One way or another, you’re interacting with operating systems. Your smartphone uses one, and your tablet and laptop do as well. However, little is said about how the ways we interact with our ...

Presents an introduction to major operating systems and their components. Topics include processes, concurrency and synchronization, deadlock, processor allocation, memory management, I/O devices and ...

INFO.3110 — Online and Continuing Education Id: 007990 Offering: 2 Credits: 3-3 Description Addresses manipulating and maintaining files within the UNIX file system; creating and editing text files ...

The history of Windows isn't just changing Start menus. Here's a look at the evolution of Microsoft's flagship operating system and the future of Windows 11.

What Is macOS? The Mac OS Era Apple is often credited with inventing the modern desktop operating system. That is, the operating system that uses a mouse and cursor to navigate around clickable items ...

Apple's operating system has cultivated a reputation for being more user-friendly and bestowing a functional charm upon Apple ...

It was one of the most ambitious computer-product announcements in history. On April 2, 1987, at twin press conferences in New York and Miami, IBM ...

This excerpt offers a introduction and review of embedded operating systems. Adapted from “Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition” by Tammy Noergaard (Newnes) Some embedded OSs provide memory ...

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces MS-DOS, or Microsoft Disk Operating System, set the stage for the company’s dominance in the software market.

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel ...