acronyms.comp revision 1.62
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.62 2006/01/13 16:50:31 elad 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 24ATC address translation cache 25ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 26ATM asynchronous transfer mode 27ATX advanced technology extended 28BEDO burst extended data output 29BER basic encoding rules 30BER bit error rate 31BGP border gateway protocol 32BIOS basic input/output system 33BLOB binary large object 34BPS bits per second 35BSD berkeley software distribution 36CAD computer-aided design 37CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 38CCD charge coupled device 39CD compact disc 40CDDA compact disc digital audio 41CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 42CER canonical encoding rules 43CGA color graphics array 44CGI common gateway interface 45CHS cylinder/head/sector 46CIDR classless inter-domain routing 47CIS contact image sensor 48CLI command line interface 49CLUT color look-up table 50CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 51CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 52COFF common object file format 53COW copy-on-write 54CPU central processing unit 55CRLF carriage return line feed 56CRT cathode ray tube 57CSMA carrier sense multiple access 58CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 59CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 60CSS cascading style sheets 61CTS clear to send 62CVS concurrent versions system 63DAC digital [to] analog converter 64DCE data control equipment 65DCE distributed computing environment 66DCT discrete cosine transform 67DDC display data channel 68DDR double data rate 69DDWG digital display working group 70DER distinguished encoding rules 71DFT discrete fourier transform 72DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 73DIFS distributed inter-frame space 74DLE data link escape 75DMA direct memory access 76DNS domain name system 77DOS denial of service 78DPCM differential pulse code modulation 79DPI dots per inch 80DRAM dynamic random access memory 81DSL digital subscriber line 82DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 83DTD document type definition 84DTE data terminal equipment 85DTE dumb terminal emulator 86DVD digital versatile disc 87DVI digital visual interface 88ECP enhanced capability port 89EDID extended display identification data 90EDO extended data out 91EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 92EFM eight to fourteen modulation 93EGA enhanced graphics array 94EGP exterior gateway protocol 95EISA extended industry standard architecture 96ELF executable and linking format 97EPP enhanced parallel port 98EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 99EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 100ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 101E-XER extended XML encoding rules 102FAT file allocation table 103FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 104FCS frame check sequence 105FDDI fiber distributed data interface 106FFS fast file system 107FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 108FIR fast infrared 109FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 110FM frequency modulation 111FPM fast page mode 112FQDN fully qualified domain name 113FTP file transfer protocol 114GC garbage collector 115GCR group-coded recording 116GIF graphics interchange format 117GNU gnu's not unix 118GPL gnu/general public license 119GPU graphics processing unit 120GRE generic routing encapsulation 121GUI graphics user interface 122HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 123HTML hyper-text markup language 124HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 125I2O intelligent input/output 126IANA internet assigned number authority 127IC integrated circuit 128ICB internet citizen's band 129ICMP internet control message protocol 130IDE integrated drive electronics 131IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 132IEC international electrotechnical commission 133IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 134IESG internet engineering steering group 135IETF internet engineering task force 136IGP interior gateway protocol 137IKE internet key exchange 138IMAP internet mail access protocol 139INCITS international committee on information technology standards 140IPC interprocess communication 141IO input/output 142IOCTL input/output control 143IP internet protocol 144IPNG internet protocol, next generation 145IPSEC internet protocol security 146IRC internet relay chat 147IRQ interrupt request 148IRTF internet research task force 149ISA industry standard architecture 150ISDN integrated services digital network 151ISI inter-symbol interference 152ISM industrial, scientific and medical 153ISN initial serial number 154ISO international standards organization 155ISOC internet society 156ISP internet service provider 157JPEG joint photographic experts group 158KVA kernel virtual address 159LAN local area network 160LBA logical block addressing 161LCD liquid crystal display 162LCP link control protocol 163LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 164LED light emitting diode 165LIR local internet registry 166LLC logical link control 167LRC longitudinal redundancy check 168LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 169LUN logical unit number 170LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 