acronyms.comp revision 1.9
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.9 2003/08/09 01:35:16 keihan Exp $ 2 3ABI application binary interface 4API application programming interface 5AGP accelerated graphics port 6ATA advanced technology attachment 7BIOS basic input/output system 8BLOB binary large object 9BSD berkeley software distribution 10CD compact disc 11CHS cylinder/head/sector 12CLI command line interface 13CRLF carriage return line feed 14CSS cascading style sheets 15DMA direct memory access 16DNS domain name system 17DSL digital subscriber line 18DTD document type definition 19DVD digital versatile disc 20EISA extended industry standard architecture 21FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 22FTP file transfer protocol 23FQDN fully qualified domain name 24GIF graphics interchange format 25GNU gnu's not unix 26GPL gnu/general public license 27GUI graphics user interface 28HTML hyper-text markup language 29HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 30I2O intelligent input/output 31IANA internet assigned number authority 32ICB internet citizen's band 33IDE integrated drive electronics 34IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 35IETF internet engineering task force 36IESG internet engineering steering group 37IO input/output 38IOCTL input/output control 39IP internet protocol 40IPNG internet protocol, next generation 41IPSEC internet protocol security 42IRC internet relay chat 43IRQ interrupt request 44IRTF internet research task force 45ISA industry standard architecture 46ISDN integrated services digital network 47ISOC internet society 48ISP internet service provider 49JPEG joint photographic experts group 50LAN local area network 51LBA logical block addressing 52LUN logical unit number 53MBR master boot record 54MIPS million instructions per second 55NAT network address translation 56NUMA non uniform memory access 57PCI peripheral component interconnect 58PERL practical extraction [and] report language 59PNG portable network graphics 60PPP point-to-point protocol 61PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 62RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 63RAM random access memory 64RFC request for comments 65RISC reduced instruction set computing 66ROM read only memory 67RPM revolutions per minute 68RTF rich text format 69SATA serial advanced technology attachment 70SCSI small computer standard interface 71SMP symmetric multiprocessing 72SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 73SSH secure shell 74SSL secure sockets layer 75TCL tool command language 76TTY teletype 77TZ time zone 78TCP transmission control protocol 79UDP user datagram protocol 80USB universal serial bus 81VPN virtual private network 82XML extensible markup language 83XSL extensible stylesheet language 84WWW world wide web 85