acronyms.comp revision 1.56
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.56 2005/01/13 18:01:13 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 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 189OCL object constraint language 190OCR optical character recognition 191OEM original equipment manufacturer 192OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 193OSF open software foundation 194OSI open systems interconnection 195OTP one time password 196PAM pluggable authentication modules 197PAM pulse amplitude modulation 198PAT port address translation 199PAX portable archive exchange 200PC personal computer 201PCI peripheral component interconnect 202PCM pulse code modulation 203PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 204PDU protocol data unit 205PDP page descriptor page 206PER packed encoding rules 207PERL practical extraction [and] report language 208PGP pretty good privacy 209PIC programmable interrupt controller 210PID process id 211PIN personal identification number 212PIO programmed input/output 213PLL phase locked loop 214PMT photo-multiplier tube 215PNG portable network graphics 216POP post office protocol 217POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 218POST power on self test 219POTS plain old telephone system 220PPP point-to-point protocol 221PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 222PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 223PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 224PROM programmable read only memory 225PTE page table entry 226PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 227PTP page table page 228PSTN public switched telephone network 229PWM pulse width modulation 230QOS quality of service 231RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 232RAM random access memory 233RCS revision control system 234RFC request for comments 235RGB red green blue 236RIP routing information protocol 237RIR regional internet registry 238RISC reduced instruction set computing 239RLE run length encoding 240RLL run length limited 241ROM read only memory 242RPM revolutions per minute 243RTF rich text format 244RTS request to send 245RTT round time trip 246S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 247SACD super audio compact disc 248SAM serial access memory 249SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 250SATA serial advanced technology attachment 251SCSI small computer system interface 252SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 253SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 254SIFS short inter-frame space 255SIP session initiation protocol 256SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 257SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 258SMP symmetric multiprocessing 259SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 260SNMP simple network management protocol 261SPD serial presence detect 262SRAM static random access memory 263SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 264SSH secure shell 265SSL secure sockets layer 266STP shielded twisted pair 267SVGA super video graphics array 268TCL tool command language 269TCP transmission control protocol 270TDD test driven development 271TFT thin film transistor 272TIFF tagged image file format 273TLA top level aggregator 274TLB transition lookaside buffer 275TLD top level domain 276TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 277TR token ring 278TTL time to live 279TTY teletype 280TZ time zone 281UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 282UC uncacheable 283UDO ultra density optical (storage) 284UDP user datagram protocol 285UFS unix file system 286UML unified modeling language 287UPS uninterruptible power supply 288URI uniform resource identifier 289URL uniform resource locator 290USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 291USB universal serial bus 292USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 293UTP unshielded twisted pair 294UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 295VAX virtual address extension 296VCM virtual channel memory 297VESA video electronics standards association 298VGA video graphics array 299VLAN virtual local area network 300VLSM variable length subnetting mask 301VM virtual memory 302VPN virtual private network 303VRAM video random access memory 304WAN wide area network 305WAP wireless application protocol 306WLAN wireless local area network 307WRAM window random access memory 308WWW world wide web 309XER XML encoding rules 310XGA extended graphics array 311XML extensible markup language 312XSL extensible stylesheet language 313XT extended technology 314