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112 relations: Access (company), Access Systems Americas, Amiga, API, Apple Inc., AppleTalk, AT&T Hobbit, Bash (Unix shell), Be File System, Be Inc., BeBox, BeIA, Bidirectional text, Byte, C++, Cinema 4D, Classic Mac OS, CodeWarrior, Command-line interface, Common Hardware Reference Platform, Comparison of operating systems, Computer multitasking, Computerworld, DayStar Digital, Email client, File system, File Transfer Protocol, Final Scratch, FreeBSD, Freeware, Fujitsu, Gil Amelio, GNU Compiler Collection, GNU Lesser General Public License, Gobe Software, Graphical user interface, GTK, Haiku (operating system), Hierarchical File System (Apple), Hitachi, Hitachi Flora Prius, IA-32, Intel, Internet appliance, Internet leak, Jean-Louis Gassée, Journaling file system, Kernel (operating system), LILO (bootloader), Linux, ... Expand index (62 more) »
- Object-oriented operating systems
- PowerPC operating systems
- X86 operating systems
Access (company)
, founded in April 1979 and incorporated in February 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, by Arakawa Toru and Kamada Tomihisa,, ACCESS.
Access Systems Americas
ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc. (formerly PalmSource) is a subsidiary of ACCESS which develops the Palm OS PDA operating system and its successor, the Access Linux Platform, as well as BeOS.
See BeOS and Access Systems Americas
Amiga
Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.
See BeOS and Amiga
API
An is a way for two or more computer programs or components to communicate with each other.
See BeOS and API
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
AppleTalk
AppleTalk is a discontinued proprietary suite of networking protocols developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh computers.
AT&T Hobbit
The AT&T Hobbit is a microprocessor design developed by AT&T Corporation in the early 1990s.
Bash (Unix shell)
Bash, short for Bourne-Again SHell, is a shell program and command language supported by the Free Software Foundation and first developed for the GNU Project by Brian Fox.
See BeOS and Bash (Unix shell)
Be File System
The Be File System (BFS) is the native file system for the BeOS.
Be Inc.
Be Inc. was an American computer company that created and developed the BeOS and BeIA operating systems, and the BeBox personal computer.
See BeOS and Be Inc.
BeBox
The BeBox is a discontinued personal computer from Be Inc., running the company's operating system, later named BeOS.
See BeOS and BeBox
BeIA
BeIA (BeOS for Internet Appliances) is a discontinued operating system for embedded systems, developed by Be Inc. from 2000 to 2001. BeOS and BeIA are x86 operating systems.
See BeOS and BeIA
Bidirectional text
A bidirectional text contains two text directionalities, right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR).
See BeOS and Bidirectional text
Byte
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.
See BeOS and Byte
C++
C++ (pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup.
See BeOS and C++
Cinema 4D
Cinema 4D is a 3D software suite developed by the German company Maxon.
Classic Mac OS
Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9. BeOS and Classic Mac OS are discontinued operating systems.
CodeWarrior
CodeWarrior is an integrated development environment (IDE) published by NXP Semiconductors for editing, compiling, and debugging software for several microcontrollers and microprocessors (Freescale ColdFire, ColdFire+, Kinetis, Qorivva, PX, Freescale RS08, Freescale S08, and S12Z) and digital signal controllers (DSC MC56F80X and MC5680XX) used in embedded systems.
Command-line interface
A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines.
See BeOS and Command-line interface
Common Hardware Reference Platform
Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) is a standard system architecture for PowerPC-based computer systems published jointly by IBM and Apple in 1995.
See BeOS and Common Hardware Reference Platform
Comparison of operating systems
These tables provide a comparison of operating systems, of computer devices, as listing general and technical information for a number of widely used and currently available PC or handheld (including smartphone and tablet computer) operating systems.
See BeOS and Comparison of operating systems
Computer multitasking
In computing, multitasking is the concurrent execution of multiple tasks (also known as processes) over a certain period of time.
See BeOS and Computer multitasking
Computerworld
Computerworld (abbreviated as CW) is an ongoing decades-old professional publication which in 2014 "went digital." Its audience is information technology (IT) and business technology professionals, and is available via a publication website and as a digital magazine.
