What are five tasks that can be managed by an operating system

Question

This chapter is about an operating system

Answer 1

The operating system acts as an interface between the hardware and the programs requesting I/O. It is the most fundamental of all system software programs.

Responsibilities of the OS include:

1.Hiding the complexities of hardware from the user.
2.Managing between the hardware's resources which include the processors, memory, data storage and I/O devices.
3.Handling "interrupts" generated by the I/O controllers.
4.Sharing of I/O between many programs using the CPU.

5. Providing security and distributing messages between hardware and programs.