What is an Opearting System ? An operating system is an integrated set of specialised programs that are used to manage overall resources of and operations of the computer it is specialised software that controls and monitors the execution of all other programs that reside in the computer, including application programs and other system software. A simple way of defining the operating system can be An operating system is a program that acts as an interface between the user and the computer hardware and controls and manages the overall resources of Computer system. A computer system has many resources (hardware and software) that may be required to solve a problem According to this definition, the two primary objectives or goals of an operating system are: 1. Making a computer system convenient to use in an efficient manner The operating systems hides the details of the hardware resources from the users and provides the users with a convenient interface for using the computer system. It ...