acronyms.comp revision 1.45
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.45 2004/06/03 18:31:53 jmmv 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 67GC garbage collector 68GIF graphics interchange format 69GNU gnu's not unix 70GPL gnu/general public license 71GPU graphics processing unit 72GUI graphics user interface 73HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 74HTML hyper-text markup language 75HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 76I2O intelligent input/output 77IANA internet assigned number authority 78IC integrated circuit 79ICB internet citizen's band 80ICMP internet control message protocol 81IDE integrated drive electronics 82IEC international electrotechnical commission 83IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 84IESG internet engineering steering group 85IETF internet engineering task force 86IKE internet key exchange 87IMAP internet mail access protocol 88INCITS international committee on information technology standards 89IPC interprocess communication 90IO input/output 91IOCTL input/output control 92IP internet protocol 93IPNG internet protocol, next generation 94IPSEC internet protocol security 95IRC internet relay chat 96IRQ interrupt request 97IRTF internet research task force 98ISA industry standard architecture 99ISDN integrated services digital network 100ISO international standards organization 101ISOC internet society 102ISP internet service provider 103JPEG joint photographic experts group 104KVA kernel virtual address 105LAN local area network 106LBA logical block addressing 107LCD liquid crystal display 108LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 109LED light emitting diode 110LIR local internet registry 111LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 112LUN logical unit number 113MAC media access control 114MBR master boot record 115MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 116MIDI musical instrument digital interface 117MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 118MIPS million instructions per second 119MMU memory management unit 120MPEG moving picture experts group 121MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 122MTA mail transfer agent 123MTU maximum transmission unit 124MUA mail user agent 125NAT network address translation 126NFS network file system 127NIC network interface card 128NIS network information service 129NUMA non uniform memory access 130OEM original equipment manufacturer 131OSF open software foundation 132OSI open systems interconnection 133OTP one time password 134PAM pluggable authentication modules 135PAX portable archive exchange 136PCI peripheral component interconnect 137PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 138PDP page descriptor page 139PERL practical extraction [and] report language 140PGP pretty good privacy 141PIC programmable interrupt controller 142PID process id 143PIO programmed input/output 144PNG portable network graphics 145POP post office protocol 146POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 147POST power on self test 148POTS plain old telephone system 149PPP point-to-point protocol 150PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 151PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 152PROM programmable read only memory 153PTE page table entry 154PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 155PTP page table page 156RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 157RAM random access memory 158RCS revision control system 159RFC request for comments 160RGB red green blue 161RISC reduced instruction set computing 162ROM read only memory 163RPM revolutions per minute 164RTF rich text format 165S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 166SACD super audio compact disc 167SAM serial access memory 168SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 169SATA serial advanced technology attachment 170SCSI small computer system interface 171SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 172SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 173SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 174SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 175SMP symmetric multiprocessing 176SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 177SNMP simple network management protocol 178SPD serial presence detect 179SRAM static random access memory 180SSH secure shell 181SSL secure sockets layer 182STP shielded twisted pair 183SVGA super video graphics array 184TCL tool command language 185TCP transmission control protocol 186TDD test driven development 187TFT thin film transistor 188TIFF tagged image file format 189TLA top level aggregator 190TLB transition lookaside buffer 191TLD top level domain 192TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 193TTY teletype 194TZ time zone 195UC uncacheable 196UDP user datagram protocol 197UPS uninterruptible power supply 198URI uniform resource identifier 199URL uniform resource locator 200USB universal serial bus 201USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 202UTP unshielded twisted pair 203UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 204VAX virtual address extension 205VCM virtual channel memory 206VESA video electronics standards association 207VGA video graphics array 208VM virtual memory 209VPN virtual private network 210VRAM video random access memory 211WAN wide area network 212WAP wireless application protocol 213WRAM window random access memory 214WWW world wide web 215XGA extended graphics array 216XML extensible markup language 217XSL extensible stylesheet language 218XT extended technology 219