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Friday, 20 March 2009 08:19 |
Operating system is a software that lets applications and other software to communicate with computer hardware.
Consider operating system as a layer on top of hardware. All other software runs on top of the operating system.
Operating system provides basic services to applications.
Example includes file sharing, support for network connections etc.
Examples of operating systems on which SAP software could run include:
Mircosoft Windows Server, Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux, HP-UX Unix, AIX, Solaris, OS400, z/OS.
Solaris is a unix version for Sun machines
HP-UX Unix is a unix for HP machines
OS400 is an operating system that runs on IBMS's AS/400 machines.
z/OS is an operating system that runs on mainframe machines.
Mircosoft Windows Server, Red Hat Linux, and Suse Linux could be installed on x64 (Intel/AMD CPU) machines.
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Last Updated on Friday, 20 March 2009 08:23 |
