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- provide one example of how hardware and system software interact. (2 poi
- provide one example of how application software and system software intera
(2 points)
- describe an abstraction in computing that involves an operating system. (4
points)
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When you press a key on a keyboard (hardware), the operating system (system software) detects the input and processes it to display the corresponding character on the screen.
When a word processor (application software) needs to save a file, it requests the operating system (system software) to write the data to the hard drive.
An operating system provides file system abstraction, which lets users and applications interact with files using names and directories instead of directly managing the physical storage hardware's sectors and blocks.