CIS332 (Spring 1998) Principles of Operating Systems;
Professor Franz J. Kurfess 

Home page:http://www.cis.njit.edu/franz   E-mail:franz@cis.njit.edu
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3 Processes Monday, Feb 16, 1998 10

A university has four departments: (1) application-processing department, who take students applications; (2) admissions, who process admissions; (3) registrar, who registers students for cources; and (4) graders, professors who assign grades.

What form of interprocess communication do they use?











Describe the important actions and communication activities of the processes for the whole task of serving one customer.











Would it be appropriate to use threads for this task? What are the advantages and potential problems?