acronyms.comp revision 1.37
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.37 2004/01/15 03:35:20 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) 31COFF common object file format 32CPU central processing unit 33CRLF carriage return line feed 34CRT cathode ray tube 35CSS cascading style sheets 36CVS concurrent versions system 37DAC digital [to] analog converter 38DDC display data channel 39DDR double data rate 40DDWG digital display working group 41DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 42DMA direct memory access 43DNS domain name system 44DRAM dynamic random access memory 45DSL digital subscriber line 46DTD document type definition 47DVD digital versatile disc 48DVI digital visual interface 49ECP enhanced capability port 50EDID extended display identification data 51EDO extended data out 52EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 53EGA enhanced graphics array 54EISA extended industry standard architecture 55ELF executable and linking format 56EPP enhanced parallel port 57EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 58ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 59FAT file allocation table 60FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 61FFS fast file system 62FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 63FPM fast page mode 64FQDN fully qualified domain name 65FTP file transfer protocol 66GIF graphics interchange format 67GNU gnu's not unix 68GPL gnu/general public license 69GPU graphics processing unit 70GUI graphics user interface 71HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 72HTML hyper-text markup language 73HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 74I2O intelligent input/output 75IANA internet assigned number authority 76IC integrated circuit 77ICB internet citizen's band 78ICMP internet control message protocol 79IDE integrated drive electronics 80IEC International Electrotechnical Commission 81IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 82IESG internet engineering steering group 83IETF internet engineering task force 84IKE internet key exchange 85IMAP internet mail access protocol 86INCITS InterNational Committee on Information Technology Standards 87IO input/output 88IOCTL input/output control 89IP internet protocol 90IPNG internet protocol, next generation 91IPSEC internet protocol security 92IRC internet relay chat 93IRQ interrupt request 94IRTF internet research task force 95ISA industry standard architecture 96ISDN integrated services digital network 97ISO International Standards Organization 98ISOC internet society 99ISP internet service provider 100JPEG joint photographic experts group 101KVA kernel virtual address 102LAN local area network 103LBA logical block addressing 104LCD liquid crystal display 105LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 106LED light emitting diode 107LIR local internet registry 108LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 109LUN logical unit number 110MAC media access control 111MBR master boot record 112MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 113MIDI musical instrument digital interface 114MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 115MIPS million instructions per second 116MMU memory management unit 117MPEG moving picture experts group 118MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 119MTA mail transfer agent 120MTU maximum transmission unit 121MUA mail user agent 122NAT network address translation 123NFS network file system 124NIC network interface card 125NIS network information service 126NUMA non uniform memory access 127OEM original equipment manufacturer 128OSF open software foundation 129OTP one time password 130PAM pluggable authentication modules 131PAX portable archive exchange 132PCI peripheral component interconnect 133PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association 134PDP page descriptor page 135PERL practical extraction [and] report language 136PGP pretty good privacy 137PIC programmable interrupt controller 138PID process id 139PIO programmed input/output 140PNG portable network graphics 141POP post office protocol 142POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 143POST power on self test 144PPP point-to-point protocol 145PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 146PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 147PROM programmable read only memory 148PTE page table entry 149PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 150PTP page table page 151RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 152RAM random access memory 153RCS revision control system 154RFC request for comments 155RGB red green blue 156RISC reduced instruction set computing 157ROM read only memory 158RPM revolutions per minute 159RTF rich text format 160S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 161SACD super audio compact disc 162SAM serial access memory 163SASI Shugart Associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 164SATA serial advanced technology attachment 165SCSI small computer system interface 166SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 167SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 168SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 169SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 170SMP symmetric multiprocessing 171SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 172SNMP simple network management protocol 173SPD serial presence detect 174SRAM static random access memory 175SSH secure shell 176SSL secure sockets layer 177SVGA super video graphics array 178TCL tool command language 179TCP transmission control protocol 180TFT thin film transistor 181TIFF tagged image file format 182TLA top level aggregator 183TLB transition lookaside buffer 184TLD top level domain 185TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 186TTY teletype 187TZ time zone 188UC uncacheable 189UDP user datagram protocol 190UPS uninterruptible power supply 191URI uniform resource identifier 192URL uniform resource locator 193USB universal serial bus 194USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 195UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 196VAX virtual address extension 197VCM virtual channel memory 198VESA video electronics standards association 199VGA video graphics array 200VM virtual memory 201VPN virtual private network 202VRAM video random access memory 203WAN wide area network 204WAP wireless application protocol 205WRAM window random access memory 206WWW world wide web 207XGA extended graphics array 208XML extensible markup language 209XSL extensible stylesheet language 210XT extended technology 211