The usage share of an operating system is the percentage of computers running that operating system (OS). These statistics are estimates as wide scale...
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operating system, the first operating system for the IBM 704. The main objective was to improve the sharing of programs. The SHARE Operating System provided...
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display, circuitry and battery Usage share of operating systems – Relative market adoption of operating systems "Canalys: Smartphone market grows 7% in...
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common services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also include accounting software...
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Heralds of Resource Sharing, a 1972 film. History of CP/CMS, IBM's virtual machine operating system (CP) that supported time-sharing (CMS). IBM M44/44X...
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Operating System, also known as the Pick System or simply Pick, is a demand-paged, multi-user, virtual memory, time-sharing computer operating system...
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Unix (redirect from UNIX operating system)
commands Plan 9 from Bell Labs Timeline of operating systems Unix time Market share of operating systems Year 2038 problem McIlroy, M. D. (1987). A Research...
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of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible systems, including the Hercules...
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Processing Operating System) Multiple Console Time Sharing System (MCTS), from General Motors Research Puffin OS Convergent Technologies Operating System (CTOS)...
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described as network operating systems, because they allowed personal computers (PCs) to participate in computer networks and shared file and printer access...
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constraints. A RTOS is distinct from a time-sharing operating system, such as Unix, which manages the sharing of system resources with a scheduler, data buffers...
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program at the core of a computer's operating system that always has complete control over everything in the system. The kernel is also responsible for...
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7094 1958 University of Michigan Executive System (UMES), for IBM 704, 709, and 7090 1959 SHARE Operating System (SOS), based on GM-NAA I/O 1960 IBSYS (IBM...
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Time Sharing Operating System, or TSOS, is a discontinued operating system for RCA mainframe computers of the Spectra 70 series. TSOS was originally designed...
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Microsoft Windows (redirect from Windows operating system)
desktop operating system in the world, with a 70% market share as of March 2023[update], according to StatCounter; however when including mobile operating systems...
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operating system of macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, audioOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed as an independent open-source operating...
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computer) operating systems. The article "Usage share of operating systems" provides a broader, and more general, comparison of operating systems that includes...
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NOS (Network Operating System) is a discontinued operating system with time-sharing capabilities, written by Control Data Corporation in 1975. NOS ran...
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"Tablet Operating System Market Share Worldwide". StatCounter Global Stats. Retrieved December 16, 2020. "Tablet Operating System Market Share Worldwide"...
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The Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (DTSS) is a discontinued operating system first developed at Dartmouth College between 1963 and 1964. It was the first...
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Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) was the first general purpose time-sharing operating system. Compatible Time Sharing referred to time sharing which was...
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Mac operating systems were developed by Apple Inc. in a succession of two major series. In 1984, Apple debuted the operating system that is now known...
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A bicycle-sharing system, bike share program, public bicycle scheme, or public bike share (PBS) scheme, is a shared transport service where bicycles are...
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The Cray Time Sharing System, also known in the Cray user community as CTSS, was developed as an operating system for the Cray-1 or Cray X-MP line of...
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operating system developed in 1969 by BBN for the PDP-10, which later formed the basis for Digital Equipment Corporation's TOPS-20 operating system....
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developed the SCOPE operating systems in the 1960s, for batch processing and later developed the MACE operating system for time sharing, which was the basis...
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OpenVMS (redirect from VMS (operating system))
multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory-based operating system. It is designed to support time-sharing, batch processing, transaction processing and workstation...
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supercomputer operating system is an operating system intended for supercomputers. Since the end of the 20th century, supercomputer operating systems have undergone...
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network Share icon, a user interface icon intended to convey performing a share action SHARE Operating System, the first operating system, by the SHARE user...
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IBM Time Sharing System TSS/360 is a discontinued early time-sharing operating system designed exclusively for a special model of the System/360 line...
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