When you turn on your PC, it’s pleasant to imagine that you’re in charge. There’s the trusty PC mouse, which you can move anyplace on the screen, bringing up your music library or Internet program at the smallest impulse.
In spite of the fact that it’s anything but difficult to feel like a chief before your work area or workstation, there’s a great deal going ahead inside, and the genuine man behind the window ornament taking care of the important assignments is the working framework.
Most work area or PC PCs come pre-stacked with Microsoft Windows. Mac PCs come pre-stacked with Mac OS X. Numerous corporate servers utilize the Linux or UNIX working frameworks. The working framework (OS) is the principal thing stacked onto the PC – without the working framework, a PC is pointless.
More recently, operating systems have started to pop up in smaller computers as well. If you like to tinker with electronic devices, you’re probably pleased that operating systems can now be found on many of the devices we use every day, from cell phones to wireless access points. The computers used in these little devices have gotten so powerful that they can now actually run an operating system and applications. The computer in a typical modern cell phone is now more powerful than a desktop computer from 20 years ago, so this progression makes sense and is a natural development.
The purpose of an operating system is to organize and control hardware and software so that the device it lives in behaves in a flexible but predictable way. In this article, we’ll tell you what a piece of software must do to be called an operating system, show you how the operating system in your desktop computer works and give you some examples of how to take control of the other operating systems around you.