I am tech savvy so you don’t have to disregard the details much about it. I know programming.

  • bouh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In brief, it manages the computer hardware resources. So there is the stuff to talk to the hardware and manage access to it, and the scheduler to decide which program can use the processor when.

    In other words, it’s a middleware for applications to talk to the hardware.