Unit 8 Critical Thinking Questions Given the definition of what an OS does, why didn’t early computers need an OS?

Imagine Frankie has a computer with a full hard drive. She needs to create and save a new document, so she deletes a bunch of old files, then writes and saves the document.

Describe how the OS interacts with the disk to allow the new file to be written.

Imagine you just finished saving an Excel spreadsheet of your budget for the month of January in the year 2016. What would be an especially good name for that file, especially if it’s going into a folder with other similar spreadsheets for other months?

What are the relative benefits and drawbacks of lossy versus lossless compression?

Under what circumstances or situations might lossy compression make the most sense?

Under what circumstances or situations might lossless compression make the most sense?

Provide three distinct pieces of advice you would give to novice computer users when it comes to how they should name files and/or structure directories on their computer. For each piece of advice, explain the rationale behind it.