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.