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Glossary of Embedded System Terminology
TERM
Unix
VFS
Virtual Machine (VM)
X
x86
XCOFF
126 ■ i.MX GNU X-Tools User Guide
DESCRIPTION
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Unix operating system. The uppercase spelling of `Unix' is used
interchangeably. Invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell
Labs left the Multics project, Unix subsequently underwent
mutations and expansions at the hands of many different
people, resulting in a uniquely flexible and developer-friendly
environment. By 1991, Unix had become the most widely used
multi-user general-purpose operating system in the world.
Virtual File System architecture.
An abstract specification for a computing device that can be
implemented in different ways, in software or hardware.
Compiling to the instruction set of a virtual machine is much like
compiling to the instruction set of a microprocessor, using a
byte code instruction set, a set of registers, a stack, a garbagecollected heap, and an area for storing methods.
An allegedly "over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and
incredibly over-complicated" window system developed at MIT
and widely used on Unix systems. With its sources freely
available, it is a vehicle that is widespread since developers can
modify and customize it according to their requirements.
Name for the Intel 8086 architecture family.
eXtended COFF , IBM's object file format for RS/6000 and
PowerPC systems.