partition drives, format drives, assign drive letters. Disk management: Used to manage the drives installed in a computer e.g.In order to make these functions easy to understand, they are grouped into the following categories: The operating system has different functions and tasks it carries out on a computing device.
AN OPERATING SYSTEMĪn operating system is software that manages hardware, software and other applications on a computing device. The system software comprises the operating system, utility programmes, and device drivers. SYSTEM SOFTWAREĪ system software is a specific type of software that manages a computing device. In this unit, we will learn more about system software and its other components, namely, operating systems, utility programmes, and device drivers. In Chapter 1 you learnt that software refers to the lines of code and computer instructions that tell the hardware of a computing device what to do. Figure 4.1: An example of what the MS-DOS command line interface, one of the first operating systems, looked like UNIT 4.1 System software concepts You will learn about an ‘operating system’, the different functions that are carried out by an operating system, and how they help the user in operating a computing device. In this chapter, you will learn about system software and the different operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS and Android. describe the role of utility programs and device drivers.identify the different types of operating systems.At the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
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