Classification Of Heterogeneous Operating System

TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of various categories of operating systems, emphasizing those that significantly influenced their evolution, to offer a concise understanding of current OS landscape.

Contribution

It offers a categorized overview of operating systems, highlighting key types that impacted OS development, filling a gap in comprehensive classification and historical context.

Findings

Different OS categories have distinct roles and features.

Certain OS types have significantly influenced technological evolution.

The paper categorizes OS based on development and application domains.

Abstract

Operating system is a bridge between system and user. An operating system (OS) is a software program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. The OS performs basic tasks, such as controlling and allocating memory, prioritizing the processing of instructions, controlling input and output devices, facilitating networking, and managing files. It is difficult to present a complete as well as deep account of operating systems developed till date. So, this paper tries to overview only a subset of the available operating systems and its different categories. OS are being developed by a large number of academic and commercial organizations for the last several decades. This paper, therefore, concentrates on the different categories of OS with special emphasis to those that had deep impact on the evolution process. The aim of this paper is to provide a brief timely commentary on the different categories important operating systems available today.