acronyms.comp revision 1.51
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.51 2005/01/10 13:16:39 jmmv 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 8AM amplitude modulation 9ANSI american national standards institute 10API application programming interface 11APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 12ARP address resolution protocol 13AT advanced technology 14ATA advanced technology attachment 15ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 16ATM asynchronous transfer mode 17ATX advanced technology extended 18BEDO burst extended data output 19BGP border gateway protocol 20BIOS basic input/output system 21BLOB binary large object 22BPS bits per second 23BSD berkeley software distribution 24CAD computer-aided design 25CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 26CCD charge coupled device 27CD compact disc 28CDDA compact disc digital audio 29CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 30CGA color graphics array 31CGI common gateway interface 32CHS cylinder/head/sector 33CIDR classless inter-domain routing 34CIS contact image sensor 35CLI command line interface 36CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 37CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 38COFF common object file format 39CPU central processing unit 40CRLF carriage return line feed 41CRT cathode ray tube 42CSS cascading style sheets 43CVS concurrent versions system 44DAC digital [to] analog converter 45DCT discrete cosine transform 46DDC display data channel 47DDR double data rate 48DDWG digital display working group 49DFT discrete fourier transform 50DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 51DMA direct memory access 52DNS domain name system 53DPCM differential pulse code modulation 54DPI dots per inch 55DRAM dynamic random access memory 56DSL digital subscriber line 57DTD document type definition 58DVD digital versatile disc 59DVI digital visual interface 60ECP enhanced capability port 61EDID extended display identification data 62EDO extended data out 63EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 64EFM eight to fourteen modulation 65EGA enhanced graphics array 66EISA extended industry standard architecture 67ELF executable and linking format 68EPP enhanced parallel port 69EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 70EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 71ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 72FAT file allocation table 73FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 74FDDI fiber distributed data interface 75FFS fast file system 76FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 77FM frequency modulation 78FPM fast page mode 79FQDN fully qualified domain name 80FTP file transfer protocol 81GC garbage collector 82GIF graphics interchange format 83GNU gnu's not unix 84GPL gnu/general public license 85GPU graphics processing unit 86GUI graphics user interface 87HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 88HTML hyper-text markup language 89HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 90I2O intelligent input/output 91IANA internet assigned number authority 92IC integrated circuit 93ICB internet citizen's band 94ICMP internet control message protocol 95IDE integrated drive electronics 96IEC international electrotechnical commission 97IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 98IESG internet engineering steering group 99IETF internet engineering task force 100IKE internet key exchange 101IMAP internet mail access protocol 102INCITS international committee on information technology standards 103IPC interprocess communication 104IO input/output 105IOCTL input/output control 106IP internet protocol 107IPNG internet protocol, next generation 108IPSEC internet protocol security 109IRC internet relay chat 110IRQ interrupt request 111IRTF internet research task force 112ISA industry standard architecture 113ISDN integrated services digital network 114ISO international standards organization 115ISOC internet society 116ISP internet service provider 117JPEG joint photographic experts group 118KVA kernel virtual address 119LAN local area network 120LBA logical block addressing 121LCD liquid crystal display 122LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 123LED light emitting diode 124LIR local internet registry 125LRC longitudinal redundancy check 126LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 127LUN logical unit number 128LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 129MAC media access control 130MBR master boot record 131MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 132MFM modified frequency modulation 133MIDI musical instrument digital interface 134MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 135MIPS million instructions per second 136MMU memory management unit 137MPEG moving picture experts group 138MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 139MSF minutes seconds frames 140MTA mail transfer agent 141MTU maximum transmission unit 142MUA mail user agent 143MWE module width encoding 144NAT network address translation 145NFS network file system 146NIC network interface card 147NIS network information service 148NRZ non-return to zero 149NUMA non uniform memory access 150OCR optical character recognition 151OEM original equipment manufacturer 152OSF open software foundation 153OSI open systems interconnection 154OTP one time password 155PAM pluggable authentication modules 156PAM pulse amplitude modulation 157PAX portable archive exchange 158PC personal computer 159PCI peripheral component interconnect 160PCM pulse code modulation 161PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 162PDP page descriptor page 163PERL practical extraction [and] report language 164PGP pretty good privacy 165PIC programmable interrupt controller 166PID process id 167PIN personal identification number 168PIO programmed input/output 169PMT photo-multiplier tube 170PNG portable network graphics 171POP post office protocol 172POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 173POST power on self test 174POTS plain old telephone system 175PPP point-to-point protocol 176PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 177PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 178PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 179PROM programmable read only memory 180PTE page table entry 181PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 182PTP page table page 183PWM pulse width modulation 184QOS quality of service 185RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 186RAM random access memory 187RCS revision control system 188RFC request for comments 189RGB red green blue 190RISC reduced instruction set computing 191RLE run length encoding 192RLL run length limited 193ROM read only memory 194RPM revolutions per minute 195RTF rich text format 196RTT round time trip 197S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 198SACD super audio compact disc 199SAM serial access memory 200SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 201SATA serial advanced technology attachment 202SCSI small computer system interface 203SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 204SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 205SIP Session Initiation Protocol 206SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 207SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 208SMP symmetric multiprocessing 209SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 210SNMP simple network management protocol 211SPD serial presence detect 212SRAM static random access memory 213SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 214SSH secure shell 215SSL secure sockets layer 216STP shielded twisted pair 217SVGA super video graphics array 218TCL tool command language 219TCP transmission control protocol 220TDD test driven development 221TFT thin film transistor 222TIFF tagged image file format 223TLA top level aggregator 224TLB transition lookaside buffer 225TLD top level domain 226TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 227TTL time to live 228TTY teletype 229TZ time zone 230UC uncacheable 231UDO ultra density optical (storage) 232UDP user datagram protocol 233UFS unix file system 234UPS uninterruptible power supply 235URI uniform resource identifier 236URL uniform resource locator 237USB universal serial bus 238USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 239UTP unshielded twisted pair 240UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 241VAX virtual address extension 242VCM virtual channel memory 243VESA video electronics standards association 244VGA video graphics array 245VLSM variable length subnetting mask 246VM virtual memory 247VPN virtual private network 248VRAM video random access memory 249WAN wide area network 250WAP wireless application protocol 251WRAM window random access memory 252WWW world wide web 253XGA extended graphics array 254XML extensible markup language 255XSL extensible stylesheet language 256XT extended technology 257