Welcome back to our class! 

I hope your summer was full of relaxing and hard work. 

In todays class:

1. Today is Friday. We will very briefly discuss the five disciplines within computing. 
2. We will continue to review our final exams
3. SL students: work on your IA
4. We will review resource management
   1. Identify the resources that need to be managed within a computer system.
   2. Evaluate the resources available in a variety of computer systems.
   3. Identify the limitations of a range of resources in a specified computer system.
   4. Describe the possible problems resulting from the limitations in the resources in a computer system.
   5. Explain the role of the operating system in terms of managing memory, peripherals and hardware interfaces.
   6. Outline OS resource management techniques: scheduling, policies, multitasking, virtual memory, paging, interrupt, polling.
   7. Discuss the advantages of producing a dedicated operating system for a device.
   8. Outline how an operating system hides the complexity of the hardware from users and applications.