acronyms.comp revision 1.83
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.83 2008/02/25 12:20:42 elad 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 37BFKL big fscking kernel lock 38BGP border gateway protocol 39BIOS basic input/output system 40BLOB binary large object 41BPS bits per second 42BQS berkeley quality software 43BSD berkeley software distribution 44CAD computer-aided design 45CARP common address redundancy protocol 46CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 47CCD charge coupled device 48CD compact disc 49CDDA compact disc digital audio 50CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 51CER canonical encoding rules 52CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 53CGI common gateway interface 54CHS cylinder/head/sector 55CIDR classless inter-domain routing 56CIS contact image sensor 57CLI command line interface 58CLUT color look-up table 59CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 60CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 61COFF common object file format 62COW copy-on-write 63CPU central processing unit 64CRLF carriage return line feed 65CRT cathode ray tube 66CSMA carrier sense multiple access 67CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 68CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 69CSS cascading style sheets 70CTS clear to send 71CVS concurrent versions system 72DAC digital [to] analog converter 73DCE data control equipment 74DCE distributed computing environment 75DCT discrete cosine transform 76DDC display data channel 77DDR double data rate 78DDWG digital display working group 79DER distinguished encoding rules 80DFT discrete fourier transform 81DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 82DIFS distributed inter-frame space 83DLE data link escape 84DMA direct memory access 85DNS domain name system 86DOS denial of service 87DPCM differential pulse code modulation 88DPD dead peer detection 89DPI dots per inch 90DRAM dynamic random access memory 91DSL digital subscriber line 92DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 93DTD document type definition 94DTE data terminal equipment 95DTE dumb terminal emulator 96DVD digital versatile disc 97DVI digital visual interface 98E-XER extended XML encoding rules 99EAP extensible authentication protocol 100ECP enhanced capability port 101EDID extended display identification data 102EDO extended data out 103EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 104EFI extensible firmware interface 105EFM eight to fourteen modulation 106EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 107EGP exterior gateway protocol 108EISA extended industry standard architecture 109ELF executable and linking format 110EOF end of file 111EOT end of transmission 112EPP enhanced parallel port 113EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 114EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 115ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 116FAT file allocation table 117FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 118FCS frame check sequence 119FDDI fiber distributed data interface 120FFS fast file system 121FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 122FIR fast infrared 123FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 124FM frequency modulation 125FPM fast page mode 126FQDN fully qualified domain name 127FTP file transfer protocol 128FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 129GC garbage collector 130GCR group-coded recording 131GIF graphics interchange format 132GNU gnu's not unix 133GPL gnu/general public license 134GPU graphics processing unit 135GRE generic routing encapsulation 136GUI graphics user interface 137HA high availability 138HBA host bus adapter 139HCI host controller interface 140HCI human-computer interaction 141HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 142HTML hyper-text markup language 143HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 144HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 145I2O intelligent input/output 146IANA internet assigned number authority 147IC integrated circuit 148ICB internet citizen's band 149ICE internal compiler error 150ICE in-circuit emulator 151ICMP internet control message protocol 152IDE integrated drive electronics 153IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 154IEC international electrotechnical commission 155IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 156IESG internet engineering steering group 157IETF internet engineering task force 158IGP interior gateway protocol 159IKE internet key exchange 160IMAP internet mail access protocol 161INCITS international committee on information technology standards 162IO input/output 163IOCTL input/output control 164IP internet protocol 165IPC interprocess communication 166IPNG internet protocol, next generation 167IPSEC internet protocol security 168IRC internet relay chat 169IRQ interrupt request 170IRTF internet research task force 171ISA industry standard architecture 172ISDN integrated services digital network 173ISI inter-symbol interference 174ISM industrial, scientific and medical 175ISN initial serial number 176ISO international standards organization 177ISOC internet society 178ISP internet service provider 179JPEG joint photographic experts group 180KLOC thousand lines of code 181KPI kernel programming interface 182KVA kernel virtual address 183KVM kernel virtual memory 184KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 185LAN local area network 186LBA logical block addressing 187LCD liquid crystal display 188LCP link control protocol 189LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 190LED light emitting diode 191LIR local internet registry 192LKM {linux, loadable} kernel module 193LLC logical link control 194LOC lines of code 195LRC longitudinal redundancy check 196LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 197LSB linux standards base 198LSI large scale integration 199LUN logical unit number 200LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 201MAC medium access control 202MBR master boot record 203MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 204MFC merge from current 205MFM modified frequency modulation 206MIDI musical instrument digital