BeOS

The Be Operating System, or BeOS, was first written in 1991 to run on BeBox hardware. Unlike other operating systems of the time, BeOS was written to take advantage of modern hardware. Optimized for digital media work, BeOS makes full use of multiprocessor systems by utilizing modular I/O bandwidth, pervasive multithreading, preemptive multitasking and a custom 64-bit journaled file system known as BFS. The BeOS GUI was developed on the principles of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design. The API was written in C++ for ease-o ...

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BeOS, BeOS - Overview, BeOS - Projects to recreate BeOS, BeOS - Projects to continue BeOS

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Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open-source, multiplatform text editor. Vim was first released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991. Since then Vim has added myriad features; many are helpful in editing program source code. Vim remains popular with programmers and users of Unix-like operating systems. Vim text editor - Modal editing. As a descendant of vi, Vim is modal - an unusual feature which tends to confuse new users. All editors are modal in the general sense of having to distinguis ...

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• Vim text editor - Modal editing
• Vim text editor - Normal
• Vim text editor - Visual
• Vim text editor - Select
• Vim text editor - Insert
• Vim text editor - Command-line
• Vim text editor - Ex mode
• Vim text editor - Evim
• Vim text editor - Learning to use Vim
• Vim text editor - Features and improvements over Vi
• Vim text editor - History

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Bitstream Inc. is a type foundry that produces digital typefaces (fonts). Founded in 1981 by Matthew Carter and Mike Parker among others, it claims to be the oldest such company. It is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Besides building a library of "classic" fonts (usually under different names for trademark reasons), Bitstream has developed a number of fonts itself. The Bitstream font collection is most widely used through its inclusion with the CorelDraw software. Bitstream also created the free font Bitstream Vera. Another Bitstream product is Font Fusion, a font rast ...

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• Bitstream Inc. - External link

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yellowTAB is a German software firm that produces an operating system based on BeOS 5.1.0. They have not publically confirmed that they have the BeOS source code or what their licensing agreement with BeOS's owners PalmSource is, but it is likely that whatever arrangement they have is legal, at least in Germany. Their product is sold as "yellowTAB ZETA". The company's offices are in Mannheim, and it's corporate motto is Assume The Power. The price of ZETA has raised eyebrows as ZETA costs almost twice what BeOS R5 Profes ...

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Vision is the leading IRC client for BeOS, and the only one currently maintained. It is also the only one not known to suffer from a well-known buffer overrun in relation to the NetPositive web browser. Vision is based on an early IRC client for BeOS, called Bowser. However, neither projects website makes note of this. ...

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The AIM alliance was an alliance formed in 1991 between Apple Computer, IBM and Motorola to create a new computing standard based on the PowerPC architecture. The stated goal of the alliance was to challenge the dominant Wintel computing platform with a new computer design and a next-generation operating system. It was thought that the CISC processors from Intel were an evolutionary dead-end in microprocessor design, and that since RISC was the future, the ...

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In the fictional .hack world, ALTIMIT OS is virtually the only surviving operating system after the Pluto's Kiss computer virus that destroyed much of the Internet in the mid-2000s. It is also the operating system that is used to play the popular, but fictional, MMORPG The World. Altimit OS was created by Altimit Corporation, with Headoffices in San Francisco, California, USA. ALTIMIT OS - The World. The World, the killer app (most popular application) of Altimit OS, was released in Dec ...

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• ALTIMIT OS - The World
• ALTIMIT OS - Known Features
• ALTIMIT OS - Hardware
• ALTIMIT OS - Remarks

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Haiku is one of the most important modes of Japanese poetry, a late 19th century revision by Masaoka Shiki of the older hokku (発句), the opening verse of a linked verse form, haikai no renga . A traditional hokku consists of a pattern of approximately 5, 7, and 5 morae, phonetic units which only partially correspond to the syllables of languages such as English. It also contains a special season word (the kigo) descriptive of the season in which it is set. Hokku often combine two (or rarely, three ...

