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El Sistema began under the leadership of José Antonio Abreu (7 May 1939 – 24 March 2018) with 11 students in an underground parking garage. [1] For many years, its official name was Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela, (FESNOJIV), which is sometimes translated into English as "National Network of Youth and Children's Orchestras ...
José Antonio Abreu. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Abreu and the second or maternal family name is Anselmi. José Antonio Abreu Anselmi (May 7, 1939 – March 24, 2018) [ 1 ] was a Venezuelan orchestra conductor, pianist, economist, educator, activist, and politician best known for his association with El Sistema.
Computer case. An opened ATX case, front towards right. Components pictured include a microATX motherboard (top), a CPU (beneath the Cooler Master fan), a GPU (middle), and an SSD (right). The power supply is housed in the compartment at bottom. A computer case, also known as a computer chassis, is the enclosure that contains most of the ...
OS/2 (Operating System/2) is a series of computer operating systems, initially created by Microsoft and IBM under the leadership of IBM software designer Ed Iacobucci. [2] As a result of a feud between the two companies over how to position OS/2 relative to Microsoft's new Windows 3.1 operating environment, [3] the two companies severed the relationship in 1992 and OS/2 development fell to IBM ...
A home theater PC(HTPC) or media center computeris a convergentdevice that combines some or all the capabilities of a personal computerwith a software applicationthat focuses on video, photo, audio playback, and sometimes video recordingfunctionality. Since the mid-2000s, other types of consumer electronics, including game consolesand dedicated ...
An artist's depiction of a 2000s-era desktop-style personal computer, which includes a metal case with the computing components, a display and a keyboard (mouse not shown) A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use. [ 1 ] It is typically used for tasks such as word processing, internet browsing ...
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.It is grouped into families and sub-families that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an embedded system.
MINIX (from mini- Unix) is a Unix-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture. Since version 2.0, it has been POSIX compliant. [ 10 ][ 11 ] Early versions of MINIX were created by Andrew S. Tanenbaum for educational purposes.