acronyms.comp revision 1.12
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.12 2003/08/30 10:17:45 wiz Exp $ 2 3ABI application binary interface 4API application programming interface 5AGP accelerated graphics port 6ATA advanced technology attachment 7BIOS basic input/output system 8BLOB binary large object 9BSD berkeley software distribution 10CD compact disc 11CHS cylinder/head/sector 12CIDR classless inter-domain routing 13CLI command line interface 14CRLF carriage return line feed 15CSS cascading style sheets 16CVS concurrent versions system 17DMA direct memory access 18DNS domain name system 19DSL digital subscriber line 20DTD document type definition 21DVD digital versatile disc 22EISA extended industry standard architecture 23FFS fast file system 24FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 25FTP file transfer protocol 26FQDN fully qualified domain name 27GIF graphics interchange format 28GNU gnu's not unix 29GPL gnu/general public license 30GUI graphics user interface 31HTML hyper-text markup language 32HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 33I2O intelligent input/output 34IANA internet assigned number authority 35ICB internet citizen's band 36ICMP internet control message protocol 37IDE integrated drive electronics 38IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 39IETF internet engineering task force 40IESG internet engineering steering group 41IKE internet key exchange 42IMAP internet mail access protocol 43IO input/output 44IOCTL input/output control 45IP internet protocol 46IPNG internet protocol, next generation 47IPSEC internet protocol security 48IRC internet relay chat 49IRQ interrupt request 50IRTF internet research task force 51ISA industry standard architecture 52ISDN integrated services digital network 53ISOC internet society 54ISP internet service provider 55JPEG joint photographic experts group 56KVA kernel virtual address 57LAN local area network 58LBA logical block addressing 59LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 60LUN logical unit number 61MBR master boot record 62MIPS million instructions per second 63NAT network address translation 64NIC network interface card 65NIS network information service 66NUMA non uniform memory access 67PAX portable archive exchange 68PCI peripheral component interconnect 69PERL practical extraction [and] report language 70PGP pretty good privacy 71PID process id 72PNG portable network graphics 73POP post office protocol 74POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 75PPP point-to-point protocol 76PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 77PDP page descriptor page 78PTE page table entry 79PTP page table page 80RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 81RAM random access memory 82RCS revision control system 83RFC request for comments 84RISC reduced instruction set computing 85ROM read only memory 86RPM revolutions per minute 87RTF rich text format 88SATA serial advanced technology attachment 89SCSI small computer standard interface 90SMP symmetric multiprocessing 91SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 92SSH secure shell 93SSL secure sockets layer 94TCL tool command language 95TLD top level domain 96TTY teletype 97TZ time zone 98TCP transmission control protocol 99UDP user datagram protocol 100UPS uninterruptible power supply 101URI uniform resource identifier 102URL uniform resource locator 103USB universal serial bus 104UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 105VPN virtual private network 106XML extensible markup language 107XSL extensible stylesheet language 108WWW world wide web 109