acronyms.comp revision 1.16
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.16 2003/10/01 20:11:11 jmmv Exp $ 2 3ABI application binary interface 4AGP accelerated graphics port 5API application programming interface 6ATA advanced technology attachment 7BEDO burst extended data output 8BIOS basic input/output system 9BLOB binary large object 10BSD berkeley software distribution 11CD compact disc 12CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 13CHS cylinder/head/sector 14CIDR classless inter-domain routing 15CLI command line interface 16CRLF carriage return line feed 17CSS cascading style sheets 18CVS concurrent versions system 19DDR double data rate 20DMA direct memory access 21DNS domain name system 22DRAM dynamic random access memory 23DSL digital subscriber line 24DTD document type definition 25DVD digital versatile disc 26EDO extended data out 27EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 28EISA extended industry standard architecture 29EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 30ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 31FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 32FFS fast file system 33FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 34FQDN fully qualified domain name 35FTP file transfer protocol 36GIF graphics interchange format 37GNU gnu's not unix 38GPL gnu/general public license 39GUI graphics user interface 40HTML hyper-text markup language 41HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 42I2O intelligent input/output 43IANA internet assigned number authority 44ICB internet citizen's band 45ICMP internet control message protocol 46IDE integrated drive electronics 47IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 48IESG internet engineering steering group 49IETF internet engineering task force 50IKE internet key exchange 51IMAP internet mail access protocol 52IO input/output 53IOCTL input/output control 54IP internet protocol 55IPNG internet protocol, next generation 56IPSEC internet protocol security 57IRC internet relay chat 58IRQ interrupt request 59IRTF internet research task force 60ISA industry standard architecture 61ISDN integrated services digital network 62ISOC internet society 63ISP internet service provider 64JPEG joint photographic experts group 65KVA kernel virtual address 66LAN local area network 67LBA logical block addressing 68LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 69LUN logical unit number 70MBR master boot record 71MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 72MIPS million instructions per second 73MTA mail transfer agent 74MTU maximum transmission unit 75MUA mail user agent 76NAT network address translation 77NIC network interface card 78NIS network information service 79NUMA non uniform memory access 80PAX portable archive exchange 81PCI peripheral component interconnect 82PDP page descriptor page 83PERL practical extraction [and] report language 84PGP pretty good privacy 85PID process id 86PNG portable network graphics 87POP post office protocol 88POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 89PPP point-to-point protocol 90PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 91PROM programmable read only memory 92PTE page table entry 93PTP page table page 94RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 95RAM random access memory 96RCS revision control system 97RFC request for comments 98RISC reduced instruction set computing 99ROM read only memory 100RPM revolutions per minute 101RTF rich text format 102SAM serial access memory 103SATA serial advanced technology attachment 104SCSI small computer standard interface 105SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 106SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 107SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 108SMP symmetric multiprocessing 109SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 110SRAM static random access memory 111SSH secure shell 112SSL secure sockets layer 113TCL tool command language 114TCP transmission control protocol 115TLD top level domain 116TTY teletype 117TZ time zone 118UDP user datagram protocol 119UPS uninterruptible power supply 120URI uniform resource identifier 121URL uniform resource locator 122USB universal serial bus 123UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 124VCM virtual channel memory 125VPN virtual private network 126VRAM video random access memory 127WRAM window random access memory 128WWW world wide web 129XML extensible markup language 130XSL extensible stylesheet language 131