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What's the speed and device maximum specs for Firewire?

Answer

IEEE 1394 (Firewire) supports the maximum of 63 connected devices with speeds up to 400 Mbps.

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Name 5 different addressing modes?

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Immediate, Direct, Register, Register indirect, Implied addressing modes.

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Write an RTL Description for D latch and D flip flop?

Answer

For D latch: always@(enable) q<=d;


For D flip flop: always@(opsedge clock) q<=d; 

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What are turnaround time and response time?

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Turnaround time is the interval between the submission of a job and its completion. Response time is the interval between submission of a request, and the first response to that request.

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While running DOS on a PC, which command would be used to duplicate the entire diskette?

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diskcopy

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What is the difference between Primary storage and secondary storage?

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Main memory - only large storage media that the CPU can access directly.

Secondary storage - extension of main memory that provides large nonvolatile storage capacity.

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What is an operating system?

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An operating system is a program that acts as an intermediary between the user and the computer hardware. The purpose of an OS is to provide a convenient environment in which user can execute programs in a convenient and efficient manner. It is a resource allocator responsible for allocating system resources and a control program which controls the operation of the computer hardware.

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Why paging is used?

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Paging is solution to external fragmentation problem which is to permit the logical address space of a process to be noncontiguous, thus allowing a process to be allocating physical memory wherever the latter is available.

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