acronyms.comp revision 1.120
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33WHS	three-way handshake
4AA	anti-aliasing
5AAT	average access time
6ABI	application binary interface
7AC	alternating current
8ACID	atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability
9ACK	acknowledgement
10ACK	Amsterdam compiler kit
11ACL	access control list
12ACL	active current loop
13ACPI	advanced configuration and power interface
14ADB	Apple desktop bus
15ADC	analog [to] digital converter
16ADT	abstract data type
17ADPCM	adaptive differential pulse code modulation
18ADSL	asymmetric digital subscriber line
19AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
20AFS	Andrew File System
21AGP	accelerated graphics port
22AI	artificial intelligence
23AL	access list
24AL	active link
25ALE	address latch enable
26ALU	arithmetic and logical unit
27AM	access method
28AM	amplitude modulation
29AMI	alternate mark inversion
30AMT	active management technology
31ANSI	American National Standards Institute
32AOL	alert on LAN
33AP	access point
34AP	application processor
35API	application programming interface
36APIC	advanced programmable interrupt controller
37ARAT	always running APIC timer
38ARC	adaptive replacement cache
39ARM	Advanced RISC Machines
40ARP	address resolution protocol
41ARPA	Advanced Research Projects Agency
42ARQ	automatic repeat request
43AS	autonomous system
44ASCII	American standard code for information interchange
45ASIC	application-specific integrated circuit
46ASLR	address space layout randomization
47ASN	autonomous system number
48AST	abstract syntax tree
49AST	asynchronous trap
50AT	access time
51AT	advanced technology
52ATA	advanced technology attachment
53ATAPI	advanced technology attachment packet interface
54ATC	address translation cache
55ATM	asynchronous transfer mode
56ATX	advanced technology extended
57AWK	Aho, Werner, and Kernighan
58BAL	basic assembly language
59BAR	base address register
60BBS	bulletin board system
61BCD	binary coded decimal
62BCS	base configuration space
63BD	baud
64BEDO	burst extended data output
65BER	basic encoding rules
66BER	bit error rate
67BFD	binary {file, format} descriptor
68BFKL	big fscking kernel lock
69BFS	breadth-first search
70BGA	ball grid array
71BGP	border gateway protocol
72BIND	Berkeley Internet Name Daemon
73BIOS	basic input/output system
74BIST	built-in self-test
75BKDG	BIOS and kernel developer's guide
76BLAS	basic linear algebra subprograms
77BLOB	binary large object
78BMC	baseboard management controller
79BP	base pointer
80BP	boot processor
81BPF	Berkeley packet filter
82BPS	bits per second
83BQS	Berkeley quality software
84BSD	Berkeley software distribution
85BSOD	blue screen of death
86BSP	binary space partition
87BSP	boot strap processor
88BSS	block started by symbol
89BT	Bluetooth
90BT	BitTorrent
91BTS	bits per second
92BW	bandwidth
93CAD	computer-aided design
94CAM	computer assisted manufacturing
95CAM	content addressable memory
96CARP	common address redundancy protocol
97CAS	(atomic) compare and swap
98CAS	computer algebra system
99CAS	column address strobe
100CAV	constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV)
101CCD	charge coupled device
102CD	compact disc
103CDDA	compact disc digital audio
104CDRAM	cache dynamic random access memory
105CER	canonical encoding rules
106CF	compact flash
107CFG	context-free grammar
108CFG	control-flow graph
109CG	control gate
110CGA	color graphics {array,adapter}
111CGI	common gateway interface
112CHAP	challenge-handshake authentication protocol
113CHS	cylinder/head/sector
114CIDR	classless inter-domain routing
115CIFS	common internet file system
116CIL	common intermediate language
117CIS	contact image sensor
118CJK	Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
119CLI	command line interface
120CLR	common language runtime
121CLUT	color look-up table
122CLV	constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV)
123CMI	control management interface
124CMI	control method interface
125CMOS	complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
