Category Archives: operating systems

Shocking advances in Operating Systems

Posted on October 21, 2010 by admin

And here I was complaining about the lack of progress in OS development “This will blow away any RTOS,” said Cauchy. “We speed up execution by doing things like vector interrupts, I/O memory mapping, and turning off timers.” By Gad!

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Microsoft by the numbers

Posted on June 28, 2010 by admin

From correspondent AY: 150,000,000 Number of Windows 7 licenses sold, making Windows 7 by far the fastest growing operating system in history. <10 Percentage of US netbooks running Windows in 2008. 96 Percentage of US netbooks running Windows in 2009. … Continue reading →

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Linux semaphores

Posted on January 29, 2010 by admin

Re: Schedule idle MOLNAR Ingo (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu) Wed, 11 Nov 1998 04:09:32 +0100 (CET) [...] > _please_ We can do better than this. Only semaphores (not spinlocks) need > to have the priority inheritance. [...] nope there are _not_ only semaphores, … Continue reading →

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