Vorlesung "Rechnerorganisation": Abkürzungsverzeichnis
| ACL | Access Control List |
| ADS | Alternative Data Stream |
| AGP | Accelerated Graphics Port |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| ARP | Address Resolution Protocol |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ATA | "AT Attachment"; Mit "AT" wurde früher ein PC mit INTEL-CPU >= 80286 bezeichnet. |
| bash | bourne again shell |
| BIND | Berkeley Internet Name Domain |
| BIOS |
Basic Input Output System; BASIC bedeutet hier "grundlegend" und meint nicht die Programmiersprache. |
| BPS | Bit pro Sekunde; Einheit für Übertragungsgeschwindigkeit |
| CAS | Column Address Strobe |
| CCITT | Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique et Télégraphique |
| CD | Compact Disc |
| CD-R | CD Recordable: nur einmal beschreibbar |
| CD-RW | CD Rewritable: wiederbeschreibbar |
| CHS |
Cylinder, Head, Sector (CHS-Adresse) |
| CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computer |
| CIFS | Common Internet File System. Erweiterte Version des Server Message Block Protokolls (SMB) |
| CSA | Communication Streaming Architecture |
| DCE | Data Communication Equipment |
| DEE | Datenendeinrichtung |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DLL | Dynamic Link Library |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DRAM | Dynamic Random Access Memory |
| DS | Directory Services |
| DSP | Digitaler Signalprozessor |
| DTE | Data Terminal Equipment |
| DÜE | Datenübertragungseinrichtung |
| DVD | Digital Versatile Disc |
| DVD-R | DVD Recordable |
| DVD-RAM | DVD Random Access Memory |
| ECC | Error Correction Code |
| EIDE | Enhanced IDE |
| EPIC | Explicit Parallel Instruction Computing |
| FAT | File Allocation Table |
| FC | Fibre Channel |
| FCIP | Fibre Channel over IP |
| FPU | Floating Point Unit |
| FSB | Frontside-Bus |
| GDT | Global Descriptor Table |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| HDD | Hard Disk Drive |
| HT | Hyper-Threading |
| HT | HyperTransport |
| HVD | (High Voltage) Differential SCSI |
| HVM | Hardware Virtual Machine |
| ICH | I/O Controller Hub |
| IDE | Integrated Drive Electronics |
| IDT | Interrupt Descriptor Table |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| JFS | Journaling File System |
| ksh | Korn shell |
| KVM | Kernel-basierte Virtuelle Maschine |
| LBA | Logische Blockadresse |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LDT | Local Descriptor Table |
| LFN | Long File Name |
| LIN | Local Interconnect Network |
| LPAR | Logical Partition |
| LSB | Least Significant Bit |
| LV | Logical Volume |
| LVDS | Low Voltage Differential SCSI |
| LVM | Logical Volume Manager |
| MAC |
Media Access Control (MAC-Adresse) |
| MBR | Master Boot Record |
| MCH | Memory Controller Hub |
| MFT | Master File Table |
| MMU | Memory Management Unit |
| MO | magneto-optische Platte |
| MRAM | Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory |
| MSB | Most Significant Bit |
| MVC | Model-View-Controller Modell |
| NAN | Not a Number |
| NAS | Network Attached Storage |
| NFS | Network File System |
| NIS | Network Information Services |
| NTFS | NT-Filesystem |
| NTP | Network Time Protocol |
| OS | Operating System |
| PATA | Parallel-ATA, siehe auch "ATA" |
| PCI | Peripheral Component Interconnect |
| PCIe | PCI Express |
| PEG | PCI Express for Graphics; äquivalent zu PCIe-x16 |
| POSIX |
IEEE Portable Operating System Interface for
Computing Environments 'X' steht für UNIX |
| PV | Physical Volume |
| RAID | "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks" oder "Redundant Array of Independent Disks" |
| RARP | Reverse Address Resolution Protocol |
| RAS | Row Address Strobe |
| RFC | Request for Comment |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| RPCL | Remote Procedure Call Language |
| rsh |
Remote Shell, aber bei HP-UX: Restricted Shell |
| RT | Real-Time |
| SAN | Storage Area Network |
| SAS | Serial attached SCSI, siehe auch "SCSI" |
| SATA | Serial ATA, siehe auch "ATA" |
| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface; gesprochen: "skasi" oder "skassi" |
| SE | Single Ended SCSI |
| SIMD | Single Instruction, Multiple Data |
| SISD | Single Instruction, Single Data |
| SMB | Server Message Block (Kommunikationsprotokoll) |
| SMP | Symmetrisches Multiprocessing |
| SMT | Simultaneous Multithreading |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SRAM | Statisches RAM |
| SSD | Solid State Disk, Solid State Drive |
| SSH | Secure Shell |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
| USB | Universal Serial Bus |
| UTF | Unicode Transformation Format |
| VG | Volume Group |
| VM | Virtuelle Maschine, Virtual Machine |
| XDR | External Data Representation |
| YP | Yellow Pages |