acronyms.comp revision 1.11
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.11 2003/08/15 05:56:41 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 12CIDR classless inter-domain routing 13CLI command line interface 14CRLF carriage return line feed 15CSS cascading style sheets 16CVS concurrent versions system 17DMA direct memory access 18DNS domain name system 19DSL digital subscriber line 20DTD document type definition 21DVD digital versatile disc 22EISA extended industry standard architecture 23FFS fast file system 24FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 25FTP file transfer protocol 26FQDN fully qualified domain name 27GIF graphics interchange format 28GNU gnu's not unix 29GPL gnu/general public license 30GUI graphics user interface 31HTML hyper-text markup language 32HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 33I2O intelligent input/output 34IANA internet assigned number authority 35ICB internet citizen's band 36ICMP internet control message protocol 37IDE integrated drive electronics 38IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 39IETF internet engineering task force 40IESG internet engineering steering group 41IKE internet key exchange 42IMAP internet mail access protocol 43IO input/output 44IOCTL input/output control 45IP internet protocol 46IPNG internet protocol, next generation 47IPSEC internet protocol security 48IRC internet relay chat 49IRQ interrupt request 50IRTF internet research task force 51ISA industry standard architecture 52ISDN integrated services digital network 53ISOC internet society 54ISP internet service provider 55JPEG joint photographic experts group 56LAN local area network 57LBA logical block addressing 58LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 59LUN logical unit number 60MBR master boot record 61MIPS million instructions per second 62NAT network address translation 63NIC network interface card 64NIS network information service 65NUMA non uniform memory access 66PAX portable archive exchange 67PCI peripheral component interconnect 68PERL practical extraction [and] report language 69PGP pretty good privacy 70PID process id 71PNG portable network graphics 72POP post office protocol 73POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 74PPP point-to-point protocol 75PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 76RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 77RAM random access memory 78RCS revision control system 79RFC request for comments 80RISC reduced instruction set computing 81ROM read only memory 82RPM revolutions per minute 83RTF rich text format 84SATA serial advanced technology attachment 85SCSI small computer standard interface 86SMP symmetric multiprocessing 87SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 88SSH secure shell 89SSL secure sockets layer 90TCL tool command language 91TLD top level domain 92TTY teletype 93TZ time zone 94TCP transmission control protocol 95UDP user datagram protocol 96UPS uninterruptible power supply 97URI uniform resource identifier 98URL uniform resource locator 99USB universal serial bus 100UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 101VPN virtual private network 102XML extensible markup language 103XSL extensible stylesheet language 104WWW world wide web 105