Asked by Mathew Jameson
Which of these is an example of the kind of abstraction performed by an operating system?
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encrypting a password
encrypting a password
using logic gates
using logic gates
converting analog to digital
converting analog to digital
reading and writing data to a disk
reading and writing data to a disk
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reading and writing data to a disk
The OS abstracts low-level hardware details (blocks, controllers, device protocols) and presents higher-level interfaces (files, read/write system calls) so programs don't need to manage the raw disk hardware.
The OS abstracts low-level hardware details (blocks, controllers, device protocols) and presents higher-level interfaces (files, read/write system calls) so programs don't need to manage the raw disk hardware.
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