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operating system

[op-uh-rey-ting sis-tuhm] / ˈɒp ə reɪ tɪŋ ˌsɪs təm /


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Not the hardware—which Jobs reluctantly abandoned because it cost too much and nobody wanted it—but the operating system, which proved to be as revolutionary as Jobs always claimed it would be.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Researchers with security firm Calif found two bugs in Apple’s desktop operating system, using techniques from Anthropic’s Mythos AI.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

This includes the little green robot that Google uses as the mascot for its Android mobile operating system.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

He also drew parallels between the current environment, when the internet was just beginning to flourish and Windows 95, a groundbreaking operating system, was first released.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

Then he would come out of it, and the two would go out to dinner, then plunge into writing some program or into a long battle over which operating system was superior.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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