CSC369H5- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 16 pages long!)
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We need to understand how computers are built. Os is important cuz it is everywhere in todays world. It is one of the core products of the it industry. Modern os is among the greatest inventions of mankind it is complex and simple, elegant and works like a magic. Os(make hardware and application work together/ it is a bridge btw hardware and applications), hardware(kitchen of the restaurant) Present physical resource as a more general, powerful or easy to use form of itself. Present illusion of multiple or unlimited resource where only one or a few. Even if there is only one cpu and one piece of memory, every process feels really exist like they have the whole world with unlimited resource working for it. Some files need to survive crashes and power failures. In os, there are many examples of genially designed elegant solution to different types of problems, which will inspire solution to your own problems.
