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Title: Invitation to Computer Science 5th Edition


1
Invitation to Computer Science 5th Edition
  • Chapter 6
  • An Introduction to System Software and
    Virtual Machines

2
Objectives
  • In this chapter, you will learn about
  • System software
  • Assemblers and assembly language
  • Operating systems

3
Introduction
  • Naked machine
  • Hardware bereft of any helpful user-oriented
    features
  • Data as well as instructions must be represented
    in binary
  • To make a Von Neumann computer usable
  • Create an interface between the user and the
    hardware

3
4
System Software
  • The virtual machine
  • System software collection of computer programs
    that manage the resources of a computer and
    facilitate access to those resources
  • Software sequences of instructions that solve a
    problem

4
5
Figure 6.1 The Role of System Software
6
Types of System Software
  • Operating system
  • Communicates with users
  • Determines what they want
  • Activates other system programs, applications
    packages, or user programs to carry out their
    request

7
Types of System Software (continued)
  • User interface
  • Provides user with an intuitive visual overview
  • Language services (assemblers, compilers, and
    interpreters)
  • Allow you to write programs in a high level
  • Memory managers
  • Allocate memory space for programs and data
  • Information managers
  • Handle the organization, storage, and retrieval
    of information on mass storage devices

8
Figure 6.2 Types of System Software
9
Types of System Software (continued)
  • I/O systems
  • Allow you to easily and efficiently use the input
    and output devices that exist on a computer
    system
  • Scheduler
  • Keeps a list of programs ready to run on the
    processor and selects the one that will execute
    next
  • Utilities
  • Library routines that provide useful services
    either to a user or to other system routines

10
Assemblers and Assembly Language
  • Problems with machine language
  • Uses binary
  • Is difficult to change
  • Is difficult to create data

11
Assembly Language
  • Assembly language
  • Low-level programming language
  • Each symbolic assembly language instruction is
    translated into exactly one binary machine
    language instruction
  • High-level programming languages
  • User oriented
  • Not machine specific
  • Use both natural language and mathematical
    notation in their design

12
Figure 6.3 The Continuum of Programming Languages
13
Assembly Language(continued)
  • Source program
  • Program written in assembly language
  • Object program
  • Source program must be translated into a
    corresponding machine language program
  • Assembler
  • System software that carries out translation
  • Advantage of assembly language
  • Allows use of symbolic addresses

14
Figure 6.4 The Translation/ Loading/Execution
Process
15
Figure 6.5 Typical Assembly Language Instruction
Set
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Assembly Language(continued)
  • Advantages of symbolic labels
  • Program clarity
  • Maintainability
  • Pseudo-op
  • Invokes the service of the assembler
  • Provides program construction

17
Figure 6.6 Structure of a Typical Assembly
Language Program
18
Examples of Assembly Language Code
  • Conditional operation
  • Tests and compares values
  • Algorithmic problem-solving cycle
  • One of the central themes of computer science

19
Figure 6.7 Algorithm to Compute the Sum of Numbers
20
Figure 6.8 Assembly Language Program to Compute
the Sum of Nonnegative Numbers
21
Translation and Loading
  • Assembler
  • Translates a symbolic assembly language program
    into machine language
  • Tasks performed
  • Convert symbolic op codes to binary
  • Convert symbolic addresses to binary
  • Perform the assembler services requested by the
    pseudo-ops
  • Put the translated instructions into a file for
    future use

22
Translation and Loading (continued)
  • Op code table
  • Alphabetized list of all legal assembly language
    op codes and their binary equivalents
  • In assembly language
  • A symbol is defined when it appears in the label
    field of an instruction or data pseudo-op
  • Pass
  • Process of examining and processing every
    assembly language instruction in the program, one
    instruction at a time

23
Figure 6.9 Structure of the Op Code Table
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Figure 6.10 Generation of the Symbol Table
25
Translation and Loading (continued)
  • First pass over source code
  • Assembler looks at every instruction
  • Binding
  • Process of associating a symbolic name with a
    physical memory address
  • Primary purposes of the first pass of an
    assembler
  • To bind all symbolic names to address values
  • To enter those bindings into the symbol table