126CMS	content management system
127CMYK	cyan magenta yellow black
128CN	{common, canonical} name
129CNC	computer numerical control
130COF	current operating frequency
131COFF	common object file format
132COMA	cache-only memory architecture
133COW	copy-on-write
134CPL	current privilege level
135CPS	characters per second
136CPU	central processing unit
137CR	carriage return
138CRC	cyclic redundancy check
139CRLF	carriage return line feed
140CRT	cathode ray tube
141CS	computer science
142CS	cable select
143CS	chip select
144CS	code segment
145CSI	common system interface
146CSMA	carrier sense multiple access
147CSMA/CA	carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance
148CSMA/CD	carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
149CSS	cascading style sheets
150CTM	close to metal
151CTS	clear to send
152CUA	common user access
153CVS	concurrent versions system
154DAC	discretionary access control
155DAC	digital [to] analog converter
156DAO	disk at once
157DAP	directory access protocol
158DAT	digital audio tape
159DB	database
160DBMS	database management system
161DC	direct current
162DCC	direct client [to] client
163DCE	data control equipment
164DCE	distributed computing environment
165DCT	discrete cosine transform
166DDC	display data channel
167DDE	dynamic data exchange
168DDR	double data rate
169DDWG	digital display working group
170DE	desktop environment
171DE	debugging extensions
172DEP	data execution prevention
173DER	distinguished encoding rules
174DES	Data Encryption Standard
175DFA	deterministic finite automaton
176DFS	depth first search
177DFS	distributed file system
178DFT	discrete Fourier transform
179DHCP	dynamic host configuration protocol
180DIFS	distributed inter-frame space
181DIMM	dual inline memory module
182DL	download
183DL	diode logic
184DLE	data link escape
185DLL	dynamic link library
186DMA	direct memory access
187DMI	desktop management interface
188DNARD	Digital network appliance reference design
189DNS	domain name system
190DOM	document object model
191DOS	denial of service
192DOS	disk operating system
193DPC	deferred procedure call
194DPCM	differential pulse code modulation
195DPD	dead peer detection
196DPI	dots per inch
197DPI	deep packet inspection
198DPL	descriptor privilege level
199DRAM	dynamic random access memory
200DRI	direct rendering infrastructure
201DRM	digital rights management
202DS	debug store
203DSDT	differentiated system descriptor table
204DSL	digital subscriber line
205DSL	domain specific language
206DSLAM	digital subscriber line access multiplexer
207DSO	dynamic shared object
208DSP	digital signal processor
209DSSS	direct sequence spread spectrum
210DTD	document type definition
211DTE	data terminal equipment
212DTE	dumb terminal emulator
213DTL	diode-transistor logic
214DVB	digital video broadcasting
215DVD	digital versatile disc
216DVFS	dynamic voltage and frequency scaling
217DVR	digital video recorder
218DVI	digital visual interface
219E-XER	extended XML encoding rules
220EAP	extensible authentication protocol
221ECL	emitter-coupled logic
222ECN	explicit congestion notification
223ECP	enhanced capability port
224EDID	extended display identification data
225EDO	extended data out
226EEPROM	electrically erasable programmable read only memory
227EFI	extensible firmware interface
228EFM	eight to fourteen modulation
229EGA	enhanced graphics {array,adapter}
230EGP	exterior gateway protocol
231EIDE	enchanced IDE
232EISA	extended industry standard architecture
233ELF	executable and linking format
234EOF	end of file
235EOL	end of line
236EOL	end of life
237EOT	end of transmission
238EPIC	explicitly parallel instruction computing
239EPP	enhanced parallel port
240EPRML	extended partial response, maximum likelihood
241EPROM	erasable programmable read only memory
242ESDRAM	enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory
243EST	enhanced speedstep
244ETL	extract, transform, load
245EULA	end user license agreement
246FAT	file allocation table
247FBRAM	frame buffer random access memory
248FCS	frame check sequence
