CS 497C - Homework 1 - Name:_________________

    DUE: Wednesday, September 5 (in class)


    Please show all work on a seperate sheet attached to this sheet.
    (50 points - 5 points for each problem)

    1. What is an operating system? List three different operating
       systems?
    


    2. What is the distinctive characteristic about the GNU General
       Public License?



    3. Which part of the operating system is loaded into memory as soon
       as the system is booted? What does multitasking mean? 



    4. What are the two agencies that distribute the labor of UNIX? What are
       their functions?



    5. List three commands that you would try to log yourself out of the
       system? In most cases which one will always work?



    6. How do you stop the screen out from scrolling? How will you
       resume scrolling?



    7. What are TERM and SHELL? How do you evaluate their values?



    8. How do you suspend a job? How do you resume a suspended job?
 


    9. Create a directory and change into that directory. Next, create 
       another directory in the new directory and then change to that
       directory too. Now, run cd without any arguments followed by pwd.
       What do you conclude?



   10. What is the one thing that is common to directories, devices,
       terminals, and printer?