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.

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 ...

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.

Does the developer operating system play a part in the SDLC equation anymore? Well, it depends on what you're programming. Mobile and cloud development demand different OS best practices.

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 ...

Apple’s operating systems came with a graphical interface and mouse support. These wouldn’t be commonplace for Windows operating systems until well into the 1990s.

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