List of Abbreviations

ABI: Application Binary Interface
AC: Alternating Current
AIX: Advanced Interactive Executive
ANSI: American National Standards Institute
APAR: Authorized Program Analysis Report
API: Application Programming Interface
ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
ASCII: American National Standards Code for Information Interchange
BFF: Backup File Format
BIST: Built-in Self-test
BOS: Base Operating System
CAE: Computer-aided Engineering
CD: Compact Disk
CDRFS: CD-ROM File System
CEC: Central Electronics Complex
CHRP: Common Hardware Reference Platform
CMOS: Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CPU: Central Processing Unit
CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check
CSU: Channel Servicing Unit
DC: Direct Current
DDC: Display Data Channel
DIMM: Dual Inline Memory Module
DMA: Direct Memory Access
DOS: Disk Operating System
DIP: Direct Insertion Probe
DMA: Direct Memory Access
DRAM: Dynamic Random Access Memory
DSU: Data Servicing Unit
EC: Engineering Change
ECC: Error Checking And Correction
EEPROM: Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
EIA: Electronics Industry Association
EISA: Extended Industry Standard Architecture
ELA: Error Log Analysis
EPOW: Environmental And Power Warning
FCP: Fibre Channel Protocol
FDDI: Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FRU: Field Replaceable Unit
GB: Gigabytes
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Hz: Hertz
ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol
ID: Identification
IDE: Integrated Device Electronics
IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
I²C: Inter Integrated-circuit Communications
I/O: Input/Output
IP: Internetwork Protocol (OSI)
IPL: Initial Program Load
IrDA: Infrared Data Association (which sets standards for infrared support including protocols for data interchange)
IRQ: Interrupt Request
ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
ISDN: Integrated-Services Digital Network
ISV: Independent Software Vendor
ITSO: International Technical Support Organization
JFS: Journaled File System
LAN: Local Area Network
LED: Light Emitting Diode
LFT: Low Function Terminal
LPP: Licensed Program Product
LRU: Least-Recently Used
LVM: Logical Volume Manager
MAP: Maintenance Analysis Procedure
MCA: Micro Channel Architecture
MCAD: Mechanical Computer-Aided Design
MP: Multiprocessor
MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit
NCP: Network Control Point
NFS: Network File System
NUMA: Non-uniform Memory Access
NVRAM: Non-volatile Random Access Memory
OCS: Online Customer Support
ODM: Object Data Model
PAP: Privileged Access Password
PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
PID: Program Identification
POP: Power-On Password
POSIX: Portable Operating Interface for Computing Environments
POST: Power-On Self-Test
POWER: Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC (architecture)
PPP: Point-to-point Protocol
PREP: PowerPC Reference Platform
P2SC: Power2 Super Chip
PV: Physical Volume
PVID: Physical Volume Identifier
RAM: Random Access Memory
RAN: Remote Async. Node
RAS: Reliability, Availability, And Serviceability
RAID: Redundant Array Of Independent Disks
RIPL: Remote Initial Program Load
ROLTP: Relative Online Transaction Processing
RPA: RS/6000 Platform Architecture
RTC: Real-Time Clock
SCSI: Small Computer System Interface
SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SDLC: Synchronous Data Link Control
SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol
SMIT: System Management Interface Tool
SMS: System Management Services
SMP: Symmetric Multiprocessing
SP: Service Processor
SPEC: Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.
SPOT: Shared Product Object Tree
SRC: System Resource Controller
SSC: System Support Controller
SSA: Serial Storage Architecture
STP: Shielded Twisted Pair
TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/internet Protocol
TCQ: tagged command queuing
UP: uniprocessor
USB: Universal Serial Bus
UUCP: UNIX-toUNIX communication protocol
VESA: Video Electronics Standards Association
VG: Volume Group
VGDA: Volume Group Descriptor Area
VMM: Virtual Memory Manager
VPD: Vital Product Data
VSM: Visual Systems Management

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