An operating system (OS) is a system software manager. It acts as both a resource allocator and a control program. Without an OS, every software application would need to contain its own drivers and code to interact directly with the computer's physical hardware.

: Focuses on its graphical user interface, backward compatibility, and dynamic link libraries (DLLs).

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