In the last lesson, you encountered the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and you worked out a manual procedure of switching the context from one thread to another. In this lesson, ...

Throughout the 2000s and into the 2010s, Terry iterated on his OS project once called J Operating System, eventually coined ...

The computer's master control program. When a computer is turned on, a small "boot program" loads the operating system. Although additional system modules may be loaded as needed, the main part, known ...

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 OS ...

This fifth lesson on RTOS finally addresses the real-time aspect of the “Real-Time Operating System” name. Specifically, in the video lesson 26, you add a preemptive, priority-based scheduler to the ...

Mesosphere, the company that aims to build an operating system for the data center, today announced the launch of its developer program and SDK. Using the SDK, developers will be able to write ...

The history of computing could arguably be divided into three eras: that of mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers. Minicomputers provided an important bridge between the first mainframes and ...

My name is Charles Thomas Wilkes (my preferred name is “Tom”). I am very fortunate to have rejoined the faculty of the UMass Lowell Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences in 2017, after being ...