Compaq st5548 - Thin Client, Quick Setup Manual

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Glossary
ACPI
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
blue screen
A blue screen (or BSOD, Blue Screen Of Death) is a screen with a blue background that appears when a Windows-
based computer crashes
boot loader
The first program to execute when a system is booted.
BOOTP
Bootstrap Protocol
CVOL
Client Volume Overlay. Changes made by a user to a virtual disk are written to a cache file called a CVOL file on
the server.
CVOLCompactor Tool
A tool which allows you to reduce the size of an overlay file.
CVOLMerge Tool
A tool which enables you to create a new hard disk image file from an existing image and one or more overlay
files. The tool also allows you to update an existing image with the content of an overlay file.
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. This protocol allows for a server to specify pre-boot values to a network-
attached system.
disk signature
A unique identification value written on Windows disk drives.
domain credentials
The credentials maintained in a Windows domain between each of the member workstations and servers and the
domain crontrollers.
FLEXnet
A software protection system controlling product activation and executable wrapping.
HAL
Hardware Abstraction Layer. An abstraction layer, implemented in software, between the physical hardware of a
computer and the software that runs on that computer. Its function is to hide differences in hardware from most of
the operating system kernel, so that most of the kernel-mode code does not need to be changed to run on systems
with different hardware.
MBR
Master Boot Record
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