IBM decided in 1980 to market a low-cost single-user computer as quickly as possible. On 12 August 1981, the first IBM PC went on sale. There were three operating systems (OS) available for it. The least expensive and most popular was PC DOS made by Microsoft.In a crucial concession, IBM's agreement allowed Microsoft to sell its own version, MS-DOS, for non-IBM …

Newline (frequently called line ending, end of line (EOL), next line (NEL) or line break) is a control character or sequence of control characters in character encoding specifications such as ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, etc.This character, or a sequence of characters, is used to signify the end of a line of text and the start of a new one.

Tongariro National Park (/ ˈ t ɒ ŋ ɡ ə r ɪr oʊ /; Māori: [tɔŋaɾiɾɔ]) is the oldest national park in New Zealand, located in the central North Island.It has been acknowledged by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site of mixed cultural and natural values.. Tongariro National Park was the sixth national park established in the world. The active volcanic mountains Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, …

Unlike the first Macintosh, whose operating system could not utilize a hard disk in its first versions, the Lisa system was designed around a hard disk being present. ... Tab systems are typically add-ons for contemporary operating systems and can be organized in a task-based manner — such as having a "web browsing" tab that contains various ...

Operating systems may treat a USB mass-storage device like a hard drive; users may partition it in any format (such as MBR and GPT), and format it with any file system. Because of its relative simplicity, the most common file system on embedded devices such as USB flash drives , cameras, or digital audio players is Microsoft's FAT or FAT32 file ...

Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft.Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for servers, and Windows IoT for embedded systems. Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x, Windows Mobile, and …

On systems using the X window system, there is a clear distinction between the window manager and the windowing system.Strictly speaking, an X window manager does not directly interact with video hardware, mice, or keyboards – that is the responsibility of the display server.. Users of the X Window System have the ability to easily use many different window managers …

In computing, a pointer or mouse cursor (as part of a personal computer WIMP style of interaction) is a symbol or graphical image on the computer monitor or other display device that echoes movements of the pointing device, commonly a mouse, touchpad, or stylus pen. It signals the point where actions of the user take place. It can be used in text-based or graphical user …

macOS High Sierra (version 10.13) is the fourteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop operating system for Macintosh computers. macOS High Sierra was announced at the WWDC 2017 on June 5, 2017 and was released on September 25, 2017. The name "High Sierra" refers to the High Sierra region in California.Its name signified its goal to be a refinement of the …

Mac (computer), a brand of computers and computer operating systems made by Apple Inc. macOS, formerly Mac OS X and OS X, Apple's current operating system for the Macintosh; Classic Mac OS, the original operating system for Apple's Macintosh.Mac, now iCloud, a subscription service by Apple

A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS).Many relational database systems are equipped with the option of using the SQL (Structured Query Language) for querying and …

ProDOS – Operating system and file system successor to DOS 3.x, for use on Apple's computers prior to the Macintosh & Lisa computers, the Apple series, including the IIgs Qnx4fs – File system that is used in QNX version 4 and 6.

The first version of Internet Explorer for the Macintosh operating system was a beta version of Internet Explorer 2.0 for Macintosh, released on January 23, 1996 as a free download from Microsoft's website.This first version was based on the Spyglass Mosaic web browser licensed from Spyglass.Available for both 68k and PPC based Macs running System 7.0.1 or later, it …