 | Operating system provides many services: | device drivers: interface to all the peripherals | filesystems (files, folders/directories) | disk controller only knows about tracks, cyls, blocks | OS maps disk geometry into files and folders | |
| startup and shutdown sequences | when power comes on, CPU reads “bootstrap” from ROM, then uses it to find the disk, then reads the rest of the OS from disk, then starts running it |
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