Out: Monday, March 30th, 2009

Due: Monday, April 6th, 2009


Read the text:  Silberschatz Chapters 1-2


Problems in text:

1.1, 1.7, 1.8, 1.25, 1.31

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?

2.1, 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).