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Operating system
An operating system is software program that helps the computer hardware to co-ordinate and operate with the software in your computer. An operating system is mandatory for a computer. Some of the different types of operating systems are the GUI or Graphical User Interface that contains icons and graphics, multi-user where one computer can be operated by multiple users, multiprocessing which uses and supports more than one computer processor, multitasking that allows multiple programs to run at the same time and multi-threading that allows running of the different parts of a software program at the same time.
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