acronyms.comp revision 1.59
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.59 2005/02/22 12:24:44 grant 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 51COW copy-on-write 52CPU central processing unit 53CRLF carriage return line feed 54CRT cathode ray tube 55CSMA carrier sense multiple access 56CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 57CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 58CSS cascading style sheets 59CTS clear to send 60CVS concurrent versions system 61DAC digital [to] analog converter 62DCE data control equipment 63DCE distributed computing environment 64DCT discrete cosine transform 65DDC display data channel 66DDR double data rate 67DDWG digital display working group 68DER distinguished encoding rules 69DFT discrete fourier transform 70DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 71DIFS distributed inter-frame space 72DLE data link escape 73DMA direct memory access 74DNS domain name system 75DOS denial of service 76DPCM differential pulse code modulation 77DPI dots per inch 78DRAM dynamic random access memory 79DSL digital subscriber line 80DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 81DTD document type definition 82DTE data terminal equipment 83DTE dumb terminal emulator 84DVD digital versatile disc 85DVI digital visual interface 86ECP enhanced capability port 87EDID extended display identification data 88EDO extended data out 89EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 90EFM eight to fourteen modulation 91EGA enhanced graphics array 92EGP exterior gateway protocol 93EISA extended industry standard architecture 94ELF executable and linking format 95EPP enhanced parallel port 96EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 97EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 98ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 99E-XER extended XML encoding rules 100FAT file allocation table 101FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 102FCS frame check sequence 103FDDI fiber distributed data interface 104FFS fast file system 105FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 106FIR fast infrared 107FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 108FM frequency modulation 109FPM fast page mode 110FQDN fully qualified domain name 111FTP file transfer protocol 112GC garbage collector 113GCR group-coded recording 114GIF graphics interchange format 115GNU gnu's not unix 116GPL gnu/general public license 117GPU graphics processing unit 118GRE generic routing encapsulation 119GUI graphics user interface 120HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 121HTML hyper-text markup language 122HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 123I2O intelligent input/output 124IANA internet assigned number authority 125IC integrated circuit 126ICB internet citizen's band 127ICMP internet control message protocol 128IDE integrated drive electronics 129IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 130IEC international electrotechnical commission 131IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 132IESG internet engineering steering group 133IETF internet engineering task force 134IGP interior gateway protocol 135IKE internet key exchange 136IMAP internet mail access protocol 137INCITS international committee on information technology standards 138IPC interprocess communication 139IO input/output 140IOCTL input/output control 141IP internet protocol 142IPNG internet protocol, next generation 143IPSEC internet protocol security 144IRC internet relay chat 145IRQ interrupt request 146IRTF internet research task force 147ISA industry standard architecture 148ISDN integrated services digital network 149ISI inter-symbol interference 150ISM industrial, scientific and medical 151ISN initial serial number 152ISO international standards organization 153ISOC internet society 154ISP internet service provider 155JPEG joint photographic experts group 156KVA kernel virtual address 157LAN local area network 158LBA logical block addressing 159LCD liquid crystal display 160LCP link control protocol 161LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 162LED light emitting diode 163LIR local internet registry 164LLC logical link control 165LRC longitudinal redundancy check 166LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 167LUN logical unit number 168LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 169MAC medium access control 170MBR master boot record 171MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 172MFM modified frequency modulation 173MIDI musical instrument digital interface 174MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 175MIPS million instructions per second 176MMU memory management unit 177MPEG moving picture experts group 178MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 179MSF minutes seconds frames 180MSS maximum segment size 181MTA mail transfer agent 182MTU maximum transmission unit 183MUA mail user agent 184MWE module width encoding 185NAT network address translation 186NAV network allocation vector 187NCP network control protocol 188NFS network file system 189NIC network interface card 190NIS network information service 191NRZ non-return to zero 192NUMA non uniform memory access 193OCL object constraint language 194OCR optical character recognition 195OEM original equipment manufacturer 196OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 197OSF open software foundation 198OSI open systems interconnection 199OTP one time password 200PAM pluggable authentication modules 201PAM pulse amplitude modulation 202PAT port address translation 203PAX portable archive exchange 204PC personal computer 205PCI peripheral component interconnect 206PCM pulse code modulation 207PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 208PDU protocol data unit 209PDP page descriptor page 210PER packed encoding rules 211PERL practical extraction [and] report language 212PGP pretty good privacy 213PIC programmable interrupt controller 214PID process id 215PIN personal identification number 216PIO programmed input/output 217PLL phase locked loop 218PMT photo-multiplier tube 219PNG portable network graphics 220POP post office protocol 221POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 222POST power on self test 223POTS plain old telephone system 224PPP point-to-point protocol 225PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 226PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 227PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 228PROM programmable read only memory 229PTE page table entry 230PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 231PTP page table page 232PSTN public switched telephone network 233PWM pulse width modulation 234QOS quality of service 235RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 236RAM random access memory 237RCS revision control system 238RFC request for comments 239RGB red green blue 240RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 241RIP routing information protocol 242RIR regional internet registry 243RISC reduced instruction set computing 244RLE run length encoding 245RLL run length limited 246ROM read only memory 247RPM revolutions per minute 248RTF rich text format 249RTS request to send 250RTT round time trip 251S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 252SACD super audio compact disc 253SAM serial access memory 254SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 255SATA serial advanced technology attachment 256SCSI small computer system interface 257SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 258SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 259SIFS short inter-frame space 260SIP session initiation protocol 261SIR slow infrared 262SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 263SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 264SMP symmetric multiprocessing 265SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 266SNMP simple network management protocol 267SPD serial presence detect 268SRAM static random access memory 269SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 270SSH secure shell 271SSL secure sockets layer 272STP shielded twisted pair 273SVGA super video graphics array 274TCL tool command language 275TCP transmission control protocol 276TDD test driven development 277TFT thin film transistor 278TIFF tagged image file format 279TLA top level aggregator 280TLB transition lookaside buffer 281TLD top level domain 282TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 283TR token ring 284TTL time to live 285TTY teletype 286TZ time zone 287UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 288UC uncacheable 289UDO ultra density optical (storage) 290UDP user datagram protocol 291UFS unix file system 292UML unified modeling language 293UPS uninterruptible power supply 294URI uniform resource identifier 295URL uniform resource locator 296USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 297USB universal serial bus 298USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 299UTP unshielded twisted pair 300UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 301VAX virtual address extension 302VCM virtual channel memory 303VESA video electronics standards association 304VGA video graphics array 305VLAN virtual local area network 306VLSM variable length subnetting mask 307VM virtual memory 308VPN virtual private network 309VRAM video random access memory 310WAN wide area network 311WAP wireless application protocol 312WLAN wireless local area network 313WRAM window random access memory 314WWW world wide web 315XER XML encoding rules 316XGA extended graphics array 317XML extensible markup language 318XSL extensible stylesheet language 319XT extended technology 320ZFOD zero-filled on demand 321