$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.10 2003/08/10 00:44:46 keihan Exp $ ABI application binary interface API application programming interface AGP accelerated graphics port ATA advanced technology attachment BIOS basic input/output system BLOB binary large object BSD berkeley software distribution CD compact disc CHS cylinder/head/sector CLI command line interface CRLF carriage return line feed CSS cascading style sheets CVS concurrent versions system DMA direct memory access DNS domain name system DSL digital subscriber line DTD document type definition DVD digital versatile disc EISA extended industry standard architecture FFS fast file system FLOPS floating [point] operations per second FTP file transfer protocol FQDN fully qualified domain name GIF graphics interchange format GNU gnu's not unix GPL gnu/general public license GUI graphics user interface HTML hyper-text markup language HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol I2O intelligent input/output IANA internet assigned number authority ICB internet citizen's band ICMP internet control message protocol IDE integrated drive electronics IEEE institute [of] electrical [and] electronics engineers IETF internet engineering task force IESG internet engineering steering group IKE internet key exchange IMAP internet mail access protocol IO input/output IOCTL input/output control IP internet protocol IPNG internet protocol, next generation IPSEC internet protocol security IRC internet relay chat IRQ interrupt request IRTF internet research task force ISA industry standard architecture ISDN integrated services digital network ISOC internet society ISP internet service provider JPEG joint photographic experts group LAN local area network LBA logical block addressing LDAP lightweight directory access protocol LUN logical unit number MBR master boot record MIPS million instructions per second NAT network address translation NIS network information service NUMA non uniform memory access PAX portable archive exchange PCI peripheral component interconnect PERL practical extraction [and] report language PGP pretty good privacy PID process id PNG portable network graphics POP post office protocol POSIX portable operating system interface [for] unix PPP point-to-point protocol PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks RAM random access memory RCS revision control system RFC request for comments RISC reduced instruction set computing ROM read only memory RPM revolutions per minute RTF rich text format SATA serial advanced technology attachment SCSI small computer standard interface SMP symmetric multiprocessing SMTP simple mail transfer protocol SSH secure shell SSL secure sockets layer TCL tool command language TLD top level domain TTY teletype TZ time zone TCP transmission control protocol UDP user datagram protocol UPS uninterruptible power supply URI uniform resource identifier URL uniform resource locator USB universal serial bus UUCP unix-to-unix copy protocol VPN virtual private network XML extensible markup language XSL extensible stylesheet language WWW world wide web