APCAL v3.20 (3) API(Application Program[ming] Interface) The defined set of calls which a program may make to interact with or request services of the operating system or environment under which it is running. Because the inputs and outputs of the calls are well-defined, a program using the API can continue using the identical calls even if the internal organization of the program providing the API changes. (177) APIC BASE ADDRESS (8) APILEVEL (4) APM FUNCTION CONFIGURATION FOR ATX POWER SUPPLY (2) APM SL Enhanced v1.0 (15) Apollo Master (3) APPEND (142) AppleTalk INTERFACE (2) APPLY (25) AQUEDUCT (4) Arabic/Hebrew DOS 5.0 (3) Arabic/Hebrew MS-DOS 5.0 (6) ARBITRATION PRIORITY REGISTER (2) Armagedon (2) ARRAY ACCESS REGISTER (2) ARTICOM (38) ASAP v1.0 (2) ASM Edit (5) ASPIENUM (4) ASPIHOOK.SYS (4) ASSERTMAP (2) ASYNC TERMINAL EMULATION (24) ASYNCHRONOUS SEND PACKET (2) ATIBM PC AT (4611) AT&TAmerican Telephone and Telegraph (81) ATA Software Programming Interface (4) ATALK.SYS (4) ATAPI Removable Media Device (4) Atari Portfolio (36) ATASPI (23) ATI M64VBE.COM (3) ATI Mach32 (36) ATI Mach64 (32) ATI Mach8/Mach32 (22) ATI Mouse (6) Attach (187) ATTACH LOGICAL UNIT (3) ATTACH PHYSICAL UNIT (3) ATTACH QUEUE SERVER TO QUEUE (5) ATTACH TO DEFAULT CONSOLE (4) ATTACH TO DEFAULT LIST DEVICE (4) AttachHandle (2) Attachmate Extra! (13) ATTRIBUTE CONTROLLER (17) Audio Interface (9) AUDIT (120) AutoBraille v1.1A (17) AutoCAD Device Interface (12) Automatic Standard Recognition Status (4) AUTOPARK.COM (3) AVAILDEV (3) Avance Logic (28) AWAITING USER INPUT (2) AWARD (162) AWARD PCDISK (7) AWARD v4.50G (2) AWARD v4.51pg (12) AWARD v4.51PG APM (2) azt16 (7) B1M92 (2) BACK DOOR COMMANDS (20) BACKGROUND COLOR (30) BACKGROUND MIX (5) BACKGROUND PROCESSING (4) Banyan VINES (132) Banyan VINES 2.1 (2) Banyan VINES v4 (4) Barrotes (2) Base I/O Port (11) BASE MEMORY IN KB (3) BASIC(Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) A programming language originally designed as a means of teaching FORTRAN. There are many variations of BASIC with differing capabilities; the majority are interpreted but compiled BASIC is becoming more popular. All genuine IBMInternational Busiuness Machines personal computers (including the latest PS/2IBM PS/2, any model models) come equipped with a cassette-based BASIC interpreter in ROM. (220) BASICA.COM (175) BATTERY (108) BATTERY POWER (8) BATTERY-LOW ACTIONS (2) BBL_CR_ADDR (2) BBL_CR_CTL (3) BCD(Binary Coded Decimal) A method of data storage where two decimal digits are stored in each byte, one in the upper four bits and the other in the lower four bits. Since only the values 0 through 9 are used in each half of a byte, BCD values can be read as decimal numbers on a hexadecimal display of memory or a file. (3) BEGIN CRITICAL SECTION (5) BEGIN PLOT (2) BEGIN TRANSACTION (5) BEGINC (3) Big-EndianOne of the two major ways of organizing multi-byte numeric values in memory. A big-endian layout places the most significant byte of the value in the lowest (first) memory location, i.e. 12345678h is stored as 12h 34h 56h 78h. Motorola processors are big-endian. Compare Little-Endian. (642) Binary Synchronous Communication (2) BINDERY SERVICES (21) BIOS(Basic Input/Output System) A set of standardized calls giving low-level access to the hardware. The BIOS is the lowest software layer above the actual hardware and serves to insulate programs (and operating systems) which use it from the details of accessing the hardware directly. (2435) BIOS-FLASH Interface (15) BIOS32 Service Directory (5) bit 7-4 (3) BIT FLAGS (47) BitBLT (71) BitBLT engine (4) BitFax Scheduler (9) bitFOSS (9) bitFOSSI (5) BITMAP (151) bits 3-1 (3) Black Level Expander (5) Blank (249) BLANK THE SCREEN (2) Blank-It Screen Blanker (10) BLOCK FILL (2) BLOCK TRANSFER (3) BLOCKDEV (5) BLOCKING (22) board in slot 1 (4) board in slot 2 (2) board in slot 3 (2) board in slot 4 (2) board in slot 5 (2) board in slot 6 (2) board in slot 7 (2) board in slot 8 (2) board in slot 9 (2) BootTo start up the computer or operating system. The term "boot" is a contraction of "bootstrap", which in turn comes from the expression "to lift oneself by one's boot straps." The ROM BIOS on IBMInternational Busiuness Machines PCs and compatibles reads in the first sector of the disk, which contains a short (less than 500 bytes) program that reads in a portion of the operating system, which in turn reads in the remainder of the operating system. See also IPL. (257) BOOT CONFIGURATION BITS (3) Boot DriveThe disk drive from which the operating system was booted. See also Boot. (11) BOOT DRIVE SELECTION (3) BOOT OPTIONS (2) Bootable CD-ROM (10) BOOTSTRAP LOADER (8) Border (32) BORDER COLOR (14) Borland DOS extender (3) Borland RTM.EXE 1.0 (3) BORLAND SUPPORT (3) BOTTOM (98) BOUNDS ACCUMULATOR (5) BRANCH TARGET BUFFER CONTROL (3) BRANCH TARGET BUFFER TAG (4) BRANCH TARGET BUFFER TARGET (3) BREAKPOINT (100) BRESENHAM ERROR TERM (3) BRIGHTNESS (28) BRIGHTNESS CONTROL (7) BRIGHTNESS SETTING (3) Broadcast (124) BROADCAST CALLBACK (2) BROADCAST TO CONSOLE (5) Brooktree Bt819A (27) Brother P-Touch (2) Brothers (2) Btrieve Multi-User (4) BUFFER SET ALL (2) BUFFERED READ (7) BUFFERED WRITE (8) Buffit v3.0 (2) BUS CONFIGURATION (9) BUS DELAYS (2) Bus Mouse Port (2) BUS WAIT STATES (4) BW-NFS (54) BW-TCP (150) BWCOM14 (6) BWRPC (14) BYTES (4439) C&T 82c480 (5) C&T 82C570 CHIPSlink '3270' Protocol Controller (2) C_DELIMIT (2) C_MODE (2)