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<glossterm><acronym>ACPI</acronym> Machine Language</glossterm>
<acronym>AML</acronym>
<glossdef>
<para></para>
<para>Pseudocode, interpreted by a virtual machine within an
<acronym>ACPI</acronym>-compliant operating system, providing a
layer between the underlying hardware and the documented
interface presented to the <acronym>OS</acronym>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
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<glossterm><acronym>ACPI</acronym> Source Language</glossterm>
<acronym>ASL</acronym>
<glossdef>
<para></para>
<para>The programming language <acronym>AML</acronym> is written in.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
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<glossterm>Advanced Configuration and Power Interface</glossterm>
<acronym>ACPI</acronym>
<glossdef>
<para></para>
<para>A specification which provides an abstraction of the
interface the hardware presents to the operating system, so
that the operating system should need to know nothing about
the underlying hardware to make the most of it. <acronym>ACPI</acronym>
evolves and supercedes the functionality provided previously by
<acronym>APM</acronym>, <acronym>PNPBIOS</acronym> and other technologies, and
provides facilities for controlling power consumption, machine
suspension, device enabling and disabling, etc.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
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<glossterm>Intel&rsquo;s <acronym>ASL</acronym> compiler</glossterm>
<acronym>IASL</acronym>
<glossdef>
<para></para>
<para>Intel&rsquo;s compiler for converting <acronym>ASL</acronym> into
<acronym>AML</acronym>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
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<glossterm>Message Of The Day</glossterm>
<acronym>MOTD</acronym>
<glossdef>
<para></para>
<para>A message, usually shown on login, often used to
distribute information to users of the system.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
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<glossterm>Physical Address Extensions</glossterm>
<acronym>PAE</acronym>
<glossdef>
<para></para>
<para>A method of enabling access to up to 64 GB of <acronym>RAM</acronym> on
systems which only physically have a 32-bit wide address space
(and would therefore be limited to 4 GB without PAE).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
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<glossterm>Process ID</glossterm>
<acronym>PID</acronym>
<glossdef>
<para></para>
<para>A number, unique to a particular process on a system,
which identifies it and allows actions to be taken against it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>