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What are multiprocessor systems and give their advantages?

Answer: Multiprocessor systems also known as parallel systems or tightly coupled systems are systems that have more than one processor in close communication, sharing the computer, the clock, and sometimes memory & peripheral devices. Their main…

What do you mean by Time-sharing systems?

Answer: Time-sharing or multitasking is a logical extension of multiprogramming. It allows many users to share the computer simultaneously. The CPU executes multiple jobs by switching among them, but the switches occur so frequently that the users c…

What is an interactive computer systems?

Answer: Interactive computer system provides direct communication between the user and the system. The user gives instructions the operating system or to a program directly, using a keyboard or mouse, and waits for immediate results.

What is the advantage of Multiprogramming?

Answer: Multiprogramming increases CPU utilization by organizing jobs so that the CPU always has one to execute. Several jobs are placed in the main memory and the processor is switched from job to job as needed to keep several jobs advancing while …

What are Batch systems?

Answer: Batch systems are quite appropriate for executing large jobs that needs little interaction. The user can submit jobs and return later for the results. It is not necessary to wait the job is processed. Operators batched together jobs with sim…

What is the Kernel?

Answer: In computing, the kernel is the main component of most computer operating systems; it is a bridge between applications and the actual data processing done at the hardware level. The kernel’s responsibilities include managing the system’s r…

Why is the Operating System viewed as a resource allocator & control program?

Answer: A computer system has many resource – hardware and software that may be required to solve a problem, like CPU time, memory space, file-storage space, I/O device & device & so on. The OS acts as a manager for these resources so it i…

Discuss in detail Table Management Techniques?

Answer: An Assembler used the following tables: OPTAB: Operation Code Contains mnemonic operation code and its machine language equivalent. SYMTAB: Symbol Table maintains symbolic label, operand and their corresponding machine. LITTAB: is a table…

Define: (1) Formal Language Grammars, (2) Terminal Symbols, (3) Alphabet and String.

Answer: 1.       A Formal Language Grammar is a set of formation rules that describe which strings formed from the alphabet of a formal language are syntactically valid, within the language. A grammar only addresses the location and manipulation o…

What is Parsing? Write down the drawback of top-down parsing of backtracking.

Answer: Parsing is the process of analyzing a text, made of a sequence of tokens, to determine its grammatical structure with respect to a given formal grammar. Parsing is also known as syntactic analysis and parser is used for analyzing a text. T…

Give the schematic of Interpretation of HLL Program and execution of a machine language program by the CPU.

Answer:   The CPU used a program counter (PC) to note the address of next instruction to be executed. This instruction is subjected to the instruction execution cycle consisting of the following steps: 1.       Fetch the instruction. 2.       De…

Objective-type questions System Software and Operating System - Part-08 | 10 Question and Answer

Question: Recognition of basic syntactic constructs through reductions, this task is performed by A.     Lexical analysis B.      Syntax analysis C.     Semantic analysis D.     Structure analysis Answer: B. Syntax analysis     Question: A grammar…

Give the difference between multiprogramming and multiprocessing

Answer: A Multiprocessing System is a computer hardware configuration that includes more than one independent processing unit. The term multiprocessing is generally used to refer to large computer hardware complexes found in major scientific or co…

Objective-type questions System Software and Operating System - Part-07 | 10 Question and Answer

Question: Resolution of externally defined symbol is performed by A.     Linker B.      Loader C.     Compiler D.     Editor Answer: A. Linker     Question: Relocatable programs A.     Cannot be used with fixed partitions B.      Can be loaded alm…
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