About This Glossary

This glossary contains technical terms that are used in the current TCP/IP for VM publications. It includes IBM product terminlology as well as other company and product terms. Select terms have also been included from:

  • The IBM Dictionary of Computing, New York:McGraw-Hill, 1994.
  • Internet Request for Comments: 1208, Glossary of Networking Terms
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    Trademarks

    The following terms are trademarks of the IBM Corporation in the United States or other countries or both:


    ACF/VTAM
    Advanced Function Printing
    Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking
    AIX
    AIXwindows
    APPN
    AS/400
    GDDM
    IBM
    NetView
    OfficeVision
    OS/2
    OS/400
    PS/2
    RACF
    RISC System/6000
    SQL/DS
    System/370>
    System/390
    Virtual Machine/Enterprise Systems Architecture
    VM/ESA
    VTAM

    The following terms are trademarks of other companies:

    Gopher
    University of Minnesota
    Hayes
    Hayes Microcomputer Products, Incorporated
    NCK
    Apollo Computer, Incorporated
    NetWare
    Novell, Incorporated
    Network Computing Kernel
    Apollo Computer, Incorporated
    Network Computing System
    Apollo Computer, Incorporated
    Network File System
    Sun Microsystems, Incorporated
    Open Software Foundation
    The Open Software Foundation, Incorporated
    OSF
    Open Software Foundation, Incorporated
    Portmapper
    Sun Microsystems, Incorporated
    POSIX
    Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
    PostScript
    Adobe Systems Incorporated
    X/Open
    X/Open Company Limited
    X-Windows
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    X Window System
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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