acronyms.comp revision 1.17
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.17 2003/10/02 13:33:29 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 34FPM fast page mode 35FQDN fully qualified domain name 36FTP file transfer protocol 37GIF graphics interchange format 38GNU gnu's not unix 39GPL gnu/general public license 40GUI graphics user interface 41HTML hyper-text markup language 42HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 43I2O intelligent input/output 44IANA internet assigned number authority 45ICB internet citizen's band 46ICMP internet control message protocol 47IDE integrated drive electronics 48IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 49IESG internet engineering steering group 50IETF internet engineering task force 51IKE internet key exchange 52IMAP internet mail access protocol 53IO input/output 54IOCTL input/output control 55IP internet protocol 56IPNG internet protocol, next generation 57IPSEC internet protocol security 58IRC internet relay chat 59IRQ interrupt request 60IRTF internet research task force 61ISA industry standard architecture 62ISDN integrated services digital network 63ISOC internet society 64ISP internet service provider 65JPEG joint photographic experts group 66KVA kernel virtual address 67LAN local area network 68LBA logical block addressing 69LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 70LUN logical unit number 71MBR master boot record 72MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 73MIPS million instructions per second 74MTA mail transfer agent 75MTU maximum transmission unit 76MUA mail user agent 77NAT network address translation 78NIC network interface card 79NIS network information service 80NUMA non uniform memory access 81PAX portable archive exchange 82PCI peripheral component interconnect 83PDP page descriptor page 84PERL practical extraction [and] report language 85PGP pretty good privacy 86PID process id 87PNG portable network graphics 88POP post office protocol 89POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 90PPP point-to-point protocol 91PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 92PROM programmable read only memory 93PTE page table entry 94PTP page table page 95RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 96RAM random access memory 97RCS revision control system 98RFC request for comments 99RISC reduced instruction set computing 100ROM read only memory 101RPM revolutions per minute 102RTF rich text format 103SAM serial access memory 104SATA serial advanced technology attachment 105SCSI small computer standard interface 106SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 107SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 108SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 109SMP symmetric multiprocessing 110SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 111SRAM static random access memory 112SSH secure shell 113SSL secure sockets layer 114TCL tool command language 115TCP transmission control protocol 116TLD top level domain 117TTY teletype 118TZ time zone 119UDP user datagram protocol 120UPS uninterruptible power supply 121URI uniform resource identifier 122URL uniform resource locator 123USB universal serial bus 124UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 125VCM virtual channel memory 126VPN virtual private network 127VRAM video random access memory 128WRAM window random access memory 129WWW world wide web 130XML extensible markup language 131XSL extensible stylesheet language 132