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Acme (text editor)
Acme is a text editor and graphical shell from the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike.
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Addison-Wesley
Addison-Wesley is a publisher of textbooks and computer literature.
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Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent S.A. was a French global telecommunications equipment company, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
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Alef (programming language)
Alef is a discontinued concurrent programming language, designed as part of the Plan 9 operating system by Phil Winterbottom of Bell Labs.
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Amoeba (operating system)
Amoeba is a distributed operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and others at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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ANSI C
ANSI C, ISO C and Standard C refer to the successive standards for the C programming language published by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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Application programming interface
In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software.
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ARM architecture
ARM, previously Advanced RISC Machine, originally Acorn RISC Machine, is a family of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architectures for computer processors, configured for various environments.
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Artech House
Artech House (a.k.a. Artech House Publishers) is a publisher of professional scientific and engineering books.
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Audio Video Interleave
Audio Video Interleave (also Audio Video Interleaved), known by its initials AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows software.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Authentication server
An authentication server provides a network service that applications use to authenticate the credentials, usually account names and passwords, of their users.
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AUUG
AUUG was an Australian association and users' group.
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Bell Labs
Nokia Bell Labs (formerly named AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell Telephone Laboratories and Bell Labs) is an American research and scientific development company, owned by Finnish company Nokia.
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Berkeley sockets
Berkeley sockets is an application programming interface (API) for Internet sockets and Unix domain sockets, used for inter-process communication (IPC).
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Bit blit
Bit blit (also written BITBLT, BIT BLT, BitBLT, Bit BLT, Bit Blt etc., which stands for bit block transfer) is a data operation commonly used in computer graphics in which several bitmaps are combined into one using a boolean function.
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Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup (born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, who is most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language.
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Brian Kernighan
Brian Wilson Kernighan (born January 1, 1942) is a Canadian computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed to the development of Unix.
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Bruce Ellis
Bruce Ellis (born 1960, nicknamed Brucee) was a computer scientist at Bell Labs during the 1980s and 90s.
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Byte-oriented protocol
Byte-oriented framing protocol is "a communications protocol in which full bytes are used as control codes.
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C (programming language)
C (as in the letter ''c'') is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.
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Cambridge Distributed Computing System
The Cambridge Distributed Computing System is an early discontinued distributed operating system, developed in the 1980s at Cambridge University.
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Cat (Unix)
cat is a standard Unix utility that reads files sequentially, writing them to standard output.
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Character encoding
Character encoding is used to represent a repertoire of characters by some kind of encoding system.
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Chroot
A chroot on Unix operating systems is an operation that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children.
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Client–server model
The client–server model is a distributed application structure that partitions tasks or workloads between the providers of a resource or service, called servers, and service requesters, called clients.
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Command-line interface
A command-line interface or command language interpreter (CLI), also known as command-line user interface, console user interface and character user interface (CUI), is a means of interacting with a computer program where the user (or client) issues commands to the program in the form of successive lines of text (command lines).
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Computer mouse
A computer mouse is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface.
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Concurrent computing
Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which several computations are executed during overlapping time periods—concurrently—instead of sequentially (one completing before the next starts).
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Copyright
Copyright is a legal right, existing globally in many countries, that basically grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine and decide whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others.
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Coverity
Coverity is a brand of software development products from Synopsys, consisting primarily of static code analysis and dynamic code analysis tools.
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Cp (Unix)
cp is a UNIX command for copying files and directories.
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Debian Free Software Guidelines
The Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) is a set of guidelines that the Debian Project uses to determine whether a software license is a free software license, which in turn is used to determine whether a piece of software can be included in Debian.
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DEC Alpha
Alpha, originally known as Alpha AXP, is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), designed to replace their 32-bit VAX complex instruction set computer (CISC) ISA.
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Dennis Ritchie
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist.
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Device driver
In computing, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer.
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Device file
In Unix-like operating systems, a device file or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file.
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Distributed operating system
A distributed operating system is a software over a collection of independent, networked, communicating, and physically separate computational nodes.
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Douglas McIlroy
Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is a mathematician, engineer, and programmer.
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Ed Wood
Edward Davis Wood Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, and author.
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Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.
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Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, author of the widely cited 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar and other works, and open-source software advocate.
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Everything is a file
"Everything is a file" describes one of the defining features of Unix, and its derivatives — that a wide range of input/output resources such as documents, directories, hard-drives, modems, keyboards, printers and even some inter-process and network communications are simple streams of bytes exposed through the filesystem name space.
