Showing posts with label windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windows. Show all posts

OS History, part 1

Okay, this may seem as a bit too basic, but hey - there is always new stuff out there to learn.

Today's post will deal with the Operating Systems (OS) of the PC. This is the basic software that turns your PC into an actually useful pile of metal. There are many operating systems out there, but let's just stick to the most common ones:

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Mac OS
As I have mentioned it in one of my earliest blogposts, we can cross out Mac OS off the list, as it is mostly exclusive to Apple computers. You can set up Mac OS on a PC and Windows on a Mac, but who in the right mind would do that? Anyways, these operating systems all have distributions, which means the different versions of these OS-es. Let's go through the brief history of these systems!

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