Classification of Operating Systems
Various operating systems have evolved depending on requirements and the cost bearing capacity of the users. Following is the brief description of these operating systems:
- Single user operating system
- Multi-user operating system
- Single tasking operating system
- Multi-tasking operating system
- Multi-programming operating system
- Single processing operating system
- Multi-processing operating system
- Multi-threading operating system
- Time sharing operating system
- Network operating system
- Real time operating system
- Distributed operating system
- Online operating system
- Batch processing operating system