249FDC	floppy disk controller
250FDD	floppy disk drive
251FDDI	fiber distributed data interface
252FEC	forward error correction
253FFH	functional fixed hardware
254FFI	foreign function interface
255FFS	fast file system
256FFS	find first set
257FFT	fast Fourier transform
258FG	floating gate
259FHSS	frequency hop spread spectrum
260FID	frequency identifier
261FIFO	first in first out
262FIR	fast infrared
263FLOPS	floating [point] operations per second
264FM	frequency modulation
265FOSS	free / open source software
266FPGA	field programmable gate array
267FPM	fast page mode
268FPR	floating point register
269FPU	floating point unit
270FQDN	fully qualified domain name
271FRU	field replaceable unit
272FSB	front side bus
273FSCK	file system check
274FSM	finite-state machine
275FTP	file transfer protocol
276FTPS	file transfer protocol, secure
277FWH	firmware hub
278FWS	folding white space
279GAS	generic address structure
280GC	garbage collector
281GCR	group-coded recording
282GDT	global descriptor table
283GEM	graphics execution manager
284GEM	graphics environment manager
285GID	group identifier
286GIF	graphics interchange format
287GMCH	graphics and memory controller hub
288GNU	GNU's not Unix
289GOT	global offset table
290GPE	general purpose event
291GPF	general protection fault
292GPL	GNU/general public license
293GPR	general purpose register
294GPT	GUID partition table
295GPU	graphics processing unit
296GRE	generic routing encapsulation
297GSI	global system interrupt
298GUI	graphics user interface
299GUID	globally unique identifier
300HA	high availability
301HAL	hardware abstraction layer
302HAT	hashed array tree
303HBA	host bus adapter
304HCI	host controller interface
305HCI	human-computer interaction
306HCL	hardware compatibility list
307HCF	halt and catch fire
308HDD	hard disk drive
309HDCP	high-bandwidth digital content protection
310HF	high frequency
311HFM	highest frequency mode
312HID	human interface device
313HMA	high memory area
314HMI	human-machine interface
315HPC	high performance computing
316HPET	high precision event timer
317HT	hyper-threading
318HTC	hardware thermal control
319HTML	hyper-text markup language
320HTT	hyper-threading technology
321HTTP	hyper-text transfer protocol
322HTTPS	hyper-text transfer protocol, secure
323HZ	Hertz
324I2O	intelligent input/output
325IANA	Internet assigned number authority
326IBS	instruction based sampling
327IC	integrated circuit
328ICB	Internet citizen's band
329ICE	in-circuit emulator
330ICH	I/O controller hub
331ICE	internal compiler error
332ICE	in-circuit emulator
333ICMP	Internet control message protocol
334IDE	integrated drive electronics
335IDE	integrated development environment
336IDRP	inter-domain routing protocol
337IDS	intrusion detection system
338IDT	interrupt descriptor table
339IE	Internet Explorer
340IEC	international electrotechnical commission
341IEEE	Institute [of] Electrical [and] Electronics Engineers
342IESG	Internet Engineering Steering Group
343IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
344IFCM	isochronous flow control mode
345IGMP	Internet group management protocol
346IGP	interior gateway protocol
347IHV	independent hardware vendor
348IKE	Internet key exchange
349ILP	instruction level parallelism
350IM	instant messaging
351IMC	integrated memory controller
352IMCR	interrupt mode configuration register
353IMAP	Internet mail access protocol
354INCITS	international committee on information technology standards
355IO	input/output
356IOCTL	input/output control
357IOMMU	input/output memory management unit
358IP	Internet Protocol
359IP	intellectual property
360IPC	interprocess communication
361IPI	interprocessor interrupt
362IPNG	Internet protocol, next generation
363IPS	intrusion prevention system
364IPS	in-plane switching
365IPSEC	Internet protocol security
366IRC	Internet relay chat
367IRDA	infrared data association
368IRQ	interrupt request
369IRQL	interrupt request level
370IRTF	Internet research task force
371ISA	industry standard architecture
372ISA	instruction set architecture
