A presentation by Lewis Betterton
What is an Operating System? Boot process Drivers Hardware and resource control Manages programs
Apple II Commodore 64 IBM-PC
Modern Operating Systems and Hardware Advanced Graphics (Aero etc.) Improved File Management systems New Technologies
DOS (early windows) Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows 98SE (Second Edition) Windows NT 4 Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7
Ubuntu Desktop Red Hat Centos 5.5
Apple II OS Mac OS X
FreeBSD FreeDOS DOSBOX(emulator) Unix (Linux based on) bsd.org/
Consoles: Microsoft Xbox 360 Sony PS3 Phones: Apple IPhone 4 Apple Ipad 1, 2 Samsung Android
Microsoft Windows XP running on a Tablet PC
Windows Operating Systems Linux and Macintosh Operating Systems
Windows 8 Mac OS X Lion Ubuntu 11.04
Windows Developer Preview system requirements CPUMemoryGraphics cardHDD 1 Ghz1 GB(x86)DirectX 9 with WDDM 1.0 (required for Aero) 16GB 1 Ghz2 GB(x64)20GB
Mac OS X version 10.7 X86-64 CPUMemoryMac OS X or later HDD Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core i3, Intel Core i5, Intel Core i7 At least 2GB 7 GB recommended
Ubuntu released on 13 October 2011 X86-64 CPUMemoryOtherHDD 1 GHz Pentium or better processor (such as Dual Core, Core 2 Duo, i3, i5,i7… ) 384 M RAM 512 MB recommended CD/DVD drive or USB 5GB HDD 10GB recommended
Ubuntu Feature Preview
Questions?