Thursday, September 4, 2008

What is computer's operating system?

1. Like a government to provide services for users (i.e. users' applications)
2. Like police to control traffic (e.g. I/O device controllers)
3. Like a facilitator between hardware machine code and application software
4. Provide networking stack for communications
5. Manage physical and virtual memory
6. Manage users
7. Schedule CPU(s) times for processes

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