Glossary

XO terms

school server

a machine at each school that works as an access point and provides

serverless peer-to-peer

a wayof providing peer-to-peer sharing of data via peer-to-peer connectivity, from one XO to another.

XS server

see school server

networking terms

infrastructure

sometimes used to describe traditional network connectivity, with an access point

mesh

see mesh layer

mesh view

mesh layer

a layer that can run over peer-to-peer, over infrastructure, etc.

peer-to-peer

see serverless peer-to-peer

presence

tubes

tubes runs over the mesh and over traditional infrastructure.

Hardware and firmware terms

Forth

God's gift to terse programmers

Open Firmware

God's gift to hardware debuggers

sugar, content and activity terms

Activity

a sugarized application that can have an icon in the taskbar

taskbar

the bottom bar of the frame

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