acronyms.comp revision 1.42
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.42 2004/04/01 04:35:45 simonb 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 9APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 10ARP address resolution protocol 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 61FDDI fiber distributed data interface 62FFS fast file system 63FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 64FPM fast page mode 65FQDN fully qualified domain name 66FTP file transfer protocol 67GIF graphics interchange format 68GNU gnu's not unix 69GPL gnu/general public license 70GPU graphics processing unit 71GUI graphics user interface 72HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 73HTML hyper-text markup language 74HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 75I2O intelligent input/output 76IANA internet assigned number authority 77IC integrated circuit 78ICB internet citizen's band 79ICMP internet control message protocol 80IDE integrated drive electronics 81IEC international electrotechnical commission 82IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 83IESG internet engineering steering group 84IETF internet engineering task force 85IKE internet key exchange 86IMAP internet mail access protocol 87INCITS international committee on information technology standards 88IO input/output 89IOCTL input/output control 90IP internet protocol 91IPNG internet protocol, next generation 92IPSEC internet protocol security 93IRC internet relay chat 94IRQ interrupt request 95IRTF internet research task force 96ISA industry standard architecture 97ISDN integrated services digital network 98ISO international standards organization 99ISOC internet society 100ISP internet service provider 101JPEG joint photographic experts group 102KVA kernel virtual address 103LAN local area network 104LBA logical block addressing 105LCD liquid crystal display 106LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 107LED light emitting diode 108LIR local internet registry 109LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 110LUN logical unit number 111MAC media access control 112MBR master boot record 113MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 114MIDI musical instrument digital interface 115MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 116MIPS million instructions per second 117MMU memory management unit 118MPEG moving picture experts group 119MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 120MTA mail transfer agent 121MTU maximum transmission unit 122MUA mail user agent 123NAT network address translation 124NFS network file system 125NIC network interface card 126NIS network information service 127NUMA non uniform memory access 128OEM original equipment manufacturer 129OSF open software foundation 130OSI open systems interconnection 131OTP one time password 132PAM pluggable authentication modules 133PAX portable archive exchange 134PCI peripheral component interconnect 135PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 136PDP page descriptor page 137PERL practical extraction [and] report language 138PGP pretty good privacy 139PIC programmable interrupt controller 140PID process id 141PIO programmed input/output 142PNG portable network graphics 143POP post office protocol 144POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 145POST power on self test 146POTS plain old telephone system 147PPP point-to-point protocol 148PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 149PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 150PROM programmable read only memory 151PTE page table entry 152PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 153PTP page table page 154RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 155RAM random access memory 156RCS revision control system 157RFC request for comments 158RGB red green blue 159RISC reduced instruction set computing 160ROM read only memory 161RPM revolutions per minute 162RTF rich text format 163S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 164SACD super audio compact disc 165SAM serial access memory 166SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 167SATA serial advanced technology attachment 168SCSI small computer system interface 169SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 170SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 171SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 172SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 173SMP symmetric multiprocessing 174SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 175SNMP simple network management protocol 176SPD serial presence detect 177SRAM static random access memory 178SSH secure shell 179SSL secure sockets layer 180STP shielded twisted pair 181SVGA super video graphics array 182TCL tool command language 183TCP transmission control protocol 184TFT thin film transistor 185TIFF tagged image file format 186TLA top level aggregator 187TLB transition lookaside buffer 188TLD top level domain 189TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 190TTY teletype 191TZ time zone 192UC uncacheable 193UDP user datagram protocol 194UPS uninterruptible power supply 195URI uniform resource identifier 196URL uniform resource locator 197USB universal serial bus 198USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 199UTP unshielded twisted pair 200UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 201VAX virtual address extension 202VCM virtual channel memory 203VESA video electronics standards association 204VGA video graphics array 205VM virtual memory 206VPN virtual private network 207VRAM video random access memory 208WAN wide area network 209WAP wireless application protocol 210WRAM window random access memory 211WWW world wide web 212XGA extended graphics array 213XML extensible markup language 214XSL extensible stylesheet language 215XT extended technology 216