Chapter 9a or 10 Installing, Upgrading, Configuring PC's & Installing O.S. 2.0
 
Today's Assignments is a Vocabulary List and Questions.
Note! Follow Directions Closely!

Use this class time to begin this assignment today. Please list and define/describe the following words as completely as you can. Please answer all questions in complete sentences. Please post a small picture of the the word you are defining next to the written definition for those that apply.
Note you will be graded for this assignment. Include your name, date, and rotation.

Use the following format and all of the vast resources of the internet.

Font: Times New Roman
Front Size: 12pt
Spacing: Single Space

Your paper have the following format (align on left side):

1st line: Name
2nd line: Date
3rd line: 1st or 3rd Rotation
---Skip 2 lines---

                                                                                                                         
Title: (align in the center)                "Operating Systems" 
---Skip 3 lines---


1. Partition

2. Volume

3. Format

4. FAT

5. FAT 32

6. NTFS

7. MFT

8. Active partition

9. Primary partition

10. Logical Drive

11. Device Drivers

12. Field-Replaceable Units

13. IDE

14. ATA

15. Pin #1 Indicator Stripe

16. FDISK


Give a brief history & description of the following OS's:
(example: The Year it was developed, by who and a small picture of the GUI.)

17. UNIX
18. Linux
19. IBM OS/2
20. DOS

Research the following Microsoft OS:
21. MS-DOS
22. Microsoft Windows 3.1
23. Microsoft Windows 95
24. Microsoft Windows 98
25. Microsoft Windows NT
26. Microsoft Windows 2000
27. Microsoft Windows XP
28. Microsoft Windows Vista
29. Microsoft Windows 7
30. Microsoft Windows 10
30a. MICROSOFT WINDOWS 11

Research the following Apple Macintosh OS:

31. Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah)
32. Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma)
33. Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)
34. Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
35. Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
36. Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
37. Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
38. Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
39. OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
40. OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
41. OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)
42. OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
43. macOS 10.12 (Sierra)
44. macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)
45. macOS 10.14 (Mojave)
46. macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
47. macOS 11 (Big Sur)
48. macOS 12 (Monterey)

Research the following Linux OS:
49. Mint
50. Debian
51. Ubuntu
52. openSUSE
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