acronyms.comp revision 1.113
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.113 2010/11/21 03:36:10 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 239GPF general protection fault 240GPL GNU/general public license 241GPU graphics processing unit 242GRE generic routing encapsulation 243GSI global system interrupt 244GUI graphics user interface 245GUID globally unique identifier 246HA high availability 247HAL hardware abstraction layer 248HBA host bus adapter 249HCI host controller interface 250HCI human-computer interaction 251HDD hard disk drive 252HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 253HFM highest frequency mode 254HID human interface device 255HMA high memory area 256HPC high performance computing 257HPET high precision event timer 258HT hyper-threading 259HTC hardware thermal control 260HTML hyper-text markup language 261HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 262HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 263HZ Hertz 264I2O intelligent input/output 265IANA Internet assigned number authority 266IBS instruction based sampling 267IC integrated circuit 268ICB Internet citizen's band 269ICH I/O controller hub 270ICE internal compiler error 271ICE in-circuit emulator 272ICMP Internet control message protocol 273IDE integrated drive electronics 274IDE integrated development environment 275IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 276IDS intrusion detection system 277IDT interrupt descriptor table 278IE Internet Explorer 279IEC international electrotechnical commission 280IEEE Institute [of] Electrical [and] Electronics Engineers 281IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group 282IETF Internet Engineering Task Force 283IFCM isochronous flow control mode 284IGMP Internet group management protocol 285IGP interior gateway protocol 286IKE Internet key exchange 287ILP instruction level parallelism 288IMC integrated memory controller 289IMAP Internet mail access protocol 290INCITS international committee on information technology standards 291IO input/output 292IOCTL input/output control 293IOMMU input/output memory management unit 294IP Internet Protocol 295IP intellectual property 296IPC interprocess communication 297IPI interprocessor interrupt 298IPNG Internet protocol, next generation 299IPS intrusion prevention system 300IPS in-plane switching 301IPSEC Internet protocol security 302IRC Internet relay chat 303IRDA infrared data association 304IRQ interrupt request 305IRTF Internet research task force 306ISA industry standard architecture 307ISA instruction set architecture 308ISDN integrated services digital network 309ISI inter-symbol interference 310ISM industrial, scientific and medical 311ISN initial serial number 312ISO international standards organization 313ISOC Internet society 314ISP Internet service provider 315ISR interrupt service routine 316IST interrupt stack table 317IVT interrupt vector table 318JBOD just a bunch of disks 319JIT just in time 320JPEG joint photographic experts group 321JRE Java runtime environment 322JTAG joint test action group 323KLOC thousand lines of code 324KMS kernel-mode setting 325KPI kernel programming interface 326KVA kernel virtual address 327KVM kernel virtual memory 328KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 329LAMP Linux Apache MySQL {Perl,PHP,Python} 330LAN local area network 331LAPIC local advanced programmable interrupt controller 332LBA logical block addressing 333LCD liquid crystal display 334LCP link control protocol 335LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 336LDT local descriptor table 337LE logical extent 338LED light emitting diode 339LFM lowest frequency mode 340LFS log-structured file system 341LFU least frequently used 342LIFO last in first out 343LILO last in last out 344LILO Linux loader 345LINT local interrupt 346LIR local Internet registry 347LKM {Linux, loadable} kernel module 348LKML Linux kernel mailing list 349LL/SC load linked / store conditional 350LLC logical link control 351LOC lines of code 352LPC low pin count 353LRC longitudinal redundancy check 354LRU least recently used 355LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 356LSB Linux standards base 357LSI large scale integration 358LTR load task register 359LUN logical unit number 360LV logical volume 361LVM logical volume management 362LVT local vector table 363LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 364MAC medium access control 365MAC mandatory access control 366MADT multiple APIC descriptor table 367MBR master boot record 368MC memory controller 369MCA machine check architecture 370MCE machine check exception 371MCGA multicolor graphics adapter 372MCH memory controller hub 373MCQ memory controlled queue 374MDA mail delivery agent 375MDA monochrome display adapter 376MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 377MFC merge from current 378MFM modified frequency modulation 379MIB management information base 380MID mobile internet device 381MIDI musical instrument digital interface 382MIF management information format 383MIME multipurpose Internet mail extensions 384MIMO multiple input multiple output 385MIPS million instructions per second 386MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 387MLC multi-level cell 388MMIO memory mapped input/output 389MMU memory management unit 390MMX multimedia extension 391MMX multiple math extension 392MMX matrix math extension 393MPEG moving picture experts group 394MPLS multiprotocol label switching 395MPS multiprocessor specification 396MPS