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           300                  How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment



           Web browser
           An application that provides an interface to the World Wide Web.
           Webmaster
           A person who manages a Web site—similar to the network administrator.
           X86
           A generic term that refers to the processor architecture commonly used
           in personal computers and servers. It is derived from the model num-
           bers, ending in “86,” of the first few processor generations backward-
           compatible with the original Intel 8086. The architecture has been
           implemented in processors from Intel, Cyrix, AMD, VIA, and many
           others.
           Xen
           A free (open source) software virtual machine monitor for IA-32, x86-
                                   ®
           64, IA-64, and PowerPC 970 architectures. It allows several guest
           operating systems to be executed on the same computer hardware at the
           same time.
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