acronyms.comp revision 1.114
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.114 2010/11/22 23:05:22 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 251HCF halt and catch fire 252HDD hard disk drive 253HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 254HFM highest frequency mode 255HID human interface device 256HMA high memory area 257HPC high performance computing 258HPET high precision event timer 259HT hyper-threading 260HTC hardware thermal control 261HTML hyper-text markup language 262HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 263HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 264HZ Hertz 265I2O intelligent input/output 266IANA Internet assigned number authority 267IBS instruction based sampling 268IC integrated circuit 269ICB Internet citizen's band 270ICH I/O controller hub 271ICE internal compiler error 272ICE in-circuit emulator 273ICMP Internet control message protocol 274IDE integrated drive electronics 275IDE integrated development environment 276IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 277IDS intrusion detection system 278IDT interrupt descriptor table 279IE Internet Explorer 280IEC international electrotechnical commission 281IEEE Institute [of] Electrical [and] Electronics Engineers 282IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group 283IETF Internet Engineering Task Force 284IFCM isochronous flow control mode 285IGMP Internet group management protocol 286IGP interior gateway protocol 287IKE Internet key exchange 288ILP instruction level parallelism 289IMC integrated memory controller 290IMAP Internet mail access protocol 291INCITS international committee on information technology standards 292IO input/output 293IOCTL input/output control 294IOMMU input/output memory management unit 295IP Internet Protocol 296IP intellectual property 297IPC interprocess communication 298IPI interprocessor interrupt 299IPNG Internet protocol, next generation 300IPS intrusion prevention system 301IPS in-plane switching 302IPSEC Internet protocol security 303IRC Internet relay chat 304IRDA infrared data association 305IRQ interrupt request 306IRTF Internet research task force 307ISA industry standard architecture 308ISA instruction set architecture 309ISDN integrated services digital network 310ISI inter-symbol interference 311ISM industrial, scientific and medical 312ISN initial serial number 313ISO international standards organization 314ISOC Internet society 315ISP Internet service provider 316ISR interrupt service routine 317IST interrupt stack table 318IVT interrupt vector table 319JBOD just a bunch of disks 320JIT just in time 321JPEG joint photographic experts group 322JRE Java runtime environment 323JTAG joint test action group 324KLOC thousand lines of code 325KMS kernel-mode setting 326KPI kernel programming interface 327KVA kernel virtual address 328KVM kernel virtual memory 329KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 330LAMP Linux Apache MySQL {Perl,PHP,Python} 331LAN local area network 332LAPIC local advanced programmable interrupt controller 333LBA logical block addressing 334LCD liquid crystal display 335LCP link control protocol 336LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 337LDT local descriptor table 338LE logical extent 339LED light emitting diode 340LFM lowest frequency mode 341LFS log-structured file system 342LFU least frequently used 343LIFO last in first out 344LILO last in last out 345LILO Linux loader 346LINT local interrupt 347LIR local Internet registry 348LKM {Linux, loadable} kernel module 349LKML Linux kernel mailing list 350LL/SC load linked / store conditional 351LLC logical link control 352LOC lines of code 353LPC low pin count 354LRC longitudinal redundancy check 355LRU least recently used 356LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 357LSB Linux standards base 358LSI large scale integration 359LTR load task register 360LUN logical unit number 361LV logical volume 362LVM logical volume management 363LVT local vector table 364LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 365MAC medium access control 366MAC mandatory access control 367MADT multiple APIC descriptor table 368MBR master boot record 369MC memory controller 370MCA machine check architecture 371MCE machine check exception 372MCGA multicolor graphics adapter 373MCH memory controller hub 374MCQ memory controlled queue 375MDA mail delivery agent 376MDA monochrome display adapter 377MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 378MFC merge from current 379MFM modified frequency modulation 380MIB management information base 381MID mobile internet device 382MIDI musical instrument digital interface 383MIF management information format 384MIME multipurpose Internet mail extensions 385MIMO multiple input multiple output 386MIPS million instructions per second 387MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 388MLC multi-level cell 389MMIO memory mapped input/output 390MMU memory management unit 391MMX multimedia extension 392MMX multiple math extension 393MMX matrix math extension 394MPEG moving picture experts group 395MPLS multiprotocol label switching 396MPS multiprocessor specification 397MPS memory pool system 398MRU most recently used 399MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 400MSF minutes seconds frames 401MSI message signaled interrupt 402MSR machine state register 403MSS maximum segment size 404MTA mail