What is Operating System?

[KapilAsdhir]

What is Operating System?

[KapilAsdhir]

Operating System works as an interpreter between computer hardware and application. Operating System works as a user interface.

[abelgrren]

An operating system is software of programs, data, and runs on computers, give common services various application software. There are common function on operating systems like user, operating systems, application and hardware.

[Jame Smeth]

The Operating System can run the software determines whether the application program to manipulate the system and other programs, called on the platform to run application programs written in your choice of appealing to a large extent, specific can be provided to run on operating systems, computer systems are the most popular DOS, OS / 2 Windows OS and the other Linux as is available.

[nobita_deptrai]

An operating system ( OS ) is software , consisting of programs and data , that runs on computers , manages computer hardware resources, and provides common services for execution of various application software . Operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system. Without an operating system, a user cannot run an application program on their computer, unless the application program is self booting.
For hardware functions such as input and output and memory allocation , the operating system acts as an intermediary between application programs and the computer hardware, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] although the application code is usually executed directly by the hardware and will frequently call the OS or be interrupted by it. Operating systems are found on almost any device that contains a computer—from cellular phones and video game consoles to supercomputers and web servers .
Examples of popular modern operating systems are: BSD , Linux , Mac OS X , Microsoft Windows and UNIX . [ 3