acronyms.comp revision 1.79
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 25AST abstract syntax tree 26AST asynchronous trap 27AT advanced technology 28ATA advanced technology attachment 29ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 30ATC address translation cache 31ATM asynchronous transfer mode 32ATX advanced technology extended 33BAR base address register 34BEDO burst extended data output 35BER basic encoding rules 36BER bit error rate 37BGP border gateway protocol 38BIOS basic input/output system 39BLOB binary large object 40BPS bits per second 41BQS berkeley quality software 42BSD berkeley software distribution 43CAD computer-aided design 44CARP common address redundancy protocol 45CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 46CCD charge coupled device 47CD compact disc 48CDDA compact disc digital audio 49CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 50CER canonical encoding rules 51CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 52CGI common gateway interface 53CHS cylinder/head/sector 54CIDR classless inter-domain routing 55CIS contact image sensor 56CLI command line interface 57CLUT color look-up table 58CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 59CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 60COFF common object file format 61COW copy-on-write 62CPU central processing unit 63CRLF carriage return line feed 64CRT cathode ray tube 65CSMA carrier sense multiple access 66CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 67CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 68CSS cascading style sheets 69CTS clear to send 70CVS concurrent versions system 71DAC digital [to] analog converter 72DCE data control equipment 73DCE distributed computing environment 74DCT discrete cosine transform 75DDC display data channel 76DDR double data rate 77DDWG digital display working group 78DER distinguished encoding rules 79DFT discrete fourier transform 80DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 81DIFS distributed inter-frame space 82DLE data link escape 83DMA direct memory access 84DNS domain name system 85DOS denial of service 86DPCM differential pulse code modulation 87DPD dead peer detection 88DPI dots per inch 89DRAM dynamic random access memory 90DSL digital subscriber line 91DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 92DTD document type definition 93DTE data terminal equipment 94DTE dumb terminal emulator 95DVD digital versatile disc 96DVI digital visual interface 97E-XER extended XML encoding rules 98EAP extensible authentication protocol 99ECP enhanced capability port 100EDID extended display identification data 101EDO extended data out 102EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 103EFI extensible firmware interface 104EFM eight to fourteen modulation 105EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 106EGP exterior gateway protocol 107EISA extended industry standard architecture 108ELF executable and linking format 109EOF end of file 110EOT end of transmission 111EPP enhanced parallel port 112EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 113EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 114ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 115FAT file allocation table 116FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 117FCS frame check sequence 118FDDI fiber distributed data interface 119FFS fast file system 120FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 121FIR fast infrared 122FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 123FM frequency modulation 124FPM fast page mode 125FQDN fully qualified domain name 126FTP file transfer protocol 127FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 128GC garbage collector 129GCR group-coded recording 130GIF graphics interchange format 131GNU gnu's not unix 132GPL gnu/general public license 133GPU graphics processing unit 134GRE generic routing encapsulation 135GUI graphics user interface 136HA high availability 137HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 138HTML hyper-text markup language 139HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 140HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 141I2O intelligent input/output 142IANA internet assigned number authority 143IC integrated circuit 144ICB internet citizen's band 145ICE internal compiler error 146ICE in-circuit emulator 147ICMP internet control message protocol 148IDE integrated drive electronics 149IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 150IEC international electrotechnical commission 151IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 152IESG internet engineering steering group 153IETF internet engineering task force 154IGP interior gateway protocol 155IKE internet key exchange 156IMAP internet mail access protocol 157INCITS international committee on information technology standards 158IO input/output 159IOCTL input/output control 160IP internet protocol 161IPC interprocess communication 162IPNG internet protocol, next generation 163IPSEC internet protocol security 164IRC internet relay chat 165IRQ interrupt request 166IRTF internet research task force 167ISA industry standard architecture 168ISDN integrated services digital network 169ISI inter-symbol interference 170ISM industrial, scientific and medical 171ISN initial serial number 172ISO international standards organization 173ISOC internet society 174ISP internet service provider 175JPEG joint photographic experts group 176KLOC thousand lines of code 177KPI kernel programming interface 178KVA kernel virtual address 179KVM kernel virtual memory 180KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 181LAN local area network 182LBA logical block addressing 183LCD liquid crystal display 184LCP link control protocol 185LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 186LED light emitting diode 187LIR local internet registry 188LKM {linux, loadable} kernel module 189LLC logical link control 190LOC lines of code 191LRC longitudinal redundancy check 192LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 193LSB linux standards base 194LSI large scale integration 195LUN logical unit number 196LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 197MAC medium access control 198MBR master boot record 199MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 200MFC merge