Describe the two primary responsibilities that are held by the operating system.

The computer hardware industry is rapidly changing and highly competitive, creating an environment ripe for technological breakthroughs. The ___________ is the part of the computer that sequences and executes instructions. a. CPU b. memory c. bus d. input/output devices

The CPU incurs one or more _________________ when it’s idle, pending the completion of an operation by another device in the computer system.

In many CPUs, a register called the _____ stores bit flags representing CPU and program status, including those representing processing errors and the results of comparison operations.