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David Meador has Published 164 Articles
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The interface between a process and an operating system is provided by system calls. In general, system calls are available as assembly language instructions. They are also included in the manuals used by the assembly level programmers. System calls are usually made when a process in user mode requires access ... Read More
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A process is an active program i.e a program that is under execution. It contains the program code, program counter, process stack, registers etc. Process Management deals with processes and the various mechanisms to handle them.The various activities that the operating system performs with regard to process management are mainly ... Read More
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Operating Systems have become quite complex and multifaceted with the advancement of time. However, that also means it is getting more and more difficult to design operating systems that satisfy all the specifications required these days. There are no complete solutions possible for design problems, but some approaches are more ... Read More
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GUI is an interface that allows users to interact with different electronic devices using icons and other visual indicators. The graphical user interfaces were created because command line interfaces were quite complicated and it was difficult to learn all the commands in it.In today’s times, graphical user interfaces are used ... Read More
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Virtualization in operating system changes a normal operating system so that it can run different types of applications that may be handled on a single computer system by many users. The operating system may appear different to each user and each of them may believe they are interacting with the ... Read More
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There are two modes of operation in the operating system to make sure it works correctly. These are user mode and kernel mode.A diagram that illustrates the transition from user mode to kernel mode and back again is as follows −The following are the modes −User Mode:The system is in ... Read More
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Open Source operating systems are released under a license where the copyright holder allows others to study, change as well as distribute the software to other people. This can be done for any reason. The different open source operating system available in the market are −CosmosThis is an open source ... Read More
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The hot standby mode is a fail-safe in which a hot standby component is part of an active system. If any component of the system fails, the hot standby component takes its place. In general, a hot standby can refer to any device, system etc. that overtakes operation from a ... Read More
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jQuery animate()The animate( ) method performs a custom animation of a set of CSS properties.Here is the description of all the parameters used by this method −params − A map of CSS properties that the animation will move toward.duration − This is optional parameter representing how long the animation will ... Read More
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Locks are an integral part to maintain concurrency control in DBMS. A transaction in any system implementing lock based concurrency control cannot read or write a statement until it has obtained the required locks.There are two types of locks in Lock based protocols. These are:Binary Locks - These can only be ... Read More