2006-10-07 07:39:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
kernel, as the name suggests is the core part of a computer's operating system. It handles system calls, act as an interface between hardware and software, manages memory and processes. It's a software. Hope this helps :).
2006-10-07 07:46:35 · answer #1 · answered by fsm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In computing, the kernel is the central part in most computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components. As a basic component of an operating system, a kernel provides abstraction layers for hardware, especially for memory, processors and I/O that allows hardware and software to communicate. It also makes these facilities available to userland applications through inter-process communication mechanisms and system calls.
These tasks are done differently by different kernels, depending on their design and implementation. While monolithic kernels will try to achieve these goals by executing all the code in the same address space to increase the performance of the system, microkernels run most of their services in user space, aiming to improve maintainability and modularity of the codebase.
2006-10-07 07:47:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In computing, the kernel is the central part in most computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components. Yes this is software...
2006-10-07 07:42:11 · answer #3 · answered by VzjrZ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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what exactly kernel is? is it hardware or software?
2015-08-16 14:57:56 · answer #4 · answered by Erick 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Software, the heart of the operating system. Normally refers to Linux or Unix operating systems, but Microsoft has a kernel also. What a kernel does, in the simplest terms, is allow your keyboard to input commands and outputs the most basic simple messages. It also starts the more complicated bigger operating system running.
2006-10-07 07:46:53 · answer #5 · answered by hfsi@flash.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a system resource, it acts as a communication b/w the hardware and software....
CPU is the brain for Computer like that Kernel is the brain for the Operating systems....it mostly used in Unix flavours....
2006-10-07 08:17:42 · answer #6 · answered by pradeep_p5143 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a software ,part of the Operating System
2006-10-07 20:15:23 · answer #7 · answered by hotchocredrose 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
core is the internal part of the system which control all system calls,that is each operation in a system is carried out by certain programs.these programs are called system calls.using this core system control all its
operations.
2006-10-07 08:37:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
software - operating system
2006-10-07 07:41:39 · answer #9 · answered by holden 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