Flashcards
Operating Systems
Cards in this deck (9)
- 1Manages Your Memory (RAM)Random Access Memory
- 2Allows You To Copy And Past Between ApplicationsCopies Data To And From an External Drive
- 3Detects And Manages Input And Output Devices That Are Attached To The ComputerManages The Time To Process
- 4What is faster, Main Memory or Registers?Registers are faster than main memory.
- 5What is smaller, Main Memory or Registers?Registers are smaller than main memory.
- 6Types of registers typically available are:Data Registers (storing data), Address Registers (stack pointer, frame pointer), Condition Codes (addl, mult)
- 7Where does the processor fetch an instruction from?Cache / Main Memory
- 8T / F - The operating system typically runs in parallel with application programs, on it's own special O/S processor.False
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