Overview: 2.3 The System Architecture: The Kernel

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The GEOS kernel is the core of the operating system, providing all the basic services needed by the system. It provides multitasking, memory management, object creation and manipulation, windowing, process management, file system access, inter-application communication, message dispatching, and scores of basic graphic primitives. The kernel provides nearly 1000 routines usable by applications and libraries, though most applications will use only a portion of them.


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