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A programmable logic controller (PLC) or programmable controller is an industrial computer that has been ruggedized and adapted for the control of manufacturing...

Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies formats for images, sound,...

This article presents a list of commands used by MS-DOS compatible operating systems, especially as used on IBM PC compatibles. Many unrelated disk operating...

In computing, load balancing is the process of distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources (computing units), with the aim of making their overall...

PC Card is a parallel peripheral interface for laptop computers and PDAs. The PCMCIA originally introduced the 16-bit ISA-based PCMCIA Card in 1990, but...

Sailfish OS is a paid Linux-based operating system based on free software, and open source projects such as Mer as well as including a closed source UI...

Open-source software development (OSSD) is the process by which open-source software, or similar software whose source code is publicly available, is developed...

Computer operating systems (OSes) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer, and the links needed to control...

Benjamin Mako Hill is a free software activist, hacker, author, and professor. He is a contributor and free software developer as part of the Debian and...

Many Unicode characters are used to control the interpretation or display of text, but these characters themselves have no visual or spatial representation...

OpenZFS is an open-source implementation of the ZFS file system and volume manager initially developed by Sun Microsystems for the Solaris operating system...

Adobe Digital Editions (abbreviated ADE) is an e-book reader software program from Adobe. It is used for acquiring, managing, and reading e-books, digital...

Dynamic systems development method (DSDM) is an agile project delivery framework, initially used as a software development method. First released in 1994...

The Linux kernel provides multiple interfaces to user-space and kernel-mode code that are used for varying purposes and that have varying properties by...

The Utah teapot, or the Newell teapot, is one of the standard reference test models in 3D modeling and an in-joke within the computer graphics community...

The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol provides the ability to secure communications across or inside networks. This comparison of TLS implementations...

File synchronization (or syncing) in computing is the process of ensuring that computer files in two or more locations are updated via certain rules. In...

TrueAudio is AMD's application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) intended to serve as dedicated co-processor for the calculations of computationally expensive...

Constructive solid geometry (CSG; formerly called computational binary solid geometry) is a technique used in solid modeling. Constructive solid geometry...

Bluefire Reader is an e-book reader application for Android (superseded by Cloudshelf Reader), iOS and Windows operating systems that supports white-labelling...