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DIA [1.3K]
2 years ago
5

Explain how the operating system controls the software and hardware on the computer?

Computers and Technology
1 answer:
NemiM [27]2 years ago
8 0

<em>One of the features of Operating System is </em><em>it manages and communicates with your system hardware </em><em>by means of Drivers. </em>

<em>Drivers </em><em>are special software within the OS that interacts to the hardware. Drivers uses kernel, a part of the operating system that functions intended to it. For example, when you press Ctrl and P keys on the keyboard, the kernel would recognize this command and would trigger the corresponding hardware in relation to this command. In this case, the corresponding hardware is printer. The kernel would tell the printer to print the document.</em>

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