NOS 110 chpt. 1,5,6 Midterm Study Guide | 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest 2024 Version

A/an _______________ controls the interaction between a program and a computer's hardware, freeing application programmers from the task of including such function in their programs. - operating system The _______________ is the main component of an OS that always remains in memory while the computer is running, managing low-level OS tasks. - kernal The desktop operating system described in this chapter all have an optional character mode _______________. - command line interface (CLI) An operating system that uses _______________ will allow you to simultaneously run more programs than the physical memory of the computer will hold. - virtual memory When you run several applications at once and switch between them, you are experiencing the _______________ feature of a operating system. - task management Interaction with a computer involving getting data and commands into it and results out of it is called _______________. - input/output (I/O)