acronyms.comp revision 1.92
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.92 2009/06/06 06:46:42 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 45BSS block started by symbol 46CAD computer-aided design 47CARP common address redundancy protocol 48CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 49CCD charge coupled device 50CD compact disc 51CDDA compact disc digital audio 52CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 53CER canonical encoding rules 54CFG context-free grammar 55CFG control-flow graph 56CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 57CGI common gateway interface 58CHS cylinder/head/sector 59CIDR classless inter-domain routing 60CIS contact image sensor 61CLI command line interface 62CLUT color look-up table 63CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 64CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 65COFF common object file format 66COW copy-on-write 67CPU central processing unit 68CRLF carriage return line feed 69CRT cathode ray tube 70CSMA carrier sense multiple access 71CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 72CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 73CSS cascading style sheets 74CTS clear to send 75CVS concurrent versions system 76DAC digital [to] analog converter 77DCE data control equipment 78DCE distributed computing environment 79DCT discrete cosine transform 80DDC display data channel 81DDR double data rate 82DDWG digital display working group 83DER distinguished encoding rules 84DFT discrete fourier transform 85DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 86DIFS distributed inter-frame space 87DLE data link escape 88DMA direct memory access 89DNS domain name system 90DOS denial of service 91DPCM differential pulse code modulation 92DPD dead peer detection 93DPI dots per inch 94DRAM dynamic random access memory 95DSL digital subscriber line 96DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 97DTD document type definition 98DTE data terminal equipment 99DTE dumb terminal emulator 100DVD digital versatile disc 101DVI digital visual interface 102E-XER extended XML encoding rules 103EAP extensible authentication protocol 104ECP enhanced capability port 105EDID extended display identification data 106EDO extended data out 107EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 108EFI extensible firmware interface 109EFM eight to fourteen modulation 110EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 111EGP exterior gateway protocol 112EISA extended industry standard architecture 113ELF executable and linking format 114EOF end of file 115EOT end of transmission 116EPP enhanced parallel port 117EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 118EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 119ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 120FAT file allocation table 121FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 122FCS frame check sequence 123FDDI fiber distributed data interface 124FFI foreign function interface 125FFS fast file system 126FFS find first set 127FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 128FIR fast infrared 129FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 130FM frequency modulation 131FOSS free / open source software 132FPM fast page mode 133FQDN fully qualified domain name 134FTP file transfer protocol 135FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 136GC garbage collector 137GCR group-coded recording 138GIF graphics interchange format 139GNU gnu's not unix 140GPL gnu/general public license 141GPU graphics processing unit 142GRE generic routing encapsulation 143GUI graphics user interface 144HA high availability 145HBA host bus adapter 146HCI host controller interface 147HCI human-computer interaction 148HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 149HTML hyper-text markup language 150HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 151HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 152I2O intelligent input/output 153IANA internet assigned number authority 154IC integrated circuit 155ICB internet citizen's band 156ICE internal compiler error 157ICE in-circuit emulator 158ICMP internet control message protocol 159IDE integrated drive electronics 160IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 161IEC international electrotechnical commission 162IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 163IESG internet engineering steering group 164IETF internet engineering task force 165IGP interior gateway protocol 166IKE internet key exchange 167IMAP internet mail access protocol 168INCITS international committee on information technology standards 169IO input/output 170IOCTL input/output control 171IP internet protocol 172IPC interprocess communication 173IPNG internet protocol, next generation 174IPSEC internet protocol security 175IRC internet relay chat 176IRQ interrupt request 177IRTF internet research task force 178ISA industry standard architecture 179ISDN integrated services digital network 180ISI inter-symbol interference 181ISM industrial, scientific and medical 182ISN initial serial number 183ISO international standards organization 184ISOC internet society 185ISP internet service provider 186JPEG joint photographic experts group 187KLOC thousand lines of code 188KPI kernel programming interface 189KVA kernel virtual address 190KVM kernel virtual memory 191KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 192LAN local area network 193LBA logical block addressing 194LCD liquid crystal display 195LCP link control protocol 196LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 197LED light emitting diode 198LIR local internet registry 199LKM {linux, loadable} kernel module 200LLC logical link control 201LOC lines of code 202LRC longitudinal redundancy check 203LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 204LSB linux standards base 205LSI large scale integration 206LUN logical unit number 207LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 208MAC medium access control 209MBR master boot record 210MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 211MFC merge from current 212MFM modified frequency modulation 213MIDI musical instrument digital interface 214MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 215MIPS million instructions per second 216MMU memory management unit 217MPEG moving picture