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What is the difference between operating systems and application software?

April 26, 2017application Computer Computers difference Operating Systems Software

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What is the difference between operating systems and application software?

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The operating system acts as a host for all other software on the computer system and offers hardware services to them by acting as a virtual machine and hides the complexity of the hardware. It is the software what operates all the hardware functions and software on the computer system. That is the reason it is called “operating system”. Other usuall names for the operating system was a “master program”, “supervisor”, “kernel”, “controller”, “core” or “nucleus”. (4)the User (3)Application Programs (2)System Software (1)Operating System (0)Hardware The operating system (level 1) allows other software work on the computer (level 0). Other software are system programs (level 2), system libraries (level 2), and application programs with their own software libraries (level 3). System programs are such what offers user interface to the operating system or for the other application programs so the user (level 4) can use the computer. System libraries are shared libraries what gets used by sy