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1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.216 2018/09/25 20:50:10 sevan Exp $ 23WHS three-way handshake 38VSB 8-state vestigial side band modulation 4AA anti-aliasing 5AAA authentication, authorization, [and] accounting 6AAT average access time 7ABI application binary interface 8ABR available bit rate 9ABRT automatic bug reporting tool 10AC alternating current 11ACI adjacent channel interferer 12ACID atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability 13ACK Amsterdam compiler kit 14ACK acknowledgement 15ACL access control list 16ACL active current loop 17ACP auxiliary control {process,program} 18ACPI advanced configuration and power interface 19ACS access control set 20ACU automatic calling unit 21ADB Apple desktop bus 22ADC analog [to] digital converter 23ADD acronym driven development 24ADO active data objects 25ADP automatic data processing 26ADPCM adaptive differential pulse code modulation 27ADS alternate data stream 28ADSL asymmetric digital subscriber line 29ADT abstract data type 30AER advanced error reporting 31AES Advanced Encryption Standard 32AFP Apple Filing Protocol 33AFS Andrew File System 34AGC automatic gain control 35AGP accelerated graphics port 36AI analog input 37AI artificial intelligence 38AL access list 39AL active link 40ALE address latch enable 41ALS ambient light sensor 42ALU arithmetic and logical unit 43ALUA asymmetric logical unit access 44AM access method 45AM alignment mask 46AM amplitude modulation 47AMD Advanced Micro Devices Inc 48AMDD Agile model-driven development 49AMI alternate mark inversion 50AMP asymmetric multiprocessing 51AMQP advanced message queuing protocol 52AMT active management technology 53AN Arabic number 54ANR application not responding 55ANSI American National Standards Institute 56AO analog output 57AOL Alert-on-LAN 58AOS add or subtract 59AP access point 60AP application processor 61API application programming interface 62APEI ACPI platform error interface 63APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 64APIPA automatic private IP addressing 65APM advanced power management 66APM application performance management 67APU accelerated processing unit 68APT advanced persistent threat 69AQM active queue management 70ARAT always running APIC timer 71ARC adaptive replacement cache 72ARC Advanced RISC Computing 73ARC automatic reference counting 74ARM Advanced RISC Machines 75ARP Address Resolution Protocol 76ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency 77ARQ automatic repeat request 78ARR address range register 79ARU audio response unit 80AS autonomous system 81ASA Adaptive Security Appliance 82ASAN Address Sanitizer 83ASC advanced smart cache 84ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange 85ASD agile software development 86ASE advanced software environment 87ASF alert standard format 88ASIC application-specific integrated circuit 89ASK amplitude shift keying 90ASLR address space layout randomization 91ASN autonomous system number 92ASPM active state power management 93ASQ automated software quality 94ASR address space register 95AST abstract syntax tree 96AST asynchronous system trap 97AT access time 98AT advanced technology 99ATA advanced technology attachment 100ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 101ATC address translation cache 102ATM asynchronous transfer mode 103ATX advanced technology extended 104AV anti virus 105AVL Adelson-Velsky-Landis 106AVX advanced vector extensions 107BA byte align 108BAL basic assembly language 109BAR base address register 110BBS bulletin board system 111BCC blind carbon copy 112BCD binary coded decimal 113BCR byte count register 114BCS base configuration space 115BD baud 116BDD binary decision diagram 117BDI bit deinterleave 118BDUF big design up front 119BEDO burst extended data output 120BER basic encoding rules 121BER bit error {rate,ratio} 122BERT boot error record table 123BFD binary {file,format} descriptor 124BFKL big fscking kernel lock 125BFS breadth-first search 126BFT binary file transfer 127BGA ball grid array 128BGP Border Gateway Protocol 129BGPSEC BGP Security 130BIND Berkeley Internet Name Daemon 131BIOS Basic Input/Output System 132BIOS built-in operating system 133BIST built-in self-test 134BIU bus interface unit 135BKDG BIOS and kernel developer's guide 136BLAS basic linear algebra subprograms 137BLC back light control 138BLOB binary large object 139BM bus master 140BMC baseboard management controller 141BMIC bus master interface controller 142BN boundary neutral 143BNF Backus-Naur form 144BO binary output 145BOF beginning of file 146BOM beginning of message 147BOM byte order mark 148BP base pointer 149BP boot processor 150BPB BIOS parameter block 151BPDU bridge protocol data unit 152BPF Berkeley Packet Filter 153BPI bits per inch 154BPM business process modelling 155BPS bits per second 156BPSK binary phase shift keying 157BQS Berkeley quality software 158BRE basic regular expression 159BS backspace 160BS binary sequence 161BSA basic service area 162BSD Berkeley Software Distribution 163BSDP Boot Service Discovery Protocol 164BSF bit scan forward 165BSOD blue screen of death 166BSP binary space partition 167BSP board support package 168BSP bootstrap processor 169BSR bit scan reverse 170BSS basic service set 171BSS block started by symbol 172BSSID basic service set identifier 173BT BitTorrent 174BT Bluetooth 175BT bit test 176BTC bit test [and] complement 177BTR bit test [and] reset 178BTS bit test [and] set 179BTS bug tracking system 180BW bandwidth 181BWM block-write mode 182CA certificate authority 183CAD computer-aided design 184CAM computer assisted manufacturing 185CAM conditional access module 186CAM content addressable memory 187CARP Common Address Redundancy Protocol 188CAS column address strobe 189CAS compare and swap 190CAS computer algebra system 191CASE computer aided software engineering 192CAU control access unit 193CAV constant angular velocity 194CBC cipher block chaining 195CBR constant bit rate 196CC carbon copy 197CCD charge coupled device 198CCI co-channel interferer 199CCNUMA cache-coherent non-uniform memory access 200CD cache disable 201CD compact disc 202CDDA compact disc digital audio 203CDMA code division multiple access 204CDP Cisco Discovery Protocol 205CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 206CER canonical encoding rules 207CF compact flash 208CFB cipher feedback 209CFG context-free grammar 210CFG control-flow