acronyms.comp revision 1.22
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.22 2003/10/14 01:20:53 mycroft Exp $ 2 3ABI application binary interface 4ACPI advanced configuration and power interface 5AGP accelerated graphics port 6ANSI American National Standards Institute 7API application programming interface 8APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 9AT advanced technology 10ATA advanced technology attachment 11ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 12ATX advanced technology extended 13BEDO burst extended data output 14BIOS basic input/output system 15BLOB binary large object 16BSD berkeley software distribution 17CAD computer-aided design 18CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 19CD compact disc 20CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 21CGA color graphics array 22CHS cylinder/head/sector 23CIDR classless inter-domain routing 24CLI command line interface 25CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 26CPU central process unit 27CRLF carriage return line feed 28CRT cathode ray tube 29CSS cascading style sheets 30CVS concurrent versions system 31DAC digital to analog conversor 32DDC display data channel 33DDR double data rate 34DDWG digital display working group 35DMA direct memory access 36DNS domain name system 37DRAM dynamic random access memory 38DSL digital subscriber line 39DTD document type definition 40DVD digital versatile disc 41DVI digital visual interface 42ECP enhanced capability port 43EDID extended display identification data 44EDO extended data out 45EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 46EGA enhanced graphics array 47EISA extended industry standard architecture 48EPP enhanced parallel port 49EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 50ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 51FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 52FFS fast file system 53FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 54FPM fast page mode 55FQDN fully qualified domain name 56FTP file transfer protocol 57GIF graphics interchange format 58GNU gnu's not unix 59GPL gnu/general public license 60GUI graphics user interface 61HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 62HTML hyper-text markup language 63HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 64I2O intelligent input/output 65IANA internet assigned number authority 66ICB internet citizen's band 67ICMP internet control message protocol 68IDE integrated drive electronics 69IEC International Electrotechnical Commission 70IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 71IESG internet engineering steering group 72IETF internet engineering task force 73IKE internet key exchange 74IMAP internet mail access protocol 75INCITS InterNational Committee on Information Technology Standards 76IO input/output 77IOCTL input/output control 78IP internet protocol 79IPNG internet protocol, next generation 80IPSEC internet protocol security 81IRC internet relay chat 82IRQ interrupt request 83IRTF internet research task force 84ISA industry standard architecture 85ISDN integrated services digital network 86ISO International Standards Organization 87ISOC internet society 88ISP internet service provider 89JPEG joint photographic experts group 90KVA kernel virtual address 91LAN local area network 92LBA logical block addressing 93LCD liquid crystal display 94LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 95LUN logical unit number 96MBR master boot record 97MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 98MIPS million instructions per second 99MTA mail transfer agent 100MTU maximum transmission unit 101MUA mail user agent 102NAT network address translation 103NIC network interface card 104NIS network information service 105NUMA non uniform memory access 106PAX portable archive exchange 107PCI peripheral component interconnect 108PDP page descriptor page 109PERL practical extraction [and] report language 110PGP pretty good privacy 111PIC programmable interrupt controller 112PID process id 113PIO programmed input/output 114PNG portable network graphics 115POP post office protocol 116POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 117POST power on self test 118PPP point-to-point protocol 119PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 120PROM programmable read only memory 121PTE page table entry 122PTP page table page 123RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 124RAM random access memory 125RCS revision control system 126RFC request for comments 127RISC reduced instruction set computing 128ROM read only memory 129RPM revolutions per minute 130RTF rich text format 131S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 132SAM serial access memory 133SASI Shugart Associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 134SATA serial advanced technology attachment 135SCSI small computer system interface 136SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 137SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 138SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 139SMART self-monitoring analysis ans reporting technology 140SMP symmetric multiprocessing 141SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 142SPD serial presence detect 143SRAM static random access memory 144SSH secure shell 145SSL secure sockets layer 146SVGA super video graphics array 147TCL tool command language 148TCP transmission control protocol 149TFT thin film transistor 150TLD top level domain 151TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 152TTY teletype 153TZ time zone 154UC uncacheable 155UDP user datagram protocol 156UPS uninterruptible power supply 157URI uniform resource identifier 158URL uniform resource locator 159USB universal serial bus 160USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 161UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 162VCM virtual channel memory 163VESA video electronics standards association 164VGA video graphics array 165VPN virtual private network 166VRAM video random access memory 167WRAM window random access memory 168WWW world wide web 169XGA extended graphics array 170XML extensible markup language 171XSL extensible stylesheet language 172XT extended technology 173