COMPUTER SOFTWARE
SYSTEM SOFTWARE
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single user
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single processing
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multiuser
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multiprocessing
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mainframe: A powerful multi-user computer capable of supporting many hundreds or thousands of users simultaneously.
Detailed explanation-2: -An operating system that allows and grants permission to multiple users to access underlying hardware resources simultaneously is a multi-user operating system. It is of three types-a time-sharing operating system, distributed operating system, and a multiprocessor system.
Detailed explanation-3: -A multiuser operating system enables two or more users to run programs simultaneously. Networks, servers, mainframes, and supercomputers allow hundreds to thousands of users to connect at the same time, and thus are multiuser.
Detailed explanation-4: -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).