acronyms.comp revision 1.67
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.67 2006/03/30 17:38:01 rpaulo 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 98EOF end of file 99EOT end of transmission 100EPP enhanced parallel port 101EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 102EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 103ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 104E-XER extended XML encoding rules 105FAT file allocation table 106FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 107FCS frame check sequence 108FDDI fiber distributed data interface 109FFS fast file system 110FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 111FIR fast infrared 112FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 113FM frequency modulation 114FPM fast page mode 115FQDN fully qualified domain name 116FTP file transfer protocol 117GC garbage collector 118GCR group-coded recording 119GIF graphics interchange format 120GNU gnu's not unix 121GPL gnu/general public license 122GPU graphics processing unit 123GRE generic routing encapsulation 124GUI graphics user interface 125HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 126HTML hyper-text markup language 127HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 128I2O intelligent input/output 129IANA internet assigned number authority 130IC integrated circuit 131ICB internet citizen's band 132ICMP internet control message protocol 133IDE integrated drive electronics 134IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 135IEC international electrotechnical commission 136IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 137IESG internet engineering steering group 138IETF internet engineering task force 139IGP interior gateway protocol 140IKE internet key exchange 141IMAP internet mail access protocol 142INCITS international committee on information technology standards 143IPC interprocess communication 144IO input/output 145IOCTL input/output control 146IP internet protocol 147IPNG internet protocol, next generation 148IPSEC internet protocol security 149IRC internet relay chat 150IRQ interrupt request 151IRTF internet research task force 152ISA industry standard architecture 153ISDN integrated services digital network 154ISI inter-symbol interference 155ISM industrial, scientific and medical 156ISN initial serial number 157ISO international standards organization 158ISOC internet society 159ISP internet service provider 160JPEG joint photographic experts group 161KVA kernel virtual address 162LAN local area network 163LBA logical block addressing 164LCD liquid crystal display 165LCP link control protocol 166LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 167LED light emitting diode 168LIR local internet registry 169LLC logical link control 170LRC longitudinal redundancy check 171LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 172LUN logical unit number 173LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 174MAC medium access control 175MBR master boot record 176MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 177MFM modified frequency modulation 178MIDI musical instrument digital interface 179MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 180MIPS million instructions per second 181MMU memory management unit 182MPEG moving picture experts group 183MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 184MSF minutes seconds frames 185MSS maximum segment size 186MTA mail transfer agent 187MTU maximum transmission unit 188MUA mail user agent 189MWE module width encoding 190NAT network address translation 191NAV network allocation vector 192NCP network control protocol 193NFS network file system 194NIC network interface card 195NIS network information service 196NRZ non-return to zero 197NUMA non uniform memory access 198OCL object constraint language 199OCR optical character recognition 200OEM original equipment manufacturer 201OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 202OSF open software foundation 203OSI open systems interconnection 204OTP one time password 205PAM pluggable authentication modules 206PAM pulse amplitude modulation 207PAT port address translation 208PAX portable archive exchange 209PC personal computer 210PCI peripheral component interconnect 211PCM pulse code modulation 212PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 213PDU protocol data unit 214PDP page descriptor page 215PER packed encoding rules 216PERL practical extraction [and] report language 217PFS perfect forward secrecy 218PGP pretty good privacy 219PIC programmable interrupt controller 220PID process id 221PIN personal identification number 222PIO programmed input/output 223PLL phase locked loop 224PMT photo-multiplier tube 225PNG portable network graphics 226POP post office protocol 227POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 228POST power on self test 229POTS plain old telephone system 230PPP point-to-point protocol 231PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 232PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 233PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 234PROM programmable read only memory 235PTE page table entry 236PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 237PTP page table page 238PSTN public switched telephone network 239PWM pulse width modulation 240QOS quality of service 241RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 242RAM random access memory 243RCS revision control system 244RGB red green blue 245RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 246RIP routing information protocol 247RIR regional internet registry 248RISC reduced instruction set computing 249RLE run length encoding 250RLL run length limited 251ROM read only memory 252RPM revolutions per minute 253RTF rich text format 254RTS request to send 255RTT round time trip 256S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 257SACD super audio compact disc 258SAD security association database 259SAM serial access memory 260SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 261SATA serial advanced technology attachment 262SCSI small computer system interface 263SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 264SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 265SIFS short inter-frame space 266SIP session initiation protocol 267SIR slow infrared 268SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 269SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 270SMP symmetric multiprocessing 271SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 272SNMP simple network management protocol 273SPD security policy database 274SPD serial presence detect 275SRAM static random access memory 276SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 277SSH secure shell 278SSL secure sockets layer 279STP shielded twisted pair 280SVGA super video graphics array 281TCL tool command language 282TCP transmission control protocol 283TDD test driven development 284TFT thin film transistor 285TIFF tagged image file format 286TLA top level aggregator 287TLB transition lookaside buffer 288TLD top level domain 289TLS transport layer security 290TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 291TR token ring 292TTL time to live 293TTY teletype 294TZ time zone 295UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 296UC uncacheable 297UDO ultra density optical (storage) 298UDP user datagram protocol 299UFS unix file system 300UML unified modeling language 301UPS uninterruptible power supply 302URI uniform resource identifier 303URL uniform resource locator 304USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 305USB universal serial bus 306USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 307UTP unshielded twisted pair 308UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 309VAX virtual address extension 310VCM virtual channel memory 311VESA video electronics standards association 312VGA video graphics array 313VLAN virtual local area network 314VLSM variable length subnetting mask 315VM virtual memory 316VPN virtual private network 317VRAM video random access memory 318WAN wide area network 319WAP wireless application protocol 320WLAN wireless local area network 321WRAM window random access memory 322WWW world wide web 323XER XML encoding rules 324XGA extended graphics array 325XML extensible markup language 326XSL extensible stylesheet language 327XT extended technology 328ZFOD zero-filled on demand 329