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- 1first operating systemLyons Electronic Office was the first operating system, supported by British firm J. Lyons and Co. this was made in 1951
- 2functions of operation system• controls the backing store and perphials such as scanners and printers
• deals with the transfer of programs in and out of memory
• organises the use of memory between programs
• organises processing time between programs and users
• maintains security and access rights of users
• deals with errors and user instructions
• allows the user to save files to a backing store
• provides the interface between the user and the computer - for example,windows and Apple OSX. - 3definition of operation systemthe low-level software that supports a computer's basic functions, such as scheduling tasks and controlling peripherals.
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