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What trends are occurring in the development of operating systems for personal computers?
More efforts are going into cloud computing (the idea of storing most information on the internet) Microsoft is trying to create a Windows version for all this cloud computing to take place called Azure. And the next version of Windows will probably have more of the Windows Live cloud stuff. Google are trialling an OS based on a Google Chrome web browser, so all work is done using web apps and info in stored in the 'cloud'. That's another addition that is being more focused on is the idea of app stores. Linux distro's have had these for years, but Apple are starting to take the app store idea from iOS products and onto the Mac. Microsoft will probably try somthing similar. Multi touch integration was tried to some extent in Windows 7 and will probably be improved a bit in the next Windows. Apple are increasing multi-touch in the next version of Mac OS 'Lion'. The only other trend would appear to be increasing memory usage in commercial operating systems.
What is the Windows operating system?
As of early March 2011, the next MS Windows Operating System is Windows 8, which is expected to be released sometime in 2012.
What is a disk operating system?
AnswerAn operating system (OS) is software that controls the internals of a computer. The first large computers did not have operating systems or programming languages. You entered insructions through lights on the main console. The first operating systems were on punched cards, which you read into computer memory. They would then control instructions entered on decks of punched cards (a "computer program"). When you turned off the computer, the memory would NOT be cleared, so the next time you turned on the computer, the operating system would still be there. At this time, computers consisted of a "central processor" (the equivalent of a mother board today) that took up a room, punched cards input and output, and printers. There were no magnetic devices such as tapes or hard or floppy disk. The problem with this was that it required that everything from your operating system to your program be entered in "machine" language - binary codes that told the processor what to do (move something, compare something, add, subtract etc.). The next step was to create an operating system that was "flexible" and easily updated. So the "TOS", or Tape Operating System was created. This consisted of adding a tape drive to the computer complex, and storing the "OS" card deck on tape. About this time, they changed over to "volatile" memory that was cleared when you powered down the computer, so the OS had to be re-loaded every time when you turned it back on.In this way, if you wanted to change operating systems (go from a financial operating system that handled money to a scientific OS that handled spiral decay of satellites), you just stored that OS on a tape and mounted the tape you wanted, which you then loaded into memory. It was at this point that the "general purpose" computer was born. Up until then, each computer was dedicated to a task such as financial, or scientific or military.The computer then evolved into "magnetic" systems - tape, disk, cylinders, platters, CRAM (Card Random Access Memory) - there were many different kinds of storage that could be used for input and output. The next logical step was to take the TOS and put it out on disk (or even magnetic cards), so you didn't have to mount a tape to load or change an operating system. This was DOS (Disk Operating System). DOS was originally on mainframe computers.At the same time mainframe computers were maturing, so was the "hobby" computer. It followed the same path as mainfame, only slower, so it went through a "console lights" phase where you could only do something through the lights and/or switches, into an "operating system" on tape and finally into a DOS (of which there were several flavors). Today, most operating systems are DOS, but they might be stored on media other than disk, such as Thumb Drives, which are really solid state chips and not disk drives. The PC "BIOS", the Basic Input/Output Operating System, is an example of a DOS on a chip that is used to initialize your computer so it can read/write from all the devices that it consists of.
What are the difficulty that the programmer must overcome writing an operating system for real time environment?
A real time operating system needs to be "event driven" and have the ability to perform certain tasks in a very timely manner. Most true real-time operating systems use interrupts to handle events as they occur, such as a time-critical input message from a serial port or a digital I/O event from some peripheral hardware. Next, there should be some kind of prioritization, meaning that one process may be time critical, such as controlling the rods at a nuclear reactor, but other processes might be a little less critical, such as dimming the hallway lights at the reactor facility after hours. Third, there must be a mechanism in place for "multitasking", meaning that the computer must be able to switch between multiple active processes. Some operating systems create a process "stack" for each process, and if a high priority process is to be activated to handle an event, the operating system simply switches control to the higher priority process by loading the current data from the process stack. A true real time operating system can do that in just a couple clock ticks.
What is the single processor system in the operating system?
The system that execute the one process at the time and the next job when process is completed it is called the single process system
Is the next generation of Microsoft operating system?
Windows 7
What is the next major operating system by Microsoft to be released in 2010?
Windows 7
What is the next Microsoft operating system for desktop computers to be released in 2007?
Windows Vista
What is the next Microsoft operating system for desktop to be released in 2006 and 2007?
windows vista
What is the next Microsoft operating system for desktop computers to be released in 2010?
There will not be a PC operating system to be released in 2010 by Microsoft. Microsoft has their hands full with Windows 7. Its life span will most likely be the length of Windows XP.
What were some of bill gates main accomplishments?
he invented the next generation system software known as the microsoft.
What is the next Microsoft operating system for desktop computers to be released in 2006 and 2007?
Windows Vista
Where can someone learn more about the Apple operating system?
Information on Apple's operating system, including the latest OS X Mountain Lion, can be found directly from Apple and its OS X website. Information on the next generation systems including Mavericks due out this year, can also be found at the site.
What is worth more xbox One or PS4?
Neither Sony nor Microsoft have announced a price for their next generation of consoles.
What has the author Thomas Plevyak written?
Thomas Plevyak has written: 'Next generation telecommunications networks, services, and management' -- subject(s): Forecasting, Computer networks, Telecommunication systems 'Next generation telecommunications networks, services, and management' -- subject(s): Computer networks, Forecasting, Telecommunication systems
Is the Wii a next-gen system?
Yes indeed it is considered a next-gen system. Even though it isn't up to par in the graphics department it is the next generation of Nintendo systems.
What is the original system produced by Microsoft?
The original system developed by the company that became known as Microsoft was a Basic Interpreter for the Altair microcomputer. This single language operating system was sold as Altair Basic. They next developed a version of unix licensed from AT&T called Xenix. Microsoft later purchased a dos like system, renamed it MS-DOS and licensed it to IBM for the IBM PC as PC-DOS. The name "DOS" was generic and existed on many computer systems at the time that had a Disk based Operating System.
