Computing platforms Computing platforms The Microsoft .NET Framework, more commonly known as simply the .NET Framework, is a software development platform created by Microsoft. The .NET Framework is now in version 2.0, which was released in October of 2005 and is the successor to two major previous versions: 1.0 and 1.1. ...more on Wikipedia about ".NET Framework"
ClickOnce is a Microsoft technology for deploying Windows Forms or Windows Presentation Foundation -based software, also called Smart Clients. ClickOnce is only available in .NET 2.0. A less advanced technique can be obtained with the Microsoft Updater Application Block . ...more on Wikipedia about "ClickOnce"
Commodity computers are computer systems manufactured by multiple vendors, incorporated components based on open standards. Such systems are said to be based on commodity components since the standardization process promotes lower costs and less differentiation among vendor's products. ...more on Wikipedia about "Commodity computer"
Commodity computing is quite simply, computing done on commodity computers as opposed to supermicrocomputers or boutique computers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Commodity computing"
(DGEE) The DotGNU Execution Environment provides the core web service component of DotGNU and provides the functionality of accepting, validating, and satisfying web service requests. ...more on Wikipedia about "DGEE"
DotGNU aims to be for webservices and for C# programs what GNU/Linux is rapidly becoming for desktop and server applications: the industry leader and provider of Free Software solutions. DotGNU is a Free Software replacement of the Microsoft .NET. ...more on Wikipedia about "DotGNU"
Genera was an operating system and development environment for Lisp machines developed by Symbolics off an earlier operating system originating on the MIT AI Lab's Lisp machines. ...more on Wikipedia about "Genera"
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, IBM considered modifying radically the conception of their computing environment to avoid a number of foreseeable bottlenecks in the 1980s given the predicted rate of change. This became the IBM Future Systems project (FS). ...more on Wikipedia about "IBM Future Systems project"
IBM PC compatible refers to a class of computers which make up the vast majority of smaller computers ( microcomputers) on the market today. They are based (without IBM's participation) on the original IBM PC. They use the Intel x86 architecture (or an architecture made to emulate it) and are capable of using interchangeable commodity hardware. These computers also used to be referred to as PC clones, and nowadays, just PCs. ...more on Wikipedia about "IBM PC compatible"
The ICL 2900 Series was a range of mainframe computer systems announced by the UK manufacturer ICL on 9 October 1974. The company had started development, under the name New Range immediately on its formation in 1968. It was not designed to be compatible with any previous machines produced by the company, or with any competitor's machines: rather, it was conceived as a synthetic option combining the best ideas available from a variety of sources. ...more on Wikipedia about "ICL 2900 Series"
Inferno is an operating system for creating and supporting distributed services. The name of the operating system and of its associated programs, as well as of the company Vita Nuova that produced it, were inspired by the literary heritage of Dante Alighieri, particularly the Divine Comedy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Inferno (operating system)"
The term Lintel is used to describe a computing platform consisting of the Linux operating system running on CPUs which are compatible with the x86 instruction set defined by Intel for their microprocessors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lintel (Linux)"
Linux is a computer operating system and its kernel. It is one of the most prominent examples of free software and of open-source development: unlike proprietary operating systems such as Windows and Mac OS, all of its underlying source code is available to the public and anyone can freely use, modify, improve, and redistribute it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Linux"
Mono is a project lead by Novell,Inc. (formerly by Ximian) to create an ECMA Standard compliant ( Ecma-334 and Ecma-335 ), .NET compatible set of tools, including among others a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime. Mono can be run on Linux, FreeBSD, UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows based computers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mono development platform"
Plan 9 is an operating system descended from Unix and developed by Bell Laboratories. It is not a Unix variant, but is very similar. Plan 9 explored several "simplifications" to the original Unix model that improved the experience of using and programming the system, notably in distributed multi-user environments. Plan 9 was a Bell Labs internal project for a number of years, but a public release was made in 1993, followed by a shrink-wrapped version in 1995. Bell lost commercial interest in the project in the late 1990s, and released a third version under a non-free license (but with source code available) in 2000, and finally under a new open source license in 2002. This is the 4th, and current, edition of the system. ...more on Wikipedia about "Plan 9 (operating system)"
In computing, a platform describes some sort of framework, either in hardware or software, which allows software to run. Typical platforms include a computer's architecture, operating system, or programming languages and their runtime libraries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Platform (computing)"
pnetC is the Portable.NET C library. The goal of the project is to create an ANSI-compatible C library (based on GNU C Library - glibc), that can be compiled to IL using Portable.NET's "cscc" compiler. The C compiler can be used to develop standard C applications and/or applications using the .NET API. ...more on Wikipedia about "PnetC"
QNX (pronounced either Q-N-X or Q-nix) is a commercial POSIX-compliant Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market. Prior to Apple's adoption of the Mach kernel in Mac OS X it was probably the most successful microkernel operating system. ...more on Wikipedia about "QNX"
A runtime environment is software that provides a layer between an application and the operating system. For example, programs written in Java, run in the Java Runtime Environment. And programs written in C#, Visual Basic .NET, C++ .Net, and so on, are run in the Microsoft .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) for Windows or Mono for Linux. Applications written for a particular runtime environment can theoretically be run, without recompiling, on various platforms. ...more on Wikipedia about "Runtime environment"
The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a mainframe computer system family announced by International Business Machines on April 7 1964. It was the first family of computers making a clear distinction between architecture and implementation. The chief architect of the S/360 was Gene Amdahl. ...more on Wikipedia about "System/360"
Wintel is a colloquial, often pejorative, term used to describe desktop computers and servers of the type commonly used in homes and businesses since the late 1980s (these are PC compatible computers running a version of Microsoft Windows). The portmanteau term is a concatenation of Windows ( Microsoft's operating environment) and ' Intel' (the largest manufacturer of CPUs and the originator of the X86 processor architecture used in many of today's PC compatible computers). In a strict sense, Wintel refers to only the two-thirds of desktop computers that run Windows on an Intel processor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wintel" Visit again www.shortopedia.com
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