Introduction to Operating Systems and Client/Server Environments Phase 1 – Discussion Board 2 19 February 2013 * Describe the operating system that you use the most each day. I have mostly relied on my Mac running OS X now for about a decade. I really enjoy my MacBook for a lot of reasons yet I switch to from Windows only to be different from others or should I say from the majority of people out there using Windows so I chose to start playing around with a Mac maybe cause everyone uses Windows plus
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Topic A Operating System: Windows 8.0 Open Computer. Click properties. In the the left pane click on Advanced system settings Under performance Click Settings Click the Advanced tab. Under Virtual Memory you can change the Virtual Memory. On my computer the minimum size is 16MB and the maximum recommended size is 3313 MB. Topic B Cache memory is on the main chip‚ it can be accessed much more quickly than RAM‚ which is restricted by the BUS speed. Data is held in the Processor cache memory
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Windows NT vs Unix As An Operating System In the late 1960s a combined project between researchers at MIT‚ Bell Labs and General Electric led to the design of a third generation of computer operating system known as MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service). It was envisaged as a computer utility‚ a machine that would support hundreds of simultaneous timesharing users. They envisaged one huge machine providing computing power for everyone in Boston. The idea that machines as powerful
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Mac‚ Linux‚ and Windows Servers Comparison Apple offers only a few options for server hardware‚ and only one option for server software. The hardware I looked at was the Mac Mini with OS X Server. With a relatively low starting price point of $999 that includes the software‚ Apple surprisingly wins the cost category‚ at least when looking at up front costs (Mac Mini With OS X Server Overview‚ n.d.). The Mac Mini hardware includes 2TB of storage space‚ 4GB of Memory‚ and is backed by Apple’s
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Installing Windows Server Networking POS:421 In Windows Server 2008 R2‚ there are various responsibilities that have to be taken care of. These roles arevital in ensuring the success of how a server performs in its essential functions. The roles are a primary duty in which the server will executesand the secondary responsibilities are called role services. These roles within Windows Server 2008 can include: Active Directory‚ Hyper-V‚ Web Server (IIS)‚ Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
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New Features of Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 has several new features and improvements over the previous versions of Windows Server that will greatly enhance GAI’s networking ability. Some of these new features and improvements include enhancements to Active Directory‚ updated Group Policy‚ improved File and Storage Services‚ enhanced DNS and DHCP server functionality‚ as well as improvements to the Hyper-V functionality. These improvements will provide GAI the ability to better maintain
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Follow the steps mentioned to add a networked IPP printer. In the window shown in the image below‚ enter the hostname of the IPP printer in the Hostname field as well as a unique name for the printer in the Printername field. Click Forward to continue. Adding a Samba (SMB) Printer You can add a Samba (SMB) based printer share by clicking the New Printer button in the main Printer Configuration Tool window to display the window in . Enter a unique name for the printer in the Printer Name field
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EXAMPLE OF MULTI-USER OPERATING SYSTEM The common examples of multi-user operating system’ include VMS‚ UNIX‚ and mainframe operating systems which include MVS system. A single user multi-tasking operating system is an operating system is capable of allowing multiple software processors to run at the same time. EXAMPLE OF NETWORK OR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM Short for Network operating system‚ NOS is the software that allows multiple computers to communicate‚ share files and hardware devices with one
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INTRODUCTION Operating system (OS) is a set of programs that acts as an interface between user and computer hardware. It also manages the internal resources of a computer like control Unit‚ arithmetic logic unit‚ memory unit‚ I/O unit etc. simply we can say that operating system (OS) is a communication channel between the user and the computer machine. It is must for any computer system because the OS is only: The one program that runs at all the times on the computer. The program that
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Operating System UNIT - 1 Roadmap • What is an Operating System? • • • • • • • • Operating System Objectives/Functions The Evolution of Operating Systems Major Achievements Structuring methods Design of API’s Interrupts Device Organization User/System state Transition What is an Operating System? • A program that acts as an intermediary between a user of a computer and the computer hardware. OR • A program that controls the execution of application programs. • Kernel – the one program
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