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>Index: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/glossary/freebsd-glossary.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /usr/cvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/glossary/freebsd-glossary.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.18
>diff -u -r1.18 freebsd-glossary.sgml
>--- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/glossary/freebsd-glossary.sgml	25 Aug 2004 08:44:53 -0000	1.18
>+++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/glossary/freebsd-glossary.sgml	7 Sep 2004 22:44:25 -0000
>@@ -93,7 +93,10 @@
>       <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>
> 
>@@ -101,7 +104,7 @@
>       <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>
> 
>@@ -117,7 +120,14 @@
>       <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>
> 
>@@ -694,7 +704,8 @@
>       <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>
> 
>@@ -975,7 +986,8 @@
>       <glossterm>Message Of The Day</glossterm>
>       <acronym>MOTD</acronym>
>       <glossdef>
>-        <para></para>
>+        <para>A message, usually shown on login, and often used to
>+	  distribute information to users of the system.</para>
>       </glossdef>
>     </glossentry>
> 
>@@ -1195,6 +1207,7 @@
>         <para></para>
>       </glossdef>
>     </glossentry>
>+
>     <glossentry>
>       <glossterm>PR</glossterm>
>       <glosssee otherterm="pr-glossary">
>@@ -1233,7 +1246,9 @@
>       <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 therefore would be limited to 4 GB without PAE).</para>
>       </glossdef>
>     </glossentry>
> 
>@@ -1332,7 +1347,8 @@
>       <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>

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