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What is the purpose of an operating system?
To provide an environment for executing programs
Which component of a computer system manages the hardware and software resources?
Operating system
What are the basic tasks performed by an operating system?
Controlling and allocating memory
Which program defines the ways in which computing resources are used to solve user's problems?
Applications programs
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The hardware, the central processing unit (CPU), the memory, and the input / output (I/O) devices - provides the basic computing resources.
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