acronyms.comp revision 1.23
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.23 2003/10/15 08:52:51 wennmach 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 108PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association 109PDP page descriptor page 110PERL practical extraction [and] report language 111PGP pretty good privacy 112PIC programmable interrupt controller 113PID process id 114PIO programmed input/output 115PNG portable network graphics 116POP post office protocol 117POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 118POST power on self test 119PPP point-to-point protocol 120PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 121PROM programmable read only memory 122PTE page table entry 123PTP page table page 124RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 125RAM random access memory 126RCS revision control system 127RFC request for comments 128RISC reduced instruction set computing 129ROM read only memory 130RPM revolutions per minute 131RTF rich text format 132S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 133SAM serial access memory 134SASI Shugart Associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 135SATA serial advanced technology attachment 136SCSI small computer system interface 137SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 138SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 139SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 140SMART self-monitoring analysis ans reporting technology 141SMP symmetric multiprocessing 142SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 143SPD serial presence detect 144SRAM static random access memory 145SSH secure shell 146SSL secure sockets layer 147SVGA super video graphics array 148TCL tool command language 149TCP transmission control protocol 150TFT thin film transistor 151TLD top level domain 152TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 153TTY teletype 154TZ time zone 155UC uncacheable 156UDP user datagram protocol 157UPS uninterruptible power supply 158URI uniform resource identifier 159URL uniform resource locator 160USB universal serial bus 161USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 162UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 163VCM virtual channel memory 164VESA video electronics standards association 165VGA video graphics array 166VPN virtual private network 167VRAM video random access memory 168WRAM window random access memory 169WWW world wide web 170XGA extended graphics array 171XML extensible markup language 172XSL extensible stylesheet language 173XT extended technology 174