operating system n.
[techspeak] (Often abbreviated `OS')
The foundation software of a machine; that which
schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default
interface to the user between applications. The facilities an
operating system provides and its general design philosophy exert
an extremely strong influence on programming style and on the
technical cultures that grow up around its host machines. Hacker
folklore has been shaped primarily by the Unix, ITS,
TOPS-10, TOPS-20/TWENEX,
MS-DOS, and Multics operating systems (most importantly
by ITS and Unix).
[techspeak] (Often abbreviated `OS')
The foundation software of a machine; that which
schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default
interface to the user between applications. The facilities an
operating system provides and its general design philosophy exert
an extremely strong influence on programming style and on the
technical cultures that grow up around its host machines. Hacker
folklore has been shaped primarily by the Unix, ITS,
TOPS-10, TOPS-20/TWENEX,
MS-DOS, and Multics operating systems (most importantly
by ITS and Unix).
Related:
- operating system:: [techspeak] n. (Often abbreviated `OS') The
foundation software of a machine, of course
hat which schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user between applications.... - TOPS-10 /tops-ten/ n.
DEC's proprietary OS for the
fabled PDP-10 machines, long a favorite of hackers but now
effectively extinct.
A fountain of hacker folklore; see Appendix A.... - TOPS-10:: /tops-ten/ n. DEC's proprietary OS for the fabled {PDP-10}
machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct.
A fountain of hacker folklore; see {Appendix A}.... - ITS /I-T-S/ n.
1. Incompatible Time-sharing System,
an influential though highly idiosyncratic operating system written
for PDP-6s and PDP-10s at MIT and long used at the MIT AI Lab.
Much AI-hacker jargon derives from ITS folklore, and to have been `an ITS hacker' qualifies one instantly as an old-timer of the most venerable sort.... - GCOS:: /jee'kohs/ n. A {quick-and-dirty} {clone} of
System/360 DOS that emerged from GE around 1970
originally called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive Operating System).... - GCOS /jee'kohs/ n.
A quick-and-dirty clone
of System/360 DOS that emerged from GE around 1970
originally called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive Operating System).... - CTSS: /C-T-S-S/ n. Compatible Time-Sharing System. An early
(1963) experiment in the design of interactive time-sharing
operating systems, ancestral to {{Multics}}, {{UNIX}}, and
{{ITS}}.
The name {{ITS}} (Incompatible Time-sharing System) was a hack on CTSS, meant both as a joke and to express some basic differences in philosophy about the way I/O services should be presented to user programs.... - CTSS /C-T-S-S/ n.
Compatible Time-Sharing System.
An early (1963) experiment in the design of interactive time-sharing operating systems, ancestral to Multics, Unix, and ITS.... - hell [orig. Multics n.
techspeak, widely propagated
via Unix] 1.
[techspeak] The command interpreter used to pass commands to an operating system...
