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variety of entities. Object-oriented systems shield the application from
implementation details.
+ OMIP
+ This term is an acronym for O(m) Independence-Preserving Protocol. OMIP is a
+ generalization of the :term:`priority inheritance` locking protocol to
+ clustered scheduling. The ``m`` denotes the number of processors in the
+ system.
+
operating system
The software which controls all the computer's resources and provides the
base upon which application programs can be written.