Operating Systems Flashcards

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Which OS kernel is Linux based on?: Monolithic
Which operating system is developed by Apple for its computers?: macOS
Which Microsoft operating system introduced the Start button and taskbar in 1995?: Windows 95
Which operating system became the foundation of Apple's later operating systems after Mac OS X 10.0 launched in 2001?: Mac OS X
Which operating system is described by the Computer History Museum as the first commercially successful operating system for microcomputers?: CP/M
Who developed the CP/M operating system?: Gary Kildall
Which operating system was supplied as the basic software for the original IBM PC in 1981?: MS-DOS
Which operating system began development at Bell Labs in 1969?: UNIX
Which computer was used for the earliest UNIX development at Bell Labs?: DEC PDP-7
In which year was UNIX substantially rewritten in C?: 1973
Which edition of UNIX was the first to become widely available outside Bell Labs?: Sixth Edition
Which shell was included with UNIX Seventh Edition according to The Open Group's UNIX history?: Bourne shell
Who announced the GNU Project in September 1983?: Richard Stallman
What does the recursive acronym GNU stand for?: GNU's Not Unix
In which month and year did development of the GNU system actually begin?: Jan-84
Which major GNU system component was still missing around 1990?: Kernel
Who announced that he was developing the Linux kernel in August 1991?: Linus Torvalds
Which university was Linus Torvalds attending when Linux originated?: University of Helsinki
What version number was assigned to the first released Linux kernel in 1991?: 0.01
On what date does the Linux Foundation commemorate the release of the first Linux kernel?: 5-Oct-91
When was Linux kernel version 1.0 released according to the kernel.org archive?: 13-Mar-94
Which organization states that the Linux kernel forms the basis of the Linux operating system?: Linux Foundation
Which Linux kernel series reached its first stable 2.6.0 release in December 2003?: 2.6
Which operating-system project did Linus Torvalds create the kernel for?: Linux
Which operating system did IBM introduce for its System/360 mainframe family in the 1960s?: OS/360
Which type of operating system processes groups of queued jobs with little or no interactive user input?: Batch operating system
Which OS component manages hardware resources and provides fundamental services to other software?: Kernel
Which OS feature lets multiple programs make progress during the same period by sharing processor time?: Multitasking
Which Microsoft operating system was released worldwide on October 25, 2001?: Windows XP
Which Windows release was built on an enhanced Windows 2000 engine and launched in 2001?: Windows XP