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Episode 95: How Computers Work Part V - Assembly Language and the Operating System

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Getting Your Operating System Back Into Kelonel Mode

The operating system is stored in a special region of the main memory. The scipio always boots up, so when you first turn it on, i boots in kernel mode. There are a sequence of instructions called the bios that is stored on rom chips inside your computer. And then 'll just automatically begin by carrying out those instructions. That essentially will tell it to load the operating system. Once it's loaded up the operating system into its special, protected region of memory and got the operating system running, the operating system will in turn start by booting up programms or processes. So as soon as your computer executing a regular process that is not the operating system, it's already in

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