acronyms.comp revision 1.73
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.72 2007/01/19 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 38CARP common address redundancy protocol 39CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 40CCD charge coupled device 41CD compact disc 42CDDA compact disc digital audio 43CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 44CER canonical encoding rules 45CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 46CGI common gateway interface 47CHS cylinder/head/sector 48CIDR classless inter-domain routing 49CIS contact image sensor 50CLI command line interface 51CLUT color look-up table 52CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 53CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 54COFF common object file format 55COW copy-on-write 56CPU central processing unit 57CRLF carriage return line feed 58CRT cathode ray tube 59CSMA carrier sense multiple access 60CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 61CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 62CSS cascading style sheets 63CTS clear to send 64CVS concurrent versions system 65DAC digital [to] analog converter 66DCE data control equipment 67DCE distributed computing environment 68DCT discrete cosine transform 69DDC display data channel 70DDR double data rate 71DDWG digital display working group 72DER distinguished encoding rules 73DFT discrete fourier transform 74DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 75DIFS distributed inter-frame space 76DLE data link escape 77DMA direct memory access 78DNS domain name system 79DOS denial of service 80DPCM differential pulse code modulation 81DPD dead peer detection 82DPI dots per inch 83DRAM dynamic random access memory 84DSL digital subscriber line 85DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 86DTD document type definition 87DTE data terminal equipment 88DTE dumb terminal emulator 89DVD digital versatile disc 90DVI digital visual interface 91E-XER extended XML encoding rules 92EAP extensible authentication protocol 93ECP enhanced capability port 94EDID extended display identification data 95EDO extended data out 96EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 97EFI extensible firmware interface 98EFM eight to fourteen modulation 99EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 100EGP exterior gateway protocol 101EISA extended industry standard architecture 102ELF executable and linking format 103EOF end of file 104EOT end of transmission 105EPP enhanced parallel port 106EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 107EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 108ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 109FAT file allocation table 110FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 111FCS frame check sequence 112FDDI fiber distributed data interface 113FFS fast file system 114FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 115FIR fast infrared 116FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 117FM frequency modulation 118FPM fast page mode 119FQDN fully qualified domain name 120FTP file transfer protocol 121FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 122GC garbage collector 123GCR group-coded recording 124GIF graphics interchange format 125GNU gnu's not unix 126GPL gnu/general public license 127GPU graphics processing unit 128GRE generic routing encapsulation 129GUI graphics user interface 130HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 131HTML hyper-text markup language 132HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 133HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 134I2O intelligent input/output 135IANA internet assigned number authority 136IC integrated circuit 137ICB internet citizen's band 138ICMP internet control message protocol 139IDE integrated drive electronics 140IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 141IEC international electrotechnical commission 142IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 143IESG internet engineering steering group 144IETF internet engineering task force 145IGP interior gateway protocol 146IKE internet key exchange 147IMAP internet mail access protocol 148INCITS international committee on information technology standards 149IO input/output 150IOCTL input/output control 151IP internet protocol 152IPC interprocess communication 153IPNG internet protocol, next generation 154IPSEC internet protocol security 155IRC internet relay chat 156IRQ interrupt request 157IRTF internet research task force 158ISA industry standard architecture 159ISDN integrated services digital network 160ISI inter-symbol interference 161ISM industrial, scientific and medical 162ISN initial serial number 163ISO international standards organization 164ISOC internet society 165ISP internet service provider 166JPEG joint photographic experts group 167KPI kernel programming interface 168KVA kernel virtual address 169KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 170LAN local area network 171LBA logical block addressing 172LCD liquid crystal display 173LCP link control protocol 174LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 175LED light emitting diode 176LIR local internet registry 177LKM {linux, loadable} kernel module 178LLC logical link control 179LRC longitudinal redundancy check 180LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 181LSB linux standards base 182LUN logical unit number 183LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 184MAC medium access control 185MBR master boot record 186MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 187MFM modified frequency modulation 188MIDI musical instrument digital interface 189MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 190MIPS million instructions