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Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations

This glossary includes terms and definitions from:

A

Ÿ The Dictionary of	Computing, New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1994.	address . A value, possibly a character or group o

ŸThe American National Standard Dictionary forcharacters that identifies a register, a device,

Information

Systems, ANSI

X3.172-1990,

copyrightparticular part of storage, or some other data s

1990 by the American National Standards

destination.

Institute

(ANSI). Copies can be purchased from the

AIX

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for

Advanced

Interactive

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National

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high

function

graphics

and

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The ANSI/EIA

Standard - 440A: Fiber Optic

applications,

including

floating

point

computations.

Terminology, copyright 1989 by the Electronics

Industries

Association

(EIA).

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be

Environment/6000

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user

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AIXwindows

interface (GUI) for the IBM RS/6000. It has the

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identified

user

interface

and

toolkit

based

on

by

the

symbol (E)

after

the

definition.

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A

graphical

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The Information

Technology

Vocabularydeveloped

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Enhanced

X-Windows,

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enhanced

version

of

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Subcommittee

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Joint

Technical

Committee

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International

Organization

for

Standardization

Library

(GL),

a

graphical

interface

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Graphics

and the International Electrotechnical Commissionfor the applications

programmer

which is

compatib

(ISO/IEC

JTC1/SC1).

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of

published

parts

Silicon

Graphics'

GL

interface.

with

of

this

vocabulary

are

identified

by

the

symbol

(I)

after the definition; definitions taken fromAPI .draftApplication Programming Interface.

international standards, committee drafts, and

working papers being developed by ISO/IECapplication

.

The

use

to which a data processing

JTC1/SC1 are identified by the symbol (T)systemafteris theput; for

example,

topayroll

application,

a

definition,

indicating

that

final

agreement airlinehas notresyervation

application.

been reached among the participating National

Bodies

of

SC1.

argument

.

A

parameter

passed

between

a

calling

program

and

a

called

program

or subprogram.

This section

contains

some

of

the

terms

that

are

commonly

used

in

the

Parallel

Environment

books

attribute . A named property of an entity.

and

in

this

book

in

particular.

B

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Committee

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ANSI definitions

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by

an

asterisk

(*).

message is received or until the channel is closed

no

further messages can be received.

Other definitions

in

this

glossary

IBMare taken

from

.

A place in a program, specified by a

Vocabulary

for

Data

breakpoint

Processing, Telecommunications,

or

a

condition, where

the

system

halts

and Office

Systems(GC20-1699).

command

execution

and

gives control to the workstation user

a

specified

program.

broadcast

operation

. A

communication operation

in

which

one

processor

sends (or

broadcasts)

a

messa

to

all

other

processors.

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