OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR COMPUTERS
COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS
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Question
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The OS provides a platform that enables what to be run?
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Applications
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Hardware
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Cache
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Processes
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -An operating system (OS) manages all other applications and programs in a computer, and it is loaded into the computer by a boot program. It enables applications to interact with a computer’s hardware.
Detailed explanation-2: -When you double-click the program, the operating system “launches” the program, doing the housekeeping steps of allocating an area of memory within RAM for the program, loading the first section of the program’s machine code into that memory, and finally directing the CPU to start running that code.
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