acronyms.comp revision 1.406
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.406 2025/04/11 20:31:24 jschauma Exp $
23WHS	three-way handshake
38VSB	8-state vestigial side band modulation
4AA	anti-aliasing
5AAA	authentication, authorization, [and] accounting
6AAT	average access time
7ABE	attribute-based encryption
8ABI	application binary interface
9ABNF	augmented backus-naur form
10ABR	available bit rate
11ABRT	automatic bug reporting tool
12AC	alternating current
13ACI	adjacent channel interferer
14ACID	atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability
15ACK	Amsterdam compiler kit
16ACK	acknowledgement
17ACL	access control list
18ACL	active current loop
19ACL	asynchronous connection less
20ACP	auxiliary control {process,program}
21ACPI	advanced configuration and power interface
22ACS	access control set
23ACU	automatic calling unit
24ADB	Apple desktop bus
25ADC	analog [to] digital converter
26ADD	acronym driven development
27ADDDC	adaptive double DRAM device correction
28ADO	active data objects
29ADP	automatic data processing
30ADPCM	adaptive differential pulse code modulation
31ADS	alternate data stream
32ADSL	asymmetric digital subscriber line
33ADT	abstract data type
34AEAD	authenticated encryption with associated data
35AEDC	advanced error detection and correction
36AER	advanced error reporting
37AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
38AFP	Apple Filing Protocol
39AFS	Andrew File System
40AGC	automatic gain control
41AGP	accelerated graphics port
42AI	analog input
43AI	artificial intelligence
44AL	access list
45AL	active link
46ALE	address latch enable
47ALPN	application-layer protocol negotiation
48ALS	ambient light sensor
49ALSA	advanced Linux sound architecture
50ALU	arithmetic and logical unit
51ALUA	asymmetric logical unit access
52AM	access method
53AM	alignment mask
54AM	amplitude modulation
55AMD	Advanced Micro Devices Inc
56AMDD	Agile model-driven development
57AMI	alternate mark inversion
58AMP	asymmetric multiprocessing
59AMQP	advanced message queuing protocol
60AMT	active management technology
61AN	Arabic number
62ANR	application not responding
63ANSI	American National Standards Institute
64AO	analog output
65AOC	add-on card
66AOL	Alert-on-LAN
67AOS	add or subtract
68AOT	ahead of time
69AP	access point
70AP	application processor
71APEI	ACPI platform error interface
72APFS	Apple file system
73API	application programming interface
74APIC	advanced programmable interrupt controller
75APIPA	automatic private IP addressing
76APM	advanced power management
77APM	application performance management
78APT	advanced persistent threat
79APU	accelerated processing unit
80AQM	active queue management
81ARAT	always running APIC timer
82ARC	Advanced RISC Computing
83ARC	adaptive replacement cache
84ARC	automatic reference counting
85ARM	Advanced RISC Machines
86ARP	Address Resolution Protocol
87ARPA	Advanced Research Projects Agency
88ARQ	automatic repeat request
89ARR	address range register
90ARU	audio response unit
91AS	autonomous system
92ASA	Adaptive Security Appliance
93ASAN	Address Sanitizer
94ASC	advanced smart cache
95ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
96ASD	agile software development
97ASE	advanced software environment
98ASF	alert standard format
99ASIC	application-specific integrated circuit
100ASK	amplitude shift keying
101ASLR	address space layout randomization
102ASN	autonomous system number
103ASP	active server pages
104ASP	auxiliary storage pool
105ASPM	active state power management
106ASQ	automated software quality
107ASR	Apple software restore
108ASR	address space register
109AST	abstract syntax tree
110AST	asynchronous system trap
111AT	access time
112AT	advanced technology
113ATA	advanced technology attachment
114ATAPI	advanced technology attachment packet interface
115ATC	address translation cache
116ATF	ARM trusted firmware
117ATF	automated testing framework
118ATM	asynchronous transfer mode
119ATX	advanced technology extended
120AV	anti virus
121AVB	audio video bridging
122AVL	Adelson-Velsky-Landis
123AVX	advanced vector extensions
124AWDL	Apple wireless direct link
125BA	byte align
126BAL	basic assembly language
127BAR	base address register
128BBS	bulletin board system
129BCC	blind carbon copy
130BCD	binary coded decimal
131BCH	boot console handler
132BCR	byte count register
133BCS	base configuration space
134BD	baud
135BDD	binary decision diagram
136BDI	bit deinterleave
137BDUF	big design up front
138BEDO	burst extended data output
139BER	basic encoding rules
140BER	bit error {rate,ratio}
141BERT	boot error record table
142BFD	bidirectional forwarding detection
143BFD	binary {file,format} descriptor
144BFKL	big fscking kernel lock
145BFS	breadth-first search
146BFT	binary file transfer
147BGA	ball grid array
148BGP	Border Gateway Protocol
149BGPSEC	BGP Security
150BIND	Berkeley Internet Name Daemon
151BIOS	Basic Input/Output System
152BIOS	built-in operating system
153BIST	built-in self-test
154BIU	bus interface unit
155BKDG	BIOS and kernel developer's guide
156BLAS	basic linear algebra subprograms
157BLC	back light control
158BLE	Bluetooth low energy
159BLOB	binary large object
160BM	bus master
161BMC	baseboard management controller
162BMIC	bus master interface controller
163BMP	basic multilingual plane
164BMP	bitmap image file
165BN	boundary neutral
166BNF	Backus-Naur form
167BO	binary output
168BOF	beginning of file
169BOM	beginning of message
170BOM	byte order mark
171BP	base pointer
172BP	boot processor
173BPB	BIOS parameter block
174BPDU	bridge protocol data unit
175BPF	Berkeley Packet Filter
176BPI	bits per inch
177BPM	business process modelling
178BPS	bits per second
179BPSK	binary phase shift keying
180BQP	bounded-error quantum polynomial time
181BQS	Berkeley quality software
182BRE	basic regular expression
183BS	backspace
184BS	binary sequence
185BSA	basic service area
186BSD	Berkeley Software Distribution
187BSDP	Boot Service Discovery Protocol
188BSF	bit scan forward
189BSOD	blue screen of death
190BSP	binary space partition
191BSP	board support package
192BSP	bootstrap processor
193BSR	bit scan reverse
194BSS	basic service set
195BSS	block started by symbol
196BSSID	basic service set identifier
197BT	BitTorrent
198BT	Bluetooth
199BT	bit test
200BTB	branch target buffer
201BTB	board-to-board
202BTC	bit test [and] complement
203BTM	bus transport mechanism
204BTR	bit test [and] reset
205BTS	bit test [and] set
206BTS	bug tracking system
207BUAG	big ugly ASCII graphic
208BW	bandwidth
209BWM	block-write mode
210CA	certificate authority
211CAC	cryptographic access control
212CACLS	change access control lists
213CAD	computer-aided design
214CAM	computer assisted manufacturing
215CAM	conditional access module
216CAM	content addressable memory
217CAN	controller area network
218CARP	Common Address Redundancy Protocol
219CAS	column address strobe
220CAS	compare and swap
221CAS	computer algebra system
222CASE	computer aided software engineering
223CAU	control access unit
224CAV	constant angular velocity
225CBC	cipher block chaining
226CBR	constant bit rate
227CC	carbon copy
228CCC	Chaos Computer Club
229CCD	charge coupled device
230CCI	co-channel interferer
231CCNUMA	cache-coherent non-uniform memory access
232CCTL	command completion time limit
233CD	cache disable
234CD	compact disc
235CDDA	compact disc digital audio
236CDL	compiler description language
237CDMA	code division multiple access
238CDN	content delivery network
239CDP	Cisco Discovery Protocol
240CDRAM	cache dynamic random access memory
241CE	customer edge
242CER	canonical encoding rules
243CERT	computer emergency response team
244CET	control flow enforcement technology
245CF	compact flash
246CFB	cipher feedback
247CFG	context-free grammar
248CFG	control-flow graph
249CFI	control-flow integrity
250CFRG	Crypto Forum Research Group (IRTF)
251CG	control gate
252CGA	Color Graphics Adapter
253CGI	common gateway interface
254CGN	Carrier-Grade NAT
255CHAP	Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
256CHFS	chip file system
257CHS	cylinder/head/sector
258CI	continuous integration
259CI	{common,component} interface
260CIA	confidentiality, integrity, availability
261CIDR	Classless Inter-Domain Routing
262CIF	common intermediate format
263CIFS	Common Internet File System
264CIL	common intermediate language
