Survey of Operating Systems, 5e
Survey of Operating Systems, 5e
5th Edition
ISBN: 9781259618635
Author: Jane Holcombe, Charles Holcombe
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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The main component of an operating system that always remains in memory when the computer is running and managing low-level OS tasks is “Kernel”.

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