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 (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;
group view
a view of your friends with whom you are working on shared projects;
neighborhood 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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