Assignment 1 questions.


R. Clayton (rclayton@monmouth.edu)
(no date)


Concerning the project, how many bytes are in a word, and how many words are in
a block?

  Assuming you have the most recent version of the hardware architecture
  document, you probably want to review the first paragraph in the Primary Store
  section of the Hardware Components part, the paragraph that begins with "The
  word is...".
 
  As for the block, I'm guessing your talking about a disk block. If that's
  the case, you probably want to review the paragraph that starts "A disk block
  is..." in the Disk section of the Hardware Components part. Pay particular
  attention to the the last sentence in the paragraph, the one that begins "The
  constant disk_block_size...".
 
Also I attempted to copy the os1 file but was unable to locate it,

  I'm not sure where you were looking, but it's there:

    cs uname -n
    cslab04

    cs date
    Thu May 30 09:08:59 EDT 2002

    cs ls -l /export/home/class/cs-438-505/misc
    total 3020
    -r--r--r-- 1 rclayton faculty 1663 May 28 14:47 Makefile
    -r--r--r-- 1 rclayton faculty 589 May 28 14:47 halt-os.cc
    -r-xr-xr-x 1 rclayton faculty 3079216 May 28 18:57 os1

    cs

however I also saw some other files in your directory (including what looks
to be source code). Should we get those files for the project?

  Because I don't know what files you're looking at, I can't answer this one.



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