acronyms.comp revision 1.82
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.82 2008/01/24 15:04:24 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 137HBA host bus adapter 138HCI host controller interface 139HCI human-computer interaction 140HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 141HTML hyper-text markup language 142HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 143HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 144I2O intelligent input/output 145IANA internet assigned number authority 146IC integrated circuit 147ICB internet citizen's band 148ICE internal compiler error 149ICE in-circuit emulator 150ICMP internet control message protocol 151IDE integrated drive electronics 152IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 153IEC international electrotechnical commission 154IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 155IESG internet engineering steering group 156IETF internet engineering task force 157IGP interior gateway protocol 158IKE internet key exchange 159IMAP internet mail access protocol 160INCITS international committee on information technology standards 161IO input/output 162IOCTL input/output control 163IP internet protocol 164IPC interprocess communication 165IPNG internet protocol, next generation 166IPSEC internet protocol security 167IRC internet relay chat 168IRQ interrupt request 169IRTF internet research task force 170ISA industry standard architecture 171ISDN integrated services digital network 172ISI inter-symbol interference 173ISM industrial, scientific and medical 174ISN initial serial number 175ISO international standards organization 176ISOC internet society 177ISP internet service provider 178JPEG joint photographic experts group 179KLOC thousand lines of code 180KPI kernel programming interface 181KVA kernel virtual address 182KVM kernel virtual memory 183KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 184LAN local area network 185LBA logical block addressing 186LCD liquid crystal display 187LCP link control protocol 188LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 189LED light emitting diode 190LIR local internet registry 191LKM {linux, loadable} kernel module 192LLC logical link control 193LOC lines of code 194LRC longitudinal redundancy check 195LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 196LSB linux standards base 197LSI large scale integration 198LUN logical unit number 199LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 200MAC medium access control 201MBR master boot record 202MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 203MFC merge from current 204MFM modified frequency modulation 205MIDI musical instrument digital interface 206MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 207MIPS million instructions per second 208MMU memory management unit 209MPEG moving picture experts group 210MPLS multiprotocol label switching 211MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 212MSF minutes seconds frames 213MSS maximum segment size 214MTA mail transfer agent 215MTU maximum transmission unit 216MUA mail user agent 217MWE module width encoding 218NAT network address translation 219NAV network allocation vector 220NCP network control protocol 221NCQ native command queuing 222NFS network file system 223NIC network interface card 224NIS network information service 225NRZ non-return to zero 226NUMA non uniform memory access 227OCL object constraint language 228OCR optical character recognition 229OEM original equipment manufacturer 230OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 231OS operating system 232OSF open software foundation 233OSI open systems interconnection 234OSI open-source initiative 235OSPF open shortest path first 236OTP one time password 237PA physical address 238PAE physical address extension 239PAM pluggable authentication modules 240PAM pulse amplitude modulation 241PAT port address translation 242PAX portable archive exchange 243PC personal computer 244PCI peripheral component interconnect 245PCM pulse code modulation 246PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 247PDP page descriptor page 248PDU protocol data unit 249PER packed encoding rules 250PERL practical extraction [and] report language 251PFS perfect forward secrecy 252PGP pretty good privacy 253PIC programmable interrupt controller 254PIC position independent code 255PID process id 256PIE position independent executable 257PIN personal identification number 258PIO programmed input/output 259PLL phase locked loop 260PMT photo-multiplier tube 261PNG portable network graphics 262POP post office protocol 263POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 264POST power on self test 265POTS plain old telephone system 266PPP point-to-point protocol 267PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 268PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 269PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 270PROM programmable read only memory 271PSK pre-shared key 272PSTN public switched telephone network 273PTE page table entry 274PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 275PTP page table page 276PWM pulse width modulation 277QOS quality of service 278RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 279RAM random access memory 280RAS restartable atomic sequence 281RCS revision control system 282RGB red green blue 283RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 284RIP routing information protocol 285RIR regional internet registry 286RISC reduced instruction set computing 287RLE run length encoding 288RLL run length limited 289ROM read only memory 290RPC remote procedure call 291RPM revolutions per minute 292RTF rich text format 293RTS request to send 294RTT round time trip 295S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 296SACD super audio compact disc 297SAD security association database 298SAM serial access memory 299SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 300SATA serial advanced technology attachment 301SB sound blaster 302SCM software configuration management 303SCM source code management 304SCSI small computer system interface 305SCTP stream control transmission protocol 306SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 307SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 308SIFS short inter-frame space 309SIP session initiation protocol 310SIR slow infrared 311SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 312SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 313SMP symmetric multiprocessing 314SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 315SNMP simple network management protocol 316SPD security policy database 317SPD serial presence detect 318SRAM static random access memory 319SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 320SSH secure shell 321SSL secure sockets layer 322STP shielded twisted pair 323STP spanning-tree protocol 324SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 325TCB trusted computing base 326TCL tool command language 327TCP transmission control protocol 328TCQ tagged command queueing 329TDD test driven development 330TFT thin film transistor 331TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 332TIFF tagged image file format 333TLA top level aggregator 334TLB transition lookaside buffer 335TLD top level domain 336TLS transport layer security 337TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 338TR token ring 339TTL time to live 340TTY teletype 341TZ time zone 342UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 343UC uncacheable 344UDO ultra density optical (storage) 345UDP user datagram protocol 346UFS unix file system 347UML unified modeling language 348UPS uninterruptible power supply 349URI uniform resource identifier 350URL uniform resource locator 351USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 352USB universal serial bus 353USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 354UTP unshielded twisted pair 355UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 356UUOC useless use of cat 357VA virtual address 358VAX virtual address extension 359VCM virtual channel memory 360VESA video electronics standards association 361VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 362WIFI wireless fidelity 363VLAN virtual local area network 364VLSI very large scale integration 365VLSM variable length subnet mask 366VM virtual {machine,memory} 367VPN virtual private network 368VRAM video random access memory 369VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 370WAN wide area network 371WAP wireless application protocol 372WEP wired equivalent privacy 373WLAN wireless local area network 374WPA wi-fi protected access 375WRAM window random access memory 376WWW world wide web 377XER XML encoding rules 378XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 379XML extensible markup language 380XSL extensible stylesheet language 381XT extended technology 382ZFOD zero-filled on demand 383