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A computer has six tape drives, with $n$ processes competing for them. Each process may need two drives. What is the maximum value of $n$ for the system to be deadlock fr...
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Which of the following devices should get higher priority in assigning interrupts?Hard diskPrinterKeyboardFloppy disk
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A counting semaphore was initialized to $10$. Then $6 P$ (wait) operations and $4V$ (signal) operations were completed on this semaphore. The resulting value of the semap...
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When the result of a computation depends on the speed of the processes involved, there is said to becycle stealingrace conditiona time locka deadlock
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The overlay tree for a program is as shown below:What will be the size of the partition (in physical memory) required to load (and run) this program?$\text{12 KB}$$\text{...
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Formatting for a floppy disk refers toarranging the data on the disk in contiguous fashionwriting the directoryerasing the system datawriting identification information o...
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