transfer agent 405MTRR memory type range register 406MTU maximum transmission unit 407MUA mail user agent 408MWE module width encoding 409NAS network attached storage 410NAT network address translation 411NAV network allocation vector 412NCP network control protocol 413NCQ native command queuing 414NFS network file system 415NIC network interface card 416NIS network information service 417NLS native language support 418NMI non-maskable interrupt 419NNTP network news transfer protocol 420NOP no operation 421NRZ non-return to zero 422NSA National Security Agency 423NTP network time protocol 424NUMA non-uniform memory access 425NVRAM non-volatile random access memory 426NX no execute 427OAEP optimal asymmetric encryption padding 428OBO off by one 429OBOE off by one error 430OCL object constraint language 431OCR optical character recognition 432ODCM on-demand clock modulation 433OEM original equipment manufacturer 434OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 435ONFI open nand flash interface 436OO object oriented 437OO OpenOffice 438OOB out of band 439OOE out of order execution 440OOM out of memory 441OOP object oriented programming 442OQL object query language 443ORM object-relational mapping 444OS operating system 445OSD open source definition 446OSF open software foundation 447OSI open systems interconnection 448OSI open-source initiative 449OSPF open shortest path first 450OSS open source software 451OSS open sound system 452OSVW operating system visible workarounds 453OTP one time password 454OUI organizationally unique identifier 455OWL Web ontology language 456P2P peer to peer 457P2P PCI to PCI 458PA physical address 459PAE physical address extension 460PAM pluggable authentication modules 461PAM pulse amplitude modulation 462PAP password authentication protocol 463PAT page attribute table 464PAT port address translation 465PATA parallel ATA 466PAX portable archive exchange 467PBE pending break encoding 468PBE programming by example 469PC personal computer 470PCB printed circuit board 471PCC Portable C Compiler 472PCI peripheral component interconnect 473PCM pulse code modulation 474PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 475PDA personal digital assistant 476PDF portable document format 477PDN pull-down network 478PDP page descriptor page 479PDU protocol data unit 480PER packed encoding rules 481PERL practical extraction [and] report language 482PFS perfect forward secrecy 483PGP pretty good privacy 484PHB PCI host bridge 485PIC programmable interrupt controller 486PIC position independent code 487PID process id 488PIE position independent executable 489PIN personal identification number 490PIO programmed input/output 491PKI public key infrastructure 492PKCS public-key cryptography standards 493PLL phase locked loop 494PMI platform management interrupt 495PMIO port-mapped input/output 496PMT photo-multiplier tube 497PNG portable network graphics 498POE power over ethernet 499POP post office protocol 500POSIX portable operating system interface [for] Unix 501POST power on self test 502POTS plain old telephone system 503PPC PowerPC 504PPB PCI [to] PCI bridge 505PPP point-to-point protocol 506PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 507PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 508PPU physics processing unit 509PRBS pseudo-random bit sequence 510PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 511PRNG pseudo random number generator 512PROM programmable read only memory 513PSE page size extensions 514PSK pre-shared key 515PSTN public switched telephone network 516PTE page table entry 517PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 518PTP page table page 519PV physical volume 520PVG physical volume group 521PWM pulse width modulation 522PXE preboot execution environment 523QA quality assurance 524QAM quadrature amplitude modulation 525QOS quality of service 526RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 527RAM random access memory 528RAS restartable atomic sequence 529RAS remote access service 530RAS row address strobe 531RC release candidate 532RC remote control 533RCS revision control system 534RCU read-copy-update 535RDF resource description format 536REST representational state transfer 537RGB red green blue 538RHL Red Hat Linux 539RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 540RIP routing information protocol 541RIR regional Internet registry 542RISC reduced instruction set computing 543RKM ROM Kernel Manual 544RLE run length encoding 545RLL run length limited 546RNG random number generator 547ROM read only memory 548RPC remote procedure call 549RPL requested privilege level 550RPM revolutions per minute 551RSA Rivest, Shamir and Adleman 552RSS really simple syndication 553RT real time 554RTC real time clock 555RTC real time computing 556RTF rich text format 557RTL resistor-transistor logic 558RTOS real time operating system 559RTS request to send 560RTT round time trip 561RX receive, receiver 562S/PDIF Sony/Phillips digital interface 563SACD super audio compact disc 564SAD security association database 565SAM serial access memory 566SAN storage area network 567SAPIC streamlined advanced programmable interrupt controller 568SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 569SATA serial advanced technology attachment 570SB sound blaster 571SCM software configuration management 572SCM source code management 573SCP secure copy 574SCI system