* Attached Support Processor, one of the two early IBM System / 360 programs that replaces the native SPOOL facilities of OS / 360 ; the other was Houston Automatic Spooling Priority ( HASP ).

With ASP Version 3 the name was changed to Asymmetric Multiprocessor and support was added for OS / VS2 ( SVS ).

* Auxiliary Storage Pool, a group of disk drives in the IBM i ( aka OS / 400 ) operating system

Three emulators of the machine exist, ElectrEm for Windows / Linux / Mac OS X, Elkulator for Windows / DOS and the Multi-system emulator MESS.

The rise of TCP / IP during the 1990s led to a re-implementation of most of these types of support on that protocol, and AppleTalk became unsupported as of the release of Mac OS X v10. 6 in 2009.

| ATA / ATAPI-8 || ATA-8 || — || || Hybrid drive featuring non-volatile cache to speed up critical OS files || In progress

( Around 1990, OS / 2 came out with " preemptive multitasking " of DOS, an alternative to DESQview for multi-node BBS.

By 1995, many of the DOS-based BBSes had begun switching to modern multitasking operating systems, such as OS / 2, Windows 95, and Linux.

JPI first launched a MS-DOS compiler named JPI Modula-2, that later became TopSpeed Modula-2, and followed up with TopSpeed C, TopSpeed C ++ and TopSpeed Pascal compilers for both the MS-DOS and OS / 2 operating systems.

MS-DOS and Win16 subsystems ( only on i386 ) can run some applications for those platforms, and it has an OS / 2 subsystem for running CLI OS / 2 applications.

IBM contributed its Common User Access model from OS / 2's Workplace Shell.

OS / 390 or its successor, z / OS, display dates in yy. ddd format for most operations.

* On systems that support one-button mice, context menus are typically opened by pressing and holding the primary mouse button ( this works on the icons in the Dock on Mac OS X ) or by pressing a keyboard / mouse button combination ( e. g. Ctrl-mouse click in Mac OS ).

Debian GNU / Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential Linux distribution.

* Open Dylan-Host of two open source, optimizing Dylan compilers targeting Unix / Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows

The redesigned AIM for Mac is a full universal binary Cocoa API application that supports both Tiger and Leopard – Mac OS X 10. 4. 8 ( and above ) or Mac OS X 10. 5. 3 ( and above ).

Empirical tests with a 4. 2 GB fragmented file on a DVD media have shown that Microsoft Windows XP supports this, while Mac OS X ( as of 10. 4. 8 ) does not handle this case properly.

Unlike the IBM PC, which used 8 kB of system ROM for power-on self-test ( POST ) and basic input / output system ( BIOS ), the Mac ROM was significantly larger ( 64 kB ) and held key OS code.

OS X v10. 8 " Mountain Lion " was announced on February 16, 2012, and was released online via the App Store on July 25.

Toward the end of the PDP-8 era, operating systems such as OS / 8 and COS-310 allowed a traditional line mode editor and command-line compiler development system using languages such as PAL-III assembly language, FORTRAN, BASIC, and DIBOL.

As of OS X 10. 8, garbage collection has been deprecated in favour of automatic / manual reference counting.

Mac OS included support of TTC starting with Mac OS 8. 5.

On Mac OS X v10. 5 ( Leopard ), Apple included X. org ( X11R7. 2 codebase ) instead of XFree86 ( X11R6. 8 ).

Third-party servers under Mac OS 7, 8 and 9 included Apple's MacX and White Pine Software's eXodus.

For much of the decade, System 7, Mac OS 8, and Mac OS 9 would be in consumer Macintoshes and its clones.

* August 8 ( August 18 OS ) – Peace of Travendal concluded between the Swedish Empire, Denmark-Norway and Holstein-Gottorp in Traventhal.

Mac OS X Server 1. 0-1. 2v3 were based on Rhapsody, a hybrid of OPENSTEP from NeXT Computer and Mac OS 8. 5. 1.

By the time they finally reached Charles and the main force on October 19 ( October 8 OS ), virtually no supplies and only 6, 000 men remained, only increasing Charles ' victuals problem.

Up to Darwin 8. 0. 1, Apple released a binary installer ( as an ISO image ) after each major Mac OS X release that allowed one to install Darwin on PowerPC and Intel x86 computers as a standalone operating system.

* Public domain OS library ( MVS version 3. 8, VM / CMS release 6, DOS / VS release 34, TSS / 370 version 3 )

Carbon provides a good degree of backward compatibility for programs to run on the now-obsolete Mac OS 8 and 9, however these systems are no longer actively supported since Apple released the final OS 9 update in December 2001.

The greater processing power of most systems that run Mac OS X ( compared to systems intended to run Mac OS 8 or 9 ) helps to mitigate the performance degradation of Classic's emulation.

On 8 January 1746 ( OS ) 19 January 1746 ( NS ), the army of Bonnie Prince Charlie seized control of the town but failed to take the Castle.

Supported platforms included Windows 3. 1 / 95, OS / 2 ( 16-bit ), Linux i386, Solaris Sparc / x86, Mac OS 7. 5 – 8. 0.

A retargetable sound API called AHI was developed allowing these cards to be used transparently by the OS and software.

Of the 32 KB RAM, 3½ KB was allocated to the OS at startup and at least 10 KB was taken up by the display buffer in contiguous display modes.

With the purchase of NeXT and subsequent development of Mac OS X, AppleTalk was strictly a legacy system.

Support was added to OS X in order to provide support for the large number of existing AppleTalk devices, notably laser printers and file shares, but alternate connection solutions common in this era, notably USB for printers, limited their demand.

AppleTalk support was finally removed from the MacOS in Mac OS X v10. 6 in 2009.

BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform which could be used by a substantial population of desktop users and a competitor to Mac OS and Microsoft Windows ( Linux was not relevant as a desktop OS at the time ).

Initially designed to run on AT & T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc .' s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS.

As that history implies, CCL was written for the Macintosh, but Clozure CL now runs on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris and Windows.

The embedded OS in the 1571 was CBM DOS V3. 0 1571, an improvement over the 1541's V2. 6.

The Atari OS only offered low-level disk-access, so an extra layer called DOS was booted off a floppy that offered higher level functions such as filesystems.

The DragonBall's major design win was in earlier versions of the Palm Computing platform ; however, from Palm OS 5 onwards it has been superseded by ARM-based processors from Texas Instruments and Intel.

Giulio Alberoni ( 30 May 1664 OS – 26 June NS 1752 ) was an Italian cardinal and

Modern Windows operating system versions are based on the newer Windows NT kernel that was originally intended for OS / 2.

A GUI, called the Presentation Manager ( PM ), was not available with OS / 2 until version 1. 1, released in 1988.

Both retained the rights to use OS / 2 and Windows technology developed up to the termination of the agreement ; Windows NT, however, was to be written anew, mostly independently ( see below ).

This was a major improvement: it featured a new, object-oriented GUI, the Workplace Shell ( WPS ), that included a desktop and was considered by many to be OS / 2's best feature.

This was one of the reasons for the chronic shortage of OS / 2 drivers for the latest devices.