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(i) Single -user operating systems; is designed for use by only one person .it cannot support more than one user and runs only one user application program at a time.
(ii) Multi-user operating systems;allows more than one user to interactively use a computer .i.e server operating system such as windows 2003 server,unix,novell and windows NT/2000,linux etc
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