acronyms.comp revision 1.81
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.81 2008/01/24 15:01:21 tnn Exp $ 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 137HCI host controller interface 138HCI human-computer interaction 139HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 140HTML hyper-text markup language 141HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 142HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 143I2O intelligent input/output 144IANA internet assigned number authority 145IC integrated circuit 146ICB internet citizen's band 147ICE internal compiler error 148ICE in-circuit emulator 149ICMP internet control message protocol 150IDE integrated drive electronics 151IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 152IEC international electrotechnical commission 153IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 154IESG internet engineering steering group 155IETF internet engineering task force 156IGP interior gateway protocol 157IKE internet key exchange 158IMAP internet mail access protocol 159INCITS international committee on information technology standards 160IO input/output 161IOCTL input/output control 162IP internet protocol 163IPC interprocess communication 164IPNG internet protocol, next generation 165IPSEC internet protocol security 166IRC internet relay chat 167IRQ interrupt request 168IRTF internet research task force 169ISA industry standard architecture 170ISDN integrated services digital network 171ISI inter-symbol interference 172ISM industrial, scientific and medical 173ISN initial serial number 174ISO international standards organization 175ISOC internet society 176ISP internet service provider 177JPEG joint photographic experts group 178KLOC thousand lines of code 179KPI kernel programming interface 180KVA kernel virtual address 181KVM kernel virtual memory 182KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 183LAN local area network 184LBA logical block addressing 185LCD liquid crystal display 186LCP link control protocol 187LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 188LED light emitting diode 189LIR local internet registry 190LKM {linux, loadable} kernel module 191LLC logical link control 192LOC lines of code 193LRC longitudinal redundancy check 194LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 195LSB linux standards base 196LSI large scale integration 197LUN logical unit number 198LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 199MAC medium access control 200MBR master boot record 201MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 202MFC merge from current 203MFM modified frequency modulation 204MIDI musical instrument digital interface 205MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 206MIPS million instructions per second 207MMU memory management unit 208MPEG moving picture experts group 209MPLS multiprotocol label switching 210MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 211MSF minutes seconds frames 212MSS maximum segment size 213MTA mail transfer agent 214MTU maximum transmission unit 215MUA mail user agent 216MWE module width encoding 217NAT network address translation 218NAV network allocation vector 219NCP network control protocol 220NCQ native command queuing 221NFS network file system 222NIC network interface card 223NIS network information service 224NRZ non-return to zero 225NUMA non uniform memory access 226OCL object constraint language 227OCR optical character recognition 228OEM original equipment manufacturer 229OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 230OS operating system 231OSF open software foundation 232OSI open systems interconnection 233OSI open-source initiative 234OSPF open shortest path first 235OTP one time password 236PA physical address 237PAE physical address extension 238PAM pluggable authentication modules 239PAM pulse amplitude modulation 240PAT port address translation 241PAX portable archive exchange 242PC personal computer 243PCI peripheral component interconnect 244PCM pulse code modulation 245PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 246PDP page descriptor page 247PDU protocol data unit 248PER packed encoding rules 249PERL practical extraction [and] report language 250PFS perfect forward secrecy 251PGP pretty good privacy 252PIC programmable interrupt controller 253PIC position independent code 254PID process id 255PIE position independent executable 256PIN personal identification number 257PIO programmed input/output 258PLL phase locked loop 259PMT photo-multiplier tube 260PNG portable network graphics 261POP post office protocol 262POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 263POST power on self test 264POTS plain old telephone system 265PPP point-to-point protocol 266PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 267PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 268PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 269PROM programmable read only memory 270PSK pre-shared key 271PSTN public switched telephone network 272PTE page table entry 273PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 274PTP page table page 275PWM pulse width modulation 276QOS quality of service 277RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 278RAM random access memory 279RAS restartable atomic sequence 280RCS revision control system 281RGB red green blue 282RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 283RIP routing information protocol 284RIR regional internet registry 285RISC reduced instruction set computing 286RLE run length encoding 287RLL run length limited 288ROM read only memory 289RPC remote procedure call 290RPM revolutions per minute 291RTF rich text format 292RTS request to send 293RTT round time trip 294S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 295SACD super audio compact disc 296SAD security association database 297SAM serial access memory 298SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 299SATA serial advanced technology attachment 300SB sound blaster 301SCM software configuration management 302SCM source code management 303SCSI small computer system interface 304SCTP stream control transmission protocol 305SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 306SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 307SIFS short inter-frame space 308SIP session initiation protocol 309SIR slow infrared 310SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 311SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 312SMP symmetric multiprocessing 313SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 314SNMP simple network management protocol 315SPD security policy database 316SPD serial presence detect 317SRAM static random access memory 318SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 319SSH secure shell 320SSL secure sockets layer 321STP shielded twisted pair 322STP spanning-tree protocol 323SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 324TCB trusted computing base 325TCL tool command language 326TCP transmission control protocol 327TCQ tagged command queueing 328TDD test driven development 329TFT thin film transistor 330TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 331TIFF tagged image file format 332TLA top level aggregator 333TLB transition lookaside buffer 334TLD top level domain 335TLS transport layer security 336TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 337TR token ring 338TTL time to live 339TTY teletype 340TZ time zone 341UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 342UC uncacheable 343UDO ultra density optical (storage) 344UDP user datagram protocol 345UFS unix file system 346UML unified modeling language 347UPS uninterruptible power supply 348URI uniform resource identifier 349URL uniform resource locator 350USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 351USB universal serial bus 352USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 353UTP unshielded twisted pair 354UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 355UUOC useless use of cat 356VA virtual address 357VAX virtual address extension 358VCM virtual channel memory 359VESA video electronics standards association 360VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 361WIFI wireless fidelity 362VLAN virtual local area network 363VLSI very large scale integration 364VLSM variable length subnet mask 365VM virtual {machine,memory} 366VPN virtual private network 367VRAM video random access memory 368VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 369WAN wide area network 370WAP wireless application protocol 371WEP wired equivalent privacy 372WLAN wireless local area network 373WPA wi-fi protected access 374WRAM window random access memory 375WWW world wide web 376XER XML encoding rules 377XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 378XML extensible markup language 379XSL extensible stylesheet language 380XT extended technology 381ZFOD zero-filled on demand 382