Sun Microsystems Netra T4 AC100 Service And System Reference Manual page 273

Glossary
address (1) A number used by the system software to identify a storage location. (2) In
networking, a unique code that identifies a node to the network.
ASIC Application-specific integrated circuit
Asynchronous An operation that is not synchronized with the timing of any other part of the
system.
BBC BootBus controller
boot To load the system software into memory and start it running.
boot PROM In Sun workstations, the boot PROM contains a PROM monitor program, a
command interpreter used for booting, resetting, low-level configuring, and
simple testing.
CRC Cyclic redundancy check
DAT Digital audio tape
DIMM Dual in-line memory module. A small printed circuit card that contains
dynamic random-access memory chips.
DMA Direct memory address
DRAM Dynamic random-access memory. Read/write dynamic memory in which the
data can be read or written in approximately the same amount of time for any
memory location.
DTAG Dual tag or data tag
DVD Digital video disk
DVM Digital voltage meter
EBus A slow byte-wide bus for low-speed devices.
EEPROM Electrically erasable programmable read only memory
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