In a few words, the operating system takes care of making the hardware available to the application software in an orderly manner. It manages the file system, the memory, the network and the various peripherals, coordinates the execution of the different application programs running in multitasking, guarantees that each of them can access the needed resources by suitably resolving conflicts, and performs numerous other tasks that it would be lengthy and inessential to list in this paper.

Chapter Contents:

• 1.1 Bíoι παpάλληλoι (two parallel stories)
• 1.2 Control-based design as a means for convergence

Inspec keywords: operating systems (computers); storage management

Other keywords: application software; operating system; file system management; network management; multitasking; peripheral management; memory management

Subjects: File organisation; Operating systems