hardware mode
The shell is made up of several subsystems that all operate in user mode. The kernel, or core, of the OS is responsible for interacting with hardware. It has more power to communicate with hardware devices than the shell has, and operates in kernel mode.
Windows 7 does not have a kernel.
in windows XP
Machine Mode
no, it wont operatesin kernel mode, it operates on usermode.
No. Windows XP has it's own kernel and memory management system.
As Unix isn't any particular operating system, there is no distinct name for the kernel. Different versions of Unix may have vastly different kernel structures. The Linux kernel is called, well, the Linux kernel. The Vista kernel is a continuation of the "NT kernel" designed for Windows NT 3.1.
True
Yes.
shell, kernel
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