Operating Systems

An operating system is a piece of software that does two main things. Firstly it controls the hardware inside your computer, and it provides a way for the user to interact with the computer. This can be done either through a command-line interface, where you type in commands to make the computer work. It can also be done using a Graphical User Interface or GUI (pronounced gooey) which means that you use a computer mouse (or, more commonly nowadays, a touch-screen) to point and click on menus, icons and pointers to make your computer work.

Over the years Packard Bell computers have been bundled with various operating systems, usually from Microsoft.

MS-DOS

• MS-DOS 4.0
• MS-DOS 5.0
• MS-DOS 6.x

Microsoft Windows

• Microsoft Windows 3.0
• Microsoft Windows 3.1x

• Microsoft Windows 95
• Microsoft Windows 98