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Over the past few years the use of general purpose processors to run computationally intense multimedia applications has increased. In addition to multimedia-only applications, general purpose applications are starting to include multimedi...
Linux originated in 1991 in Finland as a project of University of Helsinki student Linus Torvalds, who was attempting to produce a Unix-like kernel (the essential, central part of an OS) for his Intel 386–based computer. Linux comprises the...
UNIX/Linux Operating System: A Comparison and Contrast Their History, Origin and Growth In the early 1990s, an online community of developers and experts, self-identified as hackers, responded to Torvalds' initial post in a Usenet newsgroup...
System/360, the first commercially available computer architectures microprogrammed (the latter to become known as computing complex set of instructions or CISC architecture). The success of the System/360 led to CISC architecture dominant ...
RISC (pronounced risk) is a CPU conceive scheme founded on the insight that simplified directions can supply higher presentation if this ease endows much quicker execution of each instruction. There are numerous suggestions for an accurate ...
computer systems. Additional advances in software, which includes the transition of the predominant approach to programming from machine language to assembly language to high-level procedural language to object-oriented language, have also ...
operating systems were control programs a few thousand bytes long that scheduled jobs, drove peripheral devices, and kept track of system usage for billing purposes. Modern operating systems are much larger, ranging from hundreds of thousan...