And over the next fifty years, we, the computer industry, refactored those computer systems into multiple components: servers, switches, storage, but we continued to provide the illusion of this perfect hardware system that the application could code to.
Insisting on the latter way of thinking has always been at the root of hardware and system development at Nintendo.
While Apple under Steve Jobs focused on its Macintosh closed system of hardware, software, and applications, Microsoft built an open market system on Windows: any hardware, any application, many ways to make money.
According to reports, the system installs a driver that gives it low-level access to PC hardware drivers and system resources.
Dating back to mid-2010, the document contained plans for an "Xbox 720" that utilizes the new Xbox SmartGlass system and new hardware for its Kinect motion-recognition system.
PCs is not so much the hardware and operating system, but the application software.
Family Bank has recently implemented an Oracle FLEXCUBE core banking system running on IBM hardware and the IBM AIX operating system.
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By controlling the hardware, operating system and many of the peripherals, Apple made the Mac easy to use, but also much more expensive.
Cloud may be a workable approach, however, if only one of these elements (hardware, operating system, or application layer) are based on custom technology.
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In the Mac world, where Apple controls hardware, operating system, software, and all my iOS devices, an upgrade can make them all work better together.
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After delays and a software preview, RIM BlackBerry finally pulled the wraps off of it's new hardware and operating system that we'd been looking for the end of January to bring.
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Nowadays the newest things being fitted into your hand aren't hardware and operating-system innovations at all.
Why does the military need planes whose hardware components and software system work poorly in the first place?
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The company has filled the new tablet with a Windows 8 operating system and hardware based on suggestions from fans and consumers.
Figure in the cost of the memory plus the larger circuit boards needed for rival systems, and the VideoLogic-NEC team claims its system costs hardware makers half as much as one using older technologies.
In addition, we are working across the mobile industry with operators, hardware manufacturers, operating system providers, and developers to improve the Facebook experience on mobile devices and make Facebook available to more people around the world.
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"The Ben Heck Show" is a bi-weekly online television series aired in English that's dedicated to the science and art of system and hardware modding with a global audience of design engineers, students and electronic enthusiasts.
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The challenge with Big Data is that it includes everything from hardware, through operating system, databases, analytics and business intelligence technologies, visualization software, post-graduate level mathematics and statistics, and innovative approaches to business and social problems.
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's one-year warranty on the base system is voided by the conversion and replaced with the Modbook Pro Protection Plan, which covers the entire hardware solution, including the base system.
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While Apple can link its hardware to its own operating system, Samsung uses Android like most other smartphone manufacturers.
Social interaction is central to PS4 experiences, so new features were built into the actual foundation of the system's hardware architecture.
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Apple found the sweet spot in terms of matching up the Operating System and the Hardware, and then let people go and play in the space.
All of this is possible because of virtualization, a process which increases effectiveness by inserting a level of software between the operating system and the hardware.
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Google has approached players in the industry, too, including Taiwan's HTC, to build the hardware that would use its system (see " Google's Friends and Family Plan").
Once a few glitches and more transit applications become more prevalent, iOS 6 is top of the line and the iPhone 5 is some extraordinary hardware to match the operating system.
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It's as if Microsoft is eating itself, trying to catch up with the mobile revolution while still packaging its new operating system in pricey hardware that's clearly declining in popularity with consumers.
The experiences of the reponses to Hurricane Katrina and 9-11 show what can happen when there are massive failures of communications between military and civilian authorities and agencies: hardware failures, incompatibility, system overload, interference, and other factors that vastly complicated a coordinated response.
Microsoft sets parameters for all the hardware companies that utilize its operating system, including Nokia.
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It has a killer processor and other great hardware features, but the operating system doesn't take advantage of any of that.
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