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 (AKA neighborhood view)

A view of who is sharing the mesh network with you. See sugar terms

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.

terms for the outer case

dual-tone

the two-color nature of the icon on the outside of the laptop; one color or tone for the o and the other for the x

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

dual-tone

see terms for the outer case

home view

a view of what activities you are running, and how much memory they take. the starting view on the laptop

mesh view

a view of who is sharing the network with you (mesh or otherwise) and what activities are being shared there.

taskbar

the bottom bar of the frame

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