NonStop System Glossary

PSK

See pre-shared key (PSK).

pSOS system product

See Portable Silicon Operating System (pSOS) system product.

p-switch

See processor switch (p-switch).

pTAL

Portable Transaction Application Language. A machine-independent system programming language

based on Transaction Application Language (TAL). The pTAL language excludes architecture-specific

TAL constructs and includes new constructs that replace the architecture-specific constructs. Contrast

with HP Transaction Application Language (TAL).

pTAL compiler

An optimizing native-mode compiler for the pTAL language.

public dynamic-link library (public DLL)

Optional native-mode executable code modules available to all native user processes. A TNS/E

public library is specified in the public library registry, supplied by HP or optionally a user.

public LAN

See nondedicated (public) LAN.

public library

A dynamic-link library (DLL) or shared run-time library (SRL) that is known to the operating system,

available for execution by any process or user, and is not an implicit library.

public shared run-time library (public SRL)

A TNS/R library supplied by HP.

PUP

See Peripheral Utility Program (PUP).

Quad Optical Transceiver

A highly integrated four-channel optical transceiver that is installed in the X and Y fabric ServerNet

switches of the first c7000 enclosure of a BladeCluster node. Quad optical transceivers are required

for configuring a BladeCluster Solution.

quad-integrated communications controller (QUICC)

The Motorola MC68360 chip. For NonStop S-series servers, the QUICC is used as the service

processor (SP) and is the main part of the ServerNet wide area network (SWAN) concentrator

communications line interface processor (CLIP).

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