from current 201MFM modified frequency modulation 202MIDI musical instrument digital interface 203MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 204MIPS million instructions per second 205MMU memory management unit 206MPEG moving picture experts group 207MPLS multiprotocol label switching 208MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 209MSF minutes seconds frames 210MSS maximum segment size 211MTA mail transfer agent 212MTU maximum transmission unit 213MUA mail user agent 214MWE module width encoding 215NAT network address translation 216NAV network allocation vector 217NCP network control protocol 218NCQ native command queuing 219NFS network file system 220NIC network interface card 221NIS network information service 222NRZ non-return to zero 223NUMA non uniform memory access 224OCL object constraint language 225OCR optical character recognition 226OEM original equipment manufacturer 227OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 228OS operating system 229OSF open software foundation 230OSI open systems interconnection 231OSI open-source initiative 232OSPF open shortest path first 233OTP one time password 234PA physical address 235PAE physical address extension 236PAM pluggable authentication modules 237PAM pulse amplitude modulation 238PAT port address translation 239PAX portable archive exchange 240PC personal computer 241PCI peripheral component interconnect 242PCM pulse code modulation 243PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 244PDP page descriptor page 245PDU protocol data unit 246PER packed encoding rules 247PERL practical extraction [and] report language 248PFS perfect forward secrecy 249PGP pretty good privacy 250PIC programmable interrupt controller 251PIC position independent code 252PID process id 253PIE position independent executable 254PIN personal identification number 255PIO programmed input/output 256PLL phase locked loop 257PMT photo-multiplier tube 258PNG portable network graphics 259POP post office protocol 260POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 261POST power on self test 262POTS plain old telephone system 263PPP point-to-point protocol 264PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 265PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 266PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 267PROM programmable read only memory 268PSK pre-shared key 269PSTN public switched telephone network 270PTE page table entry 271PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 272PTP page table page 273PWM pulse width modulation 274QOS quality of service 275RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 276RAM random access memory 277RAS restartable atomic sequence 278RCS revision control system 279RGB red green blue 280RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 281RIP routing information protocol 282RIR regional internet registry 283RISC reduced instruction set computing 284RLE run length encoding 285RLL run length limited 286ROM read only memory 287RPC remote procedure call 288RPM revolutions per minute 289RTF rich text format 290RTS request to send 291RTT round time trip 292S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 293SACD super audio compact disc 294SAD security association database 295SAM serial access memory 296SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 297SATA serial advanced technology attachment 298SB sound blaster 299SCM software configuration management 300SCM source code management 301SCSI small computer system interface 302SCTP stream control transmission protocol 303SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 304SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 305SIFS short inter-frame space 306SIP session initiation protocol 307SIR slow infrared 308SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 309SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 310SMP symmetric multiprocessing 311SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 312SNMP simple network management protocol 313SPD security policy database 314SPD serial presence detect 315SRAM static random access memory 316SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 317SSH secure shell 318SSL secure sockets layer 319STP shielded twisted pair 320STP spanning-tree protocol 321SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 322TCB trusted computing base 323TCL tool command language 324TCP transmission control protocol 325TCQ tagged command queueing 326TDD test driven development 327TFT thin film transistor 328TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 329TIFF tagged image file format 330TLA top level aggregator 331TLB transition lookaside buffer 332TLD top level domain 333TLS transport layer security 334TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 335TR token ring 336TTL time to live 337TTY teletype 338TZ time zone 339UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 340UC uncacheable 341UDO ultra density optical (storage) 342UDP user datagram protocol 343UFS unix file system 344UML unified modeling language 345UPS uninterruptible power supply 346URI uniform resource identifier 347URL uniform resource locator 348USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 349USB universal serial bus 350USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 351UTP unshielded twisted pair 352UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 353UUOC useless use of cat 354VA virtual address 355VAX virtual address extension 356VCM virtual channel memory 357VESA video electronics standards association 358VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 359WIFI wireless fidelity 360VLAN virtual local area network 361VLSI very large scale integration 362VLSM variable length subnet mask 363VM virtual {machine,memory} 364VPN virtual private network 365VRAM video random access memory 366VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 367WAN wide area network 368WAP wireless application protocol 369WEP wired equivalent privacy 370WLAN wireless local area network 371WPA wi-fi protected access 372WRAM window random access memory 373WWW world wide web 374XER XML encoding rules 375XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 376XML extensible markup language 377XSL extensible stylesheet language 378XT extended technology 379ZFOD zero-filled on demand 380