acronyms.comp revision 1.99
1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.99 2010/05/29 22:45:41 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 38AWK Aho, Werner, and Kernighan 39BAR base address register 40BCD binary coded decimal 41BEDO burst extended data output 42BER basic encoding rules 43BER bit error rate 44BFD binary formats descriptor 45BFKL big fscking kernel lock 46BGP border gateway protocol 47BIND Berkeley Internet Name Daemon 48BIOS basic input/output system 49BLOB binary large object 50BPF Berkeley packet filter 51BPS bits per second 52BQS Berkeley quality software 53BSD Berkeley software distribution 54BSOD blue screen of death 55BSS block started by symbol 56BT Bluetooth 57BT BitTorrent 58CAD computer-aided design 59CARP common address redundancy protocol 60CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 61CCD charge coupled device 62CD compact disc 63CDDA compact disc digital audio 64CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 65CER canonical encoding rules 66CFG context-free grammar 67CFG control-flow graph 68CGA color graphics {array,adapter} 69CGI common gateway interface 70CHS cylinder/head/sector 71CIDR classless inter-domain routing 72CIFS common internet file system 73CIS contact image sensor 74CJK Chinese, Japanese, and Korean 75CLI command line interface 76CLUT color look-up table 77CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 78CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 79COFF common object file format 80COW copy-on-write 81CPU central processing unit 82CR carriage return 83CRLF carriage return line feed 84CRT cathode ray tube 85CS computer science 86CS cable select 87CSMA carrier sense multiple access 88CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 89CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 90CSS cascading style sheets 91CTS clear to send 92CVS concurrent versions system 93DAC discretionary access control 94DAC digital [to] analog converter 95DB database 96DCC direct client [to] client 97DCE data control equipment 98DCE distributed computing environment 99DCT discrete cosine transform 100DDC display data channel 101DDR double data rate 102DDWG digital display working group 103DER distinguished encoding rules 104DES Data Encryption Standard 105DFS depth first search 106DFS distributed file system 107DFT discrete Fourier transform 108DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 109DIFS distributed inter-frame space 110DIMM dual inline memory module 111DLE data link escape 112DLL dynamic link library 113DMA direct memory access 114DNARD Digital network appliance reference design 115DNS domain name system 116DOM document object model 117DOS denial of service 118DPCM differential pulse code modulation 119DPD dead peer detection 120DPI dots per inch 121DPI deep packet inspection 122DRAM dynamic random access memory 123DRI direct rendering infrastructure 124DSL digital subscriber line 125DSLAM digital subscriber line access multiplexer 126DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 127DTD document type definition 128DTE data terminal equipment 129DTE dumb terminal emulator 130DVD digital versatile disc 131DVR digital video recorder 132DVI digital visual interface 133E-XER extended XML encoding rules 134EAP extensible authentication protocol 135ECN explicit congestion notification 136ECP enhanced capability port 137EDID extended display identification data 138EDO extended data out 139EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 140EFI extensible firmware interface 141EFM eight to fourteen modulation 142EGA enhanced graphics {array,adapter} 143EGP exterior gateway protocol 144EIDE enchanced IDE 145EISA extended industry standard architecture 146ELF executable and linking format 147EOF end of file 148EOL end of line 149EOL end of life 150EOT end of transmission 151EPP enhanced parallel port 152EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 153EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 154ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 155FAT file allocation table 156FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 157FCS frame check sequence 158FDDI fiber distributed data interface 159FFI foreign function interface 160FFS fast file system 161FFS find first set 162FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 163FIFO first in first out 164FIR fast infrared 165FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 166FM frequency modulation 167FOSS free / open source software 168FPGA field programmable gate array 169FPM fast page mode 170FPU floating point unit 171FQDN fully qualified domain name 172FRU field replaceable unit 173FTP file transfer protocol 174FTPS file transfer protocol, secure 175GC garbage collector 176GCR group-coded recording 177GID group identifier 178GIF graphics interchange format 179GNU GNU's not Unix 180GPL GNU/general public license 181GPU graphics processing unit 182GRE generic routing encapsulation 183GUI graphics user interface 184GUID globally unique identifier 185HA high availability 186HAL hardware abstraction layer 187HBA host bus adapter 188HCI host controller interface 189HCI human-computer interaction 190HDD hard disk drive 191HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 192HID human interface device 193HT hyper-threading 194HTML hyper-text markup language 195HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 196HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure 197HZ Hertz 198I2O intelligent input/output 199IANA Internet assigned number authority 200IC integrated circuit 201ICB Internet citizen's band 202ICE internal compiler error 203ICE in-circuit emulator 204ICMP Internet control