373ISDN	integrated services digital network
374ISI	inter-symbol interference
375ISM	industrial, scientific and medical
376ISN	initial serial number
377ISO	international standards organization
378ISOC	Internet society
379ISP	Internet service provider
380ISR	interrupt service routine
381IST	interrupt stack table
382ISV	independent software vendor
383IVT	interrupt vector table
384JBOD	just a bunch of disks
385JIT	just in time
386JPEG	joint photographic experts group
387JRE	Java runtime environment
388JTAG	joint test action group
389KB	keyboard
390KB	kilobyte
391KBD	keyboard
392KBD	kilobaud
393KLOC	thousand lines of code
394KMS	kernel-mode setting
395KPI	kernel programming interface
396KVA	kernel virtual address
397KVM	kernel virtual memory
398KVM	keyboard, video, mouse switch
399LAMP	Linux Apache MySQL {Perl,PHP,Python}
400LAN	local area network
401LAPIC	local advanced programmable interrupt controller
402LBA	logical block addressing
403LCD	liquid crystal display
404LCP	link control protocol
405LDAP	lightweight directory access protocol
406LDT	local descriptor table
407LE	logical extent
408LED	light emitting diode
409LF	line feed
410LF	low frequency
411LFM	lowest frequency mode
412LFS	log-structured file system
413LFU	least frequently used
414LIFO	last in first out
415LILO	last in last out
416LILO	Linux loader
417LINT	local interrupt
418LIR	local Internet registry
419LKM	{Linux, loadable} kernel module
420LKML	Linux kernel mailing list
421LL/SC	load linked / store conditional
422LLC	logical link control
423LLVM	Low Level Virtual Machine
424LOC	lines of code
425LPC	low pin count
426LRC	longitudinal redundancy check
427LRU	least recently used
428LSB	least significant bit [or: byte]
429LSB	Linux standards base
430LSI	large scale integration
431LTR	left to right
432LTR	load task register
433LUN	logical unit number
434LV	logical volume
435LVM	logical volume management
436LVT	local vector table
437LZW	Lempel Ziv Welch
438MAC	medium access control
439MAC	mandatory access control
440MADT	multiple APIC descriptor table
441MB	megabyte
442MBR	master boot record
443MBS	megabits per second
444MC	memory controller
445MCA	machine check architecture
446MCC	multiversion concurrency control
447MCE	machine check exception
448MCGA	multicolor graphics adapter
449MCH	memory controller hub
450MCQ	memory controlled queue
451MDA	mail delivery agent
452MDA	monochrome display adapter
453MDRAM	multibank dynamic random access memory
454MFC	merge from current
455MFM	modified frequency modulation
456MIB	management information base
457MID	mobile internet device
458MIDI	musical instrument digital interface
459MIF	management information format
460MIMD	multiple instruction stream, multiple data stream
461MIME	multipurpose Internet mail extensions
462MIMO	multiple input multiple output
463MIPS	million instructions per second
464MISD	multiple instruction, single data
465MIT	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
466ML	mailing list
467ML	machine language
468ML	machine learning
469ML	markup language
470ML	maximum likelihood
471MLC	multi-level cell
472MMIO	memory mapped input/output
473MMU	memory management unit
474MMX	multimedia extension
475MMX	multiple math extension
476MMX	matrix math extension
477MP	multiprocessor
478MP	multiprocessing
479MP	multi-platform
480MP	multiplayer
481MPEG	moving picture experts group
482MPI	message passing interface
483MPLS	multiprotocol label switching
484MPP	massively parallel processor
485MPS	multiprocessor specification
486MPS	memory pool system
487MRU	most recently used
488MS	Microsoft
489MSB	most significant bit [or: byte]
490MSF	minutes seconds frames
491MSI	message signaled interrupt
492MSR	machine state register
493MSS	maximum segment size
494MT	machine translation
495MTA	mail transfer agent
496MTBF	mean time between failures
497MTRR	memory type range register
498MTTF	mean time to failure
499MTU	maximum transmission unit
500MUA	mail user agent
501MVCC	multiversion concurrency control
502MWE	module width encoding
503MX	mail exchange
