Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture
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Chapter 8, Problem 18RETC
Program Plan Intro
A program that is initially loaded into the computer memory and manages all the other programs and resources of a computer is called Operating system.
- The operating system manages the applications and the hardware, such as disk drive, memory, and peripheral devices.
- The users interact with the operating system by using the command language or shell, and the graphical user interface.
- An application makes the service request by the application
programming interface to use the operating system. - Operating system performs different type of services
- Determining the running application and its order
- Time allotment to each application
Virtual Machine:
An application in the host computer’s operating system (Mac), which enables the users to combine their operating system (Windows) to share the hardware environment of the host OS to run windows based software is called as Virtual Machine.
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