Operating Systems Through the Ages

The user interface that provides a pleasant and effective interaction with the computer

The set of programs that controls a computer

The hardware components of the computer

The kernel, a control program that functions in privileged state reacting to interrupts from external devices and to service requests and traps from processes (correct)

Providing a pleasant and effective user interface

Creating and terminating processes and responding to their request for service (correct)

Managing resources and allocating them to processes

Hiding details of hardware by creating abstraction

To provide a pleasant and effective user interface

To allocate resources to processes and manage them (correct)

To hide details of hardware by creating abstraction

To control the hardware directly

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