History of Operating Systems
The earliest of computers didn’t have an operating system. By the early 1960’s, commercial computer vendors were supplying quite extensive tools for streamlining the development, scheduling and execution of jobs on batch processing systems.
Through the 1960’s, several concepts were developed which drove the development of operating systems.
The IBM System 360 produced a family of mainframe computer that served consumers with differing capacities and prices.
A single operating system was planned for these computers rather than developing generic programs for every individual model. Read the rest of this entry →
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