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2. 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.

3. Glossary of operating systems terms - Wikipedia

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   daemon: Operating systems often start daemons at boot time and serve the function of responding to network requests, hardware activity, or other programs by performing some task. Daemons can also configure hardware (like udevd on some Linux systems), run scheduled tasks (like cron), and perform a variety of other tasks.

4. Category:Operating systems - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Articles about operating system concepts and components can be found in Category: ... Free software operating systems (13 C, ...

5. Comparison of user features of operating systems - Wikipedia

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   The classic Mac OS [a] (System Software) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9. The Macintosh operating system is credited with having popularized the graphical user interface concept. [32]

6. Unix - Wikipedia

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   This new operating system was initially without organizational backing, and also without a name. The new operating system was a single-tasking system. [17] In 1970, the group coined the name Unics for Uniplexed Information and Computing Service as a pun on Multics, which stood for Multiplexed Information and Computer Services.

7. Real-time operating system - Wikipedia

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   A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) for real-time computing applications that processes data and events that have critically defined time constraints. An RTOS is distinct from a time-sharing operating system, such as Unix , which manages the sharing of system resources with a scheduler, data buffers, or fixed task ...

8. 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 .

9. Concurrency control - Wikipedia

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   Operating Systems Concepts, 8th edition. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-12872-5. Philip A. Bernstein, Vassos Hadzilacos, Nathan Goodman (1987): Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems (free PDF download), Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1987, ISBN 0-201-10715-5