Software ( or firmware ) is also used in video games and for the configurable parts of the logic systems of automobiles, televisions, and other consumer electronics.

Operating systems include many standard Software libraries, and applications are often distributed with their own libraries.

* NJStar Software Corp. ( 南极星 Nanjixing ): Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language software solutions for use with Microsoft Windows operating systems.

The Software office will also be responsible for " software systems technology, machine intelligence and software engineering.

Since Id Software and some of its licencees released the source code for some of their previous games, several games which were not ported ( such as Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, Heretic, Hexen, Hexen II, and Strife ) can run on Linux and other operating systems through the use of source ports.

; Part 5: Describes systems for Software simulation.

Real-time operating systems that run on MIPS include CMX System, eCosCentric, ENEA, Express Logic, FreeRTOS, Green Hills Software, LynuxWorks, Mentor Graphics, Micrium, QNX Software Systems, Quadros Systems Inc., Segger and Wind River.

Software development systems for the PDP-8 series began with the most basic front panel entry of raw binary machine code ( booting entry ).

On March 11, 1997, id Software released WinQuake, a version of the non-OpenGL engine designed to run under Microsoft Windows ; the original Quake had been written for DOS, allowing for launch from Windows 95, but could not run under Windows NT-based operating systems because it required direct access to hardware.

Computer Software Engineers are usually systems level ( software engineering, information systems ) computer science or software level computer engineering graduates.

Other events cover subjects including acquisition of software-intensive systems, commercial off-the-shelf ( COTS )- based systems, network security and survivability, software process research, software product lines, CMMI, and the SEI Team Software Process.

In order to recognize outstanding achievement in improving an organization's ability to create and evolve software-dependent systems, the SEI and IEEE Computer Society created the Software Process Achievement Award program.

However, bulletin board systems ( BBS ) and computer expositions such as Software Creations BBS were the primary distributors of all early low-cost software.

* Software transactional memory, a method of handling concurrency in multithreaded systems

* Software Development Inc, mainframe systems software house responsible for GRASP, EPAT, UDC, FLEET

Software developers use it to write computer games or other multimedia applications that can run on many operating systems including Android, AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, FreeBSD, BeOS / Haiku, iOS, Linux, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, MorphOS, OpenVMS, PlayStation Portable, Syllable, Symbian, webOS, and Windows.

Software safety is a fast growing field since modern systems functionality are increasingly being put under control of software.

For compatibility with older systems, Apple shipped these fonts, a TrueType Extension and a TrueType-aware version of Font / DA Mover for System Software 6.

The C shell was developed by Bill Joy for the Berkeley Software Distribution, a line of Unix operating systems derived from Unix and developed at the University of California, Berkeley.

* Software incompatibility, a characteristic of software components or systems which cannot operate satisfactorily together

Software timekeeping systems vary widely in the granularity of their time units ; some systems may use time units as large as a day, while others may use nanoseconds.

The model is based on the process maturity framework first described in the 1989 book Managing the Software Process by Watts Humphrey.

When, three years later, 3D Realms released Duke Nukem 3D, a tongue-in-cheek science fiction shooter based on Ken Silverman's technologically similar Build engine, id Software had nearly finished Quake, its next-generation game, which mirrored Dooms success for the remainder of the 1990s and significantly reduced interest in its predecessor.

Software which incorporates a node based interface include Apple Shake, Blender, eyeon Fusion, and The Foundry's Nuke.

For example, in 1980, a company called " Don't Ask Software ", founded by Randy Simon, created a version called " Abuse " for the Apple II, Atari, and Commodore PCs, which verbally abused the user based on the user's input.

Category: Software companies based in Massachusetts

In the same way, the Debian project has its own criteria, the Debian Free Software Guidelines, on which the Open-Source Definition is based.

The definition was based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines, written and adapted primarily by Bruce Perens.

The group adopted the Open Source Definition for open-source software, based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

Category: Software companies based in California

* Quicksilver Software, a computer games company based in Irvine, California

Four video games have been developed based on the Shadowrun franchise ; the first in 1993 was an action role-playing game titled Shadowrun and developed by Beam Software ) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

* Combat Mission-( Big Time Software, 2000 )-not the first 3D tactical wargame ( titles such as Muzzle Velocity preceded it ), but a groundbreaking game series featuring simultaneous order resolution, complete orders of battle for numerous nationalities, with three titles based on the original game engine.

The added clause to the license was based on the original BSD license's advertising clause, which was viewed by the Free Software Foundation and Debian as incompatible with the GNU General Public License.

Category: Software companies based in California

Based on its success, Raven Software and Activision later published Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix in 2002, based on the Quake III: Team Arena engine.

Software based SMP systems can be created by linking smaller systems together.

: This page is about the ( now defunct ) sound card company based in Quebec City, Canada, named Ad Lib, Inc. — not to be mistaken with the software company Adlib Software or Adlib Information systems.

PureBasic is a commercially distributed procedural computer programming language and integrated development environment based on BASIC and developed by Fantaisie Software for Windows 32 / 64-bit, Linux 32 / 64-bit, and Mac OS X.

Category: Software companies based in Texas

* Rally Software, an Agile project management software and coaching / training company based in the USA

Cisco's IOS-XR ( ultra high availability IOS ) built about 2004-2005 is based on QNX software, as is IOS Software Modularity introduced in 2006.

* GeneXus: A Windows Rapid Software Development Solution for Cross-Platform application creation and deployment based on knowledge representation and supporting C #, Cobol, Java including Android and BlackBerry smart devices, Objective-C for Apple mobile devices, RPG, Ruby, Visual Basic, and Visual FoxPro.

This goal is achieved through the use of SDR systems based on an internationally endorsed open Software Communications Architecture ( SCA ).

( SUPER-UX, Berkeley Software Distribution ( BSD ) and SVR4. 2MP are Unix based operating systems )