Saturday, December 17, 2011

Network operating system

Network operating system--A network operating system is an operating system that provides features such as file sharing across the network and that includes a communication scheme that allows different processes on different computers to exchange messages. A computer running a network operating system acts autonomously from all other computers on the network, although it is aware of the network and is able to communicate with other networked computers.
     An operating system, which includes software to communicate with othe computers via a
network, is called -network operating system. This allows resources such as files, application
programs and printers to be shared between computers
Such operating systems are specialized to provide the networking services.
Network operating system examples are . -
                BSD (Berkeley System Distribution) Unix, Novell, Lantastic.

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