X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Operating System


Network Console on Acid

Preferably 'nca' should be started very early in the OS' boot sequence, as so configured (according to the homepage) "It's the next best thing to a serial console for fixing boot-time problems remotely."

SAP Transport management system

If offers an easy and convenient way to provide any transports for the given SAP instance (in contrast to executing this process directly from the OS using console commands) Most TMS software is not provided by SAP where SAP is not considered to be leader of any kind in this area.


BeIA

BeIA, or BeOS for Internet Appliances, was a minimized version of Be Inc.'s BeOS operating system for embedded systems.

Bloomberg Terminal

There are also applications that allow mobile access via Android, BlackBerry, and iOS.

Bryan Cantrill

Upon completing his B.Sc. in 1996, he immediately joined Sun Microsystems to work with Jeff Bonwick in the Solaris Performance Group.

Cracker Jack

In 2013, the prizes became codes for people to redeem "nostalgic" games on the Cracker Jack app through Google Play for Android-powered devices.

Cubieboard

This card is used by Fedora to test and develop the Allwinner SoC port of the distribution.

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

The game was originally released in Japan for the PlayStation Portable on November 25, 2010 and was later ported to iOS and Android devices on August 20, 2012.

Enlight cloud

Other operating systems are supported without scaling options, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Window Server 2003 and Windows 7.

Fluid Football

Fluid Football is a mobile association football game developed by independent studio Chromativity and published by AppyNation for iOS, Android, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and BlackBerry devices.

GNU toolchain

Parts of the GNU toolchain are also directly used with or ported to other platforms such as Solaris, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin and MinGW/MSYS) and Sony PlayStation 3.

HDOS

HDOS is an early microcomputer operating system, originally written for the Heathkit H8 computer system and later also available for the Heathkit H89 and Zenith Z-89 computers.

IBM mainframe

There are software-based emulators for the System/370, System/390, and System z hardware, including FLEX-ES and the freely available Hercules emulator which runs under Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

IguanaBee

and mobile games for various platforms, one being the game Whacky Escape! for tablets and smartphones in iOS, Android and BlackBerry.

Intel 80130

The Intel 80130, referred to as an "Operating System Processor," was developed as a support chip for the 8086/8088 processors and the Intel iRMX86 operating system.

Iskolinux

It is a coined term from the Filipino word iskolar which comes from the phrase "iskolar ng bayan", loosely referring to UP students as national scholars and Linux, the operating system.

James Ready

His company Montavista Software did pioneering work in adapting the operating system Linux for real-time applications.

Komputeko

Others who have availed themselves of Komputeko include Cindy McKee's KDE and Joomla translation teams, Esperanto Wikipedia founder Chuck Smith's Drupal translation and the former Amikumu projects, Tim Morley's OpenOffice.org translation team, Guillaume Savaton's GNOME translation team, the translation teams for Plone and Xfce, and Joop Kiefte's Ubuntu translation team.

Lempel–Ziv–Oberhumer

Various LZO implementations are reported to work under Win32, AIX, ConvexOS, IRIX, Mac OS, Palm OS, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Wii, Solaris, SunOS, TOS (Atari ST), Linux and VxWorks.

LSU Tiger Trails

The necessary information can also be found on their TransLōc app, which is available for BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android users.

Mac OS X v10.0

Mac OS X introduced the new Darwin Unix-like core and a totally new system of memory management.

Microbridge

Microbridge is a software stack that allows for communication between an Android mobile phone and an Arduino micro controller using the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) interface.

MicroStation

The latest versions of the software are released solely for Microsoft Windows operating systems, but historically MicroStation was available for Macintosh platforms and a number of Unix-like operating systems.

Miracle Systems

The QXL ran the SMSQ Qdos-compatible operating system and used the host PC's disks, screen, keyboard, serial and parallel ports via an MS-DOS "server".

MoSync

Support for iOS, Android and Moblin was announced on 19th Feb 2010 during Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona.

Netpbm

It is included in all major open source Unix-like operating system distributions and also works on other Unix-like operating systems, Windows, Mac OS X, and other platforms.

