• An operating system is a combined set of program that acts as an intermediate between user and computer hardware.
  • The primary goal of an operating system is to make the computer system easy to use efficiently.
  • The secondary goal is to manage the resource of a computer system.
  • Or we can say that an operating system is a program that acts as an interface between the user and the computer hardware and control and manages the overall resources of the computer system.



 POSITION OF OPERATING SYSTEM

  • The operating system is a very important component of the computer system.
  • Without the operating system, we have to write a long and complex command to perform every task. Which is very difficult to remember and it is very time taken process.

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