QUESTION 6: (a) You are asked by a high-tech aeronautical company to design a very critical software program for use in a flight navigation system. The system must be capable of complex calculations, including detecting altitude, speed, and other various flight conditions, very quickly. This software will only be run on a very specialized computer that was designed for this application only. Would you choose to design a compiled system, or an interpreted system? Why? Explain.

(b) You are asked by a college to design a software program that will allow students to enroll in classes from home or anywhere else they may be at any given time. This college does not issue personal machines to each student, so there is no telling what type of computer a student may be using. Obviously the college wants the maximum number of students to be able to use the system, to increase student satisfaction and retention. Would you choose to design a compiled system, or an interpreted system? Why? Explain. Show all work.

QUESTION 7: A computer user wants to load and watch a 10GB movie file. The operating system is monitoring the 8GB of RAM available in the machine. The operating system determines that there are only 2 GB of free RAM available, and that all the rest of it is currently being used by other applications/data files/etc. (a) What will the operating system need to do? Explain.

(b) What effect will this have on the performance of the computer? Why? Show all work.