EECS 1520 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 - Operating Systems

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: Roger Lew

Document Summary

System software that manages computer resources and provides an: a computer generally has one operating system that becomes active and takes control when the system is turned on, computer hardware loads a small set of system instructions that is stored in permanent memory (rom, these instructions load a larger portion of system software from secondary memory, usually a magnetic disk, eventually all key elements of the operating system software are loaded, start up programs are executed, the user interface activated and the system is ready for use (this activity is often called booting the computer, a computer could have 2 or more operating systems, this configuration is often called a dual boot or multi boot system, however, only one operating system controls the computer at any given time, examples of operating systems are: the various versions of microsoft windows, mac os,