acronyms.comp revision 1.118
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.118 2011/02/12 19:32:42 dholland Exp $ 2 33WHS three-way handshake 4ABI application binary interface 5ACID atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability 6ACL access control list 7ACPI advanced configuration and power interface 8ADB Apple desktop bus 9ADC analog [to] digital converter 10ADT abstract data type 11ADPCM adaptive differential pulse code modulation 12ADSL asymmetric digital subscriber line 13AES Advanced Encryption Standard 14AFS Andrew File System 15AGP accelerated graphics port 16ALE address latch enable 17ALU arithmetic and logical unit 18AM amplitude modulation 19AMI alternate mark inversion 20ANSI American National Standards Institute 21AP access point 22API application programming interface 23APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 24ARAT always running APIC timer 25ARC adaptive replacement cache 26ARM Advanced RISC Machines 27ARP address resolution protocol 28ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency 29ARQ automatic repeat request 30AS autonomous system 31ASCII American standard code for information interchange 32ASLR address space layout randomization 33ASN autonomous system number 34AST abstract syntax tree 35AST asynchronous trap 36AT advanced technology 37ATA advanced technology attachment 38ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 39ATC address translation cache 40ATM asynchronous transfer mode 41ATX advanced technology extended 42AWK Aho, Werner, and Kernighan 43BAR base address register 44BCD binary coded decimal 45BCS base configuration space 46BEDO burst extended data output 47BER basic encoding rules 48BER bit error rate 49BFD binary formats descriptor 50BFKL big fscking kernel lock 51BFS breadth-first search 52BGA ball grid array 53BGP border gateway protocol 54BIND Berkeley Internet Name Daemon 55BIOS basic input/output system 56BIST built-in self-test 57BKDG BIOS and kernel developer's guide 58BLAS basic linear algebra subprograms 59BLOB binary large object 60BMC baseboard management controller 61BP base pointer 62BPF Berkeley packet filter 63BPS bits per second 64BQS Berkeley quality software 65BSD Berkeley software distribution 66BSOD blue screen of death 67BSP binary space partition 68BSP boot strap processor 69BSS block started by symbol 70BT Bluetooth 71BT BitTorrent 72CAD computer-aided design 73CAM computer assisted manufacturing 74CAM content addressable memory 75CARP common address redundancy protocol 76CAS (atomic) compare and swap 77CAS computer algebra system 78CAS column address strobe 79CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 80CCD charge coupled device 81CD compact disc 82CDDA compact disc digital audio 83CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 84CER canonical encoding rules 85CFG context-free grammar 86CFG control-flow graph 87CG control gate 88CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 89CGI common gateway interface 90CHAP challenge-handshake authentication protocol 91CHS cylinder/head/sector 92CIDR classless inter-domain routing 93CIFS common internet file system 94CIL common intermediate language 95CIS contact image sensor 96CJK Chinese, Japanese, and Korean 97CLI command line interface 98CLUT color look-up table 99CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 100CMI control management interface 101CMI control method interface 102CMOS complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor 103CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 104COF current operating frequency 105COFF common object file format 106COMA cache-only memory architecture 107COW copy-on-write 108CPL current privilege level 109CPU central processing unit 110CR carriage return 111CRLF carriage return line feed 112CRT cathode ray tube 113CS computer science 114CS cable select 115CS chip select 116CS code segment 117CSI common system interface 118CSMA carrier sense multiple access 119CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 120CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 121CSS cascading style sheets 122CTS clear to send 123CVS concurrent versions system 124DAC discretionary access control 125DAC digital [to] analog converter 126DB database 127DBMS database management system 128DCC direct client [to] client 129DCE data control equipment 130DCE distributed computing environment 131DCT discrete cosine transform 132DDC display data channel 133DDR double data rate 134DDWG digital display working group 135DE desktop environment 136DE debugging extensions 137DEP data execution prevention 138DER distinguished encoding rules 139DES Data Encryption Standard 140DFA deterministic finite automaton 141DFS depth first search 142DFS distributed file system 143DFT discrete Fourier transform 144DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 145DIFS distributed inter-frame space 146DIMM dual inline memory module 147DL diode logic 148DLE data link escape 149DLL dynamic link library 150DMA direct memory access 151DMI desktop management interface 152DNARD Digital network appliance reference design 153DNS