COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

Detailed explanation-1: -Time-sharing systems are multi-user systems. Most batch processing systems for mainframe computers may also be considered “multi-user", to avoid leaving the CPU idle while it waits for I/O operations to complete. However, the term “multitasking” is more common in this context.

Detailed explanation-2: -In computing, time-sharing is the sharing of a computing resource among many users at the same time by means of multiprogramming and multi-tasking.

Detailed explanation-3: -Time-sharing enables many people, located at various terminals, to use a particular computer system at the same time. Multitasking or Time-Sharing Systems is a logical extension of multiprogramming. Processor’s time is shared among multiple users simultaneously is termed as time-sharing.

Detailed explanation-4: -time-sharing, in data processing, method of operation in which multiple users with different programs interact nearly simultaneously with the central processing unit (CPU) of a large-scale digital computer.

Detailed explanation-5: -Examples of multi-user operating system are : Linux, Ubuntu, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows 1010 etc.