The Operating System

Operating system is the software that supports a computer's basic functions, such as scheduling tasks, executing applications, and controlling peripherals. What is the role of an operating system to our computer unit? How important to have a operating system to our computer unit? Feel free to share your knowledge and to ask questions.

An operating system is the most important software that runs on a computer. It manages the computer's memory and processes, as well as all of its software and hardware. It also allows you to communicate with the computer without knowing how to speak the computer's language

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More specifically, an operating system allows a computer's hardware components, including processors and drives, to communicate with its software components, such as applications and data instruction sets. In modern personal computers, workstations and other computing devices, operating systems are essential components, which computers cannot function without.

The operating system is the most important program that runs on a computer. The operating system has important roles in a computer unit. In every general purposes, operating system will need to run other programs and applications. Operating systems perform basic tasks, such as recognizing input from the keyboard, sending output to the display screen, keeping track of files and directories on the storage drives, and controlling peripheral devices, such as printers.

When there is no operating system you can not use the computer unit properly. Because the computer unit needs the operating system to adjust, improve and to run the programs and applications that will lead to a good outcome for a person to move according to his / her desired.

For you, what is the relationship between operating systems and computer hardware?

Operating system will helps to make the computer hardware available to the applications and programs. Without Operating System we cannot access computer hardware. That`s all.

Explain the main purpose of an operating system.

Operating systems exist for two main purposes. One is that it is designed to make sure a computer system performs well by managing its computational activities. Another is that it provides an environment for the development and execution of programs.

What are the functions of operating system?

The operating system controls and coordinates the use of hardware among the different processes and applications. It provides the various functionalities to the users. The following are the main job of operating system.

- Resource utilization
- Resource allocation
- Process management
- Memory management
- File management
- I/O management
- Device management

An easy question. What is an operating system?

An operating system is a collection of software programs which control the allocation and usage of various hardware resources in the system. It is the first program to be loaded in the computer and it runs in the memory till the system is shut down.

What is the role of an operating system to our computer unit?

I think that the role of an operating system is like a main character in a story. Without the main character, the story will be a nonsense one. It is the same with the operating system without it, the computer will not be able to function well.

How important to have a operating system to our computer unit?

It is very important because just like what Ma'am Monday said is that an operating system is the software that supports a computer's basic functions, such as scheduling tasks, executing applications, and controlling peripherals. Without this, the computer unit will not be able to operate well.

The operating system (OS) is the most important program that runs on a computer. Every general-purpose computer must have an operating system to run other programs and applications. Computer operating systems perform basic tasks, such as recognizing input from the keyboard, sending output to the display screen, keeping track of files and directories on the storage drives, and controlling peripheral devices, such as printers.

An operating system has three main functions: (1) manage the computer's resources, such as the central processing unit, memory, disk drives, and printers, (2) establish a user interface, and (3) execute and provide services for applications software.

Operating systems have been developed over the past 40 years for the two main purposes.
1) OS attempt to schedule computational activities to ensure the good performance of the computing system

Give examples of operating systems.

Examples of operating systems
Some examples include versions of Microsoft Windows (like Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP), Apple's macOS (formerly OS X), iOS, Chrome OS, BlackBerry Tablet OS, and flavors of the open source operating system Linux.

This forum helps me to understand the definition, uses etc. of operating system.

What is the relationship between operating systems and computer hardware?

Operating system helps to make computer hardware available to the application programs. Without Operating System we cannot access computer hardware.

"What is the role of an operating system to our computer unit?"
Operating system, operates our computer so that it will function.

The most important program in the operating system, the program that manages the operating system, is the supervisor program, most of which remains in memory and is thus referred to as resident. The supervisor controls the entire operating system and loads into memory other operating system programs (called nonresident) from disk storage only as needed.