Operating systems

Operating systems

Software that handles the basic functionality of hardware.

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hyperterminal

Software; Operating systems

HyperTerminal is an application used for connecting the computer to another computer using a modem.

marquee-select

Software; Operating systems

Marquee-selecting is the process of clicking-and-dragging the mouse pointer over a group of objects until a dotted line forms a box around it.

media player

Software; Operating systems

Media Player is a small application used for playing audio and video files.

C shell is the UNIX shell (command execution program, often called a command interpreter ) created by Bill Joy at the University of California at Berkeley as an alternative to UNIX's original shell, ...

common desktop environment (CDE)

Software; Operating systems

The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a standardized graphical user interface (GUI) for open systems. CDE and similar interfaces, such as KDE, offer a more intuitive and user-friendly way to ...

change mode

Software; Operating systems

In a UNIX-based operating system, chmod (change mode) is a command used by a file owner or administrator to change the definition of access permissions to a file or set of files.

customer information control system (CICS)

Software; Operating systems

CICS (Customer Information Control System) is an online transaction processing (OLTP) program from IBM that, together with the COBOL programming language, has formed over the past several decades the ...