Hardware Architectures
Competing hardware architectures are differentiated by price, performance, availability features, ease of operation (in particular, system administration), and the availability of applications software, including programming languages.
System resources can only be used effectively if the operating system, and possibly also the applications software, understands the design characteristics of the hardware architecture and can schedule resources accordingly. In an ideal world the operating system would hide all such complexity from the end user; the reality is that both system administrators and programmers need some understanding of the architecture. The complexity varies with different hardware architectures, though; the ...
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