Lexmark 3455 manual Glossary, Aix

Glossary

Abend	Verb which means to end a process abnormally.
AFP	Advanced Function Presentation or Printing.
AIX	IBM’s implementation of the UNIX operating system. The RISC
	System/6000, among others, runs the AIX operating system.
BOOTP	BOOTstrap Protocol. A TCP/IP protocol that enables a
	workstation on a network to find its IP address.
Form
Definition	Form definitions define, among other things, the aspects about
	how data is placed on the physical page, from which bin the paper
	is to be fed, the number of sides of the sheet to be printed
	(simplex/duplex), and the print direction and rotation of the data.
Gateway	The connecting device between the LAN and other equipment
	from minicomputers to main frames.
Host	The main computer on a network allowing the use of data files
	and programs to all workstations.
IP Address	A 32-bit address defined by the Internet Protocol RFC 791
	usually represented in dotted decimal notation, e.g.
	157.184.67.102.
IPDS	IBM’s Intelligent Printer Data Stream.
MTU	Maximum Transmission Unit
	The largest possible unit of data that can be sent on a given
	physical medium in a single frame on a LAN.
Netmask	See Subnet mask.
PPR/PPD	Page Printer Requester/Page Printer Daemon
	A non-standard bi-directional TCP/IP protocol allowing IPDS
	data to be transmitted over a TCP/IP network.

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