IoT devices like smart TVs run their own operating systems, as demonstrated by Amazon Fire OS running on a TV alongside Windows and Raspberry Pi OS on connected computers.
Operating Systems Examples
Another example of operating systems are things that we install on the internet of things. For instance, these TVs back here have their own operating system on it. It's called Fire OS.
So what does this look like? Here we have this TV here, and what I'm going to do, I've got the remote right here, I'm going to click on the home button and that's going to bring us back to the main menu here. I'm going to scroll over to the gear right here, which is all of the settings of this machine, and go down to device and software. I just want to see what version of OS this has on it, so I'm going to look at some details about this device. What we see here is that this says it's Fire OS 7.6.1. So that's the operating system that's running on this device right here. Actually, both of my TVs are running the same operating system.
One thing that's a little interesting is that both of these TVs are running Fire OS, however they're connected to two different machines that are running two different operating systems. So this one on this side is displaying my computer, and my computer that I have right here, it's just another display of that, and this one is running Windows. Versus the one I have over here is displaying something from a Pi; I have a Raspberry Pi connected to it, and that's running Raspberry Pi OS.
So essentially what you're seeing here is an example of three different operating systems. We've got the one that's running the hardware, the TVs as hardware, but then also they're acting as monitors for two separate computers.
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