Abbreviations and acronyms

AIX

Advanced Interactive Execute

YP

Yellow Page

APAR

Authorized Program Analysis

 

 

 

Report

 

 

BOS

Base Operating System

 

 

CDE

Common Desktop Environment

 

 

CD-ROM

Compact Disc - Read Only Memory

 

 

CHRP

Common Hardware Reference

 

 

 

Platform

 

 

CPU

Central Processing Unit

 

 

DNS

Domain Name System

 

 

FTP

File Transfer Program

 

 

GB

Giga Byte

 

 

HMC

Hardware Management Console

 

 

IBM

International Business Machines

 

 

 

Corporation

 

 

ITSO

International Technical Support

 

 

 

Organization

 

 

JFS

Journaled File System

 

 

KSH

Korn Shell Environment

 

 

LAN

Local Area Network

 

 

LPP

Licence Program Product

 

 

LUM

Licence Use Managemant

 

 

LVM

Logical Volume Manager

 

 

MCA

Micro Channel Architecture

 

 

ML

Maintenance Level

 

 

NFS

Network File System

 

 

NIM

Network Installation Management

 

 

NIS

Network Information Service

 

 

NLS

National Language Support

 

 

OS

Operating System

 

 

PreP

Power Reference Platform

 

 

RISC

Reduced Instruction Set Computing

 

 

RTE

Runtime Environment

 

 

SMIT

System Management

 

 

 

Interface Tool

 

 

SPOT

Shared Product Object Tree

 

 

TCL/TK

Tool Command Language /

 

 

 

Toolkit

 

 

TZ

Time Zone

 

 

VPM

Virtual Product Modeling

 

 

WDFM

Withdrawn from Marketing

 

 

WDFS

Withdrawn from Service

 

 

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