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Glossary PCM
UCS 1000 R4.2 Administration 585-313-507 Issue 3 April 2000 671
PCM
pulse code modulation
PEC
price element code
peripheral (device)
Equipment such as printers or terminals that is in addition to the basic processor.
peripheral component interconnect
A newer, higher speed PC bus that is gradually displacing ISA for many components.
permanent process
A process that starts and initializes itself before it is needed by a caller.
phoneme
A single basic sound of a particular spoken language. For example, the English
language contains 40 phonemes that represent all basic sounds used with the
language. The English word one can be represented with three phonemes, w -
uh - n. Phonemes vary between languages because of guttural and nasal
inflections and syllable constructs.