Four Ways in Which an Operating System Controls the Hardware of a Computer. Everything you do on your computer is the direct result of hardware and software working together.

With desktop market share still ranging from miniscule to small, relatively speaking, there’s an enormous interest in Microsoft alternatives such as Linux and Mac OS X. Most of us have been ...

All applications on your computer communicate via function calls passed through the operating system’s API (Application Programming Interface). A user-mode driver hooks the Import Address Table (a ...