Overview
Goal
- Understand the responsibilities, components, and services
of an operating system.
Reading Assignments
Discussion Topics
- BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is typically held in a flash memory.
Is it possible to put the BIOS on disk instead? Please tell briefly
the pros and cons of on flash memory and on disk.
- The simplest way to bootstrap an operating system is to
boot from a binary image on a disk. What would you
need to do if you are building a diskless workstation or
a network computer which needs to bootstrap from a
network file server? Explain your idea of how to do that.