EECS 1520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Current Contents, Macos, Gantt Chart

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: John Hofbauer

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B: the bounds register contains the last address of a partition. For exercise 24 - 26, match the following software type with its definition: systems software, operating system, application software, programs that help us solve real-world problems, programs that manage a computer system and interact with hardware. A: programs that manage computer resources and provide an interfaces for other programs. Exercises 27 - 72 are problems or short answer questions: distinguish between application software and system software. Systems software are tools to help others write programs; they manage a computer system and interact with hardware. An operating system is a piece of software that manages a computer"s resources and provides an interface for system interaction: explain the term multiprogramming. Multiprogramming is the technique of keeping multiple programs in main memory at the same time, each competing for time on the cpu: the following terms relate to how the operating system manages multiprogramming.