Dell PowerEdge T605 Hardware Owner's Manual (PDF) - Page 207
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Glossary This section defines or identifies technical terms, abbreviations, and acronyms used in your system documents. A - Ampere(s). AC - Alternating current. ACPI - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. A standard interface for enabling the operating system to direct configuration and power management. ambient temperature - The temperature of the area or room where the system is located. ANSI - American National Standards Institute. The primary organization for developing technology standards in the U.S. application - Software designed to help you perform a specific task or series of tasks. Applications run from the operating system. ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange. asset tag - An individual code assigned to a system, usually by an administrator, for security or tracking purposes. backup - A copy of a program or data file. As a precaution, back up your system's hard drive on a regular basis. Before making a change to the configuration of your system, back up important start-up files from your operating system. backup battery - A battery that maintains system configuration, date, and time information in a special section of memory when the system is turned off. BIOS - Basic input/output system. Your system's BIOS contains programs stored on a flash memory chip. The BIOS controls the following: • Communications between the processor and peripheral devices • Miscellaneous functions, such as system messages Glossary 207