Version 1 of Operating System

Updated 2014-05-26 23:29:17 by pooryorick

An operating system is a program that facilitates the operation of a computer. It provides a platform which relieves other programs of the burden of communicating directly with computer hardware, and an interface that allows the user to interact with the hardware and to run other programs.

Common Operating System Families

Unix
Linux
BSD
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X

Tcl has been ported to all of these systems.

Facilities and Standards

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
POSIX
a standard specification for Unix-like operating systems