acronyms.comp revision 1.87
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.87 2008/08/24 23:13:07 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 37BFD binary formats descriptor 38BFKL big fscking kernel lock 39BGP border gateway protocol 40BIOS basic input/output system 41BLOB binary large object 42BPS bits per second 43BQS berkeley quality software 44BSD berkeley software distribution 45CAD computer-aided design 46CARP common address redundancy protocol 47CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 48CCD charge coupled device 49CD compact disc 50CDDA compact disc digital audio 51CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 52CER canonical encoding rules 53CFG context-free grammar 54CFG control-flow graph 55CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 56CGI common gateway interface 57CHS cylinder/head/sector 58CIDR classless inter-domain routing 59CIS contact image sensor 60CLI command line interface 61CLUT color look-up table 62CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 63CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 64COFF common object file format 65COW copy-on-write 66CPU central processing unit 67CRLF carriage return line feed 68CRT cathode ray tube 69CSMA carrier sense multiple access 70CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 71CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 72CSS cascading style sheets 73CTS clear to send 74CVS concurrent versions system 75DAC digital [to] analog converter 76DCE data control equipment 77DCE distributed computing environment 78DCT discrete cosine transform 79DDC display data channel 80DDR double data rate 81DDWG digital display working group 82DER distinguished encoding rules 83DFT discrete fourier transform 84DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 85DIFS distributed inter-frame space 86DLE data link escape 87DMA direct memory access 88DNS domain name system 89DOS denial of service 90DPCM differential pulse code modulation 91DPD dead peer detection 92DPI dots per inch 93DRAM dynamic random access memory 94DSL digital subscriber line 95DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 96DTD document type definition 97DTE data terminal equipment 98DTE dumb terminal emulator 99DVD digital versatile disc 100DVI digital visual interface 101E-XER extended XML encoding rules 102EAP extensible authentication protocol 103ECP enhanced capability port 104EDID extended display identification data 105EDO extended data out 106EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 107EFI extensible firmware interface 108EFM eight to fourteen modulation 109EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 110EGP exterior gateway protocol 111EISA extended industry standard architecture 112ELF executable and linking format 113EOF end of file 114EOT end of transmission 115EPP enhanced parallel port 116EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 117EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 118ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 119FAT file allocation table 120FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 121FCS frame check sequence 122FDDI fiber distributed data interface 123FFI foreign function interface 124FFS fast file system 125FFS find first set 126FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 127FIR fast infrared 128FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 129FM frequency modulation 130FPM fast page mode 131FQDN fully qualified domain name 132FTP file transfer protocol 133FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 134GC garbage collector 135GCR group-coded recording 136GIF graphics interchange format 137GNU gnu's not unix 138GPL gnu/general public license 139GPU graphics processing unit 140GRE generic routing encapsulation 141GUI graphics user interface 142HA high availability 143HBA host bus adapter 144HCI host controller interface 145HCI human-computer interaction 146HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 147HTML hyper-text markup language 148HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 149HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 150I2O intelligent input/output 151IANA internet assigned number authority 152IC integrated circuit 153ICB internet citizen's band 154ICE internal compiler error 155ICE in-circuit emulator 156ICMP internet control message protocol 157IDE integrated drive electronics 158IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 159IEC international electrotechnical commission 160IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 161IESG internet engineering steering group 162IETF internet engineering task force 163IGP interior gateway protocol 164IKE internet key exchange 165IMAP internet mail access protocol 166INCITS international committee on information technology standards 167IO input/output 168IOCTL input/output control 169IP internet protocol 170IPC interprocess communication 171IPNG internet protocol, next generation 172IPSEC internet protocol security 173IRC internet relay chat 174IRQ interrupt request 175IRTF internet research task force 176ISA industry standard architecture 177ISDN integrated services digital network 178ISI inter-symbol interference 179ISM industrial, scientific and medical 180ISN initial serial number 181ISO international standards organization 182ISOC internet society 183ISP internet service provider 184JPEG joint photographic experts group 185KLOC thousand lines of code 186KPI kernel programming interface 187KVA kernel virtual address 188KVM kernel virtual memory 189KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 190LAN local area network 191LBA logical block addressing 192LCD liquid crystal display 193LCP link control protocol 194LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 195LED light emitting diode 196LIR local internet registry 197LKM {linux, loadable} kernel module 198LLC logical link control 199LOC lines of code 200LRC longitudinal redundancy check 201LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 202LSB linux standards base 203LSI large scale integration 204LUN logical unit number 205LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 206MAC medium access control 207MBR master boot record 208MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 209MFC merge from current 210MFM modified frequency modulation 