Briefly discuss operating system firmware and utility progra

Briefly discuss operating system, firmware, and utility programs.

Solution

Operating system :An operating system is a software which performs all the basic operations of a user such as file management, process management ,memory management, handling input and output.

File management:

The operating system performs the following basic tasks in file management.

Process management:

The operating system performs the following basic tasks in file management.

Memory management:

The operating system performs the following basic tasks in file management.

Handling input and output:

Using drivers the o/s can manage input and o/p devices.

Firmware: Firmware is a software of hard ware i.e it is s/w program or set of instructions programmed on a hardware device. It provides the necessary instructions for how the device communicates with the other computer hardware.

Utility programs: utility program is a program perform the basic functions of a computer like playing multimedia files, viewing images finding files and backing up data. Generally this programs are installed by the user ,it can be uninstalled as per user requirements.