265CIR	carrier-to-interference ratio
266CIS	contact image sensor
267CISC	complex instruction set {computer,computing}
268CJK	Chinese, Japanese, [and] Korean
269CLF	common log format
270CLI	command line interface
271CLI	common language infrastructure
272CLR	common language runtime
273CLS	common language specification
274CLTT	closed loop thermal throttling
275CLUT	color look-up table
276CLV	constant linear velocity
277CM	configuration management
278CMA	concert multithread architecture
279CMC	certificate management over CMS
280CMC	chassis management controller
281CMC	corrected machine check
282CMI	control {management,method} interface
283CMOS	complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
284CMP	chip multi-processing
285CMS	content management system
286CMS	cryptographic message syntax
287CMS	{configuration,content,course} management system
288CMYK	cyan magenta yellow black
289CN	{common,canonical} name
290CNA	CVE Numbering Authority
291CNC	computer numerical control
292CNR	carrier-to-noise ratio
293COA	change of authority
294COF	current operating frequency
295COFDM	coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
296COFF	common object file format
297COM	component object model
298COM	computer on module
299COMA	cache-only memory architecture
300CORBA	common object request broker architecture
301COS	class of service
302COW	copy-on-write
303CP	continuous pilot
304CPA	chosen-plaintext attack
305CPB	core performance boost
306CPC	central processor complex
307CPC	cpu performance counters
308CPE	common phase error
309CPE	common platform enumeration
310CPER	common platform error record
311CPG	clock pulse generator
312CPI	cycles per instruction
313CPL	current privilege level
314CPLD	complex programmable logic device
315CPP	C preprocessor
316CPS	characters per second
317CPS	continuation-passing style
318CPT	command pass through
319CPU	central processing unit
320CR	carriage return
321CRC	cyclic redundancy check
322CRDT	conflict-free replicated data type
323CRL	carrier recovery loop
324CRLF	carriage return line feed
325CRQC	cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer
326CRT	cathode ray tube
327CRTP	curiously recurring template pattern
328CRUD	create, read, update, and delete
329CS	cable select
330CS	chip select
331CS	code segment
332CS	computer science
333CSDL	{common,conceptual} schema definition language
334CSI	channel state information
335CSI	common system interface
336CSIRT	computer security incident response team
337CSMA	carrier sense multiple access
338CSMA/CA	carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance
339CSMA/CD	carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
340CSP	communicating sequential processes
341CSP	constrain satisfaction problems
342CSP	content security policy
343CSP	cryptographic service provider
344CSPM	cloud security posture management
345CSR	control [and] status registers
346CSRF	cross-site request forgery
347CSRG	Computer Systems Research Group
348CSS	cascading style sheets
349CST	common spanning tree
350CSU	C start up
351CSV	comma-separated values
352CTF	compact c type format
353CTM	close to metal
354CTR	counter [mode]
355CTS	clear to send
356CTS	common type system
357CUA	common user access
358CUT	coordinated universal time
359CV	control voltage
360CVE	common vulnerabilities and exposures
361CVS	Concurrent Versions System
362CVSS	Common Vulnerability Scoring System
363DA	destination address
364DAA	distributed application architecture
365DAAP	digital audio access protocol
366DAB	digital audio broadcasting
367DAC	digital [to] analog converter
368DAC	discretionary access control
369DAD	duplicate address detection
370DAE	deterministic authenticated encryption
371DANE	DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities
372DAO	disk at once
373DAP	Directory Access Protocol
374DAT	digital audio tape
375DAT	dynamic acceleration technology
376DB	database
377DBA	database administrator
378DBA	dynamic bandwidth allocation
379DBB	data bus buffer
380DBC	design by contract
381DBL	dynamic buffer limiting
382DBMS	database management system
383DBS	database server
384DC	data center
385DC	direct current
386DCC	Direct Client-to-Client
387DCC	direct cable connect
388DCD	data carrier detect
389DCE	data control equipment
390DCE	distributed computing environment
391DCIM	data center infrastructure management
392DCIM	digital camera images
393DCL	Digital Command Language
394DCOM	distributed component object model
395DCOP	Desktop COmmunication Protocol
396DCS	data collection systems
397DCT	discrete cosine transform
398DCU	data cache unit
399DDC	display data channel
400DDE	dynamic data exchange
401DDI	device drivers interface
402DDK	device driver kit
403DDL	data description language
404DDR	double data rate
405DDS	direct digital sound
406DDWG	Digital Display Working Group
407DE	debugging extensions
408DE	desktop environment
409DEA	data encryption algorithm
410DEC	Digital Equipment Corporation
411DEK	data encryption key
412DEP	data execution prevention
413DER	distinguished encoding rules
414DES	Data Encryption Standard
415DF	don't fragment
416DFA	deterministic finite automaton
417DFC	data flow control
418DFS	depth first search
419DFS	distributed file system
420DFSAN	Data Flow Sanitizer
421DFT	diagnostic function test
422DFT	discrete Fourier transform
423DFZ	default-free zone
424DGEMM	double precision general matrix multiply
425DGL	data generation language
426DH	Diffie-Hellman
427DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
428DIA	dedicated Internet access
429DIB	device independent bitmap
430DIFS	distributed inter-frame space
431DIMM	dual inline memory module
432DIRT	design in real time
433DKI	driver/kernel interface
434DL	diode logic
435DL	discrete logarithm
436DL	download
437DLCI	data link connection identifier
438DLE	data link escape
439DLL	dynamic link library
440DLNA	digital living network alliance
441DLP	discrete logarithm problem
442DMA	direct memory access
443DMB	data memory barrier (Arm)
444DMI	desktop management interface
445DMS	document management system
446DMT	discrete multitone modulation
447DMU	data management layer
448DNARD	Digital network appliance reference design
449DND	drag and drop
450DNLC	directory name lookup cache
451DNS	Domain Name System
452DNSBL   Domain Name System Block List
453DNSSEC	DNS Security Extensions
454DOE	distributed object environment
455DOF	data over fibre
456DOH	DNS over HTTPS
457DOM	document object model
458DOQ	DNS over QUIC
459DOS	denial of service
460DOS	disk operating system
461DOT	DNS over TLS
462DP	DisplayPort
463DPAA	data path acceleration architecture
464DPC	deferred procedure call
465DPCM	differential pulse code modulation
466DPD	dead peer detection
467DPDK	data plane development kit
468DPI	deep packet inspection
469DPI	dots per inch
470DPL	descriptor privilege level
471DPS	Display PostScript
472DPST	display power savings technology
473DRAAS	disaster recovery as a service
474DRAM	dynamic random access memory
475DRBG	deterministic random bit generator
476DRI	direct rendering infrastructure
477DRM	digital rights management
478DRM	direct rendering manager
479DRN	Discovery of Network-designated Resolvers
480DRRS	display refresh rate switching
481DS	debug store
482DS	differentiated services
483DS	delegation signer
484DS9000	DeathStation 9000
485DS9K	DeathStation 9000
486DSA	digital signature algorithm
487DSAP	destination service access point
488DSB	data synchronization barrier (Arm)
489DSB	double-sideband modulation
490DSCP	differentiated services code point
491DSDT	differentiated system descriptor table
492DSF	device special file
493DSL	dataset and snapshot layer
494DSL	digital subscriber line
495DSL	domain specific language
496DSLAM	digital subscriber line access multiplexer
497DSN	delivery status notification
498DSO	dynamic shared object
499DSP	digital signal processor
500DSSS	direct sequence spread spectrum
501DTB	device tree blob
502DTC	device tree compiler
503DTD	document type definition
504DTE	data terminal equipment
505DTE	dumb terminal emulator
506DTL	diode-transistor logic
507DTLS	datagram transport layer security
508DTS	device tree source
509DTS	digital thermal sensor
510DUT	device under test
511DVB	digital video broadcasting
512DVCS	distributed version control system
513DVD	digital versatile disc
