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  2. troff - Wikipedia

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    troff (/ ˈ t iː r ɒ f /), short for "typesetter roff", is the major component of a document processing system developed by Bell Labs for the Unix operating system. troff and the related nroff were both developed from the original roff.

  3. 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)

  4. List of Unix systems - Wikipedia

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    After the release of Version 10, the Unix research team at Bell Labs turned its focus to Plan 9 from Bell Labs, a distinct operating system that was first released to the public in 1993. All versions of BSD from its inception up to 4.3BSD-Reno are based on Research Unix, with versions starting with 4.4 BSD and Net/2 instead becoming Unix-like.

  5. Child process - Wikipedia

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    This technique pertains to multitasking operating systems, and is sometimes called a subprocess or traditionally a subtask. There are two major procedures for creating a child process: the fork system call (preferred in Unix-like systems and the POSIX standard) and the spawn (preferred in the modern (NT) kernel of Microsoft Windows , as well as ...

  6. List of POSIX commands - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) commands as specified by IEEE Std 1003.1-2024, which is part of the Single UNIX Specification (SUS). These commands can be found on Unix operating systems and most Unix-like operating systems.

  7. Process (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The operating system keeps its processes separate and allocates the resources they need, so that they are less likely to interfere with each other and cause system failures (e.g., deadlock or thrashing). The operating system may also provide mechanisms for inter-process communication to enable processes to interact in safe and predictable ways.

  8. Pipeline (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    In Unix-like computer operating systems, a pipeline is a mechanism for inter-process communication using message passing. A pipeline is a set of processes chained together by their standard streams , so that the output text of each process ( stdout ) is passed directly as input ( stdin ) to the next one.

  9. Process management (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A process is a program in execution, and an integral part of any modern-day operating system (OS). The OS must allocate resources to processes, enable processes to share and exchange information, protect the resources of each process from other processes and enable synchronization among processes.