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  2. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system intended for applications with fixed deadlines ( real-time computing ). Such applications include some small embedded systems, automobile engine controllers, industrial robots, spacecraft, industrial control, and some large-scale computing systems.

  3. List of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    EOS – developed by ETA Systems for use in their ETA-10 line of supercomputers. EMBOS – developed by Elxsi for use on their mini-supercomputers. GCOS – a proprietary operating system originally developed by General Electric. MAI Basic Four – An OS implementing Business Basic from MAI Systems.

  4. Comparison of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    The article "Usage share of operating systems" provides a broader, and more general, comparison of operating systems that includes servers, mainframes and supercomputers . Because of the large number and variety of available Linux distributions, they are all grouped under a single entry; see comparison of Linux distributions for a detailed ...

  5. Comparison of open-source operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of operating systems. Comparison of Linux distributions. Comparison of BSD operating systems. Comparison of kernels. Comparison of file systems. Comparison of platform virtualization software. Comparison of DOS operating systems. List of operating systems. Live CD.

  6. Monolithic kernel - Wikipedia

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    Monolithic kernel. A monolithic kernel is an operating system architecture where the entire operating system is working in kernel space. The monolithic model differs from other operating system architectures (such as the microkernel architecture) [1] [2] in that it alone defines a high-level virtual interface over computer hardware.

  7. Multithreading (computer architecture) - Wikipedia

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    A process with two threads of execution, running on a single processor. In computer architecture, multithreading is the ability of a central processing unit (CPU) (or a single core in a multi-core processor) to provide multiple threads of execution concurrently, supported by the operating system. This approach differs from multiprocessing.

  8. History of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Computer operating systems (OSes) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer, and the links needed to control and synchronize computer hardware. On the first computers, with no operating system, every program needed the full hardware specification to run correctly and perform standard tasks, and its ...

  9. webOS - Wikipedia

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    NetCast (smart TVs) Official website. Open-source website. Developer website. webOS, also known as LG webOS and previously known as Open webOS, HP webOS and Palm webOS, [2] is a Linux kernel -based multitasking operating system for smart devices such as smart TVs that has also been used as a mobile operating system.