Glossary; Abbreviations, Acronyms, And Terms To Know - Motorola MVME2603-1121A Installation And Use Manual

Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Terms to Know

This glossary defines some of the abbreviations, acronyms, and key terms
used in this document.
10Base-5
10Base-2
10Base-T
100Base-TX
ACIA
AIX
architecture
ASCII
An Ethernet implementation in which the physical medium
is a doubly shielded, 50-ohm coaxial cable capable of
carrying data at 10 Mbps for a length of 500 meters (also
referred to as thicknet). Also known as thick Ethernet.
An Ethernet implementation in which the physical medium
is a single-shielded, 50-ohm RG58A/U coaxial cable capable
of carrying data at 10 Mbps for a length of 185 meters (also
referred to as AUI or thinnet). Also known as thin Ethernet.
An Ethernet implementation in which the physical medium
is an unshielded twisted pair (UTP) of wires capable of
carrying data at 10 Mbps for a maximum distance of 185
meters. Also known as twisted-pair Ethernet.
An Ethernet implementation in which the physical medium
is an unshielded twisted pair (UTP) of wires capable of
carrying data at 100 Mbps for a maximum distance of 100
meters. Also known as fast Ethernet.
Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter
Advanced Interactive eXecutive (IBM version of UNIX)
The main overall design in which each individual hardware
component of the computer system is interrelated. The most
common uses of this term are 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit
architectural design systems.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a 7-
bit code used to encode alphanumeric information. In the
IBM-compatible world, this is expanded to 8 bits to encode
a total of 256 alphanumeric and control characters.

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