Scheduling Algorithms There are various algorithms which are used by the Operating System to schedule the processes on the processor in an efficient way.  The Purpose of a Sched…

STATE DIAGRAM The process, from its creation to completion, passes through various states. The minimum number of states is five. The names of the states are not standardized alth…

Process Management in OS A Program does nothing unless its instructions are executed by a CPU. A program in execution is called a process. In order to accomplish its task, proc…

Virtual Machines in Operating System A virtual machine (VM) is a virtual environment which functions as a virtual computer system with its own CPU, memory, network interface, an…

The kernel is a computer program at the core of a computer’s operating system and has complete control over everything in the system. It manages the operations of the compute…

Operating System Structure  Operating system can be implemented with the help of various structures. The structure of the OS depends mainly on how the various common components …

Generations of Operating System  The First Generation (1940 to early 1950s):-  When the first electronic computer was developed in 1940, it was created without any operating sy…

History of the Operating System Operating System The operating system is a system program that serves as an interface between the computing system and the end-user. Operating sys…