acronyms.comp revision 1.65
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.65 2006/01/21 15:19:20 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 79DPD dead peer detection 80DPI dots per inch 81DRAM dynamic random access memory 82DSL digital subscriber line 83DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 84DTD document type definition 85DTE data terminal equipment 86DTE dumb terminal emulator 87DVD digital versatile disc 88DVI digital visual interface 89ECP enhanced capability port 90EDID extended display identification data 91EDO extended data out 92EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 93EFM eight to fourteen modulation 94EGA enhanced graphics array 95EGP exterior gateway protocol 96EISA extended industry standard architecture 97ELF executable and linking format 98EPP enhanced parallel port 99EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 100EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 101ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 102E-XER extended XML encoding rules 103FAT file allocation table 104FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 105FCS frame check sequence 106FDDI fiber distributed data interface 107FFS fast file system 108FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 109FIR fast infrared 110FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 111FM frequency modulation 112FPM fast page mode 113FQDN fully qualified domain name 114FTP file transfer protocol 115GC garbage collector 116GCR group-coded recording 117GIF graphics interchange format 118GNU gnu's not unix 119GPL gnu/general public license 120GPU graphics processing unit 121GRE generic routing encapsulation 122GUI graphics user interface 123HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 124HTML hyper-text markup language 125HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 126I2O intelligent input/output 127IANA internet assigned number authority 128IC integrated circuit 129ICB internet citizen's band 130ICMP internet control message protocol 131IDE integrated drive electronics 132IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 133IEC international electrotechnical commission 134IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 135IESG internet engineering steering group 136IETF internet engineering task force 137IGP interior gateway protocol 138IKE internet key exchange 139IMAP internet mail access protocol 140INCITS international committee on information technology standards 141IPC interprocess communication 142IO input/output 143IOCTL input/output control 144IP internet protocol 145IPNG internet protocol, next generation 146IPSEC internet protocol security 147IRC internet relay chat 148IRQ interrupt request 149IRTF internet research task force 150ISA industry standard architecture 151ISDN integrated services digital network 152ISI inter-symbol interference 153ISM industrial, scientific and medical 154ISN initial serial number 155ISO international standards organization 156ISOC internet society 157ISP internet service provider 158JPEG joint photographic experts group 159KVA kernel virtual address 160LAN local area network 161LBA logical block addressing 162LCD liquid crystal display 163LCP link control protocol 164LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 165LED light emitting diode 166LIR local internet registry 167LLC logical link control 168LRC longitudinal redundancy check 169LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 170LUN logical unit number 171LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 172MAC medium access control 173MBR master boot record 174MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 175MFM modified frequency modulation 176MIDI musical instrument digital interface 177MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 178MIPS million instructions per second 179MMU memory management unit 180MPEG moving picture experts group 181MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 182MSF minutes seconds frames 183MSS maximum segment size 184MTA mail transfer agent 185MTU maximum transmission unit 186MUA mail user agent 187MWE module width encoding 188NAT network address translation 189NAV network allocation vector 190NCP network control protocol 191NFS network file system 192NIC network interface card 193NIS network information service 194NRZ non-return to zero 195NUMA non uniform memory access 196OCL object constraint language 197OCR optical character recognition 198OEM original equipment manufacturer 199OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 200OSF open software foundation 201OSI open systems interconnection 202OTP one time password 203PAM pluggable authentication modules 204PAM pulse amplitude modulation 205PAT port address translation 206PAX portable archive exchange 207PC personal computer 208PCI peripheral component interconnect 209PCM pulse code modulation 210PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 211PDU protocol data unit 212PDP page descriptor page 213PER packed encoding rules 214PERL practical extraction [and] report language 215PFS perfect forward secrecy 216PGP pretty good privacy 217PIC programmable interrupt controller 218PID process id 219PIN personal identification number 220PIO programmed input/output 221PLL phase locked loop 222PMT photo-multiplier tube 223PNG portable network graphics 224POP post office protocol 225POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 226POST power on self test 227POTS plain old telephone system 228PPP point-to-point protocol 229PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 230PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 231PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 232PROM programmable read only memory 233PTE page table entry 234PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 235PTP page table page 236PSTN public switched telephone network 237PWM pulse width modulation 238QOS quality of service 239RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 240RAM random access memory 241RCS revision control system 242RFC request for comments 243RGB red green blue 244RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 245RIP routing information protocol 246RIR regional internet registry 247RISC reduced instruction set computing 248RLE run length encoding 249RLL run length limited 250ROM read only memory 251RPM revolutions per minute 252RTF rich text format 253RTS request to send 254RTT round time trip 255S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 256SACD super audio compact disc 257SAD security association database 258SAM serial access memory 259SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 260SATA serial advanced technology attachment 261SCSI small computer system interface 262SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 263SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 264SIFS short inter-frame space 265SIP session initiation protocol 266SIR slow infrared 267SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 268SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 269SMP symmetric multiprocessing 270SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 271SNMP simple network management protocol 272SPD security policy database 273SPD serial presence detect 274SRAM static random access memory 275SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 276SSH secure shell 277SSL secure sockets layer 278STP shielded twisted pair 279SVGA super video graphics array 280TCL tool command language 281TCP transmission control protocol 282TDD test driven development 283TFT thin film transistor 284TIFF tagged image file format 285TLA top level aggregator 286TLB transition lookaside buffer 287TLD top level domain 288TLS transport layer security 289TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 290TR token ring 291TTL time to live 292TTY teletype 293TZ time zone 294UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 295UC uncacheable 296UDO ultra density optical (storage) 297UDP user datagram protocol 298UFS unix file system 299UML unified modeling language 300UPS uninterruptible power supply 301URI uniform resource identifier 302URL uniform resource locator 303USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 304USB universal serial bus 305USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 306UTP unshielded twisted pair 307UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 308VAX virtual address extension 309VCM virtual channel memory 310VESA video electronics standards association 311VGA video graphics array 312VLAN virtual local area network 313VLSM variable length subnetting mask 314VM virtual memory 315VPN virtual private network 316VRAM video random access memory 317WAN wide area network 318WAP wireless application protocol 319WLAN wireless local area network 320WRAM window random access memory 321WWW world wide web 322XER XML encoding rules 323XGA extended graphics array 324XML extensible markup language 325XSL extensible stylesheet language 326XT extended technology 327ZFOD zero-filled on demand 328