In the early days of computers, the concept of an operating system wasnt really thought of. When users needed to input information into the computer, they fed it into the system on punched pieces of paper. The computer would go to work on the information until it finished, or more often than not, it crashed. [...]
When Apple Computer developed the Macintosh computer system, they also strove to develop an operating system for this new machine. They didnt want to rely on the competitors MS-DOS system which was developed by Microsoft Corporation. So programmers at Apple set out to make an operating system exclusively for the Macintosh computer. What they came [...]
The history of computer operating systems is relatively new. Early versions of computers didnt run on any kind of operating system which made them difficult to operate for the general user. The user had sole use of the machine and would arrive armed with programs and data usually on punched paper tape. The program would [...]