domain name system 154DOM document object model 155DOS denial of service 156DOS disk operating system 157DPC deferred procedure call 158DPCM differential pulse code modulation 159DPD dead peer detection 160DPI dots per inch 161DPI deep packet inspection 162DPL descriptor privilege level 163DRAM dynamic random access memory 164DRI direct rendering infrastructure 165DRM digital rights management 166DS debug store 167DSDT differentiated system descriptor table 168DSL digital subscriber line 169DSLAM digital subscriber line access multiplexer 170DSO dynamic shared object 171DSP digital signal processor 172DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 173DTD document type definition 174DTE data terminal equipment 175DTE dumb terminal emulator 176DTL diode-transistor logic 177DVB digital video broadcasting 178DVD digital versatile disc 179DVFS dynamic voltage and frequency scaling 180DVR digital video recorder 181DVI digital visual interface 182E-XER extended XML encoding rules 183EAP extensible authentication protocol 184ECL emitter-coupled logic 185ECN explicit congestion notification 186ECP enhanced capability port 187EDID extended display identification data 188EDO extended data out 189EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 190EFI extensible firmware interface 191EFM eight to fourteen modulation 192EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 193EGP exterior gateway protocol 194EIDE enchanced IDE 195EISA extended industry standard architecture 196ELF executable and linking format 197EOF end of file 198EOL end of line 199EOL end of life 200EOT end of transmission 201EPP enhanced parallel port 202EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 203EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 204ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 205EST enhanced speedstep 206FAT file allocation table 207FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 208FCS frame check sequence 209FDDI fiber distributed data interface 210FEC forward error correction 211FFH functional fixed hardware 212FFI foreign function interface 213FFS fast file system 214FFS find first set 215FFT fast Fourier transform 216FG floating gate 217FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 218FID frequency identifier 219FIFO first in first out 220FIR fast infrared 221FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 222FM frequency modulation 223FOSS free / open source software 224FPGA field programmable gate array 225FPM fast page mode 226FPU floating point unit 227FQDN fully qualified domain name 228FRU field replaceable unit 229FSB front side bus 230FSCK file system check 231FSM finite-state machine 232FTP file transfer protocol 233FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 234FWH firmware hub 235GAS generic address structure 236GC garbage collector 237GCR group-coded recording 238GDT global descriptor table 239GEM graphics execution manager 240GEM graphics environment manager 241GID group identifier 242GIF graphics interchange format 243GMCH graphics and memory controller hub 244GNU GNU's not Unix 245GOT global offset table 246GPE general purpose event 247GPF general protection fault 248GPL GNU/general public license 249GPU graphics processing unit 250GRE generic routing encapsulation 251GSI global system interrupt 252GUI graphics user interface 253GUID globally unique identifier 254HA high availability 255HAL hardware abstraction layer 256HBA host bus adapter 257HCI host controller interface 258HCI human-computer interaction 259HCF halt and catch fire 260HDD hard disk drive 261HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 262HFM highest frequency mode 263HID human interface device 264HMA high memory area 265HPC high performance computing 266HPET high precision event timer 267HT hyper-threading 268HTC hardware thermal control 269HTML hyper-text markup language 270HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 271HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 272HZ Hertz 273I2O intelligent input/output 274IANA Internet assigned number authority 275IBS instruction based sampling 276IC integrated circuit 277ICB Internet citizen's band 278ICH I/O controller hub 279ICE internal compiler error 280ICE in-circuit emulator 281ICMP Internet control message protocol 282IDE integrated drive electronics 283IDE integrated development environment 284IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 285IDS intrusion detection system 286IDT interrupt descriptor table 287IE Internet Explorer 288IEC international electrotechnical commission 289IEEE Institute [of] Electrical [and] Electronics Engineers 290IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group 291IETF Internet Engineering Task Force 292IFCM isochronous flow control mode 293IGMP Internet group management protocol 294IGP interior gateway protocol 295IKE Internet key exchange 296ILP instruction level parallelism 297IMC integrated memory controller 298IMCR interrupt mode configuration register 299IMAP Internet mail access protocol 300INCITS international committee on information technology standards 301IO