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Open Kernel Labs – Products

OKL4 Microvisor [http://okl4.org OKL4] is an open source system software platform for embedded systems that can be used as a hypervisor as well as a simple real-time operating system with memory protection. The OKL4 “microvisor” is based upon the L4 microkernel. OKL4 is a Type I Embedded Hypervisor and runs on single- and multi-core platforms [...]

PA-RISC – History

In the late 1980s HP was building four series of computers, all based on CISC CPUs. One line was the IBM PC compatible Intel i286 based Vectra Series started 1986. All others were non-Intel systems. One of them was the HP Series 300 of Motorola 68000-based workstations, another Series 200 line of technical workstations based [...]

Motorola ROKR E6 – Introduction

Motorola ROKR E6 (pronounced “”rocker””) is the third phone in Motorola’s ROKR range of multimedia phones. It was released in the China on November 14, 2006, and subsequently worldwide on December 4, 2006. The ROKR E6 is a direct descendant of the E680 and the MING, sharing the same Montavista Linux operating system, Intel XScale [...]

Disk cloning – Operating environment

A disk cloning program needs to be able to read even protected operating system files on the source disk, and must guarantee that the system is in a consistent state at the time of reading. It must also overwrite any operating system already present on the destination disk. To simplify these tasks, most disk cloning [...]

Imeem – imeem technology

imeem is primarily written in C#; while most of the front-end web servers run under Windows, the rest of their servers run the Linux operating system. The website heavily uses Ajax and Flash to deliver the content and allow users to access it. Video and audio are both encoded as FLV files, audio is delivered [...]

Btrfs – Introduction

Btrfs (B-tree file system, pronounced “”Butter F S””, “”B-tree F S””) is a GPL-licensed copy-on-write file system for Linux. Btrfs is intended to address the lack of pooling, snapshots, checksums and integral multi-device spanning in Linux file systems, these features being crucial as the use of Linux scales upward into larger storage configurations common in [...]

Verdana – Legal restrictions and prevalence

Released in 1996, Verdana was bundled with subsequent versions of the Windows operating system, as well as their Office and Internet Explorer software on both Windows and Mac OS. In addition, it was long available for download from Microsoft’s web site allowing it to be used by any system supporting TrueType fonts. The downloadable file [...]

Sun Microsystems – History

The initial design for what became Sun`s first Unix workstation, the Sun-1, was conceived by Andy Bechtolsheim when he was a graduate student at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He originally designed the SUN workstation for the Stanford University Network communications project as a personal CAD workstation. It was designed as a 3M computer: [...]

ProvideX – Introduction

ProvideX is a computer language and development environment derived from Business Basic (a business oriented derivative of BASIC) in the mid-1980s. ProvideX is available on several operating systems (Unix/Linux/Windows/Mac OS X) and includes not only the programming language but also file system, presentation layer interface, and other components. The language is primarily designed for use [...]

History of the graphical user interface – The 80s: Early commercial developments

Apple Lisa and Macintosh (and later, the Apple IIgs) Beginning in 1979, started by Steve Jobs and led by Jef Raskin, the Lisa and Macintosh teams at Apple Computer (which included former members of the Xerox PARC group) continued to develop such ideas. The Macintosh, released in 1984, was the first commercially successful product to [...]

ConcourseConnect – Software Requirements

The product is a pure-Java server-side web application and will run on any platform where Java (JDK 5 or better) is installed. *Operating Systems ** Microsoft Windows ** Linux, Solaris ** Mac OS X *Application Servers ** Apache Tomcat (5.5 or better recommended) *Databases ** Postgres (8.0 or better recommended) Adapted from the Wikipedia article [...]

RISC OS – Demise of Acorn Computers Ltd

Acorn officially halted work in all areas except set-top boxes in late 1998 and the company was renamed Element 14 (the 14th element of the periodic table being silicon) with a new goal to become purely a Silicon design business (like the previous very successful spin off of ARM from Acorn in 1990). RISC OS [...]

Gordano Messaging Suite – Introduction

Gordano Messaging Suite (GMS) is a commercial mail and groupware server developed by Gordano Ltd. It runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and AIX. Originally called NTMail which was the first commercially available mail for the Windows platform, the products were rebranded to the Gordano Messaging Suite in August 2002 to reflect the support for additional [...]

FreeBASIC – Introduction

FreeBASIC is a free/open source (GPL), 32-bit BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, protected-mode DOS (DOS extender), Linux, FreeBSD and Xbox. FreeBASIC allows a high level of support for programs written for QuickBASIC, by using the “QB” dialect. Many programs written for QuickBASIC will compile and run in this mode without any changes needed. However, most [...]









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