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Overview
Memory
CPU
I/O
No Operating System
APPLICATIONS (standard software)
OPERATING SYSTEM
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Device driver
Device driver
To summarise ...
Application
Application
Application
User Interface
OPERATING SYSTEM Device Driver Hardware Hardware
Hardware
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MS-DOS MacOS
Windows 3 Win 95/98 Win NT
Win 2000/XP
Windows Vista / Win 7
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PC Memory
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Memory Hierarchy
For reasons of cost, the memory storage available consists of several different types of memory:
CPU registers
Cache Main memory
Virtual memory
Hard disk storage ( Backup storage )
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Memory Hierarchy
Registers (~64) - internal to the processor Cache (~1MB) - very near the processor, very fast (operates automatically) Main memory (>1GB) - separate memory chips within computer hardware, fast Virtual memory (~size of main memory) hard disk space used to expand main memory (requires management), slow Hard disk (>250GB) - main secondary memory, also non-volatile, slow
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Summary
We have seen: overview of operating systems concept brief history of operating systems
Next meeting: Friday at 9.00am in QMSR Operating systems 2
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