Operating system/Related Articles

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Kernel [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Kernel (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
Process [r]: Add brief definition or description
Thread [r]: Add brief definition or description
Deadlock [r]: Add brief definition or description
Scheduling [r]: Add brief definition or description
Memory management [r]: Add brief definition or description
Virtual memory [r]: A concept in computer science whereby an operating system can use alternate (usually slower) data storage to impersonate real memory and run programs that ordinarily would not fit into real memory (RAM) ^[e]
Input/Output [r]: Add brief definition or description
File system [r]: Add brief definition or description
Shell [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Shell (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
Graphic user interface [r]: Add brief definition or description
Distributed system [r]: Add brief definition or description

Microsoft Windows [r]: The name of several families of closed source software operating systems, first released by Microsoft in 1985. ^[e]
GNU/Linux [r]: Add brief definition or description
Unix [r]: A computer operating system originally conceived and developed by a group of researchers as an unofficial project while they were working at AT&T's Bell Laboratories. ^[e]
Mac OS X [r]: BSD-based, POSIX-compatible graphical Unix operating system made by Apple for use on Macintosh computers. ^[e]
FreeBSD [r]: Add brief definition or description
NetBSD [r]: Add brief definition or description
MS DOS [r]: Add brief definition or description
OS/2 [r]: Add brief definition or description