Operating Systems Through the Ages

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

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

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

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