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This type of software collectively manages and controls access to a computer's hardware resources.
What is an operating system.
An instance of an executing program?
What is a process?
This command is used to compile a C source file into an executable module.
What is gcc?
Working at Iowa State University, these two individuals designed and built what is regarded as the first functioning digital computer.
Who are Professor John Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry?
This operating system mode restricts access to computer hardware resources.
What is Kernel Mode?
An operating system runs programs in either one of these two modes.
What are Kernel and User modes?
This Unix C function creates a child process.
What is fork()?
This function is used to print formatted output to the terminal.
What is the printf() function?
This system of executing programs on mainframes entailed gathering a tray full of jobs from the input room, reading the punch cards onto magnetic tape using a smaller computer such as the IBM 1401, and then executing the programs on an IBM 7094. The program output was written to magnetic tape which was then loaded by an operator on an IBM 1401 to produce the program's printed output.
What is the batch system? or What are batch jobs?
This term is used to refer collectively to a computer's instruction set, memory organization, I/O, and bus structure.
What is an Architecture?
Most programs run in this operating system mode.
What is User mode?
Every program has one of these upon which the primary code execution path executes?
What is the main thread of execution?
This function is used to obtain formatted input from the terminal?
What is the scan() function?
This was the first major commercial computer line to use small-scale IC's (Integrated Circuits).
What is the IBM 360?
This term refers to sharing computer resources in Time and in Space.
What is Multiplexing?
This term is used to refer to an interface that simplifies programmatic interaction between hardware or software architectural layers or boundaries.
What is an Abstraction?
What is a process?
A variable of this data type can hold numeric values from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647.
What is an int?
The first operating system of the IBM Personal Computer (PC).
What is IBM PC DOS? or What is DOS? or What is the Disk Operating System?
Apple's MacOS is a certified version of this trademarked operating system?
What is Unix?
This operating system mode acts as a gatekeeper to a computer's hardware resources.
What is Kernel Mode?
What is a thread? or What are threads?
This function serves as the entry point for a program.
What is the main() function?
2007 saw the release of this very popular version of Microsoft's Windows operating system.
What is Microsoft Windows XP?
This Intel technology enables one physical computer core to appear as two virtual cores.
What is Hyperthreading?