A History of Operating Systems To understand and to be prepared for the future of computer support it helps to know the history of operating systems. The operating system is the software that links the user to the computer’s hardware. Early mainframes (the predecessor of the personal computer) did not use an operating system. Programs were loaded onto the mainframe by paper punch cards‚ magnetic or paper tape. The user would start the program and wait for the program to complete‚ or crash
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Chapter I PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND 1. Introduction Nowadays‚ various systems expand in different areas of specialization. Most of them created by the demand and to give solutions on common problems encountered by the society. Being organized on everything makes our work fast and efficient. Lyceum of Alabang‚ one of those educational institutions uses a traditional Class Scheduling System wherein the students need to exert more effort looking for their schedule. The students
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Documents Stack Welcome to Mac OS X Lion. The Dock in Lion includes Stacks‚ which you can use to quickly access frequently used files. Stacks are simple to create. Just drag any folder to the right side of the Dock and it becomes a stack. Click a stack and it springs from the Dock in either a fan or a grid. To open a file in a stack‚ click the file once. Mac OS X Lion includes two premade stacks called Documents and Downloads. You opened this file from the Documents stack. The Documents stack
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Memory management in multiple operating systems An operating system is responsible for assigning memory to processes so that processes can be executed. Broadly‚ this responsibility is defined as memory management‚ and operating systems handle memory management differently. Any operating system must do two things in order to handle memory effectively. First‚ an operating system must be able to allocate and free physical memory. Second‚ an operating system must have techniques in place to keep
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An operating system is a set of software programs‚ which manage computer hardware in a controlled fashion. The operating system controls the file-system‚ process management‚ memory management and peripherals. Multi-user operating systems are used on large mainframe computers. A mainframe computer system has one very powerful processing unit‚ which may contain many microprocessors. Many users will all share this processing unit. They use terminals (a keyboard and a monitor) to access the mainframe
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Explain the purpose of an operating system Process Management A multitasking operating system may give the appearance that a lot of processes are running concurrently/simultaneously‚ this is not true as only one process can be executing at any one time on a single-core CPU‚ unless on a multi-core or similar technology. Processes are often called tasks in embedded operating systems. The function of the task or process is something that takes up time‚ as opposed to memory‚ which is ’something that
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CCM4320 Network Systems and Services Comparison between the Network Operating systems Like Linux‚ Windows 2000 and Distributed operating system Amoeba. Group Members : Yedukondalu Madhumanchi (M00295179) Saroop kumar reddy Chidirala(M00333357) Date of Submission : 25-Feb-2011 Campus : Hendon School of Computing Science Dr G E Mapp Middlesex University List of Contents
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1. What should you do if the drive on which you want to install Windows Server 2012 already has a partition on it containing an operating system and data you do not need? Remove the file 2. What should you do if the Where do you want to install Windows? page appears‚ but it does not list any drives or partitions? Check to make sure that the drive is installed correctly in the pc and then if it still occurs you need to reformat the drive to work with windows server. 3. Under what conditions
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(Intro. To Operating Systems) Assignment: CSC 334 A – Project 1 Jae Hyung Chang Before I began on what type of “Operating System” I’ve researched I’ll start by explaining what an operating system is. An operating system is a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs. The operating system is a vital component of the system software in a computer system. Application programs usually require an operating system to function
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sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computeroperating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s‚ followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. The company’s 1986 initial public offering‚ and subsequent rise in its share price‚ created an estimated three billionaires and 12‚000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s‚ it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions. In May 2011‚ Microsoft
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