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What is the core of the operating system?
What is the core of the operating system?
- The software that controls the hardware
- The set of programs that controls a 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)
- The introduction of punch cards
What is the main function of the operating system's kernel?
What is the main function of the operating system's kernel?
- Controls the computer hardware
- Creates and terminates processes and responds to their request for service (correct)
- Manages resources and provides a pleasant user interface
- Hides details of hardware by creating abstraction
What is the primary role of an operating system?
What is the primary role of an operating system?
- To create and terminate processes and respond to their request for service
- To hide details of hardware by creating abstraction
- To allocate resources to processes and manage resources (correct)
- To control the computer hardware
What is the 1960's definition of an Operating System?
What is the 1960's definition of an Operating System?
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Which of the following are examples of operating systems?
Which of the following are examples of operating systems?
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