514DVFS	dynamic voltage and frequency scaling
515DVI	Digital Visual Interface
516DVI	device independent
517DVR	digital video recorder
518DWARF	Debugging With Attributed Record Formats
519E-XER	extended XML encoding rules
520EABI	embedded-application binary interface
521EAI	Email Address Internationalization
522EAI	Enterprise Application Integration
523EAP	Extensible Authentication Protocol
524EAPOL	EAP over Lan
525EAV	entity-attribute-value model
526EAV	ethernet audio/video bridging
527EBCDIC	Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code
528EBDA	Extended BIOS Data Area
529EBNF	extended backus-naur form
530EBR	extended boot record
531EC	elliptic curve
532ECC	elliptic curve cryptography
533ECC	error correction code
534ECDH	elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman
535ECDL	elliptic curve discrete logarithm
536ECDLP	elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem
537ECDSA	elliptic curve digital signature algorithm
538EDDSA	Edwards-curve digital signature algorithm
539ECL	emitter-coupled logic
540ECN	explicit congestion notification
541ECP	enhanced capability port
542ECS	enhanced chip set
543ECS	extended configuration space
544EDAC	error detection and correction
545EDAT	enhanced dynamic acceleration technology
546EDGE	explicit data graph execution
547EDID	extended display identification data
548EDO	extended data out
549EDS	electronical data sheet
550EDSAC	electronic delay storage automatic calculator
551EDVAC	electronic discrete variable automatic computer
552EEE	embrace, extend, extinguish
553EEE	energy efficient ethernet
554EEPROM	electrically erasable programmable read only memory
555EFI	extensible firmware interface
556EFL	emitter follower logic
557EFM	eight to fourteen modulation
558EFS	extent file system
559EGA	Enhanced Graphics Adapter
560EGP	exterior gateway protocol
561EH	extension header
562EIDE	enhanced IDE
563EINJ	error injection table
564EISA	extended industry standard architecture
565ELF	executable and linking format
566ELS	entry level system
567EMACS	Editor MACroS
568EMI	electro-magnetic interference
569EMP	electro-magnetic pulse
570EMR	electro-magnetic radiation
571ENIAC	electronic numerical integrator and computer
572EOF	end of file
573EOI	end of interrupt
574EOIS	end of interactive support
575EOL	end of life
576EOL	end of line
577EOT	end of transmission
578EPIC	explicitly parallel instruction computing
579EPP	enhanced parallel port
580EPP	extensible provisioning protocol (RFC5730)
581EPRML	extended partial response, maximum likelihood
582EPROM	erasable programmable read only memory
583EPSS	Exploit Prediction Scoring System
584EPT	extended page tables
585ERC	error recovery control
586ERD	emergency recovery disk
587ERD	entity relationship diagram
588ERE	extended regular expression
589ERST	error record serialization table
590ESAN	Efficiency Sanitizer
591ESB	enterprise service bus
592ESDI	enhanced small disk interface
593ESDRAM	enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory
594ESI	enclosure services interface
595ESS	electronic switching system
596ESS	extended service set
597ESSID	extended service set identifier
598EST	enhanced speedstep
599ETL	extract, transform, load
600EU	execution unit
601EULA	end user license agreement
602EdDSA	Edwards curve digital signature algorithm
603FAT	file allocation table
604FBRAM	frame buffer random access memory
605FCIF	full common intermediate format
606FCL	fiber channel loop
607FCS	frame check sequence
608FDC	floppy disk controller
609FDD	floppy disk drive
610FDDI	fiber distributed data interface
611FDE	full disk encryption
612FDT	flattened device tree
613FEA	finite element analysis
614FEC	forward error correction
615FET	field-effect transistor
616FF	finite field
617FF	form feed
618FFDH	finite-field Diffie-Hellman
619FFH	functional fixed hardware
620FFI	foreign function interface
621FFM	focus follows mouse
622FFS	Fast File System
623FFS	find first set
624FFT	fast Fourier transform
625FG	floating gate
626FHE	fully homomorphic encryption
627FHRP	first hop redundancy protocol
628FHSS	frequency hop spread spectrum
629FID	frequency identifier
630FIFO	first in, first out
631FILO	first in, last out
632FIPS	Federal Information Processing Standards
633FIR	fast infrared
634FLOPS	floating [point] operations per second
635FLOSS	free/libre/open source software
636FM	frequency modulation
637FMR	false match rate
638FOSS	free/open source software
639FPGA	field programmable gate array
640FPM	fast page mode
641FPR	floating point register
642FPU	floating point unit
643FQDN	fully qualified domain name
644FRR	false rejection rate
645FRR	Free Range Routing
646FRU	field replaceable unit
647FS	file system
648FSB	front side bus
649FSCK	file system check
650FSF	Free Software Foundation
651FSK	frequency shift keying
652FSM	finite-state machine
653FTA	fault tree analysis
654FTL	flash translation layer
655FTP	File Transfer Protocol
656FTPS	File Transfer Protocol Secure
657FTTH	fiber to the home
658FUS	fast user switching
659FWH	firmware hub
660FWS	folding white space
661GAL	generic array logic
662GARP	generic attribute registration protocol
663GAS	generic address structure
664GC	garbage collector
665GCC	GNU Compiler Collection
666GCM	Galois counter mode
667GCR	group-coded recording
668GDI	Graphics Device Interface
669GDT	global descriptor table
670GDT	(block) group descriptor table
671GECOS	general comprehensive operating supervisor
672GEM	graphics environment manager
673GEM	graphics execution manager
674GEMM	general matrix multiply
675GENA	general event notification architecture
676GHC	Glasgow Haskell compiler
677GHES	generic hardware error source
678GIC	generic interrupt controller
679GID	group identifier
680GIF	graphics interchange format
681GLBP	gateway load balancing protocol
682GMCH	graphics and memory controller hub
683GNU	GNU's Not Unix
684GOP	graphics output protocol
685GOT	global offset table
686GPE	general purpose event
687GPF	general protection fault
688GPG	GNU Privacy Guard
689GPL	[GNU] General Public License
690GPR	general purpose register
691GPS	generalized processor sharing
692GPT	GUID partition table
693GPU	graphics processing unit
694GR	golden ratio
695GRE	generic routing encapsulation
696GRO	generic receive offload
697GSI	global system interrupt
698GSO	generic send offload
699GUA	global unicast address
700GUI	graphical user interface
701GUID	globally unique identifier
702GUS	Gravis UltraSound
703GVFS    git virtual file system
704HA	high availability
705HAL	hardware abstraction layer
706HAT	hashed array tree
707HATEOAS	hypermedia as the engine of application state
708HBA	host bus adapter
709HBS	hash-based signature
710HCC	Home Cable Computer
711HCCA	Home Cable Computer Adaptor
712HCF	halt and catch fire
713HCI	host controller interface
714HCI	human-computer interaction
715HCL	hardware compatibility list
716HDCP	High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection
717HDD	hard disk drive
718HDL	hardware description language
719HDMI	High-Definition Multimedia Interface
720HDTV	high-definition television
721HECI	host embedded controller interface
722HEST	hardware error source table
723HEVC	high efficiency video coding
724HF	high frequency
725HFM	highest frequency mode
726HFS	hierarchical file system
727HID	human interface device
728HKDF	HMAC-based key derivation function
729HKP	HTTP Keyserver Protocol
730HLE	hardware lock elision (Intel)
731HLL	high-level language
732HMA	high memory area
733HMI	human-machine interface
734HNDL	harvest now, decrypt later
735HOOD	hierarchical object oriented design
736HOTP	HMAC-based one time password
737HP	Hewlett-Packard
738HPC	high performance computing
739HPD	hot plug detection
740HPET	high precision event timer
741HPKE	hybrid public key encryption
742HQC	Hamming Quasi-Cyclic
743HSM	hardware security module
744HSM	hierarchical storage management
745HSRP	hot standby router protocol
746HT	hyper-threading
747HTC	hardware thermal control
748HTCC	high temperature co-fired ceramic
749HTML	HyperText Markup Language
750HTT	hyper-threading technology
751HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
752HTTPS	Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
753HVDS	High-Voltage Differential Signaling
754HVM	hardware virtual machine
755HWASAN	Hardware-assisted Address Sanitizer
756HZ	Hertz
757I2O	intelligent input/output
