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Opera ting Syste ms By: Sa vana South & Sydney Barnett

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O p e r a t i n g S y s t e m s B y : S a v a n a S o u t h & S y d n e y B a r n e t t. The most important program on any computer is the Operating System or OS. Without the operating system your computer would be useless. Operating System make the computers user friendly. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Operating SystemsBy: Savana South & Sydney Barnett

The most important program on any computer is the Operating System or OS.

Without the operating system your computer would be useless.

Operating System make the computers user friendly

DOS or Disk-based Operating System is stored on a computers hard drive and is booted to RAM whenever the computer is turned on.

RAM chips will remember what you tell them and can even change to remember new information, but when the computer is turned off,

RAM forgets everything you told it. Thats why you save all your documents!

The GUI (Graphical User Interface) uses graphics or pictures to help the user navigate within the computer.

interface to the underlying hardware

interface to application programs

interface to the user

interface to the system manager

These are the four basic interfaces

Most used operating systems

Mac 7%Linux 0.60%Others 3.80%Windows Vista 9.19%Windows XP 79.41%