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Windows NT – Introduction

Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was originally designed to be a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement consumer versions of Windows that were based on MS-DOS. NT [...]

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 [...]

Vaporware – Introduction

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

Windows Server 2003 – Editions

Windows Server 2003 comes in a number of editions, each targeted towards a particular size and type of business. In general, all variants of Windows Server 2003 have the ability to share files and printers, act as an application server, and host message queues, provide email services, authenticate users, act as an X.509 certificate server, [...]

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 [...]

Windows NT 4.0 – Introduction

Windows Operating Systems

Windows NT 4.0 is a preemptive, graphical and business-oriented operating system designed to work with either uniprocessor or symmetric multi-processor computers. It was the next release of Microsoft’s Windows NT line of operating systems and was released to manufacturing on 31 July 1996 . It is a 32-bit Windows system available in both workstation and [...]

86-DOS – IBM interest

In October 1980, IBM was developing what would become the original IBM Personal Computer. CP/M was by far the most popular operating system in use at the time, and IBM felt it needed CP/M in order to compete. IBM’s representatives visited Digital Research and discussed licensing with Digital Research’s licensing representative, Dorothy McEwen Kildall, who [...]

History of Microsoft – 1975–1985: The founding of Microsoft

Unix Operating Systems

Adapted from the Wikipedia article History of Microsoft, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

History of Microsoft – Introduction

IBM I Operating System

history of Microsoft began on April 4, 1975, when it was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque. Its current best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. Starting in 1980, Microsoft formed an important partnership with IBM that allowed them to bundle Microsoft’s operating [...]

Doom (video game) – Release and later history

NeXTStep Operating System

Initial popularity The development of ”Doom” was surrounded by much anticipation. The large number of posts in Internet newsgroups about ”Doom” led to the SPISPOPD joke, to which a nod was given in the game in the form of a cheat code. In addition to news, rumors and screenshots, unauthorized leaked alpha versions also circulated [...]

History of personal computers – The IBM PC

IBM I Operating System

IBM responded to the success of the Apple II with the IBM PC, released in August, 1981. Like the Apple II and S-100 systems, it was based on an open, card-based architecture, which allowed third parties to develop for it. It used the Intel 8088 CPU running at 4.77& MHz, containing 29,000 transistors. The first [...]

Darl McBride – Linux controversy

Unix Operating Systems

McBride has been controversial in the information technology industry for his role as the CEO of SCO in asserting broad claims of intellectual property ownership of the various UNIX operating systems derivatives developed by IBM under a license originally granted by AT&T. Open source, free software and Linux developers and supporters, and the computer industry [...]

Vendor lock-in – Lock-in for electronics and computers

Desktop Operating Systems

Vendor lock-in is rampant in the computer and electronics industries. In the computer industry, both hardware and software, vendor lock-in can be used to describe situations in which there is a lack of compatibility or interoperability between equivalent components. This can make it difficult to switch systems at many levels; the application program, the file [...]

Linux adoption – Types of hardware platforms

Virtual Operating Systems

Linux is used on desktop computers, servers and supercomputers, as well as a wide range of devices. Desktop computers Measuring desktop adoption Because Linux desktop distributions are not usually distributed by retail sale like other operating systems, there are no sales numbers that indicate the number of users. One downloaded file may be used to [...]









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