I’m trying to determine the technical details of why software produced using programming languages for certain operating systems only work with them. It is my understanding that binaries are specific ...

After introducing interrupts and the foreground/background architecture, I am finally ready to tackle the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). In this first lesson on RTOS (commonly ...

Back when Ars Senior Products Editor Andrew Cunningham was forced to work in Mac OS 9 by his colleagues in September 2014, he quickly hit a productivity wall. He couldn’t log in to his Ars e-mail or ...

Programming Systems & Software Engineering research at Drexel University's College of Computing & Informatics (CCI) focuses on improving the design, construction, and maintenance of software systems, ...

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In the last lesson, you encountered the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and you worked out a manual procedure of switching the context from one thread to another. In this lesson, ...

Google’s Android Automotive software has been adopted by many carmakers for the EV era, but it tends to vary between different brands. This week Google and Rivian confirmed to 9to5Google that the ...

IBM z/OS 3.2 will be the cornerstone of the z17 mainframe and includes support for the Big Iron's new AI acceleration technologies. IBM today introduced the next release of z/OS, which promises to ...

Getting started with parallel programming is easier than ever. In fact, now you can develop right on your Macbook Pro using its built-in Nvidia GeForce GPU. Over at QuantStart, Valerio Restocchi has ...