Operating systems and processing notes

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An operating system (OS) is the most important piece of software on any computer. It manages your hardware, runs your applications, and provides the interface you interact with every day. Different…

Compilers, interpreters and processing techniques

Your CPU can only understand machine code, a series of binary instructions. Since humans write programs in high-level programming languages that are much easier to read. The code must be translated…

Virtual memory and virtualisation

When your computer does not have enough RAM to handle all running programs, it can borrow space from the hard drive to create virtual memory. Separately, entire computers can be simulated inside…

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