2. What is Operating System?
• The operating system is a program that is responsible for making
other programs to run on the computer.
• It is the most important program of the computer/ Backbone of
the computer.
• The operating system does not only manages and controls the
software’ s running over a computer. But it is also responsible
for managing and organizing the hard ware as well.
3. Responsibilities of Operating System
• Operating system is responsible for giving the guidelines to the
computer that what has to be done.
• It communicates with hardware as well as with software.
• It manages the many different files over the computer.
• Operating system organizes and allocates the memory and also
controls the input and output.
• It performs basic functions such as file management, device
management, process management, memory management, job
accounting.
4. Examples of Operating System
• Linux Operating System
• Android Operating System
• MAC Operating System
• iPhone Operating System
• Microsoft Windows Operating System
• BSD Operating System
6. MAC OS vs Windows – The War Without End
• Nowadays, almost everyone has a laptop or computer. As
explained in earlier slides for that computer to run, it needs an
operating system.
• Two of the popular operating systems are Apple's macOS and
Microsoft's Windows.
• In coming slides we will see in details about the comparison of
MAC OS and Windows in every possible aspect
7. History of Macintosh (MAC)
• Macintosh or MAC is the name of the
operating system that has been introduced
by the Apple Inc.
• Macintosh is the operating system for the
Apple Macintosh computers that were
developed by Steve Jobs on 24th of January
1984.
• At the moment, all the Macintosh computers
come up with the MAC OS X (a version of
classic MAC OS).
8. Introduction to MAC OS
• A long series of MAC OS has been introduced up till now and the
recent one is MAC OS X. In 1984,
• The initial OS was MAC OS and after that the series continued till MAC
OS9. After the MAC OS9, recently emerged OS is MAC OS X; here X is
representing the numeral 10.
• MAC OS can be known as the creation of Apple company. When this
OS was introduced it was not appropriate for the x86 processors.
• The MAC OS is capable of making use of the Macintosh hardware.
The operation of the MAC OS is very simple and is capable for
supporting software, 3D games and office applications.
9. • Initially, the size of MAC OS was very small and it needed a space of
400 kb.
• At that time most of the programs of MAC OS were similar to that of
Lisa programs.
• There was so much similarity that MAC OS was considered to be the
conversion of Lisa. MAC OS X is the most famous creation of the
Apple Inc.
• The MAC OS can be termed as the Operating Systems from the UNIX
family.
• The recent versions of MAC OS are also compatible with the Intel
processors along with the Apple Macintosh.
• Many versions of MAC OS X have been introduced up till now and all
of these are named after the name of big cats like Samba, Leopard
and so on.
• Special versions of MAC has also been introduced for the special
consumer devices like mobile phones, pod etc.
10. • The improvements have been continuously made in the MAC OS and the
interface is becoming more and more comfortable.
• The user interaction of the system is very quicker and the openGL
performance has increased the speed of the system to the large extent.
• According to the survey made in 2004 there were almost 12 million users of
MAC OS X which is not a little number. MAC OS is different from other
Operating Systems and it is highly Graphical User Interface (GUI) based OS.
Using MAC OS needs guidance and assistance which proves it a bit
complex to use. The many different fields of applications where the MAC OS
can be widely used are 2D and 3D animations, digital art, streaming, video
processing, audio processing, office applications and web designing and so
on. The interface of MAC OS is user friendly and so it is easy to use once it
is understood. It also works in plug and play mode and there is no need of
any manual configuration and adjustment. The file system of MAC is flat file
system and all the files are placed in a single directory no matter it is
application software or OS itself. MAC has continuously introduced new
features in its new versions. MAC OS is also very easy to uninstall from the
computer. (Singh, 58, 2006).
