In the past Windows's AutoRun feature worked indiscriminately on any removable media, allowing USB storage devices to become the infection entryway for computer viruses.

Though there are some examples of such file formats ( e. g. Microsoft Windows's DLL files ), most container formats are specialized for specific data requirements.

Microsoft incorporated a taskbar in Windows 95 and it has been a defining aspect of Microsoft Windows's graphical user interface ever since.

In a command-line interpreter, such as Unix's sh or bash, or Windows's cmd. exe or PowerShell, or in similar command line interfaces, autocomplete of command names and file names may be accomplished by keeping track of all the possible names of things the user may access.

* Microsoft Windows contains application compatibility shims to make the platform compatible with most software from earlier 32-bit and 16-bit versions ( e. g. Civilization ( circa 1991, designed for Windows 3. 0 ) running on Windows Vista ).

1-2-3 was used to test general application compatibility, with Microsoft Flight Simulator being used to test graphics compatibility.

IBM's use of " OS / VS2 " emphasized upwards compatibility: application programs that ran under MVT did not even need recompiling to run under MVS.

The tradeoffs between application backward compatibility vs CPU performance are hotly debated by CPU design engineers.

Therefore, issues surrounding application compatibility appeared immediately.

POSIX defines the application programming interface ( API ), along with command line shells and utility interfaces, for software compatibility with variants of Unix and other operating systems.

The architecture has provided continuous application binary compatibility from the first SPARC V7 implementation in 1987 into the Sun UltraSPARC Architecture implementations.

A protected mode OS can also be written for the 80286, but DOS application compatibility was more difficult than expected, not only because most DOS applications accessed the hardware directly, bypassing BIOS routines intended to ensure compatibility, but also that most BIOS requests were made by interrupt vectors that were marked as " reserved " by Intel.

But soon other means of achieving application compatibility were proven to be more significant.

Classic's compatibility is good, provided the application using it does not require direct access to hardware or engage in full-screen drawing.

Because of the competing interests of cross-platform compatibility and advanced functionality, numerous alternative web application design strategies have emerged.

For the most part, the binary compatibility with real-mode code, the ability to access up to 16 MB of physical memory, and 1 GB of virtual memory, were the most apparent changes to application programmers.

Symbolic links are designed to aid in migration and application compatibility with POSIX operating systems.

The Sound Blaster family of sound cards was the de facto standard for consumer audio on the IBM PC compatible system platform, until the widespread transition to Microsoft Windows 95, which standardized the programming interface at application level ( eliminating the importance of backward compatibility with Sound Blaster ), and the evolution in PC design led to onboard motherboard-audio, which commoditized PC audio functionality.

This brought partial compatibility with the IBM PC and allowed the popular Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application to run on the Attache.

This test is still a one way test, in the sense that there is still a remote chance that the tubing that passes this test can still be incompatible for the application since the combination of borderline compatibility and mechanical flexing can push the tube over the edge, resulting in premature tube failure.

Also, the Linux Foundation released a tool to address application compatibility testing.

Although Presentation Manager was designed to be very similar to the upcoming Windows 2. 0 from the user's point of view, and Presentation Manager application structure was nearly identical to Windows application structure, source compatibility with Windows was not an objective.

Philips also provided a DOS backup application via their BBS, and later on, they provided an upgrade to the DCC-Studio software to fix some bugs and provide better compatibility with Windows 95 which had come out just before the release of the DCC-175.

However, because Apple was now committed to its memory management model, as well as compatibility with existing applications, it was forced to adopt a scheme where each application was allocated its own heap from the available RAM.

While the Mac OS memory model, with all its inherent problems, remained this way right through to Mac OS 9, due to severe application compatibility constraints, the increasing availability of cheap RAM meant that by and large most users could upgrade their way out of a corner.

The most common set of requirements defined by any operating system or software application is the physical computer resources, also known as hardware, A hardware requirements list is often accompanied by a hardware compatibility list ( HCL ), especially in case of operating systems.

People who use modern general purpose computers ( as opposed to embedded systems, analog computers and supercomputers ) usually see three layers of software performing a variety of tasks: platform, application, and user software.

Additional insight into defense-in-depth can be gained by thinking of it as forming the layers of an onion, with data at the core of the onion, people the next outer layer of the onion, and network security, host-based security and application security forming the outermost layers of the onion.

Compression bandaging, also called wrapping, is the application of several layers of padding and short-stretch bandages to the involved areas.

These concerns stem from sprawling application architectures that are not well designed or managed, in which development teams create an ever-growing number of " wrapper " layers that compromise maintainability.

MIL STD 2045-47001 covers layer 7 ( application ), while MIL STD 188-220 covers layers 1 through 3 ( physical, data link, and network ).

Between the layers ( and between the application and the top-most layer ), the layers pass service data units across the interfaces.

TCP / IP's layers are descriptions of operating scopes ( application, host-to-host, network, link ) and not detailed prescriptions of operating procedures or data semantics.

Subsequent layers are applied at increasingly heavier concentrations, always using a small round brush, only after the previous paint application has completely dried.

In a modern telephone switch, application of two different multiplexer approaches in alternate layers further reduces the cost of the switching fabric:

The standard is based on the communication stack of EIB but enlarged with the physical layers, configuration modes and application experience of BatiBUS and EHS.

However, as the application of subsequent layers tends to dissolve those already present, formation of multilayer structures is difficult with these methods.

# " Suitability to Type ", or the application of color, including layers, value and tone.

In software engineering, it is also considered good practice to develop or use abstraction layers for database access, so that the same application will work with different databases ; here, the abstraction layer allows other parts of the program to access the database transparently ( see Data Access Object, for example ).

The name indicates that HL7 focuses on application layer protocols for the health care domain, independent of lower layers.

Hardware abstraction layers are of an even lower level in computer languages than application programming interfaces ( API ) because they interact directly with hardware instead of a system kernel, therefore HALs require less processing time than APIs.

* Mop: a larger format brush with a rounded edge for broad soft paint application as well as for getting thinner glazes over existing drying layers of paint without damaging lower layers.

Each time a portion of different density is sedimented to the bottom of the container and extracted, and repeated application produces a rank of layers which includes different parts of the original sample.

To increase the contrast between the laminate layers many mokume-gane items are colored by the application of a patina ( a controlled corrosion layer ) to accentuate or even totally change the colors of the metal's surface.

* Medical information and communication theory: Motivated by the awareness of information as an essential principle of life the application of communication theory to biomedicine aims to mathematically describe signalling processes and information storage in different physiological layers.

ASIO bypasses the normal audio path from a user application through layers of intermediary Windows operating system software so that an application connects directly to the sound card hardware.