• System software is software designed to provide a platform for other software. An example of system software is an operating system (OS) (like macOS,...
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  • A software system is a system of intercommunicating components based on software forming part of a computer system (a combination of hardware and software)...
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  • Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers...
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    The Wii system software is a set of updatable firmware versions and a software frontend on the Wii, a home video game console. Updates, which could be...
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  • The Xbox system software is the operating system developed exclusively for Microsoft's Xbox home video game consoles. Across the four generations of Xbox...
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  • The Nintendo Switch system software (also known by its codename Horizon) is an updatable firmware and operating system used by the Nintendo Switch and...
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  • Nintendo 3DS system software is an updatable operating system used for the Nintendo 3DS handheld system. The Nintendo Switch system software is believed...
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    An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs....
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    accounting software. The term application software refers to all applications collectively and can be used to differentiate from system and utility software. Applications...
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    Software architecture is the set of structures needed to reason about a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each...
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    Memory Stick or UMD. Sony offers no method for downgrading such software. While System Software updates can be used with consoles from any region, Sony recommends...
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    hardware. Over time, software has become complex, owing to developments in networking, operating systems, and databases. Software can generally be categorized...
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  • limited to it, software development process often refers to the high-level process that governs the development of a software system from its beginning...
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  • Election Systems & Software (ES&S or ESS) is an Omaha, Nebraska-based company that manufactures and sells voting machine equipment and services. The company's...
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    The PlayStation 3 system software is the updatable firmware and operating system of the PlayStation 3. The base operating system used by Sony for the PlayStation...
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  • programming expertise to develop software systems that meet user needs. The terms programmer and coder overlap software engineer, but they imply only the...
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  • A GIS software program is a computer program to support the use of a geographic information system, providing the ability to create, store, manage, query...
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  • The Wii U System Software, also known internally as Cafe OS, is the official operating system used for the Nintendo's Wii U home video game console. Nintendo...
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  • The PlayStation 4 system software is the updatable firmware and operating system of the PlayStation 4. The operating system is Orbis OS, based on FreeBSD...
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    "Sony Updates PS5 System Software to Support 8TB SSDS, Dolby Atmos". July 31, 2023. Warren, Tom (July 29, 2021), "Sony's first PS5 software beta arrives with...
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  • Concurrent Version System (CVS) has long been the tool of choice for version control. And rightly so. CVS itself is free software, and its non-restrictive...
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    A package manager or package management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and...
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  • realized on a single die.[citation needed] In system software, a monolithic kernel is an operating system (OS) architecture where the entire OS is working...
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  • The PlayStation Portable system software is the official firmware for the PlayStation Portable (PSP). It uses the XrossMediaBar (XMB) as its user interface...
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    speed the development of games by making it easier on software developers. IGN reported that the system was "designed from the get-go to attract third-party...
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  • Optimized Systems Software (OSS) was a company that produced disk operating systems, programming languages with integrated development environments, and...
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  • relevant layer is the operating system, so it can be called a platform itself (hence the term cross-platform for software that can be executed on multiple...
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    licensed software, GPL-covered software, the GNU operating system, GNU programs, GNU software, FSF-copyrighted GNU software, nonfree software, proprietary...
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    Software is also sometimes used in a more narrow sense, meaning application software only. System software, or systems software, is computer software...
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  • The Nintendo DSi system software is a discontinued set of updatable firmware versions and operating system for the Nintendo DSi handheld video game console...
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