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Operating system/Related Articles
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
- See also changes and topics related to Operating system, or pages that link to Operating system or to this page or whose text contains "Operating system".
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Concepts
- Operating system kernel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Process [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thread [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Deadlock [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scheduling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Memory management [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Virtual memory [r]: A concept in computer science whereby an operating system can use alternate (usually slower) data storage to impersonate real memory and run programs that ordinarily would not fit into real memory (RAM) [e]
- Input/Output [r]: Add brief definition or description
- File system [r]: A file system outlines the structure of files on a hard disk. [e]
- Shell (computer) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Graphic user interface [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Distributed system [r]: Add brief definition or description
List of operating systems
- GNU/Linux [r]: An operating system consisting of the Linux kernel and GNU utilities. [e]
- Unix [r]: A computer operating system originally conceived and developed by a group of researchers as an unofficial project while they were working at AT&T's Bell Laboratories. [e]
- Mac OS X [r]: BSD-based, POSIX-compatible graphical Unix operating system made by Apple for use on Macintosh computers. [e]
- FreeBSD [r]: Add brief definition or description
- NetBSD [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Microsoft MS-DOS [r]: The command line operating system, originally bought and modified to run the original IBM PC. [e]
- OS/2 [r]: The operating system initially intended by IBM and Microsoft to succeed MS-DOS. [e]
Microsoft
- Microsoft Windows [r]: The name of several families of closed source software operating systems, first released by Microsoft in 1985. [e]
- Windows 3 [r]: The first widely popular version of Windows. [e]
- Windows 95 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Windows 98 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Windows NT [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Windows 2000 [r]: Windows 2000 is a version of Windows for the business. [e]
- Windows Me [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Windows XP [r]: several versions of an operating system developed by Microsoft and first released in 2001. [e]
- Windows Vista [r]: several versions of an operating system developed by Microsoft and first released in 2006. [e]
- Windows 7 [r]: several versions of an operating system developed by Microsoft and first released in 2009. [e]
