Consider Google Earth application. You launch the application, move the mouse on the earth’s surface, click on Mount Everest to see an up-close view of the mountain range. Identify the interactions in layman’s terms between the operating system and the hardware during the above sequence of actions.

What will be an ideal response?


Launching the application causes the operation to initiate a process which requests from the operating system a connection to Google Earth. Each operation performed by the user either changes the state of the program and requests output be performed by the operating system or changes the state of the program and requests the operating system send information to Google Earth requesting more information.

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