System software System software 386MAX (written as 386MAX, pronounced 386-to-the-max) was a computer memory manager for DOS-based personal computers. It competed with Quarterdeck's QEMM memory manager. ...more on Wikipedia about "386MAX"
98lite is a utility made by Shane Brooks in order to remove components from Windows 98 and Windows Me which Microsoft claims are integrated and non-removable. Brooks first made a method of removing Internet Explorer in response to the claim that IE is non-removable and integrated into Windows in the antitrust case. ...more on Wikipedia about "98lite"
In a computer or data transmission system, to abort means to terminate, usually in a controlled manner, a processing activity because it is impossible or undesirable for the activity to proceed. Such an action may be accompanied by diagonstic information on the aborted process. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abort (computing)"
ACF NCP stands for Advanced Communication Function - Network Control Program. It is the program that controls network communications in a standard SNA. ...more on Wikipedia about "ACF NCP"
Action Request System is a Client-server software application toolset developed by Remedy Corp. It is most commonly used as a tracking system. The AR System uses a third party database ( Sybase, MS SQL, Oracle, etc...) for storing data in tables. In addition, the database stores a set of metatables known as the data dictionary. These metatables contain the source code which tell the applications how to interact with the users and the data. The AR System has an open API, a feature which allows users to create custom client tools and scripts that talk directly to the AR Server. ...more on Wikipedia about "Action Request System"
AR Mid-Tier is a servlet application of Remedy's Action Request System. This is an alternative to the native fat client, AR System User. With this application, users can access the AR Server with a standard web browser. ...more on Wikipedia about "AR Mid-Tier"
AR System Administrator is a client application of Remedy's Action Request System. It is used exclusively for building, customizing, maintaining, and supporting AR System applications. It reads and writes data to the metatable section of the AR System's database. ...more on Wikipedia about "AR System Administrator" The text you are reading is from www.shortopedia.com
AR System Import is a fat client for Remedy's Action Request System that is used to import data. Only administrators of the AR System are allowed to use the import tool. The import tool uses the merge action of the AR API to create entries from a .arx or .csv file. This client is only used for importing data - applications, forms, workflow and metadata are imported via AR System Administrator. ...more on Wikipedia about "AR System Import"
AR System User is a client software application that allows a user to create, search, and modify records in the Action Request System. It is a fat client and must be installed locally on the user's desktop. Remedy User allows users to record macros, including user defined variables, to automate repetitive tasks. The client can connect to any number of servers, and can pull and push information from one server to the next. Workflow objects known as Active Links (which are written by the administrator) are cached to AR User and run locally on the client. ...more on Wikipedia about "AR System User"
ARCS is a firmware bootloader (also known as a PROM console) used in most computers produced by SGI since the beginning of the 1990s. ...more on Wikipedia about "ARCS"
StorageTek ACSLS™ (Automated Cartridge System Library Software) is a UNIX-based library-enablement application for mainframe, AS/400, Unix, and Windows NT platforms. ...more on Wikipedia about "Automated Cartridge System Library Software"
Autorun or autoplay (sometimes spelled in CamelCase as AutoRun or AutoPlay) is the ability of many modern computer operating systems to automatically take some action upon the inserting of removable media such as a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or flash media. ...more on Wikipedia about "Autorun"
Backup software is software designed to copy data for the purpose of having a second copy of an original source in case of damage to the original data source. ...more on Wikipedia about "Backup software"
BMDFM (Binary Modular Dataflow Machine) is software, which enables running an application in parallel on shared memory symmetric multiprocessors ( SMP) using the multiple processors to speed up the execution of single applications. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMDFM"
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bootman is the BeOS boot loader. It is resident solely in the Master boot record and does not require an install of BeOS, although it must be installed from BeOS. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bootman"
CICS® (Customer Information Control System) is a transaction server that runs primarily on IBM mainframe systems under z/OS or z/VSE. CICS is available for other operating systems, notably i5/OS, OS/2, and as the closely related IBM TXSeries software on AIX, Windows, and Linux, among others. The z/OS implementation is by far the most popular and significant. ...more on Wikipedia about "CICS"
A clipboard is small, thin board that is typically slightly larger than a pad of standard sheets of paper, with a large (typically metal) clip at the top. It is used to rigidly support the pad of paper with one hand, while writing on it with the other. Clipboards are typically used in situations where one is not assured of finding good writing surfaces. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clipboard"
Clipboard manager is a computer program that adds ...more on Wikipedia about "Clipboard manager"
In software engineering, a compatibility layer allows binaries for an emulated system to run on a host system. This translates system calls for the emulated system into system calls for the host system. With some libraries for the emulated system, this will often be sufficient to run binaries for the host system. ...more on Wikipedia about "Compatibility layer"
Component and Service Management (CSM) is a set of management capabilities for monitoring and controlling deployed applications, their components, and web services. CSM collects data, analyzes it, and makes system management recommendations to operators. CSM also provides the ability to manage version configuration information and a scheduler to run batch jobs at a predetermined schedule. Other CSM capabilities include configuration management, end-to-end performance monitoring and analysis, service desk support, software distribution, service life-cycle management, and quality-of-service management. ...more on Wikipedia about "Component and Service Management"
cscope is a console mode or text-based graphical interface that allows software engineers or developers to search source code. It is often used on very large projects to find source code, functions, declarations, definitions and regular expressions given a text string. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cscope"
Dependency hell is a colloquial term for the frustration of many users who have installed Linux software packages which have dependencies on specific versions of other packages. This version information is often part of the package management system, which can refuse to install software without the precise versions of its prerequisite packages installed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dependency hell"
DESQview was a text mode multitasking program developed by Quarterdeck Office Systems which enjoyed modest popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Running on top of DOS, it allowed users to run multiple DOS programs concurrently in windows. ...more on Wikipedia about "DESQview"
A disk compression software utility increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive of given size. Unlike a file compression utility which requires the user to issue explicit commands, a disk compression utility works automatically and user doesn't need to be aware of its existence. ...more on Wikipedia about "Disk compression"
In computing, DLL hell is the colourful phrase given to the difficulties of managing Microsoft's Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs). These difficulties include conflicts between DLL versions, difficulty in obtaining required DLLs, and having many unnecessary DLL copies. DLL hell is an example of an anti-pattern — that is, a bad programming practice, which should be avoided in well-written software. ...more on Wikipedia about "DLL hell"
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