acronyms.comp revision 1.55
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.55 2005/01/13 17:37:59 kleink 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 41CER canonical encoding rules 42CGA color graphics array 43CGI common gateway interface 44CHS cylinder/head/sector 45CIDR classless inter-domain routing 46CIS contact image sensor 47CLI command line interface 48CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 49CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 50COFF common object file format 51CPU central processing unit 52CRLF carriage return line feed 53CRT cathode ray tube 54CSMA carrier sense multiple access 55CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 56CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 57CSS cascading style sheets 58CTS clear to send 59CVS concurrent versions system 60DAC digital [to] analog converter 61DCE data control equipment 62DCE distributed computing environment 63DCT discrete cosine transform 64DDC display data channel 65DDR double data rate 66DDWG digital display working group 67DER distinguished encoding rules 68DFT discrete fourier transform 69DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 70DIFS distributed inter-frame space 71DLE data link escape 72DMA direct memory access 73DNS domain name system 74DOS denial of service 75DPCM differential pulse code modulation 76DPI dots per inch 77DRAM dynamic random access memory 78DSL digital subscriber line 79DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 80DTD document type definition 81DTE data terminal equipment 82DTE dumb terminal emulator 83DVD digital versatile disc 84DVI digital visual interface 85ECP enhanced capability port 86EDID extended display identification data 87EDO extended data out 88EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 89EFM eight to fourteen modulation 90EGA enhanced graphics array 91EGP exterior gateway protocol 92EISA extended industry standard architecture 93ELF executable and linking format 94EPP enhanced parallel port 95EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 96EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 97ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 98E-XER extended XML encoding rules 99FAT file allocation table 100FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 101FDDI fiber distributed data interface 102FFS fast file system 103FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 104FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 105FM frequency modulation 106FPM fast page mode 107FQDN fully qualified domain name 108FTP file transfer protocol 109GC garbage collector 110GIF graphics interchange format 111GNU gnu's not unix 112GPL gnu/general public license 113GPU graphics processing unit 114GRE generic routing encapsulation 115GUI graphics user interface 116HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 117HTML hyper-text markup language 118HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 119I2O intelligent input/output 120IANA internet assigned number authority 121IC integrated circuit 122ICB internet citizen's band 123ICMP internet control message protocol 124IDE integrated drive electronics 125IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 126IEC international electrotechnical commission 127IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 128IESG internet engineering steering group 129IETF internet engineering task force 130IGP interior gateway protocol 131IKE internet key exchange 132IMAP internet mail access protocol 133INCITS international committee on information technology standards 134IPC interprocess communication 135IO input/output 136IOCTL input/output control 137IP internet protocol 138IPNG internet protocol, next generation 139IPSEC internet protocol security 140IRC internet relay chat 141IRQ interrupt request 142IRTF internet research task force 143ISA industry standard architecture 144ISDN integrated services digital network 145ISI inter-symbol interference 146ISM industrial, scientific and medical 147ISN initial serial number 148ISO international standards organization 149ISOC internet society 150ISP internet service provider 151JPEG joint photographic experts group 152KVA kernel virtual address 153LAN local area network 154LBA logical block addressing 155LCD liquid crystal display 156LCP link control protocol 157LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 158LED light emitting diode 159LIR local internet registry 160LLC logical link control 161LRC longitudinal redundancy check 162LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 163LUN logical unit number 164LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 165MAC medium access control 166MBR master boot record 167MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 168MFM modified frequency modulation 169MIDI musical instrument digital interface 170MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 171MIPS million instructions per second 172MMU memory management unit 173MPEG moving picture experts group 174MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 175MSF minutes seconds frames 176MSS maximum segment size 177MTA mail transfer agent 178MTU maximum transmission unit 179MUA mail user agent 180MWE module width encoding 181NAT network address translation 182NAV network allocation vector 183NCP network control protocol 184NFS network file system 185NIC network interface card 186NIS network information service 187NRZ non-return to zero 188NUMA non uniform memory access 189OCR optical character recognition 190OEM original equipment manufacturer 191OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 192OSF open software foundation 193OSI open systems interconnection 194OTP one time password 195PAM pluggable authentication modules 196PAM pulse amplitude modulation 197PAT port address translation 198PAX portable archive exchange 199PC personal computer 200PCI peripheral component interconnect 201PCM pulse code modulation 202PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 203PDU protocol data unit 204PDP page descriptor page 205PER packed encoding rules 206PERL practical extraction [and] report language 207PGP pretty good privacy 208PIC programmable interrupt controller 209PID process id 210PIN personal identification number 211PIO programmed input/output 212PLL phase locked loop 213PMT photo-multiplier tube 214PNG portable network graphics 215POP post office protocol 216POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 217POST power on self test 218POTS plain old telephone system 219PPP point-to-point protocol 220PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 221PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 222PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 223PROM programmable read only memory 224PTE page table entry 225PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 226PTP page table page 227PSTN public switched telephone network 228PWM pulse width modulation 229QOS quality of service 230RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 231RAM random access memory 232RCS revision control system 233RFC request for comments 234RGB red green blue 235RIP routing information protocol 236RIR regional internet registry 237RISC reduced instruction set computing 238RLE run length encoding 239RLL run length limited 240ROM read only memory 241RPM revolutions per minute 242RTF rich text format 243RTS request to send 244RTT round time trip 245S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 246SACD super audio compact disc 247SAM serial access memory 248SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 249SATA serial advanced technology attachment 250SCSI small computer system interface 251SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 252SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 253SIFS short inter-frame space 254SIP session initiation protocol 255SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 256SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 257SMP symmetric multiprocessing 258SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 259SNMP simple network management protocol 260SPD serial presence detect 261SRAM static random access memory 262SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 263SSH secure shell 264SSL secure sockets layer 265STP shielded twisted pair 266SVGA super video graphics array 267TCL tool command language 268TCP transmission control protocol 269TDD test driven development 270TFT thin film transistor 271TIFF tagged image file format 272TLA top level aggregator 273TLB transition lookaside buffer 274TLD top level domain 275TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 276TR token ring 277TTL time to live 278TTY teletype 279TZ time zone 280UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 281UC uncacheable 282UDO ultra density optical (storage) 283UDP user datagram protocol 284UFS unix file system 285UPS uninterruptible power supply 286URI uniform resource identifier 287URL uniform resource locator 288USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 289USB universal serial bus 290USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 291UTP unshielded twisted pair 292UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 293VAX virtual address extension 294VCM virtual channel memory 295VESA video electronics standards association 296VGA video graphics array 297VLAN virtual local area network 298VLSM variable length subnetting mask 299VM virtual memory 300VPN virtual private network 301VRAM video random access memory 302WAN wide area network 303WAP wireless application protocol 304WLAN wireless local area network 305WRAM window random access memory 306WWW world wide web 307XER XML encoding rules 308XGA extended graphics array 309XML extensible markup language 310XSL extensible stylesheet language 311XT extended technology 312