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week 4 - L2 - Operating system Flashcards

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OS - definition

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An OS is a program that acts as intermedarry between computer user and computer hardware

basically lets humans use computers

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Kernel

  • when does it run on a computer?
  • what is it?
  • what does it contain?
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The kernel runs on the computer at all time

The kernel is a portion of the OS that is in the main memory

It contains:
- the most used functions

It’s considered to be the nucleus

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OS goals

- what are they?

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  • control/ execute user application programs
  • make the computer system convenient to use
  • ease the solving of user problems
  • use the computer hardware in an efficient manner
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O/S quick review

  • TOP DOWN- user
  • BOTTOM UP - hardware
  • SOFTWARE LAYER VIEWPOINT - how is the OS? time wise?what can happen to improve it?
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Top down (user) view (calling the OS from above)

  • the OS is a convenient application interface
  • the OS hides the messy details which must be performed
  • the OS presents the user with a virtual mahine easier to use

Bottom up (hardware) view

  • the OS performs efficient resource usage and management
  • TIME MULTIPLEXING - each program gets to use a resource
  • SPACE MULTIPLEXING - each program gets a part of a resource

Software Layer viewpoint

  • the operating system is evolvable and also scalable software (it changes and evolves)
  • the OS also allows effective development and introduction of new system functions without interfering with service
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Service’s provided by the OS Operating System

  • what is included with the computer?
  • where is the copy of the OS stored?
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  • the OS is included with the computer

- after installation, a copy of the OS is on the hard disk

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service provided by the OS (what it does)

  • what are they
  • explain the last 2
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  • program development (editors and debgger)
  • program execution
  • controlled access to files
  • access to I/O devices
  • system access
  • accounting
  • error detection and response
-	Accounting
o	Monitor performance 
o	Collect statistics
o	Used to anticipate future enhancements
o	Used for billing users
  • Error detection and response

o Internal and external hardware errors
 Memory error
 Device failure

o Software errors
 Arithmetic overflow
 Access forbidden memory locations
o Operating system cannot grant request to application

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Types of OS

- what 3 types of OS are there

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Single user/ Single Tasking OS
Single user/ Multitasking OS
Multi user/ Multitasking OS

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Single user / SINGLE TASKING OS

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Single user / SINGLE TASKING OS

  • Only one user works on it
  • It performs one task at a time
  • Examples are MS-DOS and Palm OS
  • Advantage is that it takes little space on disk
  • Also run on inexpensive computers
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Single user / MULTITASKING

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Single user / MULTITASKING OS

  • User performs many tasks at once
  • Most common form of OS
  • Windows XP and OS X
  • Require expensive computers
  • Tend to be complex
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Multi user / MULTITASKING OS

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Multi user / MULTITASKING OS

  • Many users use the computer at the same time
  • Each user has a unique session
  • UNIX, Linux and VMS
  • Maintenance can be easy
  • Requires powerful computer
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Network Operating Systems

  • what architecture are they based on?
  • what does the server enable?
  • what’s managed by the server?
  • examples
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Network Operating Systems
- Network operating systems are based on a client-server architecture:

o The server enables multiple clients to share resources

  • Data, users, groups, security, applications, printers are managed by the server
-	Examples
o	Microsoft Windows server
o	Novel Open Enterprise Server
o	Red Hat server
o	Etc
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Distributed OS

  • collection of what?
  • why are they referred to as? and why?
  • how are the programming jobs serviced? by who?
  • what other OS is it similar to? And what’s different from it?
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Distributed Operating System
- Distributed Operating System uses a collection of independent communicating (networked) but physically separated computational devices(called nodes)
(basically networked computers that are in different places)

  • They are referred to as loosely coupled system because each processor has its own memory
  • Programming jobs are services by multiple CPUs by exchanging data between nodes
  • A distributed operating system is an extension of the network operating system that supports higher levels of communication and integration of the machines on the networks
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application software

  • what is application software characterized by? version wise?
  • what is each version compatible with?
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  • application software is characterized by a version number

- each version of the application is only compatible with certain versions of the OS

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OS versions

  • what are they identified by?
  • what are the operating system updates called for every OS?
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version are identified by name and release, specified in 2 numbers X.Y
- X - the major version of the OS
- Y - the level of upgrade released to make minor changes to the current version
(example ios 13.2, X = 13, Y = 2)

The OS updates or in more general of software are called:
PATCH - Linux
SERVICE PACK - Windows
UPDATE - macOS world

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CPU & memory
- what do modern CPUs have that enable processes to have their own address space?

