Monday, March 12, 2007

Topic 2 : System Software

Three purposes of Operating system:

1) Controls the transfer of data from secondary storage (example pendrive) to memory and back again, and to managed the directory of disk so that files can be located easily.

2)responsible for allocating processing time, memory and input and output resources, and also schedules the jobs in order to prevent interruptions.

3)Act as a communicator between the user and the computer. The user gives instructions to the computer and the Operating system responds to them.

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