GCSE Operating Systems Part 1

An allocated part of secondary storage that act as a temporary memory, when the RAM is full

Any internal or external device which sends or receives data from the CPU.

Data and programs that are not running on a CPU are stored in here. Example is a hard drive

memory in a computer that is used to store computer programs while they are running

Running multiple applications at the same time by giving each a small slice of processor time.

An abbreviation for Operating System

A software program that manages the components of a computer system and its resources.

RAM is abbreviation for

A group of files that are scattered throughout a hard drive platter instead of one location

A group of files that enable one or more hardware devices to communicate with the computers O/S