GLOSSARY
XEROX MRP FAMILY COAX COMMAND REFERENCE GLOSSARY-9
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer. A company or organization
that purchases computer and peripheral equipment for use as
components in products and equipment that they subsequently
sell to their customers.
offline State in which the printer is under the control of the user, not
the host computer to which the printer is connected.
online State in which the printer is under the control of the host
computer.
option One of the user-selectable printer features listed in a
configuration menu. Each controls a different printer default
condition.
OS/VS2 Operating system/virtual storage 2. A viruatl storage operating
system that is an extension of OS/MVT.
output tray Place where printed material is delivered face down.
PA1 Program Attention 1. Key input code X'5F' is loaded into POA
location 0002 during printer-host communications after the PA1
button is pressed. This is generally done as part of an
applications program running on the host.
PA2 Program Attention 2. Key input code X'5E' is loaded into POA
location 0002 during printer-host communications after the PA2
button is pressed. This is generally done as part of an
applications program running on the host.
page description language (PDL) 1. Language used to describe printing jobs to a printing system.
PDL describes the input (type, format, characteristics), performs
the processing functions (logical processing), and describes the
output (type format, font selection, accounting options). 2.
Utility that puts new job descriptor libraries (JDLs) onto a system
disk.
page orientation Relationship of the printed data to the long or short edge of the
page. See landscape, portrait.
parameter As used in this manual, a user-selectable configuration option.
PCIA Printer Communications Interface Area. The PCIA, which
occupies the first 50 hexadecimal bytes in the input buffer of a
coax-attached printer, contains control information. The POA,
which occupies the first 10 hexadecimal locations, contains
printer information that is read by the cluster controller. The
CUOA, which occupies the next 40 hexadecimal locations,
contains cluster controller information that is read by the printer.
PCL HewLett-Packard Printer Control Language.