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I am tech savvy so you don't have to disregard the details much about it. I know programming.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's the main most privileged program running on a computer, through which all other programs access shared resources like hard drives, memory, network etc. It also performs access control on these resources.