Technical Questions

A list of processes waiting for a particular I/O device is called device queue.

Static RAM: no refreshing, 6 to 8 MOS transistors are required to form one memory cell, information stored as voltage level in flip flop. 

Dynamic RAM: refreshed periodically, 3 to 4 transistors are required to form one memory cell, information is  stored as a charge in the gate to substrate capacitance.

User thread

Kernel thread

Program counter holds the address of either the first byte of the next instruction to be fetched for execution of the address of the next byte of a multi byte instruction, which has not been completely fetched. In both the cases it gets incremented automatically one by one as the instruction bytes get fetched. Also Program register keeps the address of the next instruction.

SCSI - Small computer systems interface is a type of interface used for computer components such as hard drives, optical drives, scanners and tape drives. It is a competing technology to standard IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics).

 #include<stdio.h>
int main(){
  int i=1,f=1,num;

  printf("Enter a number: ");
  scanf("%d",&num);

  while(i<=num){
      f=f*i;
      i++;
  }

  printf("Factorial of %d is: %d",num,f);
  return 0;
}

Sample output:
Enter a number: 5
Factorial of 5 is: 120

Sign flag, Zero flag, Auxillary flag, Parity flag, Carry flag.

We encounter cycle stealing in the context of Direct Memory Access (DMA). Either the DMA controller can use the data bus when the CPU does not need it, or it may force the CPU to temporarily suspend operation. The latter technique is called cycle stealing. Note that cycle stealing can be done only at specific break points in an instruction cycle.