"metasoftware" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1989, Franz-Joachim Kauffels, Understanding Data Communications, page 105:",
          "text": "The performance of a PC LAN effectively stands or falls with its metasoftware. Let us recall the environment for a network described in section 1.1. The most obvious demands on the metasoftware are as follows: […]",
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          "text": "Computers also have metasoftware in the form of user instructions. There are many kinds of such instructions: instructions to the computer as a whole, instructions to different program systems and separate programs […]",
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