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Need for Operating System.

 An Operating System is needed because of the following jobs:- 1.            It acts as an interface between User and Computer Hardware. The Operating System assists in the execution of the user programs. The Operating System proves and environment  in which particular Software packages can execute. 2.            it process jobs submitted by user : A user solutions job to the Operating System. A job is the collection of activities several steps. Job steps...
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What is an Operating System ?

  What is Operating System ? Before explaining the concept of Operating System, we will discuss what is Software ?, because Operating System itself is a software. What is Software ? Software is a set of instructions designed to perform a particular task there are two types of Software’s. 1. System Software 2. Application Software The Operating System comes in the category of System Software. As it’s name implies system software...
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