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Glossary
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Artwork
- Camera-ready art used to print the CD-ROM disc label, product insert, and J-card. May contain file system type, part numbers, and trademark and copyright information associated with specific product.
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ABI
- Application Binary Interface.
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Caddy
- The plastic rectangular container that holds the CD-ROM when it is placed into the CD drive.
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Catalyst CDware
- The SunSoft Catalyst product that distributes third-party software demos on CD-ROM from SunSoft distribution centers.
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CD-ROM
- Compact Disc-Read Only Memory.
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CD drive
- Same as CD player.
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CD master (or master)
- The glass disc used to create production discs. The master is created by a CD-ROM manufacturer from a magnetic (tape or disc) image sent to them.
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CD player
- The hardware device used to read CD-ROMs.
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Check disc
- The name used by some CD-ROM manufacturers to describe a data proof CD-ROM. This may be used to verify that the software product on CD-ROM media is correct.
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Coaster
- A one-off CD-ROM that has been cut incorrectly.
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Copyright
- The right to own and sell intellectual property, such as software, source code, or documentation. Ownership must be stated on the CD-ROM and insert text, whether the copyright is owned by SunSoft, or by another party. Copyright ownership is also acknowledged in SunSoft documentation.
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DAT
- Digital Audio Tape.
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dd
- The Solaris user command used to copy a file system image to tape.
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Disc
- The optical compact medium used to hold software or audio data. Discs are read-only, as opposed to read-write.
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Disk
- The spelling used for hard disk drives, such as SMD, SCSI, or IPI. Does NOT include CD-ROM.
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Electronic handoff (EHO)
- The term used to describe the method by which an engineering organization hands a CD-ROM product release off to be tested. The product image, as it would appear on CD-ROM, is mounted or copied from one machine to a partition on a test server. Installation is done from this image prior to creating a one-off.
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Exabyte
- A type of magnetic tape cartridge, 8MM format. It is the 3M vendor-preferred transfer media to receive data for mastering.
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First article
- The name used to describe a completed CD-ROM. This may be used to verify that the software and disc label on CD-ROM media are correct and can be used to approve a production run of the CD-ROM media. The first article comes
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High Sierra
- Early CD-ROM file system standard. See ISO 9660.
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Image tape
- The software in its file system format ready to be transferred to a CD-ROM. This image of the software may be transported on a variety of media, 1/2 inch reel magnetic tape, 1/4 inch cassette magnetic tape, Exabyte magnetic tape, or compact disc before being mastered into a CD-ROM.
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Insert
- The name used to describe the document inside the front of the CD-ROM jewel box. Among other things, the insert may carry product specific information and installation instructions.
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ISO 9660
- An industry standard file system used for distribution of software on CD-ROM. This file system is tailored to the read-only environment, but does not currently contain many essential POSIX features. This format is often erroneously referred to as High Sierra, which is a subset.
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J-card
- Printed card with a small, folded edge that fits into the back of the CD-ROM jewel box. It carries the product name and part number so that this information can be read without opening the jewel box. The edge corresponds to the spine of a book.
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Jewel box
- The plastic case that contains the CD-ROM, the insert, and the J-card.
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Mastering fee
- The CD-ROM manufacturer charges a mastering fee to cover the expenses of preparing to make a CD-ROM for production. This fee includes downloading your data to a mastering machine, creating a glass master, creating a metal stamper used in the production run, and testing for quality control of these processes.
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One-off
- A special CD-ROM used as a check disc. This CD-ROM is relatively costly and cannot be duplicated. It should be used only for internal testing purposes before mass production.
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Packages
- A collection of file and directories required for a software application. Packages are created with pkgmk or swmtool. The software resides in a directory hierarchy which also contains various information files describing the package contents.
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Premastering machine
- The equipment used for cutting pre-master CD-ROMs. Premastering machine is synonymous with one-off machine. It may be more accurate to call it a CD-Write Once machine, writable CD-ROM publisher, or check disc recorder. Premastering usually describes the whole process previous to mastering.
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Production disc
- The disc distributed to customers.
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Replication
- The production run of CD-ROM discs at the manufacturer's facilities.
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Rock Ridge
- Extensions to the ISO 9660 standard for CD-ROMs. These extensions provide functionality needed by UNIX file systems, such as symbolic links. SunSoft currently uses this file system for distribution of its Solaris software.
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tar
- Tape Archive Retrieval. Solaris command for adding or extracting files from a media.
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UFS
- The file system format currently used for Sun's unbundled products on CD-ROM. The same format is used for file systems on disk partitions.
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