graph 211CFI control-flow integrity sanitizer 212CG control gate 213CGA Color Graphics Adapter 214CGI common gateway interface 215CGN Carrier-Grade NAT 216CHAP Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol 217CHS cylinder/head/sector 218CI continuous integration 219CI {common,component} interface 220CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing 221CIFS Common Internet File System 222CIL common intermediate language 223CIR carrier-to-interference ratio 224CIS contact image sensor 225CISC complex instruction set {computer,computing} 226CJK Chinese, Japanese, [and] Korean 227CLF common log format 228CLI command line interface 229CLR common language runtime 230CLTT closed loop thermal throttling 231CLUT color look-up table 232CLV constant linear velocity 233CM configuration management 234CMA concert multithread architecture 235CMC chassis management controller 236CMC corrected machine check 237CMS {configuration,content,course} management system 238CMI control {management,method} interface 239CMOS complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor 240CMP chip multi-processing 241CMS content management system 242CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 243CN {common,canonical} name 244CNC computer numerical control 245CNR carrier-to-noise ratio 246COF current operating frequency 247COFDM coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 248COFF common object file format 249COM component object model 250COMA cache-only memory architecture 251CORBA common object request broker architecture 252COS class of service 253COW copy-on-write 254CP continuous pilot 255CPB core performance boost 256CPE common phase error 257CPE common platform enumeration 258CPER common platform error record 259CPG clock pulse generator 260CPL current privilege level 261CPLD complex programmable logic device 262CPP C preprocessor 263CPS characters per second 264CPT command pass through 265CPU central processing unit 266CR carriage return 267CRC cyclic redundancy check 268CRL carrier recovery loop 269CRLF carriage return line feed 270CRT cathode ray tube 271CRUD create, read, update, and delete 272CS cable select 273CS chip select 274CS code segment 275CS computer science 276CSDL {common,conceptual} schema definition language 277CSI channel state information 278CSI common system interface 279CSMA carrier sense multiple access 280CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 281CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 282CSR control [and] status registers 283CSRG Computer Systems Research Group 284CSS cascading style sheets 285CSV comma-separated values 286CTM close to metal 287CTR counter [mode] 288CTS clear to send 289CUA common user access 290CUT coordinated universal time 291CV control voltage 292CVE common vulnerabilities and exposures 293CVS Concurrent Versions System 294DA destination address 295DAA distributed application architecture 296DAB digital audio broadcasting 297DAC digital [to] analog converter 298DAC discretionary access control 299DAD duplicate address detection 300DANE DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities 301DAO disk at once 302DAP Directory Access Protocol 303DAT digital audio tape 304DAT dynamic acceleration technology 305DB database 306DBA database administrator 307DBA dynamic bandwidth allocation 308DBB data bus buffer 309DBC design by contract 310DBL dynamic buffer limiting 311DBMS database management system 312DBS database server 313DC direct current 314DCC Direct Client-to-Client 315DCC direct cable connect 316DCD data carrier detect 317DCE data control equipment 318DCE distributed computing environment 319DCL Digital Command Language 320DCOM distributed component object model 321DCOP Desktop COmmunication Protocol 322DCS data collection systems 323DCT discrete cosine transform 324DCU data cache unit 325DDC display data channel 326DDE dynamic data exchange 327DDK device driver kit 328DDL data description language 329DDR double data rate 330DDS direct digital sound 331DDWG Digital Display Working Group 332DE debugging extensions 333DE desktop environment 334DEA data encryption algorithm 335DEC Digital Equipment Corporation 336DEK data encryption key 337DEP data execution prevention 338DER distinguished encoding rules 339DES Data Encryption Standard 340DF don't fragment 341DFA deterministic finite automaton 342DFC data flow control 343DFS depth first search 344DFS distributed file system 345DFSAN Data Flow Sanitizer 346DFT diagnostic function test 347DFT discrete Fourier transform 348DGL data generation language 349DH Diffie-Hellman 350DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol 351DIFS distributed inter-frame space 352DIMM dual inline memory module 353DIRT design in real time 354DL diode logic 355DL discrete logarithm 356DL download 357DLE data link escape 358DLL dynamic link library 359DLP discrete logarithm problem 360DMA direct memory access 361DMI desktop management interface 362DMS document management system 363DMT discrete multitone modulation 364DNARD Digital network appliance reference design 365DND drag and drop 366DNS Domain Name System 367DNSSEC DNS Security Extensions 368DOE distributed object environment 369DOF data over fibre 370DOM document object model 371DOS denial of service 372DOS disk operating system 373DP DisplayPort 374DPC deferred procedure call 375DPCM differential pulse code modulation 376DPD dead peer detection 377DPI deep packet inspection 378DPI dots per inch 379DPL descriptor privilege level 380DPS Display PostScript 381DPST display power savings technology 382DRAAS disaster recovery as a service 383DRAM dynamic random access memory 384DRBG deterministic random bit generator 385DRI direct rendering infrastructure 386DRM digital rights management 387DRRS display refresh rate switching 388DS debug store 389DSA digital signature algorithm 390DSAP destination service access point 391DSB double-sideband modulation 392DSDT differentiated system descriptor table 393DSL digital subscriber line 394DSL domain specific language 395DSLAM digital subscriber line access multiplexer 396DSN delivery status notification 397DSO dynamic shared object 398DSP digital signal processor 399DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 400DTD document type definition 401DTE data terminal equipment 402DTE dumb terminal emulator 403DTL diode-transistor logic 404DTLS datagram transport layer security 405DTS digital thermal sensor 406DUT device under test 407DVB digital video