Glossary of terms – Triton FT5000XP Prism NDC Emulation w/XFS Compliance User Manual User Manual
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SNA – Systems Network Architecture
IBM’s proprietary high level networking protocol standard.
Subnet Mask
A bit mask used to identify which bits in an IP address correspond to the
network address and subnet portions of the address. This mask is referred
to as the subnet mask because the network portion of the address can be
determined by the class inherent in an IP address. The address mask has ones
(1) in positions corresponding to the network and subnet numbers and zeros
(0) in the host number positions.
SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array
A video display standard; the resolution is 800 x 600 4-bit pixels. Each
pixel can therefore be one of 16 colors.
TCP/IP – Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
A set of protocols developed for the internet to get data from one network
device to another.
IP – The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol is a connectionless, best-effort
packet switching protocol. It provides packet routing, fragmentation, and re-
assembly through the data link layer.
URL - Uniform Resource Locator (world-wide web address)
An address identifying the location of a file on the Internet, consisting of the
protocol, the computer on which the file is located, and the file’s location on
that computer.
WINS – Windows Internet Naming Service
Software which resolves NetBIOS names to IP addresses.
WOSA – Windows Open System Architecture
An earlier umbrella term for a variety of programming interfaces from
Microsoft designed to provide application interoperability across the Windows
environment. WOSA provides a common denominator for front-end Windows
applications to access back-end services. For example, any WOSA-compliant
query program from one vendor can gain access to any WOSA-compliant
DBMS from any other vendor.
XML – Extensible Markup Language
A metalanguage written in SGML that allows one to design a markup language,
used to allow for the easy interchange of documents on the World Wide Web.
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