Out: Wednesday September 30th

Due: Wednesday October 7th


Read the text:  Silberschatz Chapters 1-3


Problems in text:

1.1, 1.7, 1.8, 1.25, 1.31

1.x: The chapters stress the need for an OS to make efficient use
of computing resources.  Is this really as necessary on a single-user
PC with, e.g., a 3 GHz quad-core processor with 8 GB of memory and a
1 TB disk, as on a "traditional" multi-user computer system?  How about
on a 10,000-node cluster?

2.1, 2.2, 2.3  (for 2.2 and 2.3, comment on whether the presence of
a virtual machine monitor such as VMWare would change your answer
about the role of the operating system)

2.19, 2.27 (include a printout of your source code, and a screen
dump or printout showing the system call trace).

3.7