What - Why - Web? - What is a computer?

'Operating system' and 'program'

Roughly corresponding to 'basic training' resp. 'specialist training':

Operating system - decides how everything looks on the screen, how you access archives, how smoothly everything functions

examples are
Apple MacOS 7.5
Apple MacOS8;
Microsoft Windows 3.11,
Microsoft Windows 95
Linux
BeOS

Program - decides which functions you can use in a document

examples are

Netscape Navigator

(reads html documents)

Claris Home Page

(creates web-documents)

Macromedia Director

(creates multimedia presentations)

Adobe Acrobat

(creates and reads universal documents)

Adobe Photoshop

(creates and edits graphics)

'Hard disc' and 'diskette'? 'Mac' and 'Windows', 'PC' and 'CD'?

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Operating system - decides how everything looks on the screen, how you access archives, how smoothly everything functions	examples are Apple MacOS 7.5 Apple MacOS8; Microsoft Windows 3.11, Microsoft Windows 95 Linux BeOS
Program - decides which functions you can use in a document	examples are Netscape Navigator (reads html documents) Claris Home Page (creates web-documents) Macromedia Director (creates multimedia presentations) Adobe Acrobat (creates and reads universal documents) Adobe Photoshop (creates and edits graphics)