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Why is the word 'driver' used in IT to describe software that helps hardware interface with the operating system?
What is the logic behind choosing the word driver to describe this kind of software and when did drivers start to be called this way ?
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What is the difference between RTM, GA and GOLD versions?
I am absolutely puzzled here:
What is the difference between RTM, GA(Gerneral Availability) and final GOLD version?
For example for Windows 8:
RTM - Microsoft sends this version to ASUS, Acer, DELL,...
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Bits of CPU, architecture and OS
I was wondering if the bits of OS, of
instruction set, of CPU registers,
of data bus from CPU to memory, and of
address bus from CPU to memory must
be consistent in some sense and how?
When we cay ...
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"Stable" operating system - what does it mean exactly?
I've been using Linux for more than 2 years now, and I'm a satisfied user. I started with Ubuntu, then switched to Fedora and now I'm fond of Linux Mint.
Linux is often described as "stable". I have ...
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What does etc stand for/mean?
In most (all?) *nix systems there's a directory named /etc, what does etc stand for?
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What is UNIX and what's UNIX-like?
Derived from this question:
If opensolaris, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd are not UNIX, what is then?
What confuses me more, is the fact OSX1.5+ is UNIX, while prior version of OSX weren't
What is the ...
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What is a kernel panic?
I know that this sounds like a LMGTFY question but i thought i'd ask it so that google actually turns up (more) good results. What is it?
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