Infrequently do we think of it as a living, continuing, operating control over the system.

* Aliens ( Kaypro video game ), a text-only clone of Space Invaders written for the CP / M operating system

The current drawn by typical constant-voltage energy distribution systems is usually dictated by the power ( watts ) consumed by the system and the operating voltage.

* 1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.

Provided that an applet is hosted by an operating system, it can function as any other normal software application but is and performs only a small set of tasks.

Carnegie built his wealth in the steel industry by maintaining an extensively integrated operating system.

Based on the Motorola 68000 family of microprocessors, the machine sports a custom chipset with graphics and sound capabilities that were unprecedented for the price, and a pre-emptive multitasking operating system called AmigaOS.

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

It has 32 kilobytes of RAM, and its ROM includes BBC BASIC v2 along with its operating system.

In practice the operating system ROMs always put the screen into the top 24 KB and as a result this probably only broke compatibility with around 2 % of software.

The operating system ROM contains the following text:

The Apple II disk operating system, known simply as DOS, thus intercepted all input typed at the BASIC command prompt to determine whether it was a DOS command.

The AIX family of operating systems debuted in 1986, became the standard operating system for the RS / 6000 series on its launch in 1990, and is still actively developed by IBM.

AIX was the first operating system to utilize journaling file systems, and IBM has continuously enhanced the software with features like processor, disk and network virtualization, dynamic hardware resource allocation ( including fractional processor units ), and reliability engineering ported from its mainframe designs.

Since 1990, AIX has served as the primary operating system for the RS / 6000 series ( later renamed IBM eServer pSeries, then IBM System p, and now IBM Power Systems ).

Version 4. 1, in a slightly modified form, was also the standard operating system for the Apple Network Server systems sold by Apple Computer to complement the Macintosh line.

The SCO Group, who argued they were the rightful owners of the copyrights covering the Unix operating system, attempted to revoke IBM's license to sell or distribute the AIX operating system.

One could " hotkey " from one operating system to the next using the Alt-Tab key combination.

Unlike AIX / 370, AIX / ESA ran both natively as the host operating system, and as a guest under VM.

AIX / ESA, while technically advanced, had little commercial success, partially because UNIX functionality was added as an option to the existing mainframe operating system, MVS, which became MVS / ESA OpenEdition in 1999.

These included updates to EtherTalk and TokenTalk, AppleTalk software and LocalTalk hardware for the IBM PC, EtherTalk for Apple's A / UX operating system allowing it to use LaserPrinters and other network resources, and the Mac X. 25 and MacX products.

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.

* Darwin ( operating system ), the Unix base for Apple's Mac OS X operating system

* Dock ( OS X ), a toolbar-like application launcher in the OS X operating system

Doom became a " killer app " that all capable consoles and operating systems were expected to have, and versions of Doom have subsequently been released for the following systems: DOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple Macintosh, Super NES, Sega 32X, Sony PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, iOS, Symbian OS, RISC OS, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Tapwave Zodiac, 3DO, Xbox, and Xbox Live Arcade.

The perennial debates between users of competing operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS, or the GNU / Linux operating system, users of Intel and AMD processors, and users of the Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 video game systems, often escalate into seemingly unending " flamewars ", called also software wars.

Originally developed on IRIX, Freeciv has been ported to many different operating systems: it is distributed with many Linux distributions, offers installers for Microsoft Windows, and has been known to run on Mac OS X, Solaris, Ultrix, QNX, OS / 2, Cygwin, AmigaOS, RISC OS, Maemo, ZETA, SkyOS and various BSDs.

Another common workaround is to run GLUT's event loop in a separate thread, although this may vary by operating system, and also may introduce synchronization issues or other problems: for example, the Mac OS X GLUT implementation requires that be run in the main thread.

As an example of this use, for Palm OS users ( until the 4th iteration of this operating system ), a " hack " refers to an extension of the operating system which provides additional functionality.

