Exam 6: An Introduction to System Software and Virtual Machines

A prompt character is displayed on screen to indicate that an operating system is waiting for input.

Assemblers usually make ____ pass(es) over the source code.

The ____ hides from the user the messy details of underlying hardware.

Translators for ____ are called compilers.

Each symbolic assembly language instruction is translated into one or more machine language instructions.

____ operation codes are restricted to be used in the operating system or other system software.

The program that activates other system programs, applications packages, or user programs to carry out user requests is the assembler.

In ____ language, if we insert or delete an instruction, all memory addresses following that instruction will change.

____ user interfaces include photography, touch, sound, fax, video, and TV.

Machine language allows only numeric memory addresses.

The ____ problem-solving cycle involves inputting code to an assembler, translating it to machine language, loading it into a Von Neumann computer, and executing to produce answers to the problem.

What is the most important piece of system software on the computer?

In a ____ computing environment, users do not need to know the location of a given resource within the network.

Assembly languages allow the programmer to refer to op codes using a symbolic name, called the ____, rather than by a number.

C++ and Java are examples of ____ languages.

The variable used to determine the address of the given instruction or piece of data is called the program counter.

A Von Neumann computer without any helpful user-oriented features is called a(n) ____ machine.

The set of services and resources created by the system software and seen by the user is called a(n) ____ machine.

The ____-generation operating system will be a parallel processing operating system that can manage thousands of processors.

One of the services provided by pseudo-ops is program construction.