Operating system Quote by Charles Petzold Download Open image “To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.” — Charles Petzold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Operating system Operating systems Programming
The definition of an 'operating system' is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it. — Jim Allchin Copy Share Image
UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“the “API call” metaphor inevitably exposes the server’s implementation details to the clients. This introduces coupling between server code and client code.” — Leonard Richardson Copy Share Image
If you believe developers will build applications from scratch using web services as primitive building blocks, then the operating system becomes the Internet. — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
“As with other kinds of markets, popular operating systems quickly get more and more popular, as they attract both new buyers and new sellers.… — Alvin E. Roth Copy Share Image
It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much… — John Fowler Copy Share Image
“In 1948, while working for Bell Telephone Laboratories, he published a paper in the Bell System Technical Journal entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Many MIDI files contain entire musical compositions. Because MIDI supports only 16 channels, however, no more than 16 different instruments can play at any… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Some programs - especially games - require that your system be set to a particular color depth and resolution. Often such special settings are… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
“return 0; will return zero (which is the integer referred to on line 3) to the operating system. When a program runs successfully its… — Wiki Books Copy Share Image
Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life… — Praveen Kumar Copy Share Image
“the entire operating system of the cosmos could be summed up by a single overriding command: spread energy!” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Lehman and Belady have studied the history of successive releases in a large operating system.[6] They find that the total number of modules increases… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
If you invest in Microsoft or Oracle, or a number of other companies for that matter, you're fundamentally making a bet that there's going… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Because ease of use is the purpose, this ratio of function to conceptual complexity is the ultimate test of system design. Neither function alone… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Our brain is a circuit board with neurons and terminals ready to be wired. We are born free, then programmed to obey our parents,… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
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