acronyms.comp revision 1.77
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 21ASLR address space layout randomization 22ASN autonomous system number 23AT advanced technology 24ATA advanced technology attachment 25ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 26ATC address translation cache 27ATM asynchronous transfer mode 28ATX advanced technology extended 29BEDO burst extended data output 30BER basic encoding rules 31BER bit error rate 32BGP border gateway protocol 33BIOS basic input/output system 34BLOB binary large object 35BPS bits per second 36BQS berkeley quality software 37BSD berkeley software distribution 38CAD computer-aided design 39CARP common address redundancy protocol 40CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 41CCD charge coupled device 42CD compact disc 43CDDA compact disc digital audio 44CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 45CER canonical encoding rules 46CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 47CGI common gateway interface 48CHS cylinder/head/sector 49CIDR classless inter-domain routing 50CIS contact image sensor 51CLI command line interface 52CLUT color look-up table 53CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 54CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 55COFF common object file format 56COW copy-on-write 57CPU central processing unit 58CRLF carriage return line feed 59CRT cathode ray tube 60CSMA carrier sense multiple access 61CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 62CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 63CSS cascading style sheets 64CTS clear to send 65CVS concurrent versions system 66DAC digital [to] analog converter 67DCE data control equipment 68DCE distributed computing environment 69DCT discrete cosine transform 70DDC display data channel 71DDR double data rate 72DDWG digital display working group 73DER distinguished encoding rules 74DFT discrete fourier transform 75DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 76DIFS distributed inter-frame space 77DLE data link escape 78DMA direct memory access 79DNS domain name system 80DOS denial of service 81DPCM differential pulse code modulation 82DPD dead peer detection 83DPI dots per inch 84DRAM dynamic random access memory 85DSL digital subscriber line 86DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 87DTD document type definition 88DTE data terminal equipment 89DTE dumb terminal emulator 90DVD digital versatile disc 91DVI digital visual interface 92E-XER extended XML encoding rules 93EAP extensible authentication protocol 94ECP enhanced capability port 95EDID extended display identification data 96EDO extended data out 97EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 98EFI extensible firmware interface 99EFM eight to fourteen modulation 100EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 101EGP exterior gateway protocol 102EISA extended industry standard architecture 103ELF executable and linking format 104EOF end of file 105EOT end of transmission 106EPP enhanced parallel port 107EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 108EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 109ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 110FAT file allocation table 111FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 112FCS frame check sequence 113FDDI fiber distributed data interface 114FFS fast file system 115FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 116FIR fast infrared 117FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 118FM frequency modulation 119FPM fast page mode 120FQDN fully qualified domain name 121FTP file transfer protocol 122FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 123GC garbage collector 124GCR group-coded recording 125GIF graphics interchange format 126GNU gnu's not unix 127GPL gnu/general public license 128GPU graphics processing unit 129GRE generic routing encapsulation 130GUI graphics user interface 131HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 132HTML hyper-text markup language 133HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 134HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 135I2O intelligent input/output 136IANA internet assigned number authority 137IC integrated circuit 138ICB internet citizen's band 139ICE internal compiler error 140ICMP internet control message protocol 141IDE integrated drive electronics 142IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 143IEC international electrotechnical commission 144IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 145IESG internet engineering steering group 146IETF internet engineering task force 147IGP interior gateway protocol 148IKE internet key exchange 149IMAP internet mail access protocol 150INCITS international committee on information technology standards 151IO input/output 152IOCTL input/output control 153IP internet protocol 154IPC interprocess communication 155IPNG internet protocol, next generation 156IPSEC internet protocol security 157IRC internet relay chat 158IRQ interrupt request 159IRTF internet research task force 160ISA industry standard architecture 161ISDN integrated services digital network 162ISI inter-symbol interference 163ISM industrial, scientific and medical 164ISN initial serial number 165ISO international standards organization 166ISOC internet society 167ISP internet service provider 168JPEG joint photographic experts group 169KPI kernel programming interface 170KVA kernel virtual address 171KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 172LAN local area network 173LBA logical block addressing 174LCD liquid crystal display 175LCP link control protocol 176LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 177LED light emitting diode 178LIR local internet registry 179LKM {linux, loadable} kernel module 180LLC logical link control 181LRC longitudinal redundancy check 182LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 183LSB linux standards base 184LUN logical unit number 185LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 186MAC medium access control 187MBR master boot record 188MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 