message protocol 205IDE integrated drive electronics 206IDE integrated development environment 207IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 208IDS intrusion detection system 209IE Internet Explorer 210IEC international electrotechnical commission 211IEEE Institute [of] Electrical [and] Electronics Engineers 212IESG Internet Engineering Steering Group 213IETF Internet Engineering Task Force 214IGMP Internet group management protocol 215IGP interior gateway protocol 216IKE Internet key exchange 217IMAP Internet mail access protocol 218INCITS international committee on information technology standards 219IO input/output 220IOCTL input/output control 221IP Internet Protocol 222IP intellectual property 223IPC interprocess communication 224IPNG Internet protocol, next generation 225IPS intrusion prevention system 226IPSEC Internet protocol security 227IRC Internet relay chat 228IRDA infrared data association 229IRQ interrupt request 230IRTF Internet research task force 231ISA industry standard architecture 232ISDN integrated services digital network 233ISI inter-symbol interference 234ISM industrial, scientific and medical 235ISN initial serial number 236ISO international standards organization 237ISOC Internet society 238ISP Internet service provider 239JBOD just a bunch of disks 240JIT just in time 241JPEG joint photographic experts group 242JRE Java runtime environment 243JTAG joint test action group 244KLOC thousand lines of code 245KPI kernel programming interface 246KVA kernel virtual address 247KVM kernel virtual memory 248KVM keyboard, video, mouse switch 249LAMP Linux Apache MySQL {Perl,PHP,Python} 250LAN local area network 251LBA logical block addressing 252LCD liquid crystal display 253LCP link control protocol 254LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 255LED light emitting diode 256LFS log-structured file system 257LIFO last in first out 258LILO last in last out 259LILO Linux loader 260LIR local Internet registry 261LKM {Linux, loadable} kernel module 262LKML Linux kernel mailing list 263LLC logical link control 264LOC lines of code 265LRC longitudinal redundancy check 266LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 267LSB Linux standards base 268LSI large scale integration 269LUN logical unit number 270LV logical volume 271LVM logical volume management 272LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 273MAC medium access control 274MAC mandatory access control 275MBR master boot record 276MCGA multicolor graphics adapter 277MDA mail delivery agent 278MDA monochrome display adapter 279MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 280MFC merge from current 281MFM modified frequency modulation 282MIDI musical instrument digital interface 283MIME multipurpose Internet mail extensions 284MIMO multiple input multiple output 285MIPS million instructions per second 286MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology 287MMU memory management unit 288MPEG moving picture experts group 289MPLS multiprotocol label switching 290MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 291MSF minutes seconds frames 292MSS maximum segment size 293MTA mail transfer agent 294MTU maximum transmission unit 295MUA mail user agent 296MWE module width encoding 297NAS network attached storage 298NAT network address translation 299NAV network allocation vector 300NCP network control protocol 301NCQ native command queuing 302NFS network file system 303NIC network interface card 304NIS network information service 305NLS native language support 306NMI non-maskable interrupt 307NNTP network news transfer protocol 308NOP no operation 309NRZ non-return to zero 310NSA National Security Agency 311NUMA non-uniform memory access 312NVRAM non-volatile random access memory 313OCL object constraint language 314OCR optical character recognition 315OEM original equipment manufacturer 316OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 317OO object oriented 318OO OpenOffice 319OOB out of band 320OOM out of memory 321OOP object oriented programming 322OQL object query language 323OS operating system 324OSD open source definition 325OSF open software foundation 326OSI open systems interconnection 327OSI open-source initiative 328OSPF open shortest path first 329OSS open source software 330OSS open sound system 331OTP one time password 332OUI organizationally unique identifier 333OWL Web ontology language 334P2P peer to peer 335P2P PCI to PCI 336PA physical address 337PAE physical address extension 338PAM pluggable authentication modules 339PAM pulse amplitude modulation 340PAT port address translation 341PATA parallel ATA 342PAX portable archive exchange 343PC personal computer 344PCC Portable C Compiler 345PCI peripheral component interconnect 346PCM pulse code modulation 347PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 348PDA personal digital assistant 349PDF portable document format 350PDP page descriptor page 351PDU protocol data unit 352PER packed encoding rules 353PERL practical extraction [and] report language 354PFS perfect forward secrecy 355PGP pretty good privacy 356PHB PCI host bridge 357PIC programmable interrupt controller 358PIC position independent code 359PID process id 360PIE position independent executable 361PIN personal identification number 362PIO programmed input/output 363PKI public key infrastructure 364PLL phase locked loop 365PMT photo-multiplier tube 366PNG portable network graphics 367POE power over ethernet 368POP post office protocol 369POSIX portable operating system interface [for] Unix 370POST power on self test 371POTS plain old telephone system 372PPC PowerPC 373PPB PCI [to] PCI bridge 374PPP point-to-point protocol 375PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 376PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 377PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 378PRNG pseudo random number generator 379PROM programmable read only memory 380PSK pre-shared key 381PSTN public switched telephone network 382PTE page table entry 383PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 384PTP page table page 385PWM pulse width modulation 386PXE preboot execution environment 387QA quality assurance 388QOS quality of service 389RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 390RAM random access memory 391RAS restartable atomic sequence 392RAS remote access service 393RCS revision control system 394RCU read-copy-update 395RDF resource description format 396RGB red green blue 397RHL Red Hat Linux 398RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 399RIP routing information protocol 400RIR regional Internet registry 401RISC reduced instruction set computing 402RLE run length encoding 403RLL run length limited 404RNG random number generator 405ROM read only memory 406RPC remote procedure call 407RPM revolutions per minute 408RSS really simple syndication 409RTC real time clock 410RTF rich text format 411RTOS real time operating system 412RTS request to send 413RTT round time trip 414S/PDIF Sony/Phillips digital interface 415SACD super audio compact disc 416SAD security association database 417SAM serial access memory 418SAN storage area network 419SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 420SATA serial advanced technology attachment 421SB sound blaster 422SCM software configuration management 423SCM source code management 424SCP secure copy 425SCSI small computer system interface 426SCTP stream control transmission protocol 427SDK software development kit 428SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 429SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 430SIFS short inter-frame space 431SIMD single instruction multiple data 432SIMM single inline memory module 433SIP session initiation protocol 434SIR slow infrared 435SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 436SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 437SMP symmetric multiprocessing 438SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 439SNMP simple network management protocol 440SOA service oriented architecture 441SOAP simple object access protocol 442SOHO small office / home office 443SPARC scalable processor architecture 444SPARQL SPARQL protocol and RDF query language 445SPD security policy database 446SPD serial presence detect 447SPI serial peripheral interface 448SPI stateful packet inspection 449SQL structured query language 450SRAM static random access memory 451SSD solid state drive 452SSE streaming SIMD extensions 453SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 454SSH secure shell 455SSL secure sockets layer 456SSP stack smashing protection 457STP shielded twisted pair 458STP spanning-tree protocol 459SUS Single Unix Specification 460SVG scalable vector graphics 461SVGA super video graphics {array,adapter} 462SWF Shockwave Flash 463TCB trusted computing base 464TCL tool command language 465TCP transmission control protocol 466TCQ tagged command queueing 467TDD test driven development 468TFT thin film transistor 469TFTP trivial file transfer protocol 470TIAS try it and see 471TIFF tagged image file format 472TITS try it to see 473TLA top level aggregator 474TLB transition lookaside buffer 475TLD top level domain 476TLS transport layer security 477TLS thread local storage 478TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 479TOS terms of service 480TOS type of service 481TR token ring 482TRNG true random number generator 483TTL time to live 484TTY teletype 485TZ time zone 486UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 487UC uncacheable 488UDMA ultra DMA 489UDO ultra density optical (storage) 490UDP user datagram protocol 491UFS Unix file system 492UI user interface 493UID user identifier 494UID unique identifier 495UML unified modeling language 496UPS uninterruptible power supply 497URI uniform resource identifier 498URL uniform resource locator 499USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 500USB universal serial bus 501USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 502UTC coordinated universal time 503UTP unshielded twisted pair 504UUCP Unix-to-Unix copy protocol 505UUID universally unique identifier 506UUOC useless use of cat 507VA virtual address 508VAX virtual address extension 509VCM virtual channel memory 510VESA video electronics standards association 511VG volume group 512VGA video graphics {array,adapter} 513VLAN virtual local area network 514VLSI very large scale integration 515VLSM variable length subnet mask 516VM virtual {machine,memory} 517VPN virtual private network 518VRAM video random access memory 519VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol 520W3C World Wide Web Consortium 521WAN wide area network 522WAP wireless application protocol 523WEP wired equivalent privacy 524WFI wait for interrupt 525WIFI wireless fidelity 526WLAN wireless local area network 527WPA wi-fi protected access 528WRAM window random access memory 529WWAN wireless wide area network 530WWW world wide web 531WYSIWYG what you see is what you get 532XER XML encoding rules 533XGA extended graphics {array,adapter} 534XML extensible markup language 535XP extreme programming 536XSL extensible stylesheet language 537XSS cross site scripting 538XT extended technology 539XUL XML user interface language 540YACC yet another compiler compiler 541YP yellow pages (aka NIS) 542ZFOD zero-filled on demand 543ZIFS zero insertion force socket 544