acronyms.comp revision 1.110
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.110 2010/10/24 06:35:00 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 15ALE address latch enable 16ALU arithmetic and logical unit 17AM amplitude modulation 18AMI alternate mark inversion 19ANSI American National Standards Institute 20AP access point 21API application programming interface 22APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 23ARAT always running APIC timer 24ARC adaptive replacement cache 25ARM Advanced RISC Machines 26ARP address resolution protocol 27ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency 28ARQ automatic repeat request 29AS autonomous system 30ASCII American standard code for information interchange 31ASLR address space layout randomization 32ASN autonomous system number 33AST abstract syntax tree 34AST asynchronous trap 35AT advanced technology 36ATA advanced technology attachment 37ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 38ATC address translation cache 39ATM asynchronous transfer mode 40ATX advanced technology extended 41AWK Aho, Werner, and Kernighan 42BAR base address register 43BCD binary coded decimal 44BCS base configuration space 45BEDO burst extended data output 46BER basic encoding rules 47BER bit error rate 48BFD binary formats descriptor 49BFKL big fscking kernel lock 50BGA ball grid array 51BGP border gateway protocol 52BIND Berkeley Internet Name Daemon 53BIOS basic input/output system 54BIST built-in self-test 55BKDG BIOS and kernel developer's guide 56BLAS basic linear algebra subprograms 57BLOB binary large object 58BMC baseboard management controller 59BP base pointer 60BPF Berkeley packet filter 61BPS bits per second 62BQS Berkeley quality software 63BSD Berkeley software distribution 64BSOD blue screen of death 65BSP boot strap processor 66BSS block started by symbol 67BT Bluetooth 68BT BitTorrent 69CAD computer-aided design 70CAM computer assisted manufacturing 71CAM content addressable memory 72CARP common address redundancy protocol 73CAS (atomic) compare and swap 74CAS computer algebra system 75CAS column address strobe 76CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 77CCD charge coupled device 78CD compact disc 79CDDA compact disc digital audio 80CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 81CER canonical encoding rules 82CFG context-free grammar 83CFG control-flow graph 84CG control gate 85CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 86CGI common gateway interface 87CHAP challenge-handshake authentication protocol 88CHS cylinder/head/sector 89CIDR classless inter-domain routing 90CIFS common internet file system 91CIS contact image sensor 92CJK Chinese, Japanese, and Korean 93CLI command line interface 94CLUT color look-up table 95CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 96CMI control management interface 97CMI control method interface 98CMOS complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor 99CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 100COF current operating frequency 101COFF common object file format 102COMA cache-only memory architecture 103COW copy-on-write 104CPL current privilege level 105CPU central processing unit 106CR carriage return 107CRLF carriage return line feed 108CRT cathode ray tube 109CS computer science 110CS cable select 111CS chip select 112CS code segment 113CSI common system interface 114CSMA carrier sense multiple access 115CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 116CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 117CSS cascading style sheets 118CTS clear to send 119CVS concurrent versions system 120DAC discretionary access control 121DAC digital [to] analog converter 122DB database 123DCC direct client [to] client 124DCE data control equipment 125DCE distributed computing environment 126DCT discrete cosine transform 127DDC display data channel 128DDR double data rate 129DDWG digital display working group 130DE desktop environment 131DE debugging extensions 132DEP data execution prevention 133DER distinguished encoding rules 134DES Data Encryption Standard 135DFS depth first search 136DFS distributed file system 137DFT discrete Fourier transform 138DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 139DIFS distributed inter-frame space 140DIMM dual inline memory module 141DL diode logic 142DLE data link escape 143DLL dynamic link library 144DMA direct memory access 145DMI desktop management interface 146DNARD Digital network appliance reference design 147DNS domain name system 148DOM document object model 149DOS denial of service 150DOS disk operating system 151DPCM differential pulse code modulation 152DPD dead peer detection 153DPI dots per inch 154DPI deep packet inspection 155DPL descriptor privilege level 