; CMUCL: Originally from Carnegie Mellon University, now maintained as free and open source software by a group of volunteers.

Since 1996, the HTML specifications have been maintained, with input from commercial software vendors, by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ).

People primarily known for their contributions to the consciousness of the programmer subculture of hackers include Richard Stallman, the founder of the free software movement and the GNU project, president of the Free Software Foundation and author of the famous Emacs text editor as well as the GNU Compiler Collection ( GCC ), and Eric S. Raymond, one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative and writer of the famous text The Cathedral and the Bazaar and many other essays, maintainer of the Jargon File ( which was previously maintained by Guy L. Steele, Jr .).

His theory of " cultural software " maintained that memes form narratives, networks of cultural associations, metaphoric and metonymic models, and a variety of different mental structures.

* MKS Toolkit, originally created for MS-DOS, is a software package produced and maintained by MKS Inc. that provides a Unix-like environment for scripting, connectivity and porting Unix and Linux software to both 32-and 64-bit Microsoft Windows systems.

" Rosetta " is an online language translation tool to help localisation of software, developed and maintained by Canonical as part of the Launchpad project.

Last stable GNU version ( 1. 2. 3 ) was released in July 2007 and the software is currently not maintained.

Application level compatibility ( with some restrictions ) for System / 360 software is maintained until present day with the IBM zSeries computers.

In the diagnostic case, software engineers use tools such as profilers to measure what parts of a device or software contributes most to the poor performance or to establish throughput levels ( and thresholds ) for maintained acceptable response time.

Like all compliance testing, it is important that the test equipment, including the test chamber or site and any software used, be properly calibrated and maintained.

In many organizations because of the number of devices or products that need to be maintained or the complexity of systems, there is a need to manage the information with software packages.

One of the functions of such software is the configuration of bills of materials or BOMs, taking the component parts list from engineering ( eBOM ) and manufacturing ( mBOM ) and updating it from " as designed “ through " as built ”, " as delivered ", “ as maintained ”, and “ as used ”.

* PvPGN ( Player vs Player Gaming Network ) is a free and open source software project offering emulation of various gaming network servers and is being maintained by a non-profit organization.

GNU Chess is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or any later version, and is maintained by collaborating developers.

While Western Digital maintained that they used " the indisputably correct industry standard for measuring and describing storage capacity ", and that they " cannot be expected to reform the software industry ", they agreed to settle in March 2006, with a $ 30 refund to affected customers in the form of backup and recovery software of the same value.

Adhering to this principle is one of the tools that helps reduce the combinatorial effects that, over time, get introduced in software that is being maintained.

PXI hardware and software specifications are developed and maintained by the PXI Systems Alliance.

Open source software ( OSS ) projects are built and maintained by a network of volunteer programmers.

An alternative implementation that is actively maintained is the WebDAV component of the Apache Jackrabbit project that provides Java-based content repository software.

Hard-disk requirements vary, depending on the size of software installation, temporary files created and maintained while installing or running the software, and possible use of swap space ( if RAM is insufficient ).

A range of astronomy software is available and used by amateur astronomers, including software that generates maps of the sky, software to assist with astrophotography, observation scheduling software, and software to perform various calculations pertaining to astronomical phenomena.

In computer systems, an algorithm is basically an instance of logic written in software by software developers to be effective for the intended " target " computer ( s ), in order for the target machines to produce output from given input ( perhaps null ).

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.

Although the hardware is limited to four separate sound channels, software such as OctaMED uses software mixing to allow eight or more virtual channels, and it was possible for software to mix two hardware channels to achieve a single 14-bit resolution channel by playing with the volumes of the channels in such a way that one of the source channels contributes the most significant bits and the other the least.

The quality of the Amiga's sound output, and the fact that the hardware is ubiquitous and easily addressed by software, were standout features of Amiga hardware unavailable on PC platforms for years.

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

Expansion boards were made by Richmond Sound Design that allow their show control and sound design software to communicate with their custom hardware frames either by ribbon cable or fiber optic cable for long distances, allowing the Amiga to control up to eight million digitally controlled external audio, lighting, automation, relay and voltage control channels spread around a large theme park, for example.

