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Main responsibilities
• To work safety.
• To cooperate with your employer in any work safety system.
• To report any hazardous conditions.
• The most important program that runs on a computer and computer must have an
operating system to run other programs. Operating systems perform basic tasks,
such as recognizing input from the keyboard, sending output to the display screen,
keeping track of files and directories on the disk, and controlling peripheral
devices such as disk drives and printers.
• the operating system has even greater responsibilities and powers. It is like a
traffic cop -- it makes sure those different programs and users running at the same
time do not interfere with each other. The operating system is also responsible for
security, ensuring that unauthorized users do not access the system.
• During the mid to late 1980s, Microsoft and IBM had cooperatively been
developing OS/2 as a successor to DOS.
• On 25 June 1998, Microsoft released Windows 98.
Windows NT
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows XP Home Edition
• Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2003
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, released on October 12, 2004
Windows Vista
Starter (only available in developing countries)
Home Basic
Home Premium
Business
Enterprise (only available to large businesses and enterprises)
Ultimate (combines both Home Premium and Business
Application is software that services a specific function and allows you to communicate
or create and modify the documents.
Software that tell hardware what to do, device driver simplifies programming by
acting as a translator between a hardware device and the applications.
Is basic Input and output system and refers to the firmware code run by a pc when
it powers up, its primary function is to identify and initiate the component
hardware such as the hard drive and optical disk drives.
BIOS are an acronym for Basic Input Output System. It is the program that stores
configuration details about your computer hardware and enables your computer to boot
up. Every time your computer is switched on the BIOS loads configuration data into main
memory, performs a routine diagnostic test on your hardware, then loads the operating
system.