acronyms.comp revision 1.84
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.84 2008/03/16 20:50:00 dholland 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 52CFG context-free grammar 53CFG control-flow graph 54CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 55CGI common gateway interface 56CHS cylinder/head/sector 57CIDR classless inter-domain routing 58CIS contact image sensor 59CLI command line interface 60CLUT color look-up table 61CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 62CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 63COFF common object file format 64COW copy-on-write 65CPU central processing unit 66CRLF carriage return line feed 67CRT cathode ray tube 68CSMA carrier sense multiple access 69CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 70CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 71CSS cascading style sheets 72CTS clear to send 73CVS concurrent versions system 74DAC digital [to] analog converter 75DCE data control equipment 76DCE distributed computing environment 77DCT discrete cosine transform 78DDC display data channel 79DDR double data rate 80DDWG digital display working group 81DER distinguished encoding rules 82DFT discrete fourier transform 83DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 84DIFS distributed inter-frame space 85DLE data link escape 86DMA direct memory access 87DNS domain name system 88DOS denial of service 89DPCM differential pulse code modulation 90DPD dead peer detection 91DPI dots per inch 92DRAM dynamic random access memory 93DSL digital subscriber line 94DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 95DTD document type definition 96DTE data terminal equipment 97DTE dumb terminal emulator 98DVD digital versatile disc 99DVI digital visual interface 100E-XER extended XML encoding rules 101EAP extensible authentication protocol 102ECP enhanced capability port 103EDID extended display identification data 104EDO extended data out 105EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 106EFI extensible firmware interface 107EFM eight to fourteen modulation 108EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 109EGP exterior gateway protocol 110EISA extended industry standard architecture 111ELF executable and linking format 112EOF end of file 113EOT end of transmission 114EPP enhanced parallel port 115EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 116EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 117ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 118FAT file allocation table 119FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 120FCS frame check sequence 121FDDI fiber distributed data interface 122FFS fast file system 123FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 124FIR fast infrared 125FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 126FM frequency modulation 127FPM fast page mode 128FQDN fully qualified domain name 129FTP file transfer protocol 130FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 131GC garbage collector 132GCR group-coded recording 133GIF graphics interchange format 134GNU gnu's not unix 135GPL gnu/general public license 136GPU graphics processing unit 137GRE generic routing encapsulation 138GUI graphics user interface 139HA high availability 140HBA host bus adapter 141HCI host controller interface 142HCI human-computer interaction 143HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 144HTML hyper-text markup language 145HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 146HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 147I2O intelligent input/output 148IANA internet assigned number authority 149IC integrated circuit 150ICB internet citizen's band 151ICE internal compiler error 152ICE in-circuit emulator 153ICMP internet control message protocol 154IDE integrated drive electronics 155IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 156IEC international electrotechnical commission 157IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 158IESG internet engineering steering group 159IETF internet engineering task force 160IGP interior gateway protocol 161IKE internet key exchange 162IMAP internet mail access protocol 163INCITS international committee on information technology standards 164IO input/output 165IOCTL input/output control 166IP internet protocol 167IPC interprocess communication 168IPNG internet protocol, next generation 169IPSEC internet protocol security 170IRC internet relay chat 171IRQ interrupt request 172IRTF internet research task force 173ISA industry standard architecture 174ISDN integrated services digital network 175ISI inter-symbol interference 176ISM industrial, scientific and medical 177ISN initial serial number 178ISO international standards organization 179ISOC internet society 180ISP internet service provider 181JPEG joint photographic experts group 182KLOC thousand lines of code 183KPI kernel programming interface 184KVA kernel virtual address 185KVM kernel virtual memory 186KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 187LAN local area network 188LBA logical block addressing 189LCD liquid crystal display 190LCP link control protocol 191LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 192LED light emitting diode 193LIR local internet registry 194LKM {linux, loadable} kernel module 195LLC logical link control 196LOC lines of code 197LRC longitudinal redundancy check 198LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 199LSB linux standards base 200LSI large scale integration 201LUN logical unit number 202LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 203MAC medium access control 204MBR master boot record 205MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 206MFC merge from current 207MFM modified frequency modulation 208MIDI musical instrument digital interface 209MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 210MIPS million instructions per second 211MMU memory management unit 212MPEG moving picture experts group 213MPLS multiprotocol label switching 214MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 215MSF minutes seconds frames 216MSS maximum segment size 217MTA mail transfer agent 218MTU maximum transmission unit 219MUA mail user agent 220MWE module width encoding 221NAT network address translation 222NAV network allocation vector 223NCP network control protocol 224NCQ native command queuing 225NFS network file system 226NIC network interface card 227NIS network information service 228NRZ non-return to zero 229NUMA non uniform memory access 230OCL object constraint language 231OCR optical character recognition 232OEM original equipment manufacturer 233OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 234OS operating system 235OSF open software foundation 236OSI open systems interconnection 237OSI open-source initiative 238OSPF open shortest path first 239OTP one time password 240PA physical address 241PAE physical address extension 242PAM pluggable authentication modules 243PAM pulse amplitude modulation 244PAT port address translation 245PAX portable archive exchange 246PC personal computer 247PCI peripheral component interconnect 248PCM pulse code modulation 249PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 250PDP page descriptor page 251PDU protocol data unit 252PER packed encoding rules 253PERL practical extraction [and] report language 254PFS perfect forward secrecy 255PGP pretty good privacy 256PIC programmable interrupt controller 257PIC position independent code 258PID process id 259PIE position independent executable 260PIN personal identification number 261PIO programmed input/output 262PLL phase locked loop 263PMT photo-multiplier tube 264PNG portable network graphics 265POP post office protocol 266POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 267POST power on self test 268POTS plain old telephone system 269PPP point-to-point protocol 270PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 271PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 272PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 273PROM programmable read only memory 274PSK pre-shared key 275PSTN public switched telephone network 276PTE page table entry 277PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 278PTP page table page 279PWM pulse width modulation 280QOS quality of service 281RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 282RAM random access memory 283RAS restartable atomic sequence 284RCS revision control system 285RGB red green blue 286RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 287RIP routing information protocol 288RIR regional internet registry 289RISC reduced instruction set computing 290RLE run length encoding 291RLL run length limited 292ROM read only memory 293RPC remote procedure call 294RPM revolutions per minute 295RTF rich text format 296RTS request to send 297RTT round time trip 298S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 299SACD super audio compact disc 300SAD security association database 301SAM serial access memory 302SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 303SATA serial advanced technology attachment 304SB sound blaster 305SCM software configuration management 306SCM source code management 307SCSI small computer system interface 308SCTP stream control transmission protocol 309SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 310SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 311SIFS short inter-frame space 312SIP session initiation protocol 313SIR slow infrared 314SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 315SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 316SMP symmetric multiprocessing 317SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 318SNMP simple network management protocol 319SPD security policy database 320SPD serial presence detect 321SRAM static random access memory 322SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 323SSH secure shell 324SSL secure sockets layer 325STP shielded twisted pair 326STP spanning-tree protocol 327SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 328TCB trusted computing base 329TCL tool command language 330TCP transmission control protocol 331TCQ tagged command queueing 332TDD test driven development 333TFT thin film transistor 334TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 335TIFF tagged image file format 336TLA top level aggregator 337TLB transition lookaside buffer 338TLD top level domain 339TLS transport layer security 340TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 341TR token ring 342TTL time to live 343TTY teletype 344TZ time zone 345UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 346UC uncacheable 347UDO ultra density optical (storage) 348UDP user datagram protocol 349UFS unix file system 350UML unified modeling language 351UPS uninterruptible power supply 352URI uniform resource identifier 353URL uniform resource locator 354USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 355USB universal serial bus 356USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 357UTP unshielded twisted pair 358UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 359UUOC useless use of cat 360VA virtual address 361VAX virtual address extension 362VCM virtual channel memory 363VESA video electronics standards association 364VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 365WIFI wireless fidelity 366VLAN virtual local area network 367VLSI very large scale integration 368VLSM variable length subnet mask 369VM virtual {machine,memory} 370VPN virtual private network 371VRAM video random access memory 372VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 373WAN wide area network 374WAP wireless application protocol 375WEP wired equivalent privacy 376WLAN wireless local area network 377WPA wi-fi protected access 378WRAM window random access memory 379WWW world wide web 380XER XML encoding rules 381XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 382XML extensible markup language 383XSL extensible stylesheet language 384XT extended technology 385ZFOD zero-filled on demand 386