211MIDI musical instrument digital interface 212MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 213MIPS million instructions per second 214MMU memory management unit 215MPEG moving picture experts group 216MPLS multiprotocol label switching 217MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 218MSF minutes seconds frames 219MSS maximum segment size 220MTA mail transfer agent 221MTU maximum transmission unit 222MUA mail user agent 223MWE module width encoding 224NAT network address translation 225NAV network allocation vector 226NCP network control protocol 227NCQ native command queuing 228NFS network file system 229NIC network interface card 230NIS network information service 231NRZ non-return to zero 232NUMA non uniform memory access 233OCL object constraint language 234OCR optical character recognition 235OEM original equipment manufacturer 236OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 237OOB out of band 238OS operating system 239OSF open software foundation 240OSI open systems interconnection 241OSI open-source initiative 242OSPF open shortest path first 243OTP one time password 244PA physical address 245PAE physical address extension 246PAM pluggable authentication modules 247PAM pulse amplitude modulation 248PAT port address translation 249PAX portable archive exchange 250PC personal computer 251PCI peripheral component interconnect 252PCM pulse code modulation 253PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 254PDP page descriptor page 255PDU protocol data unit 256PER packed encoding rules 257PERL practical extraction [and] report language 258PFS perfect forward secrecy 259PGP pretty good privacy 260PIC programmable interrupt controller 261PIC position independent code 262PID process id 263PIE position independent executable 264PIN personal identification number 265PIO programmed input/output 266PLL phase locked loop 267PMT photo-multiplier tube 268PNG portable network graphics 269POP post office protocol 270POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 271POST power on self test 272POTS plain old telephone system 273PPP point-to-point protocol 274PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 275PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 276PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 277PROM programmable read only memory 278PSK pre-shared key 279PSTN public switched telephone network 280PTE page table entry 281PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 282PTP page table page 283PWM pulse width modulation 284QOS quality of service 285RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 286RAM random access memory 287RAS restartable atomic sequence 288RCS revision control system 289RGB red green blue 290RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 291RIP routing information protocol 292RIR regional internet registry 293RISC reduced instruction set computing 294RLE run length encoding 295RLL run length limited 296ROM read only memory 297RPC remote procedure call 298RPM revolutions per minute 299RTF rich text format 300RTS request to send 301RTT round time trip 302S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 303SACD super audio compact disc 304SAD security association database 305SAM serial access memory 306SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 307SATA serial advanced technology attachment 308SB sound blaster 309SCM software configuration management 310SCM source code management 311SCSI small computer system interface 312SCTP stream control transmission protocol 313SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 314SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 315SIFS short inter-frame space 316SIP session initiation protocol 317SIR slow infrared 318SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 319SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 320SMP symmetric multiprocessing 321SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 322SNMP simple network management protocol 323SPD security policy database 324SPD serial presence detect 325SRAM static random access memory 326SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 327SSH secure shell 328SSL secure sockets layer 329STP shielded twisted pair 330STP spanning-tree protocol 331SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 332TCB trusted computing base 333TCL tool command language 334TCP transmission control protocol 335TCQ tagged command queueing 336TDD test driven development 337TFT thin film transistor 338TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 339TIAS try it and see 340TIFF tagged image file format 341TITS try it to see 342TLA top level aggregator 343TLB transition lookaside buffer 344TLD top level domain 345TLS transport layer security 346TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 347TR token ring 348TTL time to live 349TTY teletype 350TZ time zone 351UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 352UC uncacheable 353UDO ultra density optical (storage) 354UDP user datagram protocol 355UFS unix file system 356UML unified modeling language 357UPS uninterruptible power supply 358URI uniform resource identifier 359URL uniform resource locator 360USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 361USB universal serial bus 362USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 363UTP unshielded twisted pair 364UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 365UUOC useless use of cat 366VA virtual address 367VAX virtual address extension 368VCM virtual channel memory 369VESA video electronics standards association 370VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 371WIFI wireless fidelity 372VLAN virtual local area network 373VLSI very large scale integration 374VLSM variable length subnet mask 375VM virtual {machine,memory} 376VPN virtual private network 377VRAM video random access memory 378VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 379WAN wide area network 380WAP wireless application protocol 381WEP wired equivalent privacy 382WLAN wireless local area network 383WPA wi-fi protected access 384WRAM window random access memory 385WWW world wide web 386XER XML encoding rules 387XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 388XML extensible markup language 389XSL extensible stylesheet language 390XT extended technology 391ZFOD zero-filled on demand 392