CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Device Driver, User Friendly, Hard Disk Drive

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

Windows nt, windows 98, windows millennium edition (me), and windows 2000: windows came under development soon after the apple macintosh introduced the graphical user interface in 1984. Users also attest to mac"s greater system reliability and better document recovery. However, there are fewer software applications available for the. Mac platform: linux os, in 1991 a finnish graduate student named linus torvalds decided he would create an operating system that would run on an intel processor. The agreement is that improvements and methods will also be shared. Linux is gaining a reputation as a stable operating system that is not subject to crashes and failures. Linux for free off the internet: there are also several versions of linux that are more proprietary in nature. These versions come with support and other products not generally associated with the open-source linux. Red hat has been packaging and selling versions of linux since 1994 and is probably the most well known linux distributor.