acronyms.comp revision 1.75
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 187MFC merge from current 188MFM modified frequency modulation 189MIDI musical instrument digital interface 190MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 191MIPS million instructions per second 192MMU memory management unit 193MPEG moving picture experts group 194MPLS multiprotocol label switching 195MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 196MSF minutes seconds frames 197MSS maximum segment size 198MTA mail transfer agent 199MTU maximum transmission unit 200MUA mail user agent 201MWE module width encoding 202NAT network address translation 203NAV network allocation vector 204NCP network control protocol 205NCQ native command queuing 206NFS network file system 207NIC network interface card 208NIS network information service 209NRZ non-return to zero 210NUMA non uniform memory access 211OCL object constraint language 212OCR optical character recognition 213OEM original equipment manufacturer 214OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 215OSF open software foundation 216OSI open systems interconnection 217OSI open-source initiative 218OSPF open shortest path first 219OTP one time password 220PAM pluggable authentication modules 221PAM pulse amplitude modulation 222PAT port address translation 223PAX portable archive exchange 224PC personal computer 225PCI peripheral component interconnect 226PCM pulse code modulation 227PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 228PDP page descriptor page 229PDU protocol data unit 230PER packed encoding rules 231PERL practical extraction [and] report language 232PFS perfect forward secrecy 233PGP pretty good privacy 234PIC programmable interrupt controller 235PID process id 236PIN personal identification number 237PIO programmed input/output 238PLL phase locked loop 239PMT photo-multiplier tube 240PNG portable network graphics 241POP post office protocol 242POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 243POST power on self test 244POTS plain old telephone system 245PPP point-to-point protocol 246PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 247PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 248PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 249PROM programmable read only memory 250PSK pre-shared key 251PSTN public switched telephone network 252PTE page table entry 253PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 254PTP page table page 255PWM pulse width modulation 256QOS quality of service 257RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 258RAM random access memory 259RCS revision control system 260RGB red green blue 261RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 262RIP routing information protocol 263RIR regional internet registry 264RISC reduced instruction set computing 265RLE run length encoding 266RLL run length limited 267ROM read only memory 268RPM revolutions per minute 269RTF rich text format 270RTS request to send 271RTT round time trip 272S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 273SACD super audio compact disc 274SAD security association database 275SAM serial access memory 276SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 277SATA serial advanced technology attachment 278SB sound blaster 279SCM software configuration management 280SCM source code management 281SCSI small computer system interface 282SCTP stream control transmission protocol 283SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 284SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 285SIFS short inter-frame space 286SIP session initiation protocol 287SIR slow infrared 288SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 289SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 290SMP symmetric multiprocessing 291SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 292SNMP simple network management protocol 293SPD security policy database 294SPD serial presence detect 295SRAM static random access memory 296SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 297SSH secure shell 298SSL secure sockets layer 299STP shielded twisted pair 300STP spanning-tree protocol 301SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 302TCL tool command language 303TCP transmission control protocol 304TCQ tagged command queueing 305TDD test driven development 306TFT thin film transistor 307TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 308TIFF tagged image file format 309TLA top level aggregator 310TLB transition lookaside buffer 311TLD top level domain 312TLS transport layer security 313TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 314TR token ring 315TTL time to live 316TTY teletype 317TZ time zone 318UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 319UC uncacheable 320UDO ultra density optical (storage) 321UDP user datagram protocol 322UFS unix file system 323UML unified modeling language 324UPS uninterruptible power supply 325URI uniform resource identifier 326URL uniform resource locator 327USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 328USB universal serial bus 329USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 330UTP unshielded twisted pair 331UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 332UUOC useless use of cat 333VAX virtual address extension 334VCM virtual channel memory 335VESA video electronics standards association 336VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 337WIFI wireless fidelity 338VLAN virtual local area network 339VLSM variable length subnet mask 340VM virtual {machine,memory} 341VPN virtual private network 342VRAM video random access memory 343VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 344WAN wide area network 345WAP wireless application protocol 346WEP wired equivalent privacy 347WLAN wireless local area network 348WPA wi-fi protected access 349WRAM window random access memory 350WWW world wide web 351XER XML encoding rules 352XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 353XML extensible markup language 354XSL extensible stylesheet language 355XT extended technology 356ZFOD zero-filled on demand 357