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Factotum (software)
factotum is a password management and authentication protocol negotiation virtual file system for Plan 9 from Bell Labs.
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File Allocation Table
File Allocation Table (FAT) is a computer file system architecture and a family of industry-standard file systems utilizing it.
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Firewall (computing)
In computing, a firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules.
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Fork (software development)
In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate piece of software.
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Fork (system call)
In computing, particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself.
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FOSDEM
Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized European event centered on free and open-source software development.
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Fossil (file system)
Fossil is the default file system in Plan 9 from Bell Labs.
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Free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.
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Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, which promotes the universal freedom to study, distribute, create, and modify computer software, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License.
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Freenode
Freenode, formerly known as Open Projects Network, is an IRC network used to discuss peer-directed projects.
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Gateway (telecommunications)
A gateway is the piece of networking hardware used in telecommunications via communications networks that allows data to flow from one discrete network to another.
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Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux (pronounced) is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system.
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GitHub
GitHub Inc. is a web-based hosting service for version control using Git.
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Glen or Glenda
Glen or Glenda is a 1953 American drama film written, directed by and starring Ed Wood (credited in his starring role as "Daniel Davis"), and featuring Bela Lugosi and Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller.
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GNU
GNU is an operating system and an extensive collection of computer software.
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GNU Compiler Collection
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages.
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GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or GPL) is a widely used free software license, which guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share and modify the software.
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Go (programming language)
Go (often referred to as Golang) is a programming language created at Google in 2009 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.
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Graphical user interface
The graphical user interface (GUI), is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation.
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Grep
grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression.
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Grid computing
Grid computing is the collection of computer resources from multiple locations to reach a common goal.
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Harcourt (publisher)
Harcourt was a United States publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children.
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HelenOS
HelenOS is an operating system based on a multiserver microkernel design.
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Heterogeneous computing
Heterogeneous computing refers to systems that use more than one kind of processor or cores.
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History of the Berkeley Software Distribution
The History of the Berkeley Software Distribution begins in the 1970s.
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Hybrid kernel
A hybrid kernel is an operating system kernel architecture that attempts to combine aspects and benefits of microkernel and monolithic kernel architectures used in computer operating systems.
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, and hypermedia information systems.
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Inferno (operating system)
Inferno is a distributed operating system started at Bell Labs and now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova Holdings as free software.
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InfoWorld
InfoWorld (formerly The Intelligent Machines Journal) is an information technology media business.
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Input/output
In computing, input/output or I/O (or, informally, io or IO) is the communication between an information processing system, such as a computer, and the outside world, possibly a human or another information processing system.
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Inter-process communication
In computer science, inter-process communication or interprocess communication (IPC) refers specifically to the mechanisms an operating system provides to allow the processes to manage shared data.
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Internet Relay Chat
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an application layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text.
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Ioctl
In computing, ioctl (an abbreviation of input/output control) is a system call for device-specific input/output operations and other operations which cannot be expressed by regular system calls.
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ISO image
An ISO image is a disk image optical discs.
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Java (software platform)
Java is a set of computer software and specifications developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, which was later acquired by the Oracle Corporation, that provides a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform computing environment.
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Ken Thompson
Kenneth Lane "Ken" Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science.
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Kensington
Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, West London, England.
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Key (cryptography)
In cryptography, a key is a piece of information (a parameter) that determines the functional output of a cryptographic algorithm.
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Key management
Key management refers to management of cryptographic keys in a cryptosystem.
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King Juan Carlos University
King Juan Carlos University (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, URJC) is a Spanish public research university located in the southern area of the Community of Madrid (Spain), with four campuses at Móstoles, Alcorcón, Vicálvaro and Fuenlabrada.
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La Vita Nuova
La Vita Nuova (Italian for "The New Life") or Vita Nova (Latin title) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1295.
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Linux
Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.
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Login
In computer security, logging in (or logging on or signing in or signing on) is the process by which an individual gains access to a computer system by identifying and authenticating themselves.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos or LANL for short) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory initially organized during World War II for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.
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Ls
In computing, ls is a command to list files in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
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Lucent
Lucent Technologies, Inc., was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the United States.
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Lucent Public License
The Lucent Public License is an open-source license created by Lucent Technologies.
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LWN.net
LWN.net is a computing webzine with an emphasis on free software and software for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
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Mach (kernel)
Mach is a kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University to support operating system research, primarily distributed and parallel computing.
