acronyms.comp revision 1.35
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.35 2004/01/15 03:31:04 grant 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 14ATM asynchronous transfer mode 15ATX advanced technology extended 16BEDO burst extended data output 17BGP border gateway protocol 18BIOS basic input/output system 19BLOB binary large object 20BSD berkeley software distribution 21CAD computer-aided design 22CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 23CD compact disc 24CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 25CGA color graphics array 26CGI common gateway interface 27CHS cylinder/head/sector 28CIDR classless inter-domain routing 29CLI command line interface 30CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 31CPU central processing unit 32CRLF carriage return line feed 33CRT cathode ray tube 34CSS cascading style sheets 35CVS concurrent versions system 36DAC digital [to] analog converter 37DDC display data channel 38DDR double data rate 39DDWG digital display working group 40DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 41DMA direct memory access 42DNS domain name system 43DRAM dynamic random access memory 44DSL digital subscriber line 45DTD document type definition 46DVD digital versatile disc 47DVI digital visual interface 48ECP enhanced capability port 49EDID extended display identification data 50EDO extended data out 51EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 52EGA enhanced graphics array 53EISA extended industry standard architecture 54EPP enhanced parallel port 55EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 56ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 57FAT file allocation table 58FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 59FFS fast file system 60FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 61FPM fast page mode 62FQDN fully qualified domain name 63FTP file transfer protocol 64GIF graphics interchange format 65GNU gnu's not unix 66GPL gnu/general public license 67GPU graphics processing unit 68GUI graphics user interface 69HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 70HTML hyper-text markup language 71HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 72I2O intelligent input/output 73IANA internet assigned number authority 74IC integrated circuit 75ICB internet citizen's band 76ICMP internet control message protocol 77IDE integrated drive electronics 78IEC International Electrotechnical Commission 79IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 80IESG internet engineering steering group 81IETF internet engineering task force 82IKE internet key exchange 83IMAP internet mail access protocol 84INCITS InterNational Committee on Information Technology Standards 85IO input/output 86IOCTL input/output control 87IP internet protocol 88IPNG internet protocol, next generation 89IPSEC internet protocol security 90IRC internet relay chat 91IRQ interrupt request 92IRTF internet research task force 93ISA industry standard architecture 94ISDN integrated services digital network 95ISO International Standards Organization 96ISOC internet society 97ISP internet service provider 98JPEG joint photographic experts group 99KVA kernel virtual address 100LAN local area network 101LBA logical block addressing 102LCD liquid crystal display 103LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 104LED light emitting diode 105LIR local internet registry 106LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 107LUN logical unit number 108MAC media access control 109MBR master boot record 110MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 111MIDI musical instrument digital interface 112MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 113MIPS million instructions per second 114MMU memory management unit 115MPEG moving picture experts group 116MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 117MTA mail transfer agent 118MTU maximum transmission unit 119MUA mail user agent 120NAT network address translation 121NFS networking file system 122NIC network interface card 123NIS network information service 124NUMA non uniform memory access 125OEM original equipment manufacturer 126OSF open software foundation 127OTP one time password 128PAM pluggable authentication modules 129PAX portable archive exchange 130PCI peripheral component interconnect 131PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association 132PDP page descriptor page 133PERL practical extraction [and] report language 134PGP pretty good privacy 135PIC programmable interrupt controller 136PID process id 137PIO programmed input/output 138PNG portable network graphics 139POP post office protocol 140POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 141POST power on self test 142PPP point-to-point protocol 143PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 144PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 145PROM programmable read only memory 146PTE page table entry 147PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 148PTP page table page 149RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 150RAM random access memory 151RCS revision control system 152RFC request for comments 153RGB red green blue 154RISC reduced instruction set computing 155ROM read only memory 156RPM revolutions per minute 157RTF rich text format 158S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 159SACD super audio compact disc 160SAM serial access memory 161SASI Shugart Associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 162SATA serial advanced technology attachment 163SCSI small computer system interface 164SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 165SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 166SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 167SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 168SMP symmetric multiprocessing 169SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 170SNMP simple network management protocol 171SPD serial presence detect 172SRAM static random access memory 173SSH secure shell 174SSL secure sockets layer 175SVGA super video graphics array 176TCL tool command language 177TCP transmission control protocol 178TFT thin film transistor 179TIFF tagged image file format 180TLA top level aggregator 181TLB transition lookaside buffer 182TLD top level domain 183TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 184TTY teletype 185TZ time zone 186UC uncacheable 187UDP user datagram protocol 188UPS uninterruptible power supply 189URI uniform resource identifier 190URL uniform resource locator 191USB universal serial bus 192USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 193UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 194VAX virtual address extension 195VCM virtual channel memory 196VESA video electronics standards association 197VGA video graphics array 198VM virtual memory 199VPN virtual private network 200VRAM video random access memory 201WAN wide area network 202WAP wireless application protocol 203WRAM window random access memory 204WWW world wide web 205XGA extended graphics array 206XML extensible markup language 207XSL extensible stylesheet language 208XT extended technology 209