The generations of operating systems
Evolution of operating systems There are four generations in the operating system evolution. They are First generation operating system(1940s-1950s) Second generation operating system (1950s-1960s) Third generation operating system (1960s-1980s) Fourth generation operating system (1980s-present) First generation operating system (1940s-1950s): This generation had lost only for 10 years . Strictly speaking the reason why this generation had lost for 10 years is because their complexity in usage and their occupation in space . The first generation operating system included vacuum tubes, plug boards and punched cards. The programmer used to interact with machine directly through punched cards and used to write programs directly in machine language. All the tasks for executing a program would be performed by programmer only. Second generation ope...