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Week 1 Flashcards

1
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Multiprogramming

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  • Run multiple application at the same time
  • Protecting them from one another and sharing the CPU between them
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Hierarchical File System

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Store data on disk persistently organized in a tree structure

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Plug and Play Devices

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Software that allows external devices to interact with applications

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Virtual Memory

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Store multiple applications in memory at the same time

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Graphical User Interface

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  • Allows users to develop, run, and interact with new applications.
  • Good user interface allows operating systems to evolve from office machiens into machines usable by home users
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ENIAC

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  • The electronic Numerical integrator and computer was the first gen-purpose electronic computer
  • ENIAC was developed at the University of Pennsylvania
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Punch Cards

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Pieces of stiff papers with holes in them where the presense and absense of holes is used to encode digital information about data or programs

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Resident Monitor

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  • A piece of software that is a precursor to modern operating systems
  • This software runs in memory and in the punch card era, and was used to process one punch card at a time
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Operating Systems (OS)

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-A piece of software that is layered between applications and hardware, allowing multiple applications to share the same physical machine resources and gain access to external devices

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Time-Sharing

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The ability to share one physical compute resource among multiple applications.

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Multics

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A time-sharing operating system developed by MIT, General Electric, and Bell Labs for mainframes in the 60s

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Compatible Time Sharing System (CTSS)

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An operating system developed by MIT that shares similar time-sharing features as Multics

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Linux

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An open-source operating system commonly used on both home and
server machines. Linux is closely modelled after its predecessor Unix

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Unix

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A well-known operating system developed by Bell Labs that has many
of the features used in modern operating systems, such as time-sharing, a Shell, and a hierarchical file system.

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MS-DOS

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An early operating system developed for end-user computers by
Microsoft. MS-DOS introduced the command prompt interfaces seen in many subsequent versions of Windows

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Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD)

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A Unix distribution developed by the University of California, Berkeley. It is most well-known for its pioneering implementation of the TCP/IP protocol used over the internet today

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Ubuntu

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A popular distribution of Linux that is considered easy to install and
easily usable by the non-expert

18
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Virtualization

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A method for dividing up physical compute resources into logical separate units usable by different users. The most common example is running multiple operating systems that share one physical machine.

19
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Embedded Operating System

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An operating system for small devices like sensor networks, or specialized hardware used in airplanes, home appliances, and other mobile devices.

20
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Vagrant

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A software that automates the process of installation of virtual machines.

21
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Virtual Machine

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A piece of software that emulates a physical machine, but is actually an application running on an existing operating system

22
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Host OS

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The operating system that runs on the actual hardware

23
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Guest OS

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The operating system that runs in the virtual machine.

24
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Virtual Box

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An open-source software that enables us to run virtual machines

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Code Repository

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A service that stores multiple versions of code, either in the cloud or locally on a server machine.

26
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Version control

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The ability to manage and change across multiple versions of digital content, typically software

27
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Git

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An open-source popular version control software.

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Pull (from code repository/Git)

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Getting a version of software from a code repository

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Push (from code repository/Git)

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Pushing locally committed software changes into a codoe repo

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Merge (in git repository)

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Pulling in changes from a code repository and combining the changes with local changes, before pushing the combined

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