Digital Equipment RapidPrint 500, Reference Manual

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10BASE5 Thickwire network cable.
10BASE-T Ethernet running across Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cable. Note that
10BASE-T is a point-to-point network media, with one end of the cable
typically going to a repeater/hub and the other to the network device.
TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol. On computers that run the TCP/IP network-
ing software, TFTP is used to quickly send files across the network with
fewer security features than FTP. TFTP is used by the RapidPrint 500 to
download a boot file in the UNIX environment.
Thickwire Ethernet cables generally come in two varieties: thickwire and Thinwire .
Thickwire network cable is 1/2” diameter coax cable. It is generally
found on larger networks where a cable may travel for long distances and
usually connects multi-user computers to the network. It is harder to
work with than thinwire cable, but offers better noise and error protection
and can be run much farther (up to 500m/1500 ft. without repeaters) than
Thinwire . Connections to thickwire networks are usually made with
15-pin connectors.
Thinwire Thin, co-axial cable similar to that used for television/video hookups and
typically used with BNC-type connectors. Thinwire cable is much easier
to route and work with than
Thickwire , but it should not be run more
than 185 meters (~600 feet) without using a repeater to reinforce the sig-
nal. Thinwire connectors are usually seen on terminal servers, personal
workstations, networked printers, and in networks where the
nodes are
all relatively close to each other.
transceiver The actual device that interfaces between the network and the local node .
When talking about networks, the term transceiver generally refers to any
connector that actively converts signals between the network and the
local node. An example of a transceiver is a
MAU .
TSM Terminal Server Manager (TSM). TSM is a software package that allows
terminal servers on a network to be remotely managed from another
node. It is supported on VMS systems running the LAT protocol and is
incompatible with TCP/IP-only networks.