interface 207MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 208MIPS million instructions per second 209MMU memory management unit 210MPEG moving picture experts group 211MPLS multiprotocol label switching 212MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 213MSF minutes seconds frames 214MSS maximum segment size 215MTA mail transfer agent 216MTU maximum transmission unit 217MUA mail user agent 218MWE module width encoding 219NAT network address translation 220NAV network allocation vector 221NCP network control protocol 222NCQ native command queuing 223NFS network file system 224NIC network interface card 225NIS network information service 226NRZ non-return to zero 227NUMA non uniform memory access 228OCL object constraint language 229OCR optical character recognition 230OEM original equipment manufacturer 231OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 232OS operating system 233OSF open software foundation 234OSI open systems interconnection 235OSI open-source initiative 236OSPF open shortest path first 237OTP one time password 238PA physical address 239PAE physical address extension 240PAM pluggable authentication modules 241PAM pulse amplitude modulation 242PAT port address translation 243PAX portable archive exchange 244PC personal computer 245PCI peripheral component interconnect 246PCM pulse code modulation 247PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 248PDP page descriptor page 249PDU protocol data unit 250PER packed encoding rules 251PERL practical extraction [and] report language 252PFS perfect forward secrecy 253PGP pretty good privacy 254PIC programmable interrupt controller 255PIC position independent code 256PID process id 257PIE position independent executable 258PIN personal identification number 259PIO programmed input/output 260PLL phase locked loop 261PMT photo-multiplier tube 262PNG portable network graphics 263POP post office protocol 264POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 265POST power on self test 266POTS plain old telephone system 267PPP point-to-point protocol 268PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 269PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 270PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 271PROM programmable read only memory 272PSK pre-shared key 273PSTN public switched telephone network 274PTE page table entry 275PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 276PTP page table page 277PWM pulse width modulation 278QOS quality of service 279RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 280RAM random access memory 281RAS restartable atomic sequence 282RCS revision control system 283RGB red green blue 284RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 285RIP routing information protocol 286RIR regional internet registry 287RISC reduced instruction set computing 288RLE run length encoding 289RLL run length limited 290ROM read only memory 291RPC remote procedure call 292RPM revolutions per minute 293RTF rich text format 294RTS request to send 295RTT round time trip 296S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 297SACD super audio compact disc 298SAD security association database 299SAM serial access memory 300SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 301SATA serial advanced technology attachment 302SB sound blaster 303SCM software configuration management 304SCM source code management 305SCSI small computer system interface 306SCTP stream control transmission protocol 307SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 308SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 309SIFS short inter-frame space 310SIP session initiation protocol 311SIR slow infrared 312SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 313SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 314SMP symmetric multiprocessing 315SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 316SNMP simple network management protocol 317SPD security policy database 318SPD serial presence detect 319SRAM static random access memory 320SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 321SSH secure shell 322SSL secure sockets layer 323STP shielded twisted pair 324STP spanning-tree protocol 325SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 326TCB trusted computing base 327TCL tool command language 328TCP transmission control protocol 329TCQ tagged command queueing 330TDD test driven development 331TFT thin film transistor 332TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 333TIFF tagged image file format 334TLA top level aggregator 335TLB transition lookaside buffer 336TLD top level domain 337TLS transport layer security 338TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 339TR token ring 340TTL time to live 341TTY teletype 342TZ time zone 343UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 344UC uncacheable 345UDO ultra density optical (storage) 346UDP user datagram protocol 347UFS unix file system 348UML unified modeling language 349UPS uninterruptible power supply 350URI uniform resource identifier 351URL uniform resource locator 352USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 353USB universal serial bus 354USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 355UTP unshielded twisted pair 356UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 357UUOC useless use of cat 358VA virtual address 359VAX virtual address extension 360VCM virtual channel memory 361VESA video electronics standards association 362VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 363WIFI wireless fidelity 364VLAN virtual local area network 365VLSI very large scale integration 366VLSM variable length subnet mask 367VM virtual {machine,memory} 368VPN virtual private network 369VRAM video random access memory 370VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 371WAN wide area network 372WAP wireless application protocol 373WEP wired equivalent privacy 374WLAN wireless local area network 375WPA wi-fi protected access 376WRAM window random access memory 377WWW world wide web 378XER XML encoding rules 379XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 380XML extensible markup language 381XSL extensible stylesheet language 382XT extended technology 383ZFOD zero-filled on demand 384