Core software that runs a computer and keeps its data in order, including the operating system, which manages hardware and software resources and gives common services to programs, and the relational database, which stores data by the relational model proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. An invention belongs here when the cited article describes it as an operating system or a database system. It excludes programming languages and the applications that run on top of such systems.
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Spreadsheet (Wikipedia)
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A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form.
Wikipedia: Blockchain
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A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes.
Operating System (Wikipedia)
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is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources
Relational Database (Wikipedia)
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A relational database (RDB) is a database based on the relational model of data
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