THE OPERATING

SYSTEMS
BY RUSHEEN BANSAL 6B
WHAT ARE OPERATING SYSTEMS??
The low-level software that
supports a computers basic
functions, such as
scheduling tasked and
controlling peripherals.
I HAVE CHOSEN 5 TYPES/BRANDS OF
OPERATING SYSTEMS:
WINDOWS 7

MAC OS X

LINUX

UNIX

MS-DOS
WINDOWS 7
It is the most popular operating system worldwide. It
features:

SPEED: The speed of Windows 7 is pretty fast. The
speed is a lot better than the previous version of
windows.

SEARCH AND ORGANISATION: One of the best things
about windows 7 is the improved search tool, to be
able to find what you need quickly and easily. For
example, typing mouse will bring up the mouse
option within the control panel ot typing a word will
display it and split it neatly into files, folders and
applications. Also, there is new introduced concept of
libraries which are an easy way to collect and track
documents, pictures and videos on your computer.




.
START MENU: The start menu
provides primary access to all the
programs and applications in the
computer.
MAC OS X
It is an operating system which is ussually present on
Apple laptops and notebooks. The features are:

SPOTLIGHT: Spotlight made waves for its metadata
index and instant search capabilities. The utilitys in
depth search inside the files, rather than the name
alone.

SMART FOLDERS: Using the power of the Spotlight
search engine, smart folders are essentially saved
searches. Tell your Mac that you want to see all Word
files youve created in the past 10 days, and boom,
theres a folder full of those files. They do all the
organization for you.

BONJOUR: Using Bonjour, we can easily connect to
printers, servers, other computers and devices over a
network. Bonjour devices automatically make
themselves available on the network and the
technology resolves any addressing issues for you.

LINUX
The features are:
MULTIPROCESSOR: it has a native kernel support for
multiple independent threads of control within a single
process memory space. It has memory protection
between processes, so that one program cant bring
the whole system down.

SYSTEM LIBRARY: System libraries are special
functions or programs using which application
programs or system utilities accesses Kernels features.
These library implements most of the functionalities of
the operating system and do not require kernel
modules code access rights.

KERNEL: Kernel is the core part of Linux. It is
responsible for all the major activities of this operating
system. It consists of various modules and it interacts
directly with the underlying hardware.

UNIX
The features are:
SHELL: it presents each user with a prompt and
interprets commands types by a user. It then executes
the user commands and also supports a custom
environment for each user.

RUNNING PROGRAMS IN THE BACKGROUND: It lets
the user carry on with more important tasks for ex.
Printing and formatting documents. The ampersand
symbol (&) is appended to the command and the shell
assigns a process number to the command as well. The
background jobs can be deleted using the kill
command.

THE FILE: A file is a collection of information, which
can be data, an application, documents; in fact, under
UNIX, a file can contain anything. When a file is
created, UNIX assigns the file a unique internal
number (called an inode).
MS-DOS
The features are:

FILES: There are text files as well as batch files.
The files can also include application programs.

FILE NAMES AND DIRECTORY: A DOS file can
have an 8 character name + an optional 3
character extension. The extension is intended to
indicate the type of file. Most DOS programs
assume some particular extension for the file they
use. The files are organized in a tree-structured
directory. An arbitrary file is specified by a path.

CONCEPT OF PATHS: Full name of a file or
directory consists of path primary name extension.
Path is a sequence of directory names which give
you the hierarchy to access a particular directory
or file name.
THE BEST
ONE
The best one according to
me is WINDOWS 7!
Because it has an amazing
speed, wonderful search
and organization of files,
folders and applications and
a start menu which gives
what you search for in just a
couple of seconds.

THE END!!