1. A presentation by Lewis Betterton

2.  What is an Operating System? Boot process Drivers Hardware and resource control Manages programs

3. Apple II Commodore 64 IBM-PC

4. Modern Operating Systems and Hardware Advanced Graphics (Aero etc.) Improved File Management systems New Technologies

5.  DOS (early windows)  Windows 3.1  Windows 95  Windows 98SE (Second Edition)  Windows NT 4  Windows 2000  Windows XP  Windows Vista  Windows 7

6.  Ubuntu Desktop  Red Hat  Centos 5.5

7.  Apple II OS  Mac OS X

8.  FreeBSD  FreeDOS  DOSBOX(emulator)  Unix (Linux based on) http://www.free bsd.org/

9. Consoles: Microsoft Xbox 360 Sony PS3 Phones: Apple IPhone 4 Apple Ipad 1, 2 Samsung Android

10. Microsoft Windows XP running on a Tablet PC

11. Windows Operating Systems Linux and Macintosh Operating Systems

12. Windows 8 Mac OS X Lion Ubuntu 11.04

13.  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

14.  Mac OS X version 10.7 X86-64 CPUMemoryMac OS X 10.6.6 or later HDD Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core i3, Intel Core i5, Intel Core i7 At least 2GB 7 GB recommended

15.  Ubuntu 11.04 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

16. Ubuntu 11.04 Feature Preview

17.  Questions?

18. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/O/operating_system.html http://www.google.com.au http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=6268 http://blog.sudobits.com/2011/07/21/system-requirements-for-ubuntu-11-04/