question archive Give an example situation in which operating systems effectively consider disk storage to be fourth type of "memory"
Give an example situation in which operating systems effectively consider disk storage to be fourth type of "memory"
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Give an example situation in which operating systems effectively consider disk storage to be fourth type of "memory". [2 Marks]
-From the point of view of the device driver, data may be read from an I/O device using polling, Interrupt-driven programmed I/O, or Direct Memory Access (DMA). Explain each of above terms, and in each case outline using pseudo-code (or a flow chart) the flow of control in the device driver when reading data from the device. [14 Marks]
-Critically evaluate the benefits and limitations of context switching as used in multi-programming and multi-tasking operating systems.
