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copying/moving them and renaming/deleting les. Underlay

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3. MEMORY MANAGEMENT –
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Memory management refers to the management of primary or
main memory. Main memory provides fast storage which can
be accessed directly by CPU.

When the program is executed and nished, the memory area

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memory is arranged such that fastest registers come 1st
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4. PROCESS MANAGEMENT –
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responsible for making multiple tasks to run at the same time the
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chooses job and its processor allocates processor to process

and de-allocates process when it’s executed. NEXT »

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Provides Facility to increase the Logical Memory of the

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Provides Recovery of the System when the System gets
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Operating System breaks the large program into the LAN Technologies Layer 1
Smaller Programs those are also called as the threads.
Load balancing
And execute those threads one by one
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6. STORAGE MANAGEMENT –
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1. DEVICE MANAGEMENT –
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2. FILE MANAGEMENT –
The operating system allocates and de-allocates resources. It Enable/Disable Interface
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