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Solaris OS is a UNIX-based operating system that was developed in 1992. Sun Microsystems owned it, but in 201,0 Oracle bought this company. Before 2010 Solaris OS was open source but after Oracle bought the company, Solaris OS became closed source. Some components of the Solaris OS source code are available to the public on GitHub. However, the Solaris core code is only accessible to Oracle. Both Linux [...]
Windows Media Player (WMP) is a type of player that comes pre-installed with the Windows operating system. It can play audio and video files. The Windows Media Player is coming since the launch of Windows 95. The user interface of the Windows Media Player was last time updated with Windows 7. Some pros and cons of Windows Media Player are described below:- Advantages of Windows Media Player (WMP) [...]
A centralized network is a type of network in which one central server controls all other client nodes. The nodes can be computers, mobile devices or any other data-storing devices. This type of network is easy to build i.e. only one database or file server is needed and other client computers connect to the central server. The centralized network is difficult to scale up because there is a [...]
Definition of smartphones The smartphone is a mobile phone which works as a computer with a touchscreen interface. You can use a smartphone for business purposes, for entertainment and communication. You can download and install apps on your smartphone with the help of the internet. The first smartphone was developed by IBM in 1992 named Simon Personal Communicator. This smartphone was available to the general public in 1994. [...]
What is a business expert system? This system is designed to give expert advice to executives of the company and help them to make decisions in the company. This system uses artificial intelligence (AI) to collect information and make decisions. A business expert system is based on computers, and all the calculations are made using computer processing. Some benefits of the business expert system are:- Cost reduction Speed [...]
Definition of management information system MIS or management information system is a type of system in which managers and top executives manage information and use that information for making decisions in the company. Components of management information system Various components of MIS are:- People People are the main component of MIS. The people include managers, top executives, and staff of the company. The profit and loss of the [...]
Samsung is a tech company that is making phones for quite a long time. The first phone that Samsung made was the SH-100 in 1988. Samsung becomes popular after starting to make smartphones. The first android smartphone that Samsung made was GT-17500 which was released on 29 June 2009. Samsung phones have a unique user interface in their phones and are evolving with time. The software and hardware [...]
Introduction to Scheduling: In an Operating system (OS) multiple processes are running at a time. One process may have multiple threads in it also. For example, the MS Word program has multiple threads in it, one thread for checking grammar, one thread for counting words etc. All the processes and threads in OS are managed by the OS. The OS have to assign time for running these processes [...]
What is Supercomputer A supercomputer is a fast computer that contains thousands of processors in it and that can perform trillions of calculations per second. The speed of a supercomputer is measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS). The speed of the normal computer is measured in million instructions per second (MIPS). Old supercomputers used the UNIX operating system while newer versions of supercomputers run Linux on their [...]
Definition of Executive Information System (EIS) An executive information system (EIS) is a decision support system that helps top executives of the organization to make decisions. EIS uses both internal and external information to make decisions. Internal information is the information gathered within the organization and external information is the information that is gathered outside the organization. The internal information is the profit/loss of the own company while [...]
