Topic 6.1 - Role of the operating system - Exercises
1. Explain how a device driver is used by the operating system to control hardware. 2. The operating system uses scheduling to give threads, processes or data flows access to system resources. Compare and contrast two methods of scheduling. 3. The operating system manages hardware including peripherals. This can be done using polling interrupts. Compare and contrast the two methods. 4. One of the roles of the OS is...