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Describe The Two General Roles of An Operating System, and Elaborate Why These Roles Are Important

The two general roles of an operating system are to provide an abstraction layer between hardware and software to reduce the burden on developers and allow applications to access common resources regardless of hardware, and to manage computer resources like the CPU, memory, and peripherals to ensure fair and efficient usage. An operating system handles resource allocation, provides a user interface, executes applications, and acts as an intermediary between the user and hardware.

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Describe The Two General Roles of An Operating System, and Elaborate Why These Roles Are Important

The two general roles of an operating system are to provide an abstraction layer between hardware and software to reduce the burden on developers and allow applications to access common resources regardless of hardware, and to manage computer resources like the CPU, memory, and peripherals to ensure fair and efficient usage. An operating system handles resource allocation, provides a user interface, executes applications, and acts as an intermediary between the user and hardware.

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Describe the two general roles of an operating system, and elaborate why these roles are
important.

An operating system is a group of system software that is responsible for controlling a computer’s
hardware and software, providing a user interface with which to interact and manage the computer’s
resources. Due to this, the operating system has a large number of different functions and jobs.

The general roles of an operating system include providing a fairly standardized abstraction between
hardware and userspace software and resource management and allocation. An operating system
provides an ABSTRACTION layer for software to run on a machine without needing to know hardware-
specific implementation details. It is important in order to reduce the burden on application software
developers, extend the basic hardware with added functionality and provided a common base for all
applications. It allows userspace software to be written with little concern for the hardware it is running
on, and having access to a bunch of useful things like memory, files, screens, i/o, and others. An
operating system also provides RESOURCE MANAGEMENT to the machine’s users, by ensuring progress,
fairness and efficient usage of computing resources. 

An operating system also manages the computer's resources, such as the central processing unit,
memory, disk drives, and printers, establishes a user interface, and executes and provides services for
applications software.

The following are also some of the roles of an operating system:


1. Resource Manager (Memory management, File system management , Input Output Management,
Management of peripheral devices, Processor management)
2. Provides user with graphical user interface(GUI)
3. Manages the Computer hardware
4. Provides basis for application program and acts as an intermediary between the computer user and
the computer hardware.
5. Provides security and protection
6. Provides and activates various utility services like editors, translators, compilers and other
applications.

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