Assignment

 The textbook content for Understanding Operating Systems is organized through 1-6 chapters. Week 1 provides an introduction to those key elements associated with Operating Systems (OS). These first four chapters establish the working components of Memory Management,  Memory Management Virtual Memory Systems, and Processor Management. Week two continues these introductions with additional management functions.  Answer the following questions  (Don't cut and paste answers form the book or the Internet) :

1. Research additional information and provide a brief explanation for the following terms:
   1. Thread scheduling priorities
   2. CPU Cycle time
   3. Processor bottleneck
   4. Processor Queue Length
   5. I/O Interrupts
2. In your own words briefly explain the following terms:
   1. Page Map Table (PMT)
   2. First In First Out (FIFO)
   3. Job Table (JT)
   4. Least Recently Used (LRT)
3. Discuss the functional purpose and difference between, “job clocks” and “wait clocks”.
4. Explain any confusion that might exist between the term and it’s use, “main memory” and  “secondary storage”.