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Difference between win98 and windowsXP?
parupradhi85
- Jul 22nd, 2008
Dear frnd,Win981. Win98 Support FAT file system & XP support NTFS And Also FAT. 2. Win98 Does not Having Remote Access facility While in XP there is.3. win98 Does not need faster proce...
parupradhi85
- Jul 21st, 2008
1. Win98 Support FAT file system & XP support NTFS And Also FAT. 2. Win98 Does not Having Remote Access facility While in XP there is. 3. win98 Does not need faster processing speed while XP Need ...
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Print I/O and Disk I/O
Describe the advantages of having a seperate queue for Print I/O and for Disk I/O?
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Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of removing operating system altogether?
Jana Rthan
- Jan 3rd, 2011
Disadvantage:?Not easy to interact with the system.?Resource allocation is difficult. No back up is availableAdvantage?Direct HARDWARE ACCESS.
shorty_soos
- Jan 1st, 2010
It allows you to use your computer without any knowledge of coding. Without an operating system, your hardware would not work at all, until you wrote your own code for the hardware to do what you want...
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Data Inconsistency / Critical Section
Consider the following program segments for two different processes (P1, P2) executing concurrently, where a and b are not shared variables, but x starts at zero and is a shared variable.
Case 1:"Processor #1 "for (a = 1; aAnil Kumar Katti
- Dec 31st, 2010
I think it is mentioned that 'x' is initialized to 0.I would solve it this way: Unrolling the loops, we get the following instructions to be executed in each of the following cases:C...
nancyagg
- Jul 11th, 2010
Part A : Since in case1 X is not initialized. Therefore the resulting values in case 1 will be some garbage values stored in X earlier.Whereas in case2 X has been initialized therefore the possib...
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Blue Screen Dump Error
List the possible causes for blue screen dump error in Windows Operating System?
radhakrushna
- Dec 17th, 2010
There could be a lot of problem for Blue Screen Error. There are some answers which I can think:Miss mathed of driver.Any Hardware Problem.Any system file corruption.But must of the system in my experience I have seen the problem due to RAM issue.
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Memory protection is normally done by the 1. processor and associated hardware 2. operating system 3. compiler 4. user program
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Optimal Page Replacement
What do we mean by Optimal Page Replacement?
bhavna123
- Nov 2nd, 2010
Optimal Page Replacement refers to the removal of the page that will not be used in the future, for the longest period of time. It is the reverse of Least Recently Used.For Eg: You have the reference ...
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Deadlock Cycle
If there is a cycle then it is necessary that it will be in deadlock? Elaborate
khanrijwan
- Sep 24th, 2010
If all the resources have only one instance and there is a cycle in the resource allocation graph, then deadlock is conform.
vurukalasc
- Apr 30th, 2009
Cycle in Resource Allocation Graph (RAG) does not mean dead lock. It is the necessary condition but not the sufficient condition to check for dead lockonly if the resource has single instance then we can say that cycle in RAG means deadlock.
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What is the function of Virtual Memory?
SKPasu
- Aug 19th, 2010
With virtual memory, the computer can look for areas of RAM that have not been used recently and copy them onto the hard disk. This frees up space in RAM to load the new application. Because it does t...
s_kalaiselvan
- Oct 11th, 2007
Hai When we use the application goes to over the RAM capability some amount of space in the HDD act as a RAM for managing the application.that is called Virual memory.if the system run...
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Solaris HBA Card model
How to find the HBA Card model, type or make in Solaris 10?
Ragyapa
- Aug 18th, 2010
# prtdiag -vThere look for "IO Cards":========================= IO Cards ========================= &n...
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Diffrence between segmantation and paging
Sujitha_Dhanaraj
- Jul 10th, 2010
Question in reference to VIDYA VENKITESWARAN's answer...In what sense do you say segmentation is visible to the user while paging is not. Can you elaborate on it..Thanks in advance
raj
- Apr 7th, 2007
Paging is a technic which uses fixed size?memory(physical)allocation & segmentation is variable size allocation.paging suffer from internal fragmentation & segmentation is suffer from external fragmentation......
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Operating Systems Virtual Memory
If a system has 128 MB RAM and 1 GB hard Disk, and a process decides to use its fully allotted Virtual Memory 2^32 - 2GB = 2 GB, How is it practically possible?
erdhavalpatel
- Jun 26th, 2010
The basic idea behind the VM is that the combined size of the program, data and stack may exceed the amount of physical memory avaliable for it. The operating system keeps those parts of the program currently in use in main memory and rest on disk. Thanks.
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Virtual Memory
Now-a-days we can use more than 4 GB as RAM in windows, then we go for virtual memory?
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Page Fault
When do pagefault occur? Describe the actions taken by the OS when page fault occurs.
venu chowdary
- Apr 6th, 2010
A page is a fixed-length block of memory that is used as a unit of transfer between physical memory and external storage like a disk, and a page fault is an interrupt (or exception) to the software ra...
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Configure Hard Disk Space
How to configure Hard Disk Space, file system and domain during XP installation?
sholanki
- Feb 14th, 2010
Insert your XP installation CD inside the CD ROM. Reboot your system. Go through the instructions. Make a new clean install of windows. It will ask you for hard disk partition. There you can change the space of each drive and can also make new drives of your desired space.
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Which is the first operating systems?
hari19784
- Sep 16th, 2007
The GM-NAA I/O input/output system of General Motors and North American Aviation was the first operating system in the history of computer science.[1]It was created in 1956 by Bob Patrick of General M...
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User State Migration Tool
How to use USMT in Windows Server 2003?
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Microprocessor Events Sequence
A microprocessor can execute simple machine level instructions. For example: LDA 100 means load the accumulator with the contents of storage location 100. Show the sequence of events when a microprocessor carries out this instruction
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