2) Operating system

Operating System
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  • Operating System 
     "An operating system is software which acts as an interface between the end user and computer hardware." Every computer must have at least one OS to run other programs. Applications like Chrome, MS Word, Games, etc needs some environment in which it will run and perform its task.
  • History of Operating System 
  1. Operating systems were first developed in the late 1950s to manage tape storage.
  2. The General Motors Research Lab implemented the first OS in the early 1950s for their IBM 701.
  3. In the mid-1960s, operating systems started to use disks.
  4. In the late 1960s, the first version of the UNIX OS was developed.
  5. The first OS built by Microsoft was DOS. It was built in 1981 by purchasing the 86-DOS software from a Seattle company.
  6. The present-day popular OS Windows first came to existence in 1985 when a GUI was created and paired with MS-DOS.
  • Types of Operating system.
  1. Windows
  2. Linux
       Difference between Linux and Windows


















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