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At time 230 five processes (P1 - P5) are waiting for a timeout signal.They are scheduled to wake up at times: 260, 320, 360, 430, 450.
Suppose that a computer using direct-mapped cache has 2^24 words of main memory and a cache of 64 blocks, where each cache block contains 16 words.
What is "file type?" Where do file types come from? What are some of the information that file types provide (tip: think about copying and pasting, as well as importing/exporting between files)? How c
Given the following set of events, show which routines the CPU is executing for times 0 to 100 ns. Each handler routine (with its interrupt request) takes 20 ns to complete
The Toronto IT department wants to install Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition on all 14 new servers in its location. The servers have arrived, are unpacked, and have been tested. Also, the prelimina
Consider a single platter disk with the following parameters: rotation speed: 7200rpm; number of tracks on one side of platter: 30000; number of sectors per track: 600; seek time: one ms for every hun
This week you work with Gym Masters, a company that makes equipment for fitness centers and gyms. Gym Masters makes tread mills, stair steppers, cross trainers, exercise bikes, free weights, and stati
Your friend has a windows XP desktop system that contains important data. He frantically calls you to say that when he turns on the computer, the lights on the front panel lights up and he can hear th
Some instruction at the operating system machine level are identical to ISA language instruction. These instruction are carried by the micro program rather than by the operation system . In light of y
Other than installing virus and worm control software, what can SLS do to be ready for the next incident?
Discussing the limitation of earl OS what are some limitation of the present windows 95 and 98 computers for use in the context of this library
What are some limitations of the presents Windows 95 and 98 computers for use in the context of this library, compared to the modern operating systems?
Suppose a time-sharing operating system allocated time slices of 20 milliseconds and the time machine executed an average of 5000 instructions per microseconds. How many instructions could be executed
Define and describe the OSI model, TCP/IP protocol, File transfer protocol, or wireless workstation giving examples of its usage and explaining its' background and history
When preparing a proposal for an operating-system migration, what topics and subjects do you cover in this document.
Develop a Unix shell script to input number of hours worked and pay rate and calculate the total pay, then the social security amount (assume 5%), then the net pay
When troubleshooting a motherboard, you discover the modem port no longer works. What is the best and least expensive solution to this problem?
Memory allocation and deallocation is done through malloc and free in C language.
When an operating system receives an interrupt from the printer and pauses the CPU, it is performing which of the following functions?
You are asked to design the virtual memory system for a new operating system working on small mobile devices. The memory operates at 333 MHz with a word size of 4 bytes. Swapped pages are stored on a
Remembering that there's a trade-off between memory use and CPU overhead, give an example where increasing the size of virtual memory will improve job, throughout. Then give an example where doing so
It's great to have more than one Operating Systems like Windows and Linux on same PC. Can you think about scenarios to perform that. Which software, Hardware you may need? And what are the requirement
Suppose a time-sharing operating system is allotting time slices of 50 milliseconds. If it normally takes 8 milliseconds to position a disk's read/write head over the desired track and another 17 mill
It's great to have more than one Operating Systems like Windows and Linux on same PC. Can you thinks about scenarios to perform that. Which software, Hardware you may need? And what are the requiremen
What are some ways you could integrate Linux servers into a Windows network to share information? What would be the advantages and disadvantages