acronyms.comp revision 1.15
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.15 2003/09/18 21:59:28 keihan Exp $ 2 3ABI application binary interface 4AGP accelerated graphics port 5API application programming interface 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 25FQDN fully qualified domain name 26FTP file transfer protocol 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 39IESG internet engineering steering group 40IETF internet engineering task force 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 64MTU maximum transmission unit 65MUA mail user agent 66NAT network address translation 67NIC network interface card 68NIS network information service 69NUMA non uniform memory access 70PAX portable archive exchange 71PCI peripheral component interconnect 72PDP page descriptor page 73PERL practical extraction [and] report language 74PGP pretty good privacy 75PID process id 76PNG portable network graphics 77POP post office protocol 78POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 79PPP point-to-point protocol 80PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 81PTE page table entry 82PTP page table page 83RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 84RAM random access memory 85RCS revision control system 86RFC request for comments 87RISC reduced instruction set computing 88ROM read only memory 89RPM revolutions per minute 90RTF rich text format 91SATA serial advanced technology attachment 92SCSI small computer standard interface 93SMP symmetric multiprocessing 94SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 95SSH secure shell 96SSL secure sockets layer 97TCL tool command language 98TCP transmission control protocol 99TLD top level domain 100TTY teletype 101TZ time zone 102UDP user datagram protocol 103UPS uninterruptible power supply 104URI uniform resource identifier 105URL uniform resource locator 106USB universal serial bus 107UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 108VPN virtual private network 109WWW world wide web 110XML extensible markup language 111XSL extensible stylesheet language 112