156DRAM dynamic random access memory 157DRI direct rendering infrastructure 158DRM digital rights management 159DS debug store 160DSDT differentiated system descriptor table 161DSL digital subscriber line 162DSLAM digital subscriber line access multiplexer 163DSO dynamic shared object 164DSP digital signal processor 165DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 166DTD document type definition 167DTE data terminal equipment 168DTE dumb terminal emulator 169DTL diode-transistor logic 170DVB digital video broadcasting 171DVD digital versatile disc 172DVFS dynamic voltage and frequency scaling 173DVR digital video recorder 174DVI digital visual interface 175E-XER extended XML encoding rules 176EAP extensible authentication protocol 177ECL emitter-coupled logic 178ECN explicit congestion notification 179ECP enhanced capability port 180EDID extended display identification data 181EDO extended data out 182EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 183EFI extensible firmware interface 184EFM eight to fourteen modulation 185EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 186EGP exterior gateway protocol 187EIDE enchanced IDE 188EISA extended industry standard architecture 189ELF executable and linking format 190EOF end of file 191EOL end of line 192EOL end of life 193EOT end of transmission 194EPP enhanced parallel port 195EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 196EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 197ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 198EST enhanced speedstep 199FAT file allocation table 200FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 201FCS frame check sequence 202FDDI fiber distributed data interface 203FEC forward error correction 204FFH functional fixed hardware 205FFI foreign function interface 206FFS fast file system 207FFS find first set 208FFT fast Fourier transform 209FG floating gate 210FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 211FID frequency identifier 212FIFO first in first out 213FIR fast infrared 214FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 215FM frequency modulation 216FOSS free / open source software 217FPGA field programmable gate array 218FPM fast page mode 219FPU floating point unit 220FQDN fully qualified domain name 221FRU field replaceable unit 222FSB front side bus 223FTP file transfer protocol 224FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 225FWH firmware hub 226GAS generic address structure 227GC garbage collector 228GCR group-coded recording 229GDT global descriptor table 230GEM graphics execution manager 231GEM graphics environment manager 232GID group identifier 233GIF graphics interchange format 234GMCH graphics and memory controller hub 235GNU GNU's not Unix 236GOT global offset table 237GPE general purpose event 238GPL GNU/general public license 239GPU graphics processing unit 240GRE generic routing encapsulation 241GSI global system interrupt 242GUI graphics user interface 243GUID globally unique identifier 244HA high availability 245HAL hardware abstraction layer 246HBA host bus adapter 247HCI host controller interface 248HCI human-computer interaction 249HDD hard disk drive 250HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 251HFM highest frequency mode 252HID human interface device 253HMA high memory area 254HPC high performance computing 255HPET high precision event timer 256HT hyper-threading 257HTC hardware thermal control 258HTML hyper-text markup language 259HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 260HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 261HZ Hertz 262I2O intelligent input/output 263IANA Internet assigned number authority 264IBS instruction based sampling 265IC integrated circuit 266ICB Internet citizen's band 267ICH I/O controller hub 268ICE internal compiler error 269ICE in-circuit emulator 270ICMP Internet control message protocol 271IDE integrated drive electronics 272IDE integrated development environment 273IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 274IDS intrusion detection system 275IDT interrupt descriptor table 276IE Internet Explorer 277IEC international electrotechnical commission 278IEEE Institute [of] Electrical [and] Electronics Engineers 279IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group 280IETF Internet Engineering Task Force 281IFCM isochronous flow control mode 282IGMP Internet group management protocol 283IGP interior gateway protocol 284IKE Internet key exchange 285ILP instruction level parallelism 286IMC integrated memory controller 287IMAP Internet mail access protocol 288INCITS international committee on information technology standards 289IO input/output 290IOCTL input/output control 291IOMMU input/output memory management unit 292IP Internet