Major activities of operating systems with respect to I/O operation.
• Drivers hide the peculiarities of specific hardware devices to the user.
• OS manages the communication between the user and device drivers.
• I/O operation means read or write operation with any file or any specific i/o device.
• OS provides the access to the required i/o device when required
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