operating systems. what is an operating system? the software that manages your computer: maintains...
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Operating Systems
What is an operating system? The software that manages your
computer: Maintains your files finds files copies files deletes files links your printer to your application formats disks, etc.
Some widely used operating systems DOS UNIX MacOS Windows
DOS DOS--Disk Operating System One of the oldest PC operating
systems (Microsoft shipped first version in 1981)
Made Bill Gates a billionaire Command line interface
UNIX Very large Has many built-in programs Used on high-end systems Available in a smaller version called
Linux (created in 1991), available for free
Command line interface (first version developed at Bell Labs in 1969)
Command Line Interface Examples
To tell the computer to copy file1into a (new) file named file2:
DOSA:\> copy file1 file2A:\>
Unix1> cp file1 file22>
Windows Used by most computers in the world Graphical user interface (GUI--pronounced
‘gooey’) This interface has been standardized
across applications by Microsoft, Inc. (version 3.0 released in 1990 as a GUI to DOS) This makes it easy to learn new applications
since the icons, clicking, position and types of menus are common across applications except for commands peculiar to an application.
GUI (or point-and-click) designs were developed at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the late 1970’s but were never used in commercial computer systems at that time.
The first commercial use was in the original Apple MacIntosh computers, introduced in 1984.
Why a GUI rather than commands? Graphical user interfaces are
easy to learn but perhaps slower to use because of
pointing device Command line interfaces are
hard to learn and easy to forget but perhaps faster to use for
experienced user