Operating Systems

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Operating systems do 2 things:

(1). Providing an easier abstraction layer (system calls) for user programs to access the real HW machine.

(2). It manages the system resource.

It this view, the shell is not considered as part of the operating system because:

(1). It acts as a interpreter(from user command to system calls) only, and

(2). It runs in user mode, and

(3). It is highly possible to replace the shell if you don't like one.

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The shell is the interface between users and operationg systems..Kernel

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Early computers were run from console. The card readers and tape drives were input devices. Line printers, tape drives and card punched were common output devices. The user did not interact directly with computer system. The user prepared a job that consisted of program, data and some control information (control cards). He then submitted it to the computer operator in the form of punched cards.

The operating system was simple. Its basic job was to transfer control automatically from one job to the next. The operating system was always resident in memory. The operator .batched similar jobs together and then ran in the computer to speed up the processing.

The CPU is often idle in this environment as speed of I/O devices is much slower than CPU. Alter sometime, the introduction of disk instead of card reader resulted in faster I/O devices.

In disk technology, the operating system keeps all jobs on a disk instead of card reader. The resources are utilized and jobs are performed more efficiently with the help of job scheduling. Job scheduling is possible because all jobs are present on the disk.

The memory contains operating system in one part and user program in other part. The user space can contain only one process at a time in batch systems. Digital equipment's VMS is an example of a batch operating system.

There are 2 types cluster system 1.Asymmentric clustering

2..symmentric clustering

DOS, which stands for Disk Operating System.

An early example of a large-scale real-time operating system was Transaction Processing Facility developed by American Airlines and IBM for the Sabre Airline Reservations System.

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Usually C: but it varies. Whatever drive it is is will usually be a local disk (It will usually say local disc <Drive Letter>)

Anyway if you aren't sure open My Computer, from the Start Menu or Desktop, and keep double clicking on the drives and clicking back until you come up with one with a folder called WINDOWS

A partitioned memory management technique is when the operating system loads more than one application program into memory at the same time, they share memory space and cpu time.

The main memory (which is the volatile memory where active programs and data are held during use), is divided into partitions that different processes that are running can fit into. The partitions sizes can either be fixed, or they can change to encompass the size of the process that is to be run.

So, a fixed partition main memory management technique is when the main memory is divided into partitions that do not change based on the size of the process, they are a fixed size. And a process is loaded into a partition big enough to hold it.

An operating system, or OS for short, is a collection of software that manages a computer's resources. An operating system is typically stored on the internal hard drive of the computer.

Examples of popular modern operating systems include Android, BSD, iOS, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone, and IBM z/OS. All these, except Windows and z/OS, share roots in UNIX.

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Correct, but there is an even newer one in the pipeline - they don't fire their design/program engineers, you know.

The OS makes calls to the system kernel (although sometimes the kernel is bundled with the OS). Applications make their calls to the OS, which then makes calls to the kernel.

Its always important to get the updates because the vendor is constantly working to resolve any issues that might be happening with the software or any security flaws in the programs that are getting updated. Also, sometimes the software vendor made add features to the software that are only available in the new update!

Windows 7

Windows Vista

Windows XP

Windows server 2003

Windows server 2008

Mac OS X

Ubuntu

Linux Mint

Debian

OpenSuSe

Fedora

FreeBSD

This is not complete list, but few other operating systems are used by anyone else than hobbyists.

Most operating systems have an on off function, and allow different users to use the computer. Some have hibernation and lock functions.

MULTITASKING!! Multitasking Another technique that helps servers use their system resources more efficiently is multitasking, which is the execution of multiple tasks at one time

No, but most of Linux software can be run on other systems since most of them are portable.