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COMP091 – Operating Systems 1
History of Operating Systems
Generations
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First Generation
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No OS as we know it
Second Generation
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Batch processing
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One job at a time
Third Generation
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Multi-programming
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Spooling
Fourth Generation (now)
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Massive interactivity
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GUI
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Programming by system calls
In the very early days:
von Neumann Architecture
• John Louis von Neumann, Hungarian
mathematician 28 December 1903 - 8 February
1957
• Proposed the stored program concept
• Program instructions stored in memory along
with data
– Rather than being wired on plug boards
• Circuitry decodes instructions
• Just have to get code into memory
In the very early days:
Programming
• Computers had rows of switches representing
bits
– Address row contained address in binary
– Data row contained content in binary
• Load button caused data to be loaded into
address in memory
• Programming meant setting the address
switches, then the data switches, then pressing
"load"
• Repeat for each instruction and data address
In the very early days:
Operating
• After loading all the instructions and data,
program had to be started
• Computer had a "Run" button
• "Run" button set next instruction counter to first
memory location and started execution of
instructions there
• "Run" button was the entire operating system
• But it introduced the modern operating system
concept of Boot Loaders
Boot Loaders
• Does not mean boot as in kick as in kick start
• Refers to old expression "Pull yourself up by
your boot straps"
– Of course that can't be done because who has
straps on their boots
• But the idea of a program that gets loaded
without the help of some other program is
reminiscent of this
• Hence the bootstrap program, or boot loader
• The "run" button was the first boot loader
In the very early days:
Automatic Programming
• Programming by switches very tedious and error prone
• Eventually programs were coded onto paper tape using a
paper tape machine with a keyboard
• "load" button could read entire program from paper tape
into memory ready to run
• This was referred to as automatic programming
– Some though it would spell the end for programmers
• Introduced first modern OS component:
– device drivers
Device Drivers
• First device drivers were necessary to control the devices
that contained the programs
• These were supplied by the computer manufacturer and at
first were hard wired
• Programmers wrote their own drivers to interact with
hardware at run time, after booting was finished
– Manufacturers drivers were just for booting
• Eventually this duplication of effort led to another modern
concept
– Runtime Library
Runtime Libraries
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Early run time libraries were essentially open
source creations
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Programmers shared common code among
themselves
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Later, manufacturers began distributing runtime
libraries with their computers
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Made machine more usable
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Maybe ensured efficient use
Library routines were linked to programs by
“link editor” after compiling or assembling
I/O Control Systems
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On early systems programs directly controlled I/O
devices using custom code (maybe shared in a library)
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Eventually manufacturers made their I/O libraries
available at run time as an I/O Control System
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Part of main memory was set aside for the IOCS, the
rest of memory was for users
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This was the first development to resemble on O/S
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It introduced the idea of Memory Management
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And made OS functions available at run time
In the very early days:
Computer Operators
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“Automatic programming” also introduced the
idea of the Computer Operator
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Programmers would fill out a form specifying
their run time requirements
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Run request form, along with paper tape, card
deck or magnetic tape(s) would be handed to
operator to run when computer became
available
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Programmer didn't need to be there at run time
to set switches
Computer Operators
Scheduling
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Computer operators scheduled jobs into
computers one at a time
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Early job queues consisted of stacks of Job
Request forms, maybe clipped to a clothes line
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Users were charged for use of computer time,
and for use of peripherals
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Operators would keep track of this info on the
Job Request Form, but a more efficient method
was desirable
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Especially from the accountants' point of view
Second Generation -- Monitors
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The IOCS was in memory and active at run time
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And was involved in I/O operations as well as
starting and stopping jobs
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So accounting was added to the IOCS to allow
accurate billing for machine time and I/O
utilization
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These systems now came to be called monitors
and signaled the start of the second generation
of operating systems
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And introduced the OS concept of Accounting
Accounting
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Accounting is still present in modern multi-user operating
systems as part of the Security System
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Security systems are concerned with identity and that means:
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Identification
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Authentication
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How do we know
Authorization
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Who are you
What can you do
Accounting
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How much of it did you do
Better Scheduling
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With operators manually scheduling jobs, there
would be idle time between jobs while the
operators set up the next job
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This wasn't a problem if jobs ran for a long time
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The idle time was small relative to the
productive time
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With faster computers, jobs ran faster and the
idle time became significant
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The solutions was another modern operating
system concept: The job queue
Batch Operating Systems
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With the addition of a job queue to the monitor,
more efficient scheduling became possible
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Jobs would be read into a job queue when they
were submitted
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The monitor would start the next job as soon as
the last job finished
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Jobs' resource needs would be described by Job
Control Language statements stored on the
queue with the job
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These batch OS systems were the first real OS's
Some Examples
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Monitors
– FORTRAN Monitor System, General Motors
Operating System, Input Output System
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Batch Systems
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Note that these OS were almost all supplied by the
computer manufacturer
– GECOS, SCOPE (Supervisory Control of
Program Execution - CDC), EXEC (Univac) ,
MCP (Burroughs), IBM 1410/1710 OS
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2
Generation Problem
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In 2nd generation OS only one program could
run at a time
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If that program was waiting for I/O the entire
machine would be idle
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But if the monitor could hand the machine to
another job while the first one waited the idle
time wouldn't be wasted
