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26 April 2001

Terminology

GPL
general public license, meaning anyone can use code free of charge and modify it as long as modifications are submitted back to the community

HMI
human-machine interface

OS
operating system

PC
personal computer

PLC
programmable logic controller

SoC
system on a chip

teraflops
1 trillion floating-point operations per second, a benchmark measurement for rating the speed of microprocessors

Unix
a popular, multiuser, multitasking operating system developed at Bell Labs in the early 1970s

 

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