Choose THREE operating systems below and describe the major advantages and disad
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Choose THREE operating systems below and describe the major advantages and disadvantages of each: • MS-DOS operating system • Windows operating system • UNIX and Linux operating system • Android operating system • iOS operating system • macOS operating system Your essay should be four to six pages in length. Do not merely copy from your reading materials. Creative thinking and your own words are important aspects of an effective answer. When it is appropriate to use quotations or paraphrase from your text or study materials, be sure to cite your sources properly using APA format. Web Resources The Web resources listed below are offered as a supplement to your reading activities. They may be helpful for you to complete assignments 9 and 10. Feel free to explore these websites as your time permits. If the links become unavailable or dead, you can search the web using the key topics. • Computer Software Information and Help with Microsoft DOS (Computer Hope) This site contains some general and command specific information about MSDOS. http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm • Windows 10 (Microsoft) This is the Windows 10 home page. Links are available from this page to assorted types of information about this popular operating system. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 S-12 • Mac System Software (operating-system.org) You will find a brief history of macOS and other operating systems. http://www.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/_english/bs-macos.htm • Operating System Security This is a brief introduction of operating system security based on Chapter 15 of Silberschartz, Gagne, and Galvin’s book, Operating System Concepts, 7th. https://www.cs.uic.edu/~jbell/CourseNotes/OperatingSystems/15_Security.html • Operating System - Security (tutorialspoint.com) https://www.tutorialspoint.com/operating_system/os_security.htm • UNIX Tutorial for Beginners A beginners guide to the Unix and Linux operating system. Eight simple tutorials which cover the basics of UNIX / Linux commands. http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/ • What Is Unix? (The Open Group) You can read about the history of the UNIX system over the past 40 years or more. http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix.html • Linux Guide/How Linux Works (WikiBooks.org) “Linux is built with a certain set of unifying principles in mind. Understanding these principles is very helpful in understanding how the system works as a whole.” This site gives a brief introduction of Linux and its principles. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_Guide/How_Linux_Works • The Complete Beginner's Guide to Linux (Linux.com) The site includes all the information you need to get up to speed on the Linux platform. https://www.linux.com/learn/complete-beginners-guide-Linux%20 • Android Tutorial by Larry Walters (2011) This tutorial is a brief overview of some major concepts of Android. http://pl.cs.jhu.edu/oose/resources/android/Android-Tutorial.pdf • Android concepts and programming by Kartik Sankaran (2014) These slides help you quickly get started with Android programming. http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~kartiks/nusdtn/Tutorials/Android_Tutorial1.pdf • The 12 Best Android Tutorials for First-Time App Developers by Ada Ivanoff (2015). https://www.sitepoint.com/12-android-tutorials-beginners/ S-13 • Windows tutorials at http://www.top-windows-tutorials.com/Explanation / Answer
MS-DOS Operating system
Advantages :
-MS-DOS is very lightweight and it allows direct access to almost all hardware thorugh command line.
-This operating system is very lightweight.
- It also doesnot support multitasking therefore there is less overhead and less latency.
- It will boot much faster than any other operating system.
Disadvantages :
- It has command line user interface therefore it is very less user friendly.
- Very less number of applications are supported in DOS.
- It is depreciated by microsoft thats why no more updates will be available to MS-DOS.
- It does not support multitasking so, only one application can be run on this OS at a time.
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Windows Operating System
Advantages :
- Windows support large amount of application programs, specially graphics related softwares(like games,adobe, etc).
- Windows has much advancement which makes it user friendly.
- Windows has excellent GUI, most of the popularity of the windows is just because of its GUI.
- Web design programs having windows is very easy and supportable.
Disadvantages :
- Windows is more prone to virus and other attacks.
- When it comes to GUI, one does not have the total control over the hardware system.
- It is a proprietary software and hence tends to be more expensive as compared to other Operating system.
- It is a multitasking operating system that's why it has high resource requirement like hardware, faster processor, etc.
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UNIX and Linux operating system
Advantages :
- It is an open source operating system, therefore it's code is available for anyone to fork the code and create their own operating system.
- It has huge family of it's distributions (distros) therefore,one has alot of special purpose operating system options to choose from.
- Linux has alot of distributions hence an attacker has to do alot of work to attack on the whole family of linux operating system, therefore there is very less chance that a malware or virus is created for a linux operating system because those malwares or computer virus has to be OS specific.
- It has most of the alternatives to applications on windows.
Disadvantages :
- In most cases linux distros are maintained by open source community over the internet hence, the maintainence of each distros is difficult and therefore, one has unstable releases to choose from, but eventually one has the option for the stable releases also.
- These operating systems (in most cases) are designed by the programmer who gives more priority to utility rather than its appearance. Hence the UI is not upto the mark.
- It is not suited for graphics related applications, like image editing, video editing, etc.