input/output 302IOCTL input/output control 303IOMMU input/output memory management unit 304IP Internet Protocol 305IP intellectual property 306IPC interprocess communication 307IPI interprocessor interrupt 308IPNG Internet protocol, next generation 309IPS intrusion prevention system 310IPS in-plane switching 311IPSEC Internet protocol security 312IRC Internet relay chat 313IRDA infrared data association 314IRQ interrupt request 315IRQL interrupt request level 316IRTF Internet research task force 317ISA industry standard architecture 318ISA instruction set architecture 319ISDN integrated services digital network 320ISI inter-symbol interference 321ISM industrial, scientific and medical 322ISN initial serial number 323ISO international standards organization 324ISOC Internet society 325ISP Internet service provider 326ISR interrupt service routine 327IST interrupt stack table 328IVT interrupt vector table 329JBOD just a bunch of disks 330JIT just in time 331JPEG joint photographic experts group 332JRE Java runtime environment 333JTAG joint test action group 334KLOC thousand lines of code 335KMS kernel-mode setting 336KPI kernel programming interface 337KVA kernel virtual address 338KVM kernel virtual memory 339KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 340LAMP Linux Apache MySQL {Perl,PHP,Python} 341LAN local area network 342LAPIC local advanced programmable interrupt controller 343LBA logical block addressing 344LCD liquid crystal display 345LCP link control protocol 346LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 347LDT local descriptor table 348LE logical extent 349LED light emitting diode 350LFM lowest frequency mode 351LFS log-structured file system 352LFU least frequently used 353LIFO last in first out 354LILO last in last out 355LILO Linux loader 356LINT local interrupt 357LIR local Internet registry 358LKM {Linux, loadable} kernel module 359LKML Linux kernel mailing list 360LL/SC load linked / store conditional 361LLC logical link control 362LLVM Low Level Virtual Machine 363LOC lines of code 364LPC low pin count 365LRC longitudinal redundancy check 366LRU least recently used 367LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 368LSB Linux standards base 369LSI large scale integration 370LTR load task register 371LUN logical unit number 372LV logical volume 373LVM logical volume management 374LVT local vector table 375LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 376MAC medium access control 377MAC mandatory access control 378MADT multiple APIC descriptor table 379MBR master boot record 380MC memory controller 381MCA machine check architecture 382MCC multiversion concurrency control 383MCE machine check exception 384MCGA multicolor graphics adapter 385MCH memory controller hub 386MCQ memory controlled queue 387MDA mail delivery agent 388MDA monochrome display adapter 389MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 390MFC merge from current 391MFM modified frequency modulation 392MIB management information base 393MID mobile internet device 394MIDI musical instrument digital interface 395MIF management information format 396MIME multipurpose Internet mail extensions 397MIMO multiple input multiple output 398MIPS million instructions per second 399MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 400ML mailing list 401ML machine language 402ML machine learning 403ML markup language 404ML maximum likelihood 405MLC multi-level cell 406MMIO memory mapped input/output 407MMU memory management unit 408MMX multimedia extension 409MMX multiple math extension 410MMX matrix math extension 411MP multiprocessor 412MP multiprocessing 413MP multi-platform 414MP multiplayer 415MPEG moving picture experts group 416MPLS multiprotocol label switching 417MPS multiprocessor specification 418MPS memory pool system 419MRU most recently used 420MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 421MSF minutes seconds frames 422MSI message signaled interrupt 423MSR machine state register 424MSS maximum segment size 425MTA mail transfer agent 426MTRR memory type range register 427MTU maximum transmission unit 428MUA mail user agent 429MWE module width encoding 430NAS network attached storage 431NAT network address translation 432NAV network allocation vector 433NCP network control protocol 434NCQ native command queuing 435NFA nondeterministic finite automaton 436NFS network file system 437NIC network interface card 438NIS network information service 439NLS native language support 440NMI non-maskable interrupt 441NNTP network news transfer protocol 442NOP no operation 443NP nondeterministic polynomial time 444NRZ non-return to zero 445NSA National Security Agency 446NTM non-deterministic Turing machine 447NTP network time protocol 448NUMA non-uniform memory access 449NVRAM non-volatile random access memory 450NX no execute 451OAEP optimal asymmetric encryption padding 452OBO off by one 453OBOE off by one error 454OCL object constraint language 455OCR optical character recognition 456ODCM on-demand clock modulation 457OEM original equipment manufacturer 458OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 