AMD | Advanced Micro Devices |
API | Application Programmer s Interface |
ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
AT&T | American Telephone and Telegraph |
AWK | Aho-Weinberger-Kernighan |
BASH | Bourne-Again SHell |
BB | Basic Block |
BBG | Basic Block Graph |
BNF | Backus-Naur Form |
BSD | Berkeley Software Distribution |
BSS | Block Started by Symbol |
CMU | Carnegie Mellon University |
COW | Copy-On-Write |
CPU | Central Processing Unit |
CSE | Common Subexpression Elimination |
DEC | Digital Equipment Corporation |
DMA | Direct Memory Access |
DNS | Domain Name Server |
DL | Dynamically Loaded |
DWARF | Debugging with Attribute Record Format |
EMACS | EMACS Makes a Computer Slow |
ELF | Executable and Linking Format |
EOF | End of File |
EXT2 | 2nd Extended Filesystem |
EXT3 | 3rd Extended Filesystem |
FIFO | First-In-First-Out |
FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name |
FS | Field Separator |
FSF | Free Software Foundation |
GCC | GNU Compiler Collection |
GCOV | GNU Coverage |
GDB | GNU DeBugger |
GID | Group ID |
GLIBC | GNU C Library |
GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |
GNU | GNU s Not Unix |
GOT | Global Offset Table |
GPROF | GNU Profiler |
HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
HTONL | Host TO Network Long |
HTONS | Host TO Network Short |
HUP | HangUP |
IP | Internet Protocol |
IBM | International Business Machines |
IPC | Inter-Process Communication |
IPv4 | Internet Protocol Version 4 |
KB | KiloByte |
LIFO | Last-In-First-Out |
LISP | List Processor |
MINIX | Miniature Unix |
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MMU | Memory Management Unit |
MUTEX | Mutual Exclusion |
NF | Number of Fields |
NFS | Network File System |
NPTL | Native POSIX Thread Library |
NR | Number of Record |
NTOHL | Network TO Host Long |
NTOHS | Network TO Host Short |
OFS | Output Field Separator |
ORS | Output Record Separator |
OSI | Open Source Initiative |
PDP | Programmed Data Processor |
PGRP | Process Group |
PIC | Position Independent Code |
PID | Process Identifier |
POSIX | Portable Operating System Interface |
PWD | Present Working Directory |
QID | Queue Identifier |
QPL | Qt Public License |
RAM | Random Access Memory |
REGEX | Regular Expression |
RS | input Record Separator |
SCSH | Scheme Shell |
SED | Stream Editor |
SPLINT | Secure Programming Lint |
STDERR | Standard Error |
STDIN | Standard Input |
STDOUT | Standard Output |
SYSV | System 5 |
TAR | Tape Archive |
TCL | Tool Command Language |
TCP | Transmission Control Protocol |
TLB | Translation Lookaside Buffer |
UDP | User Datagram Protocol |
UID | User ID |
UTC | Coordinated Universal Time |
VFS | Virtual File System |
VI | Visual Interface |
VPATH | Virtual Path |