DELL 2385P User Manual

DELL

Glossary

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The following list defines or identifies

technical terms, abbreviations, and acro-

nyms used in Dell user documents.

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Abbreviation for ampere(s).

$&

Abbreviation for alternating current.

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Access control list. A list that contains the

users or groups access rights to each

share.

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An expansion card that plugs into an

expansion-card connector on the comput-

ers system board. An adapter card adds

some specialized function to the comput-

er by providing an interface between the

expansion bus and a peripheral device. Ex-

amples of adapter cards include network

cards, sound boards, and SCSI adapters.

$'&

Abbreviation for analog-to-digital

converter.

$',

Abbreviation for Autodesk Device

Interface.

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The client you specify during filer setup

for managing the filer. The

setup

pro-

gram automatically configures the filer to

accept

telnet

and

rsh

connections

from this client, to give permission to

this client for mounting the / and /home

directories, and to use this client as the

mailhost for sending autosupport email

messages. At any time after you run the

setup

program, you can configure the

filer to work with other clients in the

same way as it does with the administra-

tion host.

$,

Abbreviation for artificial intelligence.

$16,

Acronym for American National Standards

Institute.

$3&

Abbreviation for American Power

Conversion.

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Software designed to help you perform a

specific task, such as a spreadsheet or

word processor. Application programs are

distinct from operating system and utility

software.

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Acronym for American Standard Code for

Information Interchange. A text file con-

taining only characters from the ASCII

character set (usually created with a text
editor, such as MS-DOS

®

Editor or Note-

pad in Windows), is called an ASCII file.

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Acronym for application-specific integrat-

ed circuit.

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Advanced SCSI programming interface.