acronyms.comp revision 1.26
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.26 2003/10/29 13:52:25 wennmach Exp $ 2 3ABI application binary interface 4ACPI advanced configuration and power interface 5ADC analog [to] digital converter 6AGP accelerated graphics port 7ANSI American National Standards Institute 8API application programming interface 9APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 10AT advanced technology 11ATA advanced technology attachment 12ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 13ATX advanced technology extended 14BEDO burst extended data output 15BGP border gateway protocol 16BIOS basic input/output system 17BLOB binary large object 18BSD berkeley software distribution 19CAD computer-aided design 20CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 21CD compact disc 22CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 23CGA color graphics array 24CHS cylinder/head/sector 25CIDR classless inter-domain routing 26CLI command line interface 27CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 28CPU central processing unit 29CRLF carriage return line feed 30CRT cathode ray tube 31CSS cascading style sheets 32CVS concurrent versions system 33DAC digital [to] analog converter 34DDC display data channel 35DDR double data rate 36DDWG digital display working group 37DMA direct memory access 38DNS domain name system 39DRAM dynamic random access memory 40DSL digital subscriber line 41DTD document type definition 42DVD digital versatile disc 43DVI digital visual interface 44ECP enhanced capability port 45EDID extended display identification data 46EDO extended data out 47EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 48EGA enhanced graphics array 49EISA extended industry standard architecture 50EPP enhanced parallel port 51EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 52ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 53FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 54FFS fast file system 55FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 56FPM fast page mode 57FQDN fully qualified domain name 58FTP file transfer protocol 59GIF graphics interchange format 60GNU gnu's not unix 61GPL gnu/general public license 62GPU graphics processing unit 63GUI graphics user interface 64HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 65HTML hyper-text markup language 66HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 67I2O intelligent input/output 68IANA internet assigned number authority 69IC integrated circuit 70ICB internet citizen's band 71ICMP internet control message protocol 72IDE integrated drive electronics 73IEC International Electrotechnical Commission 74IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 75IESG internet engineering steering group 76IETF internet engineering task force 77IKE internet key exchange 78IMAP internet mail access protocol 79INCITS InterNational Committee on Information Technology Standards 80IO input/output 81IOCTL input/output control 82IP internet protocol 83IPNG internet protocol, next generation 84IPSEC internet protocol security 85IRC internet relay chat 86IRQ interrupt request 87IRTF internet research task force 88ISA industry standard architecture 89ISDN integrated services digital network 90ISO International Standards Organization 91ISOC internet society 92ISP internet service provider 93JPEG joint photographic experts group 94KVA kernel virtual address 95LAN local area network 96LBA logical block addressing 97LCD liquid crystal display 98LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 99LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 100LUN logical unit number 101MAC media access control 102MBR master boot record 103MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 104MIPS million instructions per second 105MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 106MTA mail transfer agent 107MTU maximum transmission unit 108MUA mail user agent 109NAT network address translation 110NIC network interface card 111NIS network information service 112NUMA non uniform memory access 113PAX portable archive exchange 114PCI peripheral component interconnect 115PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association 116PDP page descriptor page 117PERL practical extraction [and] report language 118PGP pretty good privacy 119PIC programmable interrupt controller 120PID process id 121PIO programmed input/output 122PNG portable network graphics 123POP post office protocol 124POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 125POST power on self test 126PPP point-to-point protocol 127PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 128PROM programmable read only memory 129PTE page table entry 130PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 131PTP page table page 132RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 133RAM random access memory 134RCS revision control system 135RFC request for comments 136RGB red green blue 137RISC reduced instruction set computing 138ROM read only memory 139RPM revolutions per minute 140RTF rich text format 141S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 142SAM serial access memory 143SASI Shugart Associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 144SATA serial advanced technology attachment 145SCSI small computer system interface 146SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 147SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 148SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 149SMART self-monitoring analysis ans reporting technology 150SMP symmetric multiprocessing 151SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 152SPD serial presence detect 153SRAM static random access memory 154SSH secure shell 155SSL secure sockets layer 156SVGA super video graphics array 157TCL tool command language 158TCP transmission control protocol 159TFT thin film transistor 160TLA top level aggregator 161TLD top level domain 162TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 163TTY teletype 164TZ time zone 165UC uncacheable 166UDP user datagram protocol 167UPS uninterruptible power supply 168URI uniform resource identifier 169URL uniform resource locator 170USB universal serial bus 171USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 172UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 173VCM virtual channel memory 174VESA video electronics standards association 175VGA video graphics array 176VPN virtual private network 177VRAM video random access memory 178WRAM window random access memory 179WWW world wide web 180XGA extended graphics array 181XML extensible markup language 182XSL extensible stylesheet language 183XT extended technology 184