Below, you will find a list of acronyms and abbreviations that are used in the com- puter industry and can be found throughout this book.. ACL Access Control List ADSL Asymmetric Digital
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Trang 2Acronyms and abbreviations are part of the computer business Below, you will find a list of acronyms and abbreviations that are used in the com- puter industry and can be found throughout this book On the right-hand side of this list, you will find the common expansion of each
ACL Access Control List ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency ASCII American Standard Code for Information
Interchange ASP Active Server Pages AVI Audio Visual Interleaved bash Bourne Again Shell BDC backup domain controller
BNC Bayonet Neill Concelman, Bayonet Nut Connector,
or British Naval Connector BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
CA certification authority
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing CIR Committed Information Rate COM Component Object Model CPAN Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
CPU central processing unit
CSMA/CA carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance CSMA/CD carrier sense multiple access with collision detection DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DBMS Database Management Systems
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DDS
DHCP
DLL
DLT
DMZ
DNS
DOD
DOS
DSL
DTD
DUN
DVD
EMI
EPS
ERP
FDM
FTP
FTPd
GIF
GSNW
GUI
HDSL
HP
Distributed Component Object Model Dataphone Digital Service (also used for Digital Data Storage and Digital Data Service)
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Dynamic Link Library
digital linear tape demilitarized zone
Domain Name Services
Department of Defense denial of service dots per inch Digital Subscriber Line document type definition Dial-Up Networking digital video disc or digital versatile disk electromagnetic interference
Encapsulated PostScript Enterprise Resource Planning frequency division multiplexing File Transfer Protocol
File Transfer Protocol Daemon Graphics Interchange Format
Gateway Services for NetWare
graphical user interface High Data Rate Digital Subscriber Line Hewlett-Packard
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IE IEEE IETF IHL
IS INND IPX IPX/SPX
IRQ IRTE ISDN ISO ISP JPEG JVM LAN LCP LDAP MAC MIME
Hypertext Markup Language Hypertext Transfer Protocol Hypertext Transfer Protocol Daemon Internet Architecture Board
International Business Machines Internet Explorer
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Internet Engineering Task Force
Internet Header Length Internet Information Server
Internet News Daemon
Internetwork Packet eXchange Internetwork Packet eXchange/Sequenced Packet eXchange
interrupt request lines Internet Research Task Force Integrated Services Digital Network International Organization for Standardization
Internet Service Provider
Joint Photographic Experts Group Java Virtual Machine
local area network Link Control Protocol Lightweight Directory Access Protocol media access control
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension
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MSAU
MX
NADN
NAUN
NCSA
NDS
NetBEUI
NetBIOS
NIC
NNTP
NOS
OEM
OS
OSI
OUI
PDC
PGP
PHP
PNG
POP3
POTS
ppi
PPP
PPTP
PSTN
Motion Picture Experts Group
multistation access unit mail exchange
nearest active downstream neighbor nearest active upstream neighbor National Center for Supercomputing Applications Novell Directory Services
NetBIOS Enhanced User Interface Network Basic Input Output System network interface card
Network News Transfer Protocol network operating system original equipment manufacturer
operating system Open Systems Interconnection
Organizationally Unique Identifier primary domain controller Pretty Good Privacy Hypertext Preprocessor Portable Network Graphics Post Office Protocol version 3 Plain Old Telephone Service pixels per inch
Point-to-Point Protocol Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Public Switched Telephone Network
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RAM RFC RFI RIP RISC
RJ
SAM SCSI SDSL SET SLIP SMTP SOP SPARC SPX SQL SSL STP Tel TCP TCP/IP TDM Telnet TIFF
permanent virtual circuit Quality of Service random access memory Request for Comments radio frequency interference Routing Information Protocol reduced instruction set computing Registered Jack
Security Accounts Manager Small Computer System Interface Single Line Digital Subscriber Line
Secure Electronic Transactions
Serial Line Internet Protocol Simple Mail Transfer Protocol standard operating procedures Scalable Processor ARChitecture Sequenced Packet eXchange Structured Query Language Secure Sockets Layer shielded twisted-pair Tool Command Language Transmission Control Protocol Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol time division multiplexing
Terminal Emulation for Networks Tagged Image File Format
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TOS
UDP
UID
URL
USPTO
UTP
VDSL
VPN
VRML
WINS
WSH
Www
XML
Trademark Type of Service
User Datagram Protocol user ID
Uniform Resource Locator United States Patent and Trademark Office unshielded twisted-pair
Very High Data Rate Digital Subscriber Line virtual private network
Virtual Reality Modeling Language
Windows Internet Name Service
Windows Script Host World Wide Web eXtensible Markup Language