758IA	information assurance
759IAAS	infrastructure as a service
760IAB	Internet Architecture Board
761IANA	Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
762IBC	iterated block cipher
763IBM	International Business Machines
764IBPI	international blinking pattern interpretation
765IBS	instruction based sampling
766IBSS	independent basic service set
767IBT	indirect branch tracking
768IC	integrated circuit
769ICA	independent computer architecture
770ICACLS	integrity control access control lists
771ICB	Internet Citizen's Band
772ICE	in-circuit emulator
773ICE	internal compiler error
774ICH	I/O controller hub
775ICMP	Internet Control Message Protocol
776ICT	information and communications technology
777ICW	initialization command word
778IDA	Intel dynamic acceleration
779IDCMP	Intuition direct communication message port
780IDCT	inverse discrete cosine transform
781IDE	integrated development environment
782IDE	integrated drive electronics
783IDPS	intrusion detection [and] prevention system
784IDRP	inter-domain routing protocol
785IDS	intrusion detection system
786IDT	interrupt descriptor table
787IE	Internet Explorer
788IEC	International Electrotechnical Commission
789IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
790IESG	Internet Engineering Steering Group
791IETF	Internet Engineering Task Force
792IF	intermediate frequency
793IFCM	isochronous flow control mode
794IFF	Interchange File Format
795IFS	internal field separator
796IGD	Internet gateway device
797IGMP	Internet Group Management Protocol
798IGP	interior gateway protocol
799IHV	independent hardware vendor
800IKE	Internet key exchange
801IKM	input keying material
802ILM	internal loopback mode
803ILOM	integrated lights-out management
804ILP	instruction level parallelism
805IM	instant messaging
806IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol
807IMC	integrated memory controller
808IMCR	interrupt mode configuration register
809IME	input method editor
810IMR	interrupt mask register
811IMS	information management system
812IMSI	international mobile subscriber identity
813INCITS	InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards
814INODE	index node
815IO	input/output
816IOCTL	input/output control
817IOM	input/output managers
818IOMMU	input/output memory management unit
819IOT	Internet of Things
820IP	Internet Protocol
821IP	intellectual property
822IPC	instructions per cycle
823IPC	interprocess communication
824IPCF	interprocess communication facility
825IPE	integrated programming environment
826IPI	intelligent peripheral interface
827IPI	interprocessor interrupt
828IPL	Initial Program Load
829IPL	Interrupt Priority Level
830IPMB	Intelligent Platform Management Bus
831IPMI	Intelligent Platform Management Interface
832IPNG	Internet Protocol, Next Generation
833IPS	in-plane switching
834IPS	intrusion prevention system
835IPSEC	Internet Protocol Security
836IR	intermediate representation
837IRC	Internet Relay Chat
838IRDA	infrared data association
839IRDP	ICMP Router Discovery Protocol
840IRQ	interrupt request
841IRQL	interrupt request level
842IRR	interrupt request register
843IRTF	Internet Research Task Force
844IS	information system
845ISA	industry standard architecture
846ISA	instruction set architecture
847ISB	instruction synchronization barrier (Arm)
848ISDN	integrated services digital network
849ISE	instant secure erase
850ISI	inter-symbol interference
851ISL	initial system load
852ISM	industrial, scientific, [and] medical
853ISMS	information system management system
854ISN	initial serial number
855ISO	International Standards Organization
856ISOC	Internet Society
857ISP	Internet service provider
858ISR	in-service register
859ISR	interrupt service routine
860IST	internal spanning tree
861IST	interrupt stack table
862ISV	independent software vendor
863IT	information technology
864ITB	Intel Turbo Boost
865ITIL	information technology infrastructure library
866ITP	in-target probe
867ITSM	IT service management
868IV	initialization vector
869IVT	interrupt vector table
870JBOD	just a bunch of disks
871JCL	Job Control Language
872JFET	junction [gate] field-effect transistor
873JIT	just in time
874JPEG	Joint Photographic Experts Group
875JRE	Java Runtime Environment
876JSON	JavaScript Object Notation
877JTAG	joint test action group
878KASAN	Kernel Address Sanitizer
879KASLR	kernel address space layout randomization
880KB	keyboard
881KB	kilobyte
882KBD	keyboard
883KBD	kilobaud
884KCS	keyboard controller style
885KDF	key derivation function
886KEK	key encryption key
887KEM	key encapsulation mechanism
888KLOC	thousand lines of code
889KMS	kernel-mode setting
890KPI	kernel programming interface
891KSK	key signing key
892KVA	kernel virtual address
893KVM	kernel virtual machine
894KVM	kernel virtual memory
895KVM	keyboard, video, [and] mouse
896L2CAP	link layer control and adaptation protocol
897LAG	link aggregation group
898LAMP	Linux Apache MySQL {Perl,PHP,Python}
899LAN	local area network
900LAPIC	local advanced programmable interrupt controller
901LAR	load access rights
902LBA	logical block addressing
903LBNF	labeled backus-naur form
904LBS	location-based service
905LCD	liquid crystal display
906LCP	link control protocol
907LDA	local delivery agent
908LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
909LDR	light-dependent resistor
910LDT	local descriptor table
911LE	logical extent
912LED	light emitting diode
913LELL	low energy link layer
914LER	label edge router
915LF	line feed
916LF	low frequency
917LFM	lowest frequency mode
918LFN	long file names
919LFO	low-frequency oscillation
920LFS	log-structured file system
921LFU	least frequently used
922LHP	loop heat pipe
923LIF	logical interchange format
924LIFO	last in, first out
925LILO	LInux LOader
926LILO	last in, last out
927LINT	local interrupt
928LIR	local Internet registry
929LISP	LISt Processor
930LISP	Locator/ID Separation Protocol
931LKM	{Linux,loadable} kernel module
932LKML	Linux kernel mailing list
933LL	load linked
934LL/SC	load linked/store conditional
935LLC	logical link control
936LLD	low-level design
937LLDD	low-level design document
938LLDP	link layer discovery protocol
939LLF	low level format
940LLMNR	link-local multicast name resolution
941LLVM	Low Level Virtual Machine
942LM	long mode
943LMCE	local machine check exception
944LMI	local management interface
945LMM	link management mode
946LMP	link management protocol
947LMS	Leighton-Micali Signature
948LNO	loop nest optimization
949LOC	lines of code
950LOM	lights-out management
951LPC	low pin count
952LPE	Linux performance events
953LPS	local positioning system
954LRC	longitudinal redundancy check
955LRM	left-to-right mark
956LRO	Large Receive Offload
957LRO	left-to-right override
958LRU	least recently used
959LS	link state
960LSAN	Leak Sanitizer
961LSB	Linux standards base
962LSB	least significant {bit,byte}
963LSI	large scale integration
964LSL	load segment limit
965LSM	log structured merge
966LSN	Large Scale NAT
967LSN	log sequence number
968LSO	large send offload
969LSR	label switch router
970LTCC	low temperature co-fired ceramic
971LTO	linear tape-open
972LTO	link time optimization
973LTR	left to right
974LTR	letter(-sized paper)
975LTR	load task register
976LTS	long term support
977LUA	Lua Uppercase Accident
978LUN	logical unit number
979LV	logical volume
980LVDS	Low-Voltage Differential Signaling
981LVM	logical volume management
982LVT	local vector table
983LWP	light-weight process
984LZSS	Lempel Ziv Storer Szymanski
985LZW	Lempel Ziv Welch
986MAB	MAC authentication bypass
987MAC	mandatory access control
988MAC	message authentication {check,code}
989MAC	{media,medium} access control
990MADT	multiple APIC descriptor table
991MAMR	microwave-assisted magnetic recording
992MB	megabyte
993MBA	multi-boot agent
994MBR	master boot record
995MBS	megabits per second
996MC	memory controller
997MCA	MicroChannel architecture
998MCA	machine check architecture
999MCC	multiversion concurrency control
1000MCE	machine check exception
1001MCGA	Multi-Color Graphics Array
1002MCH	memory controller hub
1003MCLAG	multi-chassis link aggregation group
1004MCM	multi-chip module
1005MCQ	memory controlled queue
1006MD	MiniDisc
1007MD	machine-dependent
1008MD-SAL	model-driven service abstraction layer
1009MDA	Monochrome Display Adapter
