What is an operating system?

Operating System acts like a middle person between the user computer and hardware. The operating system makes the task of the user very easy because of its UI design.

Note: User Interface design - UI design is the graphical layout of an application. The graphical layout consists of buttons users click on,  the text users read, images, icons, etc the users interact with them.

Goals of the operating system:

Make the computer system easy to use for the user.

Make solving users' problems easier.

Make the user comfortable to use the computer.

Furthermore, Operating system creates the environment where users easily interact with software or applications in a comfortable and well-organized way.

#Popular operating system:

Linux OS	Windows OS
Mac OS	VMS
OS/400 etc.

#Generations of Operating Systems:

The First Generation (1940 to early 1950s)

The Second Generation (1955 – 1965)

The Third Generation (1965 – 1980)

The Fourth Generation (1980 – Present)

#Operating System Market Share Worldwide (Dec 2019 – Dec 2020)

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Furthermore, on the above image, you can see how much an operating system market share worldwide.

As you can see in the image Android hold approx. 41.58% market share worldwide and windows hold approx. 31.73% market share and Linux hold approx. 0.81% market share according to the statistics of the StatCounter website.

#Types of Operating System:

Batch operating system

Time-sharing operating system

Distributed operating system

Network operating system

Real-time operating system

#Operating System Examples

ü     Android: Google’s Operating System for smartwatches/tablets/smartphones)

ü     iOS: iPhone’s, iPad, iPod Touch

ü      macOS: MacBook, iMac

ü      Windows: PC, GUI based

ü      GNU/Linux: Personal, Workstations, ISP, File and print server, etc.

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