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Operating Systems Jesus David Perez Delgado

The document discusses how an applications software package does not communicate directly with hardware and instead uses an operating system, with the operating system controlling programs loaded into memory either as resident or non-resident programs and managing computer resources and providing user interfaces and services for applications software.

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Operating Systems Jesus David Perez Delgado

The document discusses how an applications software package does not communicate directly with hardware and instead uses an operating system, with the operating system controlling programs loaded into memory either as resident or non-resident programs and managing computer resources and providing user interfaces and services for applications software.

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1. An applications software package does not communicate directly with the hardware.

2. Because the supervisor program controls the entire operating system and loads into
memory other operating system programs (called non-resident) form disk storage only as
needed
3. The resident program remains in memory and is thus referred to as resident however the
non-resident program is loaded into memory form disk storage only as needed.
4. The main functions of an operating system are:
a. Manage the computer´s resources, such as the central processing unit, memory, disk
drives and printers
b. Establish a user interface
c. Execute and provide services for applications software

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