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What pieces of hardware Registers, ALU, and control unit
are in the CPU?
Hardware which serves as Registers
the CPUs memory. There
are special and general
purposed of these
Hardware which does ALU
arithmetic and logical
computations
Hardware which tracks Control unit
state/status. Also controls
other components
Instruction cycle Fetch
responsible for loading
the instruction
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Instruction cycle Decode
responsible for finding the
opcode/operands of the
instruction and
interpreting it
Instruction cycle Execute
responsible for carrying
out the instruction
Protected instructions can Protected state
only be executed in a
____________
Legacy boot process BIOS
What does BIOS stand Binary Input Output System
for?
The ________ bootstraps the Bootloader
boot sector
What does bootstrap Loading up the computer
mean?
Why are the bootsector Bootsector is too small
and bootloader separate?
Where is the BIOS init The motherboard
stored?
What boot process is BIOS
usable on x86-64 (i386)
standalone PCs?
What boot process has Neither
standard for ARM chipset
systems?
Which boot process has UEFI
standardized NVRAM
locations for system
variables?
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Which boot process uses BIOS
a dedicated bootloader
partition?
Which boot process is Both
usable on x86-64 (x64)
standalone PCs?
Newer boot process UEFI
Which boot process UEFI
simplifies diskless
systems?
Loading programs onto machine, controlling I/O
What are the functions of devices, managing resources (memory, CPU), multi-
an OS? tasking execution, data protection (permissions), and
task interaction (pipes, networking)
Mode for directly Kernel mode
manipulating hardware
T/F: No device is directly True
accessed without the
kernel
T/F: Only system libraries False
can invoke system calls
T/F: The system call False
invokes code written by
system developers, while
a procedure call invokes
code written by an
application programmer
A running program is in Execution
______
When we run a program, Process
we create a _________ for it
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Has some address space, associated with specific
Features of a process resources, computational element/object, and has
one or more threads of execution
When we make a _______, we Procedure call
add a stack frame to the
call stack
Which pointer points to Frame pointer
the beginning of the stack
frame?
Which pointer points to Stack pointer
the beginning of the call
stack?
A ___________ involves a System call
switch into kernel mode
for execution
Invocation of a system call Kernel trap
causes a what?
What must be stored in a Current address, registers, etc
kernel trap?
What gets the address OS dispatcher
from the interrupt vector
during a kernel trap?
Generation of pre-OS in Generation 0: The operator
which there was a control
room in which a human
operator ran programs
(plugboards)
When was Generation 0 of 1940s
OS?
When was Generation 1 of 1950s
OS?
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Terms in this set (457)
What pieces of hardware Registers, ALU, and control unit
are in the CPU?
Hardware which serves as Registers
the CPUs memory. There
are special and general
purposed of these
Hardware which does ALU
arithmetic and logical
computations
Hardware which tracks Control unit
state/status. Also controls
other components
Instruction cycle Fetch
responsible for loading
the instruction
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Instruction cycle Decode
responsible for finding the
opcode/operands of the
instruction and
interpreting it
Instruction cycle Execute
responsible for carrying
out the instruction
Protected instructions can Protected state
only be executed in a
____________
Legacy boot process BIOS
What does BIOS stand Binary Input Output System
for?
The ________ bootstraps the Bootloader
boot sector
What does bootstrap Loading up the computer
mean?
Why are the bootsector Bootsector is too small
and bootloader separate?
Where is the BIOS init The motherboard
stored?
What boot process is BIOS
usable on x86-64 (i386)
standalone PCs?
What boot process has Neither
standard for ARM chipset
systems?
Which boot process has UEFI
standardized NVRAM
locations for system
variables?
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Which boot process uses BIOS
a dedicated bootloader
partition?
Which boot process is Both
usable on x86-64 (x64)
standalone PCs?
Newer boot process UEFI
Which boot process UEFI
simplifies diskless
systems?
Loading programs onto machine, controlling I/O
What are the functions of devices, managing resources (memory, CPU), multi-
an OS? tasking execution, data protection (permissions), and
task interaction (pipes, networking)
Mode for directly Kernel mode
manipulating hardware
T/F: No device is directly True
accessed without the
kernel
T/F: Only system libraries False
can invoke system calls
T/F: The system call False
invokes code written by
system developers, while
a procedure call invokes
code written by an
application programmer
A running program is in Execution
______
When we run a program, Process
we create a _________ for it
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Has some address space, associated with specific
Features of a process resources, computational element/object, and has
one or more threads of execution
When we make a _______, we Procedure call
add a stack frame to the
call stack
Which pointer points to Frame pointer
the beginning of the stack
frame?
Which pointer points to Stack pointer
the beginning of the call
stack?
A ___________ involves a System call
switch into kernel mode
for execution
Invocation of a system call Kernel trap
causes a what?
What must be stored in a Current address, registers, etc
kernel trap?
What gets the address OS dispatcher
from the interrupt vector
during a kernel trap?
Generation of pre-OS in Generation 0: The operator
which there was a control
room in which a human
operator ran programs
(plugboards)
When was Generation 0 of 1940s
OS?
When was Generation 1 of 1950s
OS?
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