Sep 29, 2005 12:40
There's a new Bloodhound Gang album out! How did I miss this?
In addition, I had my first Operating Systems quiz today, it consisted of the following questions:
1) Completely define the term "Operating System"
2) Expand the following acronyms and explain their meaning:
EBCDIC
PDA
MULTICS
TCP/IP
WATFOR
3) Differentiate between the following terms, be specific:
Loosely Coupled and Tightly Coupled systems.
Hard Real Time and Soft Real Time systems.
Symmetric and Asymmetric Multiprocessing.
4) Because of their size PDA's experience three major complications. What are these complications and what are the solutions?
At first our professor gave us 20 minutes, the combined groan of 27 students encouraged him to extend the time limit to 25 minutes. He then offered to let us throw him out the window; unfortunately, we're on the first floor.