Glossary
- Application Binary Interface
A technical description of how the operating system should interface with hardware.
See Also Application Programming Interface.
- Application Programming Interface
The set of variables and functions used to communicate between different parts of programs.
See Also Application Binary Interface.
- Extensible Markup Language
Some reasonable definition here.
See Also Standardised Generalised Markup Language.
- Standardised Generalised Markup Language
The grand daddy of all documents
See Also Extensible Markup Language.
- MMU
The memory managment unit component of the hardware architecture.
- Mutually Exclusive
When a number of things are mutually exclusive, only one can be valid at a time. The fact that one of the things is valid makes the others invalid.
- Open Source
Software distributed in source form under licenses guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use, modify, and redistribute the code.
- Shell
The interface used to interact with the operating system.