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Glossary
ARPA/Berk
eley
host
name
A
system
name
assigned
to
eac
h
system
that
supp
orts
ARP
A services.
ASCI
I
American
Sym
b
olic
Co
de
for
Information
Interc
hange
bac
kground
pro
cess
A program,
usually lo
w priorit
y,
run
non-in
teractiv
ely
b
y
the
shell
without
terminal
I/O,
while
other
pro
cessing
o
ccupies
the
terminal.
The
\&"
at
the
end
of
a
command
line
causes
that
command
to
be
run as
abac
kground
pro
cess.
bac
kup
Acop
yof
all or
part of
the
le
system.
bit
BInary
digiT
b
o
ot
T
o
start
or
activ
ate
a
system.
b
oot
R
OM
A
read-only
memory
whic
h
is
incorp orated
into
a
terminal
for
the
purp
ose
starting
the
op
erating
system,
testing
the
terminal,
and
pro
ducing
a
standard
displa
y
.
Bourne
Shell
A
command
in
terpreter,
inv
oked
as /bin/sh
. The
Bourne
Shell
is
the
default
shell
in
HP-UX.
BSD
Berkeley Soft
ware Distribution.
bus address
Anumber whic
h mak
es up part of the address HP-UX uses to lo cate a
particular device. The
bus address
is determined b
y a switc
h setting on a
peripheral device whic
h allows the computer to distinguish b et
ween t
wo
devices connected to the same in
terface.
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