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A CommandLine [MP3] player/decoder released under a [BSDLicense]. This became the foundation of WinAmp, ''the'' [MP3] player for MicrosoftWindows. WinAmp is said to contain no traces of [AMP] code these days.

Some time after Winamp was released, it was cloned (not [Fork]ed!) as x11amp for [Unix] -- which was again based on [AMP]. WinAmp later got the x11amp folks to rename their player, and so it became [XMMS].

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[AMP] is also the [Acronym] for the Active Measurement Project, run by the [NLANR] Research team in the US. It consists of well over 100 well connected "amplets" spread over US universities and research organisations. All amplets ping each other in a full mesh once per min, and traceroute between each other once per 10 min. All results are collected on a central server and displayed to the public. Check [the homepage | http://watt.nlanr.net] for more information and results. This project is lead by the head of the WandGroup at [WaikatoUniversity] and as such, many students in this group have had something to do with [AMP] at one point or another. This is another example of NamespaceCollision.

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Last edited on Saturday, July 23, 2005 2:03:20 pm by AristotlePagaltzis

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