Software Flashcards
Virtualization
Refers to the act of creating a virtual version of something
Driver
set of instructions that tells the operating system how to communicate with a specific piece of hardware
Stand alone operating system
A complete operating system that works directly on the computer to make sure that the tasks of the operating system are complete
Network operating system
An operating system that is designed to help others computer on a network
Embedded operating system
An object software or hardware that is independent and does not need an external program or device to run it
Interpreter
Works number line to see an error
Compiler
Runs through the whole program and doesn’t work if error 
Multitasking
The ability of the OA is to quickly switch between many computing toasts to give the impression or the different applications are executing simultaneously
Multithreading
Operations within a single application of divided into threads
Each of the threads can run parallel
