Windowing system, a graphical user interface (GUI) which implements windows as a primary metaphor
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Address Windowing Extensions, a Microsoft Windows Application Programming Interface
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An article published in Dr. Dobb's Journal in 2004 noted that memory allocated using Address Windowing Extensions will not be written to the pagefile, and suggested that AWE regions could therefore be used as a way of protecting sensitive application data such as encryption keys.
Core OpenGL: Apple Computer's Macintosh Quartz windowing system interface to the Mac OS X implementation of the OpenGL specification
Additionally, while technical director of Project Athena, he was supportive of the development of the X Window System, an open windowing system, still used and developed to this day on Linux and UNIX.
Another significant Convergence development is DirectFB, a thin library that provides hardware graphics acceleration and windowing features for Gtk+-based and other graphical Linux applications without the use of an X11 server, and which its developers claim "adds graphical power to embedded systems".
GNU Unifont is a bitmap-based font created by Roman Czyborra that is present in most free operating systems and windowing systems such as Linux, XFree86 or the X.Org Server.
Operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS (version 9 and earlier), and Palm OS, contain a windowing system which is integrated with the OS.
Programs such as OpenOffice.org use XDarwin to run in the X11 windowing environment, either in a rootless or full-screen mode.