There are various positives and negatives impacts of operating systems so here we will explain the advantage and disadvantage of operating system.

Advantages of Operating System:

• O/S provides the interface between the users and hardware.

• O/S allows to User Friendly Graphic Interface for all users because it provides various menus, buttons, icons, and more for easy navigation

• No required any technical skills for operating GUI O/S.

• Cost effective.

• It has responsible for controlling and manipulate of all computer functions.

• These platforms are comfortable for all programs.

• It allows the best features such as “Plug and play”, means no need any drivers for using their devices like as mouse, keyboard, and more.

• O/S uses numerous techniques such as memory segmentation, paging, and swapping. Operating system can manage own memory with using those techniques.

• Operating System provides the assistance for managing the all input and output devices of computer system.

• O/S helps the transformation all programs into process for executing the instructions, and it has responsible for synchronizing of all process.

• Operating System can also manage all types of interrupts.

• O/S implements all types of scheduling techniques such as first come-first served, Round robin, Priority scheduling and shortest job first scheduling etc for scheduling the all process in CPU for execution.

• It helps to destroy the external fragmentation.

• O/S has responsible for distributing all data over entire system.

• O/S gives the permission for demanding paging as well as prepaging.

• It has no required to fragmentation.

• It helps to map all pages in effective manner.

• O/S allows sharing one piece of data with many users.

• It also can share different resources like as Printer, Fax etc.

• O/S can be updated time by time without any hassle.

• It provides the flexible interface for installing all types of games and software, and can run easily them.

• Some O/S provides the protection from dangerous files and virus such as Windows defender in Window O/S.

• Numerous O/S are available in open source such as Unix/Linux.  Operating System can be run easily on computer system without any cost (Free).

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Disadvantages of Operating System

Here, we will spread the light on limitation (cons) of operating systems.

• It has enlarged memory access times such as page table lookup.

• Need improvement with using TLB.

• Required guarded page tables.

• Need more memory for memory management.

• Need internal fragmentation.

• Page Table Length Register (PTLR) has to bound with virtual memory size.

• It required more improvement in multilevel page tables and variable page sizes.

• Unknown users can be used your system without your permission.

• If operating system get fault then your data can be destroyed from O/S.

• It is very difficult task for providing the entire protection from all viruses because any threat can be inserted any time.

Summing Up

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