acronyms.comp revision 1.90
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.90 2008/09/26 04:54:23 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 130FOSS free / open source software 131FPM fast page mode 132FQDN fully qualified domain name 133FTP file transfer protocol 134FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 135GC garbage collector 136GCR group-coded recording 137GIF graphics interchange format 138GNU gnu's not unix 139GPL gnu/general public license 140GPU graphics processing unit 141GRE generic routing encapsulation 142GUI graphics user interface 143HA high availability 144HBA host bus adapter 145HCI host controller interface 146HCI human-computer interaction 147HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 148HTML hyper-text markup language 149HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 150HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 151I2O intelligent input/output 152IANA internet assigned number authority 153IC integrated circuit 154ICB internet citizen's band 155ICE internal compiler error 156ICE in-circuit emulator 157ICMP internet control message protocol 158IDE integrated drive electronics 159IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 160IEC international electrotechnical commission 161IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 162IESG internet engineering steering group 163IETF internet engineering task force 164IGP interior gateway protocol 165IKE internet key exchange 166IMAP internet mail access protocol 167INCITS international committee on information technology standards 168IO input/output 169IOCTL input/output control 170IP internet protocol 171IPC interprocess communication 172IPNG internet protocol, next generation 173IPSEC internet protocol security 174IRC internet relay chat 175IRQ interrupt request 176IRTF internet research task force 177ISA industry standard architecture 178ISDN integrated services digital network 179ISI inter-symbol interference 180ISM industrial, scientific and medical 181ISN initial serial number 182ISO international standards organization 183ISOC internet society 184ISP internet service provider 185JPEG joint photographic experts group 186KLOC thousand lines of code 187KPI kernel programming interface 188KVA kernel virtual address 189KVM kernel virtual memory 190KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 191LAN local area network 192LBA logical block addressing 193LCD liquid crystal display 194LCP link control protocol 195LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 196LED light emitting diode 197LIR local internet registry 198LKM {linux, loadable} kernel module 199LLC logical link control 200LOC lines of code 201LRC longitudinal redundancy check 202LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 203LSB linux standards base 204LSI large scale integration 205LUN logical unit number 206LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 207MAC medium access control 208MBR master boot record 209MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 210MFC merge from current 211MFM modified frequency modulation 212MIDI musical instrument digital interface 213MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 214MIPS million instructions per second 215MMU memory management unit 216MPEG moving picture experts group 217MPLS multiprotocol label switching 218MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 219MSF minutes seconds frames 220MSS maximum segment size 221MTA mail transfer agent 222MTU maximum transmission unit 223MUA mail user agent 224MWE module width encoding 225NAT network address translation 226NAV network allocation vector 227NCP network control protocol 228NCQ native command queuing 229NFS network file system 230NIC network interface card 231NIS network information service 232NRZ non-return to zero 233NUMA non uniform memory access 234OCL object constraint language 235OCR optical character recognition 236OEM original equipment manufacturer 237OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 238OOB out of band 239OS operating system 240OSD open source definition 241OSF open software foundation 242OSI open systems interconnection 243OSI open-source initiative 244OSPF open shortest path first 245OSS open source software 246OTP one time password 247PA physical address 248PAE physical address extension 249PAM pluggable authentication modules 250PAM pulse amplitude modulation 251PAT port address translation 252PAX portable archive exchange 253PC personal computer 254PCI peripheral component interconnect 255PCM pulse code modulation 256PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 257PDP page descriptor page 258PDU protocol data unit 259PER packed encoding rules 260PERL practical extraction [and] report language 261PFS perfect forward secrecy 262PGP pretty good privacy 263PIC programmable interrupt controller 264PIC position independent code 265PID process id 266PIE position independent executable 267PIN personal identification number 268PIO programmed input/output 269PLL phase locked loop 270PMT photo-multiplier tube 271PNG portable network graphics 272POP post office protocol 273POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 274POST power on self test 275POTS plain old telephone system 276PPP point-to-point protocol 277PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 278PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 279PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 280PRNG pseudo random number generator 281PROM programmable read only memory 282PSK pre-shared key 283PSTN public switched telephone network 284PTE page table entry 285PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 286PTP page table page 287PWM pulse width modulation 288QOS quality of service 289RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 290RAM random access memory 291RAS restartable atomic sequence 292RCS revision control system 293RGB red green blue 294RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 295RIP routing information protocol 296RIR regional internet registry 297RISC reduced instruction set computing 298RLE run length encoding 299RLL run length limited 300RNG random number generator 301ROM read only memory 302RPC remote procedure call 303RPM revolutions per minute 304RTF rich text format 305RTS request to send 306RTT round time trip 307S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 308SACD super audio compact disc 309SAD security association database 310SAM serial access memory 311SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 312SATA serial advanced technology attachment 313SB sound blaster 314SCM software configuration management 315SCM source code management 316SCSI small computer system interface 317SCTP stream control transmission protocol 318SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 319SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 320SIFS short inter-frame space 321SIP session initiation protocol 322SIR slow infrared 323SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 324SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 325SMP symmetric multiprocessing 326SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 327SNMP simple network management protocol 328SPD security policy database 329SPD serial presence detect 330SRAM static random access memory 331SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 332SSH secure shell 333SSL secure sockets layer 334STP shielded twisted pair 335STP spanning-tree protocol 336SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 337TCB trusted computing base 338TCL tool command language 339TCP transmission control protocol 340TCQ tagged command queueing 341TDD test driven development 342TFT thin film transistor 343TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 344TIAS try it and see 345TIFF tagged image file format 346TITS try it to see 347TLA top level aggregator 348TLB transition lookaside buffer 349TLD top level domain 350TLS transport layer security 351TLS thread-local storage 352TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 353TR token ring 354TRNG true random number generator 355TTL time to live 356TTY teletype 357TZ time zone 358UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 359UC uncacheable 360UDO ultra density optical (storage) 361UDP user datagram protocol 362UFS unix file system 363UML unified modeling language 364UPS uninterruptible power supply 365URI uniform resource identifier 366URL uniform resource locator 367USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 368USB universal serial bus 369USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 370UTP unshielded twisted pair 371UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 372UUOC useless use of cat 373VA virtual address 374VAX virtual address extension 375VCM virtual channel memory 376VESA video electronics standards association 377VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 378WIFI wireless fidelity 379VLAN virtual local area network 380VLSI very large scale integration 381VLSM variable length subnet mask 382VM virtual {machine,memory} 383VPN virtual private network 384VRAM video random access memory 385VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 386WAN wide area network 387WAP wireless application protocol 388WEP wired equivalent privacy 389WLAN wireless local area network 390WPA wi-fi protected access 391WRAM window random access memory 392WWW world wide web 393XER XML encoding rules 394XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 395XML extensible markup language 396XSL extensible stylesheet language 397XT extended technology 398ZFOD zero-filled on demand 399