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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 7ADB Apple desktop bus 8ADC analog [to] digital converter 9ADPCM adaptive differential pulse code modulation 10ADSL asymmetric digital subscriber line 11AFS Andrew file system 12AGP accelerated graphics port 13AM amplitude modulation 14AMI alternate mark inversion 15ANSI american national standards institute 16AP access point 17API application programming interface 18APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 19ARP address resolution protocol 20ARQ automatic repeat request 21AS autonomous system 22ASCII american standard code for information interchange 23ASLR address space layout randomization 24ASN autonomous system number 25AT advanced technology 26ATA advanced technology attachment 27ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 28ATC address translation cache 29ATM asynchronous transfer mode 30ATX advanced technology extended 31BAR base address register 32BEDO burst extended data output 33BER basic encoding rules 34BER bit error rate 35BGP border gateway protocol 36BIOS basic input/output system 37BLOB binary large object 38BPS bits per second 39BQS berkeley quality software 40BSD berkeley software distribution 41CAD computer-aided design 42CARP common address redundancy protocol 43CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 44CCD charge coupled device 45CD compact disc 46CDDA compact disc digital audio 47CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 48CER canonical encoding rules 49CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 50CGI common gateway interface 51CHS cylinder/head/sector 52CIDR classless inter-domain routing 53CIS contact image sensor 54CLI command line interface 55CLUT color look-up table 56CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 57CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 58COFF common object file format 59COW copy-on-write 60CPU central processing unit 61CRLF carriage return line feed 62CRT cathode ray tube 63CSMA carrier sense multiple access 64CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 65CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 66CSS cascading style sheets 67CTS clear to send 68CVS concurrent versions system 69DAC digital [to] analog converter 70DCE data control equipment 71DCE distributed computing environment 72DCT discrete cosine transform 73DDC display data channel 74DDR double data rate 75DDWG digital display working group 76DER distinguished encoding rules 77DFT discrete fourier transform 78DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 79DIFS distributed inter-frame space 80DLE data link escape 81DMA direct memory access 82DNS domain name system 83DOS denial of service 84DPCM differential pulse code modulation 85DPD dead peer detection 86DPI dots per inch 87DRAM dynamic random access memory 88DSL digital subscriber line 89DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 90DTD document type definition 91DTE data terminal equipment 92DTE dumb terminal emulator 93DVD digital versatile disc 94DVI digital visual interface 95E-XER extended XML encoding rules 96EAP extensible authentication protocol 97ECP enhanced capability port 98EDID extended display identification data 99EDO extended data out 100EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 101EFI extensible firmware interface 102EFM eight to fourteen modulation 103EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 104EGP exterior gateway protocol 105EISA extended industry standard architecture 106ELF executable and linking format 107EOF end of file 108EOT end of transmission 109EPP enhanced parallel port 110EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 111EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 112ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 113FAT file allocation table 114FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 115FCS frame check sequence 116FDDI fiber distributed data interface 117FFS fast file system 118FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 119FIR fast infrared 120FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 121FM frequency modulation 122FPM fast page mode 123FQDN fully qualified domain name 124FTP file transfer protocol 125FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 126GC garbage collector 127GCR group-coded recording 128GIF graphics interchange format 129GNU gnu's not unix 130GPL gnu/general public license 131GPU graphics processing unit 132GRE generic routing encapsulation 133GUI graphics user interface 134HA high availability 135HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 136HTML hyper-text markup language 137HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 138HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 139I2O intelligent input/output 140IANA internet assigned number authority 141IC integrated circuit 142ICB internet citizen's band 143ICE internal compiler error 144ICE in-circuit emulator 145ICMP internet control message protocol 146IDE integrated drive electronics 147IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 148IEC international electrotechnical commission 149IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 150IESG internet engineering steering group 151IETF internet engineering task force 152IGP interior gateway protocol 153IKE internet key exchange 154IMAP internet mail access protocol 155INCITS international committee on information technology standards 156IO input/output 157IOCTL input/output control 158IP internet protocol 159IPC interprocess communication 160IPNG internet protocol, next generation 161IPSEC internet protocol security 162IRC internet relay chat 163IRQ interrupt request 164IRTF internet research task force 165ISA industry standard architecture 166ISDN integrated services digital network 167ISI inter-symbol interference 168ISM industrial, scientific and medical 169ISN initial serial number 170ISO international standards organization 171ISOC internet society 172ISP internet service provider 173JPEG joint photographic experts group 174KLOC thousand lines of code 175KPI kernel programming interface 176KVA kernel virtual address 177KVM kernel virtual memory 178KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 179LAN local area network 180LBA logical block addressing 181LCD liquid crystal display 182LCP link control protocol 183LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 184LED light emitting diode 185LIR local internet registry 186LKM {linux, loadable} kernel module 187LLC logical link control 188LOC lines of code 189LRC longitudinal