acronyms.comp revision 1.28
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.28 2003/12/02 18:14:17 sketch 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 105MMU memory management unit 106MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 107MTA mail transfer agent 108MTU maximum transmission unit 109MUA mail user agent 110NAT network address translation 111NIC network interface card 112NIS network information service 113NUMA non uniform memory access 114OTP one time password 115PAX portable archive exchange 116PCI peripheral component interconnect 117PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association 118PDP page descriptor page 119PERL practical extraction [and] report language 120PGP pretty good privacy 121PIC programmable interrupt controller 122PID process id 123PIO programmed input/output 124PNG portable network graphics 125POP post office protocol 126POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 127POST power on self test 128PPP point-to-point protocol 129PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 130PROM programmable read only memory 131PTE page table entry 132PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 133PTP page table page 134RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 135RAM random access memory 136RCS revision control system 137RFC request for comments 138RGB red green blue 139RISC reduced instruction set computing 140ROM read only memory 141RPM revolutions per minute 142RTF rich text format 143S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 144SAM serial access memory 145SASI Shugart Associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 146SATA serial advanced technology attachment 147SCSI small computer system interface 148SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 149SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 150SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 151SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 152SMP symmetric multiprocessing 153SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 154SPD serial presence detect 155SRAM static random access memory 156SSH secure shell 157SSL secure sockets layer 158SVGA super video graphics array 159TCL tool command language 160TCP transmission control protocol 161TFT thin film transistor 162TLA top level aggregator 163TLD top level domain 164TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 165TTY teletype 166TZ time zone 167UC uncacheable 168UDP user datagram protocol 169UPS uninterruptible power supply 170URI uniform resource identifier 171URL uniform resource locator 172USB universal serial bus 173USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 174UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 175VCM virtual channel memory 176VESA video electronics standards association 177VGA video graphics array 178VPN virtual private network 179VRAM video random access memory 180WRAM window random access memory 181WWW world wide web 182XGA extended graphics array 183XML extensible markup language 184XSL extensible stylesheet language 185XT extended technology 186