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  2. OSD - Wikipedia

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    Online standards development, platform for the development of standards of the International Electrotechnical Commission On-screen display , a feature of visual devices like VCRs and DVD players that displays program, position, and setting data on a connected TV or computer display

  3. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    PBS—Portable Batch System; PC—Personal Computer; PCB—Printed Circuit Board; PCB—Process Control Block; PC DOS—Personal Computer Disc Operating System; PCI—Peripheral Component Interconnect; PCIe—PCI Express; PCI-X—PCI Extended; PCL—Printer Command Language; PCMCIA—Personal Computer Memory Card International Association; PCM ...

  4. Timeline of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    TOS/360 (IBM's Tape Operating System) Livermore Time Sharing System (LTSS) Multics (MIT, GE, Bell Labs for the GE-645) (announced) Pick operating system; SIPROS 66 (Simultaneous Processing Operating System) [6] THE multiprogramming system (Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven) development; TSOS (later VMOS) 1966 DOS/360 (IBM's Disk Operating System)

  5. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    The operating system provides an interface between an application program and the computer hardware, so that an application program can interact with the hardware only by obeying rules and procedures programmed into the operating system. The operating system is also a set of services which simplify development and execution of application programs.

  6. List of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    JNode (Java New Operating System Design Effort), written 99% in Java (native compiled), provides own JVM and JIT compiler. Based on GNU Classpath. [36] [37] JX Java operating system that focuses on a flexible and robust operating system architecture developed as an open source system by the University of Erlangen. KERNAL (default OS on ...

  7. Unix - Wikipedia

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    By including the development environment, libraries, documents and the portable, modifiable source code for all of these components, in addition to the kernel of an operating system, Unix was a self-contained software system. This was one of the key reasons it emerged as an important teaching and learning tool and has had a broad influence.

  8. Language-based system - Wikipedia

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    A language-based system is a type of operating system that uses language features to provide security, instead of or in addition to hardware mechanisms.In such systems, code referred to as the trusted base is responsible for approving programs for execution, assuring they cannot perform operations detrimental to the system's stability without first being detected and dealt with. [1]

  9. Object-oriented operating system - Wikipedia

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    An object-oriented operating system [1] is an operating system that is designed, structured, and operated using object-oriented programming principles. An object-oriented operating system is in contrast to an object-oriented user interface or programming framework , which can be run on a non-object-oriented operating system like DOS or Unix .