acronyms.comp revision 1.34
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.34 2004/01/14 13:46:26 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 104LIR local internet registry 105LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 106LUN logical unit number 107MAC media access control 108MBR master boot record 109MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 110MIDI musical instrument digital interface 111MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 112MIPS million instructions per second 113MMU memory management unit 114MPEG moving picture experts group 115MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 116MTA mail transfer agent 117MTU maximum transmission unit 118MUA mail user agent 119NAT network address translation 120NFS networking file system 121NIC network interface card 122NIS network information service 123NUMA non uniform memory access 124OEM original equipment manufacturer 125OTP one time password 126PAM pluggable authentication modules 127PAX portable archive exchange 128PCI peripheral component interconnect 129PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association 130PDP page descriptor page 131PERL practical extraction [and] report language 132PGP pretty good privacy 133PIC programmable interrupt controller 134PID process id 135PIO programmed input/output 136PNG portable network graphics 137POP post office protocol 138POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 139POST power on self test 140PPP point-to-point protocol 141PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 142PROM programmable read only memory 143PTE page table entry 144PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 145PTP page table page 146RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 147RAM random access memory 148RCS revision control system 149RFC request for comments 150RGB red green blue 151RISC reduced instruction set computing 152ROM read only memory 153RPM revolutions per minute 154RTF rich text format 155S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 156SACD super audio compact disc 157SAM serial access memory 158SASI Shugart Associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 159SATA serial advanced technology attachment 160SCSI small computer system interface 161SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 162SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 163SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 164SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 165SMP symmetric multiprocessing 166SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 167SNMP simple network management protocol 168SPD serial presence detect 169SRAM static random access memory 170SSH secure shell 171SSL secure sockets layer 172SVGA super video graphics array 173TCL tool command language 174TCP transmission control protocol 175TFT thin film transistor 176TIFF tagged image file format 177TLA top level aggregator 178TLB transition lookaside buffer 179TLD top level domain 180TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 181TTY teletype 182TZ time zone 183UC uncacheable 184UDP user datagram protocol 185UPS uninterruptible power supply 186URI uniform resource identifier 187URL uniform resource locator 188USB universal serial bus 189USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 190UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 191VAX virtual address extension 192VCM virtual channel memory 193VESA video electronics standards association 194VGA video graphics array 195VM virtual memory 196VPN virtual private network 197VRAM video random access memory 198WAN wide area network 199WAP wireless application protocol 200WRAM window random access memory 201WWW world wide web 202XGA extended graphics array 203XML extensible markup language 204XSL extensible stylesheet language 205XT extended technology 206