Glossary

10Base-5

An Ethernet implementation in which the physical medium is a

 

doubly shielded, 50-ohm coaxial cable capable of carrying data at 10

 

Mbps for a length of 500 meters (also referred to as thicknet). Also

 

known as thick Ethernet.

10Base-2

An Ethernet implementation in which the physical medium is a

 

single-shielded, 50-ohm RG58A/U coaxial cable capable of

 

carrying data at 10 Mbps for a length of 185 meters (also referred to

 

as AUI or thinnet). Also known as thin Ethernet.

10Base-T

An Ethernet implementation in which the physical medium is an

 

unshielded twisted pair (UTP) of wires capable of carrying data at

 

10 Mbps for a maximum distance of 185 meters. Also known as

 

twisted-pair Ethernet.

100Base-TX

An Ethernet implementation in which the physical medium is an

 

unshielded twisted pair (UTP) of wires capable of carrying data at

 

100 Mbps for a maximum distance of 100 meters. Also known as

 

fast Ethernet.

AIX

Advanced Interactive eXecutive (IBM version of UNIX).

architecture

The main overall design in which each individual hardware

 

component of the computer system is interrelated. The most

 

common uses of this term are 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit architectural

 

design systems.

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange; a 7-bit code

 

used to encode alphanumeric information. In the IBM-compatible

 

world, this is expanded to eight bits to encode a total of 256

 

alphanumeric and control characters.

ASIC

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit.

AUI

Attachment Unit Interface.

BBRAM

Battery Backed-up Random Access Memory.

bi-endian

Having big-endian and little-endian byte ordering capability.

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