Network enumeration

Network Enumeration is the discovery of hosts/devices on a network, they tend to use overt discovery protocols such as ICMP and SNMP to gather information, they may also scan various ports on remote hosts for looking for well known services in an attempt to further identify the function of a remote host.The next stage of enumeration is to fingerprint the Operating System of the remote host.

New Era High School

The computer system, especially present in the Secondary Section, is Open Source based - highlighting Mandriva 2007 and Fedora Core 7, OpenOffice.org, and GIMP.

Œ

On mobile devices running iOS, Android or Windows Mobile, œ and Œ are accessed by holding down O until a small menu is displayed.

OpenArena

Thanks to third-party efforts, it is also available from the default repositories of a number of Linux distributions, including Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, Arch and Ubuntu.

PL/I

It comprised the data types EVENT and TASK, the TASK-option on the CALL-statement (Fork), the WAIT-statement (Join), the DELAY(delay-time), EVENT-options on the record I/O statements and the UNLOCK statement to unlock locked records on EXCLUSIVE files.

Porting

In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e.g. different CPU, operating system, or third party library).

Pragmatic General Multicast

It is not yet a standard, but has been implemented in some networking devices and operating systems, including Windows XP and later versions of Microsoft Windows, as well as in third-party libraries for Linux, Windows and Solaris.

PSTech

The company's main areas of expertise are development of object-oriented software, database design and software for mobile phones (Android, iPad).

QuickLOAD

Since version 3.0 QuickLOAD/QuickTARGET is supplied on a CD-ROM and requires Microsoft Windows 98 or a newer Microsoft Windows operating system version.

Relevance Language

Amongst other features the most prominent one is that it looks if a particular computer (whether its a Desktop, Laptop, Mobile running iOS or Android, Mac, Linux, etc.

Resolv.conf

In most Unix-like operating systems and others that implement the BIND Domain Name System (DNS) resolver library, the resolv.conf configuration file contains information that determines the operational parameters of the DNS resolver.

SciTech SNAP

SciTech SNAP Graphics has been ported to MS-DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows (CE, NT, 2000, XP), QNX, SMX (the SunOS/Solaris port of MINIX), Linux, On Time RTOS-32, Unununium OS operating systems.

SINIX

SINIX (later renamed to Reliant UNIX) was a variant of the Unix operating system from Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme.

Sirius Corporation Ltd

Sirius provide a full Enterprise Stack which can include, but is not limited to, products such as Asterisk (VoIP), JBoss (application server), Apache (web server), Squid (proxy), OGo/Scalix (groupware), Sendmail/Cyrus (email), Samba/CUPS (file & print), OpenLDAP (directory server), PostgreSQL (database), PostGIS (geographic information systems) and Linux (operating system).

Syllable Desktop

Syllable Desktop is a free and open source operating system for Pentium and compatible processors.

Tethering

Windows Mobile 6.5, Windows Phone 7, Android (starting from version 2.2), and iOS 3.0 (or later) offer tethering over a Bluetooth PAN or a USB connection.

The Spooler

The Spooler was a systems software operating system package that provided spooling facilities for the IBM System/370 running DOS/VS, DOS/VSE environment, and IBM System/360 running DOS/360 or retrofitted with modified DOS/360, such as TCSC's EDOS.

The Unix System

The Unix System (ISBN 0-201-13791-7) is a book by Stephen R. Bourne; it was the first widely available general introduction to the Unix operating system.

TME

TME, Transaction Machine Environment, a defunct computer operating system made by International Computers Limited (ICL)

Uccel

Uccel's "big-ticket item" claim to fame was software called UCC-1/TMS (Tape Management System), an IBM mainframe product for managing the tape library in an OS/MVS operating system environment.

USB mass storage device class

However, a keydrive or any other device may be formatted using another filesystem (for example HFS Plus on an Apple Macintosh, or Ext2 under Linux, or Unix File System under Solaris or BSD).

