BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
COMPUTER SYSTEM TYPES
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Single task
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Multi-user
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Multi task
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Real-time
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Detailed explanation-1: -z/OS, a widely used mainframe operating system, is designed to offer a stable, secure, and continuously available environment for applications running on the mainframe.
Detailed explanation-2: -Most batch processing systems for mainframe computers may also be considered “multi-user", to avoid leaving the CPU idle while it waits for I/O operations to complete. However, the term “multitasking” is more common in this context.
Detailed explanation-3: -Examples of multi-user operating system are : Linux, Ubuntu, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows 1010 etc.
Detailed explanation-4: -At their core, mainframes are high-performance computers with large amounts of memory and processors that process billions of simple calculations and transactions in real time. The mainframe is critical to commercial databases, transaction servers, and applications that require high resiliency, security and agility.
Detailed explanation-5: -Multiuser/Multitasking OS It is an operating system that permits several users to utilize the programs that are concurrently running on a single network server. The single network server is termed as “Terminal server". “Terminal client” is a software that supports user sessions. Examples include UNIX, MVS, etc.