broadcasting 408DVCS distributed version control system 409DVD digital versatile disc 410DVFS dynamic voltage and frequency scaling 411DVI device independent 412DVI Digital Visual Interface 413DVR digital video recorder 414E-XER extended XML encoding rules 415EABI embedded-application binary interface 416EAI Email Address Internationalization 417EAI Enterprise Application Integration 418EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol 419EAPOL EAP over Lan 420EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code 421EBDA Extended BIOS Data Area 422EBR extended boot record 423EC elliptic curve 424ECC elliptic curve cryptography 425ECC error correction code 426ECDH elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman 427ECDL elliptic curve discrete logarithm 428ECDLP elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem 429ECDSA elliptic curve digital signature algorithm 430ECL emitter-coupled logic 431ECN explicit congestion notification 432ECP enhanced capability port 433ECS enhanced chip set 434ECS extended configuration space 435EDAC error detection and correction 436EDAT enhanced dynamic acceleration technology 437EdDSA Edwards curve digital signature algorithm 438EDGE explicit data graph execution 439EDID extended display identification data 440EDO extended data out 441EDS electronical data sheet 442EEE energy efficient ethernet 443EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 444EFI extensible firmware interface 445EFL emitter follower logic 446EFM eight to fourteen modulation 447EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter 448EGP exterior gateway protocol 449EH extension header 450EIDE enhanced IDE 451EISA extended industry standard architecture 452EINJ error injection table 453ELF executable and linking format 454ELS entry level system 455EMI electro-magnetic interference 456EMP electro-magnetic pulse 457EMR electro-magnetic radiation 458EMACS Editor MACroS 459EOF end of file 460EOI end of interrupt 461EOL end of line 462EOT end of transmission 463EPIC explicitly parallel instruction computing 464EPP enhanced parallel port 465EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 466EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 467ERD emergency recovery disk 468ERD entity relationship diagram 469ERE extended regular expression 470ERST error record serialization table 471ESAN Efficiency Sanitizer 472ESB enterprise service bus 473ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 474ESS electronic switching system 475ESS extended service set 476ESSID extended service set identifier 477EST enhanced speedstep 478ETL extract, transform, load 479EU execution unit 480EULA end user license agreement 481FAT file allocation table 482FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 483FCL fiber channel loop 484FCS frame check sequence 485FDC floppy disk controller 486FDD floppy disk drive 487FDDI fiber distributed data interface 488FDE full disk encryption 489FDT flattened device tree 490FEA finite element analysis 491FEC forward error correction 492FET field-effect transistor 493FF finite field 494FF form feed 495FFDH finite-field Diffie-Hellman 496FFH functional fixed hardware 497FFI foreign function interface 498FFM focus follows mouse 499FFS Fast File System 500FFS find first set 501FFT fast Fourier transform 502FG floating gate 503FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 504FID frequency identifier 505FIFO first in, first out 506FILO first in, last out 507FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards 508FIR fast infrared 509FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 510FLOSS free/libre/open source software 511FM frequency modulation 512FMR false match rate 513FOSS free/open source software 514FPGA field programmable gate array 515FPM fast page mode 516FPR floating point register 517FPU floating point unit 518FQDN fully qualified domain name 519FRR false rejection rate 520FRU field replaceable unit 521FS file system 522FSB front side bus 523FSCK file system check 524FSF Free Software Foundation 525FSK frequency shift keying 526FSM finite-state machine 527FTA fault tree analysis 528FTL flash translation layer 529FTP File Transfer Protocol 530FTPS File Transfer Protocol Secure 531FUS fast user switching 532FWH firmware hub 533FWS folding white space 534GAL generic array logic 535GAS generic address structure 536GC garbage collector 537GCM Galois counter mode 538GCR group-coded recording 539GDI Graphics Device Interface 540GDT global descriptor table 541GEM graphics environment manager 542GEM graphics execution manager 543GENA general event notification architecture 544GHC Glasgow Haskell compiler 545GHES generic hardware error source 546GIC generic interrupt controller 547GID group identifier 548GIF graphics interchange format 549GMCH graphics and memory controller hub 550GNU GNU's Not Unix 551GOP graphics output protocol 552GOT global offset table 553GPE general purpose event 554GPF general protection fault 555GPG GNU Privacy Guard 556GPL [GNU] General Public License 557GPR general purpose register 558GPS generalized processor sharing 559GPT GUID partition table 560GPU graphics processing unit 561GR golden ratio 562GRE generic routing encapsulation 563GSI global system interrupt 564GUI graphical user interface 565GUID globally unique identifier 566GVFS git virtual file system 567HA high availability 568HAL hardware abstraction layer 569HAT hashed array tree 570HATEOAS hypermedia as the engine of application state 571HBA host bus adapter 572HCF halt and catch fire 573HCI host controller interface 574HCI human-computer interaction 575HCL hardware compatibility list 576HDCP High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection 577HDD hard disk drive 578HDL hardware description language 579HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface 580HDTV high-definition television 581HECI host embedded controller interface 582HEST hardware error source table 583HF high frequency 584HFM highest frequency mode 585HID human interface device 586HKP HTTP Keyserver Protocol 587HLL high-level language 588HMA high memory area 589HMI human-machine interface 590HOOD hierarchical object oriented design 591HP Hewlett-Packard 592HPC high performance computing 593HPET high precision event timer 594HSM hardware security module 595HSM hierarchical storage management 596HT hyper-threading 597HTC hardware thermal control 598HTCC high temperature co-fired ceramic 599HTML HyperText Markup Language 600HTT