On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, guy keren wrote: > > 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.
also : open source programS ARE distributed with THEIR source code, or AN open source... ...student named Linus... or ....a student by the name of Linus... > > slide 3 - "another field linux has evolved greatly is" - might to change > to "another field linux has greatly evolved in is". also: also release (instead of release also) > > 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. > also: many web servers.... or many a web server... (but i don't think you intended to use this language) > 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. spell: Beowolf. and we need to avoid mixing up things here: Beowolf is the setting of the cluster, a bunch of utilities, the concept of putting the PC's together. Mosix is an alternative setting, which includes patches to the OS as well, imitating the behaviour of one single computer, in a way, by process migration. PVM and MPI are a totally different thing: those are libraries used in the program, in order to make use of a cluster. The use of MPI/PVM is orthogonal to the setting of the cluster. a cluster can be useful without any of those fancy names, if all it wants is to run batch jobs (small jobs, each sent to a different computer) back to grammar. also: Today, you can find linux systems in many work places. or Linux systems can be found in many work places nowadays. (which i believe is what you intended) ...have also chose... "server room", i believe, is the right term. ..a Linux box which controlS... maybe : "connectING and routing"? slide 6- "A little", or "a bit" , or "a few words", (instead of some) (did you not call it a lot about boot up?!) "is good enough", not "is A good enough" > 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. "A little", or "a bit" , or "a few words", (instead of some) (did you not call it a lot about boot up?!) instead of the first line: Let us assume that WE/YOU have a copy... this kind of file(s) (withouth the "a") which can be accessED > 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" > oneself to pull oneself (not "itself") again: Let us assume that we start... load files into THE memory And so it does: it READS the kernel image and writes it into memory > slide 9 - "for a x86 intel processors", the 'a' is redundant. should be: > "for x86 intel processors", or "for a x86 intel processor". > for AN Intel..., for AN x86... ...CPU, where ADDR is... In most cases (drop the "of the ") > 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, > the last sentence of the OS loader paragraph needs better phrasing. good luck:) -- Orna. | http://tx.technion.ac.il/~agmon There are only 10 types of people in the world- Those who understand binary, and those who do not. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
