General Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS, /ˈdʒiːkoʊs/; originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor) is a family of operating...
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three systems, based on the General Comprehensive Operating System family developed by General Electric, Honeywell, and Bull. Two of these systems, ACOS-2...
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stand for: General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor (GECOS), which was later renamed to General Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS) gecos...
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introduced the GE-600 series with the General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor (GECOS) operating system in 1962. After Honeywell acquired GE's...
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BBN Time-Sharing System GCOS (GE's General Comprehensive Operating System, originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor) 1963...
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Android is an operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen-based...
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its configuration syntax in 2015.[failed verification] General Comprehensive Operating System FreeBSD man pages : passwd (5) AIX user and group administration...
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mainframe and minicomputer vendors introduced disk operating systems and modified existing operating systems to use disks. Hard disks and floppy disk drives...
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Robot Operating System (ROS or ros) is an open-source robotics middleware suite. Although ROS is not an operating system (OS) but a set of software frameworks...
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Affymetrix GeneChip Operating Software Global Climate Observing System General Comprehensive Operating System, a family of operating systems oriented toward...
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primary operating system for the line was the General Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS), which Honeywell originally inherited from General Electric's...
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Thomas Edison (category General Electric)
systems killing customers and hurting the sales of electric power systems in general. The primary reason was that Edison Electric based their design on...
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Honeywell (redirect from Honeywell Information Systems)
the features of Honeywell/GE's GECOS and GCOS8 General Comprehensive Operating System operating systems. Honeywell, Groupe Bull, and Control Data Corporation...
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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...
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Micro-Controller Operating Systems (MicroC/OS, stylized as μC/OS, or Micrium OS) is a real-time operating system (RTOS) designed by Jean J. Labrosse in...
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Customers finance these aircraft through the following GECAS offerings: Operating leases Purchase leaseback agreements Secured loans Aircraft servicing...
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GXS Inc. (redirect from General Electric Information Services)
between Mark II and the original batch operating system for the GE systems, the General Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS). Dubbed the "Foreground/Background...
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TempleOS (redirect from J Operating System)
TempleOS (formerly J Operating System, LoseThos, and SparrowOS) is a biblical-themed lightweight operating system (OS) designed to be the Third Temple...
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Pick operating system was a multi-user, time sharing business operating system for the Level 6 platform. General Comprehensive Operating System Honeywell...
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Multics (redirect from Multics operating system)
time-sharing operating system based on the concept of a single-level memory. It has been written that Multics "has influenced all modern operating systems since...
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An object-oriented operating system is an operating system that is designed, structured, and operated using object-oriented programming principles. An...
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Oracle Solaris (redirect from Solaris operating system)
Oracle Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system offered by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers. Originally developed by Sun...
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A distributed operating system is system software over a collection of independent software, networked, communicating, and physically separate computational...
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applied to other systems at every level of nesting, and in a wide range of fields for achieving optimized equifinality. General systems theory is about...
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Diamond v. Chakrabarty (category General Electric litigation)
include the insertion of what has been termed by the industry as an entire "operating platform," concerns may continue. List of United States Supreme Court...
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HarmonyOS (redirect from Hongmeng (operating system))
(Chinese: 鸿蒙; pinyin: Hóngméng; trans. "Vast Mist") is a distributed operating system developed by Huawei for smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, smart watches...
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Linux (redirect from Linux operating system)
LIN-uuks) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991...
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Comprehensive Electronic Office (CEO) was a suite of office automation software from Data General introduced in 1981. It included word processing, email...
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HarmonyOS NEXT (category Embedded operating systems)
proprietary distributed operating system that succeeded the similarly named HarmonyOS, with the main difference that the "Next" operating system was developed by...
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Unix-like (redirect from Unix-like operating system)
(sometimes referred to as UN*X, *nix or *NIX) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to...
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