1. List down all the operating system use in a
desktop/laptop today and find good descriptions of how operating system work?
Hence,state that advantages and disadvantages.
Operating System
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Description
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Advantages
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Disadvantages
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Microsoft Windows
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A friendly operating system
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-Works with most kind of software and hardware.
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-Easily to catch on virus and trojan
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Mac OS
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High quality software
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-Not easily affected by the virus.
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-Software on Mac OS is not so complete.
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UNIX and Linux
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The simplest term of an operating system.
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-It is free and easy to use.
-More stable and does not go down as often as windows does, therefore
it require less administration and maintainence.
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-It has no standard edition,which makes it difficult for beginners to
use the system.
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DOS
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The first operating system used by IBM-Compatible computers.
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-DOS is very lightweight and is allows direct access to most
hardware.
-DOS will run on a much smaller system. (Entire OS can be placed on a
single modern ROM chip.)
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-It’s a single user OS (One user can work at one time)
-It’s a single tasking (One application can run at a time)
-It does not support Graphics.
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Handheld operating system
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An operating system that can run various types of application
software known as apps.
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-Portable
-Smaller than typical laptop.
-Can replace nootbooks.
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-Smaller keyboard, thus it is hard to type.
-Too small, thus it makes it easily to be stolen.
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By : Muhamed Danish
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