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response format | A format specifying the data required in a response to a data transmission. | |
response monitoring time | The time a device will wait for a response to a data transmission before assum- | |
| ing that an error has occurred. | |
Restart Bit | A bit used to restart part of a PC. | |
result word | A word used to hold the results from the execution of an instruction. | |
retrieve | The processes of copying data either from an external device or from a storage | |
| area to an active portion of the system such as a display buffer. Also, an output | |
| device connected to the PC is called a load. | |
retry | The process whereby a device will | |
| error message from the receiving device. | |
return | The process by which instruction execution shifts from a subroutine back to the | |
| main program (usually the point from which the subroutine was called). | |
reversible counter | A counter that can be both incremented and decremented depending on the | |
| specified conditions. | |
reversible shift register | A shift register that can shift data in either direction depending on the specified | |
| conditions. | |
See terminal instruction. | ||
rightmost (bit/word) | The lowest numbered bits of a group of bits, generally of an entire word, or the | |
| lowest numbered words of a group of words. These bits/words are often called | |
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rising edge | The point where a signal actually changes from an OFF to an ON status. | |
ROM | Read only memory; a type of digital storage that cannot be written to. A ROM | |
| chip is manufactured with its program or data already stored in it and can never | |
| be changed. However, the program or data can be read as many times as | |
| desired. | |
rotate register | A shift register in which the data moved out from one end is placed back into the | |
| shift register at the other end. | |
An industry standard for serial communications. | ||
RUN mode | The operating mode used by the PC for normal control operations. | |
rung | See instruction line. | |
scan | The process used to execute a | |
| examined sequentially from start to finish and each instruction is executed in | |
| turn based on execution conditions. | |
scan time | See cycle time. | |
scheduled interrupt | An interrupt that is automatically generated by the system at a specific time or | |
| program location specified by the operator. Scheduled interrupts result in the | |
| execution of specific subroutines that can be used for instructions that must be | |
| executed repeatedly at a specified interval of time. | |
SCP | See subtract count input. | |
seal | See | |
self diagnosis | A process whereby the system checks its own operation and generates a warn- | |
| ing or error if an abnormality is discovered. |
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