hyper-threading technology 601HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol 602HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure 603HVM hardware virtual machine 604HVDS High-Voltage Differential Signaling 605HWASAN Hardware-assisted Address Sanitizer 606HZ Hertz 607I2O intelligent input/output 608IA information assurance 609IAAS infrastructure as a service 610IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority 611IBC iterated block cipher 612IBM International Business Machines 613IBS instruction based sampling 614IBSS independent basic service set 615IC integrated circuit 616ICA independent computer architecture 617ICB Internet Citizen's Band 618ICE in-circuit emulator 619ICE internal compiler error 620ICH I/O controller hub 621ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol 622ICT information and communications technology 623ICW initialization command word 624IDA Intel dynamic acceleration 625IDCMP Intuition direct communication message port 626IDE integrated development environment 627IDE integrated drive electronics 628IDPS intrusion detection [and] prevention system 629IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 630IDS intrusion detection system 631IDT interrupt descriptor table 632IE Internet Explorer 633IEC International Electrotechnical Commission 634IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 635IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group 636IETF Internet Engineering Task Force 637IF intermediate frequency 638IFCM isochronous flow control mode 639IFF Interchange File Format 640IFS internal field separator 641IGD Internet gateway device 642IGMP Internet Group Management Protocol 643IGP interior gateway protocol 644IHV independent hardware vendor 645IKE Internet key exchange 646ILM internal loopback mode 647ILOM integrated lights-out management 648ILP instruction level parallelism 649IM instant messaging 650IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol 651IMC integrated memory controller 652IMCR interrupt mode configuration register 653IMR interrupt mask register 654IMS information management system 655INCITS InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards 656IO input/output 657IOCTL input/output control 658IOMMU input/output memory management unit 659IOT Internet of Things 660IP Internet Protocol 661IP intellectual property 662IPC interprocess communication 663IPE integrated programming environment 664IPI interprocessor interrupt 665IPL Initial Program Load 666IPL Interrupt Priority Level 667IPMB Intelligent Platform Management Bus 668IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface 669IPNG Internet Protocol, Next Generation 670IPS in-plane switching 671IPS intrusion prevention system 672IPSEC Internet Protocol Security 673IRC Internet Relay Chat 674IRDA infrared data association 675IRQ interrupt request 676IRQL interrupt request level 677IRR interrupt request register 678IRTF Internet Research Task Force 679IS information system 680ISA industry standard architecture 681ISA instruction set architecture 682ISDN integrated services digital network 683ISI inter-symbol interference 684ISM industrial, scientific, [and] medical 685ISN initial serial number 686ISO International Standards Organization 687ISOC Internet Society 688ISP Internet service provider 689ISR in-service register 690ISR interrupt service routine 691IST interrupt stack table 692ISV independent software vendor 693IT information technology 694ITB Intel Turbo Boost 695ITIL information technology infrastructure library 696ITP in-target probe 697ITSM IT service management 698IV initialization vector 699IVT interrupt vector table 700JBOD just a bunch of disks 701JFET junction [gate] field-effect transistor 702JIT just in time 703JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group 704JRE Java Runtime Environment 705JSON JavaScript Object Notation 706JTAG joint test action group 707KASLR kernel address space layout randomization 708KB keyboard 709KB kilobyte 710KBD keyboard 711KBD kilobaud 712KCS keyboard controller style 713KLOC thousand lines of code 714KMS kernel-mode setting 715KPI kernel programming interface 716KVA kernel virtual address 717KVM kernel virtual machine 718KVM kernel virtual memory 719KVM keyboard, video, [and] mouse 720LAMP Linux Apache MySQL {Perl,PHP,Python} 721LAN local area network 722LAPIC local advanced programmable interrupt controller 723LAR load access rights 724LBA logical block addressing 725LBS location-based service 726LCD liquid crystal display 727LCP link control protocol 728LDA local delivery agent 729LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol 730LDR light-dependent resistor 731LDT local descriptor table 732LE logical extent 733LED light emitting diode 734LER label edge router 735LF line feed 736LF low frequency 737LFM lowest frequency mode 738LFN long file names 739LFO low-frequency oscillation 740LFS log-structured file system 741LFU least frequently used 742LHP loop heat pipe 743LIFO last in, first out 744LILO LInux LOader 745LILO last in, last out 746LINT local interrupt 747LIR local Internet registry 748LISP LISt Processor 749LISP Locator/ID Separation Protocol 750LKM {Linux,loadable} kernel module 751LKML Linux kernel mailing list 752LL load linked 753LL/SC load linked/store conditional 754LLC logical link control 755LLDP link layer discovery protocol 756LLF low level format 757LLMNR link-local multicast name resolution 758LLVM Low Level Virtual Machine 759LM long mode 760LMM link management mode 761LNO loop nest optimization 762LOC lines of code 763LOM lights-out management 764LPC low pin count 765LPS local positioning system 766LRC longitudinal redundancy check 767LRM left-to-right mark 768LRO left-to-right override 769LRU least recently used 770LSAN Leak Sanitizer 771LSB Linux standards base 772LSB least significant {bit,byte} 773LSI large scale integration 774LSL load segment limit 775LSM log structured merge 776LSN Large Scale NAT 777LSN log sequence number 778LSR label switch router 779LTCC low temperature co-fired ceramic 780LTO linear tape-open 781LTO link time optimization 782LTR left to right 783LTR load task register 784LTR letter(-sized paper) 785LTS long term support 786LUA Lua Uppercase Accident 787LUN logical unit number 788LV logical volume 789LVM logical volume management 790LVT local vector table 791LVDS Low-Voltage Differential Signaling 792LWP light-weight process 793LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 794MAC mandatory