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ASSIGNMENT On Operating System (Unit 1 & 2) Submission Date: 11 September ECB Monday 2-5 ECA Monday 5 PM

The document contains an assignment on operating systems that includes 10 questions to be answered by referring to a provided PDF. The questions cover topics such as the functions of an operating system from a user's perspective, device drivers, resource abstraction, system calls, essential properties of different types of operating systems including batch, time sharing, real-time, network, and distributed, the differences between processor, memory, and I/O devices, and their usage. Other questions address the differences between primary and secondary memory, ROM and RAM, application and system software, the kernel and its relationship to the operating system, and how the OS is more than just a kernel. It also includes writing a short note on BIOS and the Unix operating system

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ASSIGNMENT On Operating System (Unit 1 & 2) Submission Date: 11 September ECB Monday 2-5 ECA Monday 5 PM

The document contains an assignment on operating systems that includes 10 questions to be answered by referring to a provided PDF. The questions cover topics such as the functions of an operating system from a user's perspective, device drivers, resource abstraction, system calls, essential properties of different types of operating systems including batch, time sharing, real-time, network, and distributed, the differences between processor, memory, and I/O devices, and their usage. Other questions address the differences between primary and secondary memory, ROM and RAM, application and system software, the kernel and its relationship to the operating system, and how the OS is more than just a kernel. It also includes writing a short note on BIOS and the Unix operating system

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ASSIGNMENT On Operating system (Unit 1 & 2)

Submission Date : 11 september ECB Monday 2-5

ECA Monday 5 PM

1. What is an operating system? What are the functions of an OS from user’s view point?
2. What is Device Driver? Discuss the problem in the design of Modern OS?
3. What is resource abstraction? With an example.
4. What is system call? Discuss the process of executing the system call?

For answering these questions please refer the pdf mailed you earlier.

5. Describe the essential properties of the following operating system?


(a) Batch (b) Time sharing (c) Real Time (d) Network (e) Distributed
6. Explain the difference between processor, memory and I/O device, which hardware unit uses
which other and for what purpose.
7. Difference between:
(i) Primary and Secondary memory?
(ii) ROM and RAM.
(iii) Application and system software?
(iv)
8. What is kernel? Explain its main function? What is it relationship with OS?
9. How is Kernel different from OS?
Why do we say that OS system is more than a Kernel?
10. Write a short note on BIOS. & Unix Operating system

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