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Systems Software

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Systems Software

Device Drivers
- Graphics Card Driver
- Network Interface Card Driver
- Printer Driver
- USB Drivers
OS
- Different Types
  - Windows
  - Android
  - OSX and iOS
- Peripheral and Driver Management
  - Driver: Piece of software to control hardware
  - OS manages driver updates, installs and 'how to use' peripherals
- UI
  - Command Line: Text-based
  - GUI
    - W indows
    - I cons
    - M enus
    - P ointer
- Memory Management
  - OS allocates RAM between different programs, user does not need to know where this is
- Multitasking
  - CPUs cannot multitask, OS splits tasks us into small bits to simulate multitasking
- File Management
  - OS manages secondary storage and where files are saved, the user does not need to know where the files are, just how to get to them
Utility Programs
- Anti-Virus
- Disk Defragmentation
- Disk Copier / Formatter
- Data Compression

Description: Mind Map on Systems Software, created by Liam Brown on 16/09/2017.
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