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    Unix Operating System

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    overview of Unix operating system. It starts by presenting a brief history of the early development of Unix. It concentrates on main aspects of Unix operating system. Key concepts covered are interactive multi-user operating systems‚ the design objectives of Unix‚ file-store organization‚ text processing and programming‚ the role of C programming language with regard to portability and reliable system software‚ process control (signals and fork)‚ error logging and recovery from system failures‚ modifiability

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    Types of Operating Systems Within the broad family of operating systems‚ there are generally four types‚ categorized based on the types of computers they control and the sort of applications they support. The categories are: * Real-time operating system (RTOS) - Real-time operating systems are used to control machinery‚ scientific instruments and industrial systems. An RTOS typically has very little user-interface capability‚ and no end-user utilities‚ since the system will be a "sealed box"

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    Mobile Operating Systems (Mobile OS) Introduction: A mobile operating system‚ also called a mobile OS‚ is an operating system that is specifically designed to run on mobile devices such as mobile phones‚ smartphones‚ PDAs‚ tablet computers and other handheld devices.Much like the Linux or Windows operating system controls your desktop or laptop computer‚ a mobile operating system is the software platform on top of which other programs can run on mobile devices. The operating system is responsible

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    Operating System Basics Functions of Operating Systems • An operating system is the software on a computer that manages the way different programs use its hardware‚ and regulates the ways that a user controls the computer. • Provide a user interface • Run programs • Organized file storage Types of Operating Systems • Real-time operating system – Very fast small OS – Built into a device – Respond quickly to user input – MP3 players

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    Running Head: Operating Systems - Linux Operating Systems - Linux Prepared by Jackie Riddick University of Phoenix November 18‚ 2007 Operating Systems - Linux Brief History. Linus Torvalds created the Linux operating system in 1991 while he was still a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He developed and released the Linux kernel under the GNU General Public License so that its source code would be free to all and others could modify it to meet their specific needs. The

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    File Systems The file system provides the environment for working with files and folders. Windows uses FAT12‚ FAT16‚ FAT32 and/or NTFS with NTFS almost always being the best choice. Linux also has a number of its own native file systems. The default file system for Linux used to be ext2‚ now it is typically ext3. MS-DOS used to be and Microsoft Windows continues to be the most popular operating system for 80386‚ 80486‚ and Pentium PCs. Because Linux started on 80386/80486 PCs‚ a connection

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    Components of an Operating System In order to perform the actions requested by the computer’s users‚ an operating system must be able to communicate with those users. The portion of an operating system that handles this communication is often called the user interface. Older user interfaces‚ called shells‚ communicated with users through textual messages using a keyboard and monitor screen. More modern systems perform this task by means of a graphical user interface (GUI) in which objects to be

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    Overview of Mobile Operating Systems Today Samuel Echevarria Lee University February 29‚ 2012 Abstract The paper discusses the importance of mobile operating systems in today’s world‚ while also giving a brief overview of the important mobile OS’s that are popular in the US. Advantages and disadvantages are analyzed within each mobile OS and will give an insight as to which mobile OS caters to a user’s or business need. This is done by evaluating the smartphone market (market share‚ hardware sales

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    Modern Operating System

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    2050243-MAJOR IX MODERN OPERATING SYSTEM 1. The operating system is the most important program that runs on a computer. Every general-purpose computer must have an operating system to run other programs. Operating systems perform basic tasks‚ such as recognizing inputfrom the keyboard‚ sending output to the display screen‚ keeping track of filesand directories on the disk‚ and controlling peripheral devices such as disk drives and printers. 2. The kernel is a program that constitutes the

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    Computer Operating Systems

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    ICT 100: Introduction to Information and Communications Technology Unit 3: Operating Systems Objectives:        Define the term software Differentiate between system software and application software Define the terms operating system and utility program Identify the types of operating systems Explain the boot process of a computer Describe the functions of an operating system Identify common utility programs Software‚ also called a program‚ consists of a series of related instructions

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