what is the functionality of kernel in unix architecture?
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Answer / nitesh yadav
Kernel is a Heart Of the Unix OS They Are Including drivers for computer Hardware devices, like Graphocs cards network cards disks.
A device driver is a program that allows Computer program to interact with hardware devices
CPU And Memory Management.
Unix Operated.
Understanding file systems in UNIX has to do with knowing how files and inodes are stored on a system.
What happens is that a disk or portion of a disk is set aside to store files and the inode entries.
The entire functional unit is referred to as a file system.
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Answer / abhinav srivastava
At the outer most layer we have all the tools and the
applications which speak our language. These commands go to
shell which acts as a command interpreter and converts the
command to a machine level language. Then it goes to the
kernel which actually interacts with the HARDWARE in
machine language.
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Answer / manoj kumar
kernel runs on actual machine hardware ann manages all
interaction with the hardware.
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