No doubt, it is difficult to design operating systems for computers that simultaneously run numerous applications, while managing interactions between multiple types of hardware and responding to ...

The operating system's file system knows where the data are physically stored (which sectors), and interaction between the app and operating system is through the programming interface (API).

The 24-year-old aims to create a smarter general population through The Programming Foundation, and the operating system that he’s developing.

The PDP-11 helped birth the UNIX operating system and the C programming language. It would also greatly influence the next generation of computer architectures.

Miro teaches the popular YouTube “Modern Embedded Systems Programming” video course on which this article series is based. Related Contents: Programming embedded systems: What is a Real-Time Operating ...

Why do coders and developers prefer Mac OS X? Travel back in time 15 years and the idea that Apple would make the best operating system for developers would have sounded faintly ridiculous. Before ...

Since smartphones went mainstream, there has been a healthy debate over which mobile operating system is supreme and more profitable. Typically, the battle revolves around iOS and Android. Apple ...

Real-time operating systems (RTOS) are the foundation software for computing systems. They manage the computers’ other software programs and orchestrate these programs’ requests for services ...

Apple’s operating systems came with a graphical interface and mouse support. These wouldn’t be commonplace for Windows operating systems until well into the 1990s.

We usually at least recognize old computer hardware and software names. But [Asianometry] taught us a new one: Pick OS. This ...