Module Name: src
Committed By: jruoho
Date: Sat Feb 19 18:02:32 UTC 2011
Modified Files:
src/share/misc: acronyms.comp
Log Message:
AA, AAT, AC, ACK, ACL, AI, AL, AM, AMT, AOL, AP, ASIC, AT, BAL, BBS, BD, BP,
BTS, BW, CF, CLR, CMS, CN, CNC, CPS, CRC, CTM, CUA, DAO, DAP, DAT, DC, DDE,
DL, DSL, EPIC, ATL, EULA, FDC, FDD, FPR, FWS, GPR, GPT, HAT, HCL, HF, HMI,
HTT, ICE, IHV, IM, ISV, JGI, KB, KBD, LF, LTR, MB, MBS, MIMD, MISD, MPI,
MPP, MS, MT, MTBF, MTTF, MX, NACK, NAN, NC, PD, PLC, PME, PNP, PPI, PSW, PU,
RAD, RDM, RDMA, SAAS, SBU, SFC, SISD, SLOC, SOL, SP, SPMD, SPR, SSI, TAO,
TSO, TSP, UAC, UL, UMA, URN, VR, WOL, WOR, ZIF, ZMA.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.119 -r1.120 src/share/misc/acronyms.comp
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
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Modified files:
Index: src/share/misc/acronyms.comp
diff -u src/share/misc/acronyms.comp:1.119 src/share/misc/acronyms.comp:1.120
--- src/share/misc/acronyms.comp:1.119 Sat Feb 12 19:33:16 2011
+++ src/share/misc/acronyms.comp Sat Feb 19 18:02:32 2011
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
-$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.119 2011/02/12 19:33:16 dholland Exp $
+$NetBSD: acronyms.comp,v 1.120 2011/02/19 18:02:32 jruoho Exp $
3WHS three-way handshake
+AA anti-aliasing
+AAT average access time
ABI application binary interface
+AC alternating current
ACID atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability
+ACK acknowledgement
+ACK Amsterdam compiler kit
ACL access control list
+ACL active current loop
ACPI advanced configuration and power interface
ADB Apple desktop bus
ADC analog [to] digital converter
@@ -13,12 +19,19 @@
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
AFS Andrew File System
AGP accelerated graphics port
+AI artificial intelligence
+AL access list
+AL active link
ALE address latch enable
ALU arithmetic and logical unit
+AM access method
AM amplitude modulation
AMI alternate mark inversion
+AMT active management technology
ANSI American National Standards Institute
+AOL alert on LAN
AP access point
+AP application processor
API application programming interface
APIC advanced programmable interrupt controller
ARAT always running APIC timer
@@ -29,10 +42,12 @@
ARQ automatic repeat request
AS autonomous system
ASCII American standard code for information interchange
+ASIC application-specific integrated circuit
ASLR address space layout randomization
ASN autonomous system number
AST abstract syntax tree
AST asynchronous trap
+AT access time
AT advanced technology
ATA advanced technology attachment
ATAPI advanced technology attachment packet interface
@@ -40,13 +55,16 @@
ATM asynchronous transfer mode
ATX advanced technology extended
AWK Aho, Werner, and Kernighan
+BAL basic assembly language
BAR base address register
+BBS bulletin board system
BCD binary coded decimal
BCS base configuration space
+BD baud
BEDO burst extended data output
BER basic encoding rules
BER bit error rate
-BFD binary formats descriptor
+BFD binary {file, format} descriptor
BFKL big fscking kernel lock
BFS breadth-first search
BGA ball grid array
@@ -59,6 +77,7 @@
BLOB binary large object
BMC baseboard management controller
BP base pointer
+BP boot processor
BPF Berkeley packet filter
BPS bits per second
BQS Berkeley quality software
@@ -69,6 +88,8 @@
BSS block started by symbol
BT Bluetooth
BT BitTorrent
+BTS bits per second
+BW bandwidth
CAD computer-aided design
CAM computer assisted manufacturing
CAM content addressable memory
@@ -82,6 +103,7 @@
CDDA compact disc digital audio
CDRAM cache dynamic random access memory
CER canonical encoding rules
+CF compact flash
CFG context-free grammar
CFG control-flow graph
CG control gate
@@ -95,19 +117,25 @@
CIS contact image sensor
CJK Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
CLI command line interface
+CLR common language runtime
CLUT color look-up table
CLV constant linear velocity (as opposed to CAV)
CMI control management interface
CMI control method interface
CMOS complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
+CMS content management system
