Glossary

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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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