Essay 5
Operating system I’m going to explain the basics off an operating system. This is an interface between a computer user and hardware. It is very important as it works as a middleman making sure both hardware and software correctly.Operating systems provide a software platform on top of which other programs called application programs, can run. The application programs must be written to run on top of a particular operating system. Your choice of operating system, therefore, determines to a great extent the applications you can run. For PCs, the most popular operating systems are DOS, OS/2 and Windows, but others are availbale, such as Linux. First, The basic unit of software that the operating system deals with in scheduling the work done by the processor is either a process or a thread , depending on the operating system.It is processes rather than applications, that the operating system contro