Batch Operating System
This type of operating system do not interact with the computer directly. There is an operator which takes similar jobs having same requirement and group them into batches. It is the responsibility of operator to sort the jobs with similar needs.

Advantages of Batch Operating System:

It is very difficult to guess or know the time required by any job to complete. Processors of the batch systems knows how long the job would be when it is in queue

§  Multiple users can share the batch systems

§  The idle time batch system is very less

§  It is easy to manage large work repeatedly in batch systems

Disadvantages of Batch Operating System:

§  The computer operators should be well known with batch systems

§  Batch systems are hard to debug

§  It is sometime costly

§  The other jobs will have to wait for an unknown time if any job fails

Examples of Batch based Operating System: Payroll System, Bank Statements etc.