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The system would, however, maintain compatibility with the PDP-11, by operating in a second mode that sent its 16-bit words into the 32-bit internals, while mapping the PDP-11's 16-bit memory space into the larger virtual 32-bit space. [47] The result was the VAX architecture, where VAX stands for Virtual Address eXtension (from 16 to 32 bits).
Comparison of Microsoft Windows versions. Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of computer software operating systems created by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
Windows Driver Model. In computing, the Windows Driver Model ( WDM ) – also known at one point as the Win32 Driver Model – is a framework for device drivers that was introduced with Windows 98 and Windows 2000 to replace VxD, which was used on older versions of Windows such as Windows 95 and Windows 3.1, as well as the Windows NT Driver Model .
PDP-10 systems on the ARPANET highlighted in yellow. Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s PDP-10, later marketed as the DECsystem-10, is a mainframe computer family [ 1] manufactured beginning in 1966 [ 2] and discontinued in 1983. [ 3][ 4][ 5] 1970s models and beyond were marketed under the DECsystem-10 name, especially as the TOPS-10 ...
2017–10: Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Windows 10 Mobile Fall Creators Update Windows Server 2016 Fall Creators Update : iOS 11.1 watchOS 4.1 tvOS11.1: OpenBSD 6.2 DragonFly BSD 5.0: Ubuntu 17.10: 2017–11: Linux 4.14 Fedora Linux 27: BareMetal 1.0.0 2017–12: iOS 11.2 watchOS 4.2 tvOS11.2: Android 8.1: ReactOS 0.4.7 2018–01: Linux 4.15 ...
Direct3D 10: Designed around the new driver model in Windows Vista and featuring a number of improvements to rendering capabilities and flexibility, including Shader Model 4. Direct3D 10.1 is an incremental update of Direct3D 10.0 which shipped with, and required, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 , which was released in February 2008. [ 37 ]
The PDP-6 Monitor software was first released in 1964. Support for the PDP-10's KA10 processor was added to the Monitor in release 2.18 in 1967. The TOPS-10 name was first used in 1970 for release 5.01. Release 6.01 (May 1974) was the first TOPS-10 to implement virtual memory (demand paging), enabling programs larger than physical memory to be ...
Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years earlier, which was then the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft Windows. It was released to manufacturing on November 8, 2006, and over the following two months, it was ...