History of Computer Architecture and Operating System
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Humans do not have the ability to solve all problems, and even if they do, not as fast as a computer can do.
A digital computer is a machine that follows algorithms written by humans. Following an algorithm means solving a problem by carrying out instructions of how to solve it.
The earliest electronic digital computers were launched in the 1940s. These machines had no operating system. The programs had to be entered one bit at a time on rows of mechanical switches.
The language programs of the machine were entered on punch cards and the programming process were speed by developing the assembly languages.
The first Operating System was implemented in 1950s by the General Motors Research Laboratories. The systems were called single C stream batch processing systems because the programs and data submitted were in groups or batches. An Operating System is the software that controls the hardware...