Part one of term paper
An operating system is the program that manages all the application programs in a computer system. This also includes managing the input and output devices, and assigning system resources. Operating systems evolved as the solution to the problems that were evident in early computer systems, and coincide with the changing computer systems. Th ...

Part two of term paper
... handle and perform more complex tasks. The folowing report examines the , and how the changing tehcnology shaped the evolution of operating systems. First Generation Computers (1945-1955) In the mid-1940's enormous machines capable of performing numerical calculations were created. The machine consisted of vacuum tubes and plugboards, and programming was done purely in machine code. Programming languages were unheard of during the early part of the period, and each machine was specifically assembled ...