OS Installation
An Operating System (OS) is a software that acts as an
interface between computer hardware components and the user. Every computer
system must have at least one operating system to run other programs.
Applications like Browsers, MS Office, Notepad Games, etc., need some
environment to run and perform its tasks.
The OS helps you to communicate with the computer without knowing
how to speak the computer's language. It is not possible for the user to use
any computer or mobile device without having an operating system.
HISTORY OF OS
• Operating systems were
first developed in the late 1950s to manage tape storage
• The General Motors
Research Lab implemented the first OS in the early 1950s for their IBM 701
• In the mid-1960s,
operating systems started to use disks
• In the late 1960s, the
first version of the Unix OS was developed
• The first OS built by
Microsoft was DOS. It was built in 1981 by purchasing the 86-DOS software from
a Seattle company
• The present-day popular
OS Windows first came to existence in 1985 when a GUI was created and paired
with MS-DOS.
LINUX is an operating system or a kernel distributed under an
open-source license. Its functionality list is quite like UNIX. The kernel is a
program at the heart of the Linux operating system that takes care of
fundamental stuff, like letting hardware communicate with software.
v Who created Linux?
Linux is an operating system or a kernel which germinated as an
idea in the mind of young and bright Linus Torvalds when he was a
computer science student. He used to work on the UNIX OS (proprietary
software) and thought that it needed improvements.
However, when his suggestions were rejected by the designers of
UNIX, he thought of launching an OS which will be receptive to changes,
modifications suggested by its users.
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