Rl/ft5000, Glossary of terms – Triton FT5000XP PC-BASED ATMS User Manual User Manual
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SNA – Systems Network Architecture
IBM’s proprietary high level networking protocol standard.
Subnet Mask
A bit mask used to identify which bits in an IP address correspond to the
network address and subnet portions of the address. This mask is referred to as
the subnet mask because the network portion of the address can be determined
by the class inherent in an IP address. The address mask has ones (1) in positions
corresponding to the network and subnet numbers and zeros (0) in the host
number positions.
SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array
A video display standard; the resolution is 800 x 600 4-bit pixels. Each pixel can
therefore be one of 16 colors.
TCP/IP – Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
A set of protocols developed for the internet to get data from one network device
to another.
IP – The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol is a connectionless, best-effort
packet switching protocol. It provides packet routing, fragmentation, and re-
assembly through the data link layer.
URL - Uniform Resource Locator (world-wide web address)
An address identifying the location of a file on the Internet, consisting of the
protocol, the computer on which the file is located, and the file’s location on that
computer.
WINS – Windows Internet Naming Service
Software which resolves NetBIOS names to IP addresses.
WOSA – Windows Open System Architecture
An earlier umbrella term for a variety of programming interfaces from Microsoft
designed to provide application interoperability across the Windows environment.
WOSA provides a common denominator for front-end Windows applications to
access back-end services. For example, any WOSA-compliant query program
from one vendor can gain access to any WOSA-compliant DBMS from any other
vendor.
XML – Extensible Markup Language
A metalanguage written in SGML that allows one to design a markup language,
used to allow for the easy interchange of documents on the World Wide Web.
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