Understanding Computer Operating Systems Ebook with Private Label Rights option (PLR). An operating system is kind of like the brain of a computer. You have a bunch of hardware like the CPU tower, the monitor, and the keyboard, but without a CPU, they can’t do anything but power up and turn on. The operating system organizes files and lets the hardware know what it should do.
INTRODUCTION..
3
WHAT
IS AN OPERATING SYSTEM?.
5
HISTORY
OF OPERATING SYSTEMS.
9
WHAT
AN OPERATING SYSTEM DOES.
13
Process
Management
13
Memory
Management
19
Disk
and File Systems.
23
Networking.
24
Security.
25
Internal
Security.
27
External
Security.
28
Graphical
User Interfaces.
29
Device
Drivers.
29
Application
Interface.
31
MICROSOFT
WINDOWS.
34
MAC
OS.
45
UNIX..
51
LINUX..
54
GNU..
57
OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS.
59
INSTALLING AN OPERATING SYSTEM...
62
DEFINING
THE PROCESSES.
66
Cache.
66
Virtual
Memory.
74
System
Resources.
76
RAM...
77
Computer
Memory.
84
CONCLUSION..
91
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