WikiCards
Play on iPhone nowFree in Safari. Add it to your Home Screen.Play
WikiCards · Card list · Science cards · Operating system
Epic card · Science
Operating system, an Epic card
An operating system is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 176
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 690,000
Ranked #1,129 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Operating system quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Operating system card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Nuclear weapon. Nuclear weapon 89 · Illicit drug use in Australia 84 · Operating system 81 · 243 Ida 77 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Operating system. Operating system 690,000 · Platinum 430,000 · 243 Ida 41,000 · Illicit drug use in Australia 8,200 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also include accounting software for cost allocation of processor time, mass storage, peripherals, and other resources.
- For hardware functions such as input and output and memory allocation, the operating system acts as an intermediary between programs and the computer hardware, although the application code is usually executed directly by the hardware and frequently makes system calls to an OS function or is interrupted by it.
- Operating systems are found on many devices that contain a computer – from cellular phones and video game consoles to web servers and supercomputers.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Operating system article was read about 690,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Operating system
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Operating system in the power ranking, all domains together.
- CologneEpic · History · ATK 88 DEF 88
- Nuclear weaponEpic · Science · ATK 89 DEF 87
- OdinEpic · Arts · ATK 82 DEF 94
- Atlantic slave tradeEpic · History · ATK 97 DEF 79
- Vladimir NabokovEpic · Arts · ATK 84 DEF 92
- Art DecoEpic · Arts · ATK 89 DEF 87
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Science cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Operating system (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Golftheman, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