189MFC merge from current 190MFM modified frequency modulation 191MIDI musical instrument digital interface 192MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 193MIPS million instructions per second 194MMU memory management unit 195MPEG moving picture experts group 196MPLS multiprotocol label switching 197MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 198MSF minutes seconds frames 199MSS maximum segment size 200MTA mail transfer agent 201MTU maximum transmission unit 202MUA mail user agent 203MWE module width encoding 204NAT network address translation 205NAV network allocation vector 206NCP network control protocol 207NCQ native command queuing 208NFS network file system 209NIC network interface card 210NIS network information service 211NRZ non-return to zero 212NUMA non uniform memory access 213OCL object constraint language 214OCR optical character recognition 215OEM original equipment manufacturer 216OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 217OSF open software foundation 218OSI open systems interconnection 219OSI open-source initiative 220OSPF open shortest path first 221OTP one time password 222PAM pluggable authentication modules 223PAM pulse amplitude modulation 224PAT port address translation 225PAX portable archive exchange 226PC personal computer 227PCI peripheral component interconnect 228PCM pulse code modulation 229PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 230PDP page descriptor page 231PDU protocol data unit 232PER packed encoding rules 233PERL practical extraction [and] report language 234PFS perfect forward secrecy 235PGP pretty good privacy 236PIC programmable interrupt controller 237PIC position independent code 238PID process id 239PIE position independent executable 240PIN personal identification number 241PIO programmed input/output 242PLL phase locked loop 243PMT photo-multiplier tube 244PNG portable network graphics 245POP post office protocol 246POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 247POST power on self test 248POTS plain old telephone system 249PPP point-to-point protocol 250PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 251PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 252PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 253PROM programmable read only memory 254PSK pre-shared key 255PSTN public switched telephone network 256PTE page table entry 257PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 258PTP page table page 259PWM pulse width modulation 260QOS quality of service 261RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 262RAM random access memory 263RCS revision control system 264RGB red green blue 265RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 266RIP routing information protocol 267RIR regional internet registry 268RISC reduced instruction set computing 269RLE run length encoding 270RLL run length limited 271ROM read only memory 272RPM revolutions per minute 273RTF rich text format 274RTS request to send 275RTT round time trip 276S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 277SACD super audio compact disc 278SAD security association database 279SAM serial access memory 280SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 281SATA serial advanced technology attachment 282SB sound blaster 283SCM software configuration management 284SCM source code management 285SCSI small computer system interface 286SCTP stream control transmission protocol 287SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 288SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 289SIFS short inter-frame space 290SIP session initiation protocol 291SIR slow infrared 292SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 293SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 294SMP symmetric multiprocessing 295SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 296SNMP simple network management protocol 297SPD security policy database 298SPD serial presence detect 299SRAM static random access memory 300SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 301SSH secure shell 302SSL secure sockets layer 303STP shielded twisted pair 304STP spanning-tree protocol 305SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 306TCL tool command language 307TCP transmission control protocol 308TCQ tagged command queueing 309TDD test driven development 310TFT thin film transistor 311TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 312TIFF tagged image file format 313TLA top level aggregator 314TLB transition lookaside buffer 315TLD top level domain 316TLS transport layer security 317TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 318TR token ring 319TTL time to live 320TTY teletype 321TZ time zone 322UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 323UC uncacheable 324UDO ultra density optical (storage) 325UDP user datagram protocol 326UFS unix file system 327UML unified modeling language 328UPS uninterruptible power supply 329URI uniform resource identifier 330URL uniform resource locator 331USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 332USB universal serial bus 333USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 334UTP unshielded twisted pair 335UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 336UUOC useless use of cat 337VAX virtual address extension 338VCM virtual channel memory 339VESA video electronics standards association 340VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 341WIFI wireless fidelity 342VLAN virtual local area network 343VLSM variable length subnet mask 344VM virtual {machine,memory} 345VPN virtual private network 346VRAM video random access memory 347VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 348WAN wide area network 349WAP wireless application protocol 350WEP wired equivalent privacy 351WLAN wireless local area network 352WPA wi-fi protected access 353WRAM window random access memory 354WWW world wide web 355XER XML encoding rules 356XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 357XML extensible markup language 358XSL extensible stylesheet language 359XT extended technology 360ZFOD zero-filled on demand 361