Recent posts under tag operating system

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How would a filenamed EXAMPLEFILE.TXT appear when viewed under the DOS command console operating in Windows 98?

posted May 11, 2015 by Shivaranjini

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Detailed info about snooping used in cache Cache Coherency ?

posted Apr 23, 2015 by Sachidananda Sahu

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What does signify the following terms in the context of an operating system ?

posted Jan 26, 2015 by Harshita

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How does Linux system handle background process internally ?

posted Jan 21, 2015 by Vikram Singh

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Can someone give detailed view about initial RAM based file system (initramfs) and its contents ?

posted Jan 5, 2015 by Sachidananda Sahu

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What is an idle thread and does it really exist ? How can a programmer create such thread ?

posted Dec 28, 2014 by Harshita

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What are the disadvantages of context switching ?

posted Dec 28, 2014 by Vikram Singh

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What is cache-coherency and how does it maintain ?

posted Dec 14, 2014 by Neeraj Mishra

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Difference between Dynamic RAM and Static RAM ?

posted Dec 11, 2014 by Vikram Singh

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What does mean by dual-mode operation in the context of operating system ?

posted Dec 11, 2014 by Ganesh Kumar

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What is logical and physical address space ?

posted Dec 11, 2014 by Harshita

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How can we define the virtual memory for Windows 7 OS?

posted Dec 7, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What does mean of Data Execution Prevention in context OS?

posted Dec 7, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What is thrashing ?

posted Dec 7, 2014 by Ganesh

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What is process synchronization ?

posted Dec 6, 2014 by Vikram Singh

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What are the basic functions of an operating system ?

posted Dec 2, 2014 by Vikram Singh

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How does CPU interact with Memory, What all System call being generates during interaction?

posted Nov 30, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What Is Disk Scheduling? Type Of Disk Scheduling?

posted Nov 29, 2014 by Vrije Mani Upadhyay

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What is a drawback of MVT ?

posted Nov 27, 2014 by Ganesh Kumar

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What is page cannibalizing ?

posted Nov 27, 2014 by Ganesh Kumar

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OS: What is the meaning of mutex ?

posted Nov 27, 2014 by Neeraj Mishra

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What is process migration and where it is exactly used ?

posted Nov 14, 2014 by Neeraj Mishra

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Difference between micro and macro kernal ?

posted Nov 14, 2014 by Neeraj Mishra

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What is daemon ?

posted Nov 13, 2014 by Ganesh Kumar

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What is fragmentation and it's type ?

posted Nov 13, 2014 by Neeraj Mishra

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what is virtual memory and use of it ?

posted Nov 13, 2014 by Neeraj Mishra

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What does mean of MBR(Master Boot record) in context of OS?

posted Nov 4, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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How NOS differ from any other OS ?

posted Oct 17, 2014 by Harshita

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How many Buffered Memory size required to display the single pixel on screen?

posted Sep 27, 2014 by anonymous

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How to find whether data is stored in stack or its in heap?

posted Sep 23, 2014 by Ankur Athari

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Paging v/s Segmentation ?

posted Sep 19, 2014 by Harshita

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Difference between text and binary files ?

posted Sep 19, 2014 by Harshita

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What is inverted table ?

posted Sep 1, 2014 by Neelam

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How does Virtual Memory size derive ?

posted Sep 1, 2014 by Neelam

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How a system can be prevented from deadlock ?

posted Sep 1, 2014 by Neelam

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What is the difference between fork and vfork system calls ?

posted Aug 29, 2014 by Neelam

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What does Binding in Context of OS?

posted Aug 28, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What does Semantics in Context of OS?

posted Aug 28, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What does Marshalling in Context of OS?

posted Aug 28, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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What Init process does ?

posted Aug 24, 2014 by Ganesh

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What would be the best book for Operating System and Computer Networks?

posted Aug 5, 2014 by anonymous

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Linux: Why the same binary shows different different output for the time comand ?

posted Jul 5, 2014 by Ganesh

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OS: What does mean of "rendezvous" condition in the context of operating system ?

posted Jun 28, 2014 by Harshita

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OS: What is Belady's Anomaly ?

posted Jun 28, 2014 by Harshita

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HP is hiring for System Software Engineers

posted Jun 17, 2014 by anonymous

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Media Server: OAMP: What are maintenance procedures?

posted Jun 15, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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Media Server: What is function of session control & resource manager in context of Media Server?

posted Jun 15, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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How to Copy & Paste between Local and Remote Desktop?

posted Jun 12, 2014 by Kali Mishra

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OS: Difference between segmentation and paging ?

posted Jun 3, 2014 by Vikram Singh

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Can someone please refer a book for building concepts of infrastructure domain ?

posted Jun 3, 2014 by Pallavi Ghildiyal