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

Version 2. 03, and later 3. 0, faced challenges from Apple over its overlapping windows and other features Apple charged mimicked the ostensibly copyrighted " look and feel " of its operating system and " embodie and generated a copy of the Macintosh " in its OS.

In an attempt to resolve this tension, IBM and Microsoft agreed that IBM would develop OS / 2 2. 0, to replace OS / 2 1. 3 and Windows 3. 0, while Microsoft would develop a new operating system, OS / 2 3. 0, to later succeed OS / 2 2. 0.

System / 370 introduced virtual memory capabilities in all models other than the very first System / 370 models ; the OS / VS1 variant of OS / 360 MFT, the OS / VS2 ( SVS ) variant of OS / 360 MVT, and the DOS / VS variant of DOS / 360 were introduced to use the virtual memory capabilities, followed by MVS, which, unlike the earlier virtual-memory operating systems, ran separate programs in separate address spaces, rather than running all programs in a single virtual address space.

John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.

A privately held company, Bunge & Born did not release periodical financial statements, though it reported US $ 2 billion in gross receipts in 1962 ; by then, it had become a leader in commodity futures trading, operating 110 offices worldwide.

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.

The operating system then decides what physical location to place the memory in.

However, the college did not hold its first class until 1838, until then operating sporadically due to financial difficulties.

Rail fins evolved into being and surged into popularity as riders ( Simon Anderson, most famously ) sought a solution to two major performance issues of a central " single " fin-both related to engagement of the foil: For one, a centrally-mounted fin is tilted up out of the water as the board is leaned over, and thus it loses more and more of its lift as the lean angle increases-if the lean angle is acute enough, the fin's tip can be the only area left in the water ; the tip may then rapidly stall and, having lost its lift, become disengaged from the water, leaving the board's bottom as the only control surface still operating.

President Obama observed, " If media is operating basically as a talk radio format, then that's one thing, and if it's operating as a news outlet, then that's another ".

The Mid-levels Escalator is the longest outdoor covered escalator system in the world, operating downhill until 10 am for commuters going to work, and then operating uphill until midnight.

* Gilbert C. Maurer, former head of Hearst Magazines, then executive vice president and chief operating officer under Bennack, now a consultant

By then, several professional hockey leagues were operating in Canada, with leagues in the Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec provinces of Canada.

Primarily used on small fishing craft, these are dual-fuel engines that start on gasoline and then transition to kerosene once the engine reaches optimum operating temperature.

These instructions displayed system information on the screen, ran memory checks, and then loaded an operating system from an external or peripheral device ( disk drive ).

For example, z900, z990, System z9, and System z10 servers effectively execute result-oriented instructions twice, compare results, arbitrate between any differences ( through instruction retry and failure isolation ), then shift workloads " in flight " to functioning processors, including spares, without any impact to operating systems, applications, or users.

The Montoneros ' leadership was keen to learn from the ERP's Compañía de Monte Ramón Rosa Jiménez operating in the Andean province of Tucumán and in 1975 sent " observers " to spend a few months with the ERP platoons operating against the 5th Infantry Brigade, then consisting of the 19th, 20th and 29th Mountain Infantry Regiments.

OS / 2 is a series of computer operating systems, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively.

For centrifugal pumps, the efficiency tends to increase with flow rate up to a point midway through the operating range ( peak efficiency ) and then declines as flow rates rise further.

However, whilst the New South Wales Police Force was established in 1862, it was made up from a large number of policing and military units operating within the then Colony of New South Wales and traces its links back to the Royal Marines.

A typical PDP-1 operating procedure was to output text to punched paper tape using the PDP-1's " high speed " ( 60 character per second ) Teletype model BRPE punch, then to hand carry the tape to a Flexowriter for offline printing.

The present locks, which will be 100 years old by that time, will then be able to give engineers greater access for maintenance, and are projected to continue operating indefinitely.