1010MDA	mail delivery agent
1011MDC	Management Data Clock
1012MDI	Medium Dependent Interface
1013MDI-X	Medium Dependent Interface Crossover
1014MDIO	Management Data Input/Output
1015MDMX	MIPS Digital Media eXtension
1016MDRAM	multibank dynamic random access memory
1017MDS	microarchitectural data sampling
1018MESI	modified, exclusive, shared, invalid
1019MFC	Microsoft Foundation Classes
1020MFC	merge from current
1021MFM	modified frequency modulation
1022MFU	most frequently used
1023MGCP	media gateway control protocol
1024MHU	message handling unit
1025MI	machine interface
1026MI	machine-independent
1027MIB	management information base
1028MIC	message integrity {check,code}
1029MID	mobile Internet device
1030MIDI	musical instrument digital interface
1031MIF	management information format
1032MII	media independent interface
1033MIM	man in the middle
1034MIMD	multiple instruction, multiple data
1035MIME	Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
1036MIMO	multiple input multiple output
1037MIPS	Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
1038MIPS	million instructions per second
1039MISD	multiple instruction, single data
1040MIT	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1041MITM	man in the middle
1042ML	machine language
1043ML	machine learning
1044ML	mailing list
1045ML	markup language
1046ML	maximum likelihood
1047ML-KEM	module-lattice based key-encapsulation mechanism
1048MLAG	multi-chassis link aggregation group
1049MLC	multi-level cell
1050MLD	multicast listener discovery
1051MLHP	micro loop heat pipe
1052MLIR	multi-level intermediate representation
1053MLO	MMC loader
1054MMC	multi-media card
1055MMF	multi-mode fiber
1056MMIC	monolithic microwave integrated circuit
1057MMIO	memory mapped input/output
1058MMORPG	massive multiplayer online role playing game
1059MMRP	multiple MAC registration protocol
1060MMU	memory management unit
1061MMX	matrix math extension
1062MMX	multimedia extension
1063MMX	multiple math extension
1064MO	magneto-optical
1065MOESI	modified, owned, exclusive, shared, invalid
1066MOF	maximum operating frequency
1067MOSFET	metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor
1068MOSI	modified, owned, shared, invalid
1069MP	multi-platform
1070MP	multiplayer
1071MP	{multiprocessing,multiprocessor}
1072MPEG	moving picture experts group
1073MPI	message passing interface
1074MPLS	Multiprotocol Label Switching
1075MPP	massively parallel processor
1076MPS	memory pool system
1077MPS	multiprocessor specification
1078MQTT	Message Queuing Telemetry Transport
1079MR	modem ready
1080MRO	method resolution order
1081MRP	multiple registration protocol
1082MRU	most recently used
1083MS	Microsoft
1084MSAN	Memory Sanitizer
1085MSB	most significant {bit,byte}
1086MSC	message sequence chart
1087MSE	mean square error
1088MSF	minutes seconds frames
1089MSI	message signaled interrupt
1090MSI	modified, shared, invalid
1091MSR	{machine state,model-specific} register
1092MSS	maximum segment size
1093MSTP	Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
1094MT	machine translation
1095MTA	mail transfer agent
1096MTBF	mean time between failures
1097MTP	media transfer protocol
1098MTRR	memory type range register
1099MTTF	mean time to failure
1100MTU	maximum transmission unit
1101MUA	mail user agent
1102MUD	multi-user domain
1103MVCC	multiversion concurrency control
1104MVR	multicast VLAN registration
1105MVRP	multiple VLAN registration protocol
1106MWE	module width encoding
1107MX	mail exchange
1108MZM	Majorana zero mode
1109NACK	negative acknowledgement
1110NAK	negative acknowledgement
1111NAN	neighbor awareness networking
1112NAN	not a number
1113NAPT	Network Address Port Translation
1114NAS	network attached storage
1115NAT	network address translation
1116NAV	network allocation vector
1117NC	numerical control
1118NC-SI	network controller sideband interface
1119NCO	numerically-controlled oscillator
1120NCP	Network Control Protocol
1121NCQ	native command queuing
1122NCSI	network connectivity status indicator
1123ND	neighbor discovery
1124NDFA	nondeterministic finite automaton
1125NDIS	network driver interface specification
1126NE	numeric error
1127NEWS	Network extensible Window System
1128NFA	nondeterministic finite automaton
1129NFC	near-field communication
1130NFCI	no functional change intended
1131NFS	network file system
1132NFV	network function virtualization
1133NHACP	NABU HCCA Application Communication Protocol
1134NIA	next instruction address
1135NIC	network information center
1136NIC	network interface card
1137NIDS	network intrusion detection system
1138NIKE	Non-Interactive Key Exchange
1139NIP	network interface protocol
1140NIPR	non-classified IP router (network)
1141NIPS	network intrusion prevention system
1142NIS	network information service
1143NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology
1144NLS	native language support
1145NMI	non-maskable interrupt
1146NMR	nonce-misuse resistance
1147NNTP	Network News Transfer Protocol
1148NOC	network operations center
1149NOP	no operation
1150NOS	network operating system
1151NP	nondeterministic polynomial time
1152NRND	not recommended for new designs
1153NRZ	non-return to zero
1154NSA	National Security Agency
1155NSA	nation-state adversary
1156NSA	no such agency
1157NTA	negative trust anchor
1158NTM	non-deterministic Turing machine
1159NTP	Network Time Protocol
1160NUMA	non-uniform memory access
1161NURBS	non-uniform rational basis spline
1162NVD	National Vulnerability Database
1163NVMM	NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor
1164NVMM	non-volatile main memory
1165NVRAM	non-volatile random access memory
1166NW	not write-through
1167NX	no execute
1168OAEP	optimal asymmetric encryption padding
1169OAM	operations, administration, and {management,maintenance}
1170OBO	off by one
1171OBOE	off by one error
1172OCL	object constraint language
1173OCR	optical character recognition
1174ODBC	Open Database Connectivity
1175ODCM	on-demand clock modulation
1176ODE	offline device environment
1177ODI	open data-link interface
1178ODM	object data manager
1179ODMR	on-demand mail relay
1180ODT	on-die termination
1181OEM	original equipment manufacturer
1182OFB	output feedback
1183OFDM	orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
1184OFET	organic field-effect transistor
1185OLAP	online analytical processing
1186OLE	object linking and embedding
1187OLTP	online transaction processing
1188ONCE	on-{chip,circuit} emulation
1189ONFI	open nand flash interface
1190OO	OpenOffice
1191OO	object oriented
1192OOB	out of band
1193OOE	out of order execution
1194OOM	out of memory
1195OOO	OpenOffice.org
1196OOP	object oriented programming
1197OOPS	object oriented programming systems
1198OOSE	object oriented software engineering
1199OPM	operations per minute
1200OPS	operations per second
1201OQL	Object Query Language
1202ORB	object request broker
1203ORM	object-relational mapping
1204OS	operating system
1205OSD	object-based storage device
1206OSD	open source definition
1207OSF	open software foundation
1208OSI	Open Source Initiative
1209OSI	open systems interconnection
1210OSPF	open shortest path first
1211OSPM	OS power management
1212OSS	open sound system
1213OSS	open source software
1214OSVW	operating system visible workarounds
1215OTP	one time password
1216OTP	open telecom platform
1217OU	organizational unit
1218OUI	organizationally unique identifier
1219OWASP	Open Web Application Security Project
1220OWL	Web Ontology Language
1221P2P	PCI to PCI
1222P2P	peer to peer
1223PA	phase accumulator
1224PA	physical address
1225PAAS	platform as a service
1226PAC	phase-amplitude converter
1227PAE	physical address extension
1228PAGP	port aggregation protocol
1229PAL	phase alternating line
1230PAL	programmable array logic
1231PAM	pluggable authentication modules
1232PAM	pulse amplitude modulation
1233PAP	password authentication protocol
1234PAT	page attribute table
1235PAT	port address translation
1236PATA	parallel ATA
1237PAX	portable archive exchange
1238PBE	pending break encoding
1239PBE	programming by example
1240PBKDF	password-based key derivation function
1241PBR	partition boot record
1242PBX	private branch exchange
1243PC	personal computer
1244PC	program counter
1245PCB	Protocol Control Block
1246PCB	printed circuit board
1247PCB	process control block