CMYK cyan magenta yellow black
+CN {common, canonical} name
+CNC computer numerical control
COF current operating frequency
COFF common object file format
COMA cache-only memory architecture
COW copy-on-write
CPL current privilege level
+CPS characters per second
CPU central processing unit
CR carriage return
+CRC cyclic redundancy check
CRLF carriage return line feed
CRT cathode ray tube
CS computer science
@@ -119,17 +147,24 @@
CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance
CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
CSS cascading style sheets
+CTM close to metal
CTS clear to send
+CUA common user access
CVS concurrent versions system
DAC discretionary access control
DAC digital [to] analog converter
+DAO disk at once
+DAP directory access protocol
+DAT digital audio tape
DB database
DBMS database management system
+DC direct current
DCC direct client [to] client
DCE data control equipment
DCE distributed computing environment
DCT discrete cosine transform
DDC display data channel
+DDE dynamic data exchange
DDR double data rate
DDWG digital display working group
DE desktop environment
@@ -144,6 +179,7 @@
DHCP dynamic host configuration protocol
DIFS distributed inter-frame space
DIMM dual inline memory module
+DL download
DL diode logic
DLE data link escape
DLL dynamic link library
@@ -166,6 +202,7 @@
DS debug store
DSDT differentiated system descriptor table
DSL digital subscriber line
+DSL domain specific language
DSLAM digital subscriber line access multiplexer
DSO dynamic shared object
DSP digital signal processor
@@ -198,14 +235,19 @@
EOL end of line
EOL end of life
EOT end of transmission
+EPIC explicitly parallel instruction computing
EPP enhanced parallel port
EPRML extended partial response, maximum likelihood
EPROM erasable programmable read only memory
ESDRAM enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory
EST enhanced speedstep
+ETL extract, transform, load
+EULA end user license agreement
FAT file allocation table
FBRAM frame buffer random access memory
FCS frame check sequence
+FDC floppy disk controller
+FDD floppy disk drive
FDDI fiber distributed data interface
FEC forward error correction
FFH functional fixed hardware
@@ -223,6 +265,7 @@
FOSS free / open source software
FPGA field programmable gate array
FPM fast page mode
+FPR floating point register
FPU floating point unit
FQDN fully qualified domain name
FRU field replaceable unit
@@ -232,6 +275,7 @@
FTP file transfer protocol
FTPS file transfer protocol, secure
FWH firmware hub
+FWS folding white space
GAS generic address structure
GC garbage collector
GCR group-coded recording
@@ -246,6 +290,8 @@
GPE general purpose event
GPF general protection fault
GPL GNU/general public license
+GPR general purpose register
+GPT GUID partition table
GPU graphics processing unit
GRE generic routing encapsulation
GSI global system interrupt
@@ -253,20 +299,25 @@
GUID globally unique identifier
HA high availability
HAL hardware abstraction layer
+HAT hashed array tree
HBA host bus adapter
HCI host controller interface
HCI human-computer interaction
+HCL hardware compatibility list
HCF halt and catch fire
HDD hard disk drive
HDCP high-bandwidth digital content protection
+HF high frequency
HFM highest frequency mode
HID human interface device
HMA high memory area
+HMI human-machine interface
HPC high performance computing
HPET high precision event timer
HT hyper-threading
HTC hardware thermal control
HTML hyper-text markup language
+HTT hyper-threading technology
HTTP hyper-text transfer protocol
HTTPS hyper-text transfer protocol, secure
HZ Hertz
@@ -275,6 +326,7 @@
IBS instruction based sampling
IC integrated circuit
ICB Internet citizen's band
+ICE in-circuit emulator
ICH I/O controller hub
ICE internal compiler error
ICE in-circuit emulator
@@ -292,8 +344,10 @@
IFCM isochronous flow control mode
IGMP Internet group management protocol
IGP interior gateway protocol
+IHV independent hardware vendor
IKE Internet key exchange
ILP instruction level parallelism
+IM instant messaging
IMC integrated memory controller
IMCR interrupt mode configuration register