* Adobe Source Libraries, a set of open source software libraries by Adobe

Other software may use alpha blended transparent elements in the GUI independently of OS provided APIs by precomposing elements in an off-screen memory buffer before displaying them.

This was quickly remedied by First Byte Computers who developed an interface and software which allowed a " switched " joystick to be used with the majority of software titles.

A software ROM worked around this by duplicating the data intended for a mode 7 display in memory.

* Text modes: 20 × 32, 40 × 25, 40 × 32, 80 × 25, 80 × 32 ( all text output produced by software in graphics modes )

Although not as well supported by the biggest software publishers as rivals like the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, a good range of games were available for the Electron.

Despite Acorn themselves effectively shelving the Electron in 1985, games continued to be developed and released by professional software houses until 1991.

Tridgell was a major developer of the Samba software, analysing the Server Message Block protocol used for workgroup and network file sharing by Microsoft Windows products.

The comparatively low price for a complete computer system with dedicated monitor, its high resolution monochrome text and graphic capabilities and the possibility to run CP / M software also rendered the system attractive for business users, which was reflected by a wide selection of application software.

AOL has recently begun making its ICQ software more AIM-like by adding AIM Smilies, as well as introducing cross AIM – ICQ communication.

This was primarily due to the increased usage of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser software, and partly because the Netscape Corporation ( later purchased by AOL ) did not sustain Netscape Navigator's technical innovation after the late 1990s.

Under AOL, Netscape's browser development continued until December 2007, when Tom Drapeau, director of AOL's Netscape Brand, announced that the company would stop supporting Netscape software products as of March 1, 2008.

The term " Instant Messenger " is a service mark of Time Warner and may not be used in software not affiliated with AOL in the United States.

Online services like Prodigy and AOL developed their online service around a GUI and thus unlike CompuServe's early GUI-based software, these online services provided a more robust GUI interface.

In 1991 the service had grown substantially, and the company was renamed as America Online Inc. Interestingly, the original AOL Macintosh software still retained within it vestiges of its GEIS / AppleLink heritage.

The eWorld software was basically a version of the original AOL software with custom graphics, giving it a distinctive look.

The software, developed by Nullsoft ( purchased by AOL on June 1, 1999 ), allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or HE-AAC format, to be broadcast to and from media player software, enabling the creation of Internet radio " stations ".

They either create an entry in the OS's dialer or install a separate dialer ( as the AOL software does ).

This allowed him to add several features more easily and also allowed him to create DeadAIMRegIn, an official AOL bot, to confirm registration information and prevent software piracy.

Phishing on AOL was closely associated with the warez community that exchanged pirated software and the hacking scene that perpetrated credit card fraud and other online crimes.

Eventually, AOL's policy enforcement with respect to phishing and warez became stricter and forced pirated software off AOL servers.

AOL enforcement would detect words used in aol chat rooms to suspend the accounts individuals involved in pirating software and trading stolen accounts.

After AOL merged with Netscape, technology analysts speculated that AOL's major interest was the netscape. com website ( specifically the millions of registered users thereof ), and to a lesser extent the Netscape Communicator suite, which some considered would be used to replace the Internet Explorer browser which AOL licensed from Microsoft and included as part of their software suite.

AOL entered into an agreement with systems and software company Sun Microsystems whereby engineers from both companies would work together on software development, marketing, sales, installation and support.

The group licensed the original AppleLink Personal Edition software from AOL and developed it into what would be known as eWorld.

The group also struck a deal with AOL to help develop the service and spent 1993 working on the new software and various services to be offered.

ART is a proprietary image file format used mostly by the America Online ( AOL ) service and client software.

Development of forum hosting software and browser-based chat services such as AOL and Yahoo Chat increased the availability of these mediums to the public and improved accessibility to the general public.

On February 21, 2006, AOL and WebEx announced plans to launch a business version of AOL's instant-messaging software, AIM Pro, with additional features to help workers collaborate using conferencing tools offered by WebEx.