acronyms.comp revision 1.112
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.112 2010/11/21 01:46:20 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 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 binary space partition 66BSP boot strap processor 67BSS block started by symbol 68BT Bluetooth 69BT BitTorrent 70CAD computer-aided design 71CAM computer assisted manufacturing 72CAM content addressable memory 73CARP common address redundancy protocol 74CAS (atomic) compare and swap 75CAS computer algebra system 76CAS column address strobe 77CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 78CCD charge coupled device 79CD compact disc 80CDDA compact disc digital audio 81CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 82CER canonical encoding rules 83CFG context-free grammar 84CFG control-flow graph 85CG control gate 86CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 87CGI common gateway interface 88CHAP challenge-handshake authentication protocol 89CHS cylinder/head/sector 90CIDR classless inter-domain routing 91CIFS common internet file system 92CIS contact image sensor 93CJK Chinese, Japanese, and Korean 94CLI command line interface 95CLUT color look-up table 96CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 97CMI control management interface 98CMI control method interface 99CMOS complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor 100CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 101COF current operating frequency 102COFF common object file format 103COMA cache-only memory architecture 104COW copy-on-write 105CPL current privilege level 106CPU central processing unit 107CR carriage return 108CRLF carriage return line feed 109CRT cathode ray tube 110CS computer science 111CS cable select 112CS chip select 113CS code segment 114CSI common system interface 115CSMA carrier sense multiple access 116CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 117CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 118CSS cascading style sheets 119CTS clear to send 120CVS concurrent versions system 121DAC discretionary access control 122DAC digital [to] analog converter 123DB database 124DCC direct client [to] client 125DCE data control equipment 126DCE distributed computing environment 127DCT discrete cosine transform 128DDC display data channel 129DDR double data rate 130DDWG digital display working group 131DE desktop environment 132DE debugging extensions 133DEP data execution prevention 134DER distinguished encoding rules 135DES Data Encryption Standard 136DFS depth first search 137DFS distributed file system 138DFT discrete Fourier transform 139DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 140DIFS distributed inter-frame space 141DIMM dual inline memory module 142DL diode logic 143DLE data link escape 144DLL dynamic link library 145DMA direct memory access 146DMI desktop management interface 147DNARD Digital network appliance reference design 148DNS domain name system 149DOM document object model 150DOS denial of service 151DOS disk operating system 152DPCM differential pulse code modulation 153DPD dead peer detection 154DPI dots per inch 155DPI deep packet inspection 156DPL descriptor privilege level 157DRAM dynamic random access memory 158DRI direct rendering infrastructure 159DRM digital rights management 160DS debug store 161DSDT differentiated system descriptor table 162DSL digital subscriber line 163DSLAM digital subscriber line access multiplexer 164DSO dynamic shared object 165DSP digital signal processor 166DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 167DTD document type definition 168DTE data terminal equipment 169DTE dumb terminal emulator 170DTL diode-transistor logic 171DVB digital video broadcasting 172DVD digital versatile disc 173DVFS dynamic voltage and frequency scaling 174DVR digital video recorder 175DVI digital visual interface 176E-XER extended XML encoding rules 177EAP extensible authentication protocol 178ECL emitter-coupled logic 179ECN explicit congestion notification 180ECP enhanced capability port 181EDID extended display identification data 182EDO extended data out 183EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 184EFI extensible firmware interface 185EFM eight to fourteen modulation 186EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 187EGP exterior gateway protocol 188EIDE enchanced IDE 189EISA extended industry standard architecture 190ELF executable and linking format 191EOF end of file 192EOL end of line 193EOL end of life 194EOT end of transmission 195EPP enhanced parallel port 196EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 197EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 198ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 199EST enhanced speedstep 200FAT file allocation table 201FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 202FCS frame check sequence 203FDDI fiber distributed data interface 204FEC forward error correction 205FFH functional fixed hardware 206FFI foreign function interface 207FFS fast file system 208FFS find first set 209FFT fast Fourier transform 210FG floating gate 211FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 212FID frequency identifier 213FIFO first in first out 214FIR fast infrared 215FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 216FM frequency modulation 217FOSS free / open source software 218FPGA field programmable gate array 219FPM fast page mode 220FPU floating point unit 221FQDN fully qualified domain name 222FRU field replaceable unit 223FSB front side bus 224FTP file transfer protocol 225FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 226FWH firmware hub 227GAS generic address structure 228GC garbage collector 229GCR group-coded recording 230GDT global descriptor table 231GEM graphics execution manager 232GEM graphics environment manager 233GID group identifier 234GIF graphics interchange format 235GMCH graphics and memory controller hub 236GNU GNU's not Unix 237GOT global offset table 238GPE general purpose event 239GPL GNU/general public license 240GPU graphics processing unit 241GRE generic routing encapsulation 242GSI global system interrupt 243GUI graphics user interface 244GUID globally unique identifier 245HA high availability 246HAL hardware abstraction layer 247HBA host bus adapter 248HCI host controller interface 249HCI human-computer interaction 250HDD hard disk drive 251HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 252HFM highest frequency mode 253HID human interface device 254HMA high memory area 255HPC high performance computing 256HPET high precision event timer 257HT hyper-threading 258HTC hardware thermal control 259HTML hyper-text markup language 260HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 261HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 262HZ Hertz 263I2O intelligent input/output 264IANA Internet assigned number authority 265IBS instruction based sampling 266IC integrated circuit 267ICB Internet citizen's band 268ICH I/O controller hub 269ICE internal compiler error 270ICE in-circuit emulator 271ICMP Internet control message protocol 272IDE integrated drive electronics 273IDE integrated development environment 274IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 275IDS intrusion detection system 276IDT interrupt descriptor table 277IE Internet Explorer 278IEC international electrotechnical commission 279IEEE Institute [of] Electrical [and] Electronics Engineers 280IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group 281IETF Internet Engineering Task Force 282IFCM isochronous flow control mode 283IGMP Internet group management protocol 284IGP interior gateway protocol 285IKE Internet key exchange 286ILP instruction level parallelism 287IMC integrated memory controller 288IMAP Internet mail access protocol 289INCITS international committee on information technology standards 290IO input/output 291IOCTL input/output control 292IOMMU input/output memory management unit 293IP Internet Protocol 294IP intellectual property 295IPC interprocess communication 296IPI interprocessor interrupt 297IPNG Internet protocol, next generation 298IPS intrusion prevention system 299IPS in-plane switching 300IPSEC Internet protocol security 301IRC Internet relay chat 302IRDA infrared data association 303IRQ interrupt request 304IRTF Internet research task force 305ISA industry standard architecture 306ISA instruction set architecture 307ISDN integrated services digital network 308ISI inter-symbol interference 309ISM industrial, scientific and medical 310ISN initial serial number 311ISO international standards organization 312ISOC Internet society 313ISP Internet service provider 314ISR interrupt service routine 315IST interrupt stack table 316IVT interrupt vector table 317JBOD just a bunch of disks 318JIT just in time 319JPEG joint photographic experts group 320JRE Java runtime environment 321JTAG joint test action group 322KLOC thousand lines of code 323KMS kernel-mode setting 324KPI kernel programming interface 325KVA kernel virtual address 326KVM kernel virtual memory 327KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 328LAMP Linux Apache MySQL {Perl,PHP,Python} 329LAN local area network 330LAPIC local advanced programmable interrupt controller 331LBA logical block addressing 332LCD liquid crystal display 333LCP link control protocol 334LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 335LDT local descriptor table 336LE logical extent 337LED light emitting diode 338LFM lowest frequency mode 339LFS log-structured file system 340LFU least frequently used 341LIFO last in first out 342LILO last in last out 343LILO Linux loader 344LINT local interrupt 345LIR local Internet registry 346LKM {Linux, loadable} kernel module 347LKML Linux kernel mailing list 348LL/SC load linked / store conditional 349LLC logical link control 350LOC lines of code 351LPC low pin count 352LRC longitudinal redundancy check 353LRU least recently used 354LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 355LSB Linux standards base 356LSI large scale integration 357LTR load task register 358LUN logical unit number 359LV logical volume 360LVM logical volume management 361LVT local vector table 362LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 363MAC medium access control 364MAC mandatory access control 365MADT multiple APIC descriptor table 366MBR master boot record 367MC memory controller 368MCA machine check architecture 369MCE machine check exception 370MCGA multicolor graphics adapter 371MCH memory controller hub 372MCQ memory controlled queue 373MDA mail delivery agent 374MDA monochrome display adapter 375MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 376MFC merge from current 377MFM modified frequency modulation 378MIB management information base 379MID mobile internet device 380MIDI musical instrument digital interface 381MIF management information format 382MIME multipurpose Internet mail extensions 383MIMO multiple input multiple output 384MIPS million instructions per second 385MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 386MLC multi-level cell 387MMIO memory mapped input/output 388MMU memory management unit 389MMX multimedia