access control 795MAC {media,medium} access control 796MAC message authentication {check,code} 797MADT multiple APIC descriptor table 798MB megabyte 799MBA multi-boot agent 800MBR master boot record 801MBS megabits per second 802MC memory controller 803MCA machine check architecture 804MCA MicroChannel architecture 805MCC multiversion concurrency control 806MCE machine check exception 807MCGA Multi-Color Graphics Array 808MCH memory controller hub 809MCM multi-chip module 810MCQ memory controlled queue 811MD machine-dependent 812MD-SAL model-driven service abstraction layer 813MDA mail delivery agent 814MDA Monochrome Display Adapter 815MDC Management Data Clock 816MDI Medium Dependent Interface 817MDI-X Medium Dependent Interface Crossover 818MDIO Management Data Input/Output 819MDMX MIPS Digital Media eXtension 820MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 821MESI modified, exclusive, shared, invalid 822MFC merge from current 823MFC Microsoft Foundation Classes 824MFM modified frequency modulation 825MI machine-independent 826MIB management information base 827MIC message integrity {check,code} 828MID mobile Internet device 829MIDI musical instrument digital interface 830MIF management information format 831MII media independent interface 832MIM man in the middle 833MIMD multiple instruction, multiple data 834MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions 835MIMO multiple input multiple output 836MIPS million instructions per second 837MIPS Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages 838MISD multiple instruction, single data 839MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 840MITM man in the middle 841ML machine language 842ML machine learning 843ML mailing list 844ML markup language 845ML maximum likelihood 846MLC multi-level cell 847MLD multicast listener discovery 848MLHP micro loop heat pipe 849MMF multi-mode fiber 850MMIC monolithic microwave integrated circuit 851MMIO memory mapped input/output 852MMORPG massive multiplayer online role playing game 853MMU memory management unit 854MMX matrix math extension 855MMX multimedia extension 856MMX multiple math extension 857MO magneto-optical 858MOESI modified, owned, exclusive, shared, invalid 859MOF maximum operating frequency 860MOSFET metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor 861MOSI modified, owned, shared, invalid 862MP multi-platform 863MP multiplayer 864MP {multiprocessing,multiprocessor} 865MPEG moving picture experts group 866MPI message passing interface 867MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching 868MPP massively parallel processor 869MPS memory pool system 870MPS multiprocessor specification 871MQTT Message Queuing Telemetry Transport 872MR modem ready 873MRU most recently used 874MS Microsoft 875MSAN Memory Sanitizer 876MSB most significant {bit,byte} 877MSC message sequence chart 878MSE mean square error 879MSF minutes seconds frames 880MSI message signaled interrupt 881MSI modified, shared, invalid 882MSR {machine state,model-specific} register 883MSS maximum segment size 884MSTP Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol 885MT machine translation 886MTA mail transfer agent 887MTBF mean time between failures 888MTP media transfer protocol 889MTRR memory type range register 890MTTF mean time to failure 891MTU maximum transmission unit 892MUA mail user agent 893MUD multi-user domain 894MVCC multiversion concurrency control 895MWE module width encoding 896MX mail exchange 897NACK negative acknowledgement 898NAN not a number 899NAPT Network Address Port Translation 900NAS network attached storage 901NAT network address translation 902NAV network allocation vector 903NC numerical control 904NCO numerically-controlled oscillator 905NCP Network Control Protocol 906NCQ native command queuing 907ND neighbor discovery 908NDFA nondeterministic finite automaton 909NE numeric error 910NEWS Network extensible Window System 911NFA nondeterministic finite automaton 912NFC near-field communication 913NFCI no functional change intended 914NFS network file system 915NFV network function virtualization 916NIA next instruction address 917NIC network information center 918NIC network interface card 919NIDS network intrusion detection system 920NIP network interface protocol 921NIPS network intrusion prevention system 922NIS network information service 923NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology 924NLS native language support 925NMI non-maskable interrupt 926NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol 927NOC network operations center 928NOP no operation 929NOS network operating system 930NP nondeterministic polynomial time 931NRZ non-return to zero 932NSA nation-state adversary 933NSA no such agency 934NSA National Security Agency 935NTM non-deterministic Turing machine 936NTP Network Time Protocol 937NUMA non-uniform memory access 938NVRAM non-volatile random access memory 939NW not write-through 940NX no execute 941OAEP optimal asymmetric encryption padding 942OAM operations, administration, and {management,maintenance} 943OBO off by one 944OBOE off by one error 945OCL object constraint language 946OCR optical character recognition 947ODCM on-demand clock modulation 948ODT on-die termination 949OEM original equipment manufacturer 950OFB output feedback 951OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 952OFET organic field-effect transistor 953OLAP online analytical processing 954OLE object linking and embedding 955OLTP online transaction processing 956ONFI open nand flash interface 957OO OpenOffice 958OO object oriented 959OOB out of band 960OOE out of order execution 961OOM out of memory 962OOO OpenOffice.org 963OOP object oriented programming 964OOPS object oriented programming systems 965OOSE object oriented software engineering 966OPM operations per minute 967OPS operations per second 968OQL Object Query Language 969ORB object request broker 970ORM object-relational mapping 971OS operating system 972OSD open source definition 973OSF open software foundation 974OSI Open Source Initiative 975OSI open systems interconnection 976OSPF open shortest path first 977OSPM OS power management 978OSS open sound system 979OSS open source software 980OSVW operating system visible workarounds 981OTP one time password 982OTP open telecom platform 983OU organizational unit 984OUI organizationally unique identifier 985OWL Web Ontology Language 986P2P PCI to PCI 987P2P peer to peer 988PA phase accumulator 989PA physical