AIX ( Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced ) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.

However, as the market for large systems shifted from proprietary architectures to common servers, the company eventually dropped the V-Series line, although V-series systems were still in use by customers as of 2010.

Berkeley DB provides the underlying storage and retrieval system of several LDAP servers, database systems, and many other proprietary and free / open source applications.

With open software specifications and the possibility of software licensing, new opportunities arose for software tools that then became the de facto standard, such as DOS for operating systems, but also various proprietary word processing and spreadsheet programs.

He conceived and developed many of his user interface ideas back in the mid-1960s, long before the personal computer revolution, at a time when most individuals were kept away from computers, and could only use computers through intermediaries ( see batch processing ), and when software tended to be written for vertical applications in proprietary systems.

Ethernet initially competed with two largely proprietary systems, Token Ring and Token Bus.

Some of the 386 systems had proprietary 32-bit extensions to the ISA bus.

The goal was to establish a common format from which the proprietary formats of the EDA systems could be derived.

* Ultra Fractal-A proprietary fractal generator for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X based systems

As a result, high-quality typesetting systems often use proprietary or idiosyncratic extensions on top of the ASCII and ISO / IEC 8859 standards, or use Unicode instead.

HP believed that it was no longer cost-effective for individual enterprise systems companies such as itself to develop proprietary microprocessors, so it partnered with Intel in 1994 to develop the IA-64 architecture, derived from EPIC.

Multiplan was released first for computers running CP / M ; it was developed using a Microsoft proprietary p-code C compiler as part of a portability strategy that facilitated ports to systems such as MS-DOS, Xenix, Commodore 64, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, Radio Shack TRS-80 Model II, TRS-80 Model 100 ( on ROM ), Apple II, and Burroughs B-20 series.

Less common closed proprietary systems also exist.

The most widely implemented open protocols for the MUA are the Post Office Protocol ( POP3 ) and the Internet Message Access Protocol ( IMAP ), but many proprietary systems exist ( Exchange, Lotus Domino / Notes ) for retrieving messages.

The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating systems business is unlikely to remain profitable in the future because of competition from free software.

These are available as cross-platform free / open source or proprietary programming interfaces written on top of OpenGL and systems libraries to enable the creation of real-time visual simulation applications.

PostScript 3 was significant in terms of replacing the existing proprietary color electronic prepress systems, then widely used for magazine production, through the introduction of smooth shading operations with up to 4096 shades of grey ( rather than the 256 available in PostScript Level 2 ), as well as DeviceN, a color space that allowed the addition of additional ink colors ( called spot colors ) into composite color pages.

His case study looked at IEEE-488, an international standard set by the leading US standards body ; it led to a failure of small automation systems using the IEEE-488 standard ( which codified a proprietary communications standard HP-IB ).

There were proprietary wallport / cable systems that claimed to avoid these problems ( e. g. SaferTap ) but these never became widespread, possibly due to a lack of standardization.

Earlier versions of HP-UX supported the HP Integral PC and HP 9000 Series 200, 300, and 400 computer systems based on the Motorola 68000 series of processors, as well as the HP 9000 Series 500 computers based on HP's proprietary FOCUS processor architecture.

Also it should be noted that most IP controllers utilize either Linux platform or proprietary operating systems, which makes them more difficult to hack.

In contrast, military communication systems such as JTRS, which place a great deal of importance on robustness and information security, typically use very proprietary methods.

Windows and Mac OS X server operating systems are deployed on a minority of servers, as are other proprietary mainframe operating systems, such as z / OS.

In a similar growth pattern, proprietary development methods became standard Software development methodology.

Due to the proprietary technology the Maglev Trains couldn't be incorporated into the Shanghai Metro and became a " train to nowhere " as its final stop is another 20 mins connection to the city centre via the Shanghai Metro.

It started as a proprietary PC variant intended for multimedia applications and computer games, but later became more compatible with regular PCs.

This action became known as the Protestant Revolution of 1689, and resulted in the reversion of Lord Baltimore's proprietary charter and the province being converted into a Royal colony.

Although Apollo systems were easy to use and administer, they became less cost-effective because the proprietary operating system made software more expensive than Unix software.

He eventually became its managing editor, and obtained a proprietary interest.

After the V. 90 industry standard became available, USR abandoned its proprietary protocols.

Leased lines were first used in the 1970s by enterprise with proprietary protocols such as IBM System Network Architecture and Digital Equipment DECnet, and with TCP / IP in University and Research networks before the Internet became widely available.

On April 17, 1702, under the rule of Queen Anne, the two sections of the proprietary colony were united and New Jersey became a royal colony.

The proprietary colony's charter remained in the hands of the Penn family until the American Revolution, when the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was created and became one of the original thirteen states.

The Penns were slow to perceive that the growing unrest which became the American Revolution would threaten their proprietary interests.

He became proprietary governor in August 1785.

After MOSIX became proprietary software in late 2001, Moshe Bar forked the last free version and started the openMosix project on February 10, 2002.

openMosix was originally forked from MOSIX by Moshe Bar on February 10, 2002 when MOSIX became proprietary software.

The area that became the Granville District had been a part of the Province of Carolina, which was a proprietary colony under the control of eight Lords Proprietor from 1663 to 1729.

It was discontinued when commodity PC and Macintosh hardware became more cost-effective than the proprietary Atari based systems.

In 1639, on the basis of a grant by King Charles I, the island was settled by Lion Gardiner as a proprietary colony, the first English colonial settlement in what later became New York state.

In order to give his new province access to the ocean, Penn had leased the proprietary rights of the King's brother, James, Duke of York to what became known as the " three lower counties " on the Delaware.

It started as a proprietary PC variant intended for multimedia applications and PC games, but later became more compatible with regular PCs.

* Tornado, a proprietary DOS-based personal information manager software application, which later became InfoSelect

Hull developed a proprietary and large scale reliable distributed system architecture, providing automatic real-time pricing, risk management, market making and interconnection with automated options, futures and stock exchanges as they became available.

Despite its limited set of features and low data density, it became the industry conventional format for transfer of IC layout data between design tools of different vendors, all of which operated with proprietary data formats.

A proprietary colony was a colony in which one or more individuals, usually land owners, remaining subject to their parent state's sanctions, retained rights that are today regarded as the privilege of the state, and in all cases eventually became so.