acronyms.comp revision 1.115
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.115 2011/01/04 06:18:51 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 224FSCK file system check 225FSCK fuck 226FTP file transfer protocol 227FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 228FWH firmware hub 229GAS generic address structure 230GC garbage collector 231GCR group-coded recording 232GDT global descriptor table 233GEM graphics execution manager 234GEM graphics environment manager 235GID group identifier 236GIF graphics interchange format 237GMCH graphics and memory controller hub 238GNU GNU's not Unix 239GOT global offset table 240GPE general purpose event 241GPF general protection fault 242GPL GNU/general public license 243GPU graphics processing unit 244GRE generic routing encapsulation 245GSI global system interrupt 246GUI graphics user interface 247GUID globally unique identifier 248HA high availability 249HAL hardware abstraction layer 250HBA host bus adapter 251HCI host controller interface 252HCI human-computer interaction 253HCF halt and catch fire 254HDD hard disk drive 255HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 256HFM highest frequency mode 257HID human interface device 258HMA high memory area 259HPC high performance computing 260HPET high precision event timer 261HT hyper-threading 262HTC hardware thermal control 263HTML hyper-text markup language 264HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 265HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 266HZ Hertz 267I2O intelligent input/output 268IANA Internet assigned number authority 269IBS instruction based sampling 270IC integrated circuit 271ICB Internet citizen's band 272ICH I/O controller hub 273ICE internal compiler error 274ICE in-circuit emulator 275ICMP Internet control message protocol 276IDE integrated drive electronics 277IDE integrated development environment 278IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 279IDS intrusion detection system 280IDT interrupt descriptor table 281IE Internet Explorer 282IEC international electrotechnical commission 283IEEE Institute [of] Electrical [and] Electronics Engineers 284IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group 285IETF Internet Engineering Task Force 286IFCM isochronous flow control mode 287IGMP Internet group management protocol 288IGP interior gateway protocol 289IKE Internet key exchange 290ILP instruction level parallelism 291IMC integrated memory controller 292IMAP Internet mail access protocol 293INCITS international committee on information technology standards 294IO input/output 295IOCTL input/output control 296IOMMU input/output memory management unit 297IP Internet Protocol 298IP intellectual property 299IPC interprocess communication 300IPI interprocessor interrupt 301IPNG Internet protocol, next generation 302IPS intrusion prevention system 303IPS in-plane switching 304IPSEC Internet protocol security 305IRC Internet relay chat 306IRDA infrared data association 307IRQ interrupt request 308IRTF Internet research task force 309ISA industry standard architecture 310ISA instruction set architecture 311ISDN integrated services digital network 312ISI inter-symbol interference 313ISM industrial, scientific and medical 314ISN initial serial number 315ISO international standards organization 316ISOC Internet society 317ISP Internet service provider 318ISR interrupt service routine 319IST interrupt stack table 320IVT interrupt vector table 321JBOD just a bunch of disks 322JIT just in time 323JPEG joint photographic experts group 324JRE Java runtime environment 325JTAG joint test action group 326KLOC thousand lines of code 327KMS kernel-mode setting 328KPI kernel programming interface 329KVA kernel virtual address 330KVM kernel virtual memory 331KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 332LAMP Linux Apache MySQL {Perl,PHP,Python} 333LAN local area network 334LAPIC local advanced programmable interrupt controller 335LBA logical block addressing 336LCD liquid crystal display 337LCP link control protocol 338LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 339LDT local descriptor table 340LE logical extent 341LED light emitting diode 342LFM lowest frequency mode 343LFS log-structured file system 344LFU least frequently used 345LIFO last in first out 346LILO last in last out 347LILO Linux loader 348LINT local interrupt 349LIR local Internet registry 350LKM {Linux, loadable} kernel module 351LKML Linux kernel mailing list 352LL/SC load linked / store conditional 353LLC logical link control 354LOC lines of code 355LPC low pin count 356LRC longitudinal redundancy check 357LRU least recently used 358LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 359LSB Linux standards base 360LSI large scale integration 361LTR load task register 362LUN logical unit number 363LV logical volume 364LVM logical volume management 365LVT local vector table 366LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 367MAC medium access control 368MAC mandatory access control 369MADT multiple APIC descriptor table 370MBR master boot record 371MC memory controller 372MCA machine check architecture 373MCE machine check exception 374MCGA multicolor graphics adapter 375MCH memory controller hub 376MCQ memory controlled queue 377MDA mail delivery agent 378MDA monochrome display adapter 379MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 380MFC merge from current 381MFM modified frequency modulation 382MIB management information base 383MID mobile internet device 384MIDI musical instrument digital interface 385MIF management information format 386MIME multipurpose Internet mail extensions 387MIMO multiple input multiple output 388MIPS million instructions per second 389MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 390MLC multi-level cell 391MMIO memory mapped input/output 392MMU memory management unit 393MMX multimedia extension 394MMX multiple math extension 395MMX matrix math extension 396MPEG moving picture experts group 397MPLS multiprotocol label switching 398MPS multiprocessor specification 399MPS memory pool system 400MRU most recently used 401MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 402MSF minutes seconds frames 403MSI message signaled interrupt 404MSR machine state register 405MSS maximum segment size 406MTA mail transfer agent 407MTRR memory type range register 408MTU maximum transmission unit 409MUA mail user agent 410MWE module width encoding 411NAS network attached storage 412NAT network address translation 413NAV network allocation vector 414NCP network control protocol 415NCQ native command queuing 416NFS network file system 417NIC network interface card 418NIS network information service 419NLS native language support 420NMI non-maskable interrupt 421NNTP network news transfer protocol 422NOP no operation 423NRZ non-return to zero 424NSA National Security Agency 425NTP network time protocol 426NUMA non-uniform memory access 427NVRAM non-volatile random access memory 428NX no execute 429OAEP optimal asymmetric encryption padding 430OBO off by one 431OBOE off by one error 432OCL object constraint language 433OCR optical character recognition 434ODCM on-demand clock modulation 435OEM original equipment manufacturer 436OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 437ONFI open nand flash interface 438OO object oriented 439OO OpenOffice 440OOB out of band 441OOE out of order execution 442OOM out of memory 443OOP object oriented programming 444OQL object query language 445ORM object-relational mapping 446OS operating system 447OSD open source definition 448OSF open software foundation 449OSI open systems interconnection 450OSI open-source initiative 451OSPF open shortest path first 452OSS open source software 453OSS open sound system 454OSVW operating system visible workarounds 455OTP one time password 456OUI organizationally unique identifier 457OWL Web ontology language 458P2P peer to peer 459P2P PCI to PCI 460PA physical address 461PAE physical address extension 462PAM pluggable authentication modules 463PAM pulse amplitude modulation 464PAP password authentication protocol 465PAT page attribute table 466PAT port address translation 467PATA parallel ATA 468PAX portable archive exchange 469PBE pending break encoding 470PBE programming by example 471PC personal computer 472PCB printed circuit board 473PCC Portable C Compiler 474PCI peripheral component interconnect 475PCM pulse code modulation 476PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 477PDA personal digital assistant 478PDF portable document format 479PDN pull-down network 480PDP page descriptor page 481PDU protocol data unit 482PER packed encoding rules 483PERL practical extraction [and] report language 484PFS perfect forward secrecy 485PGP pretty good privacy 486PHB PCI host bridge 487PIC programmable interrupt controller 488PIC position independent code 489PID process id 490PIE position independent executable 491PIN personal identification number 492PIO programmed input/output 493PKI public key infrastructure 494PKCS public-key cryptography standards 495PLL phase locked loop 496PMI platform management interrupt 497PMIO port-mapped input/output 498PMT photo-multiplier tube 499PNG portable network graphics 500POE power over ethernet 501POP post office protocol 502POSIX portable operating system interface [for] Unix 503POST power on self test 504POTS plain old telephone system 505PPC PowerPC 506PPB PCI [to] PCI bridge 507PPP point-to-point protocol 508PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 509PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 510PPU physics processing unit 511PRBS pseudo-random bit sequence 512PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 513PRNG pseudo random number generator 514PROM programmable read only memory 515PSE page size extensions 516PSK pre-shared key 517PSTN public switched telephone network 518PTE page table entry 519PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 520PTP page table page 521PV physical volume 522PVG physical volume group 523PWM pulse width modulation 524PXE preboot execution environment 525QA quality assurance 526QAM quadrature amplitude modulation 527QOS quality of service 528RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 529RAM random access memory 530RAS restartable atomic sequence 531RAS remote access service 532RAS row address strobe 533RC release candidate 534RC remote control 535RCS revision control system 536RCU read-copy-update 537RDF resource description format 538REST representational state transfer 539RGB red green blue 540RHL Red Hat Linux 541RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 542RIP routing information protocol 543RIR regional Internet registry 544RISC reduced instruction set computing 545RKM ROM Kernel Manual 546RLE run length encoding 547RLL run length limited 548RNG random number generator 549ROM read only memory 550RPC remote procedure call 551RPL requested privilege level 552RPM revolutions per minute 553RSA Rivest, Shamir and Adleman 554RSS really simple syndication 555RT real time 556RTC real time clock 557RTC real time computing 558RTF rich text format 559RTL resistor-transistor logic 560RTOS real time operating system 561RTS request to send 562RTT round time trip 563RX receive, receiver 564S/PDIF Sony/Phillips digital interface 565SACD super audio compact disc 566SAD security association database 567SAM serial access memory 568SAN storage area