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Operating systems are the underlying software that actually run your computer. There are more of those than you might think, but for the purpose of this discussion, in the world of small and medium ...

Today’s operating systems pose a significant barrier to a number of promised exciting innovations in computer hardware and applications — from personal assistant robots to autonomous vehicles to edge ...

Microsoft battled Digital Research’s CP/M-based operating systems for the next few years, but as Ruffer and Waldman note, Microsoft was the leading producer of computer languages and had control over ...