CSC 4103 : 2005 Final Exam
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There are 20 questions (7 pages), totalling 104 points. Please name this entity ?: (2pts) the accompanying illustration (right) illustrates a sample application"s interaction with a host computer"s operating system through invocation of the function. Open. the underlying implementation of open is provided by the operating system. We have used a specific term for invocations like open, which provide an interface to the resources made available by an operating system. ?. please name this entity ?: (4pts) sometimes it may be desirable to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single unit of computing hardware (e. g, both windows and linux). The virtual machine approach, which can support this behavior on a single-processor computer, is illustrated to the right. user mode kernel mode user user user system and application programs hardware application w/in application: open() . ? (which are familiar to you from presently-mainstream systems, but not abbreviated os).
