Topic

Operating Systems
And their Types

Presented
by
Umair Ahmed Khan-3502
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 What is an Operating
System?

 An interface between users and hardware - an

environment "architecture”

 Allows convenient usage; hides the tedious stuff

 Allows efficient usage; parallel activity, avoids

wasted cycles
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 What is an Operating
System?
 Provides information protection

 Gives each user a slice of the resources

 Acts as a control program.

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Types of Operating
System

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 Types Of Operating
System
There are four types of Operating System

1. Real-Time Operating Systems

2. Single-User/Single-Tasking OS

3. Single-User/Multitasking OS

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4. Multi-User/Multitasking OS
 1. Real-Time Operating
Systems

 Operating system intended for real time

applications.

 Operating systems serve application

requests nearly real-time.

A very fast, relatively small OS.

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 1. Real-Time Operating
Systems

 It responds to certain inputs extremely

quickly.

 They are needed to run in

› Medical diagnostics equipment
› Life-support systems
› Machinery
› ETC 05/19/10
 2. Single-
User/Single-Tasking OS

 Allows one task at a time

 To a user, a “Task” is a function such as

› Printing a document
› Writing a file to disk
› Editing a file
› Downloading a file from a network server.
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 3. Single-User/ Multitasking
OS

 It
allows a single user to perform two or
more functions at once.

 Itkeep two or more tasks running at

once.

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 3. Single-User/ Multitasking
OS

 Itis the most commonly used

computers usually run such OSs

› Microsoft Windows

› Macintosh Operating System

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 4. Multi-
User/Multitasking OS
 Itallows many different users to take
advantage of the computer's resources
simultaneously.

 Allor most of the computing occurs at

the server in this OS.

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 4. Multi-
User/Multitasking OS
 Examples include

› UNIX

› VMS

› Main frame Operating System Such as MVS.

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