operating system
as defined in DMA, Article 2, point (10) (Definitions)
a system software that controls the basic functions of the hardware or software and enables software applications to run on it;
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Also defined in
- Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility… 32019L0882, Article 3, point (38)
software, which, inter alia, handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user when no application program is running including a graphical user interface, regardless of whether such software is an integral part of…