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  2. Computer - Wikipedia

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    A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...

  3. List of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of operating systems. Computer operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other ...

  4. Timeline of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    Virtual Machine/Basic System Extensions Program Product (BSEPP or VM/SE) Virtual Machine/System Extensions Program Product (SEPP or VM/BSE) Virtual Machine Facility/370 (VM/370), sometimes known as VM/CMS; 1973 Эльбрус-1 – Soviet computer – created using high-level language uЭль-76 (AL-76/ALGOL 68) Alto OS; CP-V (Control Program V)

  5. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also include accounting software for cost allocation of processor time , mass storage , peripherals, and ...

  6. History of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    The original GUI was developed on the Xerox Alto computer system at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the early 1970s and commercialized by many vendors throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Since the late 1990s, there have been three operating systems in widespread use on personal computers: Apple Inc.'s macOS, the open source Linux, and Microsoft ...

  7. Category:Computer systems - Wikipedia

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    Computer system is defined as the combination of hardware, software, user and data. Subcategories This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total.

  8. Lists of computers - Wikipedia

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    List of computer systems from Croatia; List of computer systems from Serbia; List of computer systems from Slovenia; List of computer systems from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; List of Soviet computer systems

  9. Unix - Wikipedia

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    This new operating system was initially without organizational backing, and also without a name. The new operating system was a single-tasking system. [17] In 1970, the group coined the name Unics for Uniplexed Information and Computing Service as a pun on Multics, which stood for Multiplexed Information and Computer Services.