Operating systems

Operating systems

1. Memory management:

   • In charge of the RAM
   • The memory manger checks that all requests from programs for memory space are valid and allocates
   • It will deallocate space and swap out data to the swap file

2. Process management

   • Priorities the task and allocates time to each process

3. File management

   • controls all of the files on the system
   • Controls file permissions
   • Helps organise and control files

4. Peripheral Management

   • Manges all input and out put by managing requests from programs to use devices
   • Communicates with devices though software called drivers