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The document provides information about operating systems including: 1) The five most common operating systems are Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, and Android. It describes each operating system briefly. 2) It presents a timeline of operating system history from the first to fourth generations including vacuum tubes, transistors, integrated circuits, and personal computers. 3) The document instructs the student to answer questions about operating systems and their history.

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ActivityNo1 AboutOS

The document provides information about operating systems including: 1) The five most common operating systems are Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, and Android. It describes each operating system briefly. 2) It presents a timeline of operating system history from the first to fourth generations including vacuum tubes, transistors, integrated circuits, and personal computers. 3) The document instructs the student to answer questions about operating systems and their history.

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Activity No.

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COMP20103: OPERATING SYSTEMS
1ST Semester, AY 2020-2021
Name:     Sheena DC. Rom Score:
Program/Section:   BSIT 2-1 Date:   November 25, 2021

General Instructions: 
1. READ ALL carefully before proceeding to answer. 
2. Write your references or sources (if there is any). 
3. To be submitted on or before November 26, 2021 at 11:59pm.  
For students with desktop and laptop, kindly upload the .docx file (Word format) of your assignment. 
For students using mobile phones, you may write your answer on letter size bond paper, capture it using the
camera of your phone and send it as your assignment. 
 
Answer the following.   
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 Give five (5) operating systems being used today. Describe briefly each operating system. 
 Present a timeline history of operating systems. 
 

Operating systems usually come preloaded on any computer that you buy. Most people use the operating
system that comes with their computer, but it is possible to upgrade or even change operating systems.

The three most common operating systems for personal computers are Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS
X, and Linux.
Microsoft created the windows operating system in the mid-1980s. Over the years, there have been many
different versions of Windows, but the most recent ones are Windows 10 (released in 2015), Windows 8 (2012),
Windows 7 (2009), and Windows Vista (2007). Windows comes pre- loaded on most new PCs, which helps to make
it the most popular operating system in the world.

HISTORY OF WINDOWS OS
Operating system is a system software commonly simpliKed as “OS”.

An operating system is the most important software that runs on a computer.


It manages the computer's memory, processes, and all its software and hardware.
It also allows you to communicate with the computer without knowing how to speak
the computer's "language." Without an operating system, a computer is useless.

The Operating System's Job

Computer's operating system (OS) manages all of the software and hardware
on the computer. Most of the time, there are several different computer programs
running at the same time, and they all need to access your computer's central
processing unit (CPU), memory, and storage. The operating system coordinates all
of this to make sure each program gets what it needs.

MAC OS

MAC OS is a line of operating systems created by Apple. It comes preloaded on all new Macintosh computers, or

Macs. All of the recent version are known as OS X (pronounced O-S Ten), and the specific versions include El

Capitan (released in 2015), Yosemite (2014), Mavericks (2013), Mountain Lion (2012), and Lion (2011).

BRIEF HISTORY OF MacOS


LINUX

It is family open source operating systems, which means that they can be modified and distributed by anyone around
the world. This is very different from proprietary software like Windows, which can only be modified by the company
that owns it (Microsoft). The advantages of Linux are that it is free, and there are many different distributions (or
versions) that you can choose from. Each distribution has a different look and feel, and the most popular ones
include Ubuntu, Mint, and Fedora.

Linux is named after Linus Torvalds, who created the Linux kernel in 1991. The kernel is the computer code that is
the central part of an operating system.

 1 The First Generation (1945–55) Vacuum Tubes and Plugboards. ...


 2 The Second Generation (1955–65) Transistors and Batch Systems. ...
 3 The Third Generation (1965–1980) ICs and Multiprogramming. ...
 4 The Fourth Generation (1980–Present) Personal Computers. ...
 5 Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny.

Prepared by: 
 
(Sgd) Ms. Ruth R. Oclida 
       Instructor, COMP20103 
 

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