TROY Group MAN-EXT2000 manual Glossary and Index

common on older Digital Equipment corporation printers. Rarely used today. Can be handled with TROY XCD external print servers via a third-party adapter.

DECNET A network operating system and the corresponding protocol developed by Digital Equipment Corporation. Not to be confused with LAT, which is a different DEC protocol.

DECprint Supervisor Sophisticated PostScript-based printing software for VMS that handles job queueing, error and status reporting, and translation of PCL, Tektronix 4014, and LN03 page description languages. pp. 1-2,11-10.

Digital UNIX The latest Digital Equipment Corporation version of UNIX. It replaces OSF/1 and ULTRIX, and uses standard Berkeley UNIX TCP/IP and lpr/lpd for printing. p. 4-4.

Direct Mode IPX The protocol used by Windows 95 for peer-to- peer communications. Chapter 8.

DLC/LLC A protocol used for printing on Windows for Workgroups, LAN Manager, and other network operating systems; being phased out in favor of newer protocols like Windows 95 Peer-to-Peer direct mode IPX and TCP/IP. Chapter 10.

DMA Direct Memory Access. A high performance computer architecture in which data is transferred in large blocks between the processor's memory and an external device without any processor intervention. p. 1-3,2-11,2-19,2-20,A-5

DOS Disk Operating System; now commonly refers to the PC operating system developed by Microsoft that is officially called MS-DOS.

Download The process of copying firmware or software from a computer to another computer or other device on the network (such as a print server). Appendix C.

Driver Low-level software that interfaces a hardware device such as a printer to the computer's operating system. The driver allows programs running on the computer to access the hardware device in a relatively simple manner.

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