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Programming, windows

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What is the difference between user variables such as PATH, TMP, etc. and system variables? I accidentally deleted the user variable PATH. What ...

C++, Programming

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All platforms welcome, please specify the platform for your answer. A similar question: How to programmatically get the CPU cache page size in ...

Programming, x86

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What is the difference between Trap and Interrupt? If the terminology is different for different systems, then what do they mean on x86? ...

I want to check the operating system (on the computer where the script runs). I know I can use os.system('uname -o') in Linux, ...

I read that Linux is a monolithic kernel. Does monolithic kernel mean compiling and linking the complete kernel code into an executable? If ...

How can I find the OS name and OS version using JavaScript? 17 Answers 17

I need my code to do different things based on the operating system on which it gets compiled. I’m looking for something like ...

How do you run a program all by itself without an operating system running? Can you create assembly programs that the computer can ...

Recently, I have been asked a question in an interview what’s the difference between a process and a thread. Really, I did not ...

I was just wondering who knows what programming languages Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are made up from and what languages are ...