1248PCBC	propagating cipher block chaining
1249PCC	Portable C Compiler
1250PCD	page-level cache disable
1251PCE	path computation element
1252PCE	performance-monitor counter enable
1253PCEP	Path Computation Element Protocol
1254PCH	platform controller hub
1255PCI	peripheral component interconnect
1256PCM	phase change memory
1257PCM	pulse code modulation
1258PCMCIA	Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
1259PCP	Port Control Protocol
1260PD	public domain
1261PDA	personal digital assistant
1262PDA	pushdown automaton
1263PDAG	propositional directed acyclic graph
1264PDB	power distribution board
1265PDF	portable document format
1266PDM	pulse-duration modulation
1267PDN	pull-down network
1268PDP	page {descriptor,directory} page
1269PDS	product data sheet
1270PDU	protocol data unit
1271PE	portable executable
1272PE	protection enable
1273PE	provider edge
1274PEAP	Protected EAP
1275PECI	platform environment control interface
1276PED	PIN Entry Device
1277PEP	protocol extension protocol
1278PER	packed encoding rules
1279PFS	perfect forward secrecy
1280PGAS	partitioned global address space
1281PGE	page global enable
1282PGO	profile guided optimization
1283PGP	Pretty Good Privacy
1284PHB	PCI host bridge
1285PHP	PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
1286PIC	performance instrumentation counters
1287PIC	position independent code
1288PIC	programmable interrupt controller
1289PICNIC	problem in chair, not in computer
1290PID	process id
1291PIE	position independent executable
1292PIL	Priority Interrupt Level
1293PIM	personal information manager
1294PIM	platform-independent model
1295PIO	programmed input/output
1296PIPT	physically indexed, physically tagged
1297PIQ	prefetch input queue
1298PIR	private information retrieval
1299PIT	programmable interrupt timer
1300PIV	personal identity verification
1301PIX	Private Internet eXchange
1302PKCS	public-key cryptography standards
1303PKE	public key encryption
1304PKI	public key infrastructure
1305PLC	programmable logic controller
1306PLD	programmable logic device
1307PLL	phase locked loop
1308PLRU	pseudo LRU
1309PLT	procedure linkage table
1310PLTM	package level thermal management
1311PM	power management
1312PM	{phase,pulse} modulation
1313PMC	performance monitoring counters
1314PME	power management event
1315PMEG	page map entry group
1316PMI	performance monitoring infrastructure
1317PMI	platform management interrupt
1318PMIC	power management integrated circuit
1319PMIO	port-mapped input/output
1320PMT	photo-multiplier tube
1321PMU	performance monitoring units
1322PMU	power management unit
1323PNG	portable network graphics
1324PNP	plug and play
1325POE	power over ethernet
1326POF	probability of failure
1327POP	Post Office Protocol
1328POP	power on password
1329POR	plan of record
1330POSIX	Portable Operating System Interface [for Unix]
1331POST	power on self test
1332POTS	plain old telephone system
1333POWER	Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC
1334POWERPC	Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC - Performance Computing
1335PP	pair programming
1336PPB	PCI [to] PCI bridge
1337PPC	Power Performance Computing
1338PPC	PowerPC
1339PPI	pixels per inch
1340PPM	pages per minute
1341PPP	Point-to-Point Protocol
1342PPPOA	Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
1343PPPOE	Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
1344PPR	processor programming reference
1345PPT	powerpoint
1346PPT	punched paper tape
1347PPU	physics processing unit
1348PQC	post-quantum cryptography
1349PRAM	Parameter RAM
1350PRBS	pseudorandom bit sequence
1351PRF	pseudorandom function [family]
1352PRG	pseudorandom generator
1353PRML	partial response, maximum likelihood
1354PRN	pseudorandom {noise,number}
1355PRNG	pseudorandom number generator
1356PROM	programmable read only memory
1357PRP	pseudorandom permutation
1358PRU	Programmable Realtime Unit
1359PS	PostScript
1360PSD	power spectral density
1361PSE	page size extensions
1362PSK	phase shift keying
1363PSK	pre-shared key
1364PSTN	public switched telephone network
1365PSW	program status word
1366PTE	page table entry
1367PTLA	pseudo top level aggregator
1368PTP	page table page
1369PTV	perceived target value
1370PU	processing unit
1371PUC	personal unblocking code
1372PUN	physical unit number
1373PV	physical volume
1374PVC	permanent virtual circuit
1375PVG	physical volume group
1376PVI	protected-mode virtual interrupt
1377PVRST	Per-VLAN rapid spanning tree
1378PVST	Per-VLAN Spanning Tree
1379PWM	pulse width modulation
1380PXE	preboot execution environment
1381QA	quality assurance
1382QAM	quadrature amplitude modulation
1383QAM	quality assurance management
1384QBE	query by example
1385QC	quality control
1386QCIF	quarter common intermediate format
1387QDI	quasi delay insensitive
1388QOI	quality of implementation
1389QOI	quick order interface
1390QOS	quality of service
1391QPU	quantum processing unit
1392QUIC	Quick UDP Internet Connections
1393QVL	qualified vendor list
1394R/O	read only
1395R/W	read/write
1396RA	receiver address
1397RA	remote assistance
1398RA	resource affinity
1399RA	router advertisement
1400RAD	rapid application development
1401RADIUS	remote authentication dial-in user service
1402RAID	redundant array of {independent,inexpensive} disks
1403RAII	resource acquisition is initialization
1404RAM	random access memory
1405RAS	reliability, availability and serviceability
1406RAS	remote access service
1407RAS	restartable atomic sequence
1408RAS	row address strobe
1409RAT	register allocation table
1410RAT	remote access trojan
1411RBF	radial basis function
1412RBL     real-time blackhole list
1413RBL     reputation block list
1414RBNF	routing backus-naur form
1415RBT	red-black tree
1416RC	release candidate
1417RC	remote control
1418RC	run commands
1419RCS	Revision Control System
1420RCU	read, copy, update
1421RDB	Rigid Disk Block
1422RDBMS	relational database management system
1423RDF	Resource Description Framework
1424RDM	relational data model
1425RDMA	remote direct memory access
1426RDP	remote desktop protocol
1427RDRAM	Rambus DRAM
1428RE	regular expression
1429REPL	read, evaluate, print, loop
1430REST	representational state transfer
1431RF	radio frequency
1432RFB	remote frame buffer
1433RFI	radio frequency interference
1434RFO	request for ownership
1435RFU	reserved for future use
1436RGB	red green blue
1437RGBA	red green blue alpha
1438RGMII	reduced gigabit media independent interface
1439RH	read hit
1440RHEL	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1441RHL	Red Hat Linux
1442RIB	routing information base
1443RIFF	Resource Interchange File Format
1444RIP	Raster Image Processor
1445RIP	Routing Information Protocol
1446RIPR	releasable IP router (network)
1447RIR	regional Internet registry
1448RISC	reduced instruction set {computer,computing}
1449RKM	ROM Kernel Manual
1450RLE	run length encoding
1451RLL	run length limited
1452RLO	right-to-left override
1453RM	read miss
1454RMCP	Remote Management Control Protocol
1455RMI	remote method invocation
1456RMO	Relaxed Memory Ordering
1457RMPM	rapid memory power management
1458RMS	root mean square
1459RMW	read, modify, write
1460RNG	random number generator
1461ROA	route origin authorization
1462ROM	read only memory
1463ROP	return-oriented programming
1464RPC	remote procedure call
1465RPG	Report Program Generator
1466RPKI	resource PKI
1467RPL	requested privilege level
1468RPM	revolutions per minute
1469RPN	reverse Polish notation
1470RPVST	Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree
1471RPZ	response policy zone
1472RR	random replacement
1473RR	resource record
1474RR	round robin
1475RRSIG	resource record signature
1476RS	relay station
1477RSA	Rivest, Shamir, [and] Adleman
1478RSC	Receive Segment Coalescing
1479RSIP	Realm Specific IP
1480RSN	Robust Secure Network
1481RSS	Receive Side Scaling
1482RSS	really simple syndication
1483RSS	residual sum of squares
1484RSTP	Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
1485RT	real time
1486RTC	real time clock
1487RTC	real time computing
1488RTF	rich text format
1489RTL	register transfer language
1490RTL	resistor-transistor logic
1491RTL	right to left
1492RTM	restricted transactional memory (Intel)
1493RTOS	real time operating system
1494RTP	Real-time Transport Protocol
1495RTS	request to send
1496RTT	round trip time