address 990PAAS platform as a service 991PAC phase-amplitude converter 992PAE physical address extension 993PAL phase alternating line 994PAL programmable array logic 995PAM pluggable authentication modules 996PAM pulse amplitude modulation 997PAP password authentication protocol 998PAT page attribute table 999PAT port address translation 1000PATA parallel ATA 1001PAX portable archive exchange 1002PBE pending break encoding 1003PBE programming by example 1004PC personal computer 1005PC program counter 1006PCB printed circuit board 1007PCB process control block 1008PCB Protocol Control Block 1009PCC Portable C Compiler 1010PCD page-level cache disable 1011PCE path computation element 1012PCE performance-monitor counter enable 1013PCEP Path Computation Element Protocol 1014PCH platform controller hub 1015PCI peripheral component interconnect 1016PCM phase change memory 1017PCM pulse code modulation 1018PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association 1019PCP Port Control Protocol 1020PD public domain 1021PDA personal digital assistant 1022PDA pushdown automaton 1023PDAG propositional directed acyclic graph 1024PDB power distribution board 1025PDF portable document format 1026PDM pulse-duration modulation 1027PDN pull-down network 1028PDP page {descriptor,directory} page 1029PDS product data sheet 1030PDU protocol data unit 1031PE protection enable 1032PEAP Protected EAP 1033PECI platform environment control interface 1034PEP protocol extension protocol 1035PER packed encoding rules 1036PFS perfect forward secrecy 1037PGAS partitioned global address space 1038PGE page global enable 1039PGP Pretty Good Privacy 1040PHB PCI host bridge 1041PHP PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor 1042PIC position independent code 1043PIC programmable interrupt controller 1044PICNIC problem in chair, not in computer 1045PID process id 1046PIE position independent executable 1047PIL Priority Interrupt Level 1048PIM personal information manager 1049PIM platform-independent model 1050PIO programmed input/output 1051PIPT physically indexed, physically tagged 1052PIQ prefetch input queue 1053PIT programmable interrupt timer 1054PIV personal identity verification 1055PIX Private Internet eXchange 1056PKCS public-key cryptography standards 1057PKI public key infrastructure 1058PLC programmable logic controller 1059PLD programmable logic device 1060PLL phase locked loop 1061PLRU pseudo LRU 1062PLTM package level thermal management 1063PM power management 1064PM {phase,pulse} modulation 1065PME power management event 1066PMI platform management interrupt 1067PMIO port-mapped input/output 1068PMT photo-multiplier tube 1069PMU power management unit 1070PNG portable network graphics 1071PNP plug and play 1072POE power over ethernet 1073POF probability of failure 1074POP Post Office Protocol 1075POP power on password 1076POSIX Portable Operating System Interface [for Unix] 1077POST power on self test 1078POTS plain old telephone system 1079POWER Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC 1080POWERPC Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC - Performance Computing 1081PP pair programming 1082PPB PCI [to] PCI bridge 1083PPC PowerPC 1084PPC Power Performance Computing 1085PPI pixels per inch 1086PPM pages per minute 1087PPP Point-to-Point Protocol 1088PPPOA Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM 1089PPPOE Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet 1090PPU physics processing unit 1091PRAM Parameter RAM 1092PRBS pseudorandom bit sequence 1093PRG pseudorandom generator 1094PRF pseudorandom function [family] 1095PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 1096PRN pseudorandom {noise,number} 1097PRNG pseudorandom number generator 1098PROM programmable read only memory 1099PRP pseudorandom permutation 1100PRU Programmable Realtime Unit 1101PS PostScript 1102PSD power spectral density 1103PSE page size extensions 1104PSK phase shift keying 1105PSK pre-shared key 1106PSTN public switched telephone network 1107PSW program status word 1108PTE page table entry 1109PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 1110PTP page table page 1111PTV perceived target value 1112PU processing unit 1113PUN physical unit number 1114PV physical volume 1115PVG physical volume group 1116PVI protected-mode virtual interrupt 1117PVST Per-VLAN Spanning Tree 1118PWM pulse width modulation 1119PXE preboot execution environment 1120QA quality assurance 1121QAM quadrature amplitude modulation 1122QAM quality assurance management 1123QBE query by example 1124QC quality control 1125QDI quasi delay insensitive 1126QOS quality of service 1127QVL qualified vendor list 1128R/O read only 1129R/W read/write 1130RA receiver address 1131RA remote assistance 1132RA resource affinity 1133RA router advertisement 1134RAD rapid application development 1135RAID redundant array of {independent,inexpensive} disks 1136RAM random access memory 1137RAS reliability, availability and serviceability 1138RAS remote access service 1139RAS restartable atomic sequence 1140RAS row address strobe 1141RBF radial basis function 1142RBT red-black tree 1143RC release candidate 1144RC remote control 1145RC run commands 1146RCS Revision Control System 1147RCS revision control system 1148RCU read, copy, update 1149RDB Rigid Disk Block 1150RDBMS relational database management system 1151RDF Resource Description Framework 1152RDM relational data model 1153RDMA remote direct memory access 1154RDRAM Rambus DRAM 1155RE regular expression 1156REST representational state transfer 1157RF radio frequency 1158RFI radio frequency interference 1159RFO request for ownership 1160RGB red green blue 1161RGBA red green blue alpha 1162RGMII reduced gigabit media independent interface 1163RH read hit 1164RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux 1165RHL Red Hat Linux 1166RIB routing information base 1167RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 1168RIP Raster Image Processor 1169RIP Routing Information Protocol 1170RIR regional Internet registry 1171RISC reduced instruction set {computer,computing} 1172RKM ROM Kernel Manual 1173RLE run length encoding 1174RLL run length limited 1175RLO right-to-left override 1176RM read miss 1177RMCP Remote Management Control Protocol 1178RMI remote method invocation 1179RMO Relaxed Memory Ordering 1180RMPM rapid memory power management 1181RMS root mean square 1182RMW read, modify, write 1183RNG random number generator 1184ROM read only memory 