ANSI. American National Standards Institute. A group that defines US standards for the information processing industry.
Application Protocol Standards. TCP/IP provides standards for the more common applications.
ARPANET. A pioneering long haul network funded by DARPA.
Character Map. Table of ANSI character code to displayed character.
Child Process. A process started by another process
Connectionless Packet Delivery Service. The routing of small messages from one machine to another based on address information carried in the message.
Console. An interface that provides input and output to character-mode applications
Daemon. A networking program that runs in the background.
DARPA. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The US government agency that funded research and experimentation with the ARPANET, and later, the connected Internet.
DNS. Domain Name System. The on-line distributed database system used to map human-readable machine names into IP addresses.
Domain. A part of the DNS naming hierarchy.
Emacs. An extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time text editor.
End-to-End Acknowledgements. Acknowledgements between the source and final destination, instead of each machine along the path.
Event Log. A record of NT security, application, and system events.
GUI. Graphical User Interface. A graphical, rather than purely textual, user interface to a computer.
HTML. Hypertext Markup Language. A markup language derived from the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). Used to create a text document with formatting specifications that tells a software browser how to display the page or pages included in the document.
Inetd. Internet Daemon. Service used to launch appropriate daemon, when Internet protocol is requested.
IP Address. The 32-bit address assigned to hosts that want to participate in a TCP/IP internet.
IP. Internet Protocol. The TCP/IP standard protocol that defines the IP datagram as the unit of information passed across an internet.
Linux. Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world.
Named Mutex Semaphore. A named interprocess synchronization object whose state is set to signaled when it is not owned by any thread, and nonsignaled when it is owned.
NAWS. Negotiate About Window Size. The negotiation between client and server for the telnet window size.
NET USE. The Windows NT command to map a remote resource to a drive letter.
Network Technology Independence. TCP/IP is independent of any specific hardware vendor.
NTFS. An advanced file system designed for use specifically within the Windows NT operating system. It supports file system recovery, extremely large storage media, long filenames, and various features for the POSIX subsystem. It also supports object-oriented applications by treating all files as objects with user-defined and system-defined attributes.
NTVDM. NT Virtual DOS Machine. Simulates an MS-DOS environment so that MS-DOS-based and Windows-based applications can run on Windows NT
Process. When a program runs, a Windows NT process is created. A process is an object type which consists of an executable program, a set of virtual memory addresses, and one or more threads.
Reliable Stream Transport Service. Allows an application to establish a connection with an application on another machine, and then send a large volume of data, as if the connection were permanent.
Rexec. The remote execute command allows for remote execution of programs to take place.
RFC. Request for Comments. The documents that define the TCP/IP protocol suite.
Rsh. The remote shell utility enables you to execute a single command on a remote host without Login in to the remote host.
Screen Scraper. Screen drawing algorithm where data is sent to, and read from, specific locations on the screen.
Socket. A socket provides an endpoint for a communication session. It is comprised of an IP address, a transport protocol, and a port address.
TCP. Transmission Control Protocol. The TCP/IP standard transport level protocol.
Telnet. The TCP/IP standard protocol for remote terminal connection service.
Universal Interconnection. Any 2 connected machines can communicate via TCP/IP.
UNIX. Non-graphical, multi-user, mutli-tasking operating system, developed by Bell Laboratories.
User Groups. A collection of user accounts on an NT system.
Vi. A text editor common to all UNIX based systems.
VTxxx. Terminal emulations based on the hardware terminals by Digital Equipment Corporation.
Windows NT Registry. A database repository for information about a computer's configuration. It is organized in a hierarchical structure, and is comprised of subtrees and their keys, hives, and value entries.
Windows NT Service. A process that performs a specific system function and often provides an application programming interface (API) for other processes to call. Windows NT services are RPC-enabled, meaning that their API routines can be called from remote computers.
Windows NT. The portable, secure, 32-bit, preemptive multitasking member of the Microsoft Windows operating system family.
Winsock. A programming interface used to provide a protocol-independent transport interface.
WYSE. Terminal emulations based on the hardware terminals by WYSE Technology.