History and development of Operating Systems
Software Systems CA
History and development of Operating Systems
Table of contents
Page 1 : Contents
Page 2 : Introduction
Page 2-3 : History of Operating Systems
Page 3 : Timesharing and Multiprogramming 1960s
Page 4 : The personal computer era
Page 4-5 : The Significant types of Operating Systems
Page 5-6 : The Functions of Operating Systems
Page 7 : Why OS is so critical
Page 7 : Conclusion
Page 8 : Bibliography
Introduction
"Operating Systems have earned the reputation for being the most critical software in a computer system "
In this paper i will be talking about :
1. The history of operating systems (OS)
2. The function of OS
3. The reason why OS are considered to be so critical
History of Operating Systems
Early History: 1940s - 1950s:
At first, computers lacked any form of operating system. The computer user had sole use of the machine. The user would arrive at the machine armed with his or her program and data, often on punched paper tape. The program would be loaded into the machine, and then the machine set to work, until the program stopped. Later, computers came with libraries of support code which were linked to the user's program to assist in operations such as input and output. This would become the start of the modern-day operating system. However, these machines still only ran a single job at a time.
Originally, each user wrote all of the code necessary to implement a particular application, including the highly detailed machine level input/output instructions. Very quickly, this input/output coding needed to implement basic functions was consolidated into an input/output control system (IOCS). Users wishing to perform input/output operations no longer had to code the instructions...
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