Whatever Nonsense Dr. McBride Feels Like
This is the name of this class.
What is CMPT 334: Principles of Operating Systems?
Nihilism, and whether there is meaning in chaotic signals, is most related to this unit.
What is Unit 6: IO (in terms of interpreting binary on hard drives without structure, though other justified answers are fine too).
This OS unit would be very helpful for integrating in sensor reports from lab equipment into the OS.
What is Unit 6: Device Management/IO?
Coordinating cheerleading movements to prevent collisions is most similar to this OS concept.
What is Synchronization?
This OS concept is most similar to the idea of parallel dimensions and worlds from films such as Total Recall.
What is Forking?
This animal from Australia is mathematically the best animal and I will accept no arguments against this choice.
What is the wombat?
This structure has more pages than Alexandria's main claim to fame.
What are Page Tables?
These two concepts are most similar to kinetic energy and potential energy.
What is defining a program versus defining a process
A baton (passed between racers during a marathon) is most similar to this synchronization concept.
What is a mutex?
A VIP Pass to go backstage at a concert is most similar to this idea in Operating Systems.
What is Privileged access (or kernel mode access via system calls)
This type of OS is what is involved in drones or the juicero juicing system.
What is an embedded system?
This OS concept is most similar to having N butlers to solve problems, especially passing messages to Mr Darcy.
What is Worker Pools of Threads?
This operating concept helps explain why a fly has a less complex nervous system then a human
What is the OS environment?
The time to switch from one General Manager to another is most similar to this OS concept.
What is the Dispatch Time (or Context Switch Time)?
This OS concept is most similar to Spiderman's spider sense, an ability to detect incoming danger.
Interrupts (or an interrupt line).
These are the four parts of computer interaction (remember a diagram from the first unit).
What are Users, Application Programs, Operating System, Hardware?
In Alice in Wonderland, Alice shrinks to leave the smallest rabbithole in entering wonderland. This relates to this topic.
What is the Contiguous Memory Allocation problem?
Breaking the solar system into smaller parts to search by distributing each part to different teloscopes is an example of this process.
What is data parallelism?
This OS concept explains why with four lines in hockey, the first line plays 40% of the time with the fourth line plays 10% of the time (note: be as specific as possible!).
What is scheduling with prioritization?
This musical device is asynchronous and can be considered to communicate via character streams.
What is a microphone (or perhaps some sort of synthesized device like a keyboard)?
This esteemed Trinity Western University Computing Science Professor went to Simon Fraser University.
Who is Dr. Park, Dr Tsang, or Rick Sutcliffe (note: I am not a professor!).
Hannibal's famed pincer strike maneuver is most similar to this multhreading design pattern.
What is the fork-join paradigm?
A single celled organism is most similar to this idea in OS configurations (hint: it shouldn't have systems in the answer).
What is a monolithic kernel?
When a hockey game is tied at the end of the third period, the games enters overtime where the next team to score wins; if it still a tie, a shootout occurs where a team is guaranteed to win. This best represents this OS concept.
What is deadlock prevention?
The bat signal is most similar to this concept from the IO Unit.
What is the Command Buffer?