Three of the names in this project end in the same syllable, and several ordinary
words — card, device, machine — mean something narrow here. This page fixes them.
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| QUniLator | The software, and a running installation of it. It drives a DEC bus in real time and presents emulated hardware to the machine around it. Countable, because an installation has an address and a name of its own: two QUniLators on the same LAN. |
| UniBone | The card that drives UNIBUS. |
| QBone | The card that drives QBUS. |
| card | Either module, where the bus does not matter — a quad-height PCB that occupies a backplane slot and carries the BeagleBone. |
| BeagleBone | The BeagleBone Black single-board computer the card carries, and the computer QUniLator runs on. Written in full. |
Named by what each one is: QUniLator is what runs, the card is what plugs in, the
BeagleBone is what it plugs into.
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| machine | The PDP-11, PDP-10 or VAX the card is fitted to — the computer around the card, never the card itself. |
| device | One piece of emulated DEC hardware: a controller, a drive, a terminal line, a block of memory, a bootstrap ROM. An RL11 is a device; so is each RL02 hanging off it. |
| widget | One element of the web interface’s dashboard — the console, a drive’s status, the front panel. |
| configuration | The set of devices a machine carries, with their parameters: what QUniLator installs on the bus when the machine is switched on. |
| bundle | A configuration packaged with its media as a .qcfg.zip, so a whole working machine travels as one file. |
| catalogue | A published list of bundles that a QUniLator can subscribe to and import from. |
| SD card | The memory card the release image is written to. Always named in full, so it is never confused with the card in the backplane. |
| bus | UNIBUS or QBUS — the backplane wiring the card drives. Most of this manual applies to both. |
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| QUniBone | The GitHub organisation, and the older combined name for the two cards, from when the software had no name of its own. |
| board | Older issues, mailing-list postings and the original retrocmp articles use this for a running QUniLator, and sometimes for the bare PCB. |
| demo | What QUniBone Classic called the interactive menu application. It is installed as qbone-cli / unibone-cli and still does the hardware-level work — the acceptance test runs on it, and it still reads the .cmd scripts an operator already has. See Coming from QUniBone Classic. |