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Interwoven Patents Code Versioning
webengr writes "It seems like the USPO is pretty lenient when it comes to awarding software patents. CVS has been around for a long time, but now Interwoven has been awarded a new patent covering version control of web assets. The claims include, 'The use of a hierarchical file system and an object repository for representing and hosting content and its structure,' and 'The combined concepts of file history, versioning, comparison, and merging as it relates to content, provide an archive of all individual changes as well as collections of changes so they can be versioned and audited.'"
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World-renowned physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking presents a revolutionary look at the momentous discoveries that changed our perception of the world with this first-ever compilation of seven classic works on physics and astronomy. His choice of landmark writings by some of the world's great thinkers traces the brilliant evolution of modern science and shows how each figure built upon the genius of his predecessors.
On the Shoulders of Giants includes, in their entirety, On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus; Principia by Sir Isaac Newton; The Principle of Relativity by Albert Einstein; Dialogues Concerning Two Sciences by Galileo Galilei with Alfonso De Salvio; plus Mystery of the Cosmos, Harmony of the World, and Rudolphine Tables by Johannes Kepler. It also includes five critical essays and a biography of each featured physicist, written by Hawking himself.
Introduction and overview (SkyOS programmers book, Chapter 1)
SkyOS is an operating system for x86 PC?s. As required for a modern operating system it supports features like multiprocessor support (SMP), virtual memory, memory protection, multitasking and threading etc. Additionally SkyOS has a built-in GUI system named SkyGI. All features of the OS will be explained later in detail.
Architecture portability of SkyOS was never an option. So the low-level code is targeted for x86 (80386+ exactly) processors only. But this has some advantages too, like fast and readable code optimized for this architecture only.
The minimum system requirements to install and use a SkyOS system are as follows:
A recommend system configuration can be following:
SkyOS is a Desktop operating system. This means, right after SkyOS has booted, the user is in a graphical environment where things like command shell?s or scripts are optional. Normally the user don?t need to open such command shell?s. But there are a lot of command shell applications too like the GNU compiler, file utilities, etc. (General most of the tools known from Linux and Windows).
Features and goals of SkyOS
Overall, SkyOS should be an easy to use graphical operating system for editing files, browsing the internet and programming new software.
To achieve this in a good an useable performance, SkyOS has to use processor features like multitasking, paging, ? explained here.
Brief feature overview
BlockDevice Caching system
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