However, if I talk about network cards in servers then PNP refers to Plug and Play (or Pray), a protocol used to collect information about cards plugged into the ... ok, you successfully trolled me. Update: Comments withdrawn because they were stupid.

As a boredom-cure, I went and found other things that PNP could stand for:
Personal NewsPaper
The Peoples National Party of Jamaica
Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
Polish National Parks
Poisson-Nersnt-Planck Equation (for ions in bulk electrolyte)

Somebody's going to get a real suprise when they search the monastery for PNP :D

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.

Actually, no, I wasn't trolling.

I simply found it unlikely that anyone would know what bus-mastering was, and know that PNP was a transistor type, without knowing what plug-n-play was.

I assumed, instead, that you didn't know what he was talking about concerning the transistors. I further assumed that he was rattling on about PNP transistors in order to torment/troll/menace his sysadmin, who looked down upon power users such as himself. But I didn't feel the need to mention that.

Don't take it personal; I just have a thing against despotic sysadmins, and perhaps sysadmins in general. I was abused by one as a child, and I've not been the same since...

I did a PNP dump when I installed them, but how do you explain that to someone who thinks PNP is a transistor type?

You're trolling me right? You can't really be that thick.

Yes, he probably is trolling ;) Remember, sarcasm is best served with a side order of humour.