The purpose of an operating system

An operating system is the framework that allows you to communicate with computer hardware in an interactive way. Without this, you would not be able to tell the computer to do anything and it would have any instructions to follow. This is why it is important for a computer to have an operating system .In early days without OS so much problems where faced like accessing or getting output it takes two days. To make it much more efficient OS is used.

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