  • what are the Important CPU registers?
  • explain each of them
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Modern CPUs have PROTECTED MODE OPERATION and MEMORY UNIT, to enable processes to have their own address space

Program Counter (PC)
Instruction Register (IR)
Stack Pointer (SP)
Accumulator
  • Program Counter (PC)
    o Contains the address for the instructions to be fetched
  • Instruction Register (IR)
    o Contains the instructions to be fetched
  • Stack pointer register (SP)
    o Contains the address of the last program request in a stack (last in first out memory data structure, because it’s a stack)
  • Accumulator
    o Which collects the result of computations
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System BIOS (Basic Input/ Output System)

  • what is BIOS used for?
  • what information does it have?
  • is it pre-installed and where?
  • what firmware is it? what control does it provide?
  • what does it load?
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Basic input output system BIOS is used to perform hardware initialisation during the booting process

  • It provides the main information for the OS related to the hardware
  • It is pre-installed on EEPROM(or flash memory)
  • BIOS reads some parameters such as the time and data stream, from a small CMOS RAM memory(with battery)
  • It is non-volatile firmware (firmware is a software that provides the low level control for the device’s specific hardware)
  • It initialised and tests the system hardware components
  • It loads the boot loader or directly an operating system
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Types of kernels

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Monolithic
Microkernel
Hybrid

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kernel

  • what is it the core of?
  • what does it manage?
  • when does it load? and what does it handle?
  • where is the critical code of the kernel loaded
  • where does the kernel perform its tasks(running processes, handling interrupts etc)
  • where do users perform their tasks?
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The Kernel is the core of the OS

Manages the operations of a computer and hardware
aka CPU and Memory

It’s one of the first programs to load on start-up (after the bootloader) and it handles the rest of the start-up sequence

The critical code of the kernel is loaded in a protected area of the memory

The kernel performs its tasks in the kernel space

Everything a user does is in user space

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Functions of the kernel:

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process management
memory management
system calls 
device management 
file management 
security 
error logging 
job accounting 
control over system performance
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Microkernel

  • what does it contain?
  • what happens to non-essential parts of the kernel?
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A microkernel ONLY contains core functionality dealing with critical activities

Critical activities like memory management, process scheduling, and inter-process communication
(basically has only the core activities, unlike the monolithic kernel with all activities)

The idea is removing non-essential parts of the kernel and implement them as system and user program

21
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Hybrid kernel

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An OS kernel architecture that attempts to combine the benefits of both monolithic and microkernel architectures

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Monolithic Kernel

  • where do all the ___ run?
  • what happens to device drivers in Linux?
  • what do device drivers allow?
  • what happens when a new device is added
  • what is the benefit of a monolithic kernel?
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In a monolithic kernel, all services and core functionality run in privileged “kernel mode” in a single address space

services( file system, device drivers)
functionality ( process scheduling, memory allocation, etc)

The device drivers are often made to be part of the kernel (specifically loadable kernel modules)

Device drivers allow the kernel to communicate with the hardware

When a new device is added, its extension is loaded and “joined onto the kernel” making the kernel larger

The main benefit os a monolithic kernel is that it’s fast and efficient because all the kernel services can interact directly with each other

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Linux

  • what structure does it have?
  • what is it a collection of?
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Linux
- Modular structure

  • Collection of loadable modules: they implement OS functions and execute in kernel mode on behalf of the process
    o Dynamic linking
    o Stackable modules: hierarchy between clients and libraries
24
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Components of OS

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Components of the OS

  • user interface
  • process manager
  • memory manager
  • file manager
  • device manager
25
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User Interface

  • what is it?
  • what does it require?
A

User interface is how a user interacts with a computer

requires different skillset

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GUI

  • examples?
  • what do you use to control objects?
  • what does it use to open programs?
  • what do open documents have?
  • what’s task switching?
  • what do dialogue boxes allow?
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Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- most common interface
o Windows, OS X, Gnome, KDE

  • Uses a mouse to control objects
  • Uses a desktop metaphor
  • Shortcuts open programs or documents
  • Opened documents have additional objects
  • Task switching (switch between tasks that work in paralel)
  • Dialog boxes allow directed input
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Command-line interface

  • what type of interface is it compare to others?
  • where is it found usually?
  • how does the user communicate with the computer?
  • what does the user need to do?
  • where else is it included?
A

it is an older interface

Available on DOS, Linux and UNIX

the user types commands as prompt (think of the shell)

the user has to remember all commands

it’s included in all GUIs

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Linux is ….

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Linux is case sensitive

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Shell

  • what interface is it? between what?
  • what is it?
  • what does it allow?
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The interface between kernel and userspace

the shell is a command interpreter

It’s a powerful programming language

Script. Allows system calls, tools and system utilities, and compiled binaries

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BASH

- what is it an acronym for

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Bourne-again shell (from the classic shell)

Bash has become the standard de facto for shell scripting on several flavors of UNIX

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