IMAP Internet mail access protocol
@@ -325,12 +379,17 @@
ISP Internet service provider
ISR interrupt service routine
IST interrupt stack table
+ISV independent software vendor
IVT interrupt vector table
JBOD just a bunch of disks
JIT just in time
JPEG joint photographic experts group
JRE Java runtime environment
JTAG joint test action group
+KB keyboard
+KB kilobyte
+KBD keyboard
+KBD kilobaud
KLOC thousand lines of code
KMS kernel-mode setting
KPI kernel programming interface
@@ -347,6 +406,8 @@
LDT local descriptor table
LE logical extent
LED light emitting diode
+LF line feed
+LF low frequency
LFM lowest frequency mode
LFS log-structured file system
LFU least frequently used
@@ -367,6 +428,7 @@
LSB least significant bit [or: byte]
LSB Linux standards base
LSI large scale integration
+LTR left to right
LTR load task register
LUN logical unit number
LV logical volume
@@ -376,7 +438,9 @@
MAC medium access control
MAC mandatory access control
MADT multiple APIC descriptor table
+MB megabyte
MBR master boot record
+MBS megabits per second
MC memory controller
MCA machine check architecture
MCC multiversion concurrency control
@@ -393,9 +457,11 @@
MID mobile internet device
MIDI musical instrument digital interface
MIF management information format
+MIMD multiple instruction stream, multiple data stream
MIME multipurpose Internet mail extensions
MIMO multiple input multiple output
MIPS million instructions per second
+MISD multiple instruction, single data
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ML mailing list
ML machine language
@@ -413,24 +479,34 @@
MP multi-platform
MP multiplayer
MPEG moving picture experts group
+MPI message passing interface
MPLS multiprotocol label switching
+MPP massively parallel processor
MPS multiprocessor specification
MPS memory pool system
MRU most recently used
+MS Microsoft
MSB most significant bit [or: byte]
MSF minutes seconds frames
MSI message signaled interrupt
MSR machine state register
MSS maximum segment size
+MT machine translation
MTA mail transfer agent
+MTBF mean time between failures
MTRR memory type range register
+MTTF mean time to failure
MTU maximum transmission unit
MUA mail user agent
MVCC multiversion concurrency control
MWE module width encoding
+MX mail exchange
+NACK negative acknowledgement
+NAN not a number
NAS network attached storage
NAT network address translation
NAV network allocation vector
+NC numerical control
NCP network control protocol
NCQ native command queuing
NFA nondeterministic finite automaton
@@ -498,6 +574,7 @@
PCI peripheral component interconnect
PCM pulse code modulation
PCMCIA personal computer memory card international association
+PD public domain
PDA personal digital assistant
PDA pushdown automaton
PDF portable document format
@@ -517,11 +594,14 @@
PIO programmed input/output
PKI public key infrastructure
PKCS public-key cryptography standards
+PLC programmable logic controller
PLL phase locked loop
+PME power management event
PMI platform management interrupt
PMIO port-mapped input/output
PMT photo-multiplier tube
PNG portable network graphics
+PNP plug and play
POE power over ethernet
POP post office protocol
POSIX portable operating system interface [for] Unix
@@ -529,6 +609,7 @@
POTS plain old telephone system
PPC PowerPC
PPB PCI [to] PCI bridge
+PPI pixels per inch
PPP point-to-point protocol
PPPOA point-to-point protocol over ATM
PPPOE point-to-point protocol over ethernet
@@ -540,9 +621,11 @@
PSE page size extensions
PSK pre-shared key
PSTN public switched telephone network
+PSW program status word
PTE page table entry
PTLA pseudo top level aggregator
PTP page table page
+PU processing unit
PV physical volume
PVG physical volume group
PWM pulse width modulation
@@ -550,6 +633,7 @@
QA quality assurance
QAM quadrature amplitude modulation
QOS quality of service
+RAD rapid application development
RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks
RAM random access memory
RAS restartable atomic sequence
@@ -560,6 +644,8 @@
RCS revision control system
RCU read-copy-update
RDF resource description format
+RDM relational data model
+RDMA remote direct memory access