459ONFI open nand flash interface 460OO object oriented 461OO OpenOffice 462OOB out of band 463OOE out of order execution 464OOM out of memory 465OOP object oriented programming 466OOSE object oriented software engineering 467OQL object query language 468ORM object-relational mapping 469OS operating system 470OSD open source definition 471OSF open software foundation 472OSI open systems interconnection 473OSI open-source initiative 474OSPF open shortest path first 475OSS open source software 476OSS open sound system 477OSVW operating system visible workarounds 478OTP one time password 479OUI organizationally unique identifier 480OWL Web ontology language 481P2P peer to peer 482P2P PCI to PCI 483PA physical address 484PAE physical address extension 485PAM pluggable authentication modules 486PAM pulse amplitude modulation 487PAP password authentication protocol 488PAT page attribute table 489PAT port address translation 490PATA parallel ATA 491PAX portable archive exchange 492PBE pending break encoding 493PBE programming by example 494PC personal computer 495PCB printed circuit board 496PCC Portable C Compiler 497PCI peripheral component interconnect 498PCM pulse code modulation 499PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 500PDA personal digital assistant 501PDA pushdown automaton 502PDF portable document format 503PDN pull-down network 504PDP page descriptor page 505PDU protocol data unit 506PER packed encoding rules 507PERL practical extraction [and] report language 508PFS perfect forward secrecy 509PGP pretty good privacy 510PHB PCI host bridge 511PIC programmable interrupt controller 512PIC position independent code 513PID process id 514PIE position independent executable 515PIN personal identification number 516PIO programmed input/output 517PKI public key infrastructure 518PKCS public-key cryptography standards 519PLL phase locked loop 520PMI platform management interrupt 521PMIO port-mapped input/output 522PMT photo-multiplier tube 523PNG portable network graphics 524POE power over ethernet 525POP post office protocol 526POSIX portable operating system interface [for] Unix 527POST power on self test 528POTS plain old telephone system 529PPC PowerPC 530PPB PCI [to] PCI bridge 531PPP point-to-point protocol 532PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 533PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 534PPU physics processing unit 535PRBS pseudo-random bit sequence 536PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 537PRNG pseudo random number generator 538PROM programmable read only memory 539PSE page size extensions 540PSK pre-shared key 541PSTN public switched telephone network 542PTE page table entry 543PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 544PTP page table page 545PV physical volume 546PVG physical volume group 547PWM pulse width modulation 548PXE preboot execution environment 549QA quality assurance 550QAM quadrature amplitude modulation 551QOS quality of service 552RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 553RAM random access memory 554RAS restartable atomic sequence 555RAS remote access service 556RAS row address strobe 557RC release candidate 558RC remote control 559RCS revision control system 560RCU read-copy-update 561RDF resource description format 562REST representational state transfer 563RGB red green blue 564RHL Red Hat Linux 565RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 566RIP routing information protocol 567RIR regional Internet registry 568RISC reduced instruction set computing 569RKM ROM Kernel Manual 570RLE run length encoding 571RLL run length limited 572RNG random number generator 573ROM read only memory 574RPC remote procedure call 575RPL requested privilege level 576RPM revolutions per minute 577RSA Rivest, Shamir and Adleman 578RSS really simple syndication 579RSS residual sum of squares 580RT real time 581RTC real time clock 582RTC real time computing 583RTF rich text format 584RTL resistor-transistor logic 585RTOS real time operating system 586RTS request to send 587RTT round time trip 588RUP rational unified process 589RX receive, receiver 590S/PDIF Sony/Phillips digital interface 591SACD super audio compact disc 592SAD security association database 593SAM serial access memory 594SAN storage area network 595SAPIC streamlined advanced programmable interrupt controller 596SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 597SATA serial advanced technology attachment 598SB sound blaster 599SCM software configuration management 600SCM source code management 601SCP secure copy 602SCI system control interrupt 603SCI scalable coherent interface 604SCSI small computer system interface 605SCTP stream control transmission protocol 606SDK software development kit 607SDL simple declarative language 608SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 609SDT syntax-directed translation 610SEGV segmentation violation 611SFI simple firmware interface 612SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 613SIFS short inter-frame space 614SIMD single instruction multiple data 615SIMM single inline memory module 616SIP