171MAC medium access control 172MBR master boot record 173MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 174MFM modified frequency modulation 175MIDI musical instrument digital interface 176MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 177MIPS million instructions per second 178MMU memory management unit 179MPEG moving picture experts group 180MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 181MSF minutes seconds frames 182MSS maximum segment size 183MTA mail transfer agent 184MTU maximum transmission unit 185MUA mail user agent 186MWE module width encoding 187NAT network address translation 188NAV network allocation vector 189NCP network control protocol 190NFS network file system 191NIC network interface card 192NIS network information service 193NRZ non-return to zero 194NUMA non uniform memory access 195OCL object constraint language 196OCR optical character recognition 197OEM original equipment manufacturer 198OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 199OSF open software foundation 200OSI open systems interconnection 201OTP one time password 202PAM pluggable authentication modules 203PAM pulse amplitude modulation 204PAT port address translation 205PAX portable archive exchange 206PC personal computer 207PCI peripheral component interconnect 208PCM pulse code modulation 209PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 210PDU protocol data unit 211PDP page descriptor page 212PER packed encoding rules 213PERL practical extraction [and] report language 214PGP pretty good privacy 215PIC programmable interrupt controller 216PID process id 217PIN personal identification number 218PIO programmed input/output 219PLL phase locked loop 220PMT photo-multiplier tube 221PNG portable network graphics 222POP post office protocol 223POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 224POST power on self test 225POTS plain old telephone system 226PPP point-to-point protocol 227PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 228PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 229PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 230PROM programmable read only memory 231PTE page table entry 232PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 233PTP page table page 234PSTN public switched telephone network 235PWM pulse width modulation 236QOS quality of service 237RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 238RAM random access memory 239RCS revision control system 240RFC request for comments 241RGB red green blue 242RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 243RIP routing information protocol 244RIR regional internet registry 245RISC reduced instruction set computing 246RLE run length encoding 247RLL run length limited 248ROM read only memory 249RPM revolutions per minute 250RTF rich text format 251RTS request to send 252RTT round time trip 253S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 254SACD super audio compact disc 255SAM serial access memory 256SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 257SATA serial advanced technology attachment 258SCSI small computer system interface 259SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 260SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 261SIFS short inter-frame space 262SIP session initiation protocol 263SIR slow infrared 264SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 265SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 266SMP symmetric multiprocessing 267SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 268SNMP simple network management protocol 269SPD serial presence detect 270SRAM static random access memory 271SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 272SSH secure shell 273SSL secure sockets layer 274STP shielded twisted pair 275SVGA super video graphics array 276TCL tool command language 277TCP transmission control protocol 278TDD test driven development 279TFT thin film transistor 280TIFF tagged image file format 281TLA top level aggregator 282TLB transition lookaside buffer 283TLD top level domain 284TLS transport layer security 285TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 286TR token ring 287TTL time to live 288TTY teletype 289TZ time zone 290UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 291UC uncacheable 292UDO ultra density optical (storage) 293UDP user datagram protocol 294UFS unix file system 295UML unified modeling language 296UPS uninterruptible power supply 297URI uniform resource identifier 298URL uniform resource locator 299USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 300USB universal serial bus 301USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 302UTP unshielded twisted pair 303UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 304VAX virtual address extension 305VCM virtual channel memory 306VESA video electronics standards association 307VGA video graphics array 308VLAN virtual local area network 309VLSM variable length subnetting mask 310VM virtual memory 311VPN virtual private network 312VRAM video random access memory 313WAN wide area network 314WAP wireless application protocol 315WLAN wireless local area network 316WRAM window random access memory 317WWW world wide web 318XER XML encoding rules 319XGA extended graphics array 320XML extensible markup language 321XSL extensible stylesheet language 322XT extended technology 323ZFOD zero-filled on demand 324