SURVEY OF OPERATING SYSTEMS
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Operating system:
- The most important program that runs on a computer is operating system.
- Operating System (OS) is a collection of software that enables the computer resources to have communication with computer system.
- OS is used to control traffic in a computer, it schedules time for processing and allocates memory for each process.
- Operating system acts as an interface between user and computer.
- There are many other types of operating system such as Windows, Macintosh, LINUX, UNIX, and mobile operating systems such as android OS, and iOS, and so on
- Basic operations of OS are as follows:
- Getting input from the keyboard
- Displaying output in the monitor
- Monitoring the files.
- OS control the peripheral devices such as printers, hard drives, and mouse.
- The responsibilities of OS are bound to get higher when it comes to security, because it provides the access rights for users.
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