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Registers in a CPU
What is a register 1,
What is an instruction set 2,
What would the instruction add ac...
6  cards
Device Drivers
0  cards
Virtual Machines
What is the process of creating a...,
What are three benefits of using ...,
What are three disadvantages of u...
9  cards
Types of applications
What is an application 1,
What is not an application 2,
What is a utility 3
10  cards
Application Generation
What is a translator 1,
What does an assembler do 2,
Why are assemblers used benefits 3
15  cards
Stages of Compilation
What are the three stages of comp...,
What is a lexicon 2,
What is a lexeme 3
5  cards
Types of Processor
What does cisc stand for 1,
What does risc stand for 2,
What processor requires more prog...
4  cards
Test
What is a microbe 1
1  cards
Linkers and Loaders
What are modules 1,
What is the difference between mo...,
When modules are said to be very ...
3  cards
RAM, ROM and Virtual Memory
What is main memory 1,
What is volatile memory 2,
What is the use of ram 3
10  cards
Purpose of an Operating System
What functions do the os provide 1,
What are the parts of an os 2,
What is the kernal 3
8  cards
memory management
What is memory segmentation 1,
What is a process 2,
What is the code segment 3
11  cards
Interrupts and Polling
What is polling 1,
What is the advantages of polling 2,
What is the disadvantage of polli...
5  cards
Types of operating systems
What is a multi tasking os 1,
What is a multi user os 2,
What tasks do the multi user os c...
7  cards
BIOS
What is the bios 1,
What does the bios contain 2,
What are the steps that the bios ...
3  cards
Device Drivers
What is a device driver 1
1  cards
Virtual machines
What is a virtual machine 1,
What are the benefits of running ...,
What are the disadvantages of run...
5  cards
Linkers loaders and libraries
What are modules 1,
What are object files 2,
What is a code library 3
8  cards

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