OS - operating system

Abbreviation:	OS
Definition:	operating system - also O/S , Oper Syst and OPSYS
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Unconfirmed Type:	Acronym or Initialism

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• FTP - File Transfer Protocol 
• IRC - Internet Relay Chat 
• IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force 
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• P2P - Peer to Peer 
• SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol 
• POTS - Plain Old Telephone Service 
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• ACL - Access Control List 
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• PPP - Point-to-Point Protocol 
• EOF - end of file 
• EOL - end of line 
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• ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode 
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Relevant Links

• HowStuffWorks "How Operating Systems Work"
  The operating system controls your computer
  detailswww.howstuffworks.com/operating-system.htm
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• Free Operating systems and commercial operating systems
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  detailswww.freebyte.com/operatingsystems/
• OS/2 Operating System
  OS/2 Operating System - Much informations about operating systems with screenshots, version informations and details about the developers.
  detailswww.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/_english/bs-os2.htm
• Popular operating systems list, by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)
  detailswww.linfo.org/operating_systems_list.html

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