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• TCP/IP
  ...y used protocol to do that; it provides a [[reliable byte stream]] service/abstraction.
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• INTEL 80386 PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE MANUAL
  high level of abstraction.
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• File system
  A '''file system''' is an abstraction provided by an [[operating system]] to users for them to store data aggrega ...ture (called an [[inode]] in UNIX); directories (usually implemented as an abstraction on top of the file layer) only held mappings from file-names (visible to us
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• Directory
  ...ture (called an [[inode]] in UNIX); directories (usually implemented as an abstraction on top of that file layer) only held mappings from file-names (visible to u
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• UNIX file system
  ...the information about a file was kept. Directories were implemented as an abstraction on top of the previous layer), using 'file' objects provided by the inode l
  7 KB (1,147 words) - 14:34, 14 June 2023
• Process
  A '''process''' is the most common computational abstraction in a [[multi-tasking]] [[operating system]]. It is effectively a 'virtual c
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• Instruction
  An '''instruction''' is, at the highest level of abstraction, the smallest unit of computation which a [[programmer]] can direct the [[C
  774 bytes (119 words) - 19:50, 3 June 2023
• Byte stream
  A '''byte stream''' is an [[abstraction]] which describes a particular kind of communication channel between two en
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• SITS
  ...d computer called the [[General Turtle|3500]]. It was done using a system abstraction layer called the '''Little SITS''' emulator.
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• Job
  ...s often run as a [[process]], but not all batch OS's supported the process abstraction. Some early interactive [[operating system]]s retained the term, but used i
  1 KB (235 words) - 02:25, 11 September 2022
• Hypervisor
  There are two main types of hypervisors, classified by their level of abstraction from the physical hardware:
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• Routing architecture
  ...]] and [[IGP]] functionality, and with better tools for doing and managing abstraction.
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• Charles Babbage
  ...d was his 'Mechanical Notation', which was a way of providing a high-level abstraction of a complex mechanical system. Now little-known, and understood, it was a
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