experts group 218MPLS multiprotocol label switching 219MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 220MSF minutes seconds frames 221MSS maximum segment size 222MTA mail transfer agent 223MTU maximum transmission unit 224MUA mail user agent 225MWE module width encoding 226NAT network address translation 227NAV network allocation vector 228NCP network control protocol 229NCQ native command queuing 230NFS network file system 231NIC network interface card 232NIS network information service 233NRZ non-return to zero 234NUMA non uniform memory access 235OCL object constraint language 236OCR optical character recognition 237OEM original equipment manufacturer 238OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 239OOB out of band 240OOM out of memory 241OS operating system 242OSD open source definition 243OSF open software foundation 244OSI open systems interconnection 245OSI open-source initiative 246OSPF open shortest path first 247OSS open source software 248OTP one time password 249PA physical address 250PAE physical address extension 251PAM pluggable authentication modules 252PAM pulse amplitude modulation 253PAT port address translation 254PAX portable archive exchange 255PC personal computer 256PCI peripheral component interconnect 257PCM pulse code modulation 258PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 259PDP page descriptor page 260PDU protocol data unit 261PER packed encoding rules 262PERL practical extraction [and] report language 263PFS perfect forward secrecy 264PGP pretty good privacy 265PIC programmable interrupt controller 266PIC position independent code 267PID process id 268PIE position independent executable 269PIN personal identification number 270PIO programmed input/output 271PLL phase locked loop 272PMT photo-multiplier tube 273PNG portable network graphics 274POP post office protocol 275POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 276POST power on self test 277POTS plain old telephone system 278PPP point-to-point protocol 279PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 280PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 281PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 282PRNG pseudo random number generator 283PROM programmable read only memory 284PSK pre-shared key 285PSTN public switched telephone network 286PTE page table entry 287PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 288PTP page table page 289PWM pulse width modulation 290QOS quality of service 291RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 292RAM random access memory 293RAS restartable atomic sequence 294RCS revision control system 295RGB red green blue 296RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 297RIP routing information protocol 298RIR regional internet registry 299RISC reduced instruction set computing 300RLE run length encoding 301RLL run length limited 302RNG random number generator 303ROM read only memory 304RPC remote procedure call 305RPM revolutions per minute 306RTF rich text format 307RTS request to send 308RTT round time trip 309S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 310SACD super audio compact disc 311SAD security association database 312SAM serial access memory 313SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 314SATA serial advanced technology attachment 315SB sound blaster 316SCM software configuration management 317SCM source code management 318SCSI small computer system interface 319SCTP stream control transmission protocol 320SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 321SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 322SIFS short inter-frame space 323SIP session initiation protocol 324SIR slow infrared 325SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 326SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 327SMP symmetric multiprocessing 328SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 329SNMP simple network management protocol 330SPD security policy database 331SPD serial presence detect 332SRAM static random access memory 333SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 334SSH secure shell 335SSL secure sockets layer 336STP shielded twisted pair 337STP spanning-tree protocol 338SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 339TCB trusted computing base 340TCL tool command language 341TCP transmission control protocol 342TCQ tagged command queueing 343TDD test driven development 344TFT thin film transistor 345TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 346TIAS try it and see 347TIFF tagged image file format 348TITS try it to see 349TLA top level aggregator 350TLB transition lookaside buffer 351TLD top level domain 352TLS transport layer security 353TLS thread-local storage 354TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 355TR token ring 356TRNG true random number generator 357TTL time to live 358TTY teletype 359TZ time zone 360UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 361UC uncacheable 362UDO ultra density optical (storage) 363UDP user datagram protocol 364UFS unix file system 365UML unified modeling language 366UPS uninterruptible power supply 367URI uniform resource identifier 368URL uniform resource locator 369USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 370USB universal serial bus 371USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 372UTP unshielded twisted pair 373UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 374UUOC useless use of cat 375VA virtual address 376VAX virtual address extension 377VCM virtual channel memory 378VESA video electronics standards association 379VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 380WIFI wireless fidelity 381VLAN virtual local area network 382VLSI very large scale integration 383VLSM variable length subnet mask 384VM virtual {machine,memory} 385VPN virtual private network 386VRAM video random access memory 387VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 388WAN wide area network 389WAP wireless application protocol 390WEP wired equivalent privacy 391WLAN wireless local area network 392WPA wi-fi protected access 393WRAM window random access memory 394WWW world wide web 395XER XML encoding rules 396XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 397XML extensible markup language 398XSL extensible stylesheet language 399XT extended technology 400ZFOD zero-filled on demand 401