Chapter 5

Question 1

A program with a specific purpose that must guarantee certain response times for particular computing tasks or else the machines application is useless. Real time operating systems are found in many types of robotic equipment.

Answer 1

Real-time operating system (RTOS)

Question 2

An operating system that enables more than one user to access the computer system at one time by efficiently juggling all the requests from multiple users.

Answer 2

Multiuser operating system (network operating system)

Question 3

An operating system originally conceived in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Denis Ritchie of AT&T ‘s Bell Labs. In 1974 the unix code was rewritten in the standard programming language C. Today there are various commercial versions of UNIX.

Answer 3

UNIXi

Question 4

Linux download packages

Answer 4

Distributions (Distros )

Question 5

The combination of a computers operating system and processor. The most common platforms are PC and apple.

Answer 5

Platform