COIT 20246 : ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION

COIT 20246 ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION
Due date: Thursday Week 11 (2PM AEST)
Part: Written Assessment
Weighting: 30% of total assessment.
Submission: Electronic (see course website for details)
Instructions
It will be necessary to use literature/online resources to complete this
assignment, please ensure you cite and reference any such materials using
the Harvard format.
DO NOT copy content directly from either the text or Internet resources: this
assignment is to be in your own words. You will lose marks if you do not
use your own words!
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inserting your responses where indicated.
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Tasks
There are ten (10) tasks, one for each week: the tasks are detailed
below. There is a table to complete for each task. Please fill in the
information required.
Note: Each resource summary should be around 200-300 words.
Week 1
The text discusses the elements of modern computing architecture however is largely silent
on the individuals who played a role in its development. Find and summarise a resource that
describes ONE such individual. The individual should have had a significant influence on the
development of computers and/or components of modern computing architecture.
Computer Concepts and Terminology (Input and Output Devices)
Unm.edu. (2017). Computer Terminology - Input and Output. [online] Available at:
https://www.unm.edu/~tbeach/terms/inputoutput.html [Accessed 25 Sep. 2017].
One of the most important electronic device elements of the computer architecture is
the input\output devices. The input device is the utilized for entering the data in the
computers. The output device delivers the processed result to the user. For the first
generation computers the input devices were the paper tape and the paper punch. The
output was been printed on the paper. For the last generation the input devices were
the mouse, microphone, scanner, digital camera, finger reader and the touchpad. On
the other hand, the output devices were the data projector, speaker, printer and the
monitor. The keyboard and mouse have been the most popular input devices in the
current age. The mouse is utilized as the interface between the human and computer
and keyboard is helpful to enter texts into the machines, The most significant output
devices has been the projectors and computers. Again some of the output and the
input devices have been attractive. For example the electronic nose is useful in
detecting the odours and used in the food industries for detecting the pungent smell in
the prepared foods. Some special devices of this type are known as the assistive

technology and are utilized for the disabled people. Thus people could live and work
independently. For instance two bracelets, poor of shoes, glove work set of rings
could be working as the input and output devices.
Week 2
The text discusses the components and activities of operating systems however is largely
silent on the individuals who played a role in their development. Find and summarise a
resource that describes ONEsuch individual. The individual should have had a significant
influence on the writing or development of operating systems.
Operating system components
1.3 Operating system components. (2017). Cis2.oc.ctc.edu. Retrieved 18 September 2017, from
http://cis2.oc.ctc.edu/oc_apps/Westlund/xbook/111_u04e/Web/13.htm
Process Management, an important component of the Operating system is chosen
here. The CPU has been executing huge quantity of programs. The primary concern
has been the execution of the user programs. However the CPU is required for other
system activities. The activities are known as the processes. The batch job and the
time-shared user program is the process. Moreover the spooling or the system task is
noted as the process. The process is considered as the task or the program of time
sharing.
The process required particular resources like the I/O devices, memory, files and CPU
time for accomplishing its tasks. The resources are provided to the process as it gets
generated. Moreover the physical and the logical resources obtained by the process as
it gets created, few data inputs or initializations are passed along. The program is not
a process. It is the passive entity and the process is the active entity. Two processes
could be associated with the similar program, but they are never considered to the

separate sequences of the execution.
The process has been working unit in the system. Thus kind of system comprises of
the collection of process. Few of them are processes of operating system comprising
of those who have been executing the system code. The others are the user processes
executing the user codes. These processes could execute concurrently potentially. The
operating system has been engaged in some of the activities associated with the
managed processes. This includes the generation and deletion of both the system and
user processes, the suspension have been the process resumption, the mechanism
provisions for the process synchronization, the mechanism provision for the process
synchronization.