DIFFERENT BETWEEN NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM AND DISTRIBUTED OPERATING SYSTEM

NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM

  • A network operating system is a collection of software and associated protocols that allow a set of computer networks to be used together.
  • In a network operating system environment users are aware of the multiplicity of machines.
  • Performance is affected if a certain part of the hardware is malfunctioning.
  • Users access remote resources by either work into the specified remote machine or transferring information from the remote machine or transferring information from the remote machine to their own machines.
  • The user can access a remote computer system only if the address of those computer systems is known to the user.
  • In a network operating system control over file, placement is done manually by the user.

DISTRIBUTED OPERATING SYSTEM

  • A distributed OS seems like a standard centralized software package however runs on multiple freelance CPUs.
  • In a distributed operating system environment users are not aware of the multiplicity of machines.
  • It is more reliable or fault-tolerant i.e. distributed OS performs although an exact a part of the hardware is amiss.
  • In a distributed operating system users access remote resources in the same manner as they do local resources.
  • Here the user need not know the address of computer networks networked together. The operating system itself takes care of the location of the computer from which the data has to be fetched.
  • In a distributed OS it will be done mechanically by the system itself.