Question

Please analyze and summarize the command driven operating system with a GUI operating system in a paragraph or two.

Answer 1

Operating systems have different types of interface to interact with the computer.

They are a) Command Line Interface (Command driven operating system)

b) Menu driven

c) Graphical User Interface

Command driven operating system ------>

1. Commands are given to computer with keyboard

2. It uses textual Input

3. The user types in a command and presses Enter key to execute it

4. Examples of Command driven operating systems are DOS and UNIX

5. Dos is a single user and single task is executed at a time

6. UNIX is multiuser and different programs run at the same time.

7.The disadvantage of Command driven operating systems are the user have to remember the commands to perform any tasks.

GUI Operating Systems --------->

1. GUI has visual environment such as windows , buttons and icons to interact with the computer.

2. Examples of GUI are MS Windows, Linux OS and Mac OS

3. GUI are user friendly.

4. GUI has the process such as Booting, Loading

5. They have device drivers within itself.

6. Different GUIs have different look and feel.

7. GUI are more resource consuming than that of Command driven operating systems.

8. GUI provides a set of components to interact with software or hardware. They are icons, tabs, status bar, slider, etc.