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Motorola ENTERPRISE DIGITAL ASSISTANT MC70 User Manual

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Glossary - 4 MC70 Integrator Guide

DTE. See Data Terminal Equipment.

E

EAN. European Article Number. This European/International version of the UPC provides its own coding format and

symbology standards. Element dimensions are specified metrically. EAN is used primarily in retail.

Element. Generic term for a bar or space.

Encoded Area. Total linear dimension occupied by all characters of a code pattern, including start/stop characters and

data.

ENQ (RS-232). ENQ software handshaking is also supported for the data sent to the host.

ESD. Electro-Static Discharge

F

File Transfer Protocol (FTP). A TCP/IP application protocol governing file transfer via network or telephone lines. See

TCP/IP.

Flash Disk. An additional megabyte of non-volatile memory for storing application and configuration files.

Flash Memory. Flash memory is nonvolatile, semi-permanent storage that can be electronically erased in the circuit

and reprogrammed. Series 9000 mobile computers use Flash memory to store the operating system (ROM-DOS),
the terminal emulators, and the Citrix ICA Client for DOS.

FTP. See File Transfer Protocol.

H

Hard Reset. See Cold Boot.

Hz. Hertz; A unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second.

Host Computer. A computer that serves other terminals in a network, providing such services as computation,

database access, supervisory programs and network control.

I

IDE. Intelligent drive electronics. Refers to the solid-state hard drive type.