acronyms.comp revision 1.94
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.94 2010/04/23 09:57:40 jruoho 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 9ADT abstract data type 10ADPCM adaptive differential pulse code modulation 11ADSL asymmetric digital subscriber line 12AES advanced encryption standard 13AFS andrew file system 14AGP accelerated graphics port 15ALU arithmetic and logical unit 16AM amplitude modulation 17AMI alternate mark inversion 18ANSI american national standards institute 19AP access point 20API application programming interface 21APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 22ARM advanced RISC machines 23ARP address resolution protocol 24ARPA advanced research projects agency 25ARQ automatic repeat request 26AS autonomous system 27ASCII american standard code for information interchange 28ASLR address space layout randomization 29ASN autonomous system number 30AST abstract syntax tree 31AST asynchronous trap 32AT advanced technology 33ATA advanced technology attachment 34ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 35ATC address translation cache 36ATM asynchronous transfer mode 37ATX advanced technology extended 38BAR base address register 39BCD binary coded decimal 40BEDO burst extended data output 41BER basic encoding rules 42BER bit error rate 43BFD binary formats descriptor 44BFKL big fscking kernel lock 45BGP border gateway protocol 46BIND berkeley internet name daemon 47BIOS basic input/output system 48BLOB binary large object 49BPF berkeley packet filter 50BPS bits per second 51BQS berkeley quality software 52BSD berkeley software distribution 53BSOD blue screen of death 54BSS block started by symbol 55BT bluetooth 56BT bit torrent 57CAD computer-aided design 58CARP common address redundancy protocol 59CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 60CCD charge coupled device 61CD compact disc 62CDDA compact disc digital audio 63CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 64CER canonical encoding rules 65CFG context-free grammar 66CFG control-flow graph 67CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 68CGI common gateway interface 69CHS cylinder/head/sector 70CIDR classless inter-domain routing 71CIS contact image sensor 72CJK chinese, japanese, and korean 73CLI command line interface 74CLUT color look-up table 75CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 76CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 77COFF common object file format 78COW copy-on-write 79CPU central processing unit 80CR carriage return 81CRLF carriage return line feed 82CRT cathode ray tube 83CS computer science 84CS cable select 85CSMA carrier sense multiple access 86CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 87CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 88CSS cascading style sheets 89CTS clear to send 90CVS concurrent versions system 91DAC discretionary access control 92DAC digital [to] analog converter 93DB database 94DCC direct client [to] client 95DCE data control equipment 96DCE distributed computing environment 97DCT discrete cosine transform 98DDC display data channel 99DDR double data rate 100DDWG digital display working group 101DER distinguished encoding rules 102DES data encryption standard 103DFS depth first search 104DFS distributed file system 105DFT discrete fourier transform 106DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 107DIFS distributed inter-frame space 108DIMM dual inline memory module 109DLE data link escape 110DLL dynamic link library 111DMA direct memory access 112DNARD digital network appliance reference design 113DNS domain name system 114DOM document object model 115DOS denial of service 116DPCM differential pulse code modulation 117DPD dead peer detection 118DPI dots per inch 119DPI deep packaget inspection 120DRAM dynamic random access memory 121DRI direct rendering infrastructure 122DSL digital subscriber line 123DSLAM digital subscriber line access multiplexer 124DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 125DTD document type definition 126DTE data terminal equipment 127DTE dumb terminal emulator 128DVD digital versatile disc 129DVR digital video recorder 130DVI digital visual interface 131E-XER extended XML encoding rules 132EAP extensible authentication protocol 133ECN explicit congestion notification 134ECP enhanced capability port 135EDID extended display identification data 136EDO extended data out 137EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 138EFI extensible firmware interface 139EFM eight to fourteen modulation 140EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 141EGP exterior gateway protocol 142EIDE enchanced IDE 143EISA extended industry standard architecture 144ELF executable and linking format 145EOF end of file 146EOL end of {line, life} 147EOT end of transmission 148EPP enhanced parallel port 149EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 150EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 151ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 152FAT file allocation table 153FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 154FCS frame check sequence 155FDDI fiber distributed data interface 156FFI foreign function interface 157FFS fast file system 158FFS find first set 159FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 160FIFO first in first out 161FIR fast infrared 162FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 163FM frequency modulation 164FOSS free / open source software 165FPGA field programmable gate array 166FPM fast page mode 167FPU floating point unit 168FQDN fully qualified domain name 169FRU field replaceable unit 170FTP file transfer protocol 171FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 172FUD fear uncertainty doubt 173GC garbage collector 174GCR group-coded recording 175GID group identifier 176GIF graphics interchange format 177GNU gnu's not unix 178GPL gnu/general