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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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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stand for: General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor (GECOS), which was later renamed to General Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS) gecos...
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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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file on Unix and similar operating systems. On UNIX, it is the 5th of 7 fields in a record. It is typically used to record general information about the...
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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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appropriately used only for older generations of operating systems.[citation needed] Disk operating systems for mainframes, minicomputers, microprocessors...
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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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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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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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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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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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A distributed operating system is system software over a collection of independent software, networked, communicating, and physically separate computational...
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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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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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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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Customers finance these aircraft through the following GECAS offerings: Operating leases Purchase leaseback agreements Secured loans Aircraft servicing...
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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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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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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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On many computer operating systems, a computer process terminates its execution by making an exit system call. More generally, an exit in a multithreading...
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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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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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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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The history of IBM mainframe operating systems is significant within the history of mainframe operating systems, because of IBM's long-standing position...
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HarmonyOS NEXT (category Embedded operating systems)
distributed operating system and a major iteration of HarmonyOS, developed by Huawei to support only HarmonyOS native apps. The operating system is primarily...
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