COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

OPERATING SYSTEMS

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Networks, servers, mainframes, and supercomputers allow hundreds to thousands of users to connect at the same time, and thus their operating systems are referred to as which of the following?

A	Single User
B	Multiuser
C	Multi processing
D	Single processing

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Mainframe: A powerful multi-user computer capable of supporting many hundreds or thousands of users simultaneously.

Detailed explanation-2: -Linux is the leading operating system on servers (over 96.4% of the top 1 million web servers’ operating systems are Linux), leads other big iron systems such as mainframe computers, and is used on all of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers (since November 2017, having gradually displaced all competitors).

Detailed explanation-3: -A multi-user operating system is an operating system that allows multiple users to access underlying hardware resources simultaneously. Multiple users access the operating system with the help of many terminals connected to a network. The objective of a multi-user operating system is time-sharing and batch processing.

Detailed explanation-4: -Therefore, Timesharing is a process that allows multiple users to have interactive access to a computer system simultaneously in such a way that all users feel that he/she is the sole user of the system.

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