Exam 8: Operating System Support

Uniprogramming is the central theme of modern operating systems.

With demand paging it is necessary to load an entire process into main memory.

The ABI is the boundary between hardware and software.

A _________ is a special type of programming language used to provide instructions to the monitor.

________ is when the processor spends most of its time swapping pages rather than executing instructions.

Because a process executes only in main memory,that memory is referred to as __________.

The ________ gives a program access to the hardware resources and services available in a system through the user instruction set architecture supplemented with high-level language library calls.

_________ paging means that each page of a process is brought in only when it is needed.

Both batch multiprogramming and time sharing use multiprogramming.

The portion of the monitor that must always be in main memory and available for execution is referred to as the __________.

ARM provides a versatile virtual memory system architecture that can be tailored to the needs of the embedded system designer.

A _________ is an actual location in main memory.

The __________ ,or nucleus,contains the most frequently used functions in the OS.

Scheduling and memory management are the two OS functions that are most relevant to the study of computer organization and architecture.

The __________ is a program that controls the execution of application programs and acts as an interface between applications and the computer hardware.

The most important system program is the OS.

With _________ the virtual address is the same as the physical address.

Early computer systems presented two main problems: setup time and _____.

The end user is concerned mainly with the computer's architecture.

When the processor executes a process it automatically converts from logical to physical address by adding the current starting location of the process,called its __________,to each logical address.