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curprev 20:3320:33, 18 March 2025 Remsense talk contribs m 71,754 bytes +9 Reverted 1 edit by Itstamiris2007 (talk) to last revision by Afree10 Tags: Twinkle Undo
curprev 18:2618:26, 18 March 2025 Itstamiris2007 talk contribs 71,745 bytes −9 Replaced “In order to ensure” with “To ensure” for conciseness. Tags: Reverted Visual edit

curprev 05:0105:01, 12 March 2025 Afree10 talk contribs 71,754 bytes −3 No edit summary
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curprev 22:4322:43, 31 January 2025 BattyBot talk contribs m 71,737 bytes −125 Fixed piped link(s) and General fixes Tag: AWB

curprev 16:2616:26, 18 January 2025 Rodw talk contribs m 71,862 bytes +3 Disambiguating links to Distro (link changed to Linux distribution) using DisamAssist.

curprev 19:5119:51, 10 January 2025 Thx56 talk contribs m 71,859 bytes −1 →Memory management: ce Tag: Visual edit

curprev 22:3222:32, 27 December 2024 Interstellarity talk contribs 71,935 bytes −725 →Popular operating systems: Added top operating systems excluding ones with under 1% market share Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 17:0717:07, 20 December 2024 AnomieBOT talk contribs 72,660 bytes +651 Rescuing orphaned refs ("gs.statcounter.com" from rev 1263519050; ":0" from rev 1263519050)
curprev 16:5416:54, 20 December 2024 Interstellarity talk contribs 72,009 bytes −705 Added the most popular operating systems while excluding ones with under 1% market share Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 03:1303:13, 17 December 2024 ZFT talk contribs 72,714 bytes −4 →Definition and purpose

curprev 09:0309:03, 7 December 2024 Liz talk contribs 72,718 bytes −4 Removing link(s) to "Device register": Removing links to deleted page Device register. Tag: Twinkle

curprev 22:0322:03, 5 December 2024 This Video Has 73M Views talk contribs m 72,722 bytes −6 Updated wikilink to reflect Software distro being split from Software Distribution
curprev 18:2118:21, 5 December 2024 Wlong243 talk contribs m 72,728 bytes +2 Fixed a typo Tag: Visual edit

curprev 14:0414:04, 27 November 2024 Abrahamdsl talk contribs m 72,726 bytes +63 →Components: In DOS save for few exceptions IIRC, direct hardware access were allowed

curprev 03:0003:00, 26 November 2024 GoingBatty talk contribs 72,663 bytes +27 →Microcomputers: clean up, replaced: Apple → Apple, typo(s) fixed: MicroSoft → Microsoft Tag: AWB

curprev 01:3901:39, 18 November 2024 SOP9X talk contribs 72,636 bytes +4 speculative, not transient

curprev 01:0601:06, 6 November 2024 Blue-Sonnet talk contribs m 72,632 bytes −7 Changed "actually" in accordance with MOS:NOTE Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

curprev 12:2112:21, 2 November 2024 Citation bot talk contribs 72,639 bytes +3 Altered doi-broken-date. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | #UCB_CommandLine

curprev 22:5522:55, 18 October 2024 PrimeBOT talk contribs m 72,636 bytes −698 Task 24: elink template removal following a TFD Tag: AWB

curprev 10:3210:32, 9 October 2024 Interstellarity talk contribs 73,334 bytes −41 Updated data Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

curprev 09:0509:05, 26 September 2024 Omda4wady talk contribs 73,375 bytes +1 correction Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

curprev 08:3608:36, 21 September 2024 Guy Harris talk contribs 73,374 bytes +102 →Microcomputers: Android is, at the lowest level, based on the Linux kernel and a C library that includes code from various BSDs. That's a more complete and less misleading description than "UNIX-based".
curprev 08:2508:25, 21 September 2024 Guy Harris talk contribs 73,272 bytes −4 →Microcomputers: Jobs was not the sole member of the Macintosh project.
curprev 08:2408:24, 21 September 2024 Guy Harris talk contribs 73,276 bytes −104 →Microcomputers: Remove comment about macOS that is not relevant to the rest of the sentence, which is discussing Macs from long before Mac OS X/OS X/macOS as being the first personal computers with a GUI. (It'd be more relevant in the final sentence, which discusses UN*Xes, but it's also a bit incomplete and potentially misleading - in what way does having *some* FreeBSD code make it "UNIX-based"?)
curprev 07:2707:27, 21 September 2024 Guy Harris talk contribs 73,380 bytes −74 →Virtual machine: A virtual machine is not an operating system. A hypervisor is software that implements a virtual machine in which an operating system can run; it could be thought of as a type of operating system (it's the "true operating system" referred to by the source you're citing).

curprev 22:3822:38, 14 September 2024 Thomas Meng talk contribs m 73,454 bytes 0 →Definition and purpose: fixed typo

curprev 02:5702:57, 8 September 2024 Thomas Meng talk contribs 73,454 bytes −354 book moved to References
curprev 02:5602:56, 8 September 2024 Thomas Meng talk contribs 73,808 bytes +381 added OSTEP book ref from further readings
curprev 02:5202:52, 8 September 2024 Thomas Meng talk contribs 73,427 bytes +110 →History: added explanation about professional operators

curprev 09:3709:37, 31 August 2024 Swinub talk contribs m 73,317 bytes −1 →Microsoft Windows: Grammar

curprev 20:4820:48, 9 August 2024 MaD70 talk contribs 73,318 bytes +1,934 →Library: Added note about context switch overhead being not negligible, supported by a reference Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
curprev 09:2309:23, 9 August 2024 MaD70 talk contribs 71,384 bytes +84 →Library: Small grammatical correction and noted the potential to inline library calls Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
curprev 06:2506:25, 9 August 2024 WikiCleanerBot talk contribs m 71,300 bytes 0 v2.05b - Bot T20 CW#61 - Fix errors for CW project (Reference before punctuation) Tag: WPCleaner

curprev 08:3408:34, 8 August 2024 MaD70 talk contribs 71,300 bytes +526 →Library: Added more clarification about what is intended as "specialization" and a supporting link Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

curprev 07:1307:13, 7 August 2024 Guy Harris talk contribs 70,774 bytes 0 →History: Fix redlink.
curprev 07:1307:13, 7 August 2024 Guy Harris talk contribs 70,774 bytes +23 →History: Teleprinters, which were invented before computers, were used as computer terminals before any terminals were developed specifically for use with computers.
curprev 07:0907:09, 7 August 2024 Guy Harris talk contribs 70,751 bytes +75 →History: At least show a S/360 image that features something with which the operator can interact with the operating system; the front panel is invisible to the OS, which gets commands from, and prints messages to, the 1052 printing terminal in the picture.

curprev 23:5123:51, 6 August 2024 MaD70 talk contribs 70,676 bytes +1,746 →Types of operating systems: Restored LibOS section (Library), expanded with clarification and references Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
curprev 02:3902:39, 6 August 2024 Guy Harris talk contribs 68,930 bytes −1 →Microcomputers: Bill had a company behind him.

curprev 20:5720:57, 5 August 2024 Guy Harris talk contribs 68,931 bytes +50 →History: Not everything in POSIX is a "system call" in the sense of a call that makes a trap to kernel mode. Speak of APIs instead.
curprev 20:1220:12, 5 August 2024 Guy Harris talk contribs 68,881 bytes +27 →History: To quote page 8 of the fifth edition of Tanenbaum and Bos, "All programming was done in absolute machine language, or even worse yet, by wiring up electrical circuits by connecting thousands of cables to plugboards to control the machine’s basic functions." This distinguishes between machine code and plugboards (and properly so - plugboards aren't machine code).
curprev 19:5919:59, 5 August 2024 Guy Harris talk contribs 68,854 bytes +24 Restore mention of ChromeOS removed in an earlier edit. The statistics count ChromeOS and "Linux" separately, and neither of them have a 7% market share - the *sum* is around 7%. (In addition, the removal of ChromeOS left a bogus comma; putting ChromeOS back makes the comma fit again.)

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