Spencer Kennedy Thompson CIT Ms.Jacobs Ch.2 Introducing Operating Systems Reviewing the Basics 1. Which Microsoft operating system was the first to use all 32-bit processing. Windows NT 2. What are the hardware requirements to use the Vista Aero user interface? At least 1gb of ram and a Directx 9 standard video card with at least 128mb of memory 3. What is the application mentioned in the chapter that creates a virtual machine on a computer? VMWare fusion 4. List 4 major functions
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Task 1 Internal system unit components: Processor The processor is the brain of the computer. It handles all instructions in programs loaded into RAM and gets information from the HDD or SSD. It handles data in binary. Motherboard This is a circuit board that connects the CPU with the RAM and the hard drive BIOS It stands for basic input/output system and it is is the program a computer’s processor uses to get the computer system started after it is switched on. It also controls data flow between
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Operating systems Joseph N. Cleveland Jr. University of Phoenix Introduction to Operating Systems POS/355 John Vassar June 26‚ 2013 Memory management is an important characteristic of an operating system. Main memory is divided into two parts one for resident programs‚ and the other for the program currently in use. The user part must be subdivided to accommodate multiple processes (Stallings‚ 2012). When a few processes are in the memory then much of the time all
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Week 1 assignment While searching operating systems for game consoles found information on Nintendo’s next gen console and what Iwata plans for the OP as well. The next piece of info comes from Softpedia. According to Nintendo’s Iwata Interviews posted on the company’s official website‚ the new games console‚ Wii‚ will have an updatable operating system. He states that Wii is the first system from Nintendo that will evolve in a continuous manner. Even after customers
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spooling where the CPU overlaps the input of one job with the computation and of other jobs. ( Prefetching is a method of overlapping the I/O of a job with that job’s own computation. After a read operation completes and the job is about to start operating on the data‚ the input device is instructed to begin the next read immediately. The CPU and input device are then both busy. With luck‚ by the time that the job is ready for the next data item‚ the input device will have finished reading that data
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Windows NT vs Unix As An Operating System In the late 1960s a combined project between researchers at MIT‚ Bell Labs and General Electric led to the design of a third generation of computer operating system known as MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service). It was envisaged as a computer utility‚ a machine that would support hundreds of simultaneous timesharing users. They envisaged one huge machine providing computing power for everyone in Boston. The idea that machines as powerful
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below‚ describe the responsibilities of the resource manager. (5M) The general form of a resource manager Figure 1 * As an Internal resource name is an internal name for the resource used by the operating system code. * As total unit are a number of resource units configured into the system. * Available unit is a number of units currently available. * List of available units is a set of available units of this resource type that are available for use by processes. * List of blocked
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Q4) what are the advantages and disadvantages to a firm of operating on a large scale? Economies of scale fall under microeconomics and are the cost advantages a business obtains due to expansion. As scale is increased they cause a producers average cost per unit to fall. Microeconomics (from Greek prefix micro- meaning "small" and "economics") is a branch of economics in which you study the behaviour of how the individual firms make decisions to allocate limited resources. Normally‚ it applies
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Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such aanroids smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android‚ Inc.‚ which Google backed financially and later purchased in 2005‚[9] Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance: a consortium of hardware‚ software‚ and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.[10] The first Android-powered phone was sold in October
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Our growing Organization will face an infrastructure upgrade which will encompass an operating system as well a workstations upgrade. Because this occurrence requires a comprehensive survey of all options of new Operating Systems as well as workstations‚ it is necessary to consider whether a Linux Based system is appropriate for our organizational needs at this point. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to investigate the pros and cons of using Linux in both a server and workstation
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