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The core of an operating system is referred to as the CPU - False One function of the kernel is managing use of the computer's RAM - True The first 32-bit operating system developed by Microsoft was Windows 3.1 - False Windows 95 used cooperative multitasking for 16-bit applications and preemptive multitasking for 32-bit applications - True The advanced firewall in Windows Vista monitors incoming communications only - False The address bus almost always runs faster than the external clock speed of the CPU - False The Intel Itanium processor is a CISC-based processor that uses a 32-bit architecture - False One of the tasks of a file system is to secure the information contained in a user's files - True The native file system in Linux is called ufs - False