504NACK	negative acknowledgement
505NAN	not a number
506NAS	network attached storage
507NAT	network address translation
508NAV	network allocation vector
509NC	numerical control
510NCP	network control protocol
511NCQ	native command queuing
512NFA	nondeterministic finite automaton
513NFS	network file system
514NIC	network interface card
515NIS	network information service
516NLS	native language support
517NMI	non-maskable interrupt
518NNTP	network news transfer protocol
519NOP	no operation
520NP	nondeterministic polynomial time
521NRZ	non-return to zero
522NSA	National Security Agency
523NTM	non-deterministic Turing machine
524NTP	network time protocol
525NUMA	non-uniform memory access
526NVRAM	non-volatile random access memory
527NX	no execute
528OAEP	optimal asymmetric encryption padding
529OBO	off by one
530OBOE	off by one error
531OCL	object constraint language
532OCR	optical character recognition
533ODCM	on-demand clock modulation
534OEM	original equipment manufacturer
535OFDM	orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
536ONFI	open nand flash interface
537OO	object oriented
538OO	OpenOffice
539OOB	out of band
540OOE	out of order execution
541OOM	out of memory
542OOP	object oriented programming
543OOSE	object oriented software engineering
544OQL	object query language
545ORM	object-relational mapping
546OS	operating system
547OSD	open source definition
548OSF	open software foundation
549OSI	open systems interconnection
550OSI	open-source initiative
551OSPF	open shortest path first
552OSS	open source software
553OSS	open sound system
554OSVW	operating system visible workarounds
555OTP	one time password
556OUI	organizationally unique identifier
557OWL	Web ontology language
558P2P	peer to peer
559P2P	PCI to PCI
560PA	physical address
561PAE	physical address extension
562PAM	pluggable authentication modules
563PAM	pulse amplitude modulation
564PAP	password authentication protocol
565PAT	page attribute table
566PAT	port address translation
567PATA	parallel ATA
568PAX	portable archive exchange
569PBE	pending break encoding
570PBE	programming by example
571PC	personal computer
572PCB	printed circuit board
573PCC	Portable C Compiler
574PCI	peripheral component interconnect
575PCM	pulse code modulation
576PCMCIA	personal computer memory card international association
577PD	public domain
578PDA	personal digital assistant
579PDA	pushdown automaton
580PDF	portable document format
581PDN	pull-down network
582PDP	page descriptor page
583PDU	protocol data unit
584PER	packed encoding rules
585PERL	practical extraction [and] report language
586PFS	perfect forward secrecy
587PGP	pretty good privacy
588PHB	PCI host bridge
589PIC	programmable interrupt controller
590PIC	position independent code
591PID	process id
592PIE	position independent executable
593PIN	personal identification number
594PIO	programmed input/output
595PKI	public key infrastructure
596PKCS	public-key cryptography standards
597PLC	programmable logic controller
598PLL	phase locked loop
599PME	power management event
600PMI	platform management interrupt
601PMIO	port-mapped input/output
602PMT	photo-multiplier tube
603PNG	portable network graphics
604PNP	plug and play
605POE	power over ethernet
606POP	post office protocol
607POSIX	portable operating system interface [for] Unix
608POST	power on self test
609POTS	plain old telephone system
610PPC	PowerPC
611PPB	PCI [to] PCI bridge
612PPI	pixels per inch
613PPP	point-to-point protocol
614PPPOA	point-to-point protocol over ATM
615PPPOE	point-to-point protocol over ethernet
616PPU	physics processing unit
617PRBS	pseudo-random bit sequence
618PRML	partial response, maximum likelihood
619PRNG	pseudo random number generator
620PROM	programmable read only memory
621PSE	page size extensions
622PSK	pre-shared key
623PSTN	public switched telephone network
624PSW	program status word
625PTE	page table entry
626PTLA	pseudo top level aggregator
627PTP	page table page
628PU	processing unit
629PV	physical volume
630PVG	physical volume group
631PWM	pulse width modulation
