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Are utilities another category of system software that augment the operating system?
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Augment is defined as Make (something) greater by adding to it; increase: "he augmented his income by painting houses".
Operating system is defined as
An operating system (OS) is a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides commonservices for computer programs
By those definitions, so long as the utilities manage computer hardware resources or provide common services for computer programs.
So a clock utility would be no, but a disk management tool yes.
This question is an English rather then a software question.
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