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Chapter 14The User View of Operating Systems
The Architecture of Computer Hardware and Systems Software:
An Information Technology Approach
3rd Edition, Irv Englander
John Wiley and Sons 2003
Wilson Wong, Bentley College
Linda Senne, Bentley College
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User Interface
Help the user use the computer system productively
Provide consistent user interface services to application programs to lower learning curves and increase productivity
Choice of user interface depends on the kind of user Writing programs vs. running applications
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User Functions Program execution File commands Mount and unmount devices Printer spooling Security Inter-user communication System Status Program Services
DCOM, CORBA, Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
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Interface Design
CLI - Command Line Interface Batch System Commands Menu-Driven Interfaces GUI - Graphical User Interface
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Command Line Interface
command <operand1> <operand2> …
<switch1> <switch2> … Operands
keyword (switches) and/or positional
Advantages More flexible and powerful Faster for experienced users Can combine commands
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Command Line Interfaces
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Command Languages Provide a mechanism to combine sequences of
commands together. These pseudo-programs are known as scripts or batch files.
Startup files – OS configuration, user preferences Features of Command Languages
Can accept input from the user and can output messages to I/O devices
Provide ability to create and manipulate variables Include the ability to branch and loop Ability to specify arguments to the program command and to
transfer those arguments to variables within the program Provide error detection and recovery
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DOS Batch File
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UNIX Shell Script
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Menu-Driven Interface
No need to memorize commands All available commands are listed Menus can be nested Low data requirements Still used in many ATM and Point-of-
Sale systems
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Menu Driven Interface
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Windows Interfaces
Also known as Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
Mouse-driven and icon-based Windows
Are allocated to the use of a particular program or process
Contain a title bar, menu bar, and widgets
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GUI Interface – Windows XP
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GUI Interface – Linux KDE
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GUI Interface - MacIntosh
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GUI vs. CLIGUI Advantages
Easy to learn and use Little training Amenable to multi-tasking
Disadvantages Harder to implement More HW/SW requirements Requires lots of memory SW is complex and difficult
to write
CLI Advantages
More flexible and powerful Faster for experienced
users Can combine commands
Disadvantages More difficult to learn and
use
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X-Windows
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Duocentric Interface
Focus on the document rather than the application being executed
Expand role of OS by moving capabilities from the application to system services Example: click on document to run
program Effort to assure that every application
program responds in similar ways to user actions.
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