acronyms.comp revision 1.53
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.53 2005/01/13 15:01:10 jmmv Exp $ 2 33WHS three-way handshake 4ABI application binary interface 5ACL access control list 6ACPI advanced configuration and power interface 7ADC analog [to] digital converter 8ADPCM adaptive differential pulse code modulation 9ADSL asymmetric digital subscriber line 10AGP accelerated graphics port 11AM amplitude modulation 12AMI alternate mark inversion 13ANSI american national standards institute 14AP access point 15API application programming interface 16APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 17ARP address resolution protocol 18ARQ automatic repeat request 19AS autonomous system 20ASN autonomous system number 21ASCII american standard code for information interchange 22AT advanced technology 23ATA advanced technology attachment 24ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 25ATM asynchronous transfer mode 26ATX advanced technology extended 27BEDO burst extended data output 28BER bit error rate 29BGP border gateway protocol 30BIOS basic input/output system 31BLOB binary large object 32BPS bits per second 33BSD berkeley software distribution 34CAD computer-aided design 35CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 36CCD charge coupled device 37CD compact disc 38CDDA compact disc digital audio 39CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 40CGA color graphics array 41CGI common gateway interface 42CHS cylinder/head/sector 43CIDR classless inter-domain routing 44CIS contact image sensor 45CLI command line interface 46CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 47CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 48COFF common object file format 49CPU central processing unit 50CRLF carriage return line feed 51CRT cathode ray tube 52CSMA carrier sense multiple access 53CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 54CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 55CSS cascading style sheets 56CTS clear to send 57CVS concurrent versions system 58DAC digital [to] analog converter 59DCE data control equipment 60DCE distributed computing environment 61DCT discrete cosine transform 62DDC display data channel 63DDR double data rate 64DDWG digital display working group 65DFT discrete fourier transform 66DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 67DIFS distributed inter-frame space 68DLE data link escape 69DMA direct memory access 70DNS domain name system 71DOS denial of service 72DPCM differential pulse code modulation 73DPI dots per inch 74DRAM dynamic random access memory 75DSL digital subscriber line 76DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 77DTD document type definition 78DTE data terminal equipment 79DTE dumb terminal emulator 80DVD digital versatile disc 81DVI digital visual interface 82ECP enhanced capability port 83EDID extended display identification data 84EDO extended data out 85EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 86EFM eight to fourteen modulation 87EGA enhanced graphics array 88EGP external gateway protocol 89EISA extended industry standard architecture 90ELF executable and linking format 91EPP enhanced parallel port 92EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 93EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 94ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 95FAT file allocation table 96FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 97FDDI fiber distributed data interface 98FFS fast file system 99FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 100FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 101FM frequency modulation 102FPM fast page mode 103FQDN fully qualified domain name 104FTP file transfer protocol 105GC garbage collector 106GIF graphics interchange format 107GNU gnu's not unix 108GPL gnu/general public license 109GPU graphics processing unit 110GRE generic routing encapsulation 111GUI graphics user interface 112HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 113HTML hyper-text markup language 114HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 115I2O intelligent input/output 116IANA internet assigned number authority 117IC integrated circuit 118ICB internet citizen's band 119ICMP internet control message protocol 120IDE integrated drive electronics 121IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 122IEC international electrotechnical commission 123IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 124IESG internet engineering steering group 125IETF internet engineering task force 126IGP interior gateway protocol 127IKE internet key exchange 128IMAP internet mail access protocol 129INCITS international committee on information technology standards 130IPC interprocess communication 131IO input/output 132IOCTL input/output control 133IP internet protocol 134IPNG internet protocol, next generation 135IPSEC internet protocol security 136IRC internet relay chat 137IRQ interrupt request 138IRTF internet research task force 139ISA industry standard architecture 140ISDN integrated services digital network 141ISI inter-symbol interference 142ISM industrial, scientific and medical 143ISN initial serial number 144ISO international standards organization 145ISOC internet society 146ISP internet service provider 147JPEG joint photographic experts group 148KVA kernel virtual address 149LAN local area network 150LBA logical block addressing 151LCD liquid crystal display 152LCP link