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Decks in this class (11)

1 - Organization
What is an operating system 1,
Issues that oss deal with 2,
Why do oss make it easier to writ...
3  cards
2 - Brief History
Two different ways to look at an ...,
Explain the concept of viewing an...,
Explain the concept of viewing an...
14  cards
3 - Basic OS (Hardware, Booting, Cache, Kernel)
Describe the cpu 1,
What are the operations for a bas...,
What is the bottleneck of a cpu c...
45  cards
4 - Interrupts, Traps, Kernel Design, VMs
At a low level how do we write pr...,
At a high level how do we write p...,
What is i o busy waiting spinning...
36  cards
5 - System Calls
What are system calls used for 1,
What is a trap 2,
What happens inside a trap handler 3
19  cards
6 - Processes
What is multiprogramming 1,
What is cooperative multitasking 2,
What is preemptive multitasking 3
37  cards
7 - Threads
What is a thread pool 1,
What is task starvation 2,
What is a task queue 3
5  cards
8 - Concurrent Programming
What happens when a process calls...,
Is it safe to use fork in a progr...,
What is asynchronous thread cance...
9  cards
9 - Dining Philosophers, Locks, Mutexes
What is deadlock 1,
What is livelock 2,
What is the arbitrator solution 3
11  cards
10 - Producer/Consumer Problem, Condition Variables, and Semaphores
What is the produce consumer prob...,
What is condition variable 2,
What happens if no thread is wait...
12  cards
11 - More Synchronization Mechanisms
What is a monitor 1,
What are some advantages of using...,
What is a spinlock 3
4  cards

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