acronyms.comp revision 1.29
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.29 2004/01/03 12:05:59 jmmv 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 104MIDI musical instrument digital interface 105MIPS million instructions per second 106MMU memory management unit 107MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 108MTA mail transfer agent 109MTU maximum transmission unit 110MUA mail user agent 111NAT network address translation 112NIC network interface card 113NIS network information service 114NUMA non uniform memory access 115OTP one time password 116PAX portable archive exchange 117PCI peripheral component interconnect 118PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association 119PDP page descriptor page 120PERL practical extraction [and] report language 121PGP pretty good privacy 122PIC programmable interrupt controller 123PID process id 124PIO programmed input/output 125PNG portable network graphics 126POP post office protocol 127POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 128POST power on self test 129PPP point-to-point protocol 130PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 131PROM programmable read only memory 132PTE page table entry 133PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 134PTP page table page 135RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 136RAM random access memory 137RCS revision control system 138RFC request for comments 139RGB red green blue 140RISC reduced instruction set computing 141ROM read only memory 142RPM revolutions per minute 143RTF rich text format 144S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 145SAM serial access memory 146SASI Shugart Associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 147SATA serial advanced technology attachment 148SCSI small computer system interface 149SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 150SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 151SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 152SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 153SMP symmetric multiprocessing 154SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 155SPD serial presence detect 156SRAM static random access memory 157SSH secure shell 158SSL secure sockets layer 159SVGA super video graphics array 160TCL tool command language 161TCP transmission control protocol 162TFT thin film transistor 163TLA top level aggregator 164TLD top level domain 165TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 166TTY teletype 167TZ time zone 168UC uncacheable 169UDP user datagram protocol 170UPS uninterruptible power supply 171URI uniform resource identifier 172URL uniform resource locator 173USB universal serial bus 174USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 175UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 176VCM virtual channel memory 177VESA video electronics standards association 178VGA video graphics array 179VPN virtual private network 180VRAM video random access memory 181WRAM window random access memory 182WWW world wide web 183XGA extended graphics array 184XML extensible markup language 185XSL extensible stylesheet language 186XT extended technology 187