acronyms.comp revision 1.20
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.20 2003/10/14 01:15:07 mycroft 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 17CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 18CD compact disc 19CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 20CGA color graphics array 21CHS cylinder/head/sector 22CIDR classless inter-domain routing 23CLI command line interface 24CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 25CPU central process unit 26CRLF carriage return line feed 27CRT cathode ray tube 28CSS cascading style sheets 29CVS concurrent versions system 30DAC digital to analog conversor 31DDC display data channel 32DDR double data rate 33DDWG digital display working group 34DMA direct memory access 35DNS domain name system 36DRAM dynamic random access memory 37DSL digital subscriber line 38DTD document type definition 39DVD digital versatile disc 40DVI digital visual interface 41ECP enhanced capability port 42EDID extended display identification data 43EDO extended data out 44EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 45EGA enhanced graphics array 46EISA extended industry standard architecture 47EPP enhanced parallel port 48EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 49ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 50FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 51FFS fast file system 52FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 53FPM fast page mode 54FQDN fully qualified domain name 55FTP file transfer protocol 56GIF graphics interchange format 57GNU gnu's not unix 58GPL gnu/general public license 59GUI graphics user interface 60HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 61HTML hyper-text markup language 62HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 63I2O intelligent input/output 64IANA internet assigned number authority 65ICB internet citizen's band 66ICMP internet control message protocol 67IDE integrated drive electronics 68IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 69IESG internet engineering steering group 70IETF internet engineering task force 71IKE internet key exchange 72IMAP internet mail access protocol 73IO input/output 74IOCTL input/output control 75IP internet protocol 76IPNG internet protocol, next generation 77IPSEC internet protocol security 78IRC internet relay chat 79IRQ interrupt request 80IRTF internet research task force 81ISA industry standard architecture 82ISDN integrated services digital network 83ISOC internet society 84ISP internet service provider 85JPEG joint photographic experts group 86KVA kernel virtual address 87LAN local area network 88LBA logical block addressing 89LCD liquid crystal display 90LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 91LUN logical unit number 92MBR master boot record 93MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 94MIPS million instructions per second 95MTA mail transfer agent 96MTU maximum transmission unit 97MUA mail user agent 98NAT network address translation 99NIC network interface card 100NIS network information service 101NUMA non uniform memory access 102PAX portable archive exchange 103PCI peripheral component interconnect 104PDP page descriptor page 105PERL practical extraction [and] report language 106PGP pretty good privacy 107PIC programmable interrupt controller 108PID process id 109PIO programmed input/output 110PNG portable network graphics 111POP post office protocol 112POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 113POST power on self test 114PPP point-to-point protocol 115PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 116PROM programmable read only memory 117PTE page table entry 118PTP page table page 119RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 120RAM random access memory 121RCS revision control system 122RFC request for comments 123RISC reduced instruction set computing 124ROM read only memory 125RPM revolutions per minute 126RTF rich text format 127S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 128SAM serial access memory 129SATA serial advanced technology attachment 130SCSI small computer standard interface 131SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 132SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 133SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 134SMART self-monitoring analysis ans reporting technology 135SMP symmetric multiprocessing 136SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 137SPD serial presence detect 138SRAM static random access memory 139SSH secure shell 140SSL secure sockets layer 141SVGA super video graphics array 142TCL tool command language 143TCP transmission control protocol 144TFT thin film transistor 145TLD top level domain 146TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 147TTY teletype 148TZ time zone 149UC uncacheable 150UDP user datagram protocol 151UPS uninterruptible power supply 152URI uniform resource identifier 153URL uniform resource locator 154USB universal serial bus 155USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 156UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 157VCM virtual channel memory 158VESA video electronics standards association 159VGA video graphics array 160VPN virtual private network 161VRAM video random access memory 162WRAM window random access memory 163WWW world wide web 164XGA extended graphics array 165XML extensible markup language 166XSL extensible stylesheet language 167XT extended technology 168