What type of Operating System would you use if you were asked to develop a system that
Question:
What type of Operating System would you use if you were asked to develop a system that processed 250 million credit card transactions each night? Why?
2. List two metrics, explain what they measure, and where they could potentially be used.
3. There are several objectives for an Operating System. Give an example of two of them that may contradict each other. How would you resolve the conflict?
4. Compare a recent information technology innovation to a similar innovation that occurred sometime in the past.
5. Provide a diagram of an Operating System showing the relationship between the hardware, OS, applications, and users. Include in your diagram the common features of operating systems including process management, interrupts, memory management, file CPU bound I/O bound Time → system, device drivers, networking, security, and I/O. Point out the three OS users on the diagram
An Introduction to Management Science Quantitative Approach to Decision Making
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Authors: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran