Question

The component of the operating software that provides the user interface is called the

Answer 1

a user interface is also called UI

Answer 2

Answer:

The component of the ‘operating software’ that provides the ‘user interface’ is called shell.

Explanation:

In computing based terms, ‘Shell’ can be coined as a user based interface for accessing a service of an operating system. In terms of OS, the shells can either use GUI or CUI. This depends on role of the computer and the particular operation.

As the name implies, it represents the outer layer of the operating system’s Kernel. CLI is useful in screen reading process. Most of GUI provides CLI’s operations.