Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Assignment No. 1

1.
An operating system (sometimes abbreviated as "OS") is the program that, after being initially loaded into the computer by a boot program, manages all the other programs in a computer. The other programs are called applications or application programs. The application programs make use of the operating system by making requests for services through a defined application program interface (API). In addition, users can interact directly with the operating system through a user interface such as a command language or a graphical user interface (GUI). In this article, the author makes the explanation brief and understandable to the reader.
The author also makes the article more presentable.
(http://searchsmb.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci212714,00.html)
2.
The two reasons why regional bank might decide to buy six server computers than one supercomputer:
  • It's because six server computers can store more data and easy to manipulate and operated.
  • because six server computers can perform faster than one supercomputer in terms of number of unit.

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