Tag: operating systems

two processes unknowingly wait for resources that are held by each other

two processes wait for the same resource

all resources are shared

two processes share the same shared resource

helps avoid unnecessary writes on a paging device

helps maintain LRU information

allows only read on a page

None of the above

reduces page I/O

decreases the degree of multiprogramming

implies excessive page I/O

improves system performance

Cycle Stealing

Race condition

Time lock

Deadlock

which should run in a certain specified amount of time

which avoids deadlocks

where shared resources are accessed

which must be enclosed by a pair of semaphore operations

Hierarchical

Structured

object oriented

Reporting

Aero

Longhorn

WinFx

Whidbey

Mantis

NAS 3.0

Sparta

Chicago

Odyssey

eHome

Whistler

Freestyle

WWF

WWP

Win-FX

Silverlight