Xerox 50 LP/ST manual Nos, Oid, Pcl, Pconsole, Pdl

NOS	An acronym for Network Operating System.
OID	An acronym for Object ID.
OS	An acronym for Operating System.
OS/2	IBM/Microsoft's multithreaded, multitasking,
	single-user operating system.
packet	A collection of bits comprising data and control
	information formatted for transmission from one
	node to another. Also see Frame.
PCL	An acronym for Printer Control Language, which is
	used by Hewlett-Packard. This is a set of
	commands that tell a printer and printer driver how
	to print a document.
PCL5e	A Hewlett-Packard Printer Control Language
	(PCL) that was the first version of PCL to support
	bi-directional communication between printer and
	computer.
PCONSOLE	A NetWare utility that can be used to create,
	configure, monitor, and manage queues in a
	NetWare server, and to attach print servers to the
	queues.
PDL	An acronym for Page-Description Language. This
	refers to a programming language, such as
	PostScript, that is used to describe output to a
	printer or a display device, which then uses the
	instructions from the PDL to construct text and
	graphics to create the required page image.

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