1: $NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.58 2005/02/16 00:04:23 kleink Exp $ 2: 3: 3WHS three-way handshake 4: ABI application binary interface 5: ACL access control list 6: ACPI advanced configuration and power interface 7: ADC analog [to] digital converter 8: ADPCM adaptive differential pulse code modulation 9: ADSL asymmetric digital subscriber line 10: AGP accelerated graphics port 11: AM amplitude modulation 12: AMI alternate mark inversion 13: ANSI american national standards institute 14: AP access point 15: API application programming interface 16: APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 17: ARP address resolution protocol 18: ARQ automatic repeat request 19: AS autonomous system 20: ASN autonomous system number 21: ASCII american standard code for information interchange 22: AT advanced technology 23: ATA advanced technology attachment 24: ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 25: ATM asynchronous transfer mode 26: ATX advanced technology extended 27: BEDO burst extended data output 28: BER basic encoding rules 29: BER bit error rate 30: BGP border gateway protocol 31: BIOS basic input/output system 32: BLOB binary large object 33: BPS bits per second 34: BSD berkeley software distribution 35: CAD computer-aided design 36: CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 37: CCD charge coupled device 38: CD compact disc 39: CDDA compact disc digital audio 40: CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 41: CER canonical encoding rules 42: CGA color graphics array 43: CGI common gateway interface 44: CHS cylinder/head/sector 45: CIDR classless inter-domain routing 46: CIS contact image sensor 47: CLI command line interface 48: CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 49: CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 50: COFF common object file format 51: COW copy-on-write 52: CPU central processing unit 53: CRLF carriage return line feed 54: CRT cathode ray tube 55: CSMA carrier sense multiple access 56: CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 57: CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 58: CSS cascading style sheets 59: CTS clear to send 60: CVS concurrent versions system 61: DAC digital [to] analog converter 62: DCE data control equipment 63: DCE distributed computing environment 64: DCT discrete cosine transform 65: DDC display data channel 66: DDR double data rate 67: DDWG digital display working group 68: DER distinguished encoding rules 69: DFT discrete fourier transform 70: DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 71: DIFS distributed inter-frame space 72: DLE data link escape 73: DMA direct memory access 74: DNS domain name system 75: DOS denial of service 76: DPCM differential pulse code modulation 77: DPI dots per inch 78: DRAM dynamic random access memory 79: DSL digital subscriber line 80: DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 81: DTD document type definition 82: DTE data terminal equipment 83: DTE dumb terminal emulator 84: DVD digital versatile disc 85: DVI digital visual interface 86: ECP enhanced capability port 87: EDID extended display identification data 88: EDO extended data out 89: EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 90: EFM eight to fourteen modulation 91: EGA enhanced graphics array 92: EGP exterior gateway protocol 93: EISA extended industry standard architecture 94: ELF executable and linking format 95: EPP enhanced parallel port 96: EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 97: EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 98: ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 99: E-XER extended XML encoding rules 100: FAT file allocation table 101: FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 102: FCS frame check sequence 103: FDDI fiber distributed data interface 104: FFS fast file system 105: FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 106: FIR fast infrared 107: FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 108: FM frequency modulation 109: FPM fast page mode 110: FQDN fully qualified domain name 111: FTP file transfer protocol 112: GC garbage collector 113: GCR group-coded recording 114: GIF graphics interchange format 115: GNU gnu's not unix 116: GPL gnu/general public license 117: GPU graphics processing unit 118: GRE generic routing encapsulation 119: GUI graphics user interface 120: HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 121: HTML hyper-text markup language 122: HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 123: I2O intelligent input/output 124: IANA internet assigned number authority 125: IC integrated circuit 126: ICB internet citizen's band 127: ICMP internet control message protocol 128: IDE integrated drive electronics 129: IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 130: IEC international electrotechnical commission 131: IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 132: IESG internet engineering steering group 133: IETF internet engineering task force 134: IGP interior gateway protocol 135: IKE internet key exchange 136: IMAP internet mail access protocol 137: INCITS international committee on information technology standards 138: IPC interprocess communication 139: IO input/output 140: IOCTL input/output control 141: IP internet protocol 142: IPNG internet protocol, next generation 143: IPSEC internet protocol security 144: IRC internet relay chat 145: IRQ interrupt request 146: IRTF internet research task force 147: ISA industry standard architecture 148: ISDN integrated services digital network 149: ISI inter-symbol interference 150: ISM industrial, scientific and medical 151: ISN initial serial number 152: ISO international standards organization 153: ISOC internet society 154: ISP internet service provider 155: JPEG joint photographic experts group 156: KVA kernel virtual address 157: LAN local area network 158: LBA logical block addressing 159: LCD liquid crystal display 160: LCP link control protocol 161: LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 162: LED light emitting diode 163: LIR local internet registry 164: LLC logical link control 165: LRC longitudinal redundancy check 166: LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 167: LUN logical unit number 168: LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 169: MAC medium access control 170: MBR master boot record 171: MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 172: MFM modified frequency modulation 173: MIDI musical instrument digital interface 174: MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 175: MIPS million instructions per second 176: MMU memory management unit 177: MPEG moving picture experts group 178: MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 179: MSF minutes seconds frames 180: MSS maximum segment size 181: MTA mail transfer agent 182: MTU maximum transmission unit 183: MUA mail user agent 184: MWE module width encoding 185: NAT network address translation 186: NAV network allocation vector 187: NCP network control protocol 188: NFS network file system 189: NIC network interface card 190: NIS network information service 191: NRZ non-return to zero 192: NUMA non uniform memory access 193: OCL object constraint language 194: OCR optical character recognition 195: OEM original equipment manufacturer 196: OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 197: OSF open software foundation 198: OSI open systems interconnection 199: OTP one time password 200: PAM pluggable authentication modules 201: PAM pulse amplitude modulation 202: PAT port address translation 203: PAX portable archive exchange 204: PC personal computer 205: PCI peripheral component interconnect 206: PCM pulse code modulation 207: PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 208: PDU protocol data unit 209: PDP page descriptor page 210: PER packed encoding rules 211: PERL practical extraction [and] report language 212: PGP pretty good privacy 213: PIC programmable interrupt controller 214: PID process id 215: PIN personal identification number 216: PIO programmed input/output 217: PLL phase locked loop 218: PMT photo-multiplier tube 219: PNG portable network graphics 220: POP post office protocol 221: POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 222: POST power on self test 223: POTS plain old telephone system 224: PPP point-to-point protocol 225: PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 226: PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 227: PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 228: PROM programmable read only memory 229: PTE page table entry 230: PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 231: PTP page table page 232: PSTN public switched telephone network 233: PWM pulse width modulation 234: QOS quality of service 235: RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 236: RAM random access memory 237: RCS revision control system 238: RFC request for comments 239: RGB red green blue 240: RIP routing information protocol 241: RIR regional internet registry 242: RISC reduced instruction set computing 243: RLE run length encoding 244: RLL run length limited 245: ROM read only memory 246: RPM revolutions per minute 247: RTF rich text format 248: RTS request to send 249: RTT round time trip 250: S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 251: SACD super audio compact disc 252: SAM serial access memory 253: SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 254: SATA serial advanced technology attachment 255: SCSI small computer system interface 256: SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 257: SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 258: SIFS short inter-frame space 259: SIP session initiation protocol 260: SIR slow infrared 261: SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 262: SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 263: SMP symmetric multiprocessing 264: SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 265: SNMP simple network management protocol 266: SPD serial presence detect 267: SRAM static random access memory 268: SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 269: SSH secure shell 270: SSL secure sockets layer 271: STP shielded twisted pair 272: SVGA super video graphics array 273: TCL tool command language 274: TCP transmission control protocol 275: TDD test driven development 276: TFT thin film transistor 277: TIFF tagged image file format 278: TLA top level aggregator 279: TLB transition lookaside buffer 280: TLD top level domain 281: TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 282: TR token ring 283: TTL time to live 284: TTY teletype 285: TZ time zone 286: UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 287: UC uncacheable 288: UDO ultra density optical (storage) 289: UDP user datagram protocol 290: UFS unix file system 291: UML unified modeling language 292: UPS uninterruptible power supply 293: URI uniform resource identifier 294: URL uniform resource locator 295: USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 296: USB universal serial bus 297: USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 298: UTP unshielded twisted pair 299: UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 300: VAX virtual address extension 301: VCM virtual channel memory 302: VESA video electronics standards association 303: VGA video graphics array 304: VLAN virtual local area network 305: VLSM variable length subnetting mask 306: VM virtual memory 307: VPN virtual private network 308: VRAM video random access memory 309: WAN wide area network 310: WAP wireless application protocol 311: WLAN wireless local area network 312: WRAM window random access memory 313: WWW world wide web 314: XER XML encoding rules 315: XGA extended graphics array 316: XML extensible markup language 317: XSL extensible stylesheet language 318: XT extended technology 319: ZFOD zero-filled on demand