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Operating System

Operating System: - An operating system is a system software which is used to operate a computer its work as an interface between user and machine it’s may enabled to computer hardware.
In other word we can say thatAn operating system is a program that acts as an interface between the user and the computer hardware and controls the execution of all kinds of programs.
An Operating System or OS is a software program that enables the computer hardware to communicate and operate with the computer software. Without a computer operating system, a computer and software programs would be useless

Some popular Operating Systems include UNIX Linux, Windows,ANDROIDetc.
Types of Operarting system:-

  1.                Single user Single Tasking
  2.              Single user Multitasking
  3.              Multiuser Multitasking 





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