(Solved): a. Describe how the historical development of hardware and operating system computing platforms pro ...

a. Describe how the historical development of hardware and operating system computing platforms produced the computing operating systems we have today. b. Describe how the components and functions of an operating system work together to provide a computing platform. c. Analyze the power requirements for a computer system. d. Justify the need for power and heat budgets within an IT environment. e. Describe how the various types of servers meet different organizational requirements. f. Justify the need for hardware and software integration. g. Describe how numbers and characters are represented in a computer. h. Produce a block diagram, including interconnections, of the main parts of a computer i. Describe how a computer stores and retrieves information to/from memory and hard drives. j. Define for each of these terms in your own words: bus, handshaking, serial, parallel, data rate.