acronyms.comp revision 1.43
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.43 2004/04/29 02:29:24 jschauma 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 88IPC interprocess communication 89IO input/output 90IOCTL input/output control 91IP internet protocol 92IPNG internet protocol, next generation 93IPSEC internet protocol security 94IRC internet relay chat 95IRQ interrupt request 96IRTF internet research task force 97ISA industry standard architecture 98ISDN integrated services digital network 99ISO international standards organization 100ISOC internet society 101ISP internet service provider 102JPEG joint photographic experts group 103KVA kernel virtual address 104LAN local area network 105LBA logical block addressing 106LCD liquid crystal display 107LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 108LED light emitting diode 109LIR local internet registry 110LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 111LUN logical unit number 112MAC media access control 113MBR master boot record 114MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 115MIDI musical instrument digital interface 116MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 117MIPS million instructions per second 118MMU memory management unit 119MPEG moving picture experts group 120MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 121MTA mail transfer agent 122MTU maximum transmission unit 123MUA mail user agent 124NAT network address translation 125NFS network file system 126NIC network interface card 127NIS network information service 128NUMA non uniform memory access 129OEM original equipment manufacturer 130OSF open software foundation 131OSI open systems interconnection 132OTP one time password 133PAM pluggable authentication modules 134PAX portable archive exchange 135PCI peripheral component interconnect 136PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 137PDP page descriptor page 138PERL practical extraction [and] report language 139PGP pretty good privacy 140PIC programmable interrupt controller 141PID process id 142PIO programmed input/output 143PNG portable network graphics 144POP post office protocol 145POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 146POST power on self test 147POTS plain old telephone system 148PPP point-to-point protocol 149PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 150PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 151PROM programmable read only memory 152PTE page table entry 153PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 154PTP page table page 155RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 156RAM random access memory 157RCS revision control system 158RFC request for comments 159RGB red green blue 160RISC reduced instruction set computing 161ROM read only memory 162RPM revolutions per minute 163RTF rich text format 164S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 165SACD super audio compact disc 166SAM serial access memory 167SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 168SATA serial advanced technology attachment 169SCSI small computer system interface 170SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 171SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 172SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 173SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 174SMP symmetric multiprocessing 175SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 176SNMP simple network management protocol 177SPD serial presence detect 178SRAM static random access memory 179SSH secure shell 180SSL secure sockets layer 181STP shielded twisted pair 182SVGA super video graphics array 183TCL tool command language 184TCP transmission control protocol 185TFT thin film transistor 186TIFF tagged image file format 187TLA top level aggregator 188TLB transition lookaside buffer 189TLD top level domain 190TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 191TTY teletype 192TZ time zone 193UC uncacheable 194UDP user datagram protocol 195UPS uninterruptible power supply 196URI uniform resource identifier 197URL uniform resource locator 198USB universal serial bus 199USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 200UTP unshielded twisted pair 201UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 202VAX virtual address extension 203VCM virtual channel memory 204VESA video electronics standards association 205VGA video graphics array 206VM virtual memory 207VPN virtual private network 208VRAM video random access memory 209WAN wide area network 210WAP wireless application protocol 211WRAM window random access memory 212WWW world wide web 213XGA extended graphics array 214XML extensible markup language 215XSL extensible stylesheet language 216XT extended technology 217