control protocol 153LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 154LED light emitting diode 155LIR local internet registry 156LLC logical link control 157LRC longitudinal redundancy check 158LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 159LUN logical unit number 160LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 161MAC medium access control 162MBR master boot record 163MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 164MFM modified frequency modulation 165MIDI musical instrument digital interface 166MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 167MIPS million instructions per second 168MMU memory management unit 169MPEG moving picture experts group 170MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 171MSF minutes seconds frames 172MSS maximum segment size 173MTA mail transfer agent 174MTU maximum transmission unit 175MUA mail user agent 176MWE module width encoding 177NAT network address translation 178NAV network allocation vector 179NCP network control protocol 180NFS network file system 181NIC network interface card 182NIS network information service 183NRZ non-return to zero 184NUMA non uniform memory access 185OCR optical character recognition 186OEM original equipment manufacturer 187OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 188OSF open software foundation 189OSI open systems interconnection 190OTP one time password 191PAM pluggable authentication modules 192PAM pulse amplitude modulation 193PAT port address translation 194PAX portable archive exchange 195PC personal computer 196PCI peripheral component interconnect 197PCM pulse code modulation 198PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 199PDU protocol data unit 200PDP page descriptor page 201PERL practical extraction [and] report language 202PGP pretty good privacy 203PIC programmable interrupt controller 204PID process id 205PIN personal identification number 206PIO programmed input/output 207PLL phase lock loop 208PMT photo-multiplier tube 209PNG portable network graphics 210POP post office protocol 211POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 212POST power on self test 213POTS plain old telephone system 214PPP point-to-point protocol 215PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 216PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 217PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 218PROM programmable read only memory 219PTE page table entry 220PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 221PTP page table page 222PSTN public switched telephone network 223PWM pulse width modulation 224QOS quality of service 225RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 226RAM random access memory 227RCS revision control system 228RFC request for comments 229RGB red green blue 230RIP routing information protocol 231RIR regional internet register 232RISC reduced instruction set computing 233RLE run length encoding 234RLL run length limited 235ROM read only memory 236RPM revolutions per minute 237RTF rich text format 238RTS request to send 239RTT round time trip 240S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 241SACD super audio compact disc 242SAM serial access memory 243SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 244SATA serial advanced technology attachment 245SCSI small computer system interface 246SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 247SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 248SIFS short inter-frame space 249SIP session initiation protocol 250SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 251SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 252SMP symmetric multiprocessing 253SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 254SNMP simple network management protocol 255SPD serial presence detect 256SRAM static random access memory 257SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 258SSH secure shell 259SSL secure sockets layer 260STP shielded twisted pair 261SVGA super video graphics array 262TCL tool command language 263TCP transmission control protocol 264TDD test driven development 265TFT thin film transistor 266TIFF tagged image file format 267TLA top level aggregator 268TLB transition lookaside buffer 269TLD top level domain 270TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 271TR token ring 272TTL time to live 273TTY teletype 274TZ time zone 275UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 276UC uncacheable 277UDO ultra density optical (storage) 278UDP user datagram protocol 279UFS unix file system 280UPS uninterruptible power supply 281URI uniform resource identifier 282URL uniform resource locator 283USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 284USB universal serial bus 285USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 286UTP unshielded twisted pair 287UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 288VAX virtual address extension 289VCM virtual channel memory 290VESA video electronics standards association 291VGA video graphics array 292VLAN virtual local area network 293VLSM variable length subnetting mask 294VM virtual memory 295VPN virtual private network 296VRAM video random access memory 297WAN wide area network 298WAP wireless application protocol 299WLAN wireless local area network 300WRAM window random access memory 301WWW world wide web 302XGA extended graphics array 303XML extensible markup language 304XSL extensible stylesheet language 305XT extended technology 306