally unique identifier 360OWL Web ontology language 361P2P peer to peer 362P2P PCI to PCI 363PA physical address 364PAE physical address extension 365PAM pluggable authentication modules 366PAM pulse amplitude modulation 367PAT port address translation 368PATA parallel ATA 369PAX portable archive exchange 370PC personal computer 371PCC Portable C Compiler 372PCI peripheral component interconnect 373PCM pulse code modulation 374PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 375PDA personal digital assistant 376PDF portable document format 377PDP page descriptor page 378PDU protocol data unit 379PER packed encoding rules 380PERL practical extraction [and] report language 381PFS perfect forward secrecy 382PGP pretty good privacy 383PHB PCI host bridge 384PIC programmable interrupt controller 385PIC position independent code 386PID process id 387PIE position independent executable 388PIN personal identification number 389PIO programmed input/output 390PKI public key infrastructure 391PLL phase locked loop 392PMT photo-multiplier tube 393PNG portable network graphics 394POE power over ethernet 395POP post office protocol 396POSIX portable operating system interface [for] Unix 397POST power on self test 398POTS plain old telephone system 399PPC PowerPC 400PPB PCI [to] PCI bridge 401PPP point-to-point protocol 402PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 403PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 404PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 405PRNG pseudo random number generator 406PROM programmable read only memory 407PSK pre-shared key 408PSTN public switched telephone network 409PTE page table entry 410PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 411PTP page table page 412PWM pulse width modulation 413PXE preboot execution environment 414QA quality assurance 415QOS quality of service 416RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 417RAM random access memory 418RAS restartable atomic sequence 419RAS remote access service 420RCS revision control system 421RCU read-copy-update 422RDF resource description format 423RGB red green blue 424RHL Red Hat Linux 425RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 426RIP routing information protocol 427RIR regional Internet registry 428RISC reduced instruction set computing 429RLE run length encoding 430RLL run length limited 431RNG random number generator 432ROM read only memory 433RPC remote procedure call 434RPM revolutions per minute 435RSS really simple syndication 436RTC real time clock 437RTF rich text format 438RTOS real time operating system 439RTS request to send 440RTT round time trip 441S/PDIF Sony/Phillips digital interface 442SACD super audio compact disc 443SAD security association database 444SAM serial access memory 445SAN storage area network 446SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 447SATA serial advanced technology attachment 448SB sound blaster 449SCM software configuration management 450SCM source code management 451SCP secure copy 452SCI system control interrupt 453SCSI small computer system interface 454SCTP stream control transmission protocol 455SDK software development kit 456SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 457SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 458SIFS short inter-frame space 459SIMD single instruction multiple data 460SIMM single inline memory module 461SIP session initiation protocol 462SIR slow infrared 463SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 464SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 465SMI system management interrupt 466SMP symmetric multiprocessing 467SMT simultaneous multithreading 468SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 469SNMP simple network management protocol 470SOA service oriented architecture 471SOAP simple object access protocol 472SOHO small office / home office 473SP stack pointer 474SPARC scalable processor architecture 475SPARQL SPARQL protocol and RDF query language 476SPD security policy database 477SPD serial presence detect 478SPI serial peripheral interface 479SPI stateful packet inspection 480SQL structured query language 481SRAM static random access memory 482SSD solid state drive 483SSE streaming SIMD extensions 484SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 485SSH secure shell 486SSL secure sockets layer 487SSP stack smashing protection 488STP shielded twisted pair 489STP spanning-tree protocol 490SUS Single Unix Specification 491SVG scalable vector graphics 492SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 493SWF Shockwave Flash 494TCB trusted computing base 495TCL tool command language 496TCP transmission control protocol 497TCQ tagged command queueing 498TDD test driven development 499TFT thin film transistor 500TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 501TIAS try it and see 502TIFF tagged image file format 503TITS try it to see 504TLA top level aggregator 505TLB transition lookaside buffer 506TLD top level domain 507TLS transport layer security 508TLS thread local storage 509TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 510TOS terms of service 511TOS type of service 512TPM trusted platform module 513TR token ring 514TR task register 515TRNG true random number generator 516TSS task state segment 517TTL time to live 518TTY teletype 519TZ time zone 520UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 521UC uncacheable 522UDMA ultra DMA 523UDO ultra density optical (storage) 524UDP user datagram protocol 525UFS Unix file system 526UI user interface 527UID user identifier 528UID unique identifier 529UML unified modeling language 530UPS uninterruptible power supply 531URI uniform resource identifier 532URL uniform resource locator 533USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 534USB universal serial bus 535USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 536UTC coordinated universal time 537UTP unshielded twisted pair 538UUCP Unix-to-Unix copy protocol 539UUID universally unique identifier 540UUOC useless use of cat 541VA virtual address 542VAX virtual address extension 543VCM virtual channel memory 544VESA video electronics standards association 545VG volume group 546VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 547VLAN virtual local area network 548VLSI very large scale integration 549VLSM variable length subnet mask 550VM virtual {machine,memory} 551VPN virtual private network 552VRAM video random access memory 553VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 554W3C World Wide Web Consortium 555WAN wide area network 556WAP wireless application protocol 557WEP wired equivalent privacy 558WFI wait for interrupt 559WIFI wireless fidelity 560WLAN wireless local area network 561WPA wi-fi protected access 562WRAM window random access memory 563WWAN wireless wide area network 564WWW world wide web 565WYSIWYG what you see is what you get 566XER XML encoding rules 567XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 568XML extensible markup language 569XP extreme programming 570XSL extensible stylesheet language 571XSS cross site scripting 572XT extended technology 573XUL XML user interface language 574YACC yet another compiler compiler 575YP yellow pages (aka NIS) 576ZFOD zero-filled on demand 577ZIFS zero insertion force socket 578