session initiation protocol 617SIR slow infrared 618SLC single-level cell 619SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 620SLI scalable link interface 621SLI scan-line interleave 622SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 623SMBIOS system management BIOS 624SMI system management interrupt 625SMI structure of management information 626SMM system management mode 627SMP symmetric multiprocessing 628SMT simultaneous multithreading 629SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 630SNMP simple network management protocol 631SOA service oriented architecture 632SOAP simple object access protocol 633SOHO small office / home office 634SP stack pointer 635SPARC scalable processor architecture 636SPARQL SPARQL protocol and RDF query language 637SPD security policy database 638SPD serial presence detect 639SPI serial peripheral interface 640SPI stateful packet inspection 641SQL structured query language 642SRAM static random access memory 643SS stack segment 644SSD solid state drive 645SSE streaming SIMD extensions 646SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 647SSH secure shell 648SSL secure sockets layer 649SSP stack smashing protection 650STP shielded twisted pair 651STP spanning-tree protocol 652SUS Single Unix Specification 653SVG scalable vector graphics 654SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 655SVM secure virtual machine 656SVM support vector machine 657SWF Shockwave Flash 658TAS test and set 659TCB trusted computing base 660TCC thermal control circuit 661TCL tool command language 662TCP transmission control protocol 663TCQ tagged command queueing 664TDD test driven development 665TDP thermal design power 666TECO Text Editor and Corrector 667TFT thin film transistor 668TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 669TIAS try it and see 670TIFF tagged image file format 671TITS try it to see 672TLA top level aggregator 673TLB transition lookaside buffer 674TLD top level domain 675TLS transport layer security 676TLS thread local storage 677TM Turing machine 678TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 679TMO timeout 680TOS terms of service 681TOS type of service 682TP transaction processing 683TPM trusted platform module 684TPR task priority register 685TR token ring 686TR task register 687TRNG true random number generator 688TS time stamp 689TS time series 690TS terminal services 691TSC time stamp counter 692TSP time stamp protocol 693TSP tunnel setup protocol 694TSS task state segment 695TTL time to live 696TTL transistor-transistor logic 697TTM translation table maps 698TTY teletype 699TX transmit out, transmitter 700TZ time zone 701UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 702UC uncacheable 703UCS uniform-cost search 704UDMA ultra DMA 705UDO ultra density optical (storage) 706UDP user datagram protocol 707UFS Unix file system 708UI user interface 709UI unit interval 710UID user identifier 711UID unique identifier 712UMA upper memory area 713UMB upper memory block 714UML unified modeling language 715UPS uninterruptible power supply 716URI uniform resource identifier 717URL uniform resource locator 718USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 719USB universal serial bus 720USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 721UTC coordinated universal time 722UTP unshielded twisted pair 723UUCP Unix-to-Unix copy protocol 724UUID universally unique identifier 725UUOC useless use of cat 726VA virtual address 727VA vertical alignment 728VAX virtual address extension 729VCC common collector voltage 730VCM virtual channel memory 731VESA video electronics standards association 732VG volume group 733VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 734VHDCI very high density cable interconnect 735VID voltage level identifier 736VLAN virtual local area network 737VLIW very long instruction word 738VLSI very large scale integration 739VLSM variable length subnet mask 740VM virtual {machine,memory} 741VPN virtual private network 742VRAM video random access memory 743VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 744W3C World Wide Web Consortium 745WAN wide area network 746WAP wireless application protocol 747WEP wired equivalent privacy 748WFI wait for interrupt 749WIFI wireless fidelity 750WLAN wireless local area network 751VMX virtual machine extensions 752VMX vector multimedia extensions 753WDT watchdog timer 754WORM write once read many 755WPA wi-fi protected access 756WRAM window random access memory 757WWAN wireless wide area network 758WWW world wide web 759WYSIWYG what you see is what you get 760XBAR crossbar 761XER XML encoding rules 762XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 763XIP execute in place 764XML extensible markup language 765XOR exclusive or 766XP extreme programming 767XSL extensible stylesheet language 768XSS cross site scripting 769XT extended technology 770XUL XML user interface language 771YACC yet another compiler compiler 772YAWPFAPR you are welcome; please file a problem report 773YP yellow pages (aka NIS) 774ZFOD zero-filled on demand 775ZIFS zero insertion force socket 776