Vevo

Vevo is also available for a range of platforms including Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Fire OS, Google TV, Apple TV, Boxee, Roku and Xbox 360.

ViewSonic

The units were deemed capable of operating on nearly any operating system, including Windows CE, Linux, QNX and VxWorks.

Web desktop

The terms "web desktop" and "webtop" are distinct from web operating system, a network operating system such as TinyOS or distributed operating system such as Inferno.

Web interoperability

Web interoperability means producing web pages viewable in standard compatible web browsers, various operating systems such as Windows, Macintosh and Linux and devices such as PC, PDA and mobile phone based on the latest web standards.


see also

ALCS transaction monitor

It is a variant of TPF specially designed to provide all the benefits of TPF (very high speed, high volume, and high availability in transaction processing) but with the advantages such as easier integration into the data center offered by running on a standard IBM operating system platform.

Archos Generation 5

The Archos 705 WiFi was released on November 16, 2007 in capacities of 80GB and 160GB, with the same overall design of the last generation and an updated operating system and hardware compatibility.

Arial Unicode MS

The font is also apparently licensed to Apple, who announced on October 16, 2007 that their flagship operating system, Mac OS X v10.5 ("Leopard"), would be bundled with Arial Unicode.

BB10

BlackBerry 10, (formerly BBX) the most recent operating system for the BlackBerry line of smartphones developed by BlackBerry Ltd (formerly Research In Motion)

Berkeley sockets

Only in 1989, however, could UC Berkeley release versions of its operating system and networking library free from the licensing constraints of AT&T Corporation's proprietary Unix.

Berkeley Timesharing System

The TENEX operating system for the PDP-10 mainframe computer, used many features of this system, but extended the memory management to include demand paging.

Boot CD

Live CD, a specific type of boot disk that contains an entire operating system.

Brooke C. Wells

On March 3, 2003, SCO Group filed a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against IBM for allegedly devaluing its version of the Linux operating system and breaching its obligations under various UNIX licensing agreements.

Bus encryption

Such bus encryption is used by the Microsoft operating system Windows Vista and newer to protect certificates, BIOS, passwords, and program authenticity.

Capability-based addressing

W. David Sincoskie, David J. Farber: SODS/OS: Distributed Operating System for the IBM Series/1.

David E. Potter

In 1998, using Psion’s experience in small mobile operating systems, David led the creation of Symbian Limited in partnership with Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Matsushita to create the operating system standard for mobile wireless devices - now known as Symbian.

DCTS

Dartmouth College Timesharing System, a renamed version of the DTSS computer operating system

Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset

It was planned to be developed into the FlightLinux real-time operating system for spacecrafts, but the project it was intended for (UoSAT-12) eventually settled on the qCF operating system from Quadron Corporation instead.

Galsoft Linux

It also sought to have the operating system translated into Castilian and Galician.

History of Microsoft

DOS (Disk Operating System) was the operating system that brought the company its real success.

Around 1983, in collaboration with numerous companies, Microsoft created a home computer system, MSX, which contained its own version of the DOS operating system, called MSX-DOS; this became relatively popular in Japan, Europe and South America.

IBMDOS.COM

In Digital Research terminology, the kernel component of the operating system is called the BDOS (Basic Disk Operating System), a term originally coined by Gary Kildall in 1975 for CP/M, but which is continued to be used in all other DRI operating systems.

IMSAI 8080

In 1977, IMSAI marketing director Seymour I. Rubinstein paid Gary Kildall $25,000 for the right to run CP/M version 1.3, which eventually evolved into an operating system called IMDOS, on IMSAI 8080 computers.

Instant WebKiosk

Instant WebKiosk/UB, Unrestricted Browsing, is a live, browser-only (only browser interface will show up) operating system designed for web kiosks and multi-user web workstations: it is a fully customizable operating system for Internet browsing purposes, which protects privacy; users can change its settings but after a reset the operating system defaults to original values, except for persistent settings.

Look into the Eyeball

The single "Like Humans Do" was supplied with Windows XP Home Edition operating system to showcase Microsoft's Windows Media Player.

