acronyms.comp revision 1.18
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.18 2003/10/03 13:48:09 jmmv Exp $ 2 3ABI application binary interface 4ACPI advanced configuration and power interface 5AGP accelerated graphics port 6API application programming interface 7APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 8AT advanced technology 9ATA advanced technology attachment 10ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 11ATX advanced technology extended 12BEDO burst extended data output 13BIOS basic input/output system 14BLOB binary large object 15BSD berkeley software distribution 16CD compact disc 17CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 18CHS cylinder/head/sector 19CIDR classless inter-domain routing 20CLI command line interface 21CPU central process unit 22CRLF carriage return line feed 23CSS cascading style sheets 24CVS concurrent versions system 25DDR double data rate 26DMA direct memory access 27DNS domain name system 28DRAM dynamic random access memory 29DSL digital subscriber line 30DTD document type definition 31DVD digital versatile disc 32ECP enhanced capability port 33EDO extended data out 34EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 35EISA extended industry standard architecture 36EPP enhanced parallel port 37EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 38ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 39FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 40FFS fast file system 41FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 42FPM fast page mode 43FQDN fully qualified domain name 44FTP file transfer protocol 45GIF graphics interchange format 46GNU gnu's not unix 47GPL gnu/general public license 48GUI graphics user interface 49HTML hyper-text markup language 50HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 51I2O intelligent input/output 52IANA internet assigned number authority 53ICB internet citizen's band 54ICMP internet control message protocol 55IDE integrated drive electronics 56IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 57IESG internet engineering steering group 58IETF internet engineering task force 59IKE internet key exchange 60IMAP internet mail access protocol 61IO input/output 62IOCTL input/output control 63IP internet protocol 64IPNG internet protocol, next generation 65IPSEC internet protocol security 66IRC internet relay chat 67IRQ interrupt request 68IRTF internet research task force 69ISA industry standard architecture 70ISDN integrated services digital network 71ISOC internet society 72ISP internet service provider 73JPEG joint photographic experts group 74KVA kernel virtual address 75LAN local area network 76LBA logical block addressing 77LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 78LUN logical unit number 79MBR master boot record 80MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 81MIPS million instructions per second 82MTA mail transfer agent 83MTU maximum transmission unit 84MUA mail user agent 85NAT network address translation 86NIC network interface card 87NIS network information service 88NUMA non uniform memory access 89PAX portable archive exchange 90PCI peripheral component interconnect 91PDP page descriptor page 92PERL practical extraction [and] report language 93PGP pretty good privacy 94PIC programmable interrupt controller 95PID process id 96PIO programmed input/output 97PNG portable network graphics 98POP post office protocol 99POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 100PPP point-to-point protocol 101PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 102PROM programmable read only memory 103PTE page table entry 104PTP page table page 105RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 106RAM random access memory 107RCS revision control system 108RFC request for comments 109RISC reduced instruction set computing 110ROM read only memory 111RPM revolutions per minute 112RTF rich text format 113S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 114SAM serial access memory 115SATA serial advanced technology attachment 116SCSI small computer standard interface 117SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 118SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 119SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 120SMART self-monitoring analysis ans reporting technology 121SMP symmetric multiprocessing 122SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 123SPD serial presence detect 124SRAM static random access memory 125SSH secure shell 126SSL secure sockets layer 127TCL tool command language 128TCP transmission control protocol 129TLD top level domain 130TTY teletype 131TZ time zone 132UC uncacheable 133UDP user datagram protocol 134UPS uninterruptible power supply 135URI uniform resource identifier 136URL uniform resource locator 137USB universal serial bus 138USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 139UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 140VCM virtual channel memory 141VPN virtual private network 142VRAM video random access memory 143WRAM window random access memory 144WWW world wide web 145XML extensible markup language 146XSL extensible stylesheet language 147XT extended technology 148