acronyms.comp revision 1.86
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.86 2008/08/23 13:06:51 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 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 122FFI foreign function interface 123FFS fast file system 124FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 125FIR fast infrared 126FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 127FM frequency modulation 128FPM fast page mode 129FQDN fully qualified domain name 130FTP file transfer protocol 131FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 132GC garbage collector 133GCR group-coded recording 134GIF graphics interchange format 135GNU gnu's not unix 136GPL gnu/general public license 137GPU graphics processing unit 138GRE generic routing encapsulation 139GUI graphics user interface 140HA high availability 141HBA host bus adapter 142HCI host controller interface 143HCI human-computer interaction 144HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 145HTML hyper-text markup language 146HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 147HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 148I2O intelligent input/output 149IANA internet assigned number authority 150IC integrated circuit 151ICB internet citizen's band 152ICE internal compiler error 153ICE in-circuit emulator 154ICMP internet control message protocol 155IDE integrated drive electronics 156IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 157IEC international electrotechnical commission 158IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 159IESG internet engineering steering group 160IETF internet engineering task force 161IGP interior gateway protocol 162IKE internet key exchange 163IMAP internet mail access protocol 164INCITS international committee on information technology standards 165IO input/output 166IOCTL input/output control 167IP internet protocol 168IPC interprocess communication 169IPNG internet protocol, next generation 170IPSEC internet protocol security 171IRC internet relay chat 172IRQ interrupt request 173IRTF internet research task force 174ISA industry standard architecture 175ISDN integrated services digital network 176ISI inter-symbol interference 177ISM industrial, scientific and medical 178ISN initial serial number 179ISO international standards organization 180ISOC internet society 181ISP internet service provider 182JPEG joint photographic experts group 183KLOC thousand lines of code 184KPI kernel programming interface 185KVA kernel virtual address 186KVM kernel virtual memory 187KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 188LAN local area network 189LBA logical block addressing 190LCD liquid crystal display 191LCP link control protocol 192LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 193LED light emitting diode 194LIR local internet registry 195LKM {linux, loadable} kernel module 196LLC logical link control 197LOC lines of code 198LRC longitudinal redundancy check 199LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 200LSB linux standards base 201LSI large scale integration 202LUN logical unit number 203LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 204MAC medium access control 205MBR master boot record 206MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 207MFC merge from current 208MFM modified frequency modulation 209MIDI musical instrument digital interface 210MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 211MIPS million instructions per second 212MMU memory management unit 213MPEG moving picture experts group 214MPLS multiprotocol label switching 215MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 216MSF minutes seconds frames 217MSS maximum segment size 218MTA mail transfer agent 219MTU maximum transmission unit 220MUA mail user agent 221MWE module width encoding 222NAT network address translation 223NAV network allocation vector 224NCP network control protocol 225NCQ native command queuing 226NFS network file system 227NIC network interface card 228NIS network information service 229NRZ non-return to zero 230NUMA non uniform memory access 231OCL object constraint language 232OCR optical character recognition 233OEM original equipment manufacturer 234OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 235OS operating system 236OSF open software foundation 237OSI open systems interconnection 238OSI open-source initiative 239OSPF open shortest path first 240OTP one time password 241PA physical address 242PAE physical address extension 243PAM pluggable authentication modules 244PAM pulse amplitude modulation 245PAT port address translation 246PAX portable archive exchange 247PC personal computer 248PCI peripheral component interconnect 249PCM pulse code modulation 250PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 251PDP page descriptor page 252PDU protocol data unit 253PER packed encoding rules 254PERL practical extraction [and] report language 255PFS perfect forward secrecy 256PGP pretty good privacy 257PIC programmable interrupt controller 258PIC position independent code 259PID process id 260PIE position independent executable 261PIN personal identification number 262PIO programmed input/output 263PLL phase locked loop 264PMT photo-multiplier tube 265PNG portable network graphics 266POP post office protocol 267POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 268POST power on self test 269POTS plain old telephone system 270PPP point-to-point protocol 271PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 272PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 273PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 274PROM programmable read only memory 275PSK pre-shared key 276PSTN public switched telephone network 277PTE page table entry 278PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 279PTP page table page 280PWM pulse width modulation 281QOS quality of service 282RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 283RAM random access memory 284RAS restartable atomic sequence 285RCS revision control system 286RGB red green blue 287RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 288RIP routing information protocol 289RIR regional internet registry 290RISC reduced instruction set computing 291RLE run length encoding 292RLL run length limited 293ROM read only memory 294RPC remote procedure call 295RPM revolutions per minute 296RTF rich text format 297RTS request to send 298RTT round time trip 299S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 300SACD super audio compact disc 301SAD security association database 302SAM serial access memory 303SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 304SATA serial advanced technology attachment 305SB sound blaster 306SCM software configuration management 307SCM source code management 308SCSI small computer system interface 309SCTP stream control transmission protocol 310SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 311SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 312SIFS short inter-frame space 313SIP session initiation protocol 314SIR slow infrared 315SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 316SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 317SMP symmetric multiprocessing 318SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 319SNMP simple network management protocol 320SPD security policy database 321SPD serial presence detect 322SRAM static random access memory 323SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 324SSH secure shell 325SSL secure sockets layer 326STP shielded twisted pair 327STP spanning-tree protocol 328SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 329TCB trusted computing base 330TCL tool command language 331TCP transmission control protocol 332TCQ tagged command queueing 333TDD test driven development 334TFT thin film transistor 335TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 336TIAS try it and see 337TIFF tagged image file format 338TITS try it to see 339TLA top level aggregator 340TLB transition lookaside buffer 341TLD top level domain 342TLS transport layer security 343TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 344TR token ring 345TTL time to live 346TTY teletype 347TZ time zone 348UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 349UC uncacheable 350UDO ultra density optical (storage) 351UDP user datagram protocol 352UFS unix file system 353UML unified modeling language 354UPS uninterruptible power supply 355URI uniform resource identifier 356URL uniform resource locator 357USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 358USB universal serial bus 359USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 360UTP unshielded twisted pair 361UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 362UUOC useless use of cat 363VA virtual address 364VAX virtual address extension 365VCM virtual channel memory 366VESA video electronics standards association 367VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 368WIFI wireless fidelity 369VLAN virtual local area network 370VLSI very large scale integration 371VLSM variable length subnet mask 372VM virtual {machine,memory} 373VPN virtual private network 374VRAM video random access memory 375VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 376WAN wide area network 377WAP wireless application protocol 378WEP wired equivalent privacy 379WLAN wireless local area network 380WPA wi-fi protected access 381WRAM window random access memory 382WWW world wide web 383XER XML encoding rules 384XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 385XML extensible markup language 386XSL extensible stylesheet language 387XT extended technology 388ZFOD zero-filled on demand 389