Global Positioning System — GPS redirects here. For other uses, see GPS (disambiguation). Geodesy Fundamentals … Wikipedia
List of countries by system of government — This is a list of the countries categorised by system of government. Contents 1 Alphabetical list of countries 2 Map 3 Systems of Governance 3.1 Presidential/Separated republics … Wikipedia
Number Five Crossbar Switching System — The Number Five Crossbar Switching System or 5XB switch, designed by Bell Labs and made by Western Electric, was in use in Bell System telephone exchanges from 1948 to the 1980s. Its principal use was as a Class 5 telephone switch, though… … Wikipedia
postal system — System that allows persons to send letters, parcels, or packages to addressees in the same country or abroad. Postal systems are usually government run and paid for by a combination of user charges and government subsidies. There are early… … Universalium
Distributed operating system — A distributed operating system is the logical aggregation of operating system software over a collection of independent, networked, communicating, and spatially disseminated computational nodes.[1] Individual system nodes each hold a discrete… … Wikipedia
High availability — is a system design approach and associated service implementation that ensures a prearranged level of operational performance will be met during a contractual measurement period. Users want their systems, for example wrist watches, hospitals,… … Wikipedia
Global navigation satellite system — (GNSS) is the standard generic term for satellite navigation systems that provide autonomous geo spatial positioning with global coverage. A GNSS allows small electronic receivers to determine their location (longitude, latitude, and altitude) to … Wikipedia
Federal Reserve System — FRB and FED redirect here. For other uses, see FRB (disambiguation) and FED (disambiguation). Federal Reserve System … Wikipedia
Michigan Terminal System — (MTS) The MTS welcome screen as seen through a 3270 terminal emulator. Company / developer University of Michigan and 7 other universities in the US, Canada, and the UK … Wikipedia
IBM Information Management System — (IMS) is a joint hierarchical database and information management system with extensive transaction processing capabilities. History IBM designed IMS with Rockwell and Caterpillar starting in 1966 for the Apollo program. IMS s challenge was to… … Wikipedia
political system — Introduction the set of formal legal institutions that constitute a “government” or a “ state.” This is the definition adopted by many studies of the legal or constitutional arrangements of advanced political orders. More broadly defined,… … Universalium