OS Features
Learn the features and tasks of the OS.
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OS tasks
The OS manages hardware and software resources. Also, it organizes the joint work of running programs. The OS performs several non-trivial tasks to launch an application. Then, the OS tracks its work. If the application violates some agreements, like memory usage, the OS terminates it. It also launches and executes programs, which we will later consider in detail.