REST representational state transfer
RGB red green blue
RHL Red Hat Linux
@@ -584,11 +670,12 @@
RTF rich text format
RTL resistor-transistor logic
RTOS real time operating system
-RTS request to send
+RTS {ready, request} to send
RTT round time trip
RUP rational unified process
RX receive, receiver
S/PDIF Sony/Phillips digital interface
+SAAS software as a service
SACD super audio compact disc
SAD security association database
SAM serial access memory
@@ -597,6 +684,7 @@
SASI shugart associates system interface (predecessor to SCSI)
SATA serial advanced technology attachment
SB sound blaster
+SBU standard build unit
SCM software configuration management
SCM source code management
SCP secure copy
@@ -610,16 +698,19 @@
SDT syntax-directed translation
SEGV segmentation violation
SFI simple firmware interface
+SFC sequential function chart
SGRAM synchronous graphics random access memory
SIFS short inter-frame space
-SIMD single instruction multiple data
+SIMD single instruction, multiple data
SIMM single inline memory module
SIP session initiation protocol
SIR slow infrared
+SISD single instruction, single data
SLC single-level cell
SLDRAM synchronous-link dynamic random access memory
SLI scalable link interface
SLI scan-line interleave
+SLOC source lines of code
SMART self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology
SMBIOS system management BIOS
SMI system management interrupt
@@ -632,13 +723,17 @@
SOA service oriented architecture
SOAP simple object access protocol
SOHO small office / home office
+SOL serial over LAN
SP stack pointer
+SP service pack
SPARC scalable processor architecture
SPARQL SPARQL protocol and RDF query language
SPD security policy database
SPD serial presence detect
SPI serial peripheral interface
SPI stateful packet inspection
+SPMD single process, multiple data
+SPR special purpose register
SQL structured query language
SRAM static random access memory
SS stack segment
@@ -646,6 +741,7 @@
SSE streaming SIMD extensions
SSFDC solid state floppy disc card
SSH secure shell
+SSI server side includes
SSL secure sockets layer
SSP stack smashing protection
STP shielded twisted pair
@@ -657,6 +753,7 @@
SVM support vector machine
SWF Shockwave Flash
TAS test and set
+TAO track at once
TCB trusted computing base
TCC thermal control circuit
TCL tool command language
@@ -690,8 +787,10 @@
TS time series
TS terminal services
TSC time stamp counter
+TSO time sharing option
TSP time stamp protocol
TSP tunnel setup protocol
+TSP traveling salesman problem
TSS task state segment
TTL time to live
TTL transistor-transistor logic
@@ -699,6 +798,7 @@
TTY teletype
TX transmit out, transmitter
TZ time zone
+UAC user {account, access} control
UART universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter
UC uncacheable
UCS uniform-cost search
@@ -710,12 +810,15 @@
UI unit interval
UID user identifier
UID unique identifier
+UL upload
+UMA uniform memory access
UMA upper memory area
UMB upper memory block
UML unified modeling language
UPS uninterruptible power supply
URI uniform resource identifier
URL uniform resource locator
+URN uniform resource name
USART universal synchronous/asynchronous receiver/transmitter
USB universal serial bus
USWC uncacheable speculative write combining
@@ -739,7 +842,10 @@
VLSI very large scale integration
VLSM variable length subnet mask
VM virtual {machine,memory}
+VMX virtual machine extensions
+VMX vector multimedia extensions
VPN virtual private network
+VR virtual reality
VRAM video random access memory
VRRP virtual router redundancy protocol
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
@@ -749,9 +855,9 @@
WFI wait for interrupt
WIFI wireless fidelity
WLAN wireless local area network
-VMX virtual machine extensions
-VMX vector multimedia extensions
WDT watchdog timer
+WOL wake on LAN
+WOR wake on ring
WORM write once read many
WPA wi-fi protected access
WRAM window random access memory
@@ -773,4 +879,6 @@
YAWPFAPR you are welcome; please file a problem report
YP yellow pages (aka NIS)
ZFOD zero-filled on demand
+ZIF zero insertion force
ZIFS zero insertion force socket
+ZMA zone multicast address