1185RPC remote procedure call 1186RPKI resource PKI 1187RPL requested privilege level 1188RPM revolutions per minute 1189RPN reverse Polish notation 1190RPVST Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree 1191RR random replacement 1192RR round robin 1193RS relay station 1194RSA Rivest, Shamir, [and] Adleman 1195RSIP Realm Specific IP 1196RSN Robust Secure Network 1197RSS really simple syndication 1198RSS residual sum of squares 1199RSTP Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol 1200RT real time 1201RTC real time clock 1202RTC real time computing 1203RTF rich text format 1204RTL register transfer language 1205RTL resistor-transistor logic 1206RTL right to left 1207RTOS real time operating system 1208RTS request to send 1209RTT round trip time 1210RUP rational unified process 1211RW Rabin-Williams 1212RWM read-write memory 1213RX {receive,receiver} 1214S/PDIF Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format 1215SA security advisory 1216SA security association 1217SA source address 1218SA structured analysis 1219SAAS software as a service 1220SACD super audio compact disc 1221SAD security association database 1222SAL {service,system} abstraction layer 1223SAM serial access memory 1224SAM sum addressed memory 1225SAML security assertion markup language 1226SAN storage area network 1227SAP service access point 1228SAPIC streamlined advanced programmable interrupt controller 1229SASD structured analysis, structured design 1230SASI Shugart Associates System Interface 1231SASL simple authentication [and] security layer 1232SATA serial advanced technology attachment 1233SAX simple API for XML 1234SB sound blaster 1235SBU standard build unit 1236SC store conditional 1237SCA source code analyzer 1238SCADA supervisory control and data acquisition 1239SCC single chip cloud 1240SCC source code control 1241SCCS Source Code Control System 1242SCI scalable coherent interface 1243SCI system control interrupt 1244SCM software configuration management 1245SCM source code management 1246SCM storage-class memory 1247SCP secure copy 1248SCSI Small Computer System Interface 1249SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol 1250SDEI software delegated exception interface 1251SDI symbol deinterleave 1252SDK software development kit 1253SDL Simple Declarative Language 1254SDL Simple Direct-media Layer 1255SDLC {software,system,systems} development life cycle 1256SDN software defined networking 1257SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 1258SDS software defined storage 1259SDT syntax-directed translation 1260SEA synchronous external abort 1261SEGV segmentation violation 1262SEO search engine optimization 1263SFC sequential function chart 1264SFI simple firmware interface 1265SFI software fault isolation 1266SFTP SSH File Transfer Protocol 1267SFTP Serial File Transfer Protocol 1268SFTP Simple File Transfer Protocol 1269SGMII serial gigabit media independent interface 1270SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 1271SHA secure hash algorithm 1272SIDH supersingular isogeny Diffie-Hellman 1273SIEM security information and event management 1274SIFS short inter-frame space 1275SIMD single instruction, multiple data 1276SIMM single inline memory module 1277SIP Session Initiation Protocol 1278SIR signal-to-interference ratio 1279SIR slow infrared 1280SISD single instruction, single data 1281SLAAC stateless address auto-configuration 1282SLC single-level cell 1283SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 1284SLED single large expensive disk 1285SLI scalable link interface 1286SLI scan-line interleave 1287SLOC source lines of code 1288SLRU segmented LRU 1289SMA smart memory access 1290SMAF system management action field 1291SMAP Simple Mail Access Protocol 1292SMAP supervisor mode access prevention 1293SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 1294SMB Server Message Block 1295SMB system management bus 1296SMBIOS System Management BIOS 1297SMC system management controller 1298SMEP supervisor mode execution protection 1299SMF single mode fiber 1300SMI structure of management information 1301SMI system management interrupt 1302SMM system management mode 1303SMP symmetric multiprocessing 1304SMT simultaneous multithreading 1305SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 1306SMU system management unit 1307SNAP Sub-Network Access Protocol 1308SNIA Storage Networking Industry Association 1309SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol 1310SNR signal-to-noise ratio 1311SOA service oriented architecture 1312SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol 1313SOC system on chip 1314SOF start of frame 1315SOH start of header 1316SOHO small office/home office 1317SOL serial over LAN 1318SP service pack 1319SP stack pointer 1320SPARC scalable processor architecture 1321SPARQL SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language 1322SPD security policy database 1323SPD serial presence detect 1324SPDIF Sony/Philips digital interface format 1325SPI serial peripheral interface 1326SPI stateful packet inspection 1327SPL system interrupt priority level 1328SPL spinlock 1329SPMD single process, multiple data 1330SPR special purpose register 1331SPT sectors per track 1332SQA software quality assurance 1333SQL Structured Query Language 1334SRAM static random access memory 1335SRC sample rate conversion 1336SS self-snoop 1337SS stack segment 1338SSA static single assignment 1339SSAP source service access point 1340SSB single-sideband modulation 1341SSD solid state drive 1342SSE streaming SIMD extensions 1343SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 1344SSH secure shell 1345SSI server side includes 1346SSID service set identifier 1347SSL secure sockets layer 1348SSP stack smashing protection 1349STC software thermal control 1350STD state transition diagram 1351STOMP Streaming Text Oriented Messaging Protocol 1352STP Spanning Tree Protocol 1353STP shielded twisted pair 1354SUS Single Unix Specification 1355SUT system under test 1356SVG scalable vector graphics 1357SVGA Super Video Graphics Array 1358SVI {switch,switched} virtual interface 1359SVM secure virtual machine 1360SVM support vector machine 1361SVR System V Release 1362SVS Separate Virtual Space 1363SWF Shockwave Flash 1364SWIG simplified wrapper [and] interface generator 1365SYR symbol timing recovery 1366TA test assertion 1367TA transmitter address 1368TAI international atomic time 1369TAO track at once 1370TAOCP The Art of Computer