Saturday, June 21, 2008

EVOLUTION OF COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS

In the early computers there were no operating systems.
By in the early 1960s, when the commercial computer merchants started supplying the extensive apparatus for reformation of the development, execution of jobs, and scheduling on batch processing systems.
With the advancement of the time we have come across a number of operating system software.
Starting from the DOS, a lot much operating system software has got developed through out the ages like the UNIX, Oracle etc depending on the requirement.
The most commonly-used modern desktop and laptop operating system is the Microsoft Windows.
Tough more powerful servers make the use of FreeBSD, Linux, and other Unix-like systems a lot.
Though, these types of operating systems, particularly Mac OS X, are also installed on the personal computers.

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