On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Orr Dunkelman wrote:
> I've put an alpha version of the lecture I'll give in the Introduction to > OS lecture next week at http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~orrd/lecture.ps > comments are welcome and appriciated... there are a _few_ language issues (imo) in a few slides, and a few semantic issues: slide 2 - might wish to replace "the richard stallman's GNU" with "richar stallman's GNU" - i _think_ the 'the' there is redundant. slide 3 - "another field linux has evolved greatly is" - might to change to "another field linux has greatly evolved in is". slide 4 - the title "where can you do with linux?" doesn't fit well. perhaps "what can you do with linux?" ? regarding linux being used where stable OS-es are requiered - this is only half of the true, and might be question by people. why not solaris/aix/hpux...? - they are much more expensive, run on less hardware - mostly proprietary. solaris on PC has less drivers then linux. they are closed source - harder to customize/modify/fix/debug. why not freebsd/netbsd/... ? - they have much less driver support then linux, and much smaller industrial support - even if they are somewhat more stable. slide 5 - mosix is not alone - there are many clusters that work using MPI or PVM - the 'beowulf' (spell?) clusters work using one of those. slide 7 - in DOS, COMMAND.COM is the shell, not part of the operating system per ce (well, at least i think it is). the other two files are indeed the operating system itself. slide 8 - in the end 'this program handle over the computer to' should be "this program hands over the computer to" or "this program hands the computer over to" slide 9 - "for a x86 intel processors", the 'a' is redundant. should be: "for x86 inter processors", or "for a x86 intel processor". slide 10 - "the bios can be used as a hardware interrupt handler" - this is just half of its I/O services. the other half is to send commands to the hardware. so better just state "the BIOS can be to access the system's basic hardware". that's it for now. waiting for the rest, -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
