Q1Operating Systems (Departmental Elective)
Question
2 marks
Define Operating System and its role.
Answer
An Operating System is the master control program that mathematically allocates physical hardware resources and provides a secure abstraction layer for user applications.
An Operating System (OS) is the absolute core system software architecture. Its dual role is to aggressively manage and mathematically allocate physical hardware resources (CPU, RAM, Disks) while providing a highly secure, simplified API abstraction layer for user applications to execute without directly touching bare metal.