Monday, October 17, 2011

Operating Systems/ Digital Color

    Operating systems play a huge role in information technology. They manage hardware and software resources and are key components. The kernel and GUI play key parts in the OS as well. Digital color is important as well because of the many different color schemes that can be produced.
    We will use the kernel to manage the memory of our devices, the order the processes are executed as well as how the info is sent and received. The functions that help run the OS will be key to the life of our product. We must manage the memory and keep the paging process as fast as possible. We will use file system management to store and access our files at the cable box base. Device management will be key as we need to determine the way the device will interface with our base computer system.
    We will use different digital color schemes that light up for a couple of different reasons. The first is how far away the remote is from the base, red will be close while blue will be far. We will do this through  RGB and it will be relatively simple. The next will be an option based on the user. If the owner is a Syracuse university fan, he/she can use hexadecimal color to make far away be syracuse orange and close be syracuse royal blue or vice/versa.
   Operating systems and digital color will serve in making our product better, more user friendly and better looking.

1 comment:

  1. given that you are going to have such a small device, running a conventional operating system on it like Windows is not going to be that feasible. When you think about imbedded devices and smaller devices ranging from remotes, to refrigerators to cameras, they all have different types of highly specialized operating systems that enable them to do the very basic things that they do.

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