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2. Daemon (computing) - Wikipedia

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   The term was coined by the programmers at MIT's Project MAC.According to Fernando J. Corbató, who worked on Project MAC around 1963, his team was the first to use the term daemon, inspired by Maxwell's demon, an imaginary agent in physics and thermodynamics that helped to sort molecules, stating, "We fancifully began to use the word daemon to describe background processes that worked ...

3. Background process - Wikipedia

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   A background process is a computer process that runs behind the scenes (i.e., in the background) and without user intervention. [1] Typical tasks for these processes include logging, system monitoring, scheduling, [ 2 ] and user notification.

4. Wallpaper (computing) - Wikipedia

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   A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles A wallpaper from fractal. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.

5. Foreground-background - Wikipedia

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   Foreground-background is a scheduling algorithm that is used to control an execution of multiple processes on a single processor. It is based on two waiting lists, the first one is called foreground because this is the one in which all processes initially enter, and the second one is called background because all processes, after using all of their execution time in foreground, are moved to ...

6. History of software engineering - Wikipedia

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   The software crisis was originally defined in terms of productivity, but evolved to emphasize quality. Some used the term software crisis to refer to their inability to hire enough qualified programmers. [citation needed] Cost and Budget Overruns: The OS/360 operating system was a classic example.

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8. History of software - Wikipedia

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   Software is a set of programmed instructions stored in the memory of stored-program digital computers for execution by the processor. Software is a recent development in human history and is fundamental to the Information Age.

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