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A microcomputer is a small, relatively inexpensive computer having a central processing unit (CPU) made out of a microprocessor. The computer also includes...

WebKit is a browser engine primarily used in Apple's Safari web browser, as well as all web browsers on iOS and iPadOS. WebKit is also used by the PlayStation...

I do consider assignment statements and pointer variables to be among computer science's "most valuable treasures." Donald Knuth, Structured Programming...

Multiple Virtual Storage, more commonly called MVS, is the most commonly used operating system on the System/370, System/390 and IBM Z IBM mainframe computers...

In software engineering, multitier architecture (often referred to as n-tier architecture) is a client–server architecture in which presentation, application...

In computing, a windowing system (or window system) is a software suite that manages separately different parts of display screens. It is a type of graphical...

Amiga software is computer software engineered to run on the Amiga personal computer. Amiga software covers many applications, including productivity,...

bzip2 is a free and open-source file compression program that uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm. It only compresses single files and is not a file archiver...

In software engineering, profiling ("program profiling", "software profiling") is a form of dynamic program analysis that measures, for example, the space...

A path (or filepath, file path, pathname, or similar) is a string of characters used to uniquely identify a location in a directory structure. It is composed...

The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (in practice almost always shortened to EISA and frequently pronounced "eee-suh") is a bus standard for IBM...

In DOS memory management, expanded memory is a system of bank switching that provided additional memory to DOS programs beyond the limit of conventional...

The Nook Tablet (sometimes styled NOOK Tablet) is a tablet e-reader/media player that was produced and marketed by Barnes & Noble. It followed the Nook...

VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) and its successor VHDX are file formats representing a virtual hard disk drive (HDD). They may contain what is found on a physical...

BioPerl is a collection of Perl modules that facilitate the development of Perl scripts for bioinformatics applications. It has played an integral role...

Risc PC was a range of personal computers launched in 1994 by Acorn and replaced the preceding Archimedes series. The machines had a unique architecture...

Interactive Systems Corporation (styled INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, abbreviated ISC) was a US-based software company and the first vendor of the Unix...

Win4Lin is a discontinued proprietary software application for Linux which allowed users to run a copy of Windows 9x, Windows 2000 or Windows XP applications...

In automata theory, a nested stack automaton is a finite automaton that can make use of a stack containing data which can be additional stacks. Like a...

In computer science, full virtualization (fv) is a modern virtualization technique developed in late 1990s. It is different from simulation and emulation...