TOPS-10 Monitor Calls Manual Volume 2 AA-K039D ... - Trailing-Edge

GLOSSARY
Dormant segment
A sharable high segment kept on a swapping space, and possibly in
core, which is in no user's addressing space.
Double precision
DSK
DSKLST
DSKRAT
DTA
Dump
The use of two computer words to represent a number.
The generic device name for disk-like devices. The generic
device DSK is translated by the system into actual file structure
names which are defined for each job by the file structure search
list.
A program that gives the status and statistics of all user disk
files at a given time.
A damage assessment program that scans a file structure and
reports any inconsistencies detected.
The generic device name for DECtape.
Echoing
A listing of variables and their values,
values of locations in core.
or a
listing of the
A method of data transmission in
returned to the sending end.
terminal I/O.
which the received data is
Usually used in discussions of
Edit
To modify the content or format of a program or data file (as
insert or delete characters) .
to
Effective address
ENQ/DEQ
Enqueue
The actual address used; that is, the specified address as
modified by any indexing or indirect addressing rules.
A facility that ensures that resources such as files are shared
correctly.
The function of storing requests for ownership of some limited
resource in lists or queues until the requests can be granted.
Entry point
A point in a subroutine to which control ~s
subroutine is called.
transferred when that
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