acronyms.comp revision 1.31
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.31 2004/01/13 23:00:32 keihan 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 9ARP address resolution protocol 10APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 11AT advanced technology 12ATA advanced technology attachment 13ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 14ATX advanced technology extended 15BEDO burst extended data output 16BGP border gateway protocol 17BIOS basic input/output system 18BLOB binary large object 19BSD berkeley software distribution 20CAD computer-aided design 21CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 22CD compact disc 23CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 24CGA color graphics array 25CGI common gateway interface 26CHS cylinder/head/sector 27CIDR classless inter-domain routing 28CLI command line interface 29CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 30CPU central processing unit 31CRLF carriage return line feed 32CRT cathode ray tube 33CSS cascading style sheets 34CVS concurrent versions system 35DAC digital [to] analog converter 36DDC display data channel 37DDR double data rate 38DDWG digital display working group 39DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 40DMA direct memory access 41DNS domain name system 42DRAM dynamic random access memory 43DSL digital subscriber line 44DTD document type definition 45DVD digital versatile disc 46DVI digital visual interface 47ECP enhanced capability port 48EDID extended display identification data 49EDO extended data out 50EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 51EGA enhanced graphics array 52EISA extended industry standard architecture 53EPP enhanced parallel port 54EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 55ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 56FAT file allocation table 57FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 58FFS fast file system 59FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 60FPM fast page mode 61FQDN fully qualified domain name 62FTP file transfer protocol 63GIF graphics interchange format 64GNU gnu's not unix 65GPL gnu/general public license 66GPU graphics processing unit 67GUI graphics user interface 68HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 69HTML hyper-text markup language 70HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 71I2O intelligent input/output 72IANA internet assigned number authority 73IC integrated circuit 74ICB internet citizen's band 75ICMP internet control message protocol 76IDE integrated drive electronics 77IEC International Electrotechnical Commission 78IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 79IESG internet engineering steering group 80IETF internet engineering task force 81IKE internet key exchange 82IMAP internet mail access protocol 83INCITS InterNational Committee on Information Technology Standards 84IO input/output 85IOCTL input/output control 86IP internet protocol 87IPNG internet protocol, next generation 88IPSEC internet protocol security 89IRC internet relay chat 90IRQ interrupt request 91IRTF internet research task force 92ISA industry standard architecture 93ISDN integrated services digital network 94ISO International Standards Organization 95ISOC internet society 96ISP internet service provider 97JPEG joint photographic experts group 98KVA kernel virtual address 99LAN local area network 100LBA logical block addressing 101LCD liquid crystal display 102LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 103LED light emitting diode 104LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 105LUN logical unit number 106MAC media access control 107MBR master boot record 108MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 109MIDI musical instrument digital interface 110MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 111MIPS million instructions per second 112MMU memory management unit 113MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 114MTA mail transfer agent 115MTU maximum transmission unit 116MUA mail user agent 117NAT network address translation 118NFS networking file system 119NIC network interface card 120NIS network information service 121NUMA non uniform memory access 122OEM original equipment manufacturer 123OTP one time password 124PAX portable archive exchange 125PCI peripheral component interconnect 126PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association 127PDP page descriptor page 128PERL practical extraction [and] report language 129PGP pretty good privacy 130PIC programmable interrupt controller 131PID process id 132PIO programmed input/output 133PNG portable network graphics 134POP post office protocol 135POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 136POST power on self test 137PPP point-to-point protocol 138PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 139PROM programmable read only memory 140PTE page table entry 141PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 142PTP page table page 143RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 144RAM random access memory 145RCS revision control system 146RFC request for comments 147RGB red green blue 148RISC reduced instruction set computing 149ROM read only memory 150RPM revolutions per minute 151RTF rich text format 152S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 153SAM serial access memory 154SASI Shugart Associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 155SATA serial advanced technology attachment 156SCSI small computer system interface 157SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 158SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 159SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 160SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 161SMP symmetric multiprocessing 162SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 163SNMP simple network management protocol 164SPD serial presence detect 165SRAM static random access memory 166SSH secure shell 167SSL secure sockets layer 168SVGA super video graphics array 169TCL tool command language 170TCP transmission control protocol 171TFT thin film transistor 172TLA top level aggregator 173TLB transition lookaside buffer 174TLD top level domain 175TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 176TTY teletype 177TZ time zone 178UC uncacheable 179UDP user datagram protocol 180UPS uninterruptible power supply 181URI uniform resource identifier 182URL uniform resource locator 183USB universal serial bus 184USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 185UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 186VAX virtual address extension 187VCM virtual channel memory 188VESA video electronics standards association 189VGA video graphics array 190VM virtual memory 191VPN virtual private network 192VRAM video random access memory 193WAN wide area network 194WAP wireless application protocol 195WRAM window random access memory 196WWW world wide web 197XGA extended graphics array 198XML extensible markup language 199XSL extensible stylesheet language 200XT extended technology 201