Nifty Operating Systems
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Multics
Multics ( Mult iplexed I nformation and C omputing S ervice ) was an influential early time-sharing operating system . The project was started in 1964 in Cambridge, Massachusetts .
NeXTSTEP
NeXTSTEP (also written NeXTstep , NeXTStep , and NEXTSTEP [ 1 ] ) was an object-oriented , multitasking operating system developed by NeXT Computer to run on its range of proprietary workstation computers, such as the NeXTcube . It was later ported to several other computer architectures .
Display PostScript (or DPS ) is a graphical user interface (GUI) system for computers which uses the PostScript (PS) imaging model and language (originally developed for computer printing ) to generate on-screen graphics. To the basic PS system, DPS adds a number of features intended to ease working with bitmapped displays and improve performance of some common tasks. Early versions of PostScript display systems were developed at Adobe Systems .
Display PostScript
NeXTcube
The NeXTcube was a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured and sold by NeXT from 1990 until 1993. It superseded the original NeXT Computer workstation and was housed in a similar cube-shaped magnesium enclosure. The workstation ran the NeXTSTEP operating system .
IRIX is a computer operating system developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) to run natively on their MIPS architecture workstations and servers.
IRIX
OpenGL ( Open G raphics L ibrary) [ 3 ] is a cross-language , multi-platform API for rendering 2D and 3D computer graphics . The API is typically used to interact with a GPU , to achieve hardware-accelerated rendering. OpenGL was developed by Silicon Graphics Inc. in 1992 [ 4 ] and is widely used in CAD , virtual reality , scientific visualization, information visualization, flight simulation , and video games .
OpenGL
Linus Torvalds neatly straddled the GPL/anti-GPL divide by using the GNU toolkit to surround the Linux kernel he had invented and the GPL's infectious properties to protect it, but rejecting the ideological program that went with RMS's license.
OS Comparisons - Linux
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Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel
The ext2 or second extended filesystem is a file system for the Linux kernel .