Operating_Systems

Operating Systems Introduction The computer industry has come along way over the last fifty years. Technological advancements have brought us to a Personal Computer (PC) in almost every home. This giant leap could not have been possible if not for operating systems (OS) that the common person could use and understand. This paper will describe and illustrate several operating systems in use today. Also this paper will compare and contrast some of the features and benefits of these operating systems. Windows 98 In June 1998, Microsoft released their next version of The Windows family of operating systems (OS). This OS was dubbed Windows 98. It had many improvements to its predecessor, Windows 95, but the prime improvement was the integration of the web browser into the Operating System. The desktop becomes a web page, able to receive updates from the Internet. Additional improvements are: Ø Communications facilities are more closely integrated with the operating system and users can access web documents in just the same way as files on a local disk. Ø Speed improvements include faster start up and shut down of the operating system itself, and faster launching and closing of applications. Windows 98 also supports: · FAT32 . The improved File Allocation Table uses 32-bit addressing system, windows, operating, unix, linux, server, user, 2000, new, data, access, hardware, storage, code, time, systems, kernel, features, devices, support, program, network, mvs, microsoft, files, one, file, users, security, control, applications, 98, virtual, space, run