public license 179GPU graphics processing unit 180GRE generic routing encapsulation 181GUI graphics user interface 182GUID globally unique identifier 183HA high availability 184HAL hardware abstraction layer 185HBA host bus adapter 186HCI host controller interface 187HCI human-computer interaction 188HDD hard disk drive 189HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 190HID human interface device 191HT hyper threading 192HTML hyper-text markup language 193HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 194HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 195HZ herz 196I2O intelligent input/output 197IANA internet assigned number authority 198IC integrated circuit 199ICB internet citizen's band 200ICE internal compiler error 201ICE in-circuit emulator 202ICMP internet control message protocol 203IDE integrated drive electronics 204IDE integrated development environment 205IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 206IDS intrusion detection system 207IE internet explorer 208IEC international electrotechnical commission 209IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 210IESG internet engineering steering group 211IETF internet engineering task force 212IGMP internet group management protocol 213IGP interior gateway protocol 214IKE internet key exchange 215IMAP internet mail access protocol 216INCITS international committee on information technology standards 217IO input/output 218IOCTL input/output control 219IP internet protocol 220IP intellectual property 221IPC interprocess communication 222IPNG internet protocol, next generation 223IPS intrusion prevention system 224IPSEC internet protocol security 225IRC internet relay chat 226IRDA infrared data association 227IRQ interrupt request 228IRTF internet research task force 229ISA industry standard architecture 230ISDN integrated services digital network 231ISI inter-symbol interference 232ISM industrial, scientific and medical 233ISN initial serial number 234ISO international standards organization 235ISOC internet society 236ISP internet service provider 237JIT just in time 238JPEG joint photographic experts group 239JRE java runtime environment 240JTAG joint test action group 241KLOC thousand lines of code 242KPI kernel programming interface 243KVA kernel virtual address 244KVM kernel virtual memory 245KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 246LAMP linux apache mysql {perl,php,python} 247LAN local area network 248LBA logical block addressing 249LCD liquid crystal display 250LCP link control protocol 251LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 252LED light emitting diode 253LIFO last in first out 254LILO last in last out 255LILO linux loader 256LIR local internet registry 257LKM {linux, loadable} kernel module 258LKML linux kernel mailing list 259LLC logical link control 260LOC lines of code 261LRC longitudinal redundancy check 262LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 263LSB linux standards base 264LSI large scale integration 265LUN logical unit number 266LV logical volume 267LVM logical volume management 268LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 269MAC medium access control 270MAC mandatory access control 271MBR master boot record 272MDA mail delivery agent 273MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 274MFC merge from current 275MFM modified frequency modulation 276MIDI musical instrument digital interface 277MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 278MIMO multiple input multiple output 279MIPS million instructions per second 280MIT massachusetts institute of technology 281MMU memory management unit 282MPEG moving picture experts group 283MPLS multiprotocol label switching 284MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 285MSF minutes seconds frames 286MSS maximum segment size 287MTA mail transfer agent 288MTU maximum transmission unit 289MUA mail user agent 290MWE module width encoding 291NAT network address translation 292NAV network allocation vector 293NCP network control protocol 294NCQ native command queuing 295NFS network file system 296NIC network interface card 297NIS network information service 298NLS native language support 299NMI non maskable interrupt 300NOP no operation 301NRZ non-return to zero 302NSA national security agency 303NUMA non uniform memory access 304NVRAM non volatile random access memory 305OCL object constraint language 306OCR optical character recognition 307OEM original equipment manufacturer 308OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 309OO object oriented 310OO open office 311OOB out of band 312OOM out of memory 313OOP object oriented programming 314OS operating system 315OSD open source definition 316OSF open software foundation 317OSI open systems interconnection 318OSI open-source initiative 319OSPF open shortest path first 320OSS open source software 321OSS open sound system 322OTP one time password 323OUI organizationally unique identifier 324P2P peer to peer 325P2P pci to pci 326PA physical address 327PAE physical address extension 328PAM pluggable authentication modules 329PAM pulse amplitude modulation 330PAT port address translation 331PATA parallel ATA 332PAX portable archive exchange 333PC personal computer 334PCC portable c compiler 335PCI peripheral component interconnect 336PCM pulse code modulation 337PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 338PDA personal digital assistant 339PDF portable document format 340PDP page descriptor page 341PDU protocol data unit 342PER packed encoding rules 343PERL practical extraction [and] report language 344PFS perfect forward secrecy 345PGP pretty good privacy 346PHB PCI host bridge 347PIC programmable interrupt controller 348PIC position independent code 349PID process id 350PIE position independent executable 351PIN personal identification number 352PIO programmed input/output 353PKI public key infrastructure 354PLL