acronyms.comp revision 1.71
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.71 2006/10/12 20:47:55 salo 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 20ASCII american standard code for information interchange 21ASN autonomous system number 22AT advanced technology 23ATA advanced technology attachment 24ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 25ATC address translation cache 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 35BQS berkeley quality software 36BSD berkeley software distribution 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 90E-XER extended XML encoding rules 91EAP extensible authentication protocol 92ECP enhanced capability port 93EDID extended display identification data 94EDO extended data out 95EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 96EFM eight to fourteen modulation 97EGA enhanced graphics array 98EGP exterior gateway protocol 99EISA extended industry standard architecture 100ELF executable and linking format 101EOF end of file 102EOT end of transmission 103EPP enhanced parallel port 104EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 105EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 106ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 107FAT file allocation table 108FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 109FCS frame check sequence 110FDDI fiber distributed data interface 111FFS fast file system 112FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 113FIR fast infrared 114FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 115FM frequency modulation 116FPM fast page mode 117FQDN fully qualified domain name 118FTP file transfer protocol 119GC garbage collector 120GCR group-coded recording 121GIF graphics interchange format 122GNU gnu's not unix 123GPL gnu/general public license 124GPU graphics processing unit 125GRE generic routing encapsulation 126GUI graphics user interface 127HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 128HTML hyper-text markup language 129HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 130I2O intelligent input/output 131IANA internet assigned number authority 132IC integrated circuit 133ICB internet citizen's band 134ICMP internet control message protocol 135IDE integrated drive electronics 136IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 137IEC international electrotechnical commission 138IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 139IESG internet engineering steering group 140IETF internet engineering task force 141IGP interior gateway protocol 142IKE internet key exchange 143IMAP internet mail access protocol 144INCITS international committee on information technology standards 145IO input/output 146IOCTL input/output control 147IP internet protocol 148IPC interprocess communication 149IPNG internet protocol, next generation 150IPSEC internet protocol security 151IRC internet relay chat 152IRQ interrupt request 153IRTF internet research task force 154ISA industry standard architecture 155ISDN integrated services digital network 156ISI inter-symbol interference 157ISM industrial, scientific and medical 158ISN initial serial number 159ISO international standards organization 160ISOC internet society 161ISP internet service provider 162JPEG joint photographic experts group 163KPI kernel programming interface 164KVA kernel virtual address 165LAN local area network 166LBA logical block addressing 167LCD liquid crystal display 168LCP link control protocol 169LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 170LED light emitting diode 171LIR local internet registry 172LLC logical link control 173LRC longitudinal redundancy check 174LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 175LUN logical unit number 176LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 177MAC medium access control 178MBR master boot record 179MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 180MFM modified frequency modulation 181MIDI musical instrument digital interface 182MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 183MIPS million instructions per second 184MMU memory management unit 185MPEG moving picture experts group 186MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 187MSF minutes seconds frames 188MSS maximum segment size 189MTA mail transfer agent 190MTU maximum transmission unit 191MUA mail user agent 192MWE module width encoding 193NAT network address translation 194NAV network allocation vector 195NCP network control protocol 196NFS network file system 197NIC network interface card 198NIS network information service 199NRZ non-return to zero 200NUMA non uniform memory access 201OCL object constraint language 202OCR optical character recognition 203OEM original equipment manufacturer 204OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 205OSF open software foundation 206OSI open systems interconnection 207OTP one time password 208PAM pluggable authentication modules 209PAM pulse amplitude modulation 210PAT port address translation 211PAX portable archive exchange 212PC personal computer 213PCI peripheral component interconnect 214PCM pulse code modulation 215PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 216PDP page descriptor page 217PDU protocol data unit 218PER packed encoding rules 219PERL practical extraction [and] report language 220PFS perfect forward secrecy 221PGP pretty good privacy 222PIC programmable interrupt controller 223PID process id 224PIN personal identification number 225PIO programmed input/output 226PLL phase locked loop 227PMT photo-multiplier tube 228PNG portable network graphics 229POP post office protocol 230POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 231POST power on self test 232POTS plain old telephone system 233PPP point-to-point protocol 234PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 235PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 236PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 237PROM programmable read only memory 238PSK pre-shared key 239PSTN public switched telephone network 240PTE page table entry 241PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 242PTP page table page 243PWM pulse width modulation 244QOS quality of service 245RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 246RAM random access memory 247RCS revision control system 248RGB red green blue 249RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 250RIP routing information protocol 251RIR regional internet registry 252RISC reduced instruction set computing 253RLE run length encoding 254RLL run length limited 255ROM read only memory 256RPM revolutions per minute 257RTF rich text format 258RTS request to send 259RTT round time trip 260S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 261SACD super audio compact disc 262SAD security association database 263SAM serial access memory 264SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 265SATA serial advanced technology attachment 266SCM software configuration management 267SCM source code management 268SCSI small computer system interface 269SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 270SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 271SIFS short inter-frame space 272SIP session initiation protocol 273SIR slow infrared 274SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 275SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 276SMP symmetric multiprocessing 277SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 278SNMP simple network management protocol 279SPD security policy database 280SPD serial presence detect 281SRAM static random access memory 282SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 283SSH secure shell 284SSL secure sockets layer 285STP shielded twisted pair 286SVGA super video graphics array 287TCL tool command language 288TCP transmission control protocol 289TDD test driven development 290TFT thin film transistor 291TIFF tagged image file format 292TLA top level aggregator 293TLB transition lookaside buffer 294TLD top level domain 295TLS transport layer security 296TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 297TR token ring 298TTL time to live 299TTY teletype 300TZ time zone 301UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 302UC uncacheable 303UDO ultra density optical (storage) 304UDP user datagram protocol 305UFS unix file system 306UML unified modeling language 307UPS uninterruptible power supply 308URI uniform resource identifier 309URL uniform resource locator 310USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 311USB universal serial bus 312USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 313UTP unshielded twisted pair 314UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 315VAX virtual address extension 316VCM virtual channel memory 317VESA video electronics standards association 318VGA video graphics array 319VLAN virtual local area network 320VLSM variable length subnetting mask 321VM virtual memory 322VPN virtual private network 323VRAM video random access memory 324WAN wide area network 325WAP wireless application protocol 326WEP wired equivalent privacy 327WLAN wireless local area network 328WPA wi-fi protected access 329WRAM window random access memory 330WWW world wide web 331XER XML encoding rules 332XGA extended graphics array 333XML extensible markup language 334XSL extensible stylesheet language 335XT extended technology 336ZFOD zero-filled on demand 337