redundancy check 190LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 191LSB linux standards base 192LSI large scale integration 193LUN logical unit number 194LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 195MAC medium access control 196MBR master boot record 197MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 198MFC merge from current 199MFM modified frequency modulation 200MIDI musical instrument digital interface 201MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 202MIPS million instructions per second 203MMU memory management unit 204MPEG moving picture experts group 205MPLS multiprotocol label switching 206MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 207MSF minutes seconds frames 208MSS maximum segment size 209MTA mail transfer agent 210MTU maximum transmission unit 211MUA mail user agent 212MWE module width encoding 213NAT network address translation 214NAV network allocation vector 215NCP network control protocol 216NCQ native command queuing 217NFS network file system 218NIC network interface card 219NIS network information service 220NRZ non-return to zero 221NUMA non uniform memory access 222OCL object constraint language 223OCR optical character recognition 224OEM original equipment manufacturer 225OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 226OS operating system 227OSF open software foundation 228OSI open systems interconnection 229OSI open-source initiative 230OSPF open shortest path first 231OTP one time password 232PA physical address 233PAM pluggable authentication modules 234PAM pulse amplitude modulation 235PAT port address translation 236PAX portable archive exchange 237PC personal computer 238PCI peripheral component interconnect 239PCM pulse code modulation 240PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 241PDP page descriptor page 242PDU protocol data unit 243PER packed encoding rules 244PERL practical extraction [and] report language 245PFS perfect forward secrecy 246PGP pretty good privacy 247PIC programmable interrupt controller 248PIC position independent code 249PID process id 250PIE position independent executable 251PIN personal identification number 252PIO programmed input/output 253PLL phase locked loop 254PMT photo-multiplier tube 255PNG portable network graphics 256POP post office protocol 257POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 258POST power on self test 259POTS plain old telephone system 260PPP point-to-point protocol 261PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 262PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 263PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 264PROM programmable read only memory 265PSK pre-shared key 266PSTN public switched telephone network 267PTE page table entry 268PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 269PTP page table page 270PWM pulse width modulation 271QOS quality of service 272RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 273RAM random access memory 274RCS revision control system 275RGB red green blue 276RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 277RIP routing information protocol 278RIR regional internet registry 279RISC reduced instruction set computing 280RLE run length encoding 281RLL run length limited 282ROM read only memory 283RPC remote procedure call 284RPM revolutions per minute 285RTF rich text format 286RTS request to send 287RTT round time trip 288S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 289SACD super audio compact disc 290SAD security association database 291SAM serial access memory 292SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 293SATA serial advanced technology attachment 294SB sound blaster 295SCM software configuration management 296SCM source code management 297SCSI small computer system interface 298SCTP stream control transmission protocol 299SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 300SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 301SIFS short inter-frame space 302SIP session initiation protocol 303SIR slow infrared 304SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 305SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 306SMP symmetric multiprocessing 307SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 308SNMP simple network management protocol 309SPD security policy database 310SPD serial presence detect 311SRAM static random access memory 312SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 313SSH secure shell 314SSL secure sockets layer 315STP shielded twisted pair 316STP spanning-tree protocol 317SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 318TCB trusted computing base 319TCL tool command language 320TCP transmission control protocol 321TCQ tagged command queueing 322TDD test driven development 323TFT thin film transistor 324TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 325TIFF tagged image file format 326TLA top level aggregator 327TLB transition lookaside buffer 328TLD top level domain 329TLS transport layer security 330TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 331TR token ring 332TTL time to live 333TTY teletype 334TZ time zone 335UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 336UC uncacheable 337UDO ultra density optical (storage) 338UDP user datagram protocol 339UFS unix file system 340UML unified modeling language 341UPS uninterruptible power supply 342URI uniform resource identifier 343URL uniform resource locator 344USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 345USB universal serial bus 346USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 347UTP unshielded twisted pair 348UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 349UUOC useless use of cat 350VA virtual address 351VAX virtual address extension 352VCM virtual channel memory 353VESA video electronics standards association 354VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 355WIFI wireless fidelity 356VLAN virtual local area network 357VLSI very large scale integration 358VLSM variable length subnet mask 359VM virtual {machine,memory} 360VPN virtual private network 361VRAM video random access memory 362VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 363WAN wide area network 364WAP wireless application protocol 365WEP wired equivalent privacy 366WLAN wireless local area network 367WPA wi-fi protected access 368WRAM window random access memory 369WWW world wide web 370XER XML encoding rules 371XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 372XML extensible markup language 373XSL extensible stylesheet language 374XT extended technology 375ZFOD zero-filled on demand 376