acronyms.comp revision 1.69
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.69 2006/06/09 07:07:28 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 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 162KPI kernel programming interface 163KVA kernel virtual address 164LAN local area network 165LBA logical block addressing 166LCD liquid crystal display 167LCP link control protocol 168LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 169LED light emitting diode 170LIR local internet registry 171LLC logical link control 172LRC longitudinal redundancy check 173LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 174LUN logical unit number 175LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 176MAC medium access control 177MBR master boot record 178MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 179MFM modified frequency modulation 180MIDI musical instrument digital interface 181MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 182MIPS million instructions per second 183MMU memory management unit 184MPEG moving picture experts group 185MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 186MSF minutes seconds frames 187MSS maximum segment size 188MTA mail transfer agent 189MTU maximum transmission unit 190MUA mail user agent 191MWE module width encoding 192NAT network address translation 193NAV network allocation vector 194NCP network control protocol 195NFS network file system 196NIC network interface card 197NIS network information service 198NRZ non-return to zero 199NUMA non uniform memory access 200OCL object constraint language 201OCR optical character recognition 202OEM original equipment manufacturer 203OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 204OSF open software foundation 205OSI open systems interconnection 206OTP one time password 207PAM pluggable authentication modules 208PAM pulse amplitude modulation 209PAT port address translation 210PAX portable archive exchange 211PC personal computer 212PCI peripheral component interconnect 213PCM pulse code modulation 214PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 215PDU protocol data unit 216PDP page descriptor page 217PER packed encoding rules 218PERL practical extraction [and] report language 219PFS perfect forward secrecy 220PGP pretty good privacy 221PIC programmable interrupt controller 222PID process id 223PIN personal identification number 224PIO programmed input/output 225PLL phase locked loop 226PMT photo-multiplier tube 227PNG portable network graphics 228POP post office protocol 229POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 230POST power on self test 231POTS plain old telephone system 232PPP point-to-point protocol 233PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 234PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 235PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 236PROM programmable read only memory 237PTE page table entry 238PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 239PTP page table page 240PSTN public switched telephone network 241PWM pulse width modulation 242QOS quality of service 243RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 244RAM random access memory 245RCS revision control system 246RGB red green blue 247RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 248RIP routing information protocol 249RIR regional internet registry 250RISC reduced instruction set computing 251RLE run length encoding 252RLL run length limited 253ROM read only memory 254RPM revolutions per minute 255RTF rich text format 256RTS request to send 257RTT round time trip 258S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 259SACD super audio compact disc 260SAD security association database 261SAM serial access memory 262SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 263SATA serial advanced technology attachment 264SCSI small computer system interface 265SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 266SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 267SIFS short inter-frame space 268SIP session initiation protocol 269SIR slow infrared 270SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 271SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 272SMP symmetric multiprocessing 273SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 274SNMP simple network management protocol 275SPD security policy database 276SPD serial presence detect 277SRAM static random access memory 278SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 279SSH secure shell 280SSL secure sockets layer 281STP shielded twisted pair 282SVGA super video graphics array 283TCL tool command language 284TCP transmission control protocol 285TDD test driven development 286TFT thin film transistor 287TIFF tagged image file format 288TLA top level aggregator 289TLB transition lookaside buffer 290TLD top level domain 291TLS transport layer security 292TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 293TR token ring 294TTL time to live 295TTY teletype 296TZ time zone 297UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 298UC uncacheable 299UDO ultra density optical (storage) 300UDP user datagram protocol 301UFS unix file system 302UML unified modeling language 303UPS uninterruptible power supply 304URI uniform resource identifier 305URL uniform resource locator 306USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 307USB universal serial bus 308USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 309UTP unshielded twisted pair 310UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 311VAX virtual address extension 312VCM virtual channel memory 313VESA video electronics standards association 314VGA video graphics array 315VLAN virtual local area network 316VLSM variable length subnetting mask 317VM virtual memory 318VPN virtual private network 319VRAM video random access memory 320WAN wide area network 321WAP wireless application protocol 322WLAN wireless local area network 323WRAM window random access memory 324WWW world wide web 325XER XML encoding rules 326XGA extended graphics array 327XML extensible markup language 328XSL extensible stylesheet language 329XT extended technology 330ZFOD zero-filled on demand 331