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• Haiku - Origin and evolution
• Haiku - From renga to haikai
• Haiku - The time of Bashō
• Haiku - The time of Buson
• Haiku - The appearance of Shiki
• Haiku - Modern haiku
• Haiku - Hekigotō and Kyoshi
• Haiku - Haiku in the West
• Haiku - Henderson and Blyth
• Haiku - The budding of American haiku
• Haiku - Contemporary English-language haiku
• Haiku - Internet and television
• Haiku - Famous writers
• Haiku - Pre-Shiki period hokku
• Haiku - Shiki and later haiku
• Haiku - Non-Japanese

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In addition to the web browser, the other main component in the Opera suite is the M2 e-mail client. M2 supports regular POP and SMTP mail as well as IMAP. It also has an Address book. M2 also features a newsreader and a newsfeed reader for RSS and Atom, as well as an IRC client for online chat. Opera web browser - Accessibility. Opera was designed to run on low-end and small computers, and with a commitment to computer accessibility for users who may have visual or mobility impairments. It is ...

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Opera web browser, Opera web browser - History, Opera web browser - Features, Opera web browser - Accessibility, Opera web browser - Sessions, Opera web browser - MDI and Tabs, Opera web browser - Pop-up blocking, Opera web browser - Download manager, Opera web browser - Standards, Opera web browser - Mobile devices, Opera web browser - Compatibility, Opera web browser - Web-based e-mail, Opera web browser - MSN, Opera web browser - Market adoption, Opera web browser - Usage share, Opera web browser - Other browsers using the Opera rendering engine Presto, Opera web browser - Industry adoption, Opera web browser - Versions, Opera web browser - Latest release versions, Opera web browser - Preview versions, Opera web browser - Notes and references

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There are also plans to use Cairo as the graphics backend for Gecko-based web browsers starting with version 1.9, for both the web page content and the user interface. Gecko 1.8, used in Mozilla Firefox 1.5, uses Cairo to display SVG and <canvas>. Version 2.8 of GTK+, released August 13, 2005, includes Cairo support. ...

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Cairo graphics, Cairo graphics - High-profile usage

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Perl - Example Program. In Perl, the canonical "Hello world" program is: #!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello, world!\n"; The first line is the shebang, which tells the operating system where to find the Perl interpreter. The second line prints the string Hello, world! and a newline (like a person pressing 'Return' or 'Enter'). The shebang is the usual way to invoke the interpreter on Unix systems. Windows systems may rely on the shebang, or they may associate a .plSee also:

Perl, Perl - Overview, Perl - Language features, Perl - Applications, Perl - Implementation, Perl - Availability, Perl - Language structure, Perl - Example Program, Perl - Data types, Perl - Control structures, Perl - Subroutines, Perl - Regular expressions, Perl - Database interfaces, Perl - Language design, Perl - Opinion, Perl - Pro, Perl - Con, Perl - History, Perl - Future, Perl - CPAN, Perl - Name, Perl - The Camel Symbol, Perl - Fun with Perl

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To facilitate creation of portable programs, programming languages provide some abstractions to deal with the different types of newline sequences used in different environments. The C programming language provides the escape sequences '\n' (newline) and '\r' (carriage return). However, contrary to popular belief, these are in fact not generally equivalent to the ASCII LF and CR control characters. The C standard only guarantees two things: Each of these escape sequences maps to a uniqu ...

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Newline, Newline - Representations, Newline - Unicode, Newline - History, Newline - Newline in programming languages, Newline - Common problems, Newline - Conversion utilities

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List of IRC clients - multi-platform. ChatZilla Gaim KVIrc Opera Chat savIRC X-Chat List of IRC clients - Windows. 0irc[1] Bersirc CBIRC ChinWag IRC dIRC HydraIRC IceChat Klient Microsoft Comic Chat Miranda IM mIRC Nettalk pIRCh smuxi TinyIRC Trillian ViRC ...

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List of IRC clients, List of IRC clients - Curses/character-cell based, List of IRC clients - Unix, List of IRC clients - DOS, List of IRC clients - OpenVMS, List of IRC clients - Graphical, List of IRC clients - multi-platform, List of IRC clients - Windows, List of IRC clients - Unix, List of IRC clients - Mac OS, List of IRC clients - AmigaOS, List of IRC clients - MenuetOS, List of IRC clients - OS/2, List of IRC clients - BeOS, List of IRC clients - Web, List of IRC clients - Java, List of IRC clients - Emacsen, List of IRC clients - Mobile devices

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During the early days of the Macintosh computer, Apple shipped the machines with two basic programs, MacWrite and MacPaint, so that users would have a working machine "out of the box". However this resulted in complaints from third party developers, who felt that these programs were good enough for so many users that there was little reason to buy something better. Apple decided to allow the programs to "wither", so that the third party developers ...

