Wednesday, December 5, 2012

【Memoirs】 Week#8 Oct 31st

Lecture

Operators and operating systems

Machines take over in batches ( data paper cards tapes moved around fed to reader)

Machines began to take over seeting the program counter to a new job, collecting the output, fetching memory... but it was still one job at a time.

one user, one program, one computer 
dedicated -> just one job ( game typesetting)
                  -> programme know all details disk access
                  -> practically no op. sys needed

unix (mostly) to the desktop
  |
  |__ mainframe migrate
             > several program
             > networking
             > GUIs

An operating system should have kernel (shell, sheield access to hardware, referee sharing); untilities (repair, maintain machine, list files, format disk)



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