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XP
XP
may stand for:
Extreme Programming
. \n*
Experience points
in a
role-playing game
or in
Everything2
\n*
AMD
Athlon XP
CPU
\n*as the
Chi Rho
, the symbol that the emperor
Constantine I
saw in the sky before the
Battle of the Milvian Bridge
in 312. First two letters in Christ in Greek, therefore symbolic of Christianity. See
Labarum
.\n*
Windows XP
operating system. The official
Microsoft
explanation for this name is a derivation from "e
xp
erience"; another notes that "Cairo" was Microsoft's codename for an
object-oriented
operating system that would eliminate completely
MS-DOS
code from
Microsoft Windows
; Windows XP (chi-rho) completes the process.
Category:Lists of two-letter combinations\n
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