acronyms.comp revision 1.52
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.52 2005/01/10 14:10:32 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 9AMI alternate mark inversion 10ANSI american national standards institute 11API application programming interface 12APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 13ARP address resolution protocol 14AT advanced technology 15ATA advanced technology attachment 16ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 17ATM asynchronous transfer mode 18ATX advanced technology extended 19BEDO burst extended data output 20BGP border gateway protocol 21BIOS basic input/output system 22BLOB binary large object 23BPS bits per second 24BSD berkeley software distribution 25CAD computer-aided design 26CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 27CCD charge coupled device 28CD compact disc 29CDDA compact disc digital audio 30CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 31CGA color graphics array 32CGI common gateway interface 33CHS cylinder/head/sector 34CIDR classless inter-domain routing 35CIS contact image sensor 36CLI command line interface 37CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 38CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 39COFF common object file format 40CPU central processing unit 41CRLF carriage return line feed 42CRT cathode ray tube 43CSS cascading style sheets 44CVS concurrent versions system 45DAC digital [to] analog converter 46DCT discrete cosine transform 47DDC display data channel 48DDR double data rate 49DDWG digital display working group 50DFT discrete fourier transform 51DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 52DMA direct memory access 53DNS domain name system 54DPCM differential pulse code modulation 55DPI dots per inch 56DRAM dynamic random access memory 57DSL digital subscriber line 58DTD document type definition 59DVD digital versatile disc 60DVI digital visual interface 61ECP enhanced capability port 62EDID extended display identification data 63EDO extended data out 64EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 65EFM eight to fourteen modulation 66EGA enhanced graphics array 67EISA extended industry standard architecture 68ELF executable and linking format 69EPP enhanced parallel port 70EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 71EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 72ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 73FAT file allocation table 74FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 75FDDI fiber distributed data interface 76FFS fast file system 77FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 78FM frequency modulation 79FPM fast page mode 80FQDN fully qualified domain name 81FTP file transfer protocol 82GC garbage collector 83GIF graphics interchange format 84GNU gnu's not unix 85GPL gnu/general public license 86GPU graphics processing unit 87GUI graphics user interface 88HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 89HTML hyper-text markup language 90HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 91I2O intelligent input/output 92IANA internet assigned number authority 93IC integrated circuit 94ICB internet citizen's band 95ICMP internet control message protocol 96IDE integrated drive electronics 97IEC international electrotechnical commission 98IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 99IESG internet engineering steering group 100IETF internet engineering task force 101IKE internet key exchange 102IMAP internet mail access protocol 103INCITS international committee on information technology standards 104IPC interprocess communication 105IO input/output 106IOCTL input/output control 107IP internet protocol 108IPNG internet protocol, next generation 109IPSEC internet protocol security 110IRC internet relay chat 111IRQ interrupt request 112IRTF internet research task force 113ISA industry standard architecture 114ISDN integrated services digital network 115ISO international standards organization 116ISOC internet society 117ISP internet service provider 118JPEG joint photographic experts group 119KVA kernel virtual address 120LAN local area network 121LBA logical block addressing 122LCD liquid crystal display 123LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 124LED light emitting diode 125LIR local internet registry 126LRC longitudinal redundancy check 127LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 128LUN logical unit number 129LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 130MAC media access control 131MBR master boot record 132MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 133MFM modified frequency modulation 134MIDI musical instrument digital interface 135MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 136MIPS million instructions per second 137MMU memory management unit 138MPEG moving picture experts group 139MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 140MSF minutes seconds frames 141MTA mail transfer agent 142MTU maximum transmission unit 143MUA mail user agent 144MWE module width encoding 145NAT network address translation 146NFS network file system 147NIC network interface card 148NIS network information service 149NRZ non-return to zero 150NUMA non uniform memory access 151OCR optical character recognition 152OEM original equipment manufacturer 153OSF open software foundation 154OSI open systems interconnection 155OTP one time password 156PAM pluggable authentication modules 157PAM pulse amplitude modulation 158PAX portable archive exchange 159PC personal computer 160PCI peripheral component interconnect 161PCM pulse code modulation 162PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 163PDP page descriptor page 164PERL practical extraction [and] report language 165PGP pretty good privacy 166PIC programmable interrupt controller 167PID process id 168PIN personal identification number 169PIO programmed input/output 170PMT photo-multiplier tube 171PNG portable network graphics 172POP post office protocol 173POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 174POST power on self test 175POTS plain old telephone system 176PPP point-to-point protocol 177PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 178PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 179PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 180PROM programmable read only memory 181PTE page table entry 182PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 183PTP page table page 184PWM pulse width modulation 185QOS quality of service 186RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 187RAM random access memory 188RCS revision control system 189RFC request for comments 190RGB red green blue 191RISC reduced instruction set computing 192RLE run length encoding 193RLL run length limited 194ROM read only memory 195RPM revolutions per minute 196RTF rich text format 197RTT round time trip 198S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 199SACD super audio compact disc 200SAM serial access memory 201SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 202SATA serial advanced technology attachment 203SCSI small computer system interface 204SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 205SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 206SIP Session Initiation Protocol 207SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 208SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 209SMP symmetric multiprocessing 210SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 211SNMP simple network management protocol 212SPD serial presence detect 213SRAM static random access memory 214SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 215SSH secure shell 216SSL secure sockets layer 217STP shielded twisted pair 218SVGA super video graphics array 219TCL tool command language 220TCP transmission control protocol 221TDD test driven development 222TFT thin film transistor 223TIFF tagged image file format 224TLA top level aggregator 225TLB transition lookaside buffer 226TLD top level domain 227TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 228TTL time to live 229TTY teletype 230TZ time zone 231UC uncacheable 232UDO ultra density optical (storage) 233UDP user datagram protocol 234UFS unix file system 235UPS uninterruptible power supply 236URI uniform resource identifier 237URL uniform resource locator 238USB universal serial bus 239USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 240UTP unshielded twisted pair 241UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 242VAX virtual address extension 243VCM virtual channel memory 244VESA video electronics standards association 245VGA video graphics array 246VLSM variable length subnetting mask 247VM virtual memory 248VPN virtual private network 249VRAM video random access memory 250WAN wide area network 251WAP wireless application protocol 252WRAM window random access memory 253WWW world wide web 254XGA extended graphics array 255XML extensible markup language 256XSL extensible stylesheet language 257XT extended technology 258