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Appendix J
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GLOSSARY
A
access To find area of memory or auxiliary
storage for retrieving or storing
information.
alignment The relationship between the bottom
edge of a character and the bottom
edge of its adjacent right character.
APL A Programming Language. Also refers
to a symbol set. Fonts for the APL
symbol set can be found in the Coax
printer.
AppleTalk Refers to the Apple Macintosh standard
communication protocol.
application A software program or group of
programs for solving common business
tasks.
ASCII American Standard Code for Information
Interchange. A digital coding system
used to represent characters or
control functions electronically, each
character being represented by either
seven or eight bits.
asynchronous In reference to communications, a
protocol in which data bytes are
framed by special start- and stop-
bits, enabling varying rates of
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