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Graphical User Interface Netscape Navigator
1,477 wordsIt wouldn't be fair to talk about the Windows Operating System without first looking at the origins of the company that developed it. William H. Gates III and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975. They were both only 19 years old. In 1980 International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) chose Microsoft to write the operating system for the IBM PC personal computer, to be introduced the following year. As part of its contract with IBM, Microsoft was permitted to license the operating system to o...
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Graphical User Interface Virtual Memory
421 wordsDiscovering Computers How Is A Cold Boot Different From A Warm Boot? Cold boot is the start-up of computer from off, or powered down state, while a warm book is the restart of computer that is already turned on via the operating system. How Is A Memory-Resident Part Of An Operating System Different From A Nonresident Part Of An Operating System? As the name implies, the memory-resident part of an operating system remains in memory (for example, programs and data used), while nonresident parts of...
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Graphical User Interface Operating System
856 wordsAn operating system is a program that acts an intermediary between a user of a computer and the computer hardware. The purpose of an operating system is to provide an environment in which a user can execute programs. The main purpose of an operating is to make the computer system convenient to use and user can the computer hardware in an efficient manner. An operating system is similar to a government. The components of a computer system are its hardware, software, and data. The operating system...
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Graphical User Interface Computer Industry
1,274 wordsIf you ask people to name one of the most important technologies of the twentieth century, one of the answers would most certainly be the computer. A computer, however, is not a technology all to itself. Many other technologies went into the modern home computers of today, including the mouse. Douglas C. Engelbart, a worker at the SRI (Stanford Research Institute), invented the mouse in 1964. However, the process of the invention of the mouse was not instantaneous and without effect on the realm...
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Graphical User Interface Washington D C
3,180 wordsMicrosoft's Monopoly Provides A Competitive Market In Microsofts Monopoly Provides A Competitive Market In Which Individual Innovations Flourish. Do you have a computer or know someone who does? If you do then you are probably familiar with how rapidly the computer software industry grows and how quickly products become outdated. Presently the average life of a product before it is outdated is eighteen months (1). This means that if a company does not continue to produce cutting-edge products it...
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Graphical User Interface Microsoft Monopoly
3,183 wordsDo you have a computer or know someone who does? If you do then you are probably familiar with how rapidly the computer software industry grows and how quickly products become outdated. Presently the average life of a product before it is outdated is eighteen months (1). This means that if a company does not continue to produce cutting-edge products it will soon be forgotten. This is the determining factor of many companies that base their success on one product and do not spend the time and mon...
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