acronyms.comp revision 1.13
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.13 2003/09/10 03:34:58 jschauma 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 63MTA Mail Transfer Agent 64MUA Mail User Agent 65NAT network address translation 66NIC network interface card 67NIS network information service 68NUMA non uniform memory access 69PAX portable archive exchange 70PCI peripheral component interconnect 71PERL practical extraction [and] report language 72PGP pretty good privacy 73PID process id 74PNG portable network graphics 75POP post office protocol 76POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 77PPP point-to-point protocol 78PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 79PDP page descriptor page 80PTE page table entry 81PTP page table page 82RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 83RAM random access memory 84RCS revision control system 85RFC request for comments 86RISC reduced instruction set computing 87ROM read only memory 88RPM revolutions per minute 89RTF rich text format 90SATA serial advanced technology attachment 91SCSI small computer standard interface 92SMP symmetric multiprocessing 93SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 94SSH secure shell 95SSL secure sockets layer 96TCL tool command language 97TLD top level domain 98TTY teletype 99TZ time zone 100TCP transmission control protocol 101UDP user datagram protocol 102UPS uninterruptible power supply 103URI uniform resource identifier 104URL uniform resource locator 105USB universal serial bus 106UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 107VPN virtual private network 108XML extensible markup language 109XSL extensible stylesheet language 110WWW world wide web 111