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    The Mac operating system The Mac operating system is a series of graphical user-interfaced operating systems designed for the Macintosh line of systems by Apple Inc. The Mac OS was first introduced in 1984. Windows operating system Windows operating system is a series of graphical user-interfaced operating systems produced by Microsoft. This was first introduced in the year 1985 as an add-on to the MS-DOS operating system‚ but soon grew to become the most popular and widely used operating system

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    1. What is free software? List three characteristics of free software. Free software is software that users have the freedom to distribute and change. The three main characteristics of free software are: The source code has to be distributed with the program‚ you cannot restrict people from redistributing/modifying/using the software‚ and users must be allowed to redistribute modified versions under the same terms/licensing. 4. What is the Free Software Foundation/GNU? What is Linux? Which

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    GSIS Benefits | Government Service Insurance System Philippines Benefits Being a member of the GSIS (Government Service Insurance System) is among the greatest rewards of working in the government here in the Philippines. It’s not only about having sustainable retirement pension but also being secured and insured in your entire lifetime career. In this hub‚ I’m gonna discuss and sum up the benefits of being a GSIS member. After publishing about the SSS benefits‚ I’d like to say the GSIS benefits

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    speed ‚ same as the shell in the operating system we cannot interact with the kernel and do something to the settings without it) 2. What is the use of options in the command?( Options determine how the command operates) 3. What is the use of arguments in the command?( arguments determine what it operates on) 4. Who develop “bourne shell”?( Stephen L. Bourne) 5. From where the oldest shell had been found?(the oldest shell has been found outside museums) 6. what is the objective of the development

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    1. In a multiprogramming and time sharing environment‚ several users share the system simultaneously. This situation can results in various security problems. a. What are the two such problems? Ans: The two problems in Multiprogramming and time sharing environment are Stealing or copying a user’s files; Writing over another program’s (belonging to another user or to the OS) area in memory; Using system resources (CPU‚ disk space) without proper accounting; Causing the printer to mix output by

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    Q- Operating Systems Required - You have different types of machines (laptops‚ desktops‚ servers) which require different operating systems – which ones will you recommend and why? A- According to the research it has revealed that each of the operating systems has its own advantages and disadvantages‚ yet one of them may seem more reliable and competent than the other. I personally think that Windows 7 is the best option‚ given that it’s most widely used by the majority of companies and employees

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    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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    rational number‚ then 2. From the top of a tower of height 180 m the angles of depression of two objects on either sides of the tower are 30° and 45°. Find the distance between the two objects. a) b) c) d) 3. A amount of 20‚900 is taken as loan at 9% p.a.‚ compound interest. If it is to be repaid in 2 equal annual instalments‚ what is the value of each instalment (in rupees)? a)र10‚450 b) र10‚000 c) र12‚000 d) र11‚881 4. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin in the ratio of 5 : 1. Brass an alloy of

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    The Impact of Operating System Structure on Personal Computer Performance Toby Jackson Abstract The Impact of Operating System Structure on Personal Computer Performance Toby Jackson This paper presents a comparative study of the performance of three operating systems that run on the personal computer architecture derived from the IBM-PC. The operating systemsWindows for Workgroups (tm)‚ Windows NT (tm)‚ and NetBSD (a freely available UNIX (tm) variant) cover a broad range of system functionality

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    The Operating System is a piece of software that is being advanced daily in the Information Technology world today. There are many operating systems to choose from but below four specific operating system are compared. Process Management‚ File Management‚ Memory Management‚ and Security are going to be compared between WindowsLinuxUNIX‚ and Mac operating systems. Every operating system is different and is interesting to see how every piece of software has the same outcome but has different procedures

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