DayStar Digital
DayStar Digital, Inc., was a company founded in 1983 by Andrew Lewis as a subcontract manufacturer of electronic assemblies and circuit boards.
Email client
An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email.
File system
In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access.
File Transfer Protocol
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network.
See BeOS and File Transfer Protocol
Final Scratch
Final Scratch is a DJ tool created by the Dutch company N2IT with input from Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman) and John Acquaviva that allows manipulation and playback of digital audio sources using traditional vinyl and turntables.
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). BeOS and FreeBSD are PowerPC operating systems.
See BeOS and FreeBSD
Freeware
Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user.
Fujitsu
is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Kawasaki, Kanagawa.
See BeOS and Fujitsu
Gil Amelio
Gilbert Frank Amelio (born March 1, 1943) is an American technology executive.
GNU Compiler Collection
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a collection of compilers from the GNU Project that support various programming languages, hardware architectures and operating systems.
See BeOS and GNU Compiler Collection
GNU Lesser General Public License
The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free-software license published by the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
See BeOS and GNU Lesser General Public License
Gobe Software
Gobe Software, Inc was a software company founded in 1997 by members of the ClarisWorks development team that developed and published an integrated desktop software suite for BeOS.
Graphical user interface
A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.
See BeOS and Graphical user interface
GTK
GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free software cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
See BeOS and GTK
Haiku (operating system)
Haiku, originally OpenBeOS, is a free and open-source operating system for personal computers. BeOS and Haiku (operating system) are object-oriented operating systems and x86 operating systems.
See BeOS and Haiku (operating system)
Hierarchical File System (Apple)
Hierarchical File System (HFS) is a proprietary file system developed by Apple Inc. for use in computer systems running Mac OS.
See BeOS and Hierarchical File System (Apple)
Hitachi
() is a Japanese multinational conglomerate founded in 1910 and headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo.
See BeOS and Hitachi
Hitachi Flora Prius
The Hitachi Flora Prius was a range of personal computers marketed in Japan by Hitachi, Ltd. during the late 1990s.
See BeOS and Hitachi Flora Prius
IA-32
IA-32 (short for "Intel Architecture, 32-bit", commonly called i386) is the 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture, designed by Intel and first implemented in the 80386 microprocessor in 1985.
See BeOS and IA-32
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.
See BeOS and Intel
Internet appliance
An Internet appliance is a consumer device whose main function is easy access to Internet services such as WWW or e-mail.
See BeOS and Internet appliance
Internet leak
An internet leak is the unauthorized release of information over the internet.
Jean-Louis Gassée
Jean-Louis Gassée (born 24 March 1944 in Paris, France) is a business executive.
See BeOS and Jean-Louis Gassée
Journaling file system
A journaling file system is a file system that keeps track of changes not yet committed to the file system's main part by recording the goal of such changes in a data structure known as a "journal", which is usually a circular log.
See BeOS and Journaling file system
Kernel (operating system)
The kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer's operating system and generally has complete control over everything in the system.
See BeOS and Kernel (operating system)
LILO (bootloader)
LILO (Linux Loader) is a boot loader for Linux and was the default boot loader for most Linux distributions.
See BeOS and LILO (bootloader)
Linux
Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
See BeOS and Linux
Linux kernel
The Linux kernel is a free and open source, UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide.
Mac (computer)
Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.
Macintosh clone
A Macintosh clone is a computer running the Mac OS operating system that was not produced by Apple Inc.
MacTech
MacTech is a monthly magazine for consultants, IT Pros, system administrators, software developers, and other technical users of the Apple Macintosh line of computers.
See BeOS and MacTech
MacUser (US edition)
MacUser was a monthly computer magazine published by Ziff Davis in the United States, while the UK edition was published by Dennis Publishing.
See BeOS and MacUser (US edition)
Magnussoft
magnussoft Deutschland GmbH is a German computer game developer and publisher.
Memory protection
Memory protection is a way to control memory access rights on a computer, and is a part of most modern instruction set architectures and operating systems.
See BeOS and Memory protection
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. BeOS and Microsoft Windows are x86 operating systems.
See BeOS and Microsoft Windows
MIDI
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.
See BeOS and MIDI
Monolithic kernel
A monolithic kernel is an operating system architecture with the entire operating system running in kernel space.
