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.NET Compact Framework – Deployment

To be able to run applications powered by the .NET Compact Framework, the platform must support the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework runtime. Some operating systems which do include .NET CF are Windows CE 4.1, Microsoft Pocket PC, Microsoft Pocket PC 2002, Smartphone 2003, and Symbian v3. .NET Compact Framework applications can be run on desktop [...]

G.ho.st – Introduction

The G.ho.st service provides, over the Internet, a working environment that mimics the classic desktop provided by personal computer operating systems. As an internet-based service, users are able to create, save and return to a working environment from different physical computers and mobile phones. G.ho.st calls itself a ”virtual computer”. In July 2009 the software [...]

IBM Roadrunner – Introduction

IBM built the computer for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration. It is a hybrid design with 12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i and 6,480 AMD Opteron dual-core processors in specially designed blade servers connected by Infiniband. The Roadrunner uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux along with Fedora as its operating systems and is [...]

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard – Introduction

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) defines the main directories and their contents in Linux operating systems. For the most part, it is a formalization and extension of the traditional BSD filesystem hierarchy. The FHS is maintained by the Free Standards Group, now the Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization consisting of major software and hardware vendors, such [...]

GXemul – Introduction

GXemul (formerly known as mips64emul) is a computer architecture emulator being developed by Anders Gavare. It is available as free software under a revised BSD-style license. In 2005, Gavare changed the name of the software project from mips64emul to GXemul. This was to avoid giving the impression that the emulator was confined to the MIPS [...]

DIGITAL Command Language – Introduction

OpenVMS

DCL, the DIGITAL Command Language, is the standard command language adopted by most of the operating systems that were sold by the former Digital Equipment Corporation (which has since been acquired by Compaq which itself was acquired by Hewlett-Packard). It had its roots in the IAS, TOPS-20, and RT-11 operating systems and was implemented as [...]

CloudShare – Products and Offerings

Virtual Operating Systems

CloudShare combines aspects of virtualization, cloud computing and web conferencing to offer a software as a service (Saas) solution for delivering IT to colleagues, clients, customers and partners. Similar to virtual lab automation, CloudShare makes full-featured virtual enterprise environments available online and on-demand. This has a variety of applications including pre-sales demos, proofs-of-concept, evaluations, technical [...]

Transport Layer Interface – TLI and Sockets

Unix Operating Systems

It was originally expected that the OSI protocols would supersede TCP/IP, thus TLI is designed from an OSI& model-oriented viewpoint, corresponding to the OSI transport layer. Otherwise, TLI looks similar, API-wise, to sockets. TLI and XTI were widely used and, up to UNIX 98, were preferred over the POSIX Sockets API. TLI and XTI are [...]

Memory leak – Effects

Server Operating Systems

If a program has a memory leak and its memory usage is steadily increasing, there will not usually be an immediate symptom. Every physical system has a finite amount of memory, and if the memory leak is not contained (for example, by restarting the program with the leak) it will sooner or later start to [...]

Bachelor of Computer Science – Typical requirements

Since Computer Science is such a wide field, required Computer Science Degree courses varies. Here is a typical list of standard courses that most Computer Science Degrees require. * Programming Principles * Programming Paradigms * Algorithms * Data Structures * Logic and Computation * Computer architecture Some schools which place more emphasis on Mathematics will [...]

Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior – Campus

Windows Operating Systems

The institute is located on a sprawling campus at the foothills of Gwalior Fort. It is a fully residential campus with the faculty and students residing at the campus itself. It houses departmental blocks with Academic block houses LT, SH, Library, Labs and Faculty Offices, administrative block and the student hostels. There are two hostels [...]

Computer software – Software topics

Architecture Users often see things differently than programmers. People who use modern general purpose computers (as opposed to embedded systems, analog computers and supercomputers) usually see three layers of software performing a variety of tasks: platform, application, and user software. * Platform software: Platform includes the firmware, device drivers, an operating system, and typically a [...]

Outline of science – Scientific fields

Network Operating Systems

Fields of science are widely-recognized categories of specialized expertise within science, and typically embody their own terminology and nomenclature. Each field will commonly be represented by one or more scientific journal, where peer reviewed research will be published. Natural sciences & See also: Social sciences, below” Physical Sciences Chemistry * Analytical chemistry * Biochemistry * [...]

Microsoft Direct3D – Introduction

Windows Operating Systems

Direct3D is part of Microsoft’s DirectX API. Direct3D is only available for Microsoft’s various Windows operating systems (Windows 95 and above) and in the open source software Wine. It is the base for the graphics API on the Xbox and Xbox 360 console systems. Direct3D is used to render three dimensional graphics in applications where [...]









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