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  2. Multiseat configuration - Wikipedia

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    Backstreet Ruby is a kernel patch for the Linux kernel. It is a back port to Linux-2.4 of the Ruby kernel tree. The aim of the Linux Console developers is to enhance and reorganize the input, the console and the framebuffer subsystems in the Linux kernel, so they can work independent from each other and to allow multi-desktop operation.

  3. Multi-user software - Wikipedia

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    Multi-user software is computer software that allows access by multiple users of a computer. [1] Time-sharing systems are multi-user systems. Most batch processing systems for mainframe computers may also be considered "multi-user", to avoid leaving the CPU idle while it waits for I/O operations to complete.

  4. Computer multitasking - Wikipedia

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    Multitasking is a common feature of computer operating systems since at least the 1960s. It allows more efficient use of the computer hardware; when a program is waiting for some external event such as a user input or an input/output transfer with a peripheral to complete, the central processor can still be used with another program.

  5. Android Honeycomb - Wikipedia

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    It is the eighth version of Android and is no longer supported since November 14, 2016. Honeycomb debuted with the Motorola Xoom in February 2011. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Besides the addition of new features, Honeycomb introduced a new so-called "holographic" user interface theme and an interaction model that built on the main features of Android, such as ...

  6. List of features in Android - Wikipedia

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    Java support While most Android applications are written in Java, there is a Java virtual machine in the platform and Java byte code is not executed. Java classes are compiled into Dalvik executables and run on using Android Runtime or in Dalvik in older versions, a specialized virtual machine designed specifically for Android and optimized for battery-powered mobile devices with limited ...

  7. MultiFinder - Wikipedia

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    MultiFinder is an extension for the Apple Macintosh's classic Mac OS, introduced on August 11, 1987 [1] and included with System Software 5. [2] It adds cooperative multitasking of several applications at once – a great improvement over the previous Macintosh systems, which can only run one application at a time.

  8. Mobile operating system - Wikipedia

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    A mobile operating system is an operating system used for smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, smartglasses, or other non-laptop personal mobile computing devices.While computers such as typical/mobile laptops are "mobile", the operating systems used on them are usually not considered mobile, as they were originally designed for desktop computers that historically did not have or need specific ...

  9. Cooperative multitasking - Wikipedia

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    Cooperative multitasking was the primary scheduling scheme for 16-bit applications employed by Microsoft Windows before Windows 95 and Windows NT, and by the classic Mac OS. Windows 9x used non-preemptive multitasking for 16-bit legacy applications, and the PowerPC Versions of Mac OS X prior to Leopard used it for classic applications. [1]