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Mailing list
A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients.
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Mercurial
Mercurial is a distributed revision-control tool for software developers.
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Microkernel
In computer science, a microkernel (also known as μ-kernel) is the near-minimum amount of software that can provide the mechanisms needed to implement an operating system (OS).
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Middleware
Middleware is computer software that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system.
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MINIX
MINIX (from "mini-Unix") is a POSIX-compliant (since version 2.0), Unix-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture.
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MIPS architecture
MIPS (an acronym for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA)Price, Charles (September 1995).
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Mount (Unix)
Before a user can access a file on a Unix-like machine, the file system that contains it needs to be mounted with the mount command.
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Multi-user software
Multi-user software is software that allows access by multiple users of a computer.
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Namespace
In computing, a namespace is a set of symbols that are used to organize objects of various kinds, so that these objects may be referred to by name.
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Native (computing)
In computing, software or data formats that are native to a system are those that the system supports with minimal computational overhead and additional components.
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Network address translation
Network address translation (NAT) is a method of remapping one IP address space into another by modifying network address information in the IP header of packets while they are in transit across a traffic routing device.
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Network File System
Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a computer network much like local storage is accessed.
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Null-terminated string
In computer programming, a null-terminated string is a character string stored as an array containing the characters and terminated with a null character ('\0', called NUL in ASCII).
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O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics.
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Object-oriented operating system
An object-oriented operating system is an operating system that uses object-oriented design principles.
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Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting open-source software.
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Open-source model
The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.
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OSNews
OSNews is a computing news website that originally focused on operating systems and their related technologies that launched in 1997, but is now aggregating consumer electronics news.
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PATH (variable)
PATH is an environment variable on Unix-like operating systems, DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows, specifying a set of directories where executable programs are located.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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Physical Address Extension
In computing, Physical Address Extension (PAE), sometimes referred to as Page Address Extension, is a memory management feature for the x86 architecture.
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Physical law
A physical law or scientific law is a theoretical statement "inferred from particular facts, applicable to a defined group or class of phenomena, and expressible by the statement that a particular phenomenon always occurs if certain conditions be present." Physical laws are typically conclusions based on repeated scientific experiments and observations over many years and which have become accepted universally within the scientific community.
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Pipeline (Unix)
In Unix-like computer operating systems, a pipeline is a sequence of processes chained together by their standard streams, so that the output of each process (stdout) feeds directly as input (stdin) to the next one.
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, originating in the Computing Sciences Research Center (CSRC) at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s, and building on UNIX concepts first developed there in the late 1960s; until the Labs' final release at the start of 2015.
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Plan 9 from Outer Space
Plan 9 from Outer Space (originally titled Grave Robbers from Outer Space) is a 1959 American independent black and white science fiction film, written, produced, directed, and edited by Ed Wood, that stars Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson and Vampira (Maila Nurmi).
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Plan 9 from User Space
Plan 9 from User Space (also plan9port or p9p) is a port of many Plan 9 from Bell Labs libraries and applications to Unix-like operating systems.
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Plumber (program)
The plumber, in the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, is a mechanism for reliable uni- or multicast inter-process communication of formatted textual messages.
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Porting
In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software for the purpose of achieving some form of execution in a computing environment that is different from the one that a given program (meant for such execution) was originally designed for (e.g. different CPU, operating system, or third party library).
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POSIX
The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems.
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PowerPC
PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM.
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Process (computing)
In computing, a process is an instance of a computer program that is being executed.
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Process management (computing)
Process management is an integral part of any modern-day operating system (OS).
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Quakers
Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.
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Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to promote the teaching of basic computer science in schools and in developing countries.
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Rc
rc (for "run commands") is the command line interpreter for Version 10 Unix and Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating systems.
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Renée French
Renée French (born 1963) is an American comics writer and illustrator and, under the pen name Rainy Dohaney, a children's book author.
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Rendezvous (Plan 9)
Rendezvous is a data synchronization mechanism in Plan 9 from Bell Labs.
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Research Unix
Research Unix is a term used to refer to versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in the Bell Labs Computing Science Research Center (frequently referred to as Department 1127).
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Rio (windowing system)
rio is Plan 9 from Bell Labs's windowing system.
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Rm (Unix)
rm (short for remove) is a basic UNIX command used to remove objects such as files, directories and symbolic links from filesystems and also special files such as device nodes, pipes and sockets.