632PXE	preboot execution environment
633QA	quality assurance
634QAM	quadrature amplitude modulation
635QOS	quality of service
636RAD	rapid application development
637RAID	redundant array of inexpensive disks
638RAM	random access memory
639RAS	restartable atomic sequence
640RAS	remote access service
641RAS	row address strobe
642RC	release candidate
643RC	remote control
644RCS	revision control system
645RCU	read-copy-update
646RDF	resource description format
647RDM	relational data model
648RDMA	remote direct memory access
649REST	representational state transfer
650RGB	red green blue
651RHL	Red Hat Linux
652RIFF	Resource Interchange File Format
653RIP	routing information protocol
654RIR	regional Internet registry
655RISC	reduced instruction set computing
656RKM	ROM Kernel Manual
657RLE	run length encoding
658RLL	run length limited
659RNG	random number generator
660ROM	read only memory
661RPC	remote procedure call
662RPL	requested privilege level
663RPM	revolutions per minute
664RSA	Rivest, Shamir and Adleman
665RSS	really simple syndication
666RSS	residual sum of squares
667RT	real time
668RTC	real time clock
669RTC	real time computing
670RTF	rich text format
671RTL	resistor-transistor logic
672RTOS	real time operating system
673RTS	{ready, request} to send
674RTT	round time trip
675RUP	rational unified process
676RX	receive, receiver
677S/PDIF	Sony/Phillips digital interface
678SAAS	software as a service
679SACD	super audio compact disc
680SAD	security association database
681SAM	serial access memory
682SAN	storage area network
683SAPIC	streamlined advanced programmable interrupt controller
684SASI	shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI)
685SATA	serial advanced technology attachment
686SB	sound blaster
687SBU	standard build unit
688SCM	software configuration management
689SCM	source code management
690SCP	secure copy
691SCI	system control interrupt
692SCI	scalable coherent interface
693SCSI	small computer system interface
694SCTP	stream control transmission protocol
695SDK	software development kit
696SDL	simple declarative language
697SDRAM	synchronous dynamic random access memory
698SDT	syntax-directed translation
699SEGV	segmentation violation
700SFI	simple firmware interface
701SFC	sequential function chart
702SGRAM	synchronous graphics random access memory
703SIFS	short inter-frame space
704SIMD	single instruction, multiple data
705SIMM	single inline memory module
706SIP	session initiation protocol
707SIR	slow infrared
708SISD	single instruction, single data
709SLC	single-level cell
710SLDRAM	synchronous-link dynamic random access memory
711SLI	scalable link interface
712SLI	scan-line interleave
713SLOC	source lines of code
714SMART	self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology
715SMBIOS	system management BIOS
716SMI	system management interrupt
717SMI	structure of management information
718SMM	system management mode
719SMP	symmetric multiprocessing
720SMT	simultaneous multithreading
721SMTP	simple mail transfer protocol
722SNMP	simple network management protocol
723SOA	service oriented architecture
724SOAP	simple object access protocol
725SOHO	small office / home office
726SOL	serial over LAN
727SP	stack pointer
728SP	service pack
729SPARC	scalable processor architecture
730SPARQL	SPARQL protocol and RDF query language
731SPD	security policy database
732SPD	serial presence detect
733SPI	serial peripheral interface
734SPI	stateful packet inspection
735SPMD	single process, multiple data
736SPR	special purpose register
737SQL	structured query language
738SRAM	static random access memory
739SS	stack segment
740SSD	solid state drive
741SSE	streaming SIMD extensions
742SSFDC	solid state floppy disc card
743SSH	secure shell
744SSI	server side includes
745SSL	secure sockets layer
746SSP	stack smashing protection
747STP	shielded twisted pair
748STP	spanning-tree protocol
749SUS	Single Unix Specification
750SVG	scalable vector graphics
751SVGA	super video graphics {array,adapter}
752SVM	secure virtual machine
753SVM	support vector machine