See BeOS and Monolithic kernel
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is a Burlington, Massachusetts (San Francisco, California until 2008) based publisher specializing in computer science and engineering content.
See BeOS and Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Motorola StarMax
The Motorola StarMax was a line of licensed Macintosh clones produced by Motorola Information Systems Group in 1996 and 1997.
Moving Picture Experts Group
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an alliance of working groups established jointly by ISO and IEC that sets standards for media coding, including compression coding of audio, video, graphics, and genomic data; and transmission and file formats for various applications.
See BeOS and Moving Picture Experts Group
Mozilla
Mozilla (stylized as moz://a) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape.
See BeOS and Mozilla
Multi-booting
Multi-booting is the act of installing multiple operating systems on a single computer, and being able to choose which one to boot.
Multimedia
Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as writing, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to traditional mass media, such as printed material or audio recordings, which feature little to no interaction between users.
Multithreading (computer architecture)
In computer architecture, multithreading is the ability of a central processing unit (CPU) (or a single core in a multi-core processor) to provide multiple threads of execution.
See BeOS and Multithreading (computer architecture)
NetWare
NetWare is a discontinued computer network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. It initially used cooperative multitasking to run various services on a personal computer, using the IPX network protocol. BeOS and NetWare are discontinued operating systems, PowerPC operating systems and x86 operating systems.
See BeOS and NetWare
NeXT
NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California that specialized in computer workstations for higher education and business markets, and later developed web software.
See BeOS and NeXT
NeXTSTEP
NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on the Mach kernel and the UNIX-derived BSD. BeOS and NeXTSTEP are discontinued operating systems and object-oriented operating systems.
Nonprofit organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.
See BeOS and Nonprofit organization
Nordic countries
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or Norden) are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic.
Object-oriented programming
Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of objects, which can contain data and code: data in the form of fields (often known as attributes or properties), and code in the form of procedures (often known as methods).
See BeOS and Object-oriented programming
Open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution.
OpenGL
OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics.
See BeOS and OpenGL
Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
Original equipment manufacturer
An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is generally perceived as a company that produces parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer.
See BeOS and Original equipment manufacturer
Palm, Inc.
Palm, Inc., was an American company that specialized in manufacturing personal digital assistants (PDAs) and developing software.
Personal computer
A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.
See BeOS and Personal computer
POSIX
The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems.
See BeOS and POSIX
PostScript
PostScript (often abbreviated as PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language.
Power Computing Corporation
Power Computing Corporation (often referred to as Power Computing) was the first company selected by Apple Inc to create Macintosh-compatible computers ("Mac clones").
See BeOS and Power Computing Corporation
Power Macintosh
The Power Macintosh, later Power Mac, is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, Inc as the core of the Macintosh brand from March 1994 until August 2006.
PowerBook
The PowerBook (known as Macintosh PowerBook before 1997) is a family of Macintosh laptop computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from 1991 to 2006.
PowerPC
PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM.
See BeOS and PowerPC
PowerPC Reference Platform
PowerPC Reference Platform (PReP) was a standard system architecture for PowerPC-based computer systems (as well as a reference implementation) developed at the same time as the PowerPC processor architecture.
See BeOS and PowerPC Reference Platform
Preemption (computing)
In computing, preemption is the act of temporarily interrupting an executing task, with the intention of resuming it at a later time.
See BeOS and Preemption (computing)
Proprietary software
Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.
See BeOS and Proprietary software
Prototype
A prototype is an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process.
Quake (video game)
Quake is a first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive.
See BeOS and Quake (video game)
Quake II
Quake II is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and published by Activision.
QuickTime
QuickTime is a discontinued extensible multimedia architecture created by Apple, which supports playing, streaming, encoding, and transcoding a variety of digital media formats.
RADAR (audio recorder)
RADAR (Random Access Digital Audio Recorder) June 1999 Mix Magazine article on the RADAR II.
See BeOS and RADAR (audio recorder)
Remote desktop software
In computing, the term remote desktop refers to a software- or operating system feature that allows a personal computer's desktop environment to be run remotely from one system (usually a PC, but the concept applies equally to a server or a smartphone), while being displayed on a separate client device.
