Operating system

Operating System (OS) - a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources
and provide common services for application software.
Role of operating system
• 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:
• Hiding the complexities of hardware from the user.
• Managing between the hardware's resources which include the
processors, memory, data storage and I/O devices.
• Handling "interrupts" generated by the I/O controllers.
• Sharing of I/O between many programs using the CPU.
User interface
• The User Interface is the interaction between the User and the
Machine, letting the user send commands with the expected results.
Two forms of the Interface User are the Command Line Interface and
the Graphical User interface.
• Command Line Interface (CLI)[edit]
• Graphical User Interface (GUI)
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Command line interface

• The more primitive User Interface, the user would type in a line of
command or a single word followed by pressing the Return key.
• The computer then willingly follows that exact command, informing
the user of its progress. For example, the user may want to type in
the command to print a document. The user will type the
statement Print, then the name of the Printer and finally the name
of the file to be printed:
• CLIs can run on simple hardware with limited resources.
• Some commands may be simpler to perform in a CLI than in a GUI.
Graphical user interface
• The GUI is made up of boxes or Windows which will display as an array of
usually colourful tiny blocks called Pixels, and a group of pixels is a called an
image.
• The maximum number of colours that can be used are called the Graphics. This
User interface will display a Main window (also known as the Desktop) which
then can be accompanied by more windows.
• GUI is the most common of the User interfaces, and the most user friendly,
made up of event driven software. 
•  This type of UI is best for users lacking in computer coding skills, since GUI
only needs you to make use of the mouse's events. There are still some people
who prefer the use of a Command Line Interface to a Graphical User Interface.