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Today’s operating systems pose a significant barrier to a number of promised exciting innovations in computer hardware and applications — from personal assistant robots to autonomous vehicles to edge ...

A new cloud-based operating system for all kinds of computer is being developed by researchers in China. Details of the TransOS system are reported in a forthcoming special issue of the ...

Kazeta is a new Linux-based operating system that brings that kind of experience to modern PCs. Developed by the founder of ChimeraOS over the past six months, the operating system was introduced to ...

Microsoft battled Digital Research’s CP/M-based operating systems for the next few years, but as Ruffer and Waldman note, Microsoft was the leading producer of computer languages and had control over ...