Protocol 293IP intellectual property 294IPC interprocess communication 295IPI interprocessor interrupt 296IPNG Internet protocol, next generation 297IPS intrusion prevention system 298IPS in-plane switching 299IPSEC Internet protocol security 300IRC Internet relay chat 301IRDA infrared data association 302IRQ interrupt request 303IRTF Internet research task force 304ISA industry standard architecture 305ISA instruction set architecture 306ISDN integrated services digital network 307ISI inter-symbol interference 308ISM industrial, scientific and medical 309ISN initial serial number 310ISO international standards organization 311ISOC Internet society 312ISP Internet service provider 313ISR interrupt service routine 314IST interrupt stack table 315IVT interrupt vector table 316JBOD just a bunch of disks 317JIT just in time 318JPEG joint photographic experts group 319JRE Java runtime environment 320JTAG joint test action group 321KLOC thousand lines of code 322KMS kernel-mode setting 323KPI kernel programming interface 324KVA kernel virtual address 325KVM kernel virtual memory 326KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 327LAMP Linux Apache MySQL {Perl,PHP,Python} 328LAN local area network 329LAPIC local advanced programmable interrupt controller 330LBA logical block addressing 331LCD liquid crystal display 332LCP link control protocol 333LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 334LDT local descriptor table 335LE logical extent 336LED light emitting diode 337LFM lowest frequency mode 338LFS log-structured file system 339LFU least frequently used 340LIFO last in first out 341LILO last in last out 342LILO Linux loader 343LINT local interrupt 344LIR local Internet registry 345LKM {Linux, loadable} kernel module 346LKML Linux kernel mailing list 347LL/SC load linked / store conditional 348LLC logical link control 349LOC lines of code 350LPC low pin count 351LRC longitudinal redundancy check 352LRU least recently used 353LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 354LSB Linux standards base 355LSI large scale integration 356LTR load task register 357LUN logical unit number 358LV logical volume 359LVM logical volume management 360LVT local vector table 361LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 362MAC medium access control 363MAC mandatory access control 364MADT multiple APIC descriptor table 365MBR master boot record 366MC memory controller 367MCA machine check architecture 368MCE machine check exception 369MCGA multicolor graphics adapter 370MCH memory controller hub 371MCQ memory controlled queue 372MDA mail delivery agent 373MDA monochrome display adapter 374MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 375MFC merge from current 376MFM modified frequency modulation 377MIB management information base 378MID mobile internet device 379MIDI musical instrument digital interface 380MIF management information format 381MIME multipurpose Internet mail extensions 382MIMO multiple input multiple output 383MIPS million instructions per second 384MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 385MLC multi-level cell 386MMIO memory mapped input/output 387MMU memory management unit 388MMX multimedia extension 389MMX multiple math extension 390MMX matrix math extension 391MPEG moving picture experts group 392MPLS multiprotocol label switching 393MPS multiprocessor specification 394MPS memory pool system 395MRU most recently used 396MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 397MSF minutes seconds frames 398MSI message signaled interrupt 399MSR machine state register 400MSS maximum segment size 401MTA mail transfer agent 402MTRR memory type range register 403MTU maximum transmission unit 404MUA mail user agent 405MWE module width encoding 406NAS network attached storage 407NAT network address translation 408NAV network allocation vector 409NCP network control protocol 410NCQ native command queuing 411NFS network file system 412NIC network interface card 413NIS network information service 414NLS native language support 415NMI non-maskable interrupt 416NNTP network news transfer protocol 417NOP no operation 418NRZ non-return to zero 419NSA National Security Agency 420NTP network time protocol 421NUMA non-uniform memory access 422NVRAM non-volatile random access memory 423NX no execute 424OAEP optimal asymmetric encryption padding 425OBO off by one 426OBOE off by one error 427OCL object constraint language 428OCR optical character recognition 429ODCM on-demand clock modulation 430OEM original equipment manufacturer 431OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 432ONFI open nand flash interface 433OO object oriented 434OO OpenOffice 435OOB out of band 436OOE out of order execution 437OOM out of memory 438OOP object oriented programming 