acronyms.comp revision 1.54
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.54 2005/01/13 17:03:03 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 basic encoding rules 29BER bit error rate 30BGP border gateway protocol 31BIOS basic input/output system 32BLOB binary large object 33BPS bits per second 34BSD berkeley software distribution 35CAD computer-aided design 36CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 37CCD charge coupled device 38CD compact disc 39CDDA compact disc digital audio 40CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 41CGA color graphics array 42CGI common gateway interface 43CHS cylinder/head/sector 44CIDR classless inter-domain routing 45CIS contact image sensor 46CLI command line interface 47CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 48CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 49COFF common object file format 50CPU central processing unit 51CRLF carriage return line feed 52CRT cathode ray tube 53CSMA carrier sense multiple access 54CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 55CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 56CSS cascading style sheets 57CTS clear to send 58CVS concurrent versions system 59DAC digital [to] analog converter 60DCE data control equipment 61DCE distributed computing environment 62DCT discrete cosine transform 63DDC display data channel 64DDR double data rate 65DDWG digital display working group 66DFT discrete fourier transform 67DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 68DIFS distributed inter-frame space 69DLE data link escape 70DMA direct memory access 71DNS domain name system 72DOS denial of service 73DPCM differential pulse code modulation 74DPI dots per inch 75DRAM dynamic random access memory 76DSL digital subscriber line 77DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 78DTD document type definition 79DTE data terminal equipment 80DTE dumb terminal emulator 81DVD digital versatile disc 82DVI digital visual interface 83ECP enhanced capability port 84EDID extended display identification data 85EDO extended data out 86EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 87EFM eight to fourteen modulation 88EGA enhanced graphics array 89EGP exterior gateway protocol 90EISA extended industry standard architecture 91ELF executable and linking format 92EPP enhanced parallel port 93EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 94EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 95ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 96FAT file allocation table 97FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 98FDDI fiber distributed data interface 99FFS fast file system 100FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 101FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 102FM frequency modulation 103FPM fast page mode 104FQDN fully qualified domain name 105FTP file transfer protocol 106GC garbage collector 107GIF graphics interchange format 108GNU gnu's not unix 109GPL gnu/general public license 110GPU graphics processing unit 111GRE generic routing encapsulation 112GUI graphics user interface 113HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 114HTML hyper-text markup language 115HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 116I2O intelligent input/output 117IANA internet assigned number authority 118IC integrated circuit 119ICB internet citizen's band 120ICMP internet control message protocol 121IDE integrated drive electronics 122IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 123IEC international electrotechnical commission 124IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 125IESG internet engineering steering group 126IETF internet engineering task force 127IGP interior gateway protocol 128IKE internet key exchange 129IMAP internet mail access protocol 130INCITS international committee on information technology standards 131IPC interprocess communication 132IO input/output 133IOCTL input/output control 134IP internet protocol 135IPNG internet protocol, next generation 136IPSEC internet protocol security 137IRC internet relay chat 138IRQ interrupt request 139IRTF internet research task force 140ISA industry standard architecture 141ISDN integrated services digital network 142ISI inter-symbol interference 143ISM industrial, scientific and medical 144ISN initial serial number 145ISO international standards organization 146ISOC internet society 147ISP internet service provider 148JPEG joint photographic experts group 149KVA kernel virtual address 150LAN local area network 151LBA logical block addressing 152LCD liquid crystal display 153LCP link control protocol 154LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 155LED light emitting diode 156LIR local internet registry 157LLC logical link control 158LRC longitudinal redundancy check 159LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 160LUN logical unit number 161LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 162MAC medium access control 163MBR master boot record 164MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 165MFM modified frequency modulation 166MIDI musical instrument digital interface 167MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 168MIPS million instructions per second 169MMU memory management unit 170MPEG moving picture experts group 171MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 172MSF minutes seconds frames 173MSS maximum segment size 174MTA mail transfer agent 175MTU maximum transmission unit 176MUA mail user agent 177MWE module width encoding 178NAT network address translation 179NAV network allocation vector 180NCP network control protocol 181NFS network file system 182NIC network interface card 183NIS network information service 184NRZ non-return to zero 185NUMA non uniform memory access 186OCR optical character recognition 187OEM original equipment manufacturer 188OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 189OSF open software foundation 190OSI open systems interconnection 191OTP one time password 192PAM pluggable authentication modules 193PAM pulse amplitude modulation 194PAT port address translation 195PAX portable archive exchange 196PC personal computer 197PCI peripheral component interconnect 198PCM pulse code modulation 199PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 200PDU protocol data unit 201PDP page descriptor page 202PERL practical extraction [and] report language 203PGP pretty good privacy 204PIC programmable interrupt controller 205PID process id 206PIN personal identification number 207PIO programmed input/output 208PLL phase locked loop 209PMT photo-multiplier tube 210PNG portable network graphics 211POP post office protocol 212POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 213POST power on self test 214POTS plain old telephone system 215PPP point-to-point protocol 216PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 217PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 218PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 219PROM programmable read only memory 220PTE page table entry 221PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 222PTP page table page 223PSTN public switched telephone network 224PWM pulse width modulation 225QOS quality of service 226RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 227RAM random access memory 228RCS revision control system 229RFC request for comments 230RGB red green blue 231RIP routing information protocol 232RIR regional internet registry 233RISC reduced instruction set computing 234RLE run length encoding 235RLL run length limited 236ROM read only memory 237RPM revolutions per minute 238RTF rich text format 239RTS request to send 240RTT round time trip 241S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 242SACD super audio compact disc 243SAM serial access memory 244SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 245SATA serial advanced technology attachment 246SCSI small computer system interface 247SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 248SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 249SIFS short inter-frame space 250SIP session initiation protocol 251SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 252SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 253SMP symmetric multiprocessing 254SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 255SNMP simple network management protocol 256SPD serial presence detect 257SRAM static random access memory 258SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 259SSH secure shell 260SSL secure sockets layer 261STP shielded twisted pair 262SVGA super video graphics array 263TCL tool command language 264TCP transmission control protocol 265TDD test driven development 266TFT thin film transistor 267TIFF tagged image file format 268TLA top level aggregator 269TLB transition lookaside buffer 270TLD top level domain 271TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 272TR token ring 273TTL time to live 274TTY teletype 275TZ time zone 276UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 277UC uncacheable 278UDO ultra density optical (storage) 279UDP user datagram protocol 280UFS unix file system 281UPS uninterruptible power supply 282URI uniform resource identifier 283URL uniform resource locator 284USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 285USB universal serial bus 286USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 287UTP unshielded twisted pair 288UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 289VAX virtual address extension 290VCM virtual channel memory 291VESA video electronics standards association 292VGA video graphics array 293VLAN virtual local area network 294VLSM variable length subnetting mask 295VM virtual memory 296VPN virtual private network 297VRAM video random access memory 298WAN wide area network 299WAP wireless application protocol 300WLAN wireless local area network 301WRAM window random access memory 302WWW world wide web 303XGA extended graphics array 304XML extensible markup language 305XSL extensible stylesheet language 306XT extended technology 307