What Is a Single-User Operating System?
Early operating systems running on microcomputers allowed only one user to use the computer at a time, and were called single-user microcomputer operating systems, such as CP / M, MS-DOS, etc.
Single-user operating system
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- Chinese name
- Single-user operating system
- Nature
- Single-user microcomputer operating system
- Such as
- CP / M, MS-DOS, etc.
- According to
- Computer users
- Early operating systems running on microcomputers allowed only one user to use the computer at a time, and were called single-user microcomputer operating systems, such as CP / M, MS-DOS, etc.
- According to the number of computer users at the same time, operating systems can be divided into single-user operating systems and multi-user operating systems. A single-user operating system refers to a computer that can only be used by one user at a time. A user can enjoy all the hardware and software resources of the system alone. If multiple users are allowed to use the computer at the same time, it is called multi-user operation. system.
- In addition, if a user can run multiple applications at the same time (each application is called a task), such an operating system is called a multitasking operating system. If a user can only run one application at a time, the corresponding operating system is called a single-tasking operating system.
- The personal computer operating system is a single-user operating system whose main feature is to serve a single user at a certain time.
- Early DOS operating systems were single-user single-tasking operating systems, Windows 95 and Windows XP were single-user multi-tasking operating systems, Windows 7 was a multi-user multi-tasking operating system, and Linux and UNIX were multi-user multi-tasking operating systems.
- References: "Computer Culture Foundation" China University of Petroleum Press