OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR COMPUTERS
COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS
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Providing user interface
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Controlling a network
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Managing programs
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Managing memory
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Starting and shutting the computer
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Detailed explanation-1: -Process Management The operating system determines which processes have access to the processor and how much processing time every process has in a multiprogramming environment. Process scheduling is the name for this feature of the operating system.
Detailed explanation-2: -An operating system is the most important software that runs on a computer. It manages the computer’s memory and processes, as well as all of its software and hardware. It also allows you to communicate with the computer without knowing how to speak the computer’s language.
Detailed explanation-3: -The OS must allocate resources to processes, enable processes to share and exchange information, protect the resources of each process from other processes and enable synchronization among processes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Some examples of a multi-user OS are Unix, Ubuntu, MacOS, Windows and all Linux based OS. Multi-user operating systems were originally used for time-sharing and batch processing on mainframe computers.