Operating System

Things to remember

• The computer system is a collection of different hardware components.
• An OS is a collection of system program that together controls the operations of a computer system. Example: UNIX, MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Linux etc.
• in broad approach, we can classify the operating system on the basis user interface like command or character user interface operating system and graphical user interface operating system.
• CUI provides the interactive terminal where a user could enter the command to interpret.
• GUI consists of different components such as text box, icon, desktop, pointing devices etc.