Operating Systems

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Operating Systems class


This is the main page for the operating systems class.

Welcome


In this class we will study operating systems generally, and four main operating systems families, namely: DOS-Win9X, WinNT-Vista, UNIX-Ubuntu, Macintosh-MacOSX

1. Operating Systems instructor students write about yourself syllabus and course outline course materials Hardware overview

Activity: install DOS versioning things you can do with an operating system DOS-Win9X, WinNT-Vista, UNIX-Ubuntu, Macintosh-MacOSX

  • Wikipedia entry for operating system

HANDOUT: Regan, Patrick. Troubleshooting the PC with A+ prepearation, Pages 515-521

2. MS-DOS

BOOT Up process disk media partition and filesysem formats formats

  • Wikipedia entry for DOS

IO.SYS MS-DOS.SYS COMMAND.COM CONFIG.SYS AUTOEXEC.BAT

command line DOS Commands /, \, filepaths and switches comparing OSs other legacy DOS (win 9x . . .) HELP menu

Activity: configure DOS

3. MS-DOS making a MS-DOS boot disk

           Mac and GUIs, Nortons

DOS command line quiz

4. Windows 3.11, 9X

5. Windows NT, 2000

6. Windows XP, Vista

7. Midterm Exam 8. UNIX & Linux 9. Ubuntu Linux 10. Ubuntu Linux 11. Macintosh 12. Macintosh System 7 - 9 13. MacOS X 14. MacOS X 15. Final Exam


books periodicals websites videos articles chapters advertisements journals multimedia tech notes help munus company websites user guides

windowing systems service packs network server operating systems notebook operating systems systems utilities multimedia software disk utilities hardware support installation media OS emulation development platforms system fonts