Post on 21-Jan-2016
A presentation by Lewis Betterton
What is an Operating System?
• Boot process
• Drivers• Hardware
and resource control
• Manages programs
Apple II
Commodore 64
IBM-PC
Modern Operating Systems and Hardware
• Advanced Graphics (Aero etc.)
• Improved File Management systems
• New Technologies
DOS (early windows) Windows 3.1 Windows 95
Windows 98SE (Second Edition) Windows NT 4 Windows 2000
Windows XP Windows Vista
Windows 7
Ubuntu Desktop Red Hat
Centos 5.5
Apple II OS Mac OS X
FreeBSD FreeDOS
DOSBOX(emulator) Unix (Linux based on)
http://www.freebsd.org/
Consoles:•Microsoft Xbox 360
•Sony PS3
Phones:•Apple IPhone 4•Apple Ipad 1, 2
•Samsung Android
Microsoft Windows XP running on a Tablet PC
Windows Operating Systems
Linux and Macintosh Operating Systems
• Windows 8• Mac OS X Lion• Ubuntu 11.04
Windows Developer Preview system requirements
CPU Memory Graphics card HDD
1 Ghz 1 GB(x86) DirectX 9 with WDDM 1.0 (required for Aero)
16GB
1 Ghz 2 GB(x64) 20GB
Mac OS X version 10.7
X86-64 CPU Memory
Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
HDD
Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core i3, Intel Core i5, Intel Core i7
At least 2GB
7 GB recommended
Ubuntu 11.04 released on 13 October 2011
X86-64 CPU Memory Other HDD
1 GHz Pentium or better
processor (such as Dual Core,
Core 2 Duo, i3, i5,i7… )
384 M RAM 512 MB recommended
CD/DVD drive or USB
5GB HDD10GB recommended
Ubuntu 11.04 Feature Preview
Questions?
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/operating_system.html
http://www.google.com.au
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=6268
http://blog.sudobits.com/2011/07/21/system-requirements-for-ubuntu-11-04/