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Pipeline (Unix) – History

The pipeline concept and the vertical-bar notation was invented by Douglas McIlroy, one of the authors of the early command shells, after he noticed that much of the time they were processing the output of one program as the input to another. His ideas were implemented in 1973 when Ken Thompson added pipes to the [...]

E/OS – History

The project was started in 1995 with the goal of a free DOS. Until 1998 it was based exclusively on FreeDOS, and since then has been based on SEAL GUI. In 2000 the E/OS project switched to a larger focus, to create a system capable of running programs written for multiple platforms, including BeOS, Microsoft [...]

Executable and Linkable Format – 86open

86open was a project to form consensus on a common binary file format for Unix and Unix-like operating systems on the common PC compatible x86 architecture, so as to encourage software developers to port to the architecture. The format eventually chosen was ELF, specifically the Linux implementation of ELF, after it had turned out to [...]

The Battle for Wesnoth – Development

The game is programmed in C++. It is cross-platform, and runs on AmigaOS 4, BeOS, FreeBSD, Linux (including OS flavors running on GP2X and Nokia n800, n810, and n900 handheld devices), Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, MorphOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, RISC OS, iPhone OS, and Solaris. Wesnoth development is decentralized due to its free and open-source [...]

TestDisk – Partition recovery

TestDisk queries the BIOS or the operating system in order to find the data storage devices (hard disks, memory cards…) and their characteristics (LBA size and CHS geometry). TestDisk can * Recover deleted partition * Rebuild partition table * Rewrite the Master boot record (MBR) TestDisk does a quick check of the disk’s structure and [...]

SubStation Alpha – Applications that can read and render SSA subtitles

* Avidemux – open-source video editing and processing software. * Combined Community Codec Pack – open source DirectShow set of codecs provided with third party players. Once installed, it allows Window Media Player to display SSA subtitles. * Media Player Classic – open source, standalone media player for Windows. * MPlayer – open source media [...]

Control-Alt-Delete – Introduction

Control-Alt-Delete (often abbreviated to Ctrl-Alt-Del, also known as the “three-finger salute”) is a computer keyboard command on IBM PC compatible systems that can be used to reboot the computer, and summon the task manager or Windows Security in more recent versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. It is invoked by pressing the Delete key [...]

Tz database – Use in software systems

The tz database is used for time zone processing and conversions in many computer software systems, including: * BSD-derived systems, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, and Mac OS X; * the GNU C Library and systems that use it, including GNU, most Linux distributions, BeOS, Haiku, Nexenta OS, and Cygwin; * the Java Runtime [...]

PvPGN – Supported Platforms

*BeOS *FreeBSD 4.x 5.x 6.x 7.x 8.x *Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernel *Mac OS X 10.2 and up *Microsoft Windows 5x/6x kernel, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Home Server *Solaris * Platform support should be easy on any POSIX compatible system. (Tested on 32 and 64 bit platforms, various integer [...]

Access Systems Americas, Inc. – Introduction

IBM I Operating System

Adapted from the Wikipedia article Access Systems Americas, Inc., under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

History of Apple Inc. – 1985-1997: Sculley, Spindler, Amelio

NeXTStep Operating System

The Apple II family of the 1980s Apple now had two separate, incompatible platforms: the Apple II, an affordable, expandable home computer, and the Apple Macintosh, the closed platform for professionals. John Gruber, among others, has speculated that this platform incompatibility was the main reason the Macintosh did not share the initial commercial success which [...]

BeOS – History

NeXTStep Operating System

Initially designed to run on AT&T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be’s own systems, later Apple, Inc.’s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS Classic. Apple CEO Gil [...]

John the Ripper – Introduction

John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool. Initially developed for the UNIX operating system, it currently runs on fifteen different platforms (11 architecture-specific flavors of Unix, DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS). It is one of the most popular password testing/breaking programs as it combines a number of password crackers into one package, [...]

Serial presence detect – Reading and writing SPD information

OpenBSD

Memory module manufacturers write the SPD information to the EEPROM on the module. Motherboard BIOSes read the SPD information to configure the memory controller. There exist several programs that are able to read and modify SPD information on most, but not all motherboard chipsets. * [http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/ dmidecode] program that can decode information about memory (and [...]









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