acronyms.comp revision 1.97
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.97 2010/04/23 17:43:45 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 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 BitTorrent 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 packet 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 147EOL end of life 148EOT end of transmission 149EPP enhanced parallel port 150EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 151EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 152ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 153FAT file allocation table 154FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 155FCS frame check sequence 156FDDI fiber distributed data interface 157FFI foreign function interface 158FFS fast file system 159FFS find first set 160FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 161FIFO first in first out 162FIR fast infrared 163FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 164FM frequency modulation 165FOSS free / open source software 166FPGA field programmable gate array 167FPM fast page mode 168FPU floating point unit 169FQDN fully qualified domain name 170FRU field replaceable unit 171FTP file transfer protocol 172FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 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 Hertz 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 237JBOD just a bunch of disks 238JIT just in time 239JPEG joint photographic experts group 240JRE Java runtime environment 241JTAG joint test action group 242KLOC thousand lines of code 243KPI kernel programming interface 244KVA kernel virtual address 245KVM kernel virtual memory 246KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 247LAMP Linux Apache MySQL {Perl,PHP,Python} 248LAN local area network 249LBA logical block addressing 250LCD liquid crystal display 251LCP link control protocol 252LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 253LED light emitting diode 254LIFO last in first out 255LILO last in last out 256LILO Linux loader 257LIR local Internet registry 258LKM {Linux, loadable} kernel module 259LKML Linux kernel mailing list 260LLC logical link control 261LOC lines of code 262LRC longitudinal redundancy check 263LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 264LSB Linux standards base 265LSI large scale integration 266LUN logical unit number 267LV logical volume 268LVM logical volume management 269LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 270MAC medium access control 271MAC mandatory access control 272MBR master boot record 273MDA mail delivery agent 274MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 275MFC merge from current 276MFM modified frequency modulation 277MIDI musical instrument digital interface 278MIME multipurpose Internet mail extensions 279MIMO multiple input multiple output 280MIPS million instructions per second 281MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 282MMU memory management unit 283MPEG moving picture experts group 284MPLS multiprotocol label switching 285MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 286MSF minutes seconds frames 287MSS maximum segment size 288MTA mail transfer agent 289MTU maximum transmission unit 290MUA mail user agent 291MWE module width encoding 292NAS network attached storage 293NAT network address translation 294NAV network allocation vector 295NCP network control protocol 296NCQ native command queuing 297NFS network file system 298NIC network interface card 299NIS network information service 300NLS native language support 301NMI non-maskable interrupt 302NOP no operation 303NRZ non-return to zero 304NSA National Security Agency 305NUMA non-uniform memory access 306NVRAM non-volatile random access memory 307OCL object constraint language 308OCR optical character recognition 309OEM original equipment manufacturer 310OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 311OO object oriented 312OO OpenOffice 313OOB out of band 314OOM out of memory 315OOP object oriented programming 316OQL object query language 317OS operating system 318OSD open source definition 319OSF open software foundation 320OSI open systems interconnection 321OSI open-source initiative 322OSPF open shortest path first 323OSS open source software 324OSS open sound system 325OTP one time password 326OUI organizationally unique identifier 327OWL Web ontology language 328P2P peer to peer 329P2P PCI to PCI 330PA physical address 331PAE physical address extension 332PAM pluggable authentication modules 333PAM pulse amplitude modulation 334PAT port address translation 335PATA parallel ATA 336PAX portable archive exchange 337PC personal computer 338PCC Portable C Compiler 339PCI peripheral component interconnect 340PCM pulse code modulation 341PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 342PDA personal digital assistant 343PDF portable document format 344PDP page descriptor page 345PDU protocol data unit 346PER packed encoding rules 347PERL practical extraction [and] report language 348PFS perfect forward secrecy 349PGP pretty good privacy 350PHB PCI host bridge 351PIC programmable interrupt controller 352PIC position independent code 353PID process id 354PIE position independent executable 355PIN personal identification number 356PIO programmed input/output 357PKI public key infrastructure 358PLL phase locked loop 359PMT photo-multiplier tube 360PNG portable network graphics 361POE power over ethernet 362POP post office protocol 363POSIX portable operating system interface [for] Unix 364POST power on self test 365POTS plain old telephone system 366PPC PowerPC 367PPB PCI [to] PCI bridge 368PPP point-to-point protocol 369PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 370PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 371PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 372PRNG pseudo random number generator 373PROM programmable read only memory 374PSK pre-shared key 375PSTN public switched telephone network 376PTE page table entry 377PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 378PTP page table page 379PWM pulse width modulation 380PXE preboot execution environment 381QA quality assurance 382QOS quality of service 383RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 384RAM random access memory 385RAS restartable atomic sequence 386RAS remote access service 387RCS revision control system 388RCU read-copy-update 389RDF resource description format 390RGB red green blue 391RHL Red Hat Linux 392RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 393RIP routing information protocol 394RIR regional Internet registry 395RISC reduced instruction set computing 396RLE run length encoding 397RLL run length limited 398RNG random number generator 399ROM read only memory 400RPC remote procedure call 401RPM revolutions per minute 402RTC real time clock 403RTF rich text format 404RTOS real time operating system 405RTS request to send 406RTT round time trip 407S/PDIF Sony/Phillips digital interface 408SACD super audio compact disc 409SAD security association database 410SAM serial access memory 411SAN storage area network 412SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 413SATA serial advanced technology attachment 414SB sound blaster 415SCM software configuration management 416SCM source code management 417SCP secure copy 418SCSI small computer system interface 419SCTP stream control transmission protocol 420SDK software development kit 421SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 422SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 423SIFS short inter-frame space 424SIMD single instruction multiple data 425SIMM single inline memory module 426SIP session initiation protocol 427SIR slow infrared 428SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 429SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 430SMP symmetric multiprocessing 431SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 432SNMP simple network management protocol 433SOA service oriented architecture 434SOAP simple object access protocol 435SOHO small office / home office 436SPARC scalable processor architecture 437SPARQL SPARQL protocol and RDF query language 438SPD security policy database 439SPD serial presence detect 440SPI serial peripheral interface 441SPI stateful packet inspection 442SQL structured query language 443SRAM static random access memory 444SSD solid state drive 445SSE streaming SIMD extensions 446SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 447SSH secure shell 448SSL secure sockets layer 449SSP stack smashing protection 450STP shielded twisted pair 451STP spanning-tree protocol 452SUS Single Unix Specification 453SVG scalable vector graphics 454SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 455SWF Shockwave Flash 456TCB trusted computing base 457TCL tool command language 458TCP transmission control protocol 459TCQ tagged command queueing 460TDD test driven development 461TFT thin film transistor 462TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 463TIAS try it and see 464TIFF tagged image file format 465TITS try it to see 466TLA top level aggregator 467TLB transition lookaside buffer 468TLD top level domain 469TLS transport layer security 470TLS thread local storage 471TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 472TOS terms of service 473TOS type of service 474TR token ring 475TRNG true random number generator 476TTL time to live 477TTY teletype 478TZ time zone 479UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 480UC uncacheable 481UDMA ultra DMA 482UDO ultra density optical (storage) 483UDP user datagram protocol 484UFS Unix file system 485UI user interface 486UID user identifier 487UID unique identifier 488UML unified modeling language 489UPS uninterruptible power supply 490URI uniform resource identifier 491URL uniform resource locator 492USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 493USB universal serial bus 494USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 495UTC coordinated universal time 496UTP unshielded twisted pair 497UUCP Unix-to-Unix copy protocol 498UUID universally unique identifier 499UUOC useless use of cat 500VA virtual address 501VAX virtual address extension 502VCM virtual channel memory 503VESA video electronics standards association 504VG volume group 505VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 506WIFI wireless fidelity 507VLAN virtual local area network 508VLSI very large scale integration 509VLSM variable length subnet mask 510VM virtual {machine,memory} 511VPN virtual private network 512VRAM video random access memory 513VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 514W3C World Wide Web Consortium 515WAN wide area network 516WAP wireless application protocol 517WEP wired equivalent privacy 518WFI wait for interrupt 519WLAN wireless local area network 520WPA wi-fi protected access 521WRAM window random access memory 522WWAN wireless wide area network 523WWW world wide web 524WYSIWYG what you see is what you get 525XER XML encoding rules 526XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 527XML extensible markup language 528XP extreme programming 529XSL extensible stylesheet language 530XSS cross site scripting 531XT extended technology 532XUL XML user interface language 533YACC yet another compiler compiler 534ZFOD zero-filled on demand 535ZIFS zero insertion force socket 536