acronyms.comp revision 1.24
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.24 2003/10/17 08:56:39 keihan 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 14BGP border gateway protocol 15BIOS basic input/output system 16BLOB binary large object 17BSD berkeley software distribution 18CAD computer-aided design 19CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 20CD compact disc 21CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 22CGA color graphics array 23CHS cylinder/head/sector 24CIDR classless inter-domain routing 25CLI command line interface 26CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 27CPU central processing unit 28CRLF carriage return line feed 29CRT cathode ray tube 30CSS cascading style sheets 31CVS concurrent versions system 32DAC digital to analog conversor 33DDC display data channel 34DDR double data rate 35DDWG digital display working group 36DMA direct memory access 37DNS domain name system 38DRAM dynamic random access memory 39DSL digital subscriber line 40DTD document type definition 41DVD digital versatile disc 42DVI digital visual interface 43ECP enhanced capability port 44EDID extended display identification data 45EDO extended data out 46EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 47EGA enhanced graphics array 48EISA extended industry standard architecture 49EPP enhanced parallel port 50EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 51ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 52FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 53FFS fast file system 54FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 55FPM fast page mode 56FQDN fully qualified domain name 57FTP file transfer protocol 58GIF graphics interchange format 59GNU gnu's not unix 60GPL gnu/general public license 61GPU graphics processing unit 62GUI graphics user interface 63HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 64HTML hyper-text markup language 65HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 66I2O intelligent input/output 67IANA internet assigned number authority 68IC integrated circuit 69ICB internet citizen's band 70ICMP internet control message protocol 71IDE integrated drive electronics 72IEC International Electrotechnical Commission 73IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 74IESG internet engineering steering group 75IETF internet engineering task force 76IKE internet key exchange 77IMAP internet mail access protocol 78INCITS InterNational Committee on Information Technology Standards 79IO input/output 80IOCTL input/output control 81IP internet protocol 82IPNG internet protocol, next generation 83IPSEC internet protocol security 84IRC internet relay chat 85IRQ interrupt request 86IRTF internet research task force 87ISA industry standard architecture 88ISDN integrated services digital network 89ISO International Standards Organization 90ISOC internet society 91ISP internet service provider 92JPEG joint photographic experts group 93KVA kernel virtual address 94LAN local area network 95LBA logical block addressing 96LCD liquid crystal display 97LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 98LUN logical unit number 99MAC media access control 100MBR master boot record 101MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 102MIPS million instructions per second 103MTA mail transfer agent 104MTU maximum transmission unit 105MUA mail user agent 106NAT network address translation 107NIC network interface card 108NIS network information service 109NUMA non uniform memory access 110PAX portable archive exchange 111PCI peripheral component interconnect 112PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association 113PDP page descriptor page 114PERL practical extraction [and] report language 115PGP pretty good privacy 116PIC programmable interrupt controller 117PID process id 118PIO programmed input/output 119PNG portable network graphics 120POP post office protocol 121POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 122POST power on self test 123PPP point-to-point protocol 124PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 125PROM programmable read only memory 126PTE page table entry 127PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 128PTP page table page 129RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 130RAM random access memory 131RCS revision control system 132RFC request for comments 133RGB red green blue 134RISC reduced instruction set computing 135ROM read only memory 136RPM revolutions per minute 137RTF rich text format 138S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 139SAM serial access memory 140SASI Shugart Associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 141SATA serial advanced technology attachment 142SCSI small computer system interface 143SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 144SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 145SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 146SMART self-monitoring analysis ans reporting technology 147SMP symmetric multiprocessing 148SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 149SPD serial presence detect 150SRAM static random access memory 151SSH secure shell 152SSL secure sockets layer 153SVGA super video graphics array 154TCL tool command language 155TCP transmission control protocol 156TFT thin film transistor 157TLA top level aggregator 158TLD top level domain 159TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 160TTY teletype 161TZ time zone 162UC uncacheable 163UDP user datagram protocol 164UPS uninterruptible power supply 165URI uniform resource identifier 166URL uniform resource locator 167USB universal serial bus 168USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 169UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 170VCM virtual channel memory 171VESA video electronics standards association 172VGA video graphics array 173VPN virtual private network 174VRAM video random access memory 175WRAM window random access memory 176WWW world wide web 177XGA extended graphics array 178XML extensible markup language 179XSL extensible stylesheet language 180XT extended technology 181