26
Translation and Loading (continued)
  • Location counter
  • Variable used to determine the address of a given
    instruction
  • Second pass
  • Assembler translates source program into machine
    language
  • After completion of pass 1 and pass 2
  • Object file contains the translated machine
    language object program

27
Figure 6.11 Outline of Pass 1 of the Assembler
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Figure 6.12 Outline of Pass 2 of the Assembler
29
Figure 6.13 Example of an Object Program
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Operating Systems
  • Operating system
  • Waits for requests and activates other system
    programs to service these requests
  • System commands
  • Used to translate, load, and run programs

31
Functions of an Operating System
  • The user interface
  • Operating system commands usually request access
    to hardware resources, software services, or
    information
  • To communicate with a user, a GUI supports visual
    aids and point-and-click operations

32
Figure 6.14 Some Typical Operating System
Commands
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Figure 6.15 User Interface Responsibility of the
Operating System
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Figure 6.16 Example of a Graphical User Interface
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System Security and Protection
  • Operating system
  • Controls access to the computer and its resources
  • Safeguards password file
  • Sometimes uses encryption to provide security
  • Access control
  • Use of a legal user name and password

36
Figure 6.17 Authorization List for the File GRADES
37
Efficient Allocation of Resources
  • I/O controller
  • Frees the processor to do useful work while the
    I/O operation is being completed
  • To ensure that a processor does not sit idle if
    there is useful work to do
  • Operating system keeps a queue of programs that
    are ready to run

38
The Safe Use of Resources
  • Operating system
  • Prevents programs or users from attempting
    operations that cause the computer system to
    enter a frozen state
  • Deadlock
  • Each program is waiting for a resource to become
    available that will never become free

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The Safe Use of Resources (continued)
  • Deadlock prevention
  • Operating system uses resource allocation
    algorithms that prevent deadlock from occurring
    in the first place
  • Deadlock recovery algorithms
  • Detect and recover from deadlocks

40
Summary of OS Responsibilities
  • Major responsibilities of operating systems
  • User interface management (a receptionist)
  • Control of access to system and files (a security
    guard)
  • Program scheduling and activation (a dispatcher)
  • Efficient resource allocation (an efficiency
    expert)
  • Deadlock detection and error detection (a traffic
    officer)

41
Historical Overview of OperatingSystems
Development
  • First-generation system software
  • Roughly 19451955
  • No operating systems and very little software
    support
  • Second-generation system software
  • Called batch operating systems (19551965)
  • Command language
  • Commands specifying to the operating system what
    operations to perform on programs

42
Figure 6.18 Operation of a Batch Computer System
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Figure 6.19 Structure of a Typical Batch Job
44
Historical Overview of OperatingSystems
Development (continued)
  • Third-generation operating systems
  • Multiprogrammed operating systems (19651985)
  • Many user programs are simultaneously loaded into
    memory
  • User operation codes could be included in any
    user program
  • Privileged operation codes use restricted to the
    operating system or other system software

45
Historical Overview of OperatingSystems
Development (continued)
  • Time-sharing system
  • Many programs can be stored in memory
  • Allows programmer to enter system commands,
    programs, and data online
  • Distributed environment
  • Much of the computing was done remotely in the
    office, laboratory, classroom, and factory
  • Network operating system
  • Fourth-generation operating system (1985present)

46
Figure 6.20 Configuration of a Time-Shared
Computing System
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Figure 6.21 A Local Area Network
48
Historical Overview of OperatingSystems
Development (continued)
  • Real-time operating system
  • Manages resources of embedded computers that are
    controlling ongoing physical processes
  • Guarantees that it can service important requests
    within a fixed amount of time

49
The Future
  • Multimedia user interfaces
  • Will interact with users and solicit requests in
    a variety of ways
  • Parallel processing operating system
  • Can efficiently manage computer systems
    containing tens, hundreds, or even thousands of
    processors
  • Distributed computing environment
  • Users do not need to know the location of a given
    resource within the network

50
Figure 6.23 Structure of a Distributed System
51
Figure 6.24 Some of the Major Advances in
Operating Systems Development
52
Summary
  • System software
  • Acts as an intermediary between the users and the
    hardware
  • Assembly language
  • Creates a more productive, user-oriented
    environment than machine language
  • An assembler
  • Translates an assembly language program into a
    machine language program
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