Friday, August 9, 2013

Operating System

Operating System is a System Software or set of system programs which provides an environment to help the user to execute the programs. The Operating System is a resource manager which allocates and manages various resources like processors, main memory, input/output devices and information on secondary storage devices.

Functions of Operating System are as follows:

  1. Processor management
  2. Memory management
  3. Input and Output management
  4. File system management
  5. Establishment and enforcement of a priority system

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