Which G3 computers do not support Mac OS X 10.3 and what is the latest operating system one can install on these machines?
– beige Power Mac G3s (includes the G3 Minitowers, G3 desktop, etc) – PowerBook G3 computer without a built-in USB…
Apples Official Mac OS X 10.3 Installation Requirements
– PowerMac G3, G4, or G5 processor – built-in USB – At least 128 Mb of physical RAM – a…
What are the four layers of Mac OS X, from bottom to top?
1. Core OS or Darwin layer – foundation of OS, responsible for all Input/Output and for managing memory and processor…
What are the disk formats that Mac OS X can read and write to? Which of these can Mac OS X be installed on?
Read from and write to: – 32-Bit File Allocation Table (FAT 32) – Unix File System (UFS) – ISO-9660 –…
What is BSD and why is it important to OS X Users?
Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD, sometimes called Berkeley Unix) is the Unix derivative distributed by the University of California, Berkeley starting…
What is multiprocessing or multitasking? What is symmetric multiprocessing?
The ability to execute more than one task at the same time, a task being a program. The terms multitasking…
What is protected memory and when was it introduced?
Memory protection is a system that prevents one process from corrupting the memory of another process running on the same…
What are preemtive and cooperative multitasking and when was it introduced? How does Mac OS X compare to Mac OS 9 in this regard? What other operating systems use either preemtive or cooperative multitasking?
There are two basic types of multitasking: preemptive and cooperative. preemptive – preemptive multitasking, the operating system parcels out CPU…