The computer's master control program. When a computer is turned on, a small "boot program" loads the operating system. Although additional system modules may be loaded as needed, the main part ...

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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 ...

A new cloud-based operating system for all kinds of computer is being developed.

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Since then, there have been occasional, abortive attempts at redefining the way users interact with a computer, but most of the attempts at writing new operating systems always seem to reinvent ...