Glossary - Silicon Graphics OCTANE2 Owner's Manual

Glossary

account
See login account.
active window
The only window that recognizes input (activity) from the keyboard and mouse; only one
window is active at a time.
ADAT optical interface
The ADAT optical interface provides a unidirectional point-to-point connection of 8
tracks of 24-bit digital audio, with subcodes, at professional sampling rates, on a single
consumer-grade optical fiber. A typical use is for a data connection between multiple
ADAT tape decks, for bouncing tracks between decks.
address dial
See SCSI address dial.
administrator
See system administrator and network administrator.
AES3
The AES3-1992 specification of transmission format for digital audio data. This
specification is also commonly referred to as AES/EBU. See also ANSI S4.4-1992 and
IEC958, Audio Engineering Society, Inc., Vol. 40, No. 3, 1992, New York, NY 10165. For
more information on this specification, see .
http://www.aes.org/publications/
AES3id
An information document describing implementation of AES3-1992 (see above
attribution) using 75-ohm coaxial cable with 1 V peak-to-peak signal levels. See
.
http://www.aes.org/publications/
back up
To copy files and directories from your hard disk to a tape.
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