Homework 1


Out: Wednesday, September 28

Due: Monday, October 3

Read the text: Silberschatz Chapters 1-3

Problems in text:

1.1, 1.4, 1.6, 1.11

1.x: The chapter stresses 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 processor and 1GB of memory?

2.2, 2.9, 2.12, 2.14, 3.1, 3.2, 3.5