COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Glossary
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word
word. An instruction-set-defined unit of memory that corresponds to the width of registers
and to the most common and efficient size of memory operations. A TNS word is 2
bytes (16 bits) wide, beginning on any 2-byte boundary in memory. A MIPS RISC word
is 4 bytes (32 bits) wide, beginning on any 4-byte boundary in memory. An Intel®
Itanium® word is also 4 bytes (32 bits) wide, beginning on any 4-byte boundary in
memory.
Working-Storage Section. The section of the Data Division that describes Working-Storage
data items, which can be noncontiguous data items or Working-Storage records or
both.
$RECEIVE. A pseudodevice from which a server reads its request messages and to which it
writes its replies; any process can read system messages from $RECEIVE by
declaring in the RECEIVE-CONTROL paragraph which messages it requires.