FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR COMPUTERS

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of these devices can have an MULTI-TASKING operating system?
A
Laptop
B
Microwave oven
C
Simple mobile phone
D
Playstation 4
Explanation: 

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: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Examples of multi-user operating system are : Linux, Ubuntu, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows 1010 etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -In a multiuser operating system, multiple numbers of users can access different resources of a computer at the same time. The access is provided using a network that consists of various personal computers attached to a mainframe computer system.

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