5. Single user operating system

Many of you will have a computer at home and as mentioned on the previous page, it is likely to have either Microsoft Windows or Mac OS loaded onto it. boy at comptuer

Whilst you are using your computer it is likely that you don't need to share periperhals e.g. a printer and you probably don't need to share out your processing time with another person in the house.

Therefore, the operating system on your computer only has to deal with the tasks you are giving it. It doesn't need to worry about sharing out memory, hardware or processing time.

This is called a single user operating system.

Examples of such operating systems are Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP and Vista as well as the Mac OS range.

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Click on this link: Single and Multi User Operating Systems