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Difference between Hard and Soft real-time systems?
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Nov 18, 2013
by
anonymous
os
rtos
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Difference between embedded system and computer system ?
posted
Oct 17, 2013
by
Vikram Singh
os
hardware
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2
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What is Batch processing and what are its advantages and disadvantages?
posted
Jul 13, 2015
by
anonymous
operating system
os
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What is the difference between Linux and UNIX operating systems?
posted
Jan 22, 2014
by
anonymous
linux
unix
os
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Explain programmed I/O and interrupt I/O. How they differ
posted
Apr 22, 2015
by
Vrije Mani Upadhyay
os
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Difference between synchronous and asynchronous interrupt ?
posted
Sep 29, 2013
by
Neeraj Mishra
os
interrupt
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what is the difference between mutex and binary semaphore ?
posted
Sep 8, 2013
by
Sony Mohanty
os
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OS: Difference between pipe and fifo ?
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Nov 15, 2013
by
Ganesh Kumar
os
c programming
c
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What is the meaning of dispatch latency in context of operating system?
posted
May 31, 2014
by
Amit Kumar Pandey
os
operating system
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of multiprogramming?
posted
Jun 6, 2016
by
Mike Kipngetich Bore
operating system
os
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vote
1
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OS: what is difference between system call and api?
posted
Jun 22, 2014
by
Amit Kumar Pandey
os
systemcall
api
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2
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Which is the fastest IPC mechanism and why ?
posted
Sep 9, 2013
by
Vikram Singh
os
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1
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What is the difference between kernel level thread and user level thread?
posted
Jul 18, 2015
by
anonymous
threads
process
operating system
os
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1
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What are the disadvantages of context switching ?
posted
Dec 28, 2014
by
Vikram Singh
operating system
os
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vote
2
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How to recover deleted files using python?
posted
Dec 26, 2013
by
Jagan Mishra
python
os
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1
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OS: What does mean of "rendezvous" condition in the context of operating system ?
posted
Jun 28, 2014
by
Harshita
os
operating system
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0
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What is the difference bewteen Single partition allocation and Multiple partition allocation?
posted
Jul 23, 2015
by
anonymous
os
operating system
memory management
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1
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what is the difference between multicore and multiprocessor ?
posted
Nov 11, 2015
by
Michael N Hiwanapo
os
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2
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What is the difference between Bootloader and Boot Manager?
posted
Feb 16, 2016
by
anonymous
linux
windows
os
boot
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1
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Can we use socket instead of message queue?
posted
Oct 29, 2013
by
Vikas Upadhyay
os
vxworks
linux
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vote
1
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What all core difference between direct and Indirect Inter-Process Communication?
posted
Dec 29, 2015
by
Kali Mishra
os
processors
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1
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OS: What is Belady's Anomaly ?
posted
Jun 28, 2014
by
Harshita
os
operating system
0
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1
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OS: What's difference between hardware interrupt and software interrupt ?
posted
Jun 1, 2014
by
Ganesh Kumar
os
linux
unix
operating system
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1
answer
Difference between unitasking and multitasking ?
posted
Dec 10, 2013
by
Diya Sharma
os
rtos
vxworks
linux
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votes
1
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What is the need of three scheduler i.e Long Term, Short Term and Medium Term Scheduler in an OS?
posted
Jul 14, 2015
by
anonymous
operating system
os
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vote
2
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What is compaction in context of operating system?
posted
May 31, 2014
by
Amit Kumar Pandey
os
operating system
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0
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OS: Differences between compile time, load time and execution time bindings ?
posted
Jun 1, 2014
by
Vikram Singh
operating system
os
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votes
2
answers
What is the difference between elf and a.out ?
posted
Nov 8, 2013
by
Anuj Yadav
os
c
linux
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1
answer
What resources are used when a thread created? How do they differ from those when a process is created?
posted
Sep 9, 2013
by
Vinay Shukla
os
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1
answer
What is cycle stealing and how it improve the system performance?
posted
Nov 21, 2013
by
anonymous
os
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vote
1
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What is placement and replacement algorithms?
posted
May 31, 2014
by
Amit Kumar Pandey
os
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0
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of an inverted page table as compared to a normal page table?
posted
May 26, 2016
by
anonymous
operating system
os
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1
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What is the latency, transfer and seek time with respect to disk I/O?
posted
Mar 31, 2016
by
Jayshree
operating system
os
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vote
1
answer
What are the different functions of Syntax phase, Scheduler?
posted
Sep 7, 2015
by
Mohammed Hussain
operating system
os
0
votes
2
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What is thrashing in context of operating system?
posted
Dec 8, 2015
by
anonymous
os
operating system
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vote
0
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What is the difference among Contiguous File Allocation, Linked File Allocation and Indexed File Allocation method?
posted
Jul 27, 2015
by
anonymous
operating system
os
file system
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3
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.What is diference between monolithic kernel and micro kernel ?
posted
Dec 10, 2013
by
Mona Sharma
linux
vxworks
os
rtos
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votes
2
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What is DMA i.e. direct memory access, please describe in detail?
posted
Aug 1, 2015
by
anonymous
operating system
os
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votes
1
answer
OS: How RPC works ? Can someone please provide real life example ?
posted
Oct 17, 2013
by
Vikram Singh
os
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votes
1
answer
What is the advantage of having virtual address space concept in OS ?
posted
Sep 29, 2013
by
Vimal Kumar Mishra
os
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votes
1
answer
What is the difference between dynamic and static linking?
posted
Jul 21, 2015
by
anonymous
operating system
os
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vote
1
answer
Explain about paged segmentation and segment paging?
posted
Sep 7, 2015
by
Mohammed Hussain
operating system
os
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votes
1
answer
What is difference between VxWorks and GPOS ?
posted
Dec 10, 2013
by
Vikas Upadhyay
vxworks
os
rtos
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votes
2
answers
Can we change the inode table entries for a file in unix system ? If yes then how ?
posted
Sep 30, 2013
by
Vikram Singh
os
linux
file system
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vote
2
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How RTOS differ from other general operating systems.
posted
Sep 1, 2013
by
Vimal Kumar Mishra
os
rtos
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votes
2
answers
What is the use of structure padding in C?
posted
Nov 24, 2013
by
sivanraj
data structures
c
c programming
os
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vote
1
answer
Which is the best page replacement algorithm and Why? How much time is spent usually in each phases and why?
posted
May 12, 2016
by
Hasan Raza
operating system
os
interview questions
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votes
2
answers
What is a Thread and how it is different from Process?
posted
Jul 18, 2015
by
anonymous
operating system
os
threads
process
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votes
2
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What is priority inversion and What are the various methods to overcome it?
posted
May 13, 2014
by
Varun Kumar
os
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votes
1
answer
Which data structure is used to store a file into memory and why?
posted
Nov 1, 2013
by
Meenal Mishra
data structures
os
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