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    This document provides instructions for a computer science tutorial covering operating systems concepts like buffering vs blocking, primary vs secondary storage, buffering vs spooling, and calculating values for magnetic tape storage such as number of blocks needed, block size, read/write times, and tape usage. Students are asked to explain key differences, provide examples, and perform calculations related to linear magnetic tape recording based on given characteristics for density, speed, size, start/stop time, number of records, record size, and block size.

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    School of Computer Sciences

    Operating Systems

    Semester I 2022/2023

    Tutorial 7 (Week 11 26-12-2022 to 30-12-2022)

    1. Explain the differences between buffering and blocking.

    2. Describe how primary storage differs from secondary storage. Give an example
    of each.

    3. Explain in your own words the relationship between buffering and spooling.
    Suggest reasons why some people confuse the two.

    4. The characteristics for a magnetic tape using linear recording are given as
    follows

    Density = 1600 bpi


    Speed = 200 inches/second
    Size = 2400 feet
    Start/stop time = 4 ms
    Number of records to be stored = 200,000 records
    Size of each record = 160 bytes
    Block size = 10 logical records
    IBG = 0.5 inch

    Calculate the following value:


    a. Number of blocks needed
    b. Size of the block in bytes
    c. Time required to read one block
    d. Time required to write all of the blocks
    e. Amount of tape used for data only, in inches
    f. Total amount of tape used (data + IBGs), in inches

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