memory pool system 397MRU most recently used 398MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 399MSF minutes seconds frames 400MSI message signaled interrupt 401MSR machine state register 402MSS maximum segment size 403MTA mail transfer agent 404MTRR memory type range register 405MTU maximum transmission unit 406MUA mail user agent 407MWE module width encoding 408NAS network attached storage 409NAT network address translation 410NAV network allocation vector 411NCP network control protocol 412NCQ native command queuing 413NFS network file system 414NIC network interface card 415NIS network information service 416NLS native language support 417NMI non-maskable interrupt 418NNTP network news transfer protocol 419NOP no operation 420NRZ non-return to zero 421NSA National Security Agency 422NTP network time protocol 423NUMA non-uniform memory access 424NVRAM non-volatile random access memory 425NX no execute 426OAEP optimal asymmetric encryption padding 427OBO off by one 428OBOE off by one error 429OCL object constraint language 430OCR optical character recognition 431ODCM on-demand clock modulation 432OEM original equipment manufacturer 433OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 434ONFI open nand flash interface 435OO object oriented 436OO OpenOffice 437OOB out of band 438OOE out of order execution 439OOM out of memory 440OOP object oriented programming 441OQL object query language 442ORM object-relational mapping 443OS operating system 444OSD open source definition 445OSF open software foundation 446OSI open systems interconnection 447OSI open-source initiative 448OSPF open shortest path first 449OSS open source software 450OSS open sound system 451OSVW operating system visible workarounds 452OTP one time password 453OUI organizationally unique identifier 454OWL Web ontology language 455P2P peer to peer 456P2P PCI to PCI 457PA physical address 458PAE physical address extension 459PAM pluggable authentication modules 460PAM pulse amplitude modulation 461PAP password authentication protocol 462PAT page attribute table 463PAT port address translation 464PATA parallel ATA 465PAX portable archive exchange 466PBE pending break encoding 467PBE programming by example 468PC personal computer 469PCB printed circuit board 470PCC Portable C Compiler 471PCI peripheral component interconnect 472PCM pulse code modulation 473PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 474PDA personal digital assistant 475PDF portable document format 476PDN pull-down network 477PDP page descriptor page 478PDU protocol data unit 479PER packed encoding rules 480PERL practical extraction [and] report language 481PFS perfect forward secrecy 482PGP pretty good privacy 483PHB PCI host bridge 484PIC programmable interrupt controller 485PIC position independent code 486PID process id 487PIE position independent executable 488PIN personal identification number 489PIO programmed input/output 490PKI public key infrastructure 491PKCS public-key cryptography standards 492PLL phase locked loop 493PMI platform management interrupt 494PMIO port-mapped input/output 495PMT photo-multiplier tube 496PNG portable network graphics 497POE power over ethernet 498POP post office protocol 499POSIX portable operating system interface [for] Unix 500POST power on self test 501POTS plain old telephone system 502PPC PowerPC 503PPB PCI [to] PCI bridge 504PPP point-to-point protocol 505PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 506PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 507PPU physics processing unit 508PRBS pseudo-random bit sequence 509PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 510PRNG pseudo random number generator 511PROM programmable read only memory 512PSE page size extensions 513PSK pre-shared key 514PSTN public switched telephone network 515PTE page table entry 516PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 517PTP page table page 518PV physical volume 519PVG physical volume group 520PWM pulse width modulation 521PXE preboot execution environment 522QA quality assurance 523QAM quadrature amplitude modulation 524QOS quality of service 525RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 526RAM random access memory 527RAS restartable atomic sequence 528RAS remote access service 529RAS row address strobe 530RC release candidate 531RC remote control 532RCS revision control system 533RCU read-copy-update 534RDF resource description format 535REST representational state transfer 536RGB red green blue 537RHL Red Hat Linux 538RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 539RIP routing information protocol 540RIR regional Internet registry 541RISC reduced instruction set computing 542RKM ROM Kernel Manual 543RLE run length encoding 544RLL run length limited 545RNG random number generator 546ROM read only memory 547RPC remote procedure call 548RPL requested privilege level 549RPM revolutions per minute 550RSA Rivest, Shamir and Adleman 551RSS really simple syndication 552RT real time 553RTC real time clock 554RTC real time computing 555RTF rich text format 556RTL resistor-transistor logic 557RTOS real time operating system 558RTS request to send 559RTT round time trip 560RX receive, receiver 561S/PDIF Sony/Phillips digital interface 562SACD super audio compact disc 563SAD security association database 564SAM serial access memory 565SAN storage area network 566SAPIC streamlined advanced programmable interrupt controller 567SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 568SATA serial advanced technology attachment 569SB