Macedonian language naming dispute

As of 2007, Microsoft only uses "Macedonian (FYROM)" as the name of the language in its then-current operating system, Windows Vista.

Map Overlay and Statistical System

In late 1979, the FWS purchased a Data General computer (AOS Operating System) and required MOSS to be ported from the CDC mainframe to the DG minicomputer.

Marco Iansiti

Iansiti and Sinofsky discuss the approach Sinofsky took within the Windows and Windows Live Group at Microsoft to bridge this gap during the development of the Windows 7 operating system.

Mark Crispin

He developed the first production PDP-10 32-bit address ARPAnet NCP for the WAITS operating system, and wrote or rewrote most of the WAITS ARPAnet protocol suite.

Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems

Digital Research had promised to deliver an 8086 version their CP/M operating system by December 1979 but missed that date.

Mostek

The Z80 eventually became the most popular microcomputer family as it was used in millions of embedded devices as well as in many home computers and computers using the de facto standard CP/M operating system, such as the Osborne, Kaypro, and TRS-80 models.

Nadim Kobeissi

Kobeissi is also known for discovering a privacy issue in Windows 8, in which the operating system automatically reported to Microsoft what applications users were installing in an insecure fashion.

OpenVMS

Roger Gourd was the project lead for the Starlet program, with software engineers Dave Cutler (who would later lead development of Microsoft's Windows NT), Dick Hustvedt, and Peter Lippman acting as the technical project leaders, each having responsibility for a different area of the operating system.

Option key

However, the Option key in a Mac operating system functions differently from the Alt key under other Unix-like systems or Microsoft Windows.

Orange County Astronomers

The game changer was the standardization by IBM of the personal computer and the Operating system by Microsoft.

PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes

As of November 1988, IBM was shipping a workstation version of the System/370 hardware intended to run IBM's VM/SP operating system.

Pentium D

The processor was based on the dual-core Pentium D branded Smithfield, but with Hyper-threading enabled, thus any operating system saw four logical processors (two physical and two virtual).

PlayStation 2 technical specifications

For example, the PS2 BIOS will not boot an ISO image from a USB flash drive or operate a USB printer, as the machine's operating system does not include this functionality.

Private Communications Technology

It is still found in IIS and in the Windows operating system libraries, although in Windows Server 2003 it is disabled by default.

Programmed Airline Reservations System

The high performance PARS operating system evolved from ACP (Airlines Control Program) to TPF (Transaction Processing Facility).

RQC

Remote Access Quarantine Client (in rqc.exe) in the Windows Server 2003 operating system

SCO OpenServer

Based on SCO UNIX 3.2v4, SCO OpenServer 5 would become SCO's primary product and serve as the basis for products like PizzaNet (the first Internet-based food delivery system done in partnership with Pizza Hut) and Global Access (the first commercially licensed and bundled Internet Operating System).

Shar

In 1987, Michael Bednarek from The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne developed a script for a similar purpose in the DIGITAL Command Language for the VMS operating system under the name "VMS Shar version 2".

Smaky

The Smaky is a line of mostly 8-bit personal computers and accompanying operating system developed by Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud and others at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland beginning in 1974.

Software calculator

Such software calculators first emerged in the 1980s as part of the Windows operating system, Windows 1.0.

Stanford University Network

The original router software was called NOS, Network Operating System, written by William Yeager, a staff research engineer at Stanford's medical school.

The Wollongong Group

Eunice - A UNIX emulator for the VAX VMS operating system (based on software written by David Kashtan at SRI)

UIQ Technology

UIQ 3.3 was the last version of the platform, based upon Symbian OS v9.3, which served as the core operating system.

VAXstation

The VT1300 X terminal was essentially a diskless VAXstation 3100 Model 30, running the VAXELN operating system.

Weather Star XL

The Weather Star XL utilizes the SGI IRIX Operating System with custom written software for The Weather Channel.

Xedit

XEDIT, a visual text editor for the VM/CMS operating system

XOS

Xerox Operating System, an operating system for the XDS Sigma line of computers