The operating system's file system knows where the data are physically stored (which sectors), and interaction between the app and operating system is through the programming interface (API).

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Mesosphere, the company that aims to build an operating system for the data center, today announced the launch of its developer program and SDK. Using the SDK, developers will be able to write ...

In this fourth lesson in the Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) series, you’ll see how to replace the horribly inefficient polling delay with efficient thread blocking. Specifically, in this lesson 25, ...

But Jolicloud is getting ready to roll out a new program launcher written in HTML5. The new UI looks slick and helps provide a more uniform experience throughout the operating system.

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 ...

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 ...