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A client MacBook Air (lacking an optical drive) could then wirelessly connect to the other Mac or PC to perform system software installs. Remote Install Mac OS X was released as part of Mac OS X 10.5.2 on February 12, 2008. Support for the Mac mini was added in March 2009, allowing the DVD drive to be replaced with a second hard drive.
OS/2 1.x (developed jointly with IBM until version 1.3) LAN Manager; Windows (16-bit and 32-bit preemptive and cooperative multitasking, running atop MS-DOS) Windows 1.0 (Windows 1) Windows 2.0 (Windows 2 – separate version for i386 processor) Windows 3.0 (Windows 3) Windows 3.1x (Windows 3.1) Windows for Workgroups 3.1 (Codename Snowball)
The term 64-bit also describes a generation of computers in which 64-bit processors are the norm. 64 bits is a word size that defines certain classes of computer architecture, buses, memory, and CPUs and, by extension, the software that runs on them. 64-bit CPUs have been used in supercomputers since the 1970s (Cray-1, 1975) and in reduced ...
The first stable, non-beta version of Safari for Windows, Safari 3.1, [32] was offered as a free download on March 18, 2008. In June 2008, Apple released version 3.1.2, [ 33 ] [ 34 ] which addressed a security vulnerability in the Windows version where visiting a malicious web site could force a download of executable files and execute them on ...
The Computer Science Network (CSNET) was a computer network funded by the NSF that began operation in 1981. Its purpose was to extend networking benefits for computer science departments at academic and research institutions that could not be directly connected to ARPANET due to funding or authorization limitations.
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 ...
In computer security, a cold boot attack (or to a lesser extent, a platform reset attack) is a type of side channel attack in which an attacker with physical access to a computer performs a memory dump of a computer's random-access memory (RAM) by performing a hard reset of the target machine.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 January 2025. Family of Unix-like operating systems This article is about the family of operating systems. For the kernel, see Linux kernel. For other uses, see Linux (disambiguation). Operating system Linux Tux the penguin, the mascot of Linux Developer Community contributors, Linus Torvalds Written ...