Product Authorization Key (PAK)
A PAK is a printed certificate containing information that must be input to the
VMS License Management Facility to authorize the VMS user to run a particular
software product.
Program
The complete sequence of instructions necessary for a computer to perform a
task. See
Software
.
Prompt
A character(s) or word(s) that a computer displays to indicate it is waiting for you
to type a command.
Quorum disk
A quorum disk acts as a virtual node in a system using the quorum scheme. See
the
VMS VAXcluster Manual
for further information on quorum disks and the
quorum scheme.
Read-only memory (ROM)
A memory that does not allow modification of its contents. The computer can use
data in a ROM but cannot change it.
Reboot
To restart a computer system. Pressing the Reset button reboots the system.
Record
A set of related data that a program can treat as a unit. A file consists of a
number of records.
ROM
See Read-only memory.
Run
1. A single continuous execution of a program.
2. To execute a program.
Satellite system
A system that is booted remotely from the system disk on the boot node. A
computer system that obtains a specific set of services from a server system.
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