See BeOS and Remote desktop software
Roland Corporation
is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software.
See BeOS and Roland Corporation
SCSI
Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices, best known for its use with storage devices such as hard disk drives.
See BeOS and SCSI
SimCity 3000
SimCity 3000 is a city building simulation video game released in 1999, and the third major installment in the ''SimCity'' series.
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.
Syllable Desktop
Syllable Desktop is a discontinued free and open-source lightweight hobbyist operating system for Pentium and compatible processors. BeOS and Syllable Desktop are x86 operating systems.
Symmetric multiprocessing
Symmetric multiprocessing or shared-memory multiprocessing (SMP) involves a multiprocessor computer hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single, shared main memory, have full access to all input and output devices, and are controlled by a single operating system instance that treats all processors equally, reserving none for special purposes.
See BeOS and Symmetric multiprocessing
The Register
The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.
See BeOS and Unicode
Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
See BeOS and Unix
Virtual desktop
In computing, a virtual desktop is a term used with respect to user interfaces, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which the virtual space of a computer's desktop environment is expanded beyond the physical limits of the screen's display area through the use of software.
Web browser
A web browser is an application for accessing websites.
Web server
A web server is computer software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS.
X86
x86 (also known as 80x86 or the 8086 family) is a family of complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architectures initially developed by Intel based on the 8086 microprocessor and its 8-bit-external-bus variant, the 8088.
See BeOS and X86
YellowTAB
yellowTAB was a German software firm that produced an operating system called "yellowTAB ZETA".
ZETA (operating system)
ZETA, earlier yellowTAB ZETA, was an operating system formerly developed by yellowTAB of Germany based on the Be Operating System developed by Be Inc.; because of yellowTAB's insolvency, ZETA was later being developed by an independent team of which little was known, and distributed by magnussoft.
See BeOS and ZETA (operating system)
64-bit computing
In computer architecture, 64-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 64 bits wide.
See also
Object-oriented operating systems
- BeOS
- Cairo (operating system)
- Copland (operating system)
- Genera (operating system)
- Haiku (operating system)
- Hydra (operating system)
- IBM i
- JavaOS
- MacOS
- Magic Cap
- Microsoft Bob
- NeXTSTEP
- Oberon (operating system)
- Object storage
- Object-oriented operating system
- Object-oriented user interface
- Phantom OS
- Spring (operating system)
- Taligent
PowerPC operating systems
- AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications
- AROS Research Operating System
- AmigaOS 4
- AmigaOS 4 version history
- BeOS
- Copland (operating system)
- Finnix
- FreeBSD
- Gentoo Linux
- IBM AIX
- Inferno (operating system)
- Integrity (operating system)
- Mac OS 8
- Mac OS 9
- Mac OS X 10.0
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X Jaguar
- Mac OS X Leopard
- Mac OS X Panther
- Mac OS X Public Beta
- Mac OS X Tiger
- MkLinux
- MorphOS
- NetBSD
- NetWare
- OS-9
- OpenBSD
- OpenSUSE
- OtherOS
- Plan 9 from Bell Labs
- System 7
- Taligent
- USU (operating system)
- Ubuntu
- Vine Linux
- VxWorks
- Windows NT 3.51
- Windows NT 4.0
- Workload Partitions
- Workplace OS
- Yellow Dog Linux
X86 operating systems
- AROS Research Operating System
- Android-x86
- ArcaOS
- BTRON
- Banyan VINES
- BeIA
- BeOS
- CP/M-86
- ChromeOS
- ChromiumOS
- Coherent (operating system)
- Cosmos (operating system)
- EComStation
- Firefox OS
- GEOS (16-bit operating system)
- Genode
- Haiku (operating system)
- HelenOS
- Inferno (operating system)
- KolibriOS
- MINIX
- MenuetOS
- Microsoft Windows
- Microware
- NetWare
- Novell NetWare
- OS-9
- OS/2
- Oracle Solaris
- PC-MOS/386
- PC-UX
- Pick operating system
- Pintos
- Plan 9 from Bell Labs
- SkyOS
- Syllable Desktop
- THEOS
- TSX-32
- ToaruOS
- VxWorks
- Workplace OS
- Xv6
References
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