Over the past several decades, as the first generation of computer operating system capability has been introduced into the world, data processing and manipulation products and services have gradually assumed increasing importance. Now, technological development and the widespread acceptance of standard are transforming the way in which information is used to support the daily task function. In addition to the traditional data processing requirement for manipulating the data (meaning text and numerical data), there is the need to deal with the amount of the data and how they organize all the information. These four types of information (voice, data, image, and video) are essential to the survival of any business in today’s competitive international environment. Later operating system came with libraries of software, which would be linked to a user's program to assist in operations such as input and output and generating computer code from human-readable symbolic code. This was the genesis of the modern-day operating system. However, machines still ran a single job at a time.
Computer operating system and software have become essential to the functioning of today’s businesses, large and small. Furthermore, they have become a major and growing cost to organizations. Management and staff needs a thorough understanding of using various of operating systems in order to assess needs; plan for the introduction of products, services, and systems; and manage the systems and technical personnel that operate them.
Introduction
An operating system (OS) is software (program and data) which runs on computers and manages the computer hardware and provides common services for efficient execution of various application software. We can see any kind of operating system from any single devices that contain programming languages such as from cellular phones, video games consoles, personal computer until supercomputer and web server. The most common operating systems that
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