HP 9000 700 Series Owner's Manual page 140

Glossary
boot device
A device such as a disk drive, DDS tape drive, or network device that
contains the appropriate program for booting the operating system.
boot ROM
An EEPROM memory which is incorporated into a system for the purpose
starting the operating system, testing the terminal, and producing a
standard display. Though loosely referred to as ROM, it includes a
writable function to allow recon guration of path and boot con guration
information.
Bourne Shell
A command interpreter, invoked as
default shell in HP-UX.
bus address
A number which makes up part of the address HP-UX uses to locate a
particular device. The bus address is determined by a switch setting on a
peripheral device which allows the computer to distinguish between two
devices connected to the same interface.
CD-ROM
Compact Disk Read-Only Memory.
CD-ROM le system
A read-only memory le system on compact disk. Typically, you can read
data from a CD-ROM le system, but you cannot write to one.
character
An element used for the organization, control, or representation of text.
Characters include graphic characters and control characters.
click
and release a mouse button rapidly.
To press
cluster
A group of workstations connected via a LAN. One computer, the cluster
server , performs as a le-system server for the cluster clients .
(For information on clusters, see
Computers .)
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. The Bourne Shell is the
/bin/sh
Managing Clusters of HP 9000