Eleven types of environment can be identified from these icons:
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local environments, |
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remote environments (which are not physically present on the workstation), |
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local production environments, |
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remote production environments, |
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local correction environments, |
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remote correction environments, |
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local development environments, |
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remote development environments, |
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local buffers, |
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remote buffers (which are not physically present on the workstation), |
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buffers or environments which have not been defined as being local or remote. |
Buffers are specific environments which are used to transfer models or objects to or from other environments.