Assignment Operating System

Section I

Q1) What are the primary purposes of an operating system ?

Q2) What is the use of assembly languages with respect to operating systems?

Q3) Which operating System goals correspond to each of the following

characteristics?

a) Users can not access services or information without proper authorization

b) The operating system runs on a variety of hardware configurations

c) The system performance increases steadily when additional memory and

processors are added

d) The operating system supports devices that were not available at the time of its
design

e) Hardware failure does not necessarily causes the system to fail

Q4) Device driver support contribute to an operating system ‘s stability comment on

this statement

Q5) What is the difference between a purely layered architecture and microkernel
architecture