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Decks in this class (18)

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

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