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The Need for <strong>Operating</strong> <strong>Systems</strong><br />

Physical devices<br />

– integrated circuits (processor, registers,<br />

memory, disks, displays, keyboards,<br />

modems, …)<br />

Microprogramming<br />

– ‘register transfer’ instructions<br />

Machine Language<br />

– ADD, MOVE, JUMP, … instructions<br />

» ADD etc are assembly language instructions<br />

» Their binary equivalent is machine language<br />

Copyright © 2007 <strong>David</strong> <strong>Vernon</strong> (www.vernon.eu)

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