Part of the System software.

Operating System (OS)

Operating System is a set of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs.


Support for the operation of hardware and application software such as Windows XP, DOS, Linux, Mac OS X.

Example of Common features

- Process management

- Interrupts

- Memory management

- File system

- Device drivers

- Networking (TCP/IP, UDP)

- Security (Process/Memory protection)

- I/O