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These tables provide a comparison of operating systems, of computer devices, as listing general and technical information for a number of widely used and currently available PC or handheld (including smartphone and tablet computer) operating systems. The article "Usage share of operating systems" provides a broader, and more general, comparison ...
Comparison of instruction set architectures. An instruction set architecture ( ISA) is an abstract model of a computer, also referred to as computer architecture. A realization of an ISA is called an implementation. An ISA permits multiple implementations that may vary in performance, physical size, and monetary cost (among other things ...
An operating system ( OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs . Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also include accounting software for cost allocation of processor time, mass storage, peripherals, and ...
A system architecture primarily concentrates on the internal interfaces among the system's components or subsystems, and on the interface (s) between the system and its external environment, especially the user. (In the specific case of computer systems, this latter, special, interface is known as the computer human interface, AKA human ...
Version 6 Unix file system (V6FS) Bell Labs: 1972 Version 6 Unix: RT-11 file system DEC: 1973 RT-11: Disk Operating System GEC: 1973 Core Operating System CP/M file system: Digital Research (Gary Kildall) 1974 CP/M [1] [2] ODS-1: DEC: 1975 RSX-11: GEC DOS filing system extended GEC: 1977 OS4000: FAT (8-bit) Microsoft (Marc McDonald) for NCR: 1977
Cloud-computing comparison. Comparison of API simulation tools. Comparison of ASCII encodings of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Comparison of cognitive architectures. Comparison of color models in computer graphics. Comparison of CPU microarchitectures. Comparison of data structures. Comparison of e-book formats. Comparison of e-readers.
Comparison of platform virtualization software. Platform virtualization software, specifically emulators and hypervisors, are software packages that emulate the whole physical computer machine, often providing multiple virtual machines on one physical platform. The table below compares basic information about platform virtualization hypervisors.
GhostBSD – a FreeBSD -based operating system with OpenRC and OS packages. MidnightBSD – a FreeBSD -based OS with XFCE based Desktop Environment. Junos OS – a FreeBSD -based nonfree operating system distributed with Juniper Networks hardware. NomadBSD – a persistent live system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD.