acronyms.comp revision 1.25
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.25 2003/10/29 13:47:39 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 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 98LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 99LUN logical unit number 100MAC media access control 101MBR master boot record 102MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 103MIPS million instructions per second 104MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 105MTA mail transfer agent 106MTU maximum transmission unit 107MUA mail user agent 108NAT network address translation 109NIC network interface card 110NIS network information service 111NUMA non uniform memory access 112PAX portable archive exchange 113PCI peripheral component interconnect 114PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association 115PDP page descriptor page 116PERL practical extraction [and] report language 117PGP pretty good privacy 118PIC programmable interrupt controller 119PID process id 120PIO programmed input/output 121PNG portable network graphics 122POP post office protocol 123POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 124POST power on self test 125PPP point-to-point protocol 126PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 127PROM programmable read only memory 128PTE page table entry 129PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 130PTP page table page 131RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 132RAM random access memory 133RCS revision control system 134RFC request for comments 135RGB red green blue 136RISC reduced instruction set computing 137ROM read only memory 138RPM revolutions per minute 139RTF rich text format 140S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 141SAM serial access memory 142SASI Shugart Associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 143SATA serial advanced technology attachment 144SCSI small computer system interface 145SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 146SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 147SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 148SMART self-monitoring analysis ans reporting technology 149SMP symmetric multiprocessing 150SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 151SPD serial presence detect 152SRAM static random access memory 153SSH secure shell 154SSL secure sockets layer 155SVGA super video graphics array 156TCL tool command language 157TCP transmission control protocol 158TFT thin film transistor 159TLA top level aggregator 160TLD top level domain 161TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 162TTY teletype 163TZ time zone 164UC uncacheable 165UDP user datagram protocol 166UPS uninterruptible power supply 167URI uniform resource identifier 168URL uniform resource locator 169USB universal serial bus 170USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 171UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 172VCM virtual channel memory 173VESA video electronics standards association 174VGA video graphics array 175VPN virtual private network 176VRAM video random access memory 177WRAM window random access memory 178WWW world wide web 179XGA extended graphics array 180XML extensible markup language 181XSL extensible stylesheet language 182XT extended technology 183