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Rob Pike
Robert "Rob" C. Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian programmer and author.
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Router (computing)
A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks.
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Runtime system
A runtime system, also called run-time system, primarily implements portions of an execution model.
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Sam (text editor)
Sam is a multi-file text editor based on structural regular expressions.
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Sandbox (computer security)
In computer security, a sandbox is a security mechanism for separating running programs, usually in an effort to mitigate system failures or software vulnerabilities from spreading.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
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Source code
In computing, source code is any collection of code, possibly with comments, written using a human-readable programming language, usually as plain text.
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Source lines of code
Source lines of code (SLOC), also known as lines of code (LOC), is a software metric used to measure the size of a computer program by counting the number of lines in the text of the program's source code.
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SPARC
SPARC, for Scalable Processor Architecture, is a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) originally developed by Sun Microsystems.
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Spring (operating system)
Spring is a discontinued project/experimental microkernel-based object oriented operating system developed at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s.
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Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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Sprite (operating system)
Sprite is an experimental Unix-like distributed operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley by John Ousterhout's research group between 1984 and 1992.
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Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC.
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TechRadar
TechRadar is an online publication focused on technology, with editorial teams in the US, UK, Australia and India.
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The Art of Unix Programming
The Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond is a book about the history and culture of Unix programming from its earliest days in 1969 to 2003 when it was published, covering both genetic derivations such as BSD and conceptual ones such as Linux.
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The Register
The Register (nicknamed El Reg) is a British technology news and opinion website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson.
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Thread (computing)
In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler, which is typically a part of the operating system.
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Tom Duff
Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff (born December 8, 1952) is a computer programmer.
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Type system
In programming languages, a type system is a set of rules that assigns a property called type to the various constructs of a computer program, such as variables, expressions, functions or modules.
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Ubiquitous computing
Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear anytime and everywhere.
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Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.
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Union (set theory)
In set theory, the union (denoted by ∪) of a collection of sets is the set of all elements in the collection.
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Union mount
In computer operating systems, union mounting is a way of combining multiple directories into one that appears to contain their combined contents.
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Universal Coded Character Set
The Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) is a standard set of characters defined by the International Standard ISO/IEC 10646, Information technology — Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) (plus amendments to that standard), which is the basis of many character encodings.
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University of California Press
University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.
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Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
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Unix domain socket
A Unix domain socket or IPC socket (inter-process communication socket) is a data communications endpoint for exchanging data between processes executing on the same host operating system.
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Unix filesystem
In Unix and operating systems inspired by it, the file system is considered a central component of the operating system.
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Unix philosophy
The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development.
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USB
USB (abbreviation of Universal Serial Bus), is an industry standard that was developed to define cables, connectors and protocols for connection, communication, and power supply between personal computers and their peripheral devices.
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USENIX
The USENIX Association is the Advanced Computing Systems Association.
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User interface
The user interface (UI), in the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur.
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Venti
Venti is a network storage system that permanently stores data blocks.
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Version control
A component of software configuration management, version control, also known as revision control or source control, is the management of changes to documents, computer programs, large web sites, and other collections of information.
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Virtual file system
A Virtual File System (VFS) or virtual filesystem switch is an abstraction layer on top of a more concrete file system.
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Virtual private network
A virtual private network (VPN) extends a private network across a public network, and enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network.
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Vx32
The Vx32 virtual extension environment is an application-level virtual machine implemented as an ordinary user-mode library and designed to run native x86 code.
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Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi or WiFi is technology for radio wireless local area networking of devices based on the IEEE 802.11 standards.
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Wmii
wmii (window manager improved²) is a tiling window manager for X11.
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X resources
In the X Window System, the X resources are parameters of computer programs such as the name of the font used in the buttons, the background color of menus, etc.
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X window manager
An X window manager is a window manager which runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems.
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X Window System
The X Window System (X11, or shortened to simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on UNIX-like computer operating systems.
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X86
x86 is a family of backward-compatible instruction set architectures based on the Intel 8086 CPU and its Intel 8088 variant.
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X86-64
x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64 and Intel 64) is the 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set.
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Z movie
Z movies are low-budget films that have qualities lower than B movies.
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8½ (Plan 9)
8½ is a window system developed for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system by Rob Pike.
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9wm
9wm is an open source stacking window manager for X11, written by David Hogan (dhog) in 1994 to emulate the Plan 9 Second Edition window manager, 8½.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
