Operating System Software

Operating System Computer

User
Software Hardware

The two primary objective of Operating System Software:

1. Making a computer system convenient to use

2. Managing the resource of the computer system

 Definition of Operating System
 An operating system is a collection of programs that controls the
overall operation of the computer system and create an interface
between user and computer hardware.

 Ex. Window’s , Linux, Unix, MAC

Facilities provided by an operating system

1. Easy interaction between human being and computer
2. Starting computer operation automatically when power is turned
ON.
3. Controlling Input and Output device.
4. Managing use of Main Memory.
Function or Services of Operating System
 An operating system can provide variety of services.

1. Input / Output Management

2. Data Management

3. File Management

4. Memory Management

5. Process Management

6. Security Managements

7. Command Interpreter
 Input / Output Management

Input and output is very essential to operation of any computer. OS

allow computer to interact with Input and output device such as
keyboard ,mouse ,monitor etc.
 Data Management

Operating system is responsible to manage the data into files. Different

type of data are stored in different files.
 File and Folder Management

Through this function Operating system stores files in different storage

device and keep the all information of files like file name , location ,size
and opening and closing and editing date and time.
 Memory Management

Various process are executed in computer system and they required

memory to execute so Operating System is responsible to provide
required memory to each process and manage them .
 Process Management

There are various processes are execute in a computer system.

Operating system is responsible to manage them. It deleted the
complete process and create a new process when required.
 Security Management

It main function is to make sure that only authorized users get access
to the computer and its data, and the user only do things they are
authorized to do.