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This introduced another modern concept
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Multiprogramming
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More than one job loaded and ready to run
Another Problem
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Multiprogramming OS's switched jobs when one
became idle
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But on-line users didn't want to wait long times for all
other users to go idle
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Interactive users required time slices on a regular basis
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A time sharing OS would stop jobs after a short period
of time to give some time to other users
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Everyone had the illusion of a computer available for
their exclusive use
Third Generation
Multiprogramming
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The third generation of Operating Systems was
characterized by multiprogramming capabilities
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Multiple jobs loaded in memory and ready to
run
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OS passes control to another job when one goes
idle
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Timesharing systems allocate regular time slices
to interactive jobs so none will be inactive for
unacceptable periods of time
Third Generation
Memory Partitions
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Multiprogramming required that many jobs be
in memory at once
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This required the modern OS capability of
memory partitioning
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OS divides memory into partitions
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Allocates a partition to each job
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Memory Maps map relative addresses into
partitions' real addresses so jobs don't need to
know where they are actually loaded
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Originally fairly static mapping
Third Generation
Virtual Memory
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With multiprogramming there could be many
jobs loaded in memory at once, and the more
there were the more efficiently the machine
resources could be deployed
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Soon memory just wasn't large enough to hold
enough jobs to keep the increasingly faster
CPU's supplied with work
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Virtual memory solved this by temporarily
moving idle jobs from memory to disk until it
was time to reactivate them
Third Generation
Thrashing
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Moving jobs (or portions called pages) from real
to virtual memory came to be called paging
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It allowed more jobs to be available to use the
CPU resources
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But it also consumed resources
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If the resources used by paging was too much
resource nothing would get done
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This condition is called thrashing
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Efficient paging algorithms seek to prevent
thrashing
Thrashing Example
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In the 1970's IBM sold an operating system
called System 370
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It was a multiprogramming virtual memory
batch OS
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They also sold VM, (Virtual Machine) which
allowed customers to run more than one IBM
OS at the same time
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In one case a thrashing S370 system was
resolved by running the S370 OS under VM
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VM had a more efficient paging algorithm
Third Generation
Spooling
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Another problem introduced by multiprogramming is that
you can't time share a printer
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Jobs would be intermixed on the paper
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2nd generation OS gave jobs exclusive control of I/O
devices like printers
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3rd generation introduces spooling
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Printed output intercepted by OS and stored in a disk file
called a spool, or print queue
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Tanenbaum says SPOOL = Simultaneous Peripheral
Output On Line
Complete print jobs are sent to printer (or other device)
when the generating job is finished
Third Generation
File Systems
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Early disk drives had removable “disk packs” and tape
drives
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Users handled them in whatever way they wished,
addressing the hardware in hardware terms
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With larger disks, and the use of disk space by the OS for
spooling, job queues, page files etc, it became desirable for
disks to have a common format
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Users would use space on these permanently mounted
system disks, facilitating scheduling
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The now familiar hierarchical file systems were introduced
to enable sharing of space on system disks
Third Generation
Processes
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Originally the granularity of multiprogramming was at
the level of a complete job
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With virtual memory it became more efficient to swap
pages rather than jobs
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Also, jobs spent a lot of time using system calls to
accomplish objectives and that involved processes
running in the memory space of the OS
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It became necessary to start and stop processes rather
than jobs leading to the modern OS concept of
processes
Third Generation
Threads
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Jobs running in a modern OS can start processes
that run in the memory of the OS, using drivers
or other functions available through system calls
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Each process shares the memory where the code
resides, but is allocated separate memory for
data, including state information
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Each of these processes represents a “process
thread” through the memory of the shared code
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The shared code is multi-threaded
Third Generation
Scheduler
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Scheduler: Adds new processes to the process
table and removes completed processes from the
process table
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Process table contains
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Memory area assigned to the process
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Priority of the process
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State of the process (ready or waiting)
Third Generation
Dispatcher
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Dispatcher: Controls the allocation of CPU (of
time slices) to the processes in the process table
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The end of a time slice is signaled by an
interrupt.
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Each process is allowed to execute for one time
slice
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It performs "process switch" - procedure to
change from one process to another
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ProcessA -> Dispatcher -> ProcessB
Other
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Generations Issues
Deadlock
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If process A waits on process B while process B
waits on process A neither will ever complete
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This is called deadlock
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3rd generation OS had to learn to detect and
prevent deadlock
Security
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With so many processes on the same machine OS
had to learn how to keep them separated
4th Generation
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Generally considered to be the OS's that operate
modern desktop computers
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Windows, Linux Android, and a few others
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Massive reliance on OS system calls
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Ubiquitous networking
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Essentially Interactive
Resources
• http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/OpS
ystems/Myos/osHistory.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_operati
ng_systems
• http://www.osdata.com/kind/history.htm
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