439OQL object query language 440ORM object-relational mapping 441OS operating system 442OSD open source definition 443OSF open software foundation 444OSI open systems interconnection 445OSI open-source initiative 446OSPF open shortest path first 447OSS open source software 448OSS open sound system 449OSVW operating system visible workarounds 450OTP one time password 451OUI organizationally unique identifier 452OWL Web ontology language 453P2P peer to peer 454P2P PCI to PCI 455PA physical address 456PAE physical address extension 457PAM pluggable authentication modules 458PAM pulse amplitude modulation 459PAP password authentication protocol 460PAT page attribute table 461PAT port address translation 462PATA parallel ATA 463PAX portable archive exchange 464PBE pending break encoding 465PBE programming by example 466PC personal computer 467PCB printed circuit board 468PCC Portable C Compiler 469PCI peripheral component interconnect 470PCM pulse code modulation 471PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 472PDA personal digital assistant 473PDF portable document format 474PDN pull-down network 475PDP page descriptor page 476PDU protocol data unit 477PER packed encoding rules 478PERL practical extraction [and] report language 479PFS perfect forward secrecy 480PGP pretty good privacy 481PHB PCI host bridge 482PIC programmable interrupt controller 483PIC position independent code 484PID process id 485PIE position independent executable 486PIN personal identification number 487PIO programmed input/output 488PKI public key infrastructure 489PKCS public-key cryptography standards 490PLL phase locked loop 491PMI platform management interrupt 492PMIO port-mapped input/output 493PMT photo-multiplier tube 494PNG portable network graphics 495POE power over ethernet 496POP post office protocol 497POSIX portable operating system interface [for] Unix 498POST power on self test 499POTS plain old telephone system 500PPC PowerPC 501PPB PCI [to] PCI bridge 502PPP point-to-point protocol 503PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 504PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 505PPU physics processing unit 506PRBS pseudo-random bit sequence 507PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 508PRNG pseudo random number generator 509PROM programmable read only memory 510PSE page size extensions 511PSK pre-shared key 512PSTN public switched telephone network 513PTE page table entry 514PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 515PTP page table page 516PV physical volume 517PVG physical volume group 518PWM pulse width modulation 519PXE preboot execution environment 520QA quality assurance 521QAM quadrature amplitude modulation 522QOS quality of service 523RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 524RAM random access memory 525RAS restartable atomic sequence 526RAS remote access service 527RAS row address strobe 528RC release candidate 529RC remote control 530RCS revision control system 531RCU read-copy-update 532RDF resource description format 533REST representational state transfer 534RGB red green blue 535RHL Red Hat Linux 536RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 537RIP routing information protocol 538RIR regional Internet registry 539RISC reduced instruction set computing 540RLE run length encoding 541RLL run length limited 542RNG random number generator 543ROM read only memory 544RPC remote procedure call 545RPL requested privilege level 546RPM revolutions per minute 547RSA Rivest, Shamir and Adleman 548RSS really simple syndication 549RT real time 550RTC real time clock 551RTC real time computing 552RTF rich text format 553RTL resistor-transistor logic 554RTOS real time operating system 555RTS request to send 556RTT round time trip 557RX receive, receiver 558S/PDIF Sony/Phillips digital interface 559SACD super audio compact disc 560SAD security association database 561SAM serial access memory 562SAN storage area network 563SAPIC streamlined advanced programmable interrupt controller 564SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 565SATA serial advanced technology attachment 566SB sound blaster 567SCM software configuration management 568SCM source code management 569SCP secure copy 570SCI system control interrupt 571SCI scalable coherent interface 572SCSI small computer system interface 573SCTP stream control transmission protocol 574SDK software development kit 575SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 576SFI simple firmware interface 577SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 578SIFS short inter-frame space 579SIMD single instruction multiple data 580SIMM single inline memory module 581SIP session initiation protocol 582SIR slow infrared 583SLC single-level cell 584SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 585SLI scalable link interface 586SLI scan-line interleave 587SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 588SMBIOS system management BIOS 589SMI system management interrupt 590SMI structure of management information 591SMM system management mode 592SMP symmetric multiprocessing 593SMT simultaneous multithreading 594SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 595SNMP simple network management protocol 596SOA service oriented architecture 597SOAP simple object access protocol 598SOHO small office / home office 599SP stack pointer 600SPARC scalable processor architecture 601SPARQL SPARQL protocol and RDF query language 602SPD security policy database 603SPD serial presence detect 604SPI serial peripheral interface 605SPI stateful packet inspection 606SQL structured query language 607SRAM static random access memory 608SS stack segment 609SSD solid state drive 610SSE streaming SIMD extensions 611SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 612SSH secure shell 613SSL secure sockets layer 614SSP stack smashing protection 615STP shielded twisted pair 616STP spanning-tree protocol 617SUS Single Unix Specification 618SVG scalable vector graphics 619SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 620SVM secure virtual machine 621SVM support vector machine 622SWF Shockwave Flash 623TAS test and set 624TCB trusted computing base 625TCC thermal control circuit 626TCL tool command language 627TCP transmission control protocol 628TCQ tagged command queueing 629TDD test driven development 630TDP thermal design power 631TFT thin film transistor 632TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 633TIAS try it and see 634TIFF tagged image file format 635TITS try it to see 636TLA top level aggregator 637TLB transition lookaside buffer 638TLD top level domain 639TLS transport layer security 640TLS thread local storage 641TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 642TMO timeout 643TOS terms of service 644TOS type of service 645TPM trusted platform module 646TR token ring 647TR task register 648TRNG true random number generator 649TS time stamp 650TS time series 651TS terminal services 652TSC time stamp counter 653TSP time stamp protocol 654TSP tunnel setup protocol 655TSS task state segment 656TTL time to live 657TTL transistor-transistor logic 658TTM translation table maps 659TTY teletype 660TX transmit out, transmitter 661TZ time zone 662UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 663UC uncacheable 664UDMA ultra DMA 665UDO ultra density optical (storage) 666UDP user datagram protocol 667UFS Unix file system 668UI user interface 669UI unit interval 670UID user identifier 671UID unique identifier 672UMA upper memory area 673UMB upper memory block 674UML unified modeling language 675UPS uninterruptible power supply 676URI uniform resource identifier 677URL uniform resource locator 678USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 679USB universal serial bus 680USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 681UTC coordinated universal time 682UTP unshielded twisted pair 683UUCP Unix-to-Unix copy protocol 684UUID universally unique identifier 685UUOC useless use of cat 686VA virtual address 687VA vertical alignment 688VAX virtual address extension 689VCC common collector voltage 690VCM virtual channel memory 691VESA video electronics standards association 692VG volume group 693VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 694VHDCI very high density cable interconnect 695VID voltage level identifier 696VLAN virtual local area network 697VLIW very long instruction word 698VLSI very large scale integration 699VLSM variable length subnet mask 700VM virtual {machine,memory} 701VPN virtual private network 702VRAM video random access memory 703VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 704W3C World Wide Web Consortium 705WAN wide area network 706WAP wireless application protocol 707WEP wired equivalent privacy 708WFI wait for interrupt 709WIFI wireless fidelity 710WLAN wireless local area network 711VMX virtual machine extensions 712VMX vector multimedia extensions 713WDT watchdog timer 714WPA wi-fi protected access 715WRAM window random access memory 716WWAN wireless wide area network 717WWW world wide web 718WYSIWYG what you see is what you get 719XBAR crossbar 720XER XML encoding rules 721XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 722XIP execute in place 723XML extensible markup language 724XP extreme programming 725XSL extensible stylesheet language 726XSS cross site scripting 727XT extended technology 728XUL XML user interface language 729YACC yet another compiler compiler 730YP yellow pages (aka NIS) 731ZFOD zero-filled on demand 732ZIFS zero insertion force socket 733