1497RTTI	run-time type information
1498RUP	rational unified process
1499RW	Rabin-Williams
1500RWM	read-write memory
1501RX	{receive,receiver}
1502S/PDIF	Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format
1503SA	security advisory
1504SA	security association
1505SA	source address
1506SA	structured analysis
1507SAAS	software as a service
1508SABRE	Semi-automated business research environment
1509SACD	super audio compact disc
1510SAD	security association database
1511SAF-TE	SCSI accessed fault-tolerant enclosure
1512SAGE	Semi-automated ground environment
1513SAL	{service,system} abstraction layer
1514SAM	serial access memory
1515SAM	sum addressed memory
1516SAML	security assertion markup language
1517SAN	storage area network
1518SAP	service access point
1519SAPIC	streamlined advanced programmable interrupt controller
1520SASD	structured analysis, structured design
1521SASI	Shugart Associates System Interface
1522SASL	simple authentication [and] security layer
1523SATA	serial advanced technology attachment
1524SAX	simple API for XML
1525SB	sound blaster
1526SBI	supervisor binary interface
1527SBOM	Software Bill of Materials
1528SBSA	server base system architecture
1529SBU	standard build unit
1530SC	store conditional
1531SCA	source code analyzer
1532SCADA	supervisory control and data acquisition
1533SCC	single chip cloud
1534SCC	source code control
1535SCCP	skinny call control protocol
1536SCCS	Source Code Control System
1537SCI	scalable coherent interface
1538SCI	system control interrupt
1539SCIM	smart common input method
1540SCM	software configuration management
1541SCM	source code management
1542SCM	storage-class memory
1543SCO	synchronous connection orientated
1544SCP	secure copy
1545SCP	system control processor
1546SCPI	system control and power interface
1547SCSI	Small Computer System Interface
1548SCT	Signed Certificate Timestamp
1549SCTP	Stream Control Transmission Protocol
1550SDDC	software defined data center
1551SDEI	software delegated exception interface
1552SDI	symbol deinterleave
1553SDK	software development kit
1554SDL	Simple Declarative Language
1555SDL	Simple Direct-media Layer
1556SDLC	{software,system,systems} development life cycle
1557SDN	software defined networking
1558SDP	Session Description Protocol
1559SDR	software defined radio
1560SDRAM	synchronous dynamic random access memory
1561SDS	software defined storage
1562SDT	syntax-directed translation
1563SEA	synchronous external abort
1564SED	self-encrypting drive
1565SED	stream editor
1566SEGV	segmentation violation
1567SEMB	serial ATA enclosure management bridge
1568SEO	search engine optimization
1569SES	SCSI enclosure services
1570SFC	sequential function chart
1571SFI	simple firmware interface
1572SFI	software fault isolation
1573SFP	small form-factor pluggable
1574SFTP	SSH File Transfer Protocol
1575SFTP	Serial File Transfer Protocol
1576SFTP	Simple File Transfer Protocol
1577SGI	Silicon Graphics, Inc
1578SGI	software generated interrupt
1579SGMII	serial gigabit media independent interface
1580SGPIO	serial general purpose input/output
1581SGRAM	synchronous graphics random access memory
1582SHA	secure hash algorithm
1583SICP	structure and interpretation of computer programs
1584SIDH	supersingular isogeny Diffie-Hellman
1585SIEM	security information and event management
1586SIF	source input format
1587SIFS	short inter-frame space
1588SIM	subscriber identity module
1589SIMD	single instruction, multiple data
1590SIMM	single inline memory module
1591SIP	Session Initiation Protocol
1592SIPR	secret IP router (network)
1593SIR	signal-to-interference ratio
1594SIR	slow infrared
1595SIRT	security incident response team
1596SISD	single instruction, single data
1597SIV	synthetic intialization vector
1598SLAAC	stateless address auto-configuration
1599SLC	single-level cell
1600SLDRAM	synchronous-link dynamic random access memory
1601SLED	single large expensive disk
1602SLI	scalable link interface
1603SLI	scan-line interleave
1604SLIC	system license internal code
1605SLOC	source lines of code
1606SLRU	segmented LRU
1607SMA	smart memory access
1608SMAF	system management action field
1609SMAP	Simple Mail Access Protocol
1610SMAP	supervisor mode access prevention
1611SMART	self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology
1612SMB	Server Message Block
1613SMB	system management bus
1614SMBIOS	System Management BIOS
1615SMC	system management controller
1616SMD	storage module device
1617SMEP	supervisor mode execution protection
1618SMF	single mode fiber
1619SMI	structure of management information
1620SMI	system management interrupt
1621SMM	system management mode
1622SMP	serial management protocol
1623SMP	symmetric multiprocessing
1624SMR	shingled magnetic recording
1625SMR	state machine replication
1626SMT	simultaneous multithreading
1627SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
1628SMU	system management unit
1629SNA	systems network architecture
1630SNAP	Sub-Network Access Protocol
1631SNIA	Storage Networking Industry Association
1632SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol
1633SNR	signal-to-noise ratio
1634SOA	service oriented architecture
1635SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
1636SOC	security operations center
1637SOC	system on chip
1638SOF	start of frame
1639SOH	start of header
1640SOHO	small office/home office
1641SOL	serial over LAN
1642SOM	system on module
1643SP	service pack
1644SP	stack pointer
1645SPA	storage pool allocator
1646SPAN	switched port analyzer
1647SPARC	scalable processor architecture
1648SPARQL	SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language
1649SPD	security policy database
1650SPD	serial presence detect
1651SPDIF	Sony/Philips digital interface format
1652SPI	serial peripheral interface
1653SPI	stateful packet inspection
1654SPIR	standard portable intermediate representation
1655SPL	secondary program loader
1656SPL	spinlock
1657SPL	system interrupt priority level
1658SPMD	single process, multiple data
1659SPR	special purpose register
1660SPT	sectors per track
1661SQA	software quality assurance
1662SQCIF	sub quarter common intermediate format
1663SQL	Structured Query Language
1664SRAM	static random access memory
1665SRC	sample rate conversion
1666SRP	SCSI RDMA protocol
1667SRR	shaped round robin
1668SRTP	Secure Real-time Transport Protocol
1669SS	self-snoop
1670SS	stack segment
1671SSA	static single assignment
1672SSAP	source service access point
1673SSB	single-sideband modulation
1674SSB	speculative store bypass
1675SSBB	speculative store bypass barrier (Arm)
1676SSBD	speculative store bypass disable (Intel)
1677SSC	spread spectrum clock
1678SSD	solid state drive
1679SSE	streaming SIMD extensions
1680SSFDC	solid state floppy disc card
1681SSH	secure shell
1682SSI	server side includes
1683SSID	service set identifier
1684SSL	secure sockets layer
1685SSP	stack smashing protection
1686SSRF	server-side request forgery
1687SSTP 	secure socket tunneling protocol
1688STC	software thermal control
1689STD	state transition diagram
1690STEK	session ticket encryption key
1691STM	software transactional memory
1692STOMP	Streaming Text Oriented Messaging Protocol
1693STP	Spanning Tree Protocol
1694STP	shielded twisted pair
1695STRG	spanning tree root guard
1696SUN	Stanford University Network
1697SUS	Single Unix Specification
1698SUT	system under test
1699SVC	switched virtual circuit
1700SVG	scalable vector graphics
1701SVGA	Super Video Graphics Array
1702SVI	{switch,switched} virtual interface
1703SVM	secure virtual machine
1704SVM	support vector machine
1705SVR	System V Release
1706SVS	Separate Virtual Space
1707SWF	Shockwave Flash
1708SWIG	simplified wrapper [and] interface generator
1709SYR	symbol timing recovery
1710TA	test assertion
1711TA	transmitter address
1712TAA	transactional asynchronous abort (Intel)
1713TACACS	terminal access controller access-control system
1714TAI	international atomic time
1715TAO	track at once
1716TAOCP	The Art of Computer Programming
1717TAP	Test Anything Protocol
1718TAS	test and set
1719TB	terabyte
1720TBNF	transitional backus-naur form
1721TCB	trace capture buffer
1722TCB	trusted computing base
1723TCC	thermal control circuit
1724TCL	tool command language
1725TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
1726TCQ	tagged command queueing