phase locked loop 355PMT photo-multiplier tube 356PNG portable network graphics 357POE power over ethernet 358POP post office protocol 359POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 360POST power on self test 361POTS plain old telephone system 362PPC power PC 363PPB PCI [to] PCI bridge 364PPP point-to-point protocol 365PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 366PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 367PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 368PRNG pseudo random number generator 369PROM programmable read only memory 370PSK pre-shared key 371PSTN public switched telephone network 372PTE page table entry 373PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 374PTP page table page 375PWM pulse width modulation 376PXE preboot execution environment 377QA quality assurance 378QOS quality of service 379RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 380RAM random access memory 381RAS restartable atomic sequence 382RAS remote access service 383RCS revision control system 384RCU read-copy-update 385RGB red green blue 386RHL red hat linux 387RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 388RIP routing information protocol 389RIR regional internet registry 390RISC reduced instruction set computing 391RLE run length encoding 392RLL run length limited 393RNG random number generator 394ROM read only memory 395RPC remote procedure call 396RPM revolutions per minute 397RTC real time clock 398RTF rich text format 399RTOS real time operating system 400RTS request to send 401RTT round time trip 402S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 403SACD super audio compact disc 404SAD security association database 405SAM serial access memory 406SAN storage area network 407SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 408SATA serial advanced technology attachment 409SB sound blaster 410SCM software configuration management 411SCM source code management 412SCP secure copy 413SCSI small computer system interface 414SCTP stream control transmission protocol 415SDK software development kit 416SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 417SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 418SIFS short inter-frame space 419SIMD single instruction multiple data 420SIMM single inline memory module 421SIP session initiation protocol 422SIR slow infrared 423SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 424SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 425SMP symmetric multiprocessing 426SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 427SNMP simple network management protocol 428SOA service oriented architecture 429SOAP simple object access protocol 430SOHO small office / home office 431SPARC scalable processor architecture 432SPD security policy database 433SPD serial presence detect 434SPI serial peripheral interface 435SPI stateful packet inspection 436SQL structured query language 437SRAM static random access memory 438SSD solid state drive 439SSE streaming SIMD extensions 440SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 441SSH secure shell 442SSL secure sockets layer 443SSP stack smashing protection 444STP shielded twisted pair 445STP spanning-tree protocol 446SUS single UNIX specification 447SVG scalable vector graphics 448SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 449SWF shock wave flash 450TCB trusted computing base 451TCL tool command language 452TCP transmission control protocol 453TCQ tagged command queueing 454TDD test driven development 455TFT thin film transistor 456TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 457TIAS try it and see 458TIFF tagged image file format 459TITS try it to see 460TLA top level aggregator 461TLB transition lookaside buffer 462TLD top level domain 463TLS transport layer security 464TLS thread local storage 465TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 466TOS terms of service 467TR token ring 468TRNG true random number generator 469TTL time to live 470TTY teletype 471TZ time zone 472UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 473UC uncacheable 474UDMA ultra DMA 475UDO ultra density optical (storage) 476UDP user datagram protocol 477UFS unix file system 478UI user interface 479UID {unique,user} identifier 480UML unified modeling language 481UPS uninterruptible power supply 482URI uniform resource identifier 483URL uniform resource locator 484USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 485USB universal serial bus 486USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 487UTC coordinated universal time 488UTP unshielded twisted pair 489UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 490UUOC useless use of cat 491VA virtual address 492VAX virtual address extension 493VCM virtual channel memory 494VESA video electronics standards association 495VG volume group 496VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 497WIFI wireless fidelity 498VLAN virtual local area network 499VLSI very large scale integration 500VLSM variable length subnet mask 501VM virtual {machine,memory} 502VPN virtual private network 503VRAM video random access memory 504VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 505W3C world wide web consortium 506WAN wide area network 507WAP wireless application protocol 508WEP wired equivalent privacy 509WFI wait for interrupt 510WLAN wireless local area network 511WPA wi-fi protected access 512WRAM window random access memory 513WWAN wireless widea area network 514WWW world wide web 515WYSIWYG what you see is what you get 516XER XML encoding rules 517XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 518XML extensible markup language 519XP extreme programming 520XSL extensible stylesheet language 521XSS cross site scripting 522XT extended technology 523XUL XML user interface language 524YACC yet another compiler 525ZFOD zero-filled on demand 526ZIFS zero insertion force socket 527