This operating system not only loaded programs automatically, like earlier batch systems, but could also run several at the same time on its single CPU. It did this through clever scheduling.

No doubt, it is difficult to design operating systems for computers that simultaneously run numerous applications, while managing interactions between multiple types of hardware and responding to ...

The operating system's file system knows where the data are physically stored (which sectors), and interaction between the app and operating system is through the programming interface (API).

The operating system maintains a “system call table” that has pointers to the functions that implement the system calls inside the kernel. From the program's point of view, this list of system calls ...

Does the developer operating system play a part in the SDLC equation anymore? Well, it depends on what you're programming. Mobile and cloud development demand different OS best practices.

The 24-year-old aims to create a smarter general population through The Programming Foundation, and the operating system that he’s developing.

Miro teaches the popular YouTube “Modern Embedded Systems Programming” video course on which this article series is based. Related Contents: Programming embedded systems: What is a Real-Time Operating ...

The PDP-11 helped birth the UNIX operating system and the C programming language. It would also greatly influence the next generation of computer architectures.

Since smartphones went mainstream, there has been a healthy debate over which mobile operating system is supreme and more profitable. Typically, the battle revolves around iOS and Android. Apple ...

We usually at least recognize old computer hardware and software names. But [Asianometry] taught us a new one: Pick OS. This ...