Avanti

Commercial Alpha emulator

AvantiFlex

Commercial Alpha emulator

FreeAXP

Free Alpha emulator

GUI

Graphical User Interface

JIT

Just-In-Time compilation

NIC

Network Interface Card

NVRAM

Non-Volatile RAM

Shadow Code

Avanti pre-processes Alpha instructions, optimizing them to achieve better performance upon execution.  These optimized instructions are referred to as shadow code. Shadow code is retained in memory until it is executed.

Shadow Memory

Holds shadow code.

SimH VAX

Free open source VAX emulator

SPD

Software Product Description:  A document providing detailed product specifications.

TOY

Time-Of-Year