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A computer operating system originally conceived and developed by a group of researchers as an unoffici

A free and open source operating system kernel designed by [[Linus Torvalds]]. The kernel is typically augmented by

...a specific purpose communicates with software infrastructure such as the [[operating system]] or [[web services]]

One of the first successful [[operating system]]s using [[virtualization]], developed for the IBM 360/67, first as an inte

* [[NCP (SNA)‎]] the operating system in an IBM communications processor (e.g., 3705, 3725) supporting [[Systems

'''Novell Netware''' is a [[network operating system]] developed and maintained by [[Novell]], Inc. It initially used cooperativ In the early to mid 1990s the NetWare platform was the most popular [[operating system]] dedicated to serving files over a [[Local area network]] (LAN). In the la

...or a computer, with no local storage for executable code, to get its basic operating system from a trusted server on a trusted network

...list should include people who have invented a significantly new computer, operating system, or type of software, or significant business or licensing model. Let's ke ...(1955- ) - wrote BASIC interpreters for Altair and IBM systems, developed operating system for [[IBM personal computer]]s, founded [[Microsoft Corporation]].

...cts. For the operating system term for starting a new process, see [[fork (operating system)]]''

...f and interrelations between different distributions of Unix and related [[operating system]]s

The '''Darwin''' [[operating system]] and associated utilities is the [[open source]], [[Unix]]-like base of [[ ...it with no [[Graphical user interface]]), much the same as the [[FreeBSD]] operating system it's based on or other versions of Unix. In OS X the Darwin command-line is

IDL is also used with [[microkernel|microkernels]], to communicate between operating system parts that run is separate address spaces and cannot easily pass function p

The [[operating system]] [[NetBSD]] is an [[open source]] [[Unix]]-like variant that is considered One of the first examples of the implementation of a portable operating system was in the first versions of Unix. Originally, Unix was written in assembly

...apple.com/macosx/ Mac OS X] - The official Apple web page for the Mac OS X operating system

A free operating system modeled after AT&T's UNIX, originally announced by Dr. Richard Stallman on

...'ing is the creation of a new child process. This is done by calling an [[operating system]] function, and the OS does all the work of setting up the new [[process]],

...peripheral devices. To make effective use of multi-core processors, the [[operating system]] must break the workload into small threads of execution, which can be dis

A personal computer that runs the Mac operating system (currently over [[BSD]]/UNIX), has a generally closed architecture, and is

...chines." Usually this is accomplished using either a virtual machine or an operating system that has tools to enable virtual environments to run inside it.

...y) executed. In the abstract sense, "instructions" can be anything, from [[operating system]] commands to a specific programming language (such as [[Python programming