sound blaster 570SCM software configuration management 571SCM source code management 572SCP secure copy 573SCI system control interrupt 574SCI scalable coherent interface 575SCSI small computer system interface 576SCTP stream control transmission protocol 577SDK software development kit 578SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 579SEGV segmentation violation 580SFI simple firmware interface 581SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 582SIFS short inter-frame space 583SIMD single instruction multiple data 584SIMM single inline memory module 585SIP session initiation protocol 586SIR slow infrared 587SLC single-level cell 588SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 589SLI scalable link interface 590SLI scan-line interleave 591SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 592SMBIOS system management BIOS 593SMI system management interrupt 594SMI structure of management information 595SMM system management mode 596SMP symmetric multiprocessing 597SMT simultaneous multithreading 598SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 599SNMP simple network management protocol 600SOA service oriented architecture 601SOAP simple object access protocol 602SOHO small office / home office 603SP stack pointer 604SPARC scalable processor architecture 605SPARQL SPARQL protocol and RDF query language 606SPD security policy database 607SPD serial presence detect 608SPI serial peripheral interface 609SPI stateful packet inspection 610SQL structured query language 611SRAM static random access memory 612SS stack segment 613SSD solid state drive 614SSE streaming SIMD extensions 615SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 616SSH secure shell 617SSL secure sockets layer 618SSP stack smashing protection 619STP shielded twisted pair 620STP spanning-tree protocol 621SUS Single Unix Specification 622SVG scalable vector graphics 623SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 624SVM secure virtual machine 625SVM support vector machine 626SWF Shockwave Flash 627TAS test and set 628TCB trusted computing base 629TCC thermal control circuit 630TCL tool command language 631TCP transmission control protocol 632TCQ tagged command queueing 633TDD test driven development 634TDP thermal design power 635TFT thin film transistor 636TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 637TIAS try it and see 638TIFF tagged image file format 639TITS try it to see 640TLA top level aggregator 641TLB transition lookaside buffer 642TLD top level domain 643TLS transport layer security 644TLS thread local storage 645TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 646TMO timeout 647TOS terms of service 648TOS type of service 649TPM trusted platform module 650TR token ring 651TR task register 652TRNG true random number generator 653TS time stamp 654TS time series 655TS terminal services 656TSC time stamp counter 657TSP time stamp protocol 658TSP tunnel setup protocol 659TSS task state segment 660TTL time to live 661TTL transistor-transistor logic 662TTM translation table maps 663TTY teletype 664TX transmit out, transmitter 665TZ time zone 666UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 667UC uncacheable 668UDMA ultra DMA 669UDO ultra density optical (storage) 670UDP user datagram protocol 671UFS Unix file system 672UI user interface 673UI unit interval 674UID user identifier 675UID unique identifier 676UMA upper memory area 677UMB upper memory block 678UML unified modeling language 679UPS uninterruptible power supply 680URI uniform resource identifier 681URL uniform resource locator 682USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 683USB universal serial bus 684USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 685UTC coordinated universal time 686UTP unshielded twisted pair 687UUCP Unix-to-Unix copy protocol 688UUID universally unique identifier 689UUOC useless use of cat 690VA virtual address 691VA vertical alignment 692VAX virtual address extension 693VCC common collector voltage 694VCM virtual channel memory 695VESA video electronics standards association 696VG volume group 697VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 698VHDCI very high density cable interconnect 699VID voltage level identifier 700VLAN virtual local area network 701VLIW very long instruction word 702VLSI very large scale integration 703VLSM variable length subnet mask 704VM virtual {machine,memory} 705VPN virtual private network 706VRAM video random access memory 707VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 708W3C World Wide Web Consortium 709WAN wide area network 710WAP wireless application protocol 711WEP wired equivalent privacy 712WFI wait for interrupt 713WIFI wireless fidelity 714WLAN wireless local area network 715VMX virtual machine extensions 716VMX vector multimedia extensions 717WDT watchdog timer 718WORM write once read many 719WPA wi-fi protected access 720WRAM window random access memory 721WWAN wireless wide area network 722WWW world wide web 723WYSIWYG what you see is what you get 724XBAR crossbar 725XER XML encoding rules 726XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 727XIP execute in place 728XML extensible markup language 729XP extreme programming 730XSL extensible stylesheet language 731XSS cross site scripting 732XT extended technology 733XUL XML user interface language 734YACC yet another compiler compiler 735YAWPFAPR you are welcome; please file a problem report 736YP yellow pages (aka NIS) 737ZFOD zero-filled on demand 738ZIFS zero insertion force socket 739