Programming 1371TAP Test Anything Protocol 1372TAS test and set 1373TB terabyte 1374TCB trace capture buffer 1375TCB trusted computing base 1376TCC thermal control circuit 1377TCL tool command language 1378TCP Transmission Control Protocol 1379TCQ tagged command queueing 1380TDC time [to] digital converter 1381TDD test-driven development 1382TDD time division duplex 1383TDM time division multiplexing 1384TDMA time division multiple access 1385TDOA time difference of arrival 1386TDP thermal design {point,power} 1387TECO Text Editor and Corrector 1388TFT thin film transistor 1389TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol 1390TIAS try it and see 1391TIFF tagged image file format 1392TITS try it to see 1393TK temporal key 1394TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol 1395TLA top level aggregator 1396TLB translation lookaside buffer 1397TLD top level domain 1398TLS thread local storage 1399TLS transport layer security 1400TM Turing machine 1401TM thermal monitor 1402TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 1403TMO timeout 1404TOD time of day 1405TOS terms of service 1406TOS trusted operating system 1407TOS type of service 1408TP transaction processing 1409TPI tracks per inch 1410TPM transactions per minute 1411TPM trusted platform module 1412TPR task priority register 1413TPS transactions per second 1414TPS transmission parameters signaling 1415TR task register 1416TR token ring 1417TRL timing recovery loop 1418TRNG true random number generator 1419TS terminal services 1420TS time series 1421TS time stamp 1422TS transport stream 1423TSAN Thread Sanitizer 1424TSC time stamp counter 1425TSD time stamp disable 1426TSDB time series database 1427TSL test, set, lock 1428TSO time sharing option 1429TSO Total Store Ordering 1430TSP Time-Stamp Protocol 1431TSP Tunnel Setup Protocol 1432TSP time synchronization protocol 1433TSP traveling salesman problem 1434TSS task state segment 1435TTL time to live 1436TTL transistor-transistor logic 1437TTM translation table maps 1438TTY teletype 1439TUI {terminal,text-based,textual} user interface 1440TX {transmit out,transmitter} 1441TZ time zone 1442UAC user {access,account} control 1443UAF use-after-free 1444UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 1445UAT user acceptance testing 1446UB undefined behavior 1447UBSAN Undefined Behavior Sanitizer 1448UC uncacheable 1449UCS uniform-cost search 1450UDMA ultra DMA 1451UDO ultra density optical 1452UDP User Datagram Protocol 1453UEFI unified extensible firmware interface 1454UFS Unix File System 1455UGA universal graphics adapter 1456UI unit interval 1457UI user interface 1458UID unique identifier 1459UID user identifier 1460UL upload 1461UMA uniform memory access 1462UMA upper memory area 1463UMB upper memory block 1464UML unified modeling language 1465UMPC ultra-mobile PC 1466UPNP universal plug and play 1467UPS uninterruptible power supply 1468URI uniform resource identifier 1469URL uniform resource locator 1470URN uniform resource name 1471USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 1472USB universal serial bus 1473USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 1474UT unit test 1475UTC coordinated universal time 1476UTP unshielded twisted pair 1477UUCP Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol 1478UUID universally unique identifier 1479UUOC useless use of cat 1480UUT unit under test 1481UX user experience 1482VA vertical alignment 1483VA virtual address 1484VA volt-ampere 1485VAX virtual address extension 1486VB Visual Basic 1487VCA variable-gain amplifier 1488VCC common collector voltage 1489VCF voltage-controlled filter 1490VCM virtual channel memory 1491VCO voltage-controlled oscillator 1492VCS version control system 1493VESA Video Electronics Standards Association 1494VFO variable-frequency oscillator 1495VG volume group 1496VGA Video Graphics Array 1497VHDCI very high density cable interconnect 1498VID {VLAN,voltage level} identifier 1499VIM Vi IMproved 1500VIPT virtually indexed, physically tagged 1501VIVT virtually indexed, virtually tagged 1502VLAN virtual local area network 1503VLIW very long instruction word 1504VLSI very large scale integration 1505VLSM variable length subnet mask 1506VM virtual {machine,memory} 1507VME virtual mode extension 1508VMX vector multimedia extensions 1509VMX virtual machine extensions 1510VOD video on demand 1511VPN virtual private network 1512VR virtual reality 1513VRAM video random access memory 1514VRF virtual routing and forwarding 1515VRM voltage regulator module 1516VRRP Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol 1517VSTP VLAN Spanning Tree Protocol 1518VTP VLAN Trunking Protocol 1519W watt 1520W3C World Wide Web Consortium 1521WAMP Web Application Messaging Protocol 1522WAN wide area network 1523WAP Wireless Application Protocol 1524WAP wireless access point 1525WDM Windows Driver Model 1526WDDM Windows Display Driver Model 1527WDT watchdog timer 1528WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy 1529WFI wait for interrupt 1530WFQ weighted fair queuing 1531WH write hit 1532WIFI wireless fidelity 1533WLAN wireless local area network 1534WM write miss 1535WMI Windows Management Instrumentation 1536WOL Wake-on-LAN 1537WOM Wake-on-Modem 1538WOR Wake-on-Ring 1539WORM write once read many 1540WP WordPerfect 1541WP word processor 1542WP write protect 1543WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access 1544WPA2 Wi-Fi Protected Access II 1545WPS Wi-Fi Protected Setup 1546WRAM window random access memory 1547WS web services 1548WTC write through caching 1549WWAN wireless wide area network 1550WWW world wide web 1551WYSIWYG what you see is what you get 1552XBAR crossbar 1553XDMCP X Display Manager control protocol 1554XER XML encoding rules 1555XGA Extended Graphics Array 1556XHR XMLHttpRequest 1557XIP execute in place 1558XML Extensible Markup Language 1559XOR exclusive or 1560XP extreme programming 1561XSI X/Open System Interface 1562XSL extensible stylesheet language 1563XSS cross site scripting 1564XT extended technology 1565XUL XML user interface language 1566YACC yet another compiler compiler 1567YAML YAML ain't markup language 1568YANG yet another next generation 1569YAWPFAPR you are welcome; please file a problem report 1570YP Yellow Pages 1571YTD year to date 1572ZBR zone bit recording 1573ZFOD zero-filled on demand 1574ZFS zettabyte file system 1575ZIF zero insertion force 1576ZIFS zero insertion force socket 1577ZMA zone multicast address 1578