The Purpose of an Operating System Professor John St. John COMP 129 – PC Hardware and Software October 2‚ 2014 Some professionals in the Information Technology (IT) field might describe the Operating System (OS) of a Personal Computer (PC) as its software brain. Jean Andrews‚ Ph.D.‚ describes an OS this way: “An operating system is software that controls a computer. It manages hardware‚ runs applications‚ provides an interface for users‚ and stores‚
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History of Operating Systems Early computers lacked any form of operating system. The user had sole use of the machine; he would arrive at the machine armed with his program and data‚ often on punched paper tape. The program would be loaded into the machine‚ and the machine set to work‚ until the program stopped‚ or maybe more likely‚ crashed. Programs could generally be debugged via a front panel using switches and lights; it is said that Alan Turing was a master of this on the early Manchester
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Vista Service Pack 1 8. Which file system is used on the volume where Windows is installed? NTFS file system 9. What is the minimum number of partitions required on a hard drive that is to be set up as a dual boot with Windows 7 and Windows XP? One partition for Windows 7 and one partition for Windows XP 10. Is the built-in administrator account in Windows 7 enabled or disabled by default? In Windows XP? Disabled by default for both operating systems. 11. Which gives better security‚ workgroup
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2.1 TYPES OF OPERATING SYSTEM A. Batch Operating System- Batch processing is the most primitive type of operating system. Batch processing generally requires the program‚ data‚ & appropriate system commands to be submitted together in the form of a job. Batch operating systems usually allow little or no interaction between users & executing programs. Examples of such programs include payroll‚ forecasting‚ statistical analysis‚ & large scientific number-crunching programs. Serial processing combined
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Internet Operating Systems Andrew S Minette POS/355 University of Phoenix Internet operating systems‚ or Web operating systems‚ are not operating systems per say. There are more of user interfaces. An operating system is dependent on system hardware and uses hard disk space on a user computer to install and store applications. Web operating systems‚ however‚ depend on traditional operating systems to run an instance. According to Jonathan Strickland or How Stuff Works‚ while there may not
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HISTORY OF OPERATIMG SYSTEMS Operating systems (OS) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer‚ and the linkages needed to control and synchronize computer hardware. On the first computers‚ with no operating system‚ every program needed the full hardware specification to run correctly and perform standard tasks‚ and its own drivers for peripheral devices like printers and punched paper card readers. The growing complexity of hardware and application programs
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Operating system virtualization is a method of altering a standard operating system so it may handle multiple users all at the same time. These individual users would not have any interaction with one another. Their information would also remain separate‚ even though they are using the same system. While this technology has several uses‚ the most common uses are in hosting situations and server consoladation. With operating system virtualazation‚ a single system is set up to operate like several
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changing an operating system......... An operating system is the program that manages all the application programs in a computer system. This also includes managing the input and output devices‚ and assigning system resources. Operating systems evolved as the solution to the problems that were evident in early computer systems‚ and coincide with the changing computer systems. Three cycles are clear in the evolution of computers‚ the mainframe computers‚ minicomputers and microcomputers‚ and each
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Resources disc. Principles of Operating Systems: Design & Applications Chapter 1 Introduction to Operating Systems Objectives After studying this chapter‚ the student should: Be able to discuss ways of defining the operating system Understand the different roles the OS plays Have a general picture of the areas of OS responsibility Have a general understanding of the evolution of operating systems 3 Principles of Operating Systems: Design & Applications Objectives
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