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OS in Commercial Computers

Understand the origins and evolution of operating systems from early commercial computers. Learn why operating systems are necessary to manage hardware resources and program execution efficiently, and how they simplify software development by providing hardware support services.

Commercial usage of computers

The commercial usage of computers brought new requirements, one of which is executing programs one after another without any delays. Otherwise, why spend the money on it?

New commercial requirements needed new solutions. The most time-consuming task was to switch between programs. Therefore, engineers of General Motors and North American Aviation came up with an idea to automate this. They created the first ...