POS 355 Week 2

Individual Assignment: Huffman Trucking Paper

Write a 3-5 page paper in APA format describing the operating systems used by Huffman Trucking. Why do you think these operating systems were chosen? What are the implications of the operating systems that are in use by Huffman Trucking? You can access the Huffman Trucking Web site from the Virtual Organizations Portal. (Hint: Look at network diagrams.)

Learning Team Assignment: Learning Team Project (Due Week Five)

Begin work on the Operating System Analysis.

o Outline the important features of Windows XP.

Discussion Questions

Do you agree or disagree that throughput and capacity are determining factors for effectiveness of a system more so than processor speed? Why or why not?

What security issues must be resolved now that cannot wait for the next version of Windows to arrive? Are we looking at a patch or a work-around to solve the present issues?

Based on Ornes (2009) article, what are the improvements that a memristor might have over current physical and electronic storage devices? Is a memristor a green technology?

Based on the article by Polakovic and Stefani (2008), what are the main requirements to reconfigure software on-the-fly? How do the authors define a computer component?