acronyms.comp revision 1.57
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.57 2005/01/14 14:20:46 wiz 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 104FIR fast infrared 105FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 106FM frequency modulation 107FPM fast page mode 108FQDN fully qualified domain name 109FTP file transfer protocol 110GC garbage collector 111GIF graphics interchange format 112GNU gnu's not unix 113GPL gnu/general public license 114GPU graphics processing unit 115GRE generic routing encapsulation 116GUI graphics user interface 117HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 118HTML hyper-text markup language 119HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 120I2O intelligent input/output 121IANA internet assigned number authority 122IC integrated circuit 123ICB internet citizen's band 124ICMP internet control message protocol 125IDE integrated drive electronics 126IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 127IEC international electrotechnical commission 128IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 129IESG internet engineering steering group 130IETF internet engineering task force 131IGP interior gateway protocol 132IKE internet key exchange 133IMAP internet mail access protocol 134INCITS international committee on information technology standards 135IPC interprocess communication 136IO input/output 137IOCTL input/output control 138IP internet protocol 139IPNG internet protocol, next generation 140IPSEC internet protocol security 141IRC internet relay chat 142IRQ interrupt request 143IRTF internet research task force 144ISA industry standard architecture 145ISDN integrated services digital network 146ISI inter-symbol interference 147ISM industrial, scientific and medical 148ISN initial serial number 149ISO international standards organization 150ISOC internet society 151ISP internet service provider 152JPEG joint photographic experts group 153KVA kernel virtual address 154LAN local area network 155LBA logical block addressing 156LCD liquid crystal display 157LCP link control protocol 158LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 159LED light emitting diode 160LIR local internet registry 161LLC logical link control 162LRC longitudinal redundancy check 163LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 164LUN logical unit number 165LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 166MAC medium access control 167MBR master boot record 168MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 169MFM modified frequency modulation 170MIDI musical instrument digital interface 171MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 172MIPS million instructions per second 173MMU memory management unit 174MPEG moving picture experts group 175MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 176MSF minutes seconds frames 177MSS maximum segment size 178MTA mail transfer agent 179MTU maximum transmission unit 180MUA mail user agent 181MWE module width encoding 182NAT network address translation 183NAV network allocation vector 184NCP network control protocol 185NFS network file system 186NIC network interface card 187NIS network information service 188NRZ non-return to zero 189NUMA non uniform memory access 190OCL object constraint language 191OCR optical character recognition 192OEM original equipment manufacturer 193OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 194OSF open software foundation 195OSI open systems interconnection 196OTP one time password 197PAM pluggable authentication modules 198PAM pulse amplitude modulation 199PAT port address translation 200PAX portable archive exchange 201PC personal computer 202PCI peripheral component interconnect 203PCM pulse code modulation 204PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 205PDU protocol data unit 206PDP page descriptor page 207PER packed encoding rules 208PERL practical extraction [and] report language 209PGP pretty good privacy 210PIC programmable interrupt controller 211PID process id 212PIN personal identification number 213PIO programmed input/output 214PLL phase locked loop 215PMT photo-multiplier tube 216PNG portable network graphics 217POP post office protocol 218POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 219POST power on self test 220POTS plain old telephone system 221PPP point-to-point protocol 222PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 223PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 224PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 225PROM programmable read only memory 226PTE page table entry 227PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 228PTP page table page 229PSTN public switched telephone network 230PWM pulse width modulation 231QOS quality of service 232RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 233RAM random access memory 234RCS revision control system 235RFC request for comments 236RGB red green blue 237RIP routing information protocol 238RIR regional internet registry 239RISC reduced instruction set computing 240RLE run length encoding 241RLL run length limited 242ROM read only memory 243RPM revolutions per minute 244RTF rich text format 245RTS request to send 246RTT round time trip 247S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 248SACD super audio compact disc 249SAM serial access memory 250SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 251SATA serial advanced technology attachment 252SCSI small computer system interface 253SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 254SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 255SIFS short inter-frame space 256SIP session initiation protocol 257SIR slow infrared 258SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 259SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 260SMP symmetric multiprocessing 261SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 262SNMP simple network management protocol 263SPD serial presence detect 264SRAM static random access memory 265SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 266SSH secure shell 267SSL secure sockets layer 268STP shielded twisted pair 269SVGA super video graphics array 270TCL tool command language 271TCP transmission control protocol 272TDD test driven development 273TFT thin film transistor 274TIFF tagged image file format 275TLA top level aggregator 276TLB transition lookaside buffer 277TLD top level domain 278TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 279TR token ring 280TTL time to live 281TTY teletype 282TZ time zone 283UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 284UC uncacheable 285UDO ultra density optical (storage) 286UDP user datagram protocol 287UFS unix file system 288UML unified modeling language 289UPS uninterruptible power supply 290URI uniform resource identifier 291URL uniform resource locator 292USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 293USB universal serial bus 294USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 295UTP unshielded twisted pair 296UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 297VAX virtual address extension 298VCM virtual channel memory 299VESA video electronics standards association 300VGA video graphics array 301VLAN virtual local area network 302VLSM variable length subnetting mask 303VM virtual memory 304VPN virtual private network 305VRAM video random access memory 306WAN wide area network 307WAP wireless application protocol 308WLAN wireless local area network 309WRAM window random access memory 310WWW world wide web 311XER XML encoding rules 312XGA extended graphics array 313XML extensible markup language 314XSL extensible stylesheet language 315XT extended technology 316