• A system software that manages computer hardware and provides various services for computer programs

  • A type of program that supports applications

  • Examples

  • Types (all under UNIX)

    • Desktop/laptop
      • Windows, macos, linux
    • mobile/tabled/smart watch
      • android, ios, window mobile, etc
    • server
      • ubuntu, linux, etc
    • embedded
      • in things like cars, kiosk, TVs, etc
        • very many
      • RTOS - Real-time operating system: ๋น ๋ฅธ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ˆ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋™์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์šฐ์„ ์‹œํ•จ

์—ญํ• 

  1. ์ž…๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ถœ๋ ฅ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ
    • ์šด์˜์ฒด์ œ๋Š” ์ž…๋ ฅ(๋งˆ์šฐ์Šค, ํ‚ค๋ณด๋“œ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ)๊ณผ ์ถœ๋ ฅ์„ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์‹œ์ผœ์คŒ
  2. ์ €์žฅ๊ณผ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์˜ค๊ธฐ
    • ๊ฐ ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ๋ชฉ์ ์— ๋งž๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์— ์ €์žฅ/๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์˜ค๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ OS๊ฐ€ ํŒ๋‹จํ•จ
    • ํœ˜๋ฐœ์„ฑ, ๋น„ํœ˜๋ฐœ์„ฑ
      • ํœ˜๋ฐœ์„ฑ
        • ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์ผœ์ ธ์žˆ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ์—๋งŒ ๋ณด๊ด€
        • ์ €์žฅ ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์€ ์ œํ•œ์ ์ด๋ผ์„œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ €์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Œ
        • RAM
      • ๋น„ํœ˜๋ฐœ์„ฑ
        • ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ์ ธ๋„ ์ €์žฅ
        • ํ•˜๋“œ๋””์Šคํฌ
    • ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์ž‘์€ ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ๋А๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งŽ์€ ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰
    • ์ˆ˜์ •๊ฐ€๋Šฅ, ์ˆ˜์ • ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ ๋ฌธ์„œ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„
      • Read-Only Memory (ROM)
  3. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ๋™์‹œ์— ์‹คํ–‰
    • multitasking
    • divide the tasks into smaller pieces, then decide the order/amount /etc of each task