An operating System (OS) is a basic software whose role is to be an abstract layer between software requisitions for resources and the hardware available, manage input/output, memory allocation/deallocation, file systems, among other basic tasks a device (not necessarily a computer) should do.
Can someone explain what's the different between Word and Byte addressable? How is it related to memory size etc.?
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