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  2. Usage share of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    The usage share of an operating system is the percentage of computers running that operating system (OS). These statistics are estimates as wide scale OS usage data is difficult to obtain and measure. Reliable primary sources are limited and data collection methodology is not formally agreed.

  3. Comparison of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    The article "Usage share of operating systems" provides a broader, and more general, comparison of operating systems that includes servers, mainframes and supercomputers. Because of the large number and variety of available Linux distributions , they are all grouped under a single entry; see comparison of Linux distributions for a detailed ...

  4. Comparison of user features of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and some operating systems attempting to be compatible with MS-DOS, are sometimes referred to as "DOS" (which is also the generic acronym for disk operating system).

  5. 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 characteristics.

  6. Operating system - Wikipedia

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    The operating system provides an interface between an application program and the computer hardware, so that an application program can interact with the hardware only by obeying rules and procedures programmed into the operating system. The operating system is also a set of services which simplify development and execution of application programs.

  7. TOP500 - Wikipedia

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    Share of operating systems families in TOP500 supercomputers by time trend. All the fastest supercomputers since the Earth Simulator supercomputer have used operating systems based on Linux. Since November 2017, all the listed supercomputers use an operating system based on the Linux kernel. [13] [14]

  8. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    POSIX—Portable Operating System Interface, formerly IEEE-IX; POST—Power-On Self Test; PPC—PowerPC; PPI—Pixels Per Inch; PPM—Pages Per Minute; PPP—Point-to-Point Protocol; PPPoA—PPP over ATM; PPPoE—PPP over Ethernet; PPTP—Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol; PR—Pull Request; PROM—Programmable Read-Only Memory; PS—PostScript ...

  9. Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia

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    Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sectors of the computing industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an embedded system.