A-level Computing/AQA/Problem Solving, Programming, Operating Systems, Databases and Networking/Operating Systems/Resource management

Provision of a virtual machine Operating system classifications Being the most fundamental of all system programs, Operating Systems are trusted with the job of controlling and sorting through the hardware, and this includes all the main components of the computer. To ensure that there is little confusion, the OS programs managing the key resources are giving relatively simple names depending on the resource they manage: Key Resource OS Program Processors Processor Scheduling Storage Memory management I/O devices I/O management Data File management Remember: Data is stored information, but Storage holds the information.