. Give an example from real life of busy waiting.
. What steps does a well-designed multiprocessing system follow when it detects that a processor is failing.
. Compare the processors’ access to printers and other I/O devices for the master/slave and the symmetric multiprocessing configurations. Give a real-life example where the master/slave configuration might be preferred
. Compare the processors’ access to main memory for the loosely coupled and the symmetric multiprocessing configurations. Give a real-life example where the symmetric configuration might be preferred.
. Describe, in your own words, the concept of “explicit parallelism” without repeating this book’s definition of the term.
