Labels:book | bulletin board | reckoner | sky OCR: Glossary A/UX Apple's implementation of the UNIX operating system for Macintosh computers. With the introduction of Power Macintosh A/UX seems to be discontinued. A real shame since A/UX is the most user- friendly UNIX incarnation for miles around Direct Access Device SCSI I-device which allows to access the data contained in it in a random manner as opposed to sequential access. Typical Direct Access Devices are hard disks DAT Digital Audio Tape. A standard for magnetic tape devices and media to store digitized audio information. For computer applications the same media is used but different data formats are defined. The most common format is Digital Data Storage DDS Driver program that gets called by the Operating System when it wants to talk to certain hardware. A driver shields the os ...
