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.

* ATLAS, control software used on the Pendolino train

The terms architect and architecture are also used in the disciplines of landscape architecture, naval architecture and often information technology ( for example a software architect ).

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

) Compositing software is used to combine images, and makes extensive use of alpha compositing techniques.

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.

Although cheap and effective in enabling use of some software that only used official ROM entry points for text output, this solution proved very slow because the Electron had to be placed into an 80-byte-pitch display to be able to get anywhere near to reproducing mode 7 and the CPU spent a lot of time drawing approximations of mode 7 characters and graphics that in a hardware solution would be achieved without any CPU processing.

The first used the same graphics processor as the BBC Micro in mode 7 — the SAA5050 — but used software to ensure that it was fed with the correct graphics data.

Although this produced a mode 7 that barely impacted upon CPU performance and gave the same visual quality as the BBC Micro, it remained compatible only with software that used the ROM routines for outputting text and graphics and still used 10 kB of memory for the display.

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.

Token Ring would eventually be supported with the similar TokenTalk product, which also used the same Network control panel and underlying software.

The Aster computer could use the software written for the popular Tandy TRS-80 computer while fixing many of the problems of that computer, but it could also run CP / M software, with a big amount of free memory ( Transient Program Area, TPA ) and a full 80 × 25 display, and it could be used as a Videotext terminal.

A third mode was entered with a special boot floppy which turned the Aster into a Videotex terminal with a 40x25 display and a Videotex character set, The software used the built in RS232 interface of the Aster to control a modem through which it could contact a Prestel service provider.

Another important demand was that the computers could be used in a network ( Aster developed special software and hardware for that ).

The Artistic License refers most commonly to the original Artistic License ( version 1. 0 ), a software license used for certain free and open source software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation and most CPAN modules, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public License ( GPL ).

The CPC series was pitched against other home computers primarily used to play video games and enjoyed a strong supply of game software.

* ANIMAL ( image processing ), an interactive software environment for image processing

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 ).

* " Atlas " was the former name for ASP. NET AJAX, Microsoft software, a set of ASP. NET extensions providing Ajax functionality

It was designed to avoid some of the perceived problems with FORTRAN for backward compatibility with historic Buran ( spacecraft ) ALGOL software.

* Alfred ( software ), an application launcher for Mac OS X

The Amiga's native ability to simultaneously play back multiple digital sound samples made it a popular platform for early " tracker " music software.

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.

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.

See Amiga software for more information on these applications.

* Apache Software License, an open-source license for software

* Application Services Library, a process model for the maintenance of software applications

Speeding up the low portion of memory is particularly useful on 6502 derived machines because that processor has a faster addressing mode for the first 256 bytes and so it is common for software to put any variables involved in time critical sections of program into that region.

Some clever program counter catches meant that the ordinary system ROMs and any software using the OS calls could function without significant modification, making substantially more memory available for BASIC, View, Viewsheet and almost every other business application.

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

Application software is developed to perform in any task that benefits from computation.

A computer program ( also software, or just a program ) is a sequence of instructions written to perform a specified task with a computer.

The task of writing drivers thus usually falls to software engineers who work for hardware-development companies.

It used to be that developers needed to code their programs in such a way that their software would explicitly take advantage of the multiple cores, which could easily become a tedious and troublesome task, especially in complex software.

" Do the right thing " was a fundamental change in the user-interface model of previous news software ; rather than requiring users to navigate menus or learn a distinct command vocabulary for every operating mode of the program, certain single-keystroke commands were repeated throughout the user interface, performing the most obviously appropriate function for the task at hand.

The processing costs of compiling software, rendering video, or any other computationally intensive task on any client will impact the server and the performance hit will be shared by all clients.

Collaborative software ( also referred to as groupware ) is computer software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve goals.

Additionally, collaborative software may support project management functions, such as task assignments, time-managing deadlines, and shared calendars.

Additionally, collaborative software may support project management functions, such as task assignments, time-management with deadlines and shared calendars.

The advantages and disadvantages are to the control loop, except that adding new software is easier, by simply writing a new task, or adding to the queue

In essence, since they can use tools and operate equipment and vehicles designed for the human form, humanoids could theoretically perform any task a human being can, so long as they have the proper software.

Once the task is complete, the workflow software ensures that the individuals responsible for the next task are notified and receive the data they need to execute their stage of the process.

This can be a time-consuming task given that different operating systems have different application programming interfaces or APIs ( for example, Linux uses a different API for application software than Windows does ).

Later the term cargo cult programming developed to describe computer software containing elements that are included because of successful utilization elsewhere, unnecessary for the task at hand.

In software engineering, the delegation pattern is a design pattern in object-oriented programming where an object, instead of performing one of its stated tasks, delegates that task to an associated helper object.

In software engineering, software configuration management ( SCM ) is the task of tracking and controlling changes in the software.

For example, an installation wizard can influence task completion – including completing tasks ( such as installation of additional software ) not planned by users.

Other software implementations go through the duration estimate of every task and remove a fixed percentage to be aggregated into the buffers.

A sophisticated computer program does not need to look at all colourings individually in order to eliminate all of them ; nevertheless it is a very difficult computational task that existing software can only manage on small sizes.

* To simplify the task of creating and managing network devices, software services, and users.