acronyms.comp revision 1.50
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.50 2005/01/09 00:09:57 salo Exp $ 2 3ABI application binary interface 4ACPI advanced configuration and power interface 5ADC analog [to] digital converter 6ADPCM adaptive differential pulse code modulation 7AGP accelerated graphics port 8ANSI american national standards institute 9API application programming interface 10APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 11ARP address resolution protocol 12AT advanced technology 13ATA advanced technology attachment 14ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 15ATM asynchronous transfer mode 16ATX advanced technology extended 17BEDO burst extended data output 18BGP border gateway protocol 19BIOS basic input/output system 20BLOB binary large object 21BPS bits per second 22BSD berkeley software distribution 23CAD computer-aided design 24CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 25CCD charge coupled device 26CD compact disc 27CDDA compact disc digital audio 28CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 29CGA color graphics array 30CGI common gateway interface 31CHS cylinder/head/sector 32CIDR classless inter-domain routing 33CIS contact image sensor 34CLI command line interface 35CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 36CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 37COFF common object file format 38CPU central processing unit 39CRLF carriage return line feed 40CRT cathode ray tube 41CSS cascading style sheets 42CVS concurrent versions system 43DAC digital [to] analog converter 44DCT discrete cosine transform 45DDC display data channel 46DDR double data rate 47DDWG digital display working group 48DFT discrete fourier transform 49DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 50DMA direct memory access 51DNS domain name system 52DPCM differential pulse code modulation 53DPI dots per inch 54DRAM dynamic random access memory 55DSL digital subscriber line 56DTD document type definition 57DVD digital versatile disc 58DVI digital visual interface 59ECP enhanced capability port 60EDID extended display identification data 61EDO extended data out 62EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 63EFM eight to fourteen modulation 64EGA enhanced graphics array 65EISA extended industry standard architecture 66ELF executable and linking format 67EPP enhanced parallel port 68EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 69ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 70FAT file allocation table 71FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 72FDDI fiber distributed data interface 73FFS fast file system 74FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 75FPM fast page mode 76FQDN fully qualified domain name 77FTP file transfer protocol 78GC garbage collector 79GIF graphics interchange format 80GNU gnu's not unix 81GPL gnu/general public license 82GPU graphics processing unit 83GUI graphics user interface 84HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 85HTML hyper-text markup language 86HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 87I2O intelligent input/output 88IANA internet assigned number authority 89IC integrated circuit 90ICB internet citizen's band 91ICMP internet control message protocol 92IDE integrated drive electronics 93IEC international electrotechnical commission 94IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 95IESG internet engineering steering group 96IETF internet engineering task force 97IKE internet key exchange 98IMAP internet mail access protocol 99INCITS international committee on information technology standards 100IPC interprocess communication 101IO input/output 102IOCTL input/output control 103IP internet protocol 104IPNG internet protocol, next generation 105IPSEC internet protocol security 106IRC internet relay chat 107IRQ interrupt request 108IRTF internet research task force 109ISA industry standard architecture 110ISDN integrated services digital network 111ISO international standards organization 112ISOC internet society 113ISP internet service provider 114JPEG joint photographic experts group 115KVA kernel virtual address 116LAN local area network 117LBA logical block addressing 118LCD liquid crystal display 119LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 120LED light emitting diode 121LIR local internet registry 122LRC longitudinal redundancy check 123LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 124LUN logical unit number 125LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 126MAC media access control 127MBR master boot record 128MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 129MIDI musical instrument digital interface 130MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 131MIPS million instructions per second 132MMU memory management unit 133MPEG moving picture experts group 134MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 135MSF minutes seconds frames 136MTA mail transfer agent 137MTU maximum transmission unit 138MUA mail user agent 139MWE module width encoding 140NAT network address translation 141NFS network file system 142NIC network interface card 143NIS network information service 144NRZ non-return to zero 145NUMA non uniform memory access 146OCR optical character recognition 147OEM original equipment manufacturer 148OSF open software foundation 149OSI open systems interconnection 150OTP one time password 151PAM pluggable authentication modules 152PAM pulse amplitude modulation 153PAX portable archive exchange 154PC personal computer 155PCI peripheral component interconnect 156PCM pulse code modulation 157PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 158PDP page descriptor page 159PERL practical extraction [and] report language 160PGP pretty good privacy 161PIC programmable interrupt controller 162PID process id 163PIN personal identification number 164PIO programmed input/output 165PMT photo-multiplier tube 166PNG portable network graphics 167POP post office protocol 168POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 169POST power on self test 170POTS plain old telephone system 171PPP point-to-point protocol 172PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 173PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 174PROM programmable read only memory 175PTE page table entry 176PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 177PTP page table page 178PWM pulse width modulation 179QOS quality of service 180RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 181RAM random access memory 182RCS revision control system 183RFC request for comments 184RGB red green blue 185RISC reduced instruction set computing 186RLE run length encoding 187ROM read only memory 188RPM revolutions per minute 189RTF rich text format 190RTT round time trip 191S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 192SACD super audio compact disc 193SAM serial access memory 194SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 195SATA serial advanced technology attachment 196SCSI small computer system interface 197SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 198SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 199SIP Session Initiation Protocol 200SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 201SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 202SMP symmetric multiprocessing 203SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 204SNMP simple network management protocol 205SPD serial presence detect 206SRAM static random access memory 207SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 208SSH secure shell 209SSL secure sockets layer 210STP shielded twisted pair 211SVGA super video graphics array 212TCL tool command language 213TCP transmission control protocol 214TDD test driven development 215TFT thin film transistor 216TIFF tagged image file format 217TLA top level aggregator 218TLB transition lookaside buffer 219TLD top level domain 220TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 221TTL time to live 222TTY teletype 223TZ time zone 224UC uncacheable 225UDO ultra density optical (storage) 226UDP user datagram protocol 227UFS unix file system 228UPS uninterruptible power supply 229URI uniform resource identifier 230URL uniform resource locator 231USB universal serial bus 232USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 233UTP unshielded twisted pair 234UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 235VAX virtual address extension 236VCM virtual channel memory 237VESA video electronics standards association 238VGA video graphics array 239VLSM variable length subnetting mask 240VM virtual memory 241VPN virtual private network 242VRAM video random access memory 243WAN wide area network 244WAP wireless application protocol 245WRAM window random access memory 246WWW world wide web 247XGA extended graphics array 248XML extensible markup language 249XSL extensible stylesheet language 250XT extended technology 251