A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) for real-time computing applications that processes data and events that have critically...
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Real-Time Multiprogramming Operating System (RTMOS) was a 24-bit process control operating system developed in the 1960s by General Electric that supported...
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MSP MSP-EX COS DOS OS4000 Real-Time Multiprogramming Operating System GCOS Multics ChromiumOS is an open source operating system development version of ChromeOS...
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CALL/360, an IBM time-sharing system for System/360 Real-Time Executive (RTE) – Hewlett-Packard THE multiprogramming system (Eindhoven University of Technology)...
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The RC 4000 Multiprogramming System (also termed Monitor or RC 4000 depending on reference) is a discontinued operating system developed for the RC-4000...
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Computer multitasking (redirect from Multiprogramming system)
individual programs. In multiprogramming systems, a task runs until it must wait for an external event or until the operating system's scheduler forcibly swaps...
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newer computers use modern operating systems and kernels. In 1969, the RC 4000 Multiprogramming System introduced the system design philosophy of a small...
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embedded operating systems for all kinds of devices with a data-processing component, from hand-held gadgets up to industrial robots and real-time control...
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languages, real-time operating systems (RTOSes), and real-time networks. Each of these provide essential frameworks on which to build a real-time software...
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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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Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS, /ˈdʒiːkoʊs/; originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor) is a family of operating systems oriented...
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hyphen) referred to what we now call multiprogramming. Robert Dodds claimed to have been first to describe this form of time sharing in a letter he wrote to...
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will resume its time slice. Among other things, a multiprogramming operating system kernel must be responsible for managing all system memory which is...
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OS/360 and successors (redirect from IBM System/360 Operating System)
(MSS) Option 2 Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks (MFT) MFT II Multiple Priority Schedulers (MPS) Option 4 VMS Multiprogramming with a Variable...
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could run only one program at a time, but MFT ("Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks") and MVT ("Multiprogramming with a Variable number of Tasks")...
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DOS/360 and successors (redirect from Tape Operating System)
scalable OS/360 operating system. These were identified as BG (background), F1 (foreground 1) and F2 (foreground 2). Multiprogramming was an optional...
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From 1949 to 1960, time-sharing was used to refer to multiprogramming; it evolved to mean multi-user interactive computing. Time-sharing was first proposed...
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Process (computing) (redirect from Process (operating system))
virtual machines) are rooted in an operating system (OS) process which comprises the program code, assigned system resources, physical and logical access...
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Per Brinch Hansen (category Computer systems researchers)
general-purpose RC 4000 multiprogramming system, with a goal to avoid developing a custom real-time control operating system for every RC 4000 installation...
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(PCP), Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks (MFT), and Multiprogramming with a Variable number of Tasks (MVT). MVT took a long time to develop...
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MVS (redirect from MVS Operating System)
by providing multiprogramming and multiprocessing capabilities. Like its MVT and OS/VS2 SVS predecessors, MVS supported multiprogramming; program instructions...
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computers. The software may be described as a multiprogramming, multiprocessing, virtual memory, time-sharing supervisor that runs multiple resident...
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the history of 16-bit x86 DOS-family disk operating systems from 1980 to present. Non-x86 operating systems named "DOS" are not part of the scope of this...
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very basic versions of the B2500 could support multiprogramming on a usable scale. Larger Medium Systems processors supported major data center activities...
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Scheduling (computing) (redirect from Processor time)
scheduling Time-utility function C. L., Liu; James W., Layland (January 1973). "Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment"...
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advanced operating system (OS) to provide quick responses to user actions. The B5000 was also unique, for its time, in that its operating system and core...
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OS 2200 (redirect from Unisys OS 2200 operating system)
spoolers. The Exec 8 operating system was designed from the very beginning to be a multiprogramming and multiprocessing operating system because the 1108...
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were developing an operating system for the Electrologica X8. That system eventually became known as the THE multiprogramming system. Suppose a physical...
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The Universal Time-Sharing System (UTS) is a discontinued operating system for the XDS Sigma series of computers, succeeding Batch Processing Monitor (BPM)/Batch...
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IBM CP-40 (category VM (operating system))
memory time-sharing operating system for the IBM System/360 Model 67, and the parent of IBM's VM family. CP-40 ran multiple instances of client operating systems...
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