File Management
Operating Systems
Dining Philosopher
RISC vs CISC
Communications
100
Data files whose records always have to be retrieved from the beginning.
What is sequential access?
100
Use of concurrent processing to simulate simultaneous execution of multiple programs even when using only a single CPU.
What is multitasking?
100
Thinking and Eating.
What is what dining philosopher's do?
100
The goal is to have one instruction done every cycle.
What is RISC.
100
This has an amplitude, period, wavelength, and frequency.
What is a sine wave?
200
Acts as the interface between the file manager, device and memory.
What is the IO device driver?
200
This is always loaded in memory and contains essential services.
What is the kernel?
200
No one gets to eat because everyone has a chopstick.
What is deadlock?
200
Includes multi clock instructions.
What is CISC?
200
A wave that is shifted this much looks exactly the same.
What is 360 deg?
300
The pathname is created starting from the current directory.
What is relative?
300
Transfer control to the process that is being dispatched.
What is context switching?
300
Fast eaters can force the slow eaters to do this.
What is starvation?
300
Of RISC or CISC, the IBM PC is this type.
What is CISC?
300
Common forms of this are storms, the big bang, and other transmitters.
What is noise?
400
List of users who may access the file for each of the forms of protection.
What is the access control list?
400
Specialized systems designed to control a single piece of equipment such as an automobile or microwave.
What is an embedded control system?
400
Of Alan Turning, Grace Hopper, or Edward Dijkstra, the famous computer scientist who created the Dining Philosophers model.
Who was Edward Dijkstra?
400
In 1977 this costs about $5000, the same amount in 1994 cost $6, today $0.04.
What is 1MB of DRAM?
400
Wire surrounded by an insulator with a copper shield around the insulation.
What is coax cable?
500
Disk drives that mirror each other.
What is RAID?
500
Andriod, BSD, IOS, OS X, QNX all share roots with this.
What is Unix?
500
This is what the philosophers eat.
What is spaghetti?
500
Of RISC or CISC, which type of machine is easier to pipeline.
What is RISC?
500
Of 25, 50, or 100 miles, the most common distance for a line of sight signal to travel.
What is 50 miles?
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