OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR COMPUTERS
COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS
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user management
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providing a user interface
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Multitasking process
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None of Above
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Detailed explanation-1: -While multitasking and memory swapping are two completely unrelated techniques, they are very often used together, as swapping memory allows more tasks to be loaded at the same time.
Detailed explanation-2: -The operating system can only perform one process at a time, but through memory management it can appear that more than one process is being executed-this is called multitasking. The OS allows users to create manage delete individual accounts.
Detailed explanation-3: -Multitasking involves overlapping and interleaving the execution of several programs. This is often achieved by capitalizing on the difference between a computer’s rapid processing capacity and the slower rates of its input/output devices.
Detailed explanation-4: -Multi-user operating system is a computer operating system(OS) that allows multiple users on different computers or terminals to access a single system with one OS on it. Examples of multi-user operating system are : Linux, Ubuntu, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows 1010 etc.