CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Network Operating System, Linus Torvalds, Graphical User Interface

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

These are available commercially, for personal and business use. Because most home computers can handle only one person working on it at a time but can perform a variety of tasks simultaneously, they use a single-user, multitask operating system. Windows operating systems and the macintosh operating system (mac os) are most commonly used as a single-user multitask operating systems. These coordinate resources for many users on a network. A multi user operating system enables more than one user to access the computer system at one time by efficiently juggling all the request from multiple users. Networks require a multi user operating system because many users access the server computer at the same time and share resources. A network operating system is installed on the server and manages all users requests, ensuring that the do not interfere with each other. Examples include linux, unix, windows serer 2012 and windows 8.