This operating system not only loaded programs automatically, like earlier batch systems, but could also run several at the same time on its single CPU. It did this through clever scheduling.

No doubt, it is difficult to design operating systems for computers that simultaneously run numerous applications, while managing interactions between multiple types of hardware and responding to ...

The operating system maintains a “system call table” that has pointers to the functions that implement the system calls inside the kernel. From the program's point of view, this list of system calls ...

The 24-year-old aims to create a smarter general population through The Programming Foundation, and the operating system that he’s developing.

The PDP-11 helped birth the UNIX operating system and the C programming language. It would also greatly influence the next generation of computer architectures.

Why do coders and developers prefer Mac OS X? Travel back in time 15 years and the idea that Apple would make the best operating system for developers would have sounded faintly ridiculous. Before ...

Miro teaches the popular YouTube “Modern Embedded Systems Programming” video course on which this article series is based. Related Contents: Programming embedded systems: What is a Real-Time Operating ...

Since smartphones went mainstream, there has been a healthy debate over which mobile operating system is supreme and more profitable. Typically, the battle revolves around iOS and Android. Apple ...

Drivers are provided for Windows 7/XP/Vista (32/64-bit), Windows CE, Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSUSE distributions), and Mac OS X. Users can create programs on these operating systems with ...

We usually at least recognize old computer hardware and software names. But [Asianometry] taught us a new one: Pick OS. This ...