acronyms.comp revision 1.19
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.19 2003/10/07 15:05:14 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 16CAD computer-aided design 17CD compact disc 18CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 19CGA color graphics array 20CHS cylinder/head/sector 21CIDR classless inter-domain routing 22CLI command line interface 23CPU central process unit 24CRLF carriage return line feed 25CRT cathode ray tube 26CSS cascading style sheets 27CVS concurrent versions system 28DAC digital to analog conversor 29DDC display data channel 30DDR double data rate 31DDWG digital display working group 32DMA direct memory access 33DNS domain name system 34DRAM dynamic random access memory 35DSL digital subscriber line 36DTD document type definition 37DVD digital versatile disc 38DVI digital visual interface 39ECP enhanced capability port 40EDID extended display identification data 41EDO extended data out 42EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 43EGA enhanced graphics array 44EISA extended industry standard architecture 45EPP enhanced parallel port 46EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 47ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 48FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 49FFS fast file system 50FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 51FPM fast page mode 52FQDN fully qualified domain name 53FTP file transfer protocol 54GIF graphics interchange format 55GNU gnu's not unix 56GPL gnu/general public license 57GUI graphics user interface 58HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 59HTML hyper-text markup language 60HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 61I2O intelligent input/output 62IANA internet assigned number authority 63ICB internet citizen's band 64ICMP internet control message protocol 65IDE integrated drive electronics 66IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 67IESG internet engineering steering group 68IETF internet engineering task force 69IKE internet key exchange 70IMAP internet mail access protocol 71IO input/output 72IOCTL input/output control 73IP internet protocol 74IPNG internet protocol, next generation 75IPSEC internet protocol security 76IRC internet relay chat 77IRQ interrupt request 78IRTF internet research task force 79ISA industry standard architecture 80ISDN integrated services digital network 81ISOC internet society 82ISP internet service provider 83JPEG joint photographic experts group 84KVA kernel virtual address 85LAN local area network 86LBA logical block addressing 87LCD liquid crystal display 88LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 89LUN logical unit number 90MBR master boot record 91MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 92MIPS million instructions per second 93MTA mail transfer agent 94MTU maximum transmission unit 95MUA mail user agent 96NAT network address translation 97NIC network interface card 98NIS network information service 99NUMA non uniform memory access 100PAX portable archive exchange 101PCI peripheral component interconnect 102PDP page descriptor page 103PERL practical extraction [and] report language 104PGP pretty good privacy 105PIC programmable interrupt controller 106PID process id 107PIO programmed input/output 108PNG portable network graphics 109POP post office protocol 110POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 111POST power on self test 112PPP point-to-point protocol 113PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 114PROM programmable read only memory 115PTE page table entry 116PTP page table page 117RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 118RAM random access memory 119RCS revision control system 120RFC request for comments 121RISC reduced instruction set computing 122ROM read only memory 123RPM revolutions per minute 124RTF rich text format 125S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 126SAM serial access memory 127SATA serial advanced technology attachment 128SCSI small computer standard interface 129SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 130SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 131SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 132SMART self-monitoring analysis ans reporting technology 133SMP symmetric multiprocessing 134SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 135SPD serial presence detect 136SRAM static random access memory 137SSH secure shell 138SSL secure sockets layer 139SVGA super video graphics array 140TCL tool command language 141TCP transmission control protocol 142TFT thin film transistor 143TLD top level domain 144TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 145TTY teletype 146TZ time zone 147UC uncacheable 148UDP user datagram protocol 149UPS uninterruptible power supply 150URI uniform resource identifier 151URL uniform resource locator 152USB universal serial bus 153USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 154UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 155VCM virtual channel memory 156VESA video electronics standards association 157VGA video graphics array 158VPN virtual private network 159VRAM video random access memory 160WRAM window random access memory 161WWW world wide web 162XGA extended graphics array 163XML extensible markup language 164XSL extensible stylesheet language 165XT extended technology 166