Please name your MS Word or pdf file as: YourLastNameFinalTH

1. The following is a link to the article: “5 Ways Windows beats iOS

”. (5%)

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2012280/5-ways-windows-8-beats -ios.html

Please identify and explain at least 2 reasons why you disagree with the above article.

2. Ava is still not convinced by your recommendation from Homework #4 that she should use UNIX on the company’s Internet/Web servers because she encountered the following article

which talks about “Problems in the design of UNIX” :(5%)

https://homepage.cs.uri.edu/~thenry/resources/unix_art/ch20s03.html

The above article discusses more than 10 “problem areas” with UNIX.

You are tasked to select at least 2 areas from the above article

and convince Ava that these areas will not cause problems to the company’s servers.

3. The following link shows a discussion on multitasking.

(10%)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_multitasking

To support multitasking, an operating system may use

one of the following scheduling strategies:

A. Multiprogramming

B. Time-sharing

C.Real-time

Ava’s software company has received a contract to design

and develop a new operating system to run on a computer system

that is used to handle the stock -buying and stock-selling

related processes/applications.

Which scheduling strategy would you recommend for this new operating system? Please provide reasons to support your recommendation.