2/12/2005

How an Operating System Works

"The purpose of an operating system is to organize and control hardware and software so that the device it lives in behaves in a flexible but predictable way."

This article from Howstuffworks explains "what a piece of software must do to be called an operating system, show you how the operating system in your desktop computer works and give you some examples of how to take control of the other operating systems around you."