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  2. Windows Subsystem for Linux - Wikipedia

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    Windows 10 build 16251: Windows 10 version 1709 (Fall Creators Update) WSL 2 (lightweight VM) Windows 10 build 18917: Windows 10 version 2004 (also backported to 1903 and 1909) WSL 2 GPU support: Windows 10 build 20150: Windows 11 (also Windows 10 21H2) WSL 2 GUI support (WSLg) (last version) Windows 10 build 21364: Windows 11

  3. Preboot Execution Environment - Wikipedia

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    A high-level PXE overview. In computing, the Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE; often pronounced as / ˈ p ɪ k s iː / pixie, often called PXE boot (pixie boot), is a specification describing a standardized client–server environment that boots a software assembly, retrieved from a network, on PXE-enabled clients.

  4. Microsoft Windows library files - Wikipedia

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    The Windows installation procedure determines which ones are appropriate for the current platform and copies it to the hard drive, renaming it to hal.dll if necessary. Among the criteria for this selection are: the presence of an ACPI -compatible BIOS, the presence of an APIC , and whether or not multiple processors are present and enabled.

  5. Virtual machine - Wikipedia

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    A typical use would be to run a real-time operating system simultaneously with a preferred complex operating system, such as Linux or Windows. Another use would be for novel and unproven software still in the developmental stage, so it runs inside a sandbox. Virtual machines have other advantages for operating system development and may include ...

  6. Link-local address - Wikipedia

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    The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has reserved the IPv4 address block 169.254.0.0 / 16 (169.254.0.0 – 169.254.255.255) for link-local addressing. [1] The entire range may be used for this purpose, except for the first 256 and last 256 addresses (169.254.0.0 / 24 and 169.254.255.0 / 24), which are reserved for future use and must not be selected by a host using this dynamic ...

  7. Component Object Model - Wikipedia

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    COM is supported via bindings in several languages, such as C, C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, Python [10] [11] and several of the Windows scripting contexts. Component access is via interface methods. This allows for direct calling in-process and via the COM/DCOM sub-system access between processes and computers.

  8. Error detection and correction - Wikipedia

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    Error-correcting codes are used in lower-layer communication such as cellular network, high-speed fiber-optic communication and Wi-Fi, [11] [12] as well as for reliable storage in media such as flash memory, hard disk and RAM. [13] Error-correcting codes are usually distinguished between convolutional codes and block codes:

  9. Explicit Congestion Notification - Wikipedia

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    Windows versions since Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista support ECN for TCP. [11] Since Windows Server 2012, it is enabled by default in Windows Server versions, because Data Center Transmission Control Protocol (DCTCP) is used. [12] In previous Windows versions and non-server versions it is disabled by default.