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Silberschatz: Operating Systems Concepts, 6/e Windows XP Update Edition, the best selling introductory text in the market, continues to provide a solid theoretical foundation for understanding operating systems. The 6/e Update Edition offers improved conceptual coverage, added content to... read more
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A control program manages the execution of user programs to prevent errors and improper use of the computer.
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The long-term scheduler, or job scheduler, selects processes from this pool and loads them into memory for execution. The short-term scheduler, or CPU scheduler, selects from among the processes that are ready to execute and allocates the CPU to one of them.
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An I/O-bound process is one that spends more of its time doing I/O than it spends doing computations. A CPU-bound process, in contrast, generates I/O requests infrequently, using more of its time doing computations.
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The ability to continue providing service proportional to the level of surviving hardware is called graceful degradation.
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Software may trigger an interrupt by executing a special operation called a system call (also called a monitor call).
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Switching the CPU to another process requires performing a state save of the current process and a state restore of a different process. This task is known as a context switch.
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A situation like this, where several processes access and manipulate the same data concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place, is called a race condition.
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A computer system can be divided roughly into four components: the hardware, the operating system, the application programs, and the users
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the operating system is the one program running at all times on the computer—usually called the kernel. (Along with the kernel, there are two other types of programs: systems programs, which are associated with the operating system but are not part of the kernel, and application programs, which include all programs not associated with the operation of the system.)
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Each process is represented in the operating system by a process control block (PCB)—also called a task control block.
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We need to have a general knowledge of the structure of a computer system before we can explore the details of system operation.
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Original Language: English
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Publication Date: 1985
ISBN: 0201504804
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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Publication Date: 1985
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- Library of Congress: QA76.76.063S5583 1994
- Dewey: 005.43
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