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Claris, Claris - History, Claris - Products, Claris - The end of Claris

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The developers of Firefox aim to produce a browser that "just works" for most casual users. Those interested can add (as extensions and plugins) many features not packaged with Firefox. Mozilla Firefox - Usability and accessibility. Developers put in a large amount of work towards simplifying Firefox's user interface. As a result, the interface appears less cluttered than that of many other internet suite ...

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Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox - History, Mozilla Firefox - Naming, Mozilla Firefox - Branding and visual identity, Mozilla Firefox - Release history, Mozilla Firefox - Future development, Mozilla Firefox - Features, Mozilla Firefox - Usability and accessibility, Mozilla Firefox - Customizability, Mozilla Firefox - Support for software standards, Mozilla Firefox - Cross-platform support, Mozilla Firefox - Internationalization and localization, Mozilla Firefox - Web development tools, Mozilla Firefox - Other features, Mozilla Firefox - Security, Mozilla Firefox - Criticisms, Mozilla Firefox - Market adoption, Mozilla Firefox - Usage share, Mozilla Firefox - Download count, Mozilla Firefox - Spread Firefox campaigns, Mozilla Firefox - Organization adoption, Mozilla Firefox - Industry adoption, Mozilla Firefox - Portable Firefox, Mozilla Firefox - Opinions and responses, Mozilla Firefox - Footnotes, Mozilla Firefox - Books

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LiveCD - Apple Macintosh OS-based. System Folder of Mac OS on a CD or on a floppy disk BootCD from Charlessoft for Mac OS X LiveCD - BSD-based. DragonFly BSD [1] FreeSBIE (Based on FreeBSD) Frenzy mini-CD (Based on FreeBSD) NetBSD - official livecd image. Direct link and quick reference documentation. LiveCD - Linux-based. Knoppix - The "original" Debian-based LiveCD

Like any project of indefinite duration, there are factors that may result in its eventual termination. Some of these are detailed below: SETI@home - Participants not prepared for the long term. Even before the project went live, people were commenting, on SETI related public mailing lists, that many people might have false expectations of the likelihood of any one project finding an extraterrestrial intelligence, or of one being found within a specific amount of time. Their fear would be that this would b ...

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SETI@home, SETI@home - The Purpose of SETI@Home, SETI@home - Figures, SETI@home - How does the system work?, SETI@home - Software, SETI@home - Project futures, SETI@home - Competitive aspect and SETI@home farms, SETI@home - Threats to the project, SETI@home - Participants not prepared for the long term, SETI@home - Alternative distributed computing projects, SETI@home - More restrictive computer use policies in businesses, SETI@home - Funding, SETI@home - Security concerns, SETI@home - Unofficial Clients

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For a complete, up-to-date list, see the official ScummVM compatibility chart. ScummVM - LucasArts SCUMM games. Maniac Mansion Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade LOOM Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis The Secret of Monkey Island Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge The Curse of Monkey Island Day of the Tentacle Sam & Max Hit the Road < ...

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ScummVM, ScummVM - Platforms officially supported by ScummVM, ScummVM - Platforms supported by unofficial ScummVM ports, ScummVM - Games supported by ScummVM, ScummVM - LucasArts SCUMM games, ScummVM - Games by other developers, ScummVM - Getting the games

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The Macintosh operating system initially consisted of two pieces of software, called "System" and "Finder", each with its own version number. They were bundled for upgrades as "System Software" with a single version number for each combination. This was formally shortened to "System" (and the component version numbers synchronised) with "System 6". System 7.5.1 was the first to include the Mac OS logo (a blue variation of a smiley face), and Mac OS 7.6 was the first to be named "Mac OS" (to ensure that users would still identify it with Apple, even when used ...

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Mac OS, Mac OS - Versions, Mac OS - Classic Mac OS 1984-2001, Mac OS - Mac OS X 2001-present, Mac OS - Classic Mac OS technologies, Mac OS - Project Star Trek, Mac OS - A/UX

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Each resource has an OSType identifier (a four byte value) and an ID (a signed word), as well as an optional name. There are standardised resource types for dialog boxes ('DITL'), images ('PICT'), sounds ('snd ') — and even for executable binaries ('CODE'), which were until the advent of the PowerPC processor without exception stored in the resource fork. Subroutines for rendering windows are stored in their own type of resources ('WDEF'), subroutines for rendering menus in theirs ('MDEF'), and if there is a type of data you think does not ...

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Resource fork, Resource fork - Mac technology, Resource fork - Resource identifiers, Resource fork - Compatibility problems, Resource fork - Other operating systems

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