754SWF	Shockwave Flash
755TAS	test and set
756TAO	track at once
757TCB	trusted computing base
758TCC	thermal control circuit
759TCL	tool command language
760TCP	transmission control protocol
761TCQ	tagged command queueing
762TDD	test driven development
763TDP	thermal design power
764TECO	Text Editor and Corrector
765TFT	thin film transistor
766TFTP	trivial file transfer protocol
767TIAS	try it and see
768TIFF	tagged image file format
769TITS	try it to see
770TLA	top level aggregator
771TLB	transition lookaside buffer
772TLD	top level domain
773TLS	transport layer security
774TLS	thread local storage
775TM	Turing machine
776TMDS	transition minimized differential signaling
777TMO	timeout
778TOS	terms of service
779TOS	type of service
780TP	transaction processing
781TPM	trusted platform module
782TPR	task priority register
783TR	token ring
784TR	task register
785TRNG	true random number generator
786TS	time stamp
787TS	time series
788TS	terminal services
789TSC	time stamp counter
790TSO	time sharing option
791TSP	time stamp protocol
792TSP	tunnel setup protocol
793TSP	traveling salesman problem
794TSS	task state segment
795TTL	time to live
796TTL	transistor-transistor logic
797TTM	translation table maps
798TTY	teletype
799TX	transmit out, transmitter
800TZ	time zone
801UAC	user {account, access} control
802UART	universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter
803UC	uncacheable
804UCS	uniform-cost search
805UDMA	ultra DMA
806UDO	ultra density optical (storage)
807UDP	user datagram protocol
808UFS	Unix file system
809UI	user interface
810UI	unit interval
811UID	user identifier
812UID	unique identifier
813UL	upload
814UMA	uniform memory access
815UMA	upper memory area
816UMB	upper memory block
817UML	unified modeling language
818UPS	uninterruptible power supply
819URI	uniform resource identifier
820URL	uniform resource locator
821URN	uniform resource name
822USART	universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter
823USB	universal serial bus
824USWC	uncacheable speculative write combining
825UTC	coordinated universal time
826UTP	unshielded twisted pair
827UUCP	Unix-to-Unix copy protocol
828UUID	universally unique identifier
829UUOC	useless use of cat
830VA	virtual address
831VA	vertical alignment
832VAX	virtual address extension
833VCC	common collector voltage
834VCM	virtual channel memory
835VESA	video electronics standards association
836VG	volume group
837VGA	video graphics {array,adapter}
838VHDCI	very high density cable interconnect
839VID	voltage level identifier
840VLAN	virtual local area network
841VLIW	very long instruction word
842VLSI	very large scale integration
843VLSM	variable length subnet mask
844VM	virtual {machine,memory}
845VMX	virtual machine extensions
846VMX	vector multimedia extensions
847VPN	virtual private network
848VR	virtual reality
849VRAM	video random access memory
850VRRP	virtual router redundancy protocol
851W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
852WAN	wide area network
853WAP	wireless application protocol
854WEP	wired equivalent privacy
855WFI	wait for interrupt
856WIFI    wireless fidelity
857WLAN	wireless local area network
858WDT	watchdog timer
859WOL	wake on LAN
860WOR	wake on ring
861WORM	write once read many
862WPA	wi-fi protected access
863WRAM	window random access memory
864WWAN	wireless wide area network
865WWW	world wide web
866WYSIWYG	what you see is what you get
867XBAR	crossbar
868XER	XML encoding rules
869XGA	extended graphics {array,adapter}
870XIP	execute in place
871XML	extensible markup language
872XOR	exclusive or
873XP	extreme programming
874XSL	extensible stylesheet language
875XSS	cross site scripting
876XT	extended technology
877XUL	XML user interface language
878YACC	yet another compiler compiler
879YAWPFAPR you are welcome; please file a problem report
880YP	yellow pages (aka NIS)
881ZFOD	zero-filled on demand
882ZIF	zero insertion force
883ZIFS	zero insertion force socket
884ZMA	zone multicast address
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