Micros Systems Workstation 4, Setup Manual

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Workstation 4 Setup Guide Glossary-3
WS4 Glossary
CF cards are available in sizes ranging from 8M to 1G. The
Workstation 4 currently uses a 32M CF Card installed in an accessible
but secure location near the I/O panel connector. Larger sizes may used
in the future. In the WS4 memory architecture, the CF card contains
workstation 4 ‘personality’. It contains the POS application, a current
copy of the Windows CE registry, and optionally, SAR data.
Client
A workstation or personal computer that requests services from a
server over the network. The server is usually a high-speed personal
computer with fast hard drives providing access to database services.
The client provide the user interface and may perform some or all of
the application processing depending on which POS application
software is in use.
COM Port
A type of IO Port that is generally referred to as a serial interface or
asynchronous communications port. This type of IO port transmits
information to and from the computer in a serial fashion, one bit at a
time.
CPLD
Abbreviation for Complex Programmable Logic Array. The WS4 system
board uses one of these devices, custom programmed to handle such
tasks as power button management, controlling cash drawers, and
backlight LCD brightness.
Customer Display
A display that shows the customer information about the transaction
being performed on the workstation. A customer display can be
mounted behind a window on the rear of the terminal or mounted at
eye level on a pole located near the workstation.
The Workstation 4 customer display is a pole mount version which
displays alpha-numeric character in a 2x20 format.
DIMM
Abbreviation for Dual In Line Memory Module.