OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR COMPUTERS
COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS
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Multitasking
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Configuring
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Hierarchical Directory Structure
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Extensions
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Daemon
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Detailed explanation-1: -Microsoft Windows 2000, IBM’s OS/390, and Linux are examples of operating systems that can do multitasking (almost all of today’s operating systems can). When you open your Web browser and then open Word at the same time, you are causing the operating system to do multitasking.
Detailed explanation-2: -Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s macOS platforms are both examples of operating systems that lets a single user have several applications in operation at the same time.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Multi-programming OS The operating system which can run multiple processes on a single processor is called a multiprogramming operating system.
Detailed explanation-5: -Preemptive multitasking It also allows the system to deal rapidly with important external events like incoming data, which might require the immediate attention of one or another process. Operating systems were developed to take advantage of these hardware capabilities and run multiple processes preemptively.