EECS 1520- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: John Hofbauer

Document Summary

10. 1: application software is written to address our specific needs to solve problems in the. Single contiguous memory management: there are only two programs in memory, the operating system, the application program, ex. A=55555, l=22222, the physical address is 77777: only need to know a to find address, l is relative position, simple to implement and manage, but unlikely a program will need all of the memory. Is called thrashing and can seriously degrade system performance. Cpu from its waiting state pcb: this exchange of information is called a context switch. 5. 2 stored-program concept: 1944-1945 realization that data and instructions to manipulate the data were logically the same and could be stored in the same place, computer design built upon this principle, known as von neumann architecture. Is a collection of cells each with a unique physical address: number of bits in each addressable location called the memory"s addressability varies from one machine to another.