per second 191MMU memory management unit 192MPEG moving picture experts group 193MPLS multiprotocol label switching 194MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 195MSF minutes seconds frames 196MSS maximum segment size 197MTA mail transfer agent 198MTU maximum transmission unit 199MUA mail user agent 200MWE module width encoding 201NAT network address translation 202NAV network allocation vector 203NCP network control protocol 204NCQ native command queuing 205NFS network file system 206NIC network interface card 207NIS network information service 208NRZ non-return to zero 209NUMA non uniform memory access 210OCL object constraint language 211OCR optical character recognition 212OEM original equipment manufacturer 213OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 214OSF open software foundation 215OSI open systems interconnection 216OSI open-source initiative 217OSPF open shortest path first 218OTP one time password 219PAM pluggable authentication modules 220PAM pulse amplitude modulation 221PAT port address translation 222PAX portable archive exchange 223PC personal computer 224PCI peripheral component interconnect 225PCM pulse code modulation 226PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 227PDP page descriptor page 228PDU protocol data unit 229PER packed encoding rules 230PERL practical extraction [and] report language 231PFS perfect forward secrecy 232PGP pretty good privacy 233PIC programmable interrupt controller 234PID process id 235PIN personal identification number 236PIO programmed input/output 237PLL phase locked loop 238PMT photo-multiplier tube 239PNG portable network graphics 240POP post office protocol 241POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 242POST power on self test 243POTS plain old telephone system 244PPP point-to-point protocol 245PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 246PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 247PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 248PROM programmable read only memory 249PSK pre-shared key 250PSTN public switched telephone network 251PTE page table entry 252PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 253PTP page table page 254PWM pulse width modulation 255QOS quality of service 256RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 257RAM random access memory 258RCS revision control system 259RGB red green blue 260RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 261RIP routing information protocol 262RIR regional internet registry 263RISC reduced instruction set computing 264RLE run length encoding 265RLL run length limited 266ROM read only memory 267RPM revolutions per minute 268RTF rich text format 269RTS request to send 270RTT round time trip 271S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 272SACD super audio compact disc 273SAD security association database 274SAM serial access memory 275SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 276SATA serial advanced technology attachment 277SB sound blaster 278SCM software configuration management 279SCM source code management 280SCSI small computer system interface 281SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 282SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 283SIFS short inter-frame space 284SIP session initiation protocol 285SIR slow infrared 286SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 287SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 288SMP symmetric multiprocessing 289SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 290SNMP simple network management protocol 291SPD security policy database 292SPD serial presence detect 293SRAM static random access memory 294SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 295SSH secure shell 296SSL secure sockets layer 297STP shielded twisted pair 298SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 299TCL tool command language 300TCP transmission control protocol 301TCQ tagged command queueing 302TDD test driven development 303TFT thin film transistor 304TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 305TIFF tagged image file format 306TLA top level aggregator 307TLB transition lookaside buffer 308TLD top level domain 309TLS transport layer security 310TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 311TR token ring 312TTL time to live 313TTY teletype 314TZ time zone 315UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 316UC uncacheable 317UDO ultra density optical (storage) 318UDP user datagram protocol 319UFS unix file system 320UML unified modeling language 321UPS uninterruptible power supply 322URI uniform resource identifier 323URL uniform resource locator 324USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 325USB universal serial bus 326USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 327UTP unshielded twisted pair 328UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 329UUOC useless use of cat 330VAX virtual address extension 331VCM virtual channel memory 332VESA video electronics standards association 333VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 334WIFI wireless fidelity 335VLAN virtual local area network 336VLSM variable length subnet mask 337VM virtual {machine,memory} 338VPN virtual private network 339VRAM video random access memory 340VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 341WAN wide area network 342WAP wireless application protocol 343WEP wired equivalent privacy 344WLAN wireless local area network 345WPA wi-fi protected access 346WRAM window random access memory 347WWW world wide web 348XER XML encoding rules 349XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 350XML extensible markup language 351XSL extensible stylesheet language 352XT extended technology 353ZFOD zero-filled on demand 354