operating systems In
the computer operating system, code
OS or OS (the second of the synonym
English "operating system"), is a set of
subroutines and data structures
responsible for monitoring and management of hardware components
that constitute a computer
and
programs that run on it.
Usually an operating system provides the user interface software (graphic or text) to access the hardware resources (disks, memory, I / O in general) of the system. This access depends on systems that provide for multi-user
, the privileges of each user.
The main task of the operating system is to allow the user, human or not, to interact directly with the machine.