EVOLUTION OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM Operating systems as they are known today trace their lineage to the first distinctions between hardware and software. The first digital computers of the 1940s had no concept of abstraction; their operators inputted machine code directly to the machines they were working on. As computers evolved in the 1950s and 1960s however‚ the distinction between hardware such as the CPU and memory (or Core as it was called then) and the software that was written on top of it
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April 9‚ 2012 Terance Carlson This paper will discuss three main operating systems‚ Windows‚ Linux‚ and OS X. All three of these operating systems have features which are unique unto themselves. Although there may be arguments as to which one of these three operating systems is better it really all comes down to what features are needed for each user. This paper will describe the features that each of these operating systems has to offer. First‚ Microsoft Windows. Microsoft began its dominance
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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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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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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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ROS (Robot Operating System) is a framework for robot software development‚ providing operating system-like functionality on top of a heterogenous computer cluster. ROS was originally developed in 2007 under the name switchyard by the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in support of the Stanford AI Robot (STAIR[1]) project. As of 2008‚ development continues primarily at Willow Garage‚ a robotics research institute/incubator‚ with more than twenty institutions collaborating in a federated
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References: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Wikipedia Official website of Android Official website of Apple Official website of Windows phone http://www.studymode.com/essays/Mobile-Operating-Systems-FeatureComparison-905694.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system http://archive.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=114322&cat_id=899 http://jaxov.com/2010/04/iphone-os-4-vs-windows-phone-7-vs-android-2-1comparison/
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Xenix- a discontinued Unix operating system What is Xenix? Xenix is an operating system‚ which supports a computer’s basic functions. It is a discontinued version of Unix‚ a set of operating systems. Xenix was created by Bell Labs‚ which was part of the Bell System‚ and was owned by AT&T. Due to an antitrust case‚ which aimed to prevent AT&T from gaining control of the market‚ they were initially forbidden from entering the computer market. This meant that they were unable to sell Unix directly to
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don’t override the changes of another user. 3. System portability A major contribution of the UNIX system was its portability‚ permitting it to move from one brand of computer to another with a minimum of code changes. At a time when different computer lines of the same vendor didn’t talk to each other -- yet alone machines of multiple vendors -- that meant a great savings in both hardware and software upgrades. It also meant that the operating system could be upgraded without having all the customer’s
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