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

GLOSSARY
Job
The entire sequence of steps from-beginning to end, that the user
initiates from his interactive terminal or batch control file or
that the operator initiates from his operator's console. Thus,
it is a specific group of ~teps presented as a unit of work for
the computer. A job usually includes all necessary computer
programs, files, linkages and instructions to the operating
system.
Job Data Area (JOBDAT)
The first 140 octal locations of a user'g virtual address space.
This area provides storage for certain data items used by both
the monitor and the user's program.
Job search list
K
The ordered list of file st~uctures for your job that are
searched automatically when the generic device name DSK is
specified or implied in the file spBcification.
A symbol used to represent 1024 (2000 octal); for example, 32K is
equivalent to 32,768.
Kernel mode
The executive submode in the
system-wide functions operate.
access and alter all of memory.
processor under which I/O and
Code executed in kernel mode can
KL-paging
Label
Leader
Library
The method of paging memory used by the hardware of the KL
processor to extend the virtual memory space of the program to a
multiple of 256K. Refer to the Processor Reference Manual.
A symbolic name used to identify a statement or an item of data
in a program.
A blank section of tape at the beginning of a reel of magnetic
tape or the beginning or end of a stack of paper tape.
A file containing one or more relocatable binary modules which
may be loaded in Library Search Mode. MAKLIB is a system utility
program which enables users to merge and edit a collection of
relocatable binary modules into a library file. PIP can also be
used to merge relocatable binary modules into a library, but it
has no facilities for editing libraries.
Library search mode
The mode in which a module (one of many in a library) is loaded
only if one or more of its declared entry points satisfy an
unresolved global request.
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