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What are the characteristics of a multitasking operating system?
What makes it multitasking?
Are there non-multitasking operating systems?
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Multitasking, in an operating system, is allowing a user to perform more than one computer task (such as the operation of an application program) at a time. The operating system is able to keep track of where you are in these tasks and go from one to the other without losing information.
Windows 10 is a multitasking operating system providing each task to process over time. Windows 10 is a series of operating systems developed by Microsoft as a part of its Windows NT family of operating systems.
The Microsoft Windows 7 operating system is a 32-/64-bit preemptive multitasking client operating system for microprocessors implementing the Intel IA-32 and AMD64 instruction set architectures (ISAs).
What are the characteristics of a multitasking operating system? What makes it multitasking?
Multitasking operating systems allow more than one program to run at a time. They can support either preemptive multitasking, where the OS doles out time to applications (virtually all modern OSes) or cooperative multitasking, where the OS waits for the program to give back control (Windows 3.x, Mac OS 9 and earlier).
Are there non-multitasking operating systems?
Any OS that only allows one thing to be done at a time (DOS for instance).
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A multi tasking operating systems is:
An operating system that gives you the perception of 2 or more tasks/jobs/processes running at the same time. It does this by dividing system resources amongst these tasks/jobs/processes. And switching between the tasks/jobs/processes while they are executing very fast over and over again.
Yes there are non multi tasking operating systems, example: commodore 64's OS (Commodore BASIC 2.0). Probably some custom made software for some companies. Perhaps like an ATM machine, or movie theater stub ticket system.
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