control interrupt 575SCI scalable coherent interface 576SCSI small computer system interface 577SCTP stream control transmission protocol 578SDK software development kit 579SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 580SEGV segmentation violation 581SFI simple firmware interface 582SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 583SIFS short inter-frame space 584SIMD single instruction multiple data 585SIMM single inline memory module 586SIP session initiation protocol 587SIR slow infrared 588SLC single-level cell 589SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 590SLI scalable link interface 591SLI scan-line interleave 592SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 593SMBIOS system management BIOS 594SMI system management interrupt 595SMI structure of management information 596SMM system management mode 597SMP symmetric multiprocessing 598SMT simultaneous multithreading 599SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 600SNMP simple network management protocol 601SOA service oriented architecture 602SOAP simple object access protocol 603SOHO small office / home office 604SP stack pointer 605SPARC scalable processor architecture 606SPARQL SPARQL protocol and RDF query language 607SPD security policy database 608SPD serial presence detect 609SPI serial peripheral interface 610SPI stateful packet inspection 611SQL structured query language 612SRAM static random access memory 613SS stack segment 614SSD solid state drive 615SSE streaming SIMD extensions 616SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 617SSH secure shell 618SSL secure sockets layer 619SSP stack smashing protection 620STP shielded twisted pair 621STP spanning-tree protocol 622SUS Single Unix Specification 623SVG scalable vector graphics 624SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 625SVM secure virtual machine 626SVM support vector machine 627SWF Shockwave Flash 628TAS test and set 629TCB trusted computing base 630TCC thermal control circuit 631TCL tool command language 632TCP transmission control protocol 633TCQ tagged command queueing 634TDD test driven development 635TDP thermal design power 636TFT thin film transistor 637TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 638TIAS try it and see 639TIFF tagged image file format 640TITS try it to see 641TLA top level aggregator 642TLB transition lookaside buffer 643TLD top level domain 644TLS transport layer security 645TLS thread local storage 646TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 647TMO timeout 648TOS terms of service 649TOS type of service 650TPM trusted platform module 651TR token ring 652TR task register 653TRNG true random number generator 654TS time stamp 655TS time series 656TS terminal services 657TSC time stamp counter 658TSP time stamp protocol 659TSP tunnel setup protocol 660TSS task state segment 661TTL time to live 662TTL transistor-transistor logic 663TTM translation table maps 664TTY teletype 665TX transmit out, transmitter 666TZ time zone 667UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 668UC uncacheable 669UDMA ultra DMA 670UDO ultra density optical (storage) 671UDP user datagram protocol 672UFS Unix file system 673UI user interface 674UI unit interval 675UID user identifier 676UID unique identifier 677UMA upper memory area 678UMB upper memory block 679UML unified modeling language 680UPS uninterruptible power supply 681URI uniform resource identifier 682URL uniform resource locator 683USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 684USB universal serial bus 685USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 686UTC coordinated universal time 687UTP unshielded twisted pair 688UUCP Unix-to-Unix copy protocol 689UUID universally unique identifier 690UUOC useless use of cat 691VA virtual address 692VA vertical alignment 693VAX virtual address extension 694VCC common collector voltage 695VCM virtual channel memory 696VESA video electronics standards association 697VG volume group 698VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 699VHDCI very high density cable interconnect 700VID voltage level identifier 701VLAN virtual local area network 702VLIW very long instruction word 703VLSI very large scale integration 704VLSM variable length subnet mask 705VM virtual {machine,memory} 706VPN virtual private network 707VRAM video random access memory 708VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 709W3C World Wide Web Consortium 710WAN wide area network 711WAP wireless application protocol 712WEP wired equivalent privacy 713WFI wait for interrupt 714WIFI wireless fidelity 715WLAN wireless local area network 716VMX virtual machine extensions 717VMX vector multimedia extensions 718WDT watchdog timer 719WORM write once read many 720WPA wi-fi protected access 721WRAM window random access memory 722WWAN wireless wide area network 723WWW world wide web 724WYSIWYG what you see is what you get 725XBAR crossbar 726XER XML encoding rules 727XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 728XIP execute in place 729XML extensible markup language 730XP extreme programming 731XSL extensible stylesheet language 732XSS cross site scripting 733XT extended technology 734XUL XML user interface language 735YACC yet another compiler compiler 736YAWPFAPR you are welcome; please file a problem report 737YP yellow pages (aka NIS) 738ZFOD zero-filled on demand 739ZIFS zero insertion force socket 740