acronyms.comp revision 1.76
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 138ICE internal compiler error 139ICMP internet control message protocol 140IDE integrated drive electronics 141IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 142IEC international electrotechnical commission 143IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 144IESG internet engineering steering group 145IETF internet engineering task force 146IGP interior gateway protocol 147IKE internet key exchange 148IMAP internet mail access protocol 149INCITS international committee on information technology standards 150IO input/output 151IOCTL input/output control 152IP internet protocol 153IPC interprocess communication 154IPNG internet protocol, next generation 155IPSEC internet protocol security 156IRC internet relay chat 157IRQ interrupt request 158IRTF internet research task force 159ISA industry standard architecture 160ISDN integrated services digital network 161ISI inter-symbol interference 162ISM industrial, scientific and medical 163ISN initial serial number 164ISO international standards organization 165ISOC internet society 166ISP internet service provider 167JPEG joint photographic experts group 168KPI kernel programming interface 169KVA kernel virtual address 170KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 171LAN local area network 172LBA logical block addressing 173LCD liquid crystal display 174LCP link control protocol 175LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 176LED light emitting diode 177LIR local internet registry 178LKM {linux, loadable} kernel module 179LLC logical link control 180LRC longitudinal redundancy check 181LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 182LSB linux standards base 183LUN logical unit number 184LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 185MAC medium access control 186MBR master boot record 187MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 188MFC merge from current 189MFM modified frequency modulation 190MIDI musical instrument digital interface 191MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 192MIPS million instructions per second 193MMU memory management unit 194MPEG moving picture experts group 195MPLS multiprotocol label switching 196MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 197MSF minutes seconds frames 198MSS maximum segment size 199MTA mail transfer agent 200MTU maximum transmission unit 201MUA mail user agent 202MWE module width encoding 203NAT network address translation 204NAV network allocation vector 205NCP network control protocol 206NCQ native command queuing 207NFS network file system 208NIC network interface card 209NIS network information service 210NRZ non-return to zero 211NUMA non uniform memory access 212OCL object constraint language 213OCR optical character recognition 214OEM original equipment manufacturer 215OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 216OSF open software foundation 217OSI open systems interconnection 218OSI open-source initiative 219OSPF open shortest path first 220OTP one time password 221PAM pluggable authentication modules 222PAM pulse amplitude modulation 223PAT port address translation 224PAX portable archive exchange 225PC personal computer 226PCI peripheral component interconnect 227PCM pulse code modulation 228PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 229PDP page descriptor page 230PDU protocol data unit 231PER packed encoding rules 232PERL practical extraction [and] report language 233PFS perfect forward secrecy 234PGP pretty good privacy 235PIC programmable interrupt controller 236PID process id 237PIN personal identification number 238PIO programmed input/output 239PLL phase locked loop 240PMT photo-multiplier tube 241PNG portable network graphics 242POP post office protocol 243POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 244POST power on self test 245POTS plain old telephone system 246PPP point-to-point protocol 247PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 248PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 249PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 250PROM programmable read only memory 251PSK pre-shared key 252PSTN public switched telephone network 253PTE page table entry 254PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 255PTP page table page 256PWM pulse width modulation 257QOS quality of service 258RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 259RAM random access memory 260RCS revision control system 261RGB red green blue 262RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 263RIP routing information protocol 264RIR regional internet registry 265RISC reduced instruction set computing 266RLE run length encoding 267RLL run length limited 268ROM read only memory 269RPM revolutions per minute 270RTF rich text format 271RTS request to send 272RTT round time trip 273S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 274SACD super audio compact disc 275SAD security association database 276SAM serial access memory 277SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 278SATA serial advanced technology attachment 279SB sound blaster 280SCM software configuration management 281SCM source code management 282SCSI small computer system interface 283SCTP stream control transmission protocol 284SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 285SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 286SIFS short inter-frame space 287SIP session initiation protocol 288SIR slow infrared 289SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 290SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 291SMP symmetric multiprocessing 292SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 293SNMP simple network management protocol 294SPD security policy database 295SPD serial presence detect 296SRAM static random access memory 297SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 298SSH secure shell 299SSL secure sockets layer 300STP shielded twisted pair 301STP spanning-tree protocol 302SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 303TCL tool command language 304TCP transmission control protocol 305TCQ tagged command queueing 306TDD test driven development 307TFT thin film transistor 308TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 309TIFF tagged image file format 310TLA top level aggregator 311TLB transition lookaside buffer 312TLD top level domain 313TLS transport layer security 314TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 315TR token ring 316TTL time to live 317TTY teletype 318TZ time zone 319UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 320UC uncacheable 321UDO ultra density optical (storage) 322UDP user datagram protocol 323UFS unix file system 324UML unified modeling language 325UPS uninterruptible power supply 326URI uniform resource identifier 327URL uniform resource locator 328USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 329USB universal serial bus 330USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 331UTP unshielded twisted pair 332UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 333UUOC useless use of cat 334VAX virtual address extension 335VCM virtual channel memory 336VESA video electronics standards association 337VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 338WIFI wireless fidelity 339VLAN virtual local area network 340VLSM variable length subnet mask 341VM virtual {machine,memory} 342VPN virtual private network 343VRAM video random access memory 344VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 345WAN wide area network 346WAP wireless application protocol 347WEP wired equivalent privacy 348WLAN wireless local area network 349WPA wi-fi protected access 350WRAM window random access memory 351WWW world wide web 352XER XML encoding rules 353XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 354XML extensible markup language 355XSL extensible stylesheet language 356XT extended technology 357ZFOD zero-filled on demand 358