What is Operating System?
Hardware is nothing but finely designed machinery. A machine is ultimately a machine only,which is always made to work. In case of computers, it is either us if we do that or some other which does it for us. This some other is nothing but our very own operating system. Operating system is just like our secretary. As the boss gives orders to his secretary and the secretary does all work for his boss. The secretary himself decides: How to do? what to do ?;etc Same way we pass our orders/requests to operating system and operating system does it for us. Operating system itself decides: How to do?; What to do?; When to do ? The primary goal of an operating system is thus to make the computer system convenient to use and secondary goal is to use computer hardware in an efficient manner. An operating system is an important component of a system which controls all other components of a computer of a computer system are. 1. The Hardware 2. The Operating System
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