CS345 Assignment 2 - Chapters 3 & 4

• Chapter 3 - 3.1, 3.2, 3.5, 3.7
  
• Chapter 4
  
• Why is a process state associated with each process?
• What is the difference between a process state and queue?
• What is context switching?
• What is the difference between a cooperating process and an independent process?
• What is the difference between Unix pipes and sockets?
• What is the difference between RPC and RMI?
• In class we "played computer" with the BoundedBuffer class by assuming  particular combinations of inserts and removes and noting how the variaous variables changed value.  Do the same thing  for the following:
• Assume buffer size of 4
• Assume the following takes place
• 2 inserts
• 1 remove
• 3 inserts
• 2 removes