network 569SAPIC streamlined advanced programmable interrupt controller 570SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 571SATA serial advanced technology attachment 572SB sound blaster 573SCM software configuration management 574SCM source code management 575SCP secure copy 576SCI system control interrupt 577SCI scalable coherent interface 578SCSI small computer system interface 579SCTP stream control transmission protocol 580SDK software development kit 581SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 582SEGV segmentation violation 583SFI simple firmware interface 584SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 585SIFS short inter-frame space 586SIMD single instruction multiple data 587SIMM single inline memory module 588SIP session initiation protocol 589SIR slow infrared 590SLC single-level cell 591SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 592SLI scalable link interface 593SLI scan-line interleave 594SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 595SMBIOS system management BIOS 596SMI system management interrupt 597SMI structure of management information 598SMM system management mode 599SMP symmetric multiprocessing 600SMT simultaneous multithreading 601SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 602SNMP simple network management protocol 603SOA service oriented architecture 604SOAP simple object access protocol 605SOHO small office / home office 606SP stack pointer 607SPARC scalable processor architecture 608SPARQL SPARQL protocol and RDF query language 609SPD security policy database 610SPD serial presence detect 611SPI serial peripheral interface 612SPI stateful packet inspection 613SQL structured query language 614SRAM static random access memory 615SS stack segment 616SSD solid state drive 617SSE streaming SIMD extensions 618SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 619SSH secure shell 620SSL secure sockets layer 621SSP stack smashing protection 622STP shielded twisted pair 623STP spanning-tree protocol 624SUS Single Unix Specification 625SVG scalable vector graphics 626SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 627SVM secure virtual machine 628SVM support vector machine 629SWF Shockwave Flash 630TAS test and set 631TCB trusted computing base 632TCC thermal control circuit 633TCL tool command language 634TCP transmission control protocol 635TCQ tagged command queueing 636TDD test driven development 637TDP thermal design power 638TFT thin film transistor 639TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 640TIAS try it and see 641TIFF tagged image file format 642TITS try it to see 643TLA top level aggregator 644TLB transition lookaside buffer 645TLD top level domain 646TLS transport layer security 647TLS thread local storage 648TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 649TMO timeout 650TOS terms of service 651TOS type of service 652TPM trusted platform module 653TR token ring 654TR task register 655TRNG true random number generator 656TS time stamp 657TS time series 658TS terminal services 659TSC time stamp counter 660TSP time stamp protocol 661TSP tunnel setup protocol 662TSS task state segment 663TTL time to live 664TTL transistor-transistor logic 665TTM translation table maps 666TTY teletype 667TX transmit out, transmitter 668TZ time zone 669UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 670UC uncacheable 671UDMA ultra DMA 672UDO ultra density optical (storage) 673UDP user datagram protocol 674UFS Unix file system 675UI user interface 676UI unit interval 677UID user identifier 678UID unique identifier 679UMA upper memory area 680UMB upper memory block 681UML unified modeling language 682UPS uninterruptible power supply 683URI uniform resource identifier 684URL uniform resource locator 685USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 686USB universal serial bus 687USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 688UTC coordinated universal time 689UTP unshielded twisted pair 690UUCP Unix-to-Unix copy protocol 691UUID universally unique identifier 692UUOC useless use of cat 693VA virtual address 694VA vertical alignment 695VAX virtual address extension 696VCC common collector voltage 697VCM virtual channel memory 698VESA video electronics standards association 699VG volume group 700VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 701VHDCI very high density cable interconnect 702VID voltage level identifier 703VLAN virtual local area network 704VLIW very long instruction word 705VLSI very large scale integration 706VLSM variable length subnet mask 707VM virtual {machine,memory} 708VPN virtual private network 709VRAM video random access memory 710VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 711W3C World Wide Web Consortium 712WAN wide area network 713WAP wireless application protocol 714WEP wired equivalent privacy 715WFI wait for interrupt 716WIFI wireless fidelity 717WLAN wireless local area network 718VMX virtual machine extensions 719VMX vector multimedia extensions 720WDT watchdog timer 721WORM write once read many 722WPA wi-fi protected access 723WRAM window random access memory 724WWAN wireless wide area network 725WWW world wide web 726WYSIWYG what you see is what you get 727XBAR crossbar 728XER XML encoding rules 729XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 730XIP execute in place 731XML extensible markup language 732XP extreme programming 733XSL extensible stylesheet language 734XSS cross site scripting 735XT extended technology 736XUL XML user interface language 737YACC yet another compiler compiler 738YAWPFAPR you are welcome; please file a problem report 739YP yellow pages (aka NIS) 740ZFOD zero-filled on demand 741ZIFS zero insertion force socket 742