1727TDC	time [to] digital converter
1728TDD	test-driven development
1729TDD	time division duplex
1730TDM	time division multiplexing
1731TDMA	time division multiple access
1732TDOA	time difference of arrival
1733TDP	thermal design {point,power}
1734TDR	time-domain reflectometry
1735TECO	Text Editor and Corrector
1736TEE	Trusted Execution Environment
1737TFT	thin film transistor
1738TFTP	Trivial File Transfer Protocol
1739TIAS	try it and see
1740TIFF	tagged image file format
1741TITS	try it to see
1742TK	temporal key
1743TKIP	Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
1744TLA	top level aggregator
1745TLB	translation lookaside buffer
1746TLD	top level domain
1747TLER	time-limited error recovery
1748TLI	transport layer interface
1749TLS	thread local storage
1750TLS	transport layer security
1751TLV	type, length, value
1752TM	Turing machine
1753TM	thermal monitor
1754TMDS	transition minimized differential signaling
1755TMG	transmogrifier
1756TMO	timeout
1757TOD	time of day
1758TOE	TCP offload engine
1759TOFU	trust on first use
1760TOS	terms of service
1761TOS	trusted operating system
1762TOS	type of service
1763TOTP	time-based one time password
1764TP	transaction processing
1765TPI	tracks per inch
1766TPM	transactions per minute
1767TPM	trusted platform module
1768TPR	task priority register
1769TPS	transactions per second
1770TPS	transmission parameters signaling
1771TR	task register
1772TR	token ring
1773TRL	timing recovery loop
1774TRNG	true random number generator
1775TS	terminal services
1776TS	time series
1777TS	time stamp
1778TS	transport stream
1779TSAN	Thread Sanitizer
1780TSC	time stamp counter
1781TSD	time stamp disable
1782TSDB	time series database
1783TSL	test, set, lock
1784TSO	TCP segmentation offload
1785TSO	Total Store Ordering
1786TSO	time sharing option
1787TSP	Time-Stamp Protocol
1788TSP	Tunnel Setup Protocol
1789TSP	time synchronization protocol
1790TSP	traveling salesman problem
1791TSS	task state segment
1792TSV	tab-separated values
1793TSX	transaction synchronization extensions (Intel)
1794TTL	time to live
1795TTL	transistor-transistor logic
1796TTM	translation table maps
1797TTY	teletype
1798TU	translation unit
1799TUI	{terminal,text-based,textual} user interface
1800TX	{transmit out,transmitter}
1801TXG	transaction group
1802TZ	time zone
1803UAC	user {access,account} control
1804UAF	use-after-free
1805UART	universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter
1806UAT	user acceptance testing
1807UB	undefined behavior
1808UBSAN	Undefined Behavior Sanitizer
1809UC	uncacheable
1810UCS	unified computing system
1811UCS	uniform-cost search
1812UCS	universal coded character set
1813UDI	uniform driver interface
1814UDMA	ultra DMA
1815UDO	ultra density optical
1816UDP	User Datagram Protocol
1817UDS	Unix Domain Socket
1818UEFI	unified extensible firmware interface
1819UFO	UDP fragmentation offload
1820UFS	Unix File System
1821UGA	universal graphics adapter
1822UI	unit interval
1823UI	user interface
1824UICC	universal integrated circuit card
1825UID	unique identifier
1826UID	user identifier
1827UL	upload
1828ULA	unique local address
1829UMA	uniform memory access
1830UMA	upper memory area
1831UMB	upper memory block
1832UML	unified modeling language
1833UMPC	ultra-mobile PC
1834UPNP	universal plug and play
1835UPS	uninterruptible power supply
1836URI	uniform resource identifier
1837URL	uniform resource locator
1838URN	uniform resource name
1839USART	universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter
1840USB	universal serial bus
1841USWC	uncacheable speculative write combining
1842UT	unit test
1843UTC	coordinated universal time
1844UTF	unicode transformation formats
1845UTP	unshielded twisted pair
1846UTS	UNIX time-sharing
1847UUCP	Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol
1848UUID	universally unique identifier
1849UUOC	useless use of cat
1850UUT	unit under test
1851UX	user experience
1852VA	vertical alignment
1853VA	virtual address
1854VA	volt-ampere
1855VAX	virtual address extension
1856VB	Visual Basic
1857VBR	volume boot record
1858VCA	variable-gain amplifier
1859VCC	common collector voltage
1860VCCP	virtual chassis control protocol
1861VCF	voltage-controlled filter
1862VCM	virtual channel memory
1863VCO	voltage-controlled oscillator
1864VCP	virtual chassis port
1865VCS	version control system
1866VDP	vulnerability disclosure policy
1867VDPAU	Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
1868VES	virtual execution system
1869VESA	Video Electronics Standards Association
1870VFO	variable-frequency oscillator
1871VFS	virtual file system
1872VG	volume group
1873VGA	Video Graphics Array
1874VHD	virtual hard disk
1875VHDCI	very high density cable interconnect
1876VID	{VLAN,voltage level} identifier
1877VIM	Vi IMproved
1878VIPT	virtually indexed, physically tagged
1879VIVT	virtually indexed, virtually tagged
1880VLAN	virtual local area network
1881VLD	variable-length decoding
1882VLIW	very long instruction word
1883VLSI	very large scale integration
1884VLSM	variable length subnet mask
1885VM	virtual {machine,memory}
1886VME	virtual mode extension
1887VMX	vector multimedia extensions
1888VMX	virtual machine extensions
1889VNC	virtual network computing
1890VNI	virtual network identifier
1891VOD	video on demand
1892VPD	vital product data
1893VPN	virtual private network
1894VPWS	virtual private wire service
1895VR	virtual reality
1896VRAM	video random access memory
1897VRF	virtual routing and forwarding
1898VRM	voltage regulator module
1899VROC	Virtual RAID On CPU
1900VRRP	Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
1901VSTP	VLAN Spanning Tree Protocol
1902VTEP	VXLAN tunnel endpoint
1903VTP	VLAN Trunking Protocol
1904VXFS	Veritas file system
1905VXLAN	virtual extensible LAN
1906VXVM	Veritas volume manager
1907W	watt
1908W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
1909WAFL	write anywhere file layout
1910WAMP	Web Application Messaging Protocol
1911WAN	wide area network
1912WAP	Wireless Application Protocol
1913WAP	wireless access point
1914WDDM	Windows Display Driver Model
1915WDM	Wavelength Division Multiplexing
1916WDM	Windows Driver Model
1917WDT	watchdog timer
1918WEP	Wired Equivalent Privacy
1919WFI	wait for interrupt
1920WFQ	weighted fair queuing
1921WH	write hit
1922WHEA	Windows hardware error architecture
1923WIFI	wireless fidelity
1924WLAN	wireless local area network
1925WM	write miss
1926WMF	Windows meta file
1927WMI	Windows Management Instrumentation
1928WOL	Wake-on-LAN
1929WOM	Wake-on-Modem
1930WOR	Wake-on-Ring
1931WORM	write once read many
1932WP	WordPerfect
1933WP	word processor
1934WP	write protect
1935WPA	Wi-Fi Protected Access
1936WPA2	Wi-Fi Protected Access II
1937WPAD	web proxy auto-discovery protocol
1938WPS	Wi-Fi Protected Setup
1939WRAM	window random access memory
1940WS	web services
1941WTC	write through caching
1942WTD	weighted tail drop
1943WWAN	wireless wide area network
1944WWW	world wide web
1945WYSIAYG	what you see is all you get
1946WYSIWYG	what you see is what you get
1947XBAR	crossbar
1948XDMCP	X Display Manager control protocol
1949XER	XML encoding rules
1950XGA	Extended Graphics Array
1951XHR	XMLHttpRequest
1952XIP	execute in place
1953XML	Extensible Markup Language
1954XMSS	eXtended Merkle Signature Scheme
1955XNA	XNA's not acronymed
1956XNS	Xerox network systems
1957XOF	eXtendable-Output Function
1958XOR	exclusive or
1959XP	extreme programming
1960XSI	X/Open System Interface
1961XSL	extensible stylesheet language
1962XSLT	extensible stylesheet language transformations
1963XSS	cross site scripting
1964XT	extended technology
1965XTACACS	extended terminal access controller access-control system
1966XTI	X/Open transport interface
1967XUL	XML user interface language
1968YACC	yet another compiler compiler
1969YAML	YAML ain't markup language
1970YANG	yet another next generation
1971YAWPFAPR	you are welcome; please file a problem report
1972YP	Yellow Pages
1973YTD	year to date
1974ZAP	ZFS attribute processor
1975ZBR	zone bit recording
1976ZFOD	zero-filled on demand
1977ZFS	zettabyte file system
1978ZIF	zero insertion force
1979ZIFS	zero insertion force socket
1980ZIL	ZFS intent log
1981ZMA	zone multicast address
1982ZOI	zero one infinity
1983ZOI	zone of influence
1984ZPL	ZFS Posix layer
1985ZSK	zone signing key
1986ZVOL	ZFS Volume
1987