acronyms.comp revision 1.68
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.68 2006/05/30 03:54:20 jnemeth 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 36BQS berkeley quality software 37CAD computer-aided design 38CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 39CCD charge coupled device 40CD compact disc 41CDDA compact disc digital audio 42CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 43CER canonical encoding rules 44CGA color graphics array 45CGI common gateway interface 46CHS cylinder/head/sector 47CIDR classless inter-domain routing 48CIS contact image sensor 49CLI command line interface 50CLUT color look-up table 51CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 52CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 53COFF common object file format 54COW copy-on-write 55CPU central processing unit 56CRLF carriage return line feed 57CRT cathode ray tube 58CSMA carrier sense multiple access 59CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 60CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 61CSS cascading style sheets 62CTS clear to send 63CVS concurrent versions system 64DAC digital [to] analog converter 65DCE data control equipment 66DCE distributed computing environment 67DCT discrete cosine transform 68DDC display data channel 69DDR double data rate 70DDWG digital display working group 71DER distinguished encoding rules 72DFT discrete fourier transform 73DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 74DIFS distributed inter-frame space 75DLE data link escape 76DMA direct memory access 77DNS domain name system 78DOS denial of service 79DPCM differential pulse code modulation 80DPD dead peer detection 81DPI dots per inch 82DRAM dynamic random access memory 83DSL digital subscriber line 84DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 85DTD document type definition 86DTE data terminal equipment 87DTE dumb terminal emulator 88DVD digital versatile disc 89DVI digital visual interface 90ECP enhanced capability port 91EDID extended display identification data 92EDO extended data out 93EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 94EFM eight to fourteen modulation 95EGA enhanced graphics array 96EGP exterior gateway protocol 97EISA extended industry standard architecture 98ELF executable and linking format 99EOF end of file 100EOT end of transmission 101EPP enhanced parallel port 102EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 103EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 104ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 105E-XER extended XML encoding rules 106FAT file allocation table 107FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 108FCS frame check sequence 109FDDI fiber distributed data interface 110FFS fast file system 111FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 112FIR fast infrared 113FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 114FM frequency modulation 115FPM fast page mode 116FQDN fully qualified domain name 117FTP file transfer protocol 118GC garbage collector 119GCR group-coded recording 120GIF graphics interchange format 121GNU gnu's not unix 122GPL gnu/general public license 123GPU graphics processing unit 124GRE generic routing encapsulation 125GUI graphics user interface 126HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 127HTML hyper-text markup language 128HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 129I2O intelligent input/output 130IANA internet assigned number authority 131IC integrated circuit 132ICB internet citizen's band 133ICMP internet control message protocol 134IDE integrated drive electronics 135IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 136IEC international electrotechnical commission 137IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 138IESG internet engineering steering group 139IETF internet engineering task force 140IGP interior gateway protocol 141IKE internet key exchange 142IMAP internet mail access protocol 143INCITS international committee on information technology standards 144IPC interprocess communication 145IO input/output 146IOCTL input/output control 147IP internet protocol 148IPNG internet protocol, next generation 149IPSEC internet protocol security 150IRC internet relay chat 151IRQ interrupt request 152IRTF internet research task force 153ISA industry standard architecture 154ISDN integrated services digital network 155ISI inter-symbol interference 156ISM industrial, scientific and medical 157ISN initial serial number 158ISO international standards organization 159ISOC internet society 160ISP internet service provider 161JPEG joint photographic experts group 162KVA kernel virtual address 163LAN local area network 164LBA logical block addressing 165LCD liquid crystal display 166LCP link control protocol 167LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 168LED light emitting diode 169LIR local internet registry 170LLC logical link control 171LRC longitudinal redundancy check 172LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 173LUN logical unit number 174LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 175MAC medium access control 176MBR master boot record 177MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 178MFM modified frequency modulation 179MIDI musical instrument digital interface 180MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 181MIPS million instructions per second 182MMU memory management unit 183MPEG moving picture experts group 184MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 185MSF minutes seconds frames 186MSS maximum segment size 187MTA mail transfer agent 188MTU maximum transmission unit 189MUA mail user agent 190MWE module width encoding 191NAT network address translation 192NAV network allocation vector 193NCP network control protocol 194NFS network file system 195NIC network interface card 196NIS network information service 197NRZ non-return to zero 198NUMA non uniform memory access 199OCL object constraint language 200OCR optical character recognition 201OEM original equipment manufacturer 202OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 203OSF open software foundation 204OSI open systems interconnection 205OTP one time password 206PAM pluggable authentication modules 207PAM pulse amplitude modulation 208PAT port address translation 209PAX portable archive exchange 210PC personal computer 211PCI peripheral component interconnect 212PCM pulse code modulation 213PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 214PDU protocol data unit 215PDP page descriptor page 216PER packed encoding rules 217PERL practical extraction [and] report language 218PFS perfect forward secrecy 219PGP pretty good privacy 220PIC programmable interrupt controller 221PID process id 222PIN personal identification number 223PIO programmed input/output 224PLL phase locked loop 225PMT photo-multiplier tube 226PNG portable network graphics 227POP post office protocol 228POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 229POST power on self test 230POTS plain old telephone system 231PPP point-to-point protocol 232PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 233PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 234PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 235PROM programmable read only memory 236PTE page table entry 237PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 238PTP page table page 239PSTN public switched telephone network 240PWM pulse width modulation 241QOS quality of service 242RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 243RAM random access memory 244RCS revision control system 245RGB red green blue 246RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 247RIP routing information protocol 248RIR regional internet registry 249RISC reduced instruction set computing 250RLE run length encoding 251RLL run length limited 252ROM read only memory 253RPM revolutions per minute 254RTF rich text format 255RTS request to send 256RTT round time trip 257S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 258SACD super audio compact disc 259SAD security association database 260SAM serial access memory 261SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 262SATA serial advanced technology attachment 263SCSI small computer system interface 264SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 265SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 266SIFS short inter-frame space 267SIP session initiation protocol 268SIR slow infrared 269SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 270SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 271SMP symmetric multiprocessing 272SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 273SNMP simple network management protocol 274SPD security policy database 275SPD serial presence detect 276SRAM static random access memory 277SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 278SSH secure shell 279SSL secure sockets layer 280STP shielded twisted pair 281SVGA super video graphics array 282TCL tool command language 283TCP transmission control protocol 284TDD test driven development 285TFT thin film transistor 286TIFF tagged image file format 287TLA top level aggregator 288TLB transition lookaside buffer 289TLD top level domain 290TLS transport layer security 291TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 292TR token ring 293TTL time to live 294TTY teletype 295TZ time zone 296UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 297UC uncacheable 298UDO ultra density optical (storage) 299UDP user datagram protocol 300UFS unix file system 301UML unified modeling language 302UPS uninterruptible power supply 303URI uniform resource identifier 304URL uniform resource locator 305USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 306USB universal serial bus 307USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 308UTP unshielded twisted pair 309UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 310VAX virtual address extension 311VCM virtual channel memory 312VESA video electronics standards association 313VGA video graphics array 314VLAN virtual local area network 315VLSM variable length subnetting mask 316VM virtual memory 317VPN virtual private network 318VRAM video random access memory 319WAN wide area network 320WAP wireless application protocol 321WLAN wireless local area network 322WRAM window random access memory 323WWW world wide web 324XER XML encoding rules 325XGA extended graphics array 326XML extensible markup language 327XSL extensible stylesheet language 328XT extended technology 329ZFOD zero-filled on demand 330