Introduction and Definition of Important terms(Engr Risikat Part)

Question 1

What is an Operating System? 😉

Yah! OS

Answer 1

Operating System is a program that acts as an intermediary or an interface between a user and the computer hardware. It controls and coordinates the use of the hardware across various application for various users

Question 2

Application Software (Program)?

Answer 2

What is it about?😒 These are the programs on our system that defines how the system resources are used to solve different computing problem

Question 3

Kernel** (Isn’t that a new word?) 😞

Answer 3

To many Users of the computer an Operating is a kernel; it is that one program running at all times on the computer… in actual sense it is a part of the OS that contains the Process Manager, Memory Manager, File Manager, I/O Manager

Question 4

what is a Process?

Answer 4

ah ah this is as easy as soaking Garri😀. A process is simply a Program in execution

Question 5

Spooling?

Answer 5

HA HA it sounds like stooling 🤣🤣
IS stooling No Spooling an Acronym?
Yes stooling, NO! SPOOLING  is an acronym which is a past tense of SPOOL, How funny!. It stands for:
S- simultaneous
P- peripherals
O- operations
OL- online
\+ING

Question 6

What Is a Thread?

Answer 6

wetin carry thread enter computer again?

A thread is a basic unit of an execution which is within a process

Question 7

What is Scheduling

Answer 7

Scheduling is the activity of the process Manager that handles how processes are selected into the CPU or removed from the CPU base on a particular strategy

Question 8

Scheduling Queues

Answer 8

Na Everywhere and Everything dey do Queue for this life even process and device dey queue.
Scheduling queues refers to queues of processes or device.

Question 9

Schedulers

Answer 9

This Na the guy wey dey do the scheduling work.

Schedulers are special system software which handles process scheduling in various ways

Question 10

——————— is a combination of threads?

Answer 10

Process