extension 390MMX multiple math extension 391MMX matrix math extension 392MPEG moving picture experts group 393MPLS multiprotocol label switching 394MPS multiprocessor specification 395MPS memory pool system 396MRU most recently used 397MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 398MSF minutes seconds frames 399MSI message signaled interrupt 400MSR machine state register 401MSS maximum segment size 402MTA mail transfer agent 403MTRR memory type range register 404MTU maximum transmission unit 405MUA mail user agent 406MWE module width encoding 407NAS network attached storage 408NAT network address translation 409NAV network allocation vector 410NCP network control protocol 411NCQ native command queuing 412NFS network file system 413NIC network interface card 414NIS network information service 415NLS native language support 416NMI non-maskable interrupt 417NNTP network news transfer protocol 418NOP no operation 419NRZ non-return to zero 420NSA National Security Agency 421NTP network time protocol 422NUMA non-uniform memory access 423NVRAM non-volatile random access memory 424NX no execute 425OAEP optimal asymmetric encryption padding 426OBO off by one 427OBOE off by one error 428OCL object constraint language 429OCR optical character recognition 430ODCM on-demand clock modulation 431OEM original equipment manufacturer 432OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 433ONFI open nand flash interface 434OO object oriented 435OO OpenOffice 436OOB out of band 437OOE out of order execution 438OOM out of memory 439OOP object oriented programming 440OQL object query language 441ORM object-relational mapping 442OS operating system 443OSD open source definition 444OSF open software foundation 445OSI open systems interconnection 446OSI open-source initiative 447OSPF open shortest path first 448OSS open source software 449OSS open sound system 450OSVW operating system visible workarounds 451OTP one time password 452OUI organizationally unique identifier 453OWL Web ontology language 454P2P peer to peer 455P2P PCI to PCI 456PA physical address 457PAE physical address extension 458PAM pluggable authentication modules 459PAM pulse amplitude modulation 460PAP password authentication protocol 461PAT page attribute table 462PAT port address translation 463PATA parallel ATA 464PAX portable archive exchange 465PBE pending break encoding 466PBE programming by example 467PC personal computer 468PCB printed circuit board 469PCC Portable C Compiler 470PCI peripheral component interconnect 471PCM pulse code modulation 472PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 473PDA personal digital assistant 474PDF portable document format 475PDN pull-down network 476PDP page descriptor page 477PDU protocol data unit 478PER packed encoding rules 479PERL practical extraction [and] report language 480PFS perfect forward secrecy 481PGP pretty good privacy 482PHB PCI host bridge 483PIC programmable interrupt controller 484PIC position independent code 485PID process id 486PIE position independent executable 487PIN personal identification number 488PIO programmed input/output 489PKI public key infrastructure 490PKCS public-key cryptography standards 491PLL phase locked loop 492PMI platform management interrupt 493PMIO port-mapped input/output 494PMT photo-multiplier tube 495PNG portable network graphics 496POE power over ethernet 497POP post office protocol 498POSIX portable operating system interface [for] Unix 499POST power on self test 500POTS plain old telephone system 501PPC PowerPC 502PPB PCI [to] PCI bridge 503PPP point-to-point protocol 504PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 505PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 506PPU physics processing unit 507PRBS pseudo-random bit sequence 508PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 509PRNG pseudo random number generator 510PROM programmable read only memory 511PSE page size extensions 512PSK pre-shared key 513PSTN public switched telephone network 514PTE page table entry 515PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 516PTP page table page 517PV physical volume 518PVG physical volume group 519PWM pulse width modulation 520PXE preboot execution environment 521QA quality assurance 522QAM quadrature amplitude modulation 523QOS quality of service 524RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 525RAM random access memory 526RAS restartable atomic sequence 527RAS remote access service 528RAS row address strobe 529RC release candidate 530RC remote control 531RCS revision control system 532RCU read-copy-update 533RDF resource description format 534REST representational state transfer 535RGB red green blue 536RHL Red Hat Linux 537RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 538RIP routing information protocol 539RIR regional Internet registry 540RISC reduced instruction set computing 541RLE run length encoding 542RLL run length limited 543RNG random number generator 544ROM read only memory 545RPC remote procedure call 546RPL requested privilege level 547RPM revolutions per minute 548RSA Rivest, Shamir and Adleman 549RSS really simple syndication 550RT real time 551RTC real time clock 552RTC real time computing 553RTF rich text format 554RTL resistor-transistor logic 555RTOS real time operating system 556RTS request to send 557RTT round time trip 558RX receive, receiver 559S/PDIF Sony/Phillips digital interface 560SACD super audio compact disc 561SAD security association database 562SAM serial access memory 563SAN storage area network 564SAPIC streamlined advanced programmable interrupt controller 565SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 566SATA serial advanced technology attachment 567SB sound blaster 568SCM software configuration management 569SCM source code management 570SCP secure copy 571SCI system control interrupt 572SCI scalable coherent interface 573SCSI small computer system interface 574SCTP stream control transmission protocol 575SDK software development kit 576SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 577SFI simple firmware interface 578SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 579SIFS short inter-frame space 580SIMD single instruction multiple data 581SIMM single inline memory module 582SIP session initiation protocol 583SIR slow infrared 584SLC single-level cell 585SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 586SLI scalable link interface 587SLI scan-line interleave 588SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 589SMBIOS system management BIOS 590SMI system management interrupt 591SMI structure of management information 592SMM system management mode 593SMP symmetric multiprocessing 594SMT simultaneous multithreading 595SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 596SNMP simple network management protocol 597SOA service oriented architecture 598SOAP simple object access protocol 599SOHO small office / home office 600SP stack pointer 601SPARC scalable processor architecture 602SPARQL SPARQL protocol and RDF query language 603SPD security policy database 604SPD serial presence detect 605SPI serial peripheral interface 606SPI stateful packet inspection 607SQL structured query language 608SRAM static random access memory 609SS stack segment 610SSD solid state drive 611SSE streaming SIMD extensions 612SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 613SSH secure shell 614SSL secure sockets layer 615SSP stack smashing protection 616STP shielded twisted pair 617STP spanning-tree protocol 618SUS Single Unix Specification 619SVG scalable vector graphics 620SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 621SVM secure virtual machine 622SVM support vector machine 623SWF Shockwave Flash 624TAS test and set 625TCB trusted computing base 626TCC thermal control circuit 627TCL tool command language 628TCP transmission control protocol 629TCQ tagged command queueing 630TDD test driven development 631TDP thermal design power 632TFT thin film transistor 633TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 634TIAS try it and see 635TIFF tagged image file format 636TITS try it to see 637TLA top level aggregator 638TLB transition lookaside buffer 639TLD top level domain 640TLS transport layer security 641TLS thread local storage 642TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 643TMO timeout 644TOS terms of service 645TOS type of service 646TPM trusted platform module 647TR token ring 648TR task register 649TRNG true random number generator 650TS time stamp 651TS time series 652TS terminal services 653TSC time stamp counter 654TSP time stamp protocol 655TSP tunnel setup protocol 656TSS task state segment 657TTL time to live 658TTL transistor-transistor logic 659TTM translation table maps 660TTY teletype 661TX transmit out, transmitter 662TZ time zone 663UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 664UC uncacheable 665UDMA ultra DMA 666UDO ultra density optical (storage) 667UDP user datagram protocol 668UFS Unix file system 669UI user interface 670UI unit interval 671UID user identifier 672UID unique identifier 673UMA upper memory area 674UMB upper memory block 675UML unified modeling language 676UPS uninterruptible power supply 677URI uniform resource identifier 678URL uniform resource locator 679USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 680USB universal serial bus 681USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 682UTC coordinated universal time 683UTP unshielded twisted pair 684UUCP Unix-to-Unix copy protocol 685UUID universally unique identifier 686UUOC useless use of cat 687VA virtual address 688VA vertical alignment 689VAX virtual address extension 690VCC common collector voltage 691VCM virtual channel memory 692VESA video electronics standards association 693VG volume group 694VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 695VHDCI very high density cable interconnect 696VID voltage level identifier 697VLAN virtual local area network 698VLIW very long instruction word 699VLSI very large scale integration 700VLSM variable length subnet mask 701VM virtual {machine,memory} 702VPN virtual private network 703VRAM video random access memory 704VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 705W3C World Wide Web Consortium 706WAN wide area network 707WAP wireless application protocol 708WEP wired equivalent privacy 709WFI wait for interrupt 710WIFI wireless fidelity 711WLAN wireless local area network 712VMX virtual machine extensions 713VMX vector multimedia extensions 714WDT watchdog timer 715WPA wi-fi protected access 716WRAM window random access memory 717WWAN wireless wide area network 718WWW world wide web 719WYSIWYG what you see is what you get 720XBAR crossbar 721XER XML encoding rules 722XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 723XIP execute in place 724XML extensible markup language 725XP extreme programming 726XSL extensible stylesheet language 727XSS cross site scripting 728XT extended technology 729XUL XML user interface language 730YACC yet another compiler compiler 731YAWPFAPR you are welcome; please file a problem report 732YP yellow pages (aka NIS) 733ZFOD zero-filled on demand 734ZIFS zero insertion force socket 735