1$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.61 2005/03/28 15:07:16 jschauma Exp $ 2 33WHS three-way handshake 4ABI application binary interface 5ACL access control list 6ACPI advanced configuration and power interface 7ADC analog [to] digital converter 8ADPCM adaptive differential pulse code modulation 9ADSL asymmetric digital subscriber line 10AGP accelerated graphics port 11AM amplitude modulation 12AMI alternate mark inversion 13ANSI american national standards institute 14AP access point 15API application programming interface 16APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller 17ARP address resolution protocol 18ARQ automatic repeat request 19AS autonomous system 20ASN autonomous system number 21ASCII american standard code for information interchange 22AT advanced technology 23ATA advanced technology attachment 24ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface 25ATM asynchronous transfer mode 26ATX advanced technology extended 27BEDO burst extended data output 28BER basic encoding rules 29BER bit error rate 30BGP border gateway protocol 31BIOS basic input/output system 32BLOB binary large object 33BPS bits per second 34BSD berkeley software distribution 35CAD computer-aided design 36CAV constant angular velocity (as opposed to CLV) 37CCD charge coupled device 38CD compact disc 39CDDA compact disc digital audio 40CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory 41CER canonical encoding rules 42CGA color graphics array 43CGI common gateway interface 44CHS cylinder/head/sector 45CIDR classless inter-domain routing 46CIS contact image sensor 47CLI command line interface 48CLUT color look-up table 49CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV) 50CMYK cyan magenta yellow black 51COFF common object file format 52COW copy-on-write 53CPU central processing unit 54CRLF carriage return line feed 55CRT cathode ray tube 56CSMA carrier sense multiple access 57CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance 58CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection 59CSS cascading style sheets 60CTS clear to send 61CVS concurrent versions system 62DAC digital [to] analog converter 63DCE data control equipment 64DCE distributed computing environment 65DCT discrete cosine transform 66DDC display data channel 67DDR double data rate 68DDWG digital display working group 69DER distinguished encoding rules 70DFT discrete fourier transform 71DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol 72DIFS distributed inter-frame space 73DLE data link escape 74DMA direct memory access 75DNS domain name system 76DOS denial of service 77DPCM differential pulse code modulation 78DPI dots per inch 79DRAM dynamic random access memory 80DSL digital subscriber line 81DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum 82DTD document type definition 83DTE data terminal equipment 84DTE dumb terminal emulator 85DVD digital versatile disc 86DVI digital visual interface 87ECP enhanced capability port 88EDID extended display identification data 89EDO extended data out 90EEPROM electrically erasable programmable read only memory 91EFM eight to fourteen modulation 92EGA enhanced graphics array 93EGP exterior gateway protocol 94EISA extended industry standard architecture 95ELF executable and linking format 96EPP enhanced parallel port 97EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood 98EPROM erasable programmable read only memory 99ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory 100E-XER extended XML encoding rules 101FAT file allocation table 102FBRAM frame buffer random access memory 103FCS frame check sequence 104FDDI fiber distributed data interface 105FFS fast file system 106FHSS frequency hop spread spectrum 107FIR fast infrared 108FLOPS floating [point] operations per second 109FM frequency modulation 110FPM fast page mode 111FQDN fully qualified domain name 112FTP file transfer protocol 113GC garbage collector 114GCR group-coded recording 115GIF graphics interchange format 116GNU gnu's not unix 117GPL gnu/general public license 118GPU graphics processing unit 119GRE generic routing encapsulation 120GUI graphics user interface 121HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection 122HTML hyper-text markup language 123HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol 124I2O intelligent input/output 125IANA internet assigned number authority 126IC integrated circuit 127ICB internet citizen's band 128ICMP internet control message protocol 129IDE integrated drive electronics 130IDRP inter-domain routing protocol 131IEC international electrotechnical commission 132IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers 133IESG internet engineering steering group 134IETF internet engineering task force 135IGP interior gateway protocol 136IKE internet key exchange 137IMAP internet mail access protocol 138INCITS international committee on information technology standards 139IPC interprocess communication 140IO input/output 141IOCTL input/output control 142IP internet protocol 143IPNG internet protocol, next generation 144IPSEC internet protocol security 145IRC internet relay chat 146IRQ interrupt request 147IRTF internet research task force 148ISA industry standard architecture 149ISDN integrated services digital network 150ISI inter-symbol interference 151ISM industrial, scientific and medical 152ISN initial serial number 153ISO international standards organization 154ISOC internet society 155ISP internet service provider 156JPEG joint photographic experts group 157KVA kernel virtual address 158LAN local area network 159LBA logical block addressing 160LCD liquid crystal display 161LCP link control protocol 162LDAP lightweight directory access protocol 163LED light emitting diode 164LIR local internet registry 165LLC logical link control 166LRC longitudinal redundancy check 167LSB least significant bit [or: byte] 168LUN logical unit number 169LZW Lempel Ziv Welch 170MAC medium access control 171MBR master boot record 172MDRAM multibank dynamic random access memory 173MFM modified frequency modulation 174MIDI musical instrument digital interface 175MIME multipurpose internet mail extensions 176MIPS million instructions per second 177MMU memory management unit 178MPEG moving picture experts group 179MSB most significant bit [or: byte] 180MSF minutes seconds frames 181MSS maximum segment size 182MTA mail transfer agent 183MTU maximum transmission unit 184MUA mail user agent 185MWE module width encoding 186NAT network address translation 187NAV network allocation vector 188NCP network control protocol 189NFS network file system 190NIC network interface card 191NIS network information service 192NRZ non-return to zero 193NUMA non uniform memory access 194OCL object constraint language 195OCR optical character recognition 196OEM original equipment manufacturer 197OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing 198OSF open software foundation 199OSI open systems interconnection 200OTP one time password 201PAM pluggable authentication modules 202PAM pulse amplitude modulation 203PAT port address translation 204PAX portable archive exchange 205PC personal computer 206PCI peripheral component interconnect 207PCM pulse code modulation 208PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association 209PDU protocol data unit 210PDP page descriptor page 211PER packed encoding rules 212PERL practical extraction [and] report language 213PGP pretty good privacy 214PIC programmable interrupt controller 215PID process id 216PIN personal identification number 217PIO programmed input/output 218PLL phase locked loop 219PMT photo-multiplier tube 220PNG portable network graphics 221POP post office protocol 222POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix 223POST power on self test 224POTS plain old telephone system 225PPP point-to-point protocol 226PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM 227PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet 228PRML partial response, maximum likelihood 229PROM programmable read only memory 230PTE page table entry 231PTLA pseudo top level aggregator 232PTP page table page 233PSTN public switched telephone network 234PWM pulse width modulation 235QOS quality of service 236RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks 237RAM random access memory 238RCS revision control system 239RFC request for comments 240RGB red green blue 241RIFF Resource Interchange File Format 242RIP routing information protocol 243RIR regional internet registry 244RISC reduced instruction set computing 245RLE run length encoding 246RLL run length limited 247ROM read only memory 248RPM revolutions per minute 249RTF rich text format 250RTS request to send 251RTT round time trip 252S/PDIF sony/phillips digital interface 253SACD super audio compact disc 254SAM serial access memory 255SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI) 256SATA serial advanced technology attachment 257SCSI small computer system interface 258SDRAM synchronous dynamic random access memory 259SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory 260SIFS short inter-frame space 261SIP session initiation protocol 262SIR slow infrared 263SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory 264SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology 265SMP symmetric multiprocessing 266SMTP simple mail transfer protocol 267SNMP simple network management protocol 268SPD serial presence detect 269SRAM static random access memory 270SSFDC solid state floppy disc card 271SSH secure shell 272SSL secure sockets layer 273STP shielded twisted pair 274SVGA super video graphics array 275TCL tool command language 276TCP transmission control protocol 277TDD test driven development 278TFT thin film transistor 279TIFF tagged image file format 280TLA top level aggregator 281TLB transition lookaside buffer 282TLD top level domain 283TLS transport layer security 284TMDS transition minimized differential signaling 285TR token ring 286TTL time to live 287TTY teletype 288TZ time zone 289UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter 290UC uncacheable 291UDO ultra density optical (storage) 292UDP user datagram protocol 293UFS unix file system 294UML unified modeling language 295UPS uninterruptible power supply 296URI uniform resource identifier 297URL uniform resource locator 298USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter 299USB universal serial bus 300USWC uncacheable speculative write combining 301UTP unshielded twisted pair 302UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol 303VAX virtual address extension 304VCM virtual channel memory 305VESA video electronics standards association 306VGA video graphics array 307VLAN virtual local area network 308VLSM variable length subnetting mask 309VM virtual memory 310VPN virtual private network 311VRAM video random access memory 312WAN wide area network 313WAP wireless application protocol 314WLAN wireless local area network 315WRAM window random access memory 316WWW world wide web 317XER XML encoding rules 318XGA extended graphics array 319XML extensible markup language 320XSL extensible stylesheet language 321XT extended technology 322ZFOD zero-filled on demand 323