Out: Wednesday, September 24


Due: Monday, September 29


Read the text:  Silberschatz Chapters 1-3


Problems in text:


1.1, 1.6, 1.7, 1.11


1.x: The chapters 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 quad-core processor with 
8 GB of memory and a 1 TB disk,or on a 10,000-node cluster of these CPUs?


2.2 (How do you explain your answer given the existance of user-level virtual machine monitors, such as VMware?)


2.9, 2.14, 3.1, 3.2, 3.5