Microsoft has applied for a patent for a distributed operating system that matches the description of one its researchers have been developing, known as Helios. (Thanks to ZDNet blogger @Manan for ...

Distributed operating systems, defined as such, have not become as widely used by any stretch in comparison to Linux, Unix and Windows, which thrive in millions of networks. See Plan 9 and Inferno .

Distributed operating systems let you fuse a collection of processors into one virtual machine that is independent of the system architecture. System performance, however, will rely heavily on how ...

The idea of a distributed operating system has been around in academia for a long time. Professor Andrew Tanenbaum, who once famously told Linus Torvalds that his operating system was "obsolete ...

It's time for a distributed operating system that provides "that common layer of abstraction across these heterogeneous and distributed cloud resources," she says.

An operating system is the essential software that's needed to run your computer's suite of software. Everything from video games to web browsing, basic word processing, and more is down thanks to ...

The Apstra Operating System (AOS) Delivers Real-time Network Visibility, Operational Simplicity, Control, and Choice to Reduce Network Complexity and TCO MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Users ...

IBM’s System/38 and AS/400 minicomputers had a relational database at the heart of the operating system and in fact the database was the only file system allowed on these machines from 1978 through ...

Researchers have achieved a crucial milestone in quantum computing. They have created an operating system capable of enabling communication between quantum computers using different technologies ...

An operating system’s main responsibility is to manage the computer’s resources, including memory, disc space, CPUs and input/output devices to ensure their effective and efficient use.