Glossary

AIC. AIXwindows Interface Composer. An X LLC. Logical Link Control. In LANs, the top sublayer
Windows based GUI program for creating GUI of layer 2, IEEE 802.2.
programs on AIX.
LSA. LAN and SCSI Adapter. This is a dual-function
applet. A little application; for example, a sample Micro Channel architecture 40MB/s adapter. It
program or a tool. combines a single-channel SCSI-2, fast (10MB/s), wide
(8- or 16-bit), differential with an Ethernet, big coax
BFF. Binary Format File. One file which is an (10BASE5), and twisted pair (10BASET).
installable image.
MCA . (1) Micro Channel Adapter (2) Micro Channel
BiDi. Bi-Directional. The ablility to handle Architecture
bi-directional text, such as Hebrew and Arabic, that is
sometimes read left to right (for numerals) and other NTSC. National Television Standards Committee
times are read right to left (most text). (USA). This is a video composite format which is
interlaced, 30 frames per second, 525 lines per frame.
DMA . Direct Memory Access. Generally, this term It is used in the U.S., Japan and Korea. See also
refers to the transfer of data between an adapter and PAL.
system memory by a device that ″steals″ m e m o r y
cycles from the CPU for the purpose of reading or PAD. Packet Assembler/Disassembler for X.25
writing data directly from or to memory. First-party
DMA refers to DMA operations that are completely PAL. Phase Alternating Line (television). This is a
controlled by an adapter (also referred to as BUS video composite format that is interlaced, 25 frames
MASTER DMA). Third-party DMA refers to DMA per second, 625 lines per frame. It is used in Europe,
operations that are controlled by onboard (planar) UK, Australia and South Africa. See also NTSC.
hardware which works with the adapter to accomplish
the data transfer (also referred to as SLAVE DMA). POR. (1) Power-on-reset. Implies the reset is
caused by a cycling of the power from an inactive
GDLC. Generic Data Link Control. A software API to state to an active state. (2) Plan of Record.
a kernel extension.
RIOS. A pseudonym for the IBM RISC System/6000
GPR. General Purpose Register. This refers to a workstation family.
CPU register.
ROM. Read Only Memory. An alternate name for
I/O. Input/Output. The remote input and output ROS. In this document, it is a general reference to an
system I/O space supports two classes of ″devices″ EPROM which contains the IPL ROM code. IPL ROM
referred to as system I/O and standard I/O. System is a generic term used to refer to the program code
I/O is defined as facilities in the I/O space intrinsic to designed for the explicit purpose of causing an IPL.
the system but not normally considered as I/O
devices, such as NVRAM, clock/calendar and system ROS. Read Only Storage. An alternate name for
registers. Standard I/O supports those devices that ROM.
are defined intrinsic to a basic workstation, such as
keyboard, mouse, diskette adapter, and ports. SNA. Systems Network Architecture, an IBM
communications protocol.
IOCC. (1) Input/Output Controller Chip
(2) Input/Output Channel Converter. A processor I/O TLB. Translation Look-aside Buffer. Hardware that
bus attached space providing support for load and contains the virtual-to-real address mapping.
store, interrupt, and I/O control such as DMA to an
I/O bus, (for example, the IBM Micro Channel Bus). UI. (1) UNIX International, a UNIX vendor
organization. (2) User Interface
IPL. Initial Program Load. Refers to the process of
finding, loading into system memory, and then UU. Universal UNI, the COSE API.
passing machine control to a program that originally
WABI. An environment to execute MS Windows
resided on some type of media such as a diskette,
shrink-wrapped applications on UNIX. Wabi is
hardfile, CD-ROM, or local area network. This is the
available as an Licensed Program Product on AIX
primary function performed by the IPL ROM code.
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JPEG. Joint Photographic Experts Group. This is an
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YUV. A color image encoding scheme that separates
luminance (Y) & two color signals: red minus Y (U)
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List of Abbreviations
ABI Application Binary Interface GA General Availability
AIX Advanced Interactive GB Gigabytes
eXecutive
GL Graphics Language
ANSI American National Standards
GUI Graphical User Interface
Institute
HCON 3270 Host Connection
APAR Authorized Program Analysis
program.
Report
HFT High Function Terminal
API Application Program Interface
IETF Internet Engineering Task
ASCII American National Standard
Force
Code for Information
Interchange ILS International Language
Support
BDR Bus Device Request
IP Internet Protocol
BOOTP Boot Protocol
ISDN Integrated Services Digital
BOS Base Operation System
Network
BSD Berkely Software Distribution
ISO International Organization for
CD-ROM Compact Disk Read Only Standardization
Memory
ISV Independent Software Vendor
CGE Common Graphics
JFS Journalled File System
Environment
LAN Local Area Network
CMVC Configuration Management
Version Control LED Light-Emitting Diode

COSE Common Open Systems LFT Low Function Terminal

Environment LPP Licensed Program Product
CPU Central Processing Unit LV Logical Volume
CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check LVM Logical Volume Manager
DASD Direct Access Storage Device MB Megabytes
DE Device End MBCS Multi-Byte Character Set
DLPI Data Link Protocol Interface MCA Micro-Channel Adapter
DME Distributed Management MHz Mega-Hertz
Environment
MMU Memory Management Unit
dpi dots per inch
MP Multi-processor
EA Effective Address
MPQP Multi-Protocol Quad Port
EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded
Decimal Interchange Code MSFR Minimum Security Function
Requirements
EIA Electronics Industries
Association (USA) NCR Networked Computing
Resource Company
ESCON Enterprise Systems
Connection NFS Network File System

EUC Extended Unix Code NIO Native I/O

FCS Fiber Channel Standard NIM Network Installation

Management
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data
Interface NIS Network Information System

FFDC First Failure Data Capture NLS National Language Support

FFST First Failure Support NVRAM Non-Volatile Random Access

Technology Memory

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OCS On Card Sequencer RSC RISC System/6000 Single
Chip
ODM Object Data Manager
SCSI Small Computer System
OEM Original Equipment
Interface
Manufacturer
SDLC Synchronous Data Link
ORI Online Retrieval Interface
Control
OS Operating System
SE Single End
OSF Open Software Foundation
SLIP Serial Link Internet Protocol
OSI Open Systems
SMIT System Management
Interconnection
Interface Tool
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
SMP Symmetric Multi-processor
PCA Parallel Channel Attach
SMT Surface Mounted Technology
PCI Peripheral Component
SNMP Simple Network Management
Interconnect - an Intel bus.
Protocol
PII Program Integrated
SOM System Object Model
Information
SPOT Shared Product Object Tree
PIO Programmable Input/Output
SW Software
PMR Problem Management Report
SWVPD Software Vital Product Data
POS Programmable Option Select
TBD To be
POSIX Portable Operating System
determined/done/decided
Interface for Computer
Environments TCP Transmission Control Protocol
PRPQ Programming Request for TCP/IP Transmission Control
Price Quotation (IBM Protocol/Internet Protocol
custom-built program
TOC Table of Contents
products)
TOD Time of Day
PTF Program Temporary Fix
UCS Unicode Conversion Support
RAM Random Access Memory
UP Uniprocessor
RAS Reliability, Availability,
Serviceability USL Unix System Laboratories
(Tokyo, Japan)
RDTO Receive Data Transfer Offset
UTF Unified Test System
RFC Request for Comments
VMM Virtual Memory Manager
RGB Red/green/blue
VPD Vital Product Data
RISC Reduced Instruction Set
Computer VSM Visual System Management

RPC Remote Procedure Call XPG X/Open Portability Guide

XTI X/Open Transport Library
Interface

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