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 [...]
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In computing, at least internally, metric time gained widespread use for ease of computation. Unix time gives date and time as the number of seconds since January 1, 1970, and Microsoft’s FILETIME as multiples of 100ns since January 1, 1601 . VAX/VMS uses the number of 100ns since November 17, 1858 and RISC OS the [...]
Acorn Computers An early implementation of the taskbar concept is seen in Acorn Computers Arthur operating system, which was released in 1987 for their Acorn Archimedes computer. It is called the ”Iconbar” and remains an essential part of Arthur’s succeeding RISC OS operating system. The Iconbar holds icons which represent mounted disc drives and RAM [...]
The concept of a ”resource manager” for graphics objects, to save memory, originated in the OOZE package on the Alto in Smalltalk-76. The concept is now largely universal in all modern operating systems. However, the concept of the resource fork remains peculiar to the Macintosh. Most operating systems used a binary file containing resources, which [...]
filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention (file format) of its contents. In some operating systems (for example UNIX) it is optional, while in some others (such as DOS) it is a requirement. Some operating systems limit the length of the extension (such as [...]
Ruby MRI is available for the following operating systems: * Acorn RISC OS * Amiga * BeOS * DOS (32-bit) * Internet Tablet OS * Linux * Mac OS X * Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/2003/NT/XP/Vista * Microsoft Windows CE * MorphOS * OS/2 * OpenVMS * Syllable * Symbian OS * Blue Gene/L compute node kernel [...]
icon bar is a fundamental feature of the graphical user interface of Acorn Computers’ RISC OS operating system. It displays icons through which access is provided to all parts of the computer that a typical user will require, from physical devices and system utilities to running applications, and will usually be their starting point for [...]
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 [...]
Whereas ”vi” was originally available only on Unix operating systems, Vim has been ported to numerous operating systems including AmigaOS (the initial target platform), Atari MiNT, BeOS, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008/Windows 7, IBM OS/2 and OS/390, MorphOS, OpenVMS, QNX, RISC OS, Unix, Linux, BSD, and Mac OS. In addition, Vim is shipped with [...]
Software applications and operating systems usually represent a newline with one or two control characters: * Systems based on ASCII or a compatible character set use either LF (Line feed, ‘n’, 0x0A, 10 in decimal) or CR (Carriage return, ‘r’, 0x0D, 13 in decimal) individually, or CR followed by LF (CR+LF, 0x0D 0x0A). These characters [...]
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