What is Operating System

 

Operating System:-

 • An interface between application and hardware.

• Application programs required an Operating System to function.

• The most important system software is the operating system as it makes hardware operate as per instructions and it makes a platform that helps in running of application software. But before you can run any application software on yoursystem, the operating system, which contains instructions that coordinate the activities among computer hardware devices, must be loaded from the hard disk into the computer's memory. This process of loading up of operating system in memory is called Booting Up.

Types of Operating System:-

 • Some used OS are :-

1. Batch Operating System

2. Time-Sharing Operating System

3. Distributed operating System

4. Network